The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

Welcome, all, to the Year of the Curious Squid.

Check your public library! Many have (free!) book clubs and other activities, and are open to suggestions as well. Libraries are also meeting spaces, and the librarians will know about groups who meet there, even if they're not library sponsored. Go say hi to a librarian! We have the hookups.

As someone who went to college after the advent of cell phones, who never had a landline phone as an adult, this is mind-blowing.

Did you know Virginia opossums are the only marsupials native to North America? They help maintain ecological balance by acting as nature’s built-in cleanup crew. They're also relatively disease-free, and it's very rare for them to carry rabies, parvovirus or distemper.

This is a dangerous expansion of the police state for nearly 180,000 people.

Placing those going through the legal process — our neighbors and loved ones — under 24/7 government surveillance is a gross violation of our civil liberties.

Each and every one of us.

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

At the start of this year, three of the institutions most important to American cultural preservation—the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History—were run by women for the first time.

As of today, Trump has fired two of those three.

In both these recent cases, the ability to put documents in front of a judge kept a U.S. citizen from being (further) detained and wrongly deported. Due process is the only defense we have against disappearance.

Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London, days after the U.K.‘s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition.

Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night

"We're all so much alike... and yet we're all so different! I find myself rejoicing at the endless variety of human beings, and that's partly, I know, because your differences from one another tell me that it's alright for me to be different in many ways, too."
- Fred Rogers

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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library exists with her own funding, in addition to state funding. States, such as Indiana, are beginning to cut such funding. Her library program gifts FREE BOOKS TO CHILDREN.

We ride at dawn for Dolly Parton, always. Thank you for your book joy💛

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