Katy Manck, MLS SLMSC
@booksyalove.bsky.social
Reader, gardener, indep book reviewer- https://BooksYALove.com. All kids need school libraries & librarians! IASL Past-President.
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New in my shop: COTTON WASHCLOTHS! I have two pink sets available as well as a random color listing. All here in the "household" tag: ko-fi.com/crippledcomm...
Use the quoted link to apply a 10% discount!
#BSNM #ShopSmall #Discount #Holidays
Use the quoted link to apply a 10% discount!
#BSNM #ShopSmall #Discount #Holidays
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
New in my shop: COTTON WASHCLOTHS! I have two pink sets available as well as a random color listing. All here in the "household" tag: ko-fi.com/crippledcomm...
Use the quoted link to apply a 10% discount!
#BSNM #ShopSmall #Discount #Holidays
Use the quoted link to apply a 10% discount!
#BSNM #ShopSmall #Discount #Holidays
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James Talarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
James Talarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
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If Talarico - Crockett can keep it positive on the personal level and their major amplifiers can keep the bases chill, then 1 drops out when it's clear their losing, it could set a standard for the presidential primary so more than 1 progressive can run without risking a Buttigieg presidency.
This statement from the Talarico campaign is classy. Hope both candidates keep it up.
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If Talarico - Crockett can keep it positive on the personal level and their major amplifiers can keep the bases chill, then 1 drops out when it's clear their losing, it could set a standard for the presidential primary so more than 1 progressive can run without risking a Buttigieg presidency.
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'The college football playoff committee has official lost its mind.'
Does Mattress Mack have a point regarding College Football Playoff?
'The college football playoff committee has official lost its mind.'
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December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
'The college football playoff committee has official lost its mind.'
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My friend sent me his Puerto Rican grandmother's coquito recipe (with some variations from his sister), and now I'm sharing it with you. ¡Feliz Navidad!
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My friend sent me his Puerto Rican grandmother's coquito recipe (with some variations from his sister), and now I'm sharing it with you. ¡Feliz Navidad!
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Gotta tell you if you need some sweet last minute gifts shop the @ufw.bsky.social store. They have really well designed/made merch for a good cause.
ufwstore.com/x/home.php?m...
ufwstore.com/x/home.php?m...
December 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Gotta tell you if you need some sweet last minute gifts shop the @ufw.bsky.social store. They have really well designed/made merch for a good cause.
ufwstore.com/x/home.php?m...
ufwstore.com/x/home.php?m...
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A male reporter needs to ask Leavitt how she feels about Trump's language toward women and what sort of message it sends to men when the president belittles and berates women in this way. What will she tell her daughter when she grows up and sees Mommy defend him?
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A male reporter needs to ask Leavitt how she feels about Trump's language toward women and what sort of message it sends to men when the president belittles and berates women in this way. What will she tell her daughter when she grows up and sees Mommy defend him?
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It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.
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Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?
Fueled by private equity and a subscription-based business model, the auto wash industry is flooding the US with new outlets. Some towns and cities have had enough.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Authors, make sure to bookmark this because even if it’s not relevant to you today, it will be one day!
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Authors, make sure to bookmark this because even if it’s not relevant to you today, it will be one day!
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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My mom’s naturalization was a family event - dressed up, photos & lunch to celebrate.
Days later my grandma-in-law gave her apple pie with a card: “Now you’re as American as apple pie.”
If you’re not Native, you’re from immigrants. Punishing law-abiding immigrants is just white supremacy.
Days later my grandma-in-law gave her apple pie with a card: “Now you’re as American as apple pie.”
If you’re not Native, you’re from immigrants. Punishing law-abiding immigrants is just white supremacy.
Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My mom’s naturalization was a family event - dressed up, photos & lunch to celebrate.
Days later my grandma-in-law gave her apple pie with a card: “Now you’re as American as apple pie.”
If you’re not Native, you’re from immigrants. Punishing law-abiding immigrants is just white supremacy.
