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“UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has shown that deep reading, defined as sustained immersion in a text, builds the cognitive circuits required for critical analysis, empathy and perspective-taking in ways that skimming, scrolling and short-form video simply cannot.”

In public libraries, we are experiencing a huge increase in bad behavior from men, including all kinds of varieties of harassment. It's all related to current events.

Hey Renewers, as the light grows, remember to turn your clocks back this weekend - and don't forget to join me for my March talks if you can! Learn more: tinyurl.com/afyyd74n

I've been waiting for this one. Looks so good. I'm going to get the audio from Libby.

Montana's Gianforte Pleads Guilty, Won't Serve Jail Time In Assault On Journalist The representative-elect was given a six-month deferred sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting a Guardian reporter. He also was sentenced to community service and anger management counseling.

Where are the fathers of these broken men? What's going on in their homes that led them to this life of violence? Has society been coddling them? That's what I want to know.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

We’re gonna need a bigger bus.

This whole entire thread but especially this post.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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Fetterman tried to answer questions from reporters yesterday and had a hard time to put it mildly

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Head to @yogiberramuseum.bsky.social on 3/14 for “Game Changers: Celebrating Women in Baseball.”

Hear from @umpireplb.bsky.social, Alexia Jorge & @kavithad.bsky.social. Autograph signing with Alexia follows the panel.

Museum admission req’d. Reservations for the panel discussion encouraged.

ESPN barely covers Unrivaled and is the main partner of the media rights deal with the W and AU. They are not a neutral party in this standoff. They have a fiduciary interest in there being a season. The fact that they have all these statements from players but nothing from owners? Hmm.

Kah!

This is so good.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

YouTube video by The Obama White House President Obama Sings "Sweet Home Chicago"

We’re living in a nightmare but it’s the anniversary of this amazing city’s incorporation so a palate cleanser

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February reads. Only two this month. This is a nice audiobook series that can be stopped and started frequently.

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

It's too bad the only Republicans who will do this are doing it because they aren't running again. Shameful.

I feel like this on so many genAI-related things. If you think genAI can do your job better than you then you either suck at your job or you have low respect for the work you do.

BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirements—which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualified—to be the next Archivist of the United States.

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Chicago Is Lit: March Literary Events in and around Chicago and the Midwest | Third Coast Review Memoir and Narrative Storytelling During COVID The Society of Midland Authors presents a panel discussion titled “Memoir and Narrative Storytelling During COVID” with writers Michele Weldon, Gerry Ple...

Lit Editor Business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. New Chicago Is Lit column. Lit events in Chicago, Illinois, and the Midwest. Attn: @americanwritersmuseum.org

If you're an author, bookstore, publisher, organization, please reach out to me about future events

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Right now, there's open grumbling on the right -- Ted Cruz said there was no need for war and even lickspittles like Matt Walsh are having trouble with the quick reversal here -- but that window will close and they'll circle the wagons soon enough.

Dems need to be vocal and unsparing now.

Watching The View from yesterday. 12 minutes in I don't know if I can take Elizabeth Hasselbeck for a week. She's even more rambly than she used to be. I get wanting to have a conservative voice at the table, but Trump apologists should not be welcome. It's such a distraction from the issues.

Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.

Sitting here among 18,500 people who filled Barclays on a frigid Monday night to watch women’s hoops with like 3 weeks notice, all I can think is…

Anyone who can’t make stacks of money selling this product should get the fuck out of the money making business

Annie was an excellent beat reporter for the Sky. I haven't really seen much from her since she left the Sun Times.

Everyone needs to contact their electeds, speak up, march, All the things. But I don't think there's one person in the world waiting to hear what library associations in the states have to say about this or many topics.

Highly recommend this exhibit the Cincinnati Museum Center. It's there until April 12th. Felt weird to take pictures so I only have this cockeyed one from the elevator. Actually, I recommend Cincinnati. So much to do there.

Duke Union Risk Memo Warned of Kara Lawson, Lacrosse Players A confidential report prepared for Duke University in March 2022 outlined the potential risks the school faced when it came to athletes unionizing.

holy shit what a scoop

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