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The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge Over the course of seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore was seen reading 339 books on screen. How many have you read? From...

For #Readers: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is pretty darn great. It has the 339 books (novels, nonfiction, plays, poetry) that Rory of the The Gilmore Girls* is shown reading. I'm only at 23% so I need to get to steppin'.

* I've haven't seen an episode...yet.

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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families.

But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes.

With @theassemblync.bsky.social

Swapping old immune cells in the brain with fresh ones could treat disease Replacing immune cells called microglia holds promise for addressing brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Replacing old immune cells called microglia with fresh ones holds promise for addressing brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease @nature.com @heidiledford.bsky.social
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‘Hush’: Season 2 trailer Season two of "Hush" covers the case of Sarah Zuber, who died 400 feet from her front door in 2019. Despite living in a small community, police have been unable to figure out what happened to her.

Babe, wake up. It's 1 p.m, first of all, and second of all...

HUSH SEASON 2 TRAILER JUST DROPPED.

The good news: the Black Sails to Sunward ebook is live!

Bad news: I've lost all my reviews and sales rank. It was actually pretty popular for a bit, in the top ten in its category, and now it has no rank and no reviews.

This is just to say, if you've read it before, PLEASE go leave a review!

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia was the first woman to be elected as a president in Africa. Today, she urges us to fight for the rights the generations fought for before us.

Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you

You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

This kid is awesome

various images of crows with text that reads: “this is a crow appreciation post. crows are beautiful, intelligent, sassy, amazing. look at them!! a group of crows is a "murder" how badass does that sound? very. i just love crows.”

With the Seine open for swimming in Paris, tourists and residents embrace it as temperatures soar Swimming in the Seine is an increasingly popular tourist attraction in the French capital, and a must-do for Parisians themselves.

“Imagine that,” said Constanze Martens, a tourist from Mexico. “Swimming with view of the Eiffel Tower and in pure natural water, clean, safe, and with all this lovely people too, you have every age here.” https://to.pbs.org/41EK77E

The Last Class — Quad Cinema Established in 1972, Quad Cinema is New York's original multi-screen cinema.

New York, you’ve packed the house for the last 7 weeks! Because of your overwhelming support, "The Last Class" film will run for an 8th week at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village through 8/21. Join us for one of the next 12 screenings: https://quadcinema.com/film/the-last-class/

America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...

NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents.

ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior.

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Very interesting! 👇

The Incredible Human Journey Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world.

It’s hard to believe that it was 17 years ago when, as a young palaeoanthropologist, I set out to discover the story of the origins and spread of our species around the globe - it was an Incredible Human Journey. #bbc #human #journey
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Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care.

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

Imagine just spraying mRNA on plant leaves and having crops like wheat, corn & barley make new proteins, no gene editing needed!
Scientists showed this works with simple mRNA, opening doors to GMO-free crop breakthroughs. More here biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fight for teachers and education!

Robert Reich The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich

The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend.

This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.

Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

Rural hospitals in Missouri struggle to turn a profit. Medicaid cuts could force some to close • Missouri Independent Rural hospitals across Missouri are preparing for reduced revenue and increased costs under President Donald Trump’s new budget plan.

Even if you have private insurance, the impact on rural hospitals could still affect your health care. As people delay treatment for their health conditions due to a lack of insurance, they’ll start relying on the ER as their primary form of health care...

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a man in a blue shirt and tie is holding a microphone in front of a crowd and yelling . ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is holding a microphone in front of a crowd and yelling .

Remember back when an outrageously awkward scream was a deal breaker…And now an unfit, sick, twisted, criminal pedophile, serial sexual assaulter is a hero worshipped two term President.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...

"That's just how it is."

The word 'scientist' was coined in 1834 as a joke to describe Mary Somerville. The usual term of the times, "man of science," didn't apply to her and she wasn't only a physicist, geologist or chemist-she was all three.

Did you know the word scientist began as a joke? It first appeared in March 1834, in a book review of Mary Somerville’s On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, one of the earliest works in the popular science genre, by William Whewell.
(From "The Female Quotient" on Facebook) #Feminism

🚨🧵1/2 Tomorrow, 8/9 in Ft. Worth, DFW is standing together at 3:00 to support our TX DEM REPS

No excuse, it’s plenty of time for ya’ll to drive up from Houston, Austin & San Antonio & even stop at Buckees for a Brisket sandwich

Or as we say in TX regardless of where you live, “Ya’ll come on down!”

three hardcover copies of THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT and a paperback copy of stephen king's THE STAND, next to the top copy of the hardbacks. they are on a brown chair with a colourful throw behind them.

HELLO I had three margaritas to get through a family dinner but then I came home and my AUTHOR COPIES ARE HERE!!

THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT is a large and noble hardback chonker and contains ONE MILLION incredible authors, and me! 🤩

Pete Hegseth believes women should not have the right to vote, and that their role is to be subservient to men.

And this is not a one-off! This bodega has been doing this. Here’s another video!