Bella0910
@bella0910.bsky.social
I am interested in current affairs, education, democracy, futurism; gardening, cooking, reading & writing, working out🫶👩🍳🧘♀️🎧📃📔
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Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more.
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
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Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
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The Latest Trends in Comics Censorship: Book Censorship News, December 26, 2025
What are the trends in comics censorship over the last year? A look at the data and titles being targeted, with help from a comics scholar.
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December 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more.
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
bookriot.com/trends-in-co...
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
bookriot.com/trends-in-co...
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2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
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2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
What were the book censorship trends in 2025? Here are the highs and lows, as identified by five organizations doing the work.
bookriot.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
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Hayward Public Library (CA) is reducing operating hours and eliminating two digital streaming resources, hoopla and kanopy, as part of a budget challenge in the city: www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/new...
Library hours to be reduced to help close City of Hayward budget deficit | City of Hayward - Official website
Hayward Public Library is reducing operating hours and eliminating two digital streaming resources as part of citywide cost cutting to close a multi-million-dollar City of Hayward budget deficit.Effec...
www.hayward-ca.gov
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Hayward Public Library (CA) is reducing operating hours and eliminating two digital streaming resources, hoopla and kanopy, as part of a budget challenge in the city: www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/new...
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Four of the five Henry County Libraries (GA) will be cutting Saturday hours because of budget issues: www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/12/21/h...
Henry County libraries to close Saturdays due to inflation costs
The library system said it would need $125,000 from county commissioners to maintain current operating hours.
www.atlantanewsfirst.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Four of the five Henry County Libraries (GA) will be cutting Saturday hours because of budget issues: www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/12/21/h...
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"For people with heart disease, the flu vaccine should be presented not merely as protection against a respiratory illness, but as a proven cardiovascular intervention to reduce heart attacks and strokes."
Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential www.nature.com/articles/d41... @ashishkjha.bsky.social
"...we now have clear evidence that flu vaccination significantly reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke, and death owing to cardiovascular disease..."
#VaccinesWork
"...we now have clear evidence that flu vaccination significantly reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke, and death owing to cardiovascular disease..."
#VaccinesWork
Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential
Influenza isn’t just a respiratory disease. Measures to stop its transmission, such as vaccination, could prevent thousands of heart-attack deaths.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"For people with heart disease, the flu vaccine should be presented not merely as protection against a respiratory illness, but as a proven cardiovascular intervention to reduce heart attacks and strokes."
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This is great information. I have a feeling we will need this more than we realize.
📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z
December 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is great information. I have a feeling we will need this more than we realize.
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@hopkinspress.bsky.social posted this article about my new book with them, and I'm delighted:
www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/nav...
www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/nav...
Navigating Higher Ed After the Peak: The Next Era of Education
Mapping out the strategic future of higher education.
www.press.jhu.edu
December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@hopkinspress.bsky.social posted this article about my new book with them, and I'm delighted:
www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/nav...
www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/nav...
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JUST IN: The US Senate has rejected the both of the proposed healthcare bills, which likely will now cause Obamacare subsidies to lapse for over 20 million Americans.
December 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
JUST IN: The US Senate has rejected the both of the proposed healthcare bills, which likely will now cause Obamacare subsidies to lapse for over 20 million Americans.
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
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Global plastic pollution will hit 280 million metric tons per year by 2040, or a dump truck’s worth every second.
The world’s plastic glut is set to get much worse by 2040, study finds
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December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Global plastic pollution will hit 280 million metric tons per year by 2040, or a dump truck’s worth every second.
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As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills. ncnewsline.com/2025/12/01/r... via @stateline.org #AI
AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care • NC Newsline
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bil...
ncnewsline.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills. ncnewsline.com/2025/12/01/r... via @stateline.org #AI
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"A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults."
Just one week off social media can improve young adults' mental health, study finds
A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults."
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Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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America’s economic boom rides on seven giant stocks and the spending of its wealthiest households. If those shares slip, confidence, jobs, and growth could fall fast, leaving the economy balanced on a thin edge.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
America’s economic boom rides on seven giant stocks and the spending of its wealthiest households. If those shares slip, confidence, jobs, and growth could fall fast, leaving the economy balanced on a thin edge.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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Background reading #3: Read the AI Now Institute's 2025 landscape report: ainowinstitute.org/publications...
Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report - AI Now Institute
In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies - and the tech oligarchs that run them - power that goes far beyond their d...
ainowinstitute.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Background reading #3: Read the AI Now Institute's 2025 landscape report: ainowinstitute.org/publications...
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New podcast! I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust? | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New podcast! I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
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Racial categories have been included on every U.S. census since the first one in 1790. But they have changed from decade to decade, reflecting changing politics and public attitudes. Here’s an overview of how the U.S. census has measured race, from 1790 to the present.
The changing categories the U.S. census has used to measure race
Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
www.pewresearch.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Racial categories have been included on every U.S. census since the first one in 1790. But they have changed from decade to decade, reflecting changing politics and public attitudes. Here’s an overview of how the U.S. census has measured race, from 1790 to the present.
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Question for BlueSky mind: who are the great contemporary sociologists? People writing ethnographic studies of the character of daily life in a digital / social media age.
“Each decade we shiftily declare we have buried class and each decade the coffin stands empty.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Question for BlueSky mind: who are the great contemporary sociologists? People writing ethnographic studies of the character of daily life in a digital / social media age.
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How can soldiers apply for grants to cover food stamps or child nutrition benefits that were missed because of the government shutdown?
Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:
Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:
Head of Army Emergency Relief explains how to receive a grant for missed federal benefits
The CEO of Army Emergency Relief posted a video explaining how soldiers can apply for grants to cover missed food stamps or child nutrition benefits.
www.stripes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
How can soldiers apply for grants to cover food stamps or child nutrition benefits that were missed because of the government shutdown?
Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:
Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:
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Recall last month that more than a dozen colleges and universities received false bomb threats within days of one another. Will this be a repeat of that swatting event, the second or third such coordinated terrorism this school year?
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A Rash of Bomb Threats Hit College and University Libraries
At least 15 US colleges and universities received bomb threats targeting the library since Sunday as part of a nationwide swatting event.
bookriot.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Recall last month that more than a dozen colleges and universities received false bomb threats within days of one another. Will this be a repeat of that swatting event, the second or third such coordinated terrorism this school year?
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
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The latest state of the climate report is called
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The latest state of the climate report is called
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
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The official installation of a new chancellor happens only a few times in a generation. Today, Kevin Howell will be installed as NC State’s 15th chancellor, formally putting him in the position he began on May 5.
Watch the livestream at 11 a.m. ➡️ http://ncst.at/qYwI50XklBI #NCStateChancellor
Watch the livestream at 11 a.m. ➡️ http://ncst.at/qYwI50XklBI #NCStateChancellor
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The official installation of a new chancellor happens only a few times in a generation. Today, Kevin Howell will be installed as NC State’s 15th chancellor, formally putting him in the position he began on May 5.
Watch the livestream at 11 a.m. ➡️ http://ncst.at/qYwI50XklBI #NCStateChancellor
Watch the livestream at 11 a.m. ➡️ http://ncst.at/qYwI50XklBI #NCStateChancellor
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"The government shutdown began Oct. 1. The impact is already being felt at local food banks, where requests for food have spiked as much as 5,000%."
www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/request...
www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/request...
Requests for help up as much as 5,000% at area food pantries as feds go without pay
More than 33,000 federal workers in the Prince William County area are facing their first missed paychecks since the government shutdown began Oct. 1. The impact is already being felt at local food ba...
www.princewilliamtimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"The government shutdown began Oct. 1. The impact is already being felt at local food banks, where requests for food have spiked as much as 5,000%."
www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/request...
www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/request...
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As we reported earlier this month, many food banks are already reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of 94 million pounds of deliveries that were already scheduled: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
October 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
As we reported earlier this month, many food banks are already reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of 94 million pounds of deliveries that were already scheduled: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Military families using on-base pharmacies have begun to see their prescriptions out of stock or rationed, and pharmacists are citing the federal government shutdown, according to an organization that advocates for medically fragile military family members.
Advocacy group warns families are facing medication shortages, rationing at on-post pharmacies
A nonprofit that serves military families has heard about pharmacy shortages due to the shutdown at installations across the U.S. and as far as Germany.
www.stripes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Military families using on-base pharmacies have begun to see their prescriptions out of stock or rationed, and pharmacists are citing the federal government shutdown, according to an organization that advocates for medically fragile military family members.