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Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2025 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to create awareness, honour the millions of lives affected by breast cancer and reaffirm our global commitment to equitable access to care and improved...

This month, the World Health Organization highlights the 2025 theme of #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth: "Every Story is Unique, Every Journey Matters." Highlighting the disparity in survival rates worldwide, #WHO promotes a global commitment to equitable access to care. www.who.int/news-room/ev...

A red, white, and blue banner from the website of the American Library Association, which promotes 2025's Banned Books Week. Text on the banner reads, "Banned Books Week; Oct. 5-11, 2025; Censorship is so 1984, Read for Your Rights; ala.org/bbooks ."

Help fight censorship by participating in this year's #BannedBooksWeek (5-11 Oct). The 2025 theme is "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” At the American Library Association's site, check out the list of 2024's most challenged books. #GeorgeOrwell #1984 www.ala.org/bbooks/banned

National Breast Cancer Foundation - Help & Hope for Those Facing Breast Cancer National Breast Cancer Foundation provides early detection screenings, including mammograms, breast health education, and a supportive community.

During #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth , learn about the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Founded in 1991, the mission of #NBCF includes helping those affected by breast cancer through early detection, education, and support services. Early detection is vital. www.nationalbreastcancer.org

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Unfortunately, America doesn't listen to its women . . .

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As current events have proven.

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

Black & white photograph of American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses. In the photo, Grandma Moses, wearing a floral print apron, is seated on a chair in a room, in front of a curtained window. She holds a paintbrush in her right hand and a canvas on her lap. (Source: biography.com)

With luck, turning into someone like Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860-1961). I have a bit of time before needing to ramp up my productivity. "Grandma" Moses started really cranking out the work around age 78.

#July17 #Project50501 #GoodTroubleLivesOn

"...I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC..." #UpholdTheConstitution #RestoreDueProcess #RegainTheRuleOfLaw

#ReclaimDemocracy #RejectFascism #RejectAuthoritarianism #ProtectTheVulnerable #ProtectTheMarginalized

a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette while standing next to another man on a train . Alt: A moving black and white clip of Ringo Starr and George Harrison of the musical group, The Beatles. They are standing in the aisle of a train, and the viewer can see the moving landscape through the train windows. Ringo Starr is blowing a kiss using his left arm.

✌️ Peace and Love! ✌️Happy 85th Sir Richard! #RingoStarr #TheBeatles #Beatles #SirRichardStarkey

Donate to PFLAG National Donate to the nation’s largest organization dedicated to creating a caring, just, and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.

#LoveIsLove pflag.org/donate/

An artistic rendering of the Statue of Liberty. She is seated, in tears, holding her head in her hands in despair. Completely surrounding her seated figure is a metal cage. In the background is New York Harbor with boats and Lower Manhattan in the distance.

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? - Frederick Douglass, 5 July 1852 - "The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. ...This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."

A dark-colored poster with an image of the moon shining through tree branches. On the poster appears the sentence, "The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others."

#ProtectTheMarginalized #ReclaimDemocracy

A color logo for the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Text on the logo reads, "ADA 35, Celebrate, 26 July 2025, Americans with Disabilities Act, Anniversary Toolkit." (Source: adaanniversary.org)

In July, we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the historic civil rights law that was signed on 26 July 1990. The ADA works to ensure all people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. #ADA35 #ThanksToTheADA adaanniversary.org

This is a really important point. Most Medicaid recipients likely have NO idea that they’re about to lose their coverage.

a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is flying in the wind Alt: a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is flying in the wind

Happy Canada Day! Bonne fête du Canada! #CanadaDay2025

#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Thisiswhywefight #Resist #TruthWarriors #StrongerTogether #NoKings #DemocracyMatters #DefendDemocracy #StayWoke #NoMoreAuthoritarians #ProtectOurRights

Unite Against Book Bans We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans

Consider donating to the ALA's campaign, #UniteAgainstBookBans. With partner organizations & individual supporters, Unite Against Book Bans works to connect, equip, and mobilize the public to defeat attempts, at every level of government, to censor reading material #ALAAC25 uniteagainstbookbans.org

Dr. Carla Hayden, an outstanding American, champion of civil liberties and freedom of information. First woman & first PoC to hold the position of Librarian of Congress; targeted & fired before the end of her 10-year term by the current U.S. regime #FreePeopleReadFreely #ALAAC25 #LibrariansWillLead

My thanks to the American Chemical Society, C&EN for this timely piece on the importance of cultivating societal trust in science and scientists.
Direct link to the audio lnkd.in/gRqKYCit
Link to the full piece lnkd.in/gahwChnx

A color photograph of the waist of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, showing their firearm and badge. The agent's clothes are jeans and a sweatshirt. (Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg)

Recently, I drove by four armed men (police? sheriff? ICE? DHS? bounty hunters?), wearing badges & bulletproof vests, stealthily approaching a house through its tall hedge. As responsible citizens, how are we to differentiate legitimate policing from politically driven kidnapping? #ReclaimDemocracy

How Ben Franklin Invented the Library as We Know It Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but the founding father had an idea

In celebration of the #AmericanLibraryAssociation annual conference in Philadelphia (26-30 Jun 2025), check out Elizabeth Webster's article in Smithsonian about Ben Franklin's foundational contributions to the U.S. library system #ALA2025 #ForOurLibraries www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...

YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic After the Gold Rush

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Choose wisely. 👌😏

A photo taken on 29 May 2017 of the Texas African American History Memorial by sculptor Ed Dwight, which stands on the grounds of the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. The monument, erected in 2016, is made of bronze and granite. At the top of the monument appears the word, "Emancipation." The monument depicts more than 50 persons of color, most from the knees up, who are dressed in garb of the 1860s and are looking out towards the distance. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The celebration of #Juneteenth serves to remind us how vital it is to teach U.S. history as it was - undistorted, undiluted, and unedited. #FreedomDay

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?