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Former bookseller, I now work at a nature center on the shore of Lake Michigan. And I still like talking about books.

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Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda

Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

03.11.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Early voting is complete in New York City! What we know:

735,317 people have voted.

That's more than four times the early total in 2021, and it's 67.5% of the early voting total in 2024.

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Coming home was always the right idea.

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Boswell bestsellers, week ending November 1, 2025 Boswell bestsellers, week ending November 1, 2025 Hardcover Fiction: 1. Black Wolf V20, by Louise Penny 2. Shadow Ticket, by Thomas Pynch...

Boswell bestsellers, week ending November 1, 2025 boswellandbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/bosw...

#booksky

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Why Trump Can’t Stop Us
Robert Reich Why Trump Can’t Stop Us

These are dark times to be sure. But I believe future generations will look back on this scourge and see not just what was destroyed but also what was born.

Many of you are now sowing the seeds of fundamental reform. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mo0FnoBC7yc

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Hard to believe next Wednesday, 5 November is a year since the U.S. election - feels like itβ€˜s been a decade.

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Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.

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Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.

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Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

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Hoping happy blood sugar lasts all the through November, which is Diabetes Awareness Month.

This is not normal or easy for me. This is WORK! But the results are worth it.

#t1d #diabetesawarenss

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Hope Abounds for Type 1 Diabetes Treatment Living with type 1 diabetes today is leaps and bounds easier than it was decades ago. Things are only getting better

www.scientificamerican.com/article/adva...

#diabetesawareness #invisibledisease #T1D

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Cool optics bro

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How a post-surgery nurse uses music to assist patients in their recovery from injury Research suggests music has the power to relieve pain. We speak to a nurse who brings his ukulele into the hospital ward.

How a post-surgery nurse uses music to assist patients in their recovery from injury www.npr.org/2025/11/01/n...

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For a Literary Saint, Margaret Atwood Can Sure Hold a Grudge

Margaret Atwood’s New Memoir Shows She Can Hold a Grudge www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/b...

#booksky

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Chicago Cyclists Buy Out Tamale Vendors to Keep Them Safe from ICE With their stock sold early, vendors can head home, cash in hand, before immigration agents sweep through.

Chicago Cyclists Buy Out Tamale Vendors to Keep Them Safe from ICE reasonstobecheerful.world/chicago-cycl...

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Portland Coffee Shop Raises Over $87,000 to Feed People Losing Benefits as Government Shuts Down Selling coffee to cover the cost of training volunteers to become coffee roasters and baristas, Heretic already radiates a civic mindset.

Portland Coffee Shop Raises Over $87,000 to Feed People Losing Benefits as Government Shuts Down www.goodnewsnetwork.org/portland-cof...

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He Won a Crayola Crayon-Naming Contest in 1992 as a Boy–Now it's Been Voted #2 Color in the World For that's what led to the hatching of "robin's egg blue"β€”not a chic design catalogue, but a Crayola crayon naming contest from 1992.

He Won a Crayola Crayon-Naming Contest in 1992 as a Boy–Now it’s Been Voted #2 Color in the World www.goodnewsnetwork.org/he-won-a-cra...

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The best recent poetry – review roundup Namanlagh by Tom Paulin; Foretokens by Sarah Howe; Maryville by Joelle Taylor; Hekate by Nikita Gill; Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi

The best recent poetry – review roundup www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

#booksky

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Attention by Anne Enright review – sparkling reflections on life and literature Unabashed and morally generous, the Booker winner writes like a sharp, funny, fallen angel

Attention by Anne Enright review – sparkling reflections on life and literature www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

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Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention Nearing 80, the punk poet reflects on the twists in her story that have surprised even her.

Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

#booksky

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month Featuring Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Gish Jen, Susan Orlean, and more

The Best Reviewed Books of the Month bookmarks.reviews/the-best-rev...

#booksky

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The Trump administration’s lawlessness cannot be ignored.

Period.

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a nice big tree

a nice big tree

Timeline cleanse!

Here's a tree ❀️

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Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote
Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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October 30, 2025 House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

An important read.

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6 New Books We Love This Week

6 New Books We Love This Week www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

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The 11 Best Book Covers of October Another month of books, another month of book covers: October was big, bold, and weird as all get out. I also threw in a couple of covers that I forgot in September but just couldn’t let go o…

The 11 Best Book Covers of October lithub.com/the-11-best-...

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A Writer Who Did What Hillbilly Elegy Wouldn’t In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her Donald Trump–voting hometown to find out how America got so divided.

A Writer Who Did What Hillbilly Elegy Wouldn’t www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

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