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Mary Ann Gwinn

@gwinnma.bsky.social

Book critic. Kirkus Prize juror for 2024; reviewer for LA Times, Kirkus, Star Tribune. NBCC board. Pulitzer winner. Read to live, live to read.

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Frog and Toad hide the cookies in a box.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

Frog and Toad hide the cookies in a box. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

30.10.2025 22:37 — 👍 785    🔁 145    💬 4    📌 19
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Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting....
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow

29.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2
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Immigration enforcement agencies accessed WA license plate data, report finds A new report from the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights found that federal immigration enforcement has been mining license plate data from local law enforcement in Washington state.

A new report from the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights found that federal immigration enforcement has been mining license plate data from local law enforcement in Washington state.

23.10.2025 00:22 — 👍 53    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 1

Once I'd like to see the Seattle Mariners snatch victory from the jaws of victory.

21.10.2025 02:46 — 👍 30    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Trump carrying on the effort of Major General Robert Ross the British officer who torched the White House in war of 1812

21.10.2025 01:46 — 👍 104    🔁 43    💬 7    📌 3

Republicans control the majority in Congress right now.

No matter your political party, the idea that DOJ is outright lying or misleading federal judges should be a five-alarm fire for my colleagues.

When will they act?

21.10.2025 01:50 — 👍 392    🔁 148    💬 19    📌 3
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Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

21.10.2025 00:56 — 👍 6306    🔁 1843    💬 281    📌 129
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

18.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 15635    🔁 4517    💬 15    📌 2
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Students will face much higher costs if enhanced premium tax credits aren’t extended -- a 26-year-old part-time student in Eastern WA would see his health insurance premiums quadruple.

17.10.2025 23:36 — 👍 41    🔁 10    💬 7    📌 1
Telegraph: There is endless gold dust for John le Carré fans in this exhibition
The Bodleian Libraries' new show
Tradecraft sheds light on the complex, grouchy and very English writer

Telegraph: There is endless gold dust for John le Carré fans in this exhibition The Bodleian Libraries' new show Tradecraft sheds light on the complex, grouchy and very English writer

*English and Irish. With, culturally, a significant helping of German and Swiss.

30.09.2025 11:22 — 👍 207    🔁 21    💬 11    📌 1
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More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...

30.09.2025 19:30 — 👍 181    🔁 71    💬 2    📌 4
My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a cartoon-like, stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against a white background. The front-facing octopus has a large red and white head/body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot. Below the head/body are eight writhing tentacles

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a cartoon-like, stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against a white background. The front-facing octopus has a large red and white head/body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot. Below the head/body are eight writhing tentacles

Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me

#Archaeology

30.09.2025 15:51 — 👍 1082    🔁 262    💬 14    📌 17
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250,000 Washingtonians will lose Medicaid due to MAGA Congress’s Big Betrayal of a bill.

80,000 Washingtonians will lose coverage when tax credits expire in January.

I stand with Democratic leaders in Congress who are fighting these morally bankrupt cuts.

30.09.2025 21:01 — 👍 140    🔁 39    💬 6    📌 2
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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

30.09.2025 21:20 — 👍 869    🔁 418    💬 98    📌 111
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Where can Americans afford to live solo in 2025? Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows rent is soaring in several southern cities

If you dream of affording a place to yourself, our Carrie Bradshaw index shows that the town you live in is as important as what you earn

30.09.2025 21:20 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Vincent van Gogh
Landscape with Path and Pollard Trees, 1888

28.09.2025 01:08 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

24.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 5449    🔁 1579    💬 81    📌 97
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'Gimme my Jimmy.' Seattle protesters condemn KOMO, Sinclair over refusing to air Kimmel As late-night TV fans across the country prepared for the return of comedian and host Jimmy Kimmel, protesters in Seattle gathered outside local ABC affiliate KOMO Tuesday afternoon.

Kimmel was expected to be back on the air Tuesday night, after being temporarily suspended last week following controversial comments he made about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

24.09.2025 00:49 — 👍 33    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 1
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Jimmy Kimmel Will Return to the Air Following Backlash, Boycott “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy,” said the Walt Disney Company.

This is a huge win for free speech and a massive credit to the millions of people who expressed their outrage and sent a clear signal with their voices and their wallets.

And it's a credit to Bob Iger and Disney as well that in the end they did the right thing. ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-kimmel...

22.09.2025 21:45 — 👍 352    🔁 62    💬 48    📌 8
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The President is casually suggesting he will go to “war” against an American city.

Today it’s Chicago, tomorrow it might be Seattle. It’s not funny or amusing.

I’ll be fighting back in Congress but remember: he WANTS you to think your voices and votes don’t matter—they do.

06.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 704    🔁 172    💬 59    📌 17

Yes, very bad.
If you ever want to read a book about the sheer awfulness of that era, T.J. Stiles’ bio of Jesse James is hair-raising. OK, back to the game!

06.09.2025 22:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good grief. It goes back to before the Civil War. They don’t call it the Border War game for nothing.

06.09.2025 22:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Welcome, Hawaii, to the West Coast Health Alliance.

We’re not allowing our states to be put at risk while the CDC is undermined. We simply can no longer trust what’s coming out of Washington D.C. and Robert Kennedy Jr.

04.09.2025 23:37 — 👍 439    🔁 105    💬 23    📌 13
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Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

Trump & Republicans want to let private AI companies decide if Medicare patients actually need their doctor-recommended treatments so they can turn a profit.

This admin is trying to use AI to cut Medicare benefits & stop seniors from getting the health care they need.

NO WAY.

05.09.2025 00:17 — 👍 235    🔁 78    💬 23    📌 8
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Philip von Schantz
Enamel bucket with cherries. 1993-94

03.09.2025 01:20 — 👍 29    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Andrew Wyeth
Berry Bucket. 1958

03.09.2025 01:20 — 👍 87    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 1
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Henri Fantin- Latour, Cherries, 1877. Oil on canvas, 30 x 28.5 cm

25.08.2025 01:19 — 👍 68    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 2
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Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social

16.08.2025 00:49 — 👍 304    🔁 105    💬 9    📌 14

No, Costco did not previously sell Mifepristone, but it is notable that they chose to announce this decision.

Who are they trying to placate?

At a time when abortion rights are under attack everywhere, I am urging ALL pharmacies to ensure they make mifepristone available.

15.08.2025 22:13 — 👍 229    🔁 36    💬 14    📌 2
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Costco will not sell abortion pills after pressure from conservatives The grocery giant was pressured by antiabortion groups not to carry mifepristone as medication abortion gains popularity in the U.S.

Mifepristone is safe and effective. There is no good reason for Costco to refuse to sell this medication.

I am demanding that Costco immediately reverse course—follow the science and the facts, not the demands of far-right anti-abortion extremists.

15.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 486    🔁 114    💬 54    📌 20

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