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"A Game of Thrones," "Catch 22, and "Clockwork Orange" are some of the books pulled. Ruthford Country students? Time to form a book club and read what one school board member decided you shouldn't.
The books were removed without formal review by school board members, librarians, teachers or parents less than 24 hours after an emailed request to Rutherford County Director of Schools James Sullivan from a school board member.
tennesseelookout.com/2024/11…
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Trump has previously proposed cutting all federal funding for libraries.
But we can take action today!
Please join us and sign the petition to show your support for fully funding IMLS in the Continuing Budget Resolution.
bit.ly/3B2F07o via @everylibrary
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Gentle reminder: even if you don't mask regularly, please mask inside airplanes.
ALT Article published at the New England Journal of Medicine: Transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome on Aircraft. After one flight carrying a symptomatic person, and 119 other persons, laboratory confirmed SARS developed in 16 persons, 2 others were given diagnoses of probably SARS, and 4 were reported to have SARS but could not be interviewed.
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I'm reposting this thread because it's gotten terrific comments, but limited circulation since I've been shadow banned. (Reposts are greatly appreciated.)
1/ If you’re surprised we’re in this mess, you haven’t been paying attention to history. As I show in my new book, Den of Spies, the GOP has been engaged in treasonous assaults on democracy for more than 50 years.
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Maine's ferry system, which serves half a million passengers a year, is getting an upgrade with funding from the Biden-Harris Infrastructure Law. We're investing in a new hybrid ferry to boost reliability and efficiency while reducing pollution.
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Y'all killed another one, "pro-lifers." I'm sure you're happy with your handiwork
Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments rawstory.com/a-third-woman-d…
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Something new for day 48 of my futile one-woman crusade to keep real images popping up on your feed rather than AI.
Late autumn in Clent. A little bit of atmosphere and the beech trees absolutely putting on a show! Woodland is tricky but the only way to improve is to keep at it
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NEVER FORGET: Senator Lindsey Graham wants to raise the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70 which = a 21% CUT. Tell EVERYONE! 😡🔥
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H5N1 UPDATE - JAPAN
An outbreak of avian influenza has been confirmed at a duck farm in Japan's Gyoda city in the Saitama prefecture.
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Newsrooms aren’t covering it, but you should know that an Australian direct action campaign is currently sustaining a blockade of the world’s biggest coal port.
3 days
170 arrests
hundreds of kayaks
thousands of protesters
the biggest environmental protest in Australian history
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The Heritage team filed these requests while its Project 2025 prepared plans to remove job protections for thousands of career civil servants, in an apparent attempt to identify and potentially purge them in a second Trump administration: propublica.org/article/have-…
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Since we are all, unbelievably, debating the value of vaccines, some history: America's victory in the Revolutionary War rested in part on George Washington's decision to inoculate the Continental Army against smallpox. From my review of 2002 book "Pox Americana."
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Looking for volunteers! I along with the help of a few others are building a Mask Recommender Based on Facial Features. TLDR: Goal: scan a face with a phone to get accurate facial measurements, and get a list of masks that have high probability of fitting that individual's face.
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State education officials are urging lawmakers to give them more control over what library books students can read.
These are the same politicians censoring Black history and pushing Christianity into the classroom. texastribune.org/2024/11/21/…
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Book banning (AGAIN)! I know, I'm a broken record, but: Tennessee has just removed 425 books from school libraries — including works by Alice Walker, Kurt Vonegut, Louise Erdrich, Stephen King, even Dr. Seuss. Stop. The. Insanity. bit.ly/3YZy4Qn bit.ly/3YZy4Qn
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Of all the thousands of The New Yorker’s cartoons, this one is the most reprinted ~ Peter Steiner’s classic “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog” ~ a remarkably perceptive comment, given that it was first published in 1993 news.artnet.com/market/new-y…
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Doris Price, a fierce civil rights leader who stood with Malcolm X days before his assassination, has been erased from history—cropped out of photos and omitted from murals. Her activism deserves recognition. Let’s honor those whose stories power change. huffpost.com/entry/doris-pri…
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Does any fellow Floridian believe there is even a remote chance The FLDOH under SG LADAPO will alert Floridians given this is the beginning of “season”?
Visit this state at your own risk..
