Laura Crossett

Dear Ms. Crossett, Thank you for contacting me about federal immigration enforcement. It is important for me to hear from folks in Iowa on matters like this. No doubt Americans have firm disagreements on immigration, but it is essential for all of us, regardless of our political beliefs, to remain united behind a shared desire for the best future of our country. While I support Americans' right to protest peacefully, no disagreement justifies violence. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data show Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement officers have faced a dramatic rise in violent incidents and threats while carrying out their duties over the past year. [highlight] Reported figures include a 3,200 percent increase in vehicle-ramming incidents,[end highlight] an 8,000 percent increase in death threats, and a 1,300 percent increase in assaults against officers.

Really curious about where you get your data, Joni Ernst.

Rest in power. Your work was powerful, transformational, crucial. My love and support to all who knew and loved you.

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Shot in the back.
Don’t shoot a man while he’s down.
Close range.

Sometimes it’s terrifying when figurative language comes to life.

Come work with us! (I mean, on a very part time basis. If you're a student. But still!)

Oh, I have, too—and we had an edited Romeo and Juliet. Or an attempted edit—you really don’t have much of a play left if you leave all the dirty jokes out.

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My favorite comment on another FILTHY BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY video suggests that someone hasn't read Chaucer recently.

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"Unfortunately, no library schools apparently include a curricular unit on 'Denying Wrongful Authority.'"

Thanks to @zinelib.bsky.social for this perfect interview with/by Sandy Berman.

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I mean not like, but. He is, sadly, the first president I remember, and thus I grew up in fear.

Amen. “First” Gulf War, 1991.

M*A*S*H

From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Please share this post. I have made a deal with the devil where he will turn me back into a slug if I get 100,000 followers on here. I miss being a slug. I did not have to pay taxes. I had no idea who Katy Perry was. I slithered around aimlessly, not knowing salt would make me die a horrific death.

Joan Didion: A Love Song [I heard] him tell the girl in a picture… that he would build her a house, “at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow.” As it happens I did not grow up to be the kind of…

Joan Didion, conservative, or Joan Didion, cop-hater? I wrote a thing.

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huh, that's interesting. once you see the comparison, it becomes very obvious why one is better. would not have noticed it before

I’m at a fencing tournament full of tweens and teens. I have to crack myself up somehow, even if it causes my child extreme cringe.

DC Public Library No Library Wrapped from us — we don't track what you read. DCPL protects your privacy.

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

Cover of Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited altered to read Highway 67.

Hear me out.

All our projects are my favorite projects, but this one, by one of my interns, is my favorite right now. Enjoy! 📚

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AHA Submits Public Comment on Patriotic Education Priorities - AHA On October 14, the AHA posted an action alert, developed in collaboration with the National Council for the Social Studies and the Organization of American Historians, urging members to oppose the Dep...

“American history does not stop in 1800.”

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Love it. Remember Quiz Show? That was the actual oversight folks. When they can’t do it, it’s good to see people step up.

Everyone, change your clock to midnight.

You talk single mothers and public transportation? You got me. Tears of joy.

The Psych Ward, Ten Years Out A few days before Halloween in 1998 my mother hauled me out of the chair I’d been living in and into the car and into the hospital, where I signed a great many pieces of paper, including the …

Voting is the least you can do. But do it for those who can’t. I was once almost one of them.

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Scarlet & Black December 8, 1967 masthead with TRUTH BEAUTY CROSSETT in one corner

The CROSSETT in the left hand corner is a reference to my dad, who was overly fond of writing letters to the editor of the Grinnell student paper.

That is a thing of beauty. Also, I love student newspapers.

For years I thought I had to find a boyfriend with a dog. Then one day I realized I could have a dog of my VERY OWN. And a library card, of course. Always have your own library card.

Found on Reddit: I'm sorry. My husband did something similar when our son was in his last year in high school. Only he ran off with his guitar instead of a hooker to be an itinerant musician. The girlfriends (he's on #3 now) came later because he needs someplace to live. You'll be okay but it will take a long time. Men suck. A good dog and a library card will never let you down. Every now and then you will think you need another man. You don't. Trust me.

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No other Sarahs out there in the world, either.