Sharon Lawler

From mid October

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Happy Birthday to You!: The Sisters Who Wrote the Most Famous Song in the World Patty and Mildred Hill are the most famous composers you've never heard of. They came up with

Excerpt and teaching guide available for our #picturebook #biography HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! lernerbooks.com/shop/show/25...

Jamie Dupree • @jamiedupree X.com With the pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar D-TX, who had been accused of bribery and corruption, President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress - 10 Republicans and 2 Democrats. (All but Cuellar had been convicted.) Chris Collins R-NY - insider trading Duncan Hunter R-CA - campaign corruption Steve Stockman R-TX - campaign corruption Rick Renzi R-AZ - corruption Robin Hayes R-NC - lying to the FBI Mark Siljander R-MI - obstruction, lying Duke Cunningham R-CA - bribery Michael Grimm R-NY - tax evasion John Rowland R-CT - corruption George Santos R-NY - corruption Rod Blagojevich D-IL - corruption

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

Teachers & librarians! If you want to Zoom with an author for World Read Aloud Day, the list of volunteers is going out in my newsletter tomorrow morning - it's not too late to sign up!

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said. A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made clear: “This war can only end with Ukraine’s full consent. It cannot be resolved by great powers over the heads of those under attack.” He stressed that Europe must be part of any solution and warned that Ukraine’s defeat would destabilize the entire continent.

Remember all the way back to last week when maga lost its shit over former military members of Congress doing an ad telling current military not to obey unlawful orders?

In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All The state aims to give children a better start, but faces supply and staffing concerns.

In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All

Trump's billionaire-first agenda has cost families in Washington state an average of $948 MORE so far this year, according to a new JEC Dems report. 
 
Apparently, the "Golden Age of America" only exists if you have billions of dollars to pay for it.

Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...

Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...

New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."

““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”

👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …

Oh, the _real_ reason techbros want to defund the humanities, people who know what words mean can break machines that use statistical models of sequences of letter to generate letter sequences that gets the reward button pressed

My Democratic colleagues whose lives Donald Trump threatened today have served their country with honor and distinction.

Calling for the death of your political opponents is unacceptable and dangerous. The White House must retract its threats immediately.

Daniel Nayeri Wins 2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature buff.ly/Y234xTX

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

After 20 years in the Navy, Buzz Grambo thought he'd spend his retirement playing video games and watching baseball. Instead, he patrols the streets of Baltimore to protect his neighbors from ICE. He even upgraded his scooter to a Segway that reaches 26 mph to keep up with the agents. My latest:

After DOJ Threat, Ohio GOP Passes Law to End Mail Ballot Grace Periods Read more here.

BREAKING: Ohio Republicans passed a sweeping anti-voting law after the DOJ threatened to sue the state over its mail-ballot grace period.

The law also supercharges voter purges,and forces provisional voters to fix errors in 4 days or be removed.

#stayloud
#boycott
#blackout
#endICE
Democracy needs the Constitution. Without it we don’t have democracy. It’s a simple formula. Our veterans fought for the ideals our Constitution is built on. It’s worth fighting for. It’s still necessary to keep fighting for our Constitutional rights. Every day!

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I was on a wonderfully newless vacay last week and just heard of the $2000 dollar thing yesterday. Some rando at an airport was all excited about the possibility. I said it sounded like a bribe for votes, because that's what he's doing. How about making his millionaire/billionaire friend pay taxes.

Agreed. Then local and state governments funnel usurious amounts of money into sports complexes, which never generate the money they claim will happen. But they do keep the population entertained, passive, and stupid.

Fam, not to worry…

You too can decorate your home like the White House, and it’s just a click away.

I hope his family ostracizes him and revokes any right he has to be buried with the family.

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

"... asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations, to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis.

"Work they were told to abandon — investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud..."

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This is clearly bad; however, if you want a small bit of light, Chicago is probably the most transparent city in the US on this. Every city has police lawsuits. The difference is that they usually hide the cost of them from taxpayers.

The best reason to NOT MOVE TO SOUTH CAROLINA, and for any South Carolinian who has a daughter, to MOVE.

Alice Knapp, Erin Dummeyer (opinion): Getting organized to shield banned books CT librarians Alice S. Knapp and Erin Dummeyer join voices to share lessons from peers 'across the country who have stood up to defend books'

Thank you, Alice & Erin, for this nice recap. It was lovely being with you in Stamford CT: “We can all take a page out of Martha Hickson’s playbook — keep our head high, organize, and speak out.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

Justice Department Slashes Essential Services for Crime Victims After four decades of bipartisan progress, federal support for crime victims is unraveling.

While Trump declared “unending support to every victim of crime,” his administration abruptly canceled $72 million worth of grants intended to support crime survivors. bit.ly/483zmiY

“OUTRAGEOUS” 💰 

Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social  taking note of THE BLACKBURN-HAGERTY PROVISION that lets @SenatorHagerty
 & @MarshaBlackburn grab $500,000 for being investigated for potentially being linked to Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government.🤔

God dammit!!! 😩