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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 19h

This is where I get my books

They have an ebook shop

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 1d

Book bans waste tax dollars, silence stories, and hurt students.

We need more books, not fewer. 📖

#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead via @everylibrary.bsky.social

action.everylibrary.org/bookbanpledge

Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

action.everylibrary.org

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 1d

Unless you’re @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social , that is…

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Someone saying "Let's do the fucking news" is the ultimate sign that person has never, ever worked in a real newsroom (the fantasyland of the NYT Opinion section doesn't count)

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 1d

If Johnson has a secret plan to save the health care system the GOP is about to break, now might be the time to reveal it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: Congresswoman Greene specifically said that Republicans do not have a plan to deal with healthcare

MIKE JOHNSON: Congresswoman Greene does not serve on the committees of jurisdiction that deal with those specialized issues. She's probably not read in. Not everyone knows everything.

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 1d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

Librarians, booksellers, & educators— when you talk about banned books, please focus on the thousands of CONTEMPORARY books that are being banned right now.

For example….
#BannedBooksWeek

Book cover: last night at the telegraph club

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 1d

"through most of this war...people w little connection to the region...resort to angry simplifications, declaring themselves either “pro-Palestine” or “pro-Israel,” as if war is a game in which you pick a team for which to cheer. That’s how Hamas, and Israel’s far-right, want us to see the world."

Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 1d

I'm Israeli. She's Palestinian. There's a devastatingly simple reason why we've bonded during this war forward.com/opinion/7736...

I'm Israeli. She's Palestinian. There's a devastatingly simple reason why we've bonded during this war

Israelis and Palestinians have been driven apart. But almost two years after Oct. 7, one writer gained hope from an unexpected connection.

forward.com

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 1d

I'm Israeli. She's Palestinian. There's a devastatingly simple reason why we've bonded during this war forward.com/opinion/7736...

I'm Israeli. She's Palestinian. There's a devastatingly simple reason why we've bonded during this war

Israelis and Palestinians have been driven apart. But almost two years after Oct. 7, one writer gained hope from an unexpected connection.

forward.com

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2d

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 2d

We never should have changed our national motto from E pluribus Unum

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 3d

“Fuck your e pluribus unum” is one hell of a hell of a sentiment to be coming from the secretary of defense of, uh, the United States of America

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "On June 14 next year we're gonna have a big UFC fight at the White House, right at the White House, on the grounds of the White House."

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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 3d

Your daily reminder that the walkable, dense, mixed use town green from the show is mostly illegal under current zoning rules in most of Connecticut.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

Lorelai and Rory Gilmore's fictional hometown of Stars Hollow was born after Gilmore Girls creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, stayed in northwestern Connecticut. The show premiered in the fall of 2000.

25 years after its premiere, 'Gilmore Girls' still draws fans to small town Connecticut

Lorelai and Rory Gilmore's fictional hometown of Stars Hollow was born after Gilmore Girls creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, stayed in northwestern Connecticut. The show premiered in the fall of 2000.

n.pr

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Michelle Cusolito ❌👑 @mcusolito.bsky.social · 3d

It's time for the Massachusetts legislature to pass An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328). Protect librarians + educators from harassment; and protects authors, creators, booksellers, + publishers from economic harm due to censorship. #MassFreedomToRead link in bio. #BannedBooksWeek

IT's BANNED BOOKS WEEK! It's time for the MA Legislature to pass a Freedom to Read bill that protests librarians + educators from harassment; and protects authors, creators, booksellers, + publishers from economic harm due to censorship. I support An Act Regarding Free Expression (H. 3594/S. 2328). #MassFreedomToRead

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onewickedwonka.bsky.social @onewickedwonka.bsky.social · 3d

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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 3d

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:

Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.

www.reuters.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4d

How exactly is this different from Kristallnacht?

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 3d

😭😭 and for this SCOTUS, doing the right thing for our democratic republic seems the exception rather than the rule.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

wapo.st

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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 4d

Several journalists resigned this week from three Alaska newspapers after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, appearing to yield to pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage. (NY Times)

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 4d

Anyone who has lost a loved one to Alzheimer’s/Dementia has been able to recognize the symptoms for a long time

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