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Former educator and librarian. Still a lifelong learner. Pet shelter volunteer. Amateur artist. Passionate about history, the U.S. Constitution, democracy, and human rights.
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Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Todd Blanche does not possess a single qualification for this position accept that he will do the bidding of the president. There goes the Library of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

This needs more press !!! This is our only chance to restore and save America #airforceone #resist #fightoligarchy #impeachtrump

Intelligence Memo Undercuts Trump’s Immigration Argument www.factcheck.org/2025/05/inte...

So many layers of corruption.

Trump has now elected liberals in Canada, Australia, and the Vatican

🚨NEW: Donald Trump has fired the nation’s Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. She is the first African American and woman to hold this office and has modernized access to the federal library for rural America. REPOST if you stand with Dr. Hayden against Donald Trump!

Gotta love the media saying Donold’s first 100 days are raising “serious doubts.” Stop pretending you weren’t there for his last 1461 days.

Why can't Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois join Canada? I want all of the Great Lakes protected so we have clean water to drink.

Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."

Chicago is on to something.

F- Fascism!!

Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could

Crockett: Instead of the President cosplaying as the next pope, he may want to cosplay as an actual President of these United States. That means he may have to do a little bit of research and understand that he swore a an oath to defend and protect the constitution.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again. Bravo

🖋️✏️ Handwriting beats typing for learning to read 🧠📚 A new study found that 5-year-olds learned letters and words better through handwriting than typing – with stronger results in writing, naming, and decoding tasks. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #Literacy 🧪

Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."

#Booksky

Trump's threat to arrest Governor Evers is a chilling attempt to normalize fascism & silence dissent. They want to bully & intimidate anyone who doesn't conform to their ideology. We will NOT be intimidated. We will NOT be silenced. We will DEFEND our freedom.

Stop being nice. Be nice to nice people. Motherf*ck the rest of them…every waking moment.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration from further dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services!

I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library.

On this May Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

Wow!! I guess the Board is seeing what we are seeing. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

You chose him. For likely the third time, you had a chance to reject his vitriol, to condemn his criminality, to prevent his lawlessness, to denounce his bigotry—and you flat-out refused. More than that, you celebrated it. That’s not something I can abide. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

Thank you Greyhound!

🚨BREAKING: Liberal Party leader Mark Carney wins the election to become Canada’s next prime minister.

BREAKING: An appeals court dismissed the Guam attorney general's effort to reinstate a total abortion ban. Abortion remains legal in the territory.

complete batshit insanity

National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is on April 30. To bring awareness to the day, the Up First newsletter is sharing some stories from readers about how their pet has impacted their lives.

#MomSky Keep Reposting

If you're in Georgia, call your Senators and ask them to VOTE NO 🚫on the SAVE Act. Ossoff: Atlanta: 404-786-7800 Savannah: 912-200-9402 Washington: 202-224-3521 Warnock: Atlanta: 770-694-7828 Washington: 202-224-3643 www.npr.org/2025/04/13/g... #Georgia #Gapols #SAVEAct

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 23 APRIL 2025 COURAGE HAS A NAME 🇺🇦 UKRAINE 🇺🇦 Trump insults and threatens Zelenskyy again Zelenskyy rejects trump's plan to give Russia everything Of course, Zelenskyy doesn't want it ..Crimea.. No NATO, No Security, give Rare Earth to trump #SlavaUkraine

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

WATCH: Senate Republicans just *blocked* Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to reverse cuts to the Social Security Administration ordered by Elon Musk.

Every state needs to do this ASAP