Roberta Flack, the Grammy award-winning singer and pianist known for hits like "Killing Me Softly With His Song," has died at the age of 88.
In 2022, Flack announced that she had been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and could no longer sing.
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56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.
Book censorship is about more than books.
bookriot.com/56-small-tas...
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Eric Adams truly is just a Republican from New Jersey
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Seimone Augustus | Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech
I’ll never get tired of the beautiful Louisiana magic that is Seimone Augustus’s HOF acceptance speech.
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Here's a nuclear block for MAGA where you can block in one step. Subscribe and, poof, they'll disappear.
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Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
U.S. Senator from Virginia.
Vice Chairman, Senate Intel Committee.
Senator for Massachusetts. Ranker on Senate Small Business Committee & HELP Primary Health & Retirement Security Subcommittee. Fighting for a Green New Deal.
Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Official Account of Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s Senator and the Senate Democratic Leader.
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Plant dyeing, foraging, food growing & preserving, garment sewing, general making on unceded land of Lenni-Lenape.
Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
Not official CDC—but close enough for transmission.
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We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people. Text WFP to 30403 to join us.
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The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Vice Chair, @democrats.org • PA State Rep, 181st District. • @drmatt.kenyatta’s husband
Mapping collapse, predicting emergence.
Designing future civic architectures — softly, precisely.
I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things.
The poster formerly known as "waxpancake". I make @Waxy.org and @xoxofest.com. Also: Skittish, Upcoming, Supercut, Playfic, Kind of Bloop. Helped build Kickstarter.
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New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
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Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
