Super cool evening spent watching Ben Folds and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Amazing talents, fun crowd interaction, and some compelling words to make art, use your voice, and cultivate your creativity.

“I wanted to take a stand on it and try to put up a barrier from it happening to other librarians. I thought, ‘If I don’t do this thing, it’s just going to keep happening.’” - Terri Lesley www.cbsnews.com/news/wyoming...

In Friday's edition of #ireadbannedbooks - I present The Outsiders... this was on an optional reading list back when I was in high school and my youngest chose it for summer reading in her middle school years. If you don't know the author's own story, it's fascinating too.

Another great book. This was assigned as a middle school summer reading option for my girls. Glad there were and are still teachers who want students to read thought provoking materials. #ireadbannedbooks

This. I am so glad we live in an age that allows citizens to record activity.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Today's edition of #ireadbannedbooks - L'Engle @tesserwell.bsky.social is one of my favorite authors. The trilogy of books in this series are some of my favorites of her work. The book my wonderfully amazing 5th grade teacher read aloud to us was banned (and still remains on some banned lists).

Reading Rainbow is back! Love @mychal3ts.bsky.social as host!! Check out the first episode, make sure you subscribe, and share with EVERYONE!! 🩵🌈📚

Banned Book Week Day 2 Photo #ireadbannedbooks

In honor of banned book week, I will be posting a daily photo of some of my favorites. #ireadbannedbooks

Referring to the abuse visited upon over a thousand girls as a “red herring” is nasty work, you asshole.

My inner bibliophile is doing the happy dance. Got this gorgeous bunch of items from the @terrypratchett.bsky.social kickstarter project. The graphic novel is beautiful and @colleendoran.bsky.social has outdone herself!

This! Glad to see Pope Leo using his voice to highlight the "pro-life" position.

What a woman! I'll always remember this heartwarming goodbye hug when she brought the chimp back to his home in the jungle. May you rest in peace, Jane Goodall 💔 #RIPjaneGoodall

France24's The Debate is always a good watch. Interesting to see their perspectives and the American guests here are clear on the gravity of our situation.

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1/2 "The Supreme Grand Master smiled in the depths of his robe. It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom."

Spent the evening at a community Remembrance Walk in memorial of those who have lost their lives to suicide or drug overdose. This was my 9th year of participating after my died died by suicide in 2017. #donotlosehope

Love this.

Glad Pete is still out there educating people. One of the best speakers we have.

Free speech is one of the most valuable rights we have. Freely voicing our differences and disagreements, even if those conversations or statements are controversial, is vital. Silence in the face of atrocity, injustice, and oppressive behavior only contributes to the harm inflicted upon the world.

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

Release the Epstein files!!!

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I laughed sooo hard at this. Love Josh Johnson. www.facebook.com/reel/1247106...

Mr. Rogers was an absolute gem of a human. This is the leadership we need.

Umm … it’s pretty stupid.

Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

The survivors that came up to Capitol Hill today to speak with @oversightdemocrats.house.gov represent not only their own courage but a fierce demand: that this country finally put its resources and its will towards ending trafficking…

Epstein Survivors Press Conference Sept 3rd, 10:30 a.m. ET Tune in to support them.

I wrote this last November, but it is all too relevant now. "it will be more useful to think of oligarchs on an island, starting in apparent unity, dreaming an impossible Russian dream, wreaking bloody havoc, and then coming apart." snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...

Excellent question.

The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…

Victims used to count. This Executive branch has breeched the public trust.

Sometimes we just need a moment to remember there is still beauty in this world.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over the course of a month.

The right-wing narrative wants the public to believe most Americans hate immigrants. The truth? Nearly 80% of Americans support a pathway to citizenship. Watch @lastweektonight.com debunk the myths around ICE raids 👇

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

Wes Moore on Fox & Friends: "Our National Guards are not trained for this ... we know the missions that they are trained for. Municipal policing is not one of them. If we want to be serious about making people safe, let's actually do the things that make people safe."

Rep. Adam Smith: "Look, it's pretty clear the president wants his own domestic police force and step by step he's trying to create it. We should be deeply alarmed by that regardless of how you feel about crime in DC or any other city ... it's a huge step toward an autocratic government."

Not only will we continue to demand the release of the unredacted (other than that of the victims), Epstein files, we demand the victims be heard! We don't care what a convicted sex trafficker has to say. The only voices that matter are those of the victims. 1/2

First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.

Worse than horrendous. 😡

Heinous.

Arrrgggghhh!!! I can't believe this is our reality. So infuriating and heartbreaking 💔 😡

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew