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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 12h

“I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke telling a very offensive stupid joke is cause to ruin their lives,” VP J. D. Vance 🔗 www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...
Do these look like kids to you? The Republican party is a hate organization.

Young Republicans and their text messages:

PO
PO
Peter Giunta
Great. I love Hitler
Peter Giunta
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber
Joe Maligno
Gas chambers don't fit the
Joe Maligno
Boom - they're dead
YR
YOUNG
REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL PEOTLATTON
fant
n--ga
the watermelon people
Willam Hendrix
"n--ga" and in--guh"
Willam Hendrix
and kool aid with that?
carving watermelons
Missouri doesn't like f--s
YSYA
NYS
Luke Mosimen
"beaner" and "sp-c
Luke Mosiman
Id go to the 200 if I wanted to
Bobby Walker
It they vote for us why would they be gassed?
1488 (shorthand for Hei Hitler)
Alex Dwyer
Trumps too busy burning the Epstein ties
Samuel Douglass
She just didn't bathe often
Samuel Douglass
youre expecond the sew
Anne KayKaty
When do we bring that side out?
Anne KayKaty

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my. Author/Dr Rana Awdish has written a follow-up to her bestselling memoir In Shock! After her experience with illness, she asks herself what does it mean to truly heal?
Pub 6/16/2026
@macmillanlib.bsky.social @ranaawdish.bsky.social
#medicine #memoir #illness #mustread 📘📚

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · 7d

Just remember that bird never flies so high it doesn't fall. #today #humble

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Mrs. PA-C @mrspac.medsky.social · 10d

Husband and I were arguing about who was gunna make our taquitos and I said “I made your TWO children from scratch, you can make the FROZEN taquitos”

And he goes: “goddammit, I don’t have any sort of good come back to that”

….then proceeded to get up and make us taquitos 😌😌🫡🫡

a man in a tuxedo is holding a microphone in his hand

ALT: a man in a tuxedo is holding a microphone in his hand

media.tenor.com

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 9d

Books Save Lives.

Find your courage.
Follow your moral compass.
Do not obey in advance.

Banning books for kids — for all humans — is a form of violence.

Books Save Lives.

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

Not good, not good. B&T are shutting down. They were out vendor for years. #library #vendors #publishing

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

www.publishersweekly.com

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · 10d

I know summer is over but I'm drinking vodka and TJ's lemonade. sublime

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Vox @vox.com · 10d

Empathy is in a weird place right now. Most of us probably think the ability to place ourselves in someone else’s shoes is a good thing. That’s what compassion is all about right? But a recent trend in conservative Christian circles is calling empathy into question. Some even believe it’s a sin. 👇

How empathy can harm — and how it can help

It’s become controversial. Here’s how to really think about it.

www.vox.com

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · 10d

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire
#quotes #empathy #Voltaire #lovethyneighbor

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 12d

When you demonize and mistreat the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized, I'm not interested in hearing about your religious beliefs.

You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time?

BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16d

Well… the whole world can now see that the emperor is naked.

How embarrassing.

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

Well, this is a timely book. A psychologist explores moral injury—the wounds we suffer when our core values are violated by, witnessed, or been compelled to accept—and how to begin to repair it. Publishing April 7, 2026 @harpercollins.bsky.social 📚💙 #booksky

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Deal for Readerlink to Buy Baker & Taylor Collapses

The deal under which Readerlink Distribution Service was to buy the business and "substantially all the assets" of Baker & Taylor

www.shelf-awareness.com

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · 26d

Poor thing...

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29d

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 11

www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Readerlink Buying Baker & Taylor

Readerlink Distribution Services, which specializes in supplying books to non-trade booksellers such as Walmart, Target, grocery stores, and

www.shelf-awareness.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just got back from vacation and thrilled to have a box from @sbkslibrary.bsky.social waiting for me. Nonfiction that reads like fiction (or almost) is the best! Now, do I unpack or start reading? #nonfiction #books #read #history #travel #animals 💙📚 #booksky

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Obituary Note: Michael Zibart

Michael Zibart, founder of BookPage and former executive at Ingram, died on Friday, September 5. He was 78.Michael ZibartHis father, uncle,

www.shelf-awareness.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 6

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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thuglibrarian.bsky.social @thuglibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fellow Michigander here. This book will probably be wildly popular.

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