Days later my grandma-in-law gave her apple pie with a card: “Now you’re as American as apple pie.”
If you’re not Native, you’re from immigrants. Punishing law-abiding immigrants is just white supremacy.
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Powerful wave in Tenerife leaves four swimmers dead after being swept out of ocean pool
Powerful wave in Tenerife leaves four swimmers dead after being swept out of ocean pool
The group were at a popular seawater pool when the wave struck, prompting a major rescue operation
Four people are dead and one is missing after a powerful wave dragged a group of swimmers out to sea while they were in a popular seawater pool along the rocky, western coastline of the Spanish island of Tenerife, Spanish authorities said on Monday.
Crews recovered three bodies on Sunday – a 35-year-old man, a 55-year-old woman and another man about whom no information was given – during a major rescue operation that used jet skis and helicopters to locate and pick up people dragged out to sea. The fourth victim, a woman, died on Monday, a day after being revived at the scene and airlifted to a hospital. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Powerful wave in Tenerife leaves four swimmers dead after being swept out of ocean pool
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Satellites are photobombing, researchers say.
SpaceX satellites contaminate Hubble images, NASA-led study says
Satellites are photobombing, researchers say.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Satellites are photobombing, researchers say.
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I have reached out to ABC News and parent company Walt Disney Co. for comment about Trump’s verbal abuse of reporter Rachel Scott, a Black woman journalist. No response yet.
December 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I have reached out to ABC News and parent company Walt Disney Co. for comment about Trump’s verbal abuse of reporter Rachel Scott, a Black woman journalist. No response yet.
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Women, we don't need to contort ourselves to fit into spaces that are too small for us.
From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe
From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe
December 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Women, we don't need to contort ourselves to fit into spaces that are too small for us.
From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe
From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe
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Amazing story by @kristoncapps.bsky.social showing how differently Texas is treating towns in its southeast getting aid for Hurricane Harvey damage. Cities w/large minority populations get less than $100 per person. Tiny, almost all-white towns get $40,000 or more www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Amazing story by @kristoncapps.bsky.social showing how differently Texas is treating towns in its southeast getting aid for Hurricane Harvey damage. Cities w/large minority populations get less than $100 per person. Tiny, almost all-white towns get $40,000 or more www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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QRP with your starry art 🌟
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
QRP with your starry art 🌟
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Viktoriia Bulavina was arrested by federal agents despite having Temporary Protected Status, her husband told Newsweek.
ICE Detains Wife at Green Card Interview Despite Always Having Legal Status
www.newsweek.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Viktoriia Bulavina was arrested by federal agents despite having Temporary Protected Status, her husband told Newsweek.
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I made a long-form comic book! It’s a romance! Teens fall in love! Hijinks! Transmasc non-binary love interest! Mother-daughter bonding! Idyllic wintry vibes! Five starred reviews from trade publications! bookshop.org/p/books/ange...
December 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I made a long-form comic book! It’s a romance! Teens fall in love! Hijinks! Transmasc non-binary love interest! Mother-daughter bonding! Idyllic wintry vibes! Five starred reviews from trade publications! bookshop.org/p/books/ange...
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The founders envisioned a government that answers to the people, not the whims of any one president.
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The founders envisioned a government that answers to the people, not the whims of any one president.
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"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
Nature research paper: Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
go.nature.com/3YcD2ZS
Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery - Nature
Higher-income neighbourhoods rebuild and improve after disasters while lower-income areas do not return to pre-disaster conditions.
go.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."
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My doctor now has a dedicated phone tree option to discuss "medications denied by your insurer."
December 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My doctor now has a dedicated phone tree option to discuss "medications denied by your insurer."
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This is the way
Breaking News: The developer of an app that tracks ICE raids sued Trump officials, saying that they pressured Apple to remove it.
App That Tracks ICE Raids Sues U.S., Saying Officials Pressured Apple to Remove It
The developer of ICEBlock, which notifies users of ICE agent sightings, said Attorney General Pam Bondi censored his free speech.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is the way
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