Amanda Griggs
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Librarian. Pop culture junkie. I said booby on national television.
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Kayleigh Donaldson
about 2 hours ago
Fine, let's talk about Simone, Connor Storrie, fandom stalkers, and the commodification of the parasocial.
gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/its-getting-...
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It’s Getting Worse: Club Chalamet, Connor Storrie, and Parasocial Fandom
Get a job. Stay away from him.
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/its-getting-worse-club-chalamet-connor-storrie-and-parasocial-fandom/
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
1 day ago
Pete Hegseth proudly announced that flu vaccines were no longer required for the military. Predictably, a flu outbreak has descended upon the Air Force’s boot camp. Flu vaccines are again required for all new recruits.
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Jameel Jaffer
1 day ago
Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
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lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?
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Dana Stevens
1 day ago
Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
1 day ago
Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
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CJ Fogler
3 days ago
Chef's kiss, salute, tears, all of it
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Marisa Kabas
3 days ago
the dumbest story in history has somehow gotten dumber
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
3 days ago
I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.
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jamelle
3 days ago
i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media
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Dan Pfeiffer
3 days ago
Something very dangerous happened last week, and it flew under the radar. Fox News is buying Roku, which will allow the Murdochs to control the home screens of 20% of the country's TVs. This has the potential to be very bad for democracy. Here's why:
messagebox.substack.com/p/the-media-...
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The Media Merger that Should Really Scare Democrats
The Murdochs are about to have massive influence on what millions of Americans watch
https://messagebox.substack.com/p/the-media-merger-that-should-really
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Mark Harris
3 days ago
This is the headline.
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Well, well, well. Interesting. I *wonder* who this could be? 👀
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)
5 days ago
"Be beige, not rainbow" is the outcome of librarians saying libraries should be neutral. We cannot and are not neutral, and we gotta stop insisting that we are. At this point, it is part of the book ban playbook.
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Brian Phillips
6 days ago
"Welcome to Kansas City, where Ecuador has struggled to score against Curaçao." Meanwhile, across town, Samantha was also struggling with curaçao, and she, too, was trying to score
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Athens Grease
12 days ago
I’m not merely pro-penis, I’m a
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Mark Harris
6 days ago
Yeah, only the highest-quality takes are getting posted.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈
7 days ago
Me: its time to open up this pit! Construction Contractor: please, no
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Mark Harris
7 days ago
James Burrows was not a giant in sitcom directing. He was THE giant. The primary director of Cheers and Taxi. The only director (I believe) of Will & Grace. The director whose pilots for Friends, Third Rock, Frasier, and Big Bang Theory got them on the air. The king. RIP.
people.com/james-burrow...
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James Burrows, Cheers Co-Creator and Will & Grace Director, Dies at 85 (Exclusive)
James Burrows has died at the age of 85. An 11-time Emmy winner, he co-created 'Cheers' and directed episodes of 'Will & Grace', 'Friends', 'The Big Bang Theory', 'Taxi' and many other TV sitcoms.
https://people.com/james-burrows-dead-cheers-co-creator-director-was-85-exclusive-11744793?hid=7c4a1aae3df469976f95501cb16f66bff3720476&did=24259163-20260619&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ppl-breaking-news_newsletter&utm_content=061926&lctg=7c4a1aae3df469976f95501cb16f66bff3720476&lr_input=78ef4767c9f04e424cbb6a202c84ff19c32d04d86ffdf53f3c4ffd14afd8c4f1&campaign=18649386
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Annalee Newitz
8 days ago
Just in time for Pride, we have news about the notorious "pink planet," a billion year-old gas supergiant that's 57 light years from Earth. Turns out that this old, pink planet is extremely salty, which feels relatable.
news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...
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Famous ‘Pink Planet’ harbors a salty surprise
James Webb Space Telescope finds salt clouds surround one of the coldest objects ever studied
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/06/famous-pink-planet-harbors-a-salty-surprise
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The best part of living a block away from my dad is when I forget things at home and he agrees to bring them to me at work... and when he agrees to pick up Dunkin for us both first so I get a little treat. 😍
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
11 days ago
Is it carbon monoxide
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Sarah Weinman
11 days ago
My latest
@flaminghydra.com
essay is on rewatching ZODIAC almost twenty years after its release, being worried it didn't hold up and discovered a) it still rules b) it might be the movie for our current moment?
flaminghydra.com/issue-586/
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Murderer mystery
The 2007 David Fincher classic hits different now, says Sarah Weinman
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-586/
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Ken Vogel
11 days ago
SCOOP from
@by-cjewett.bsky.social
& me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.
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How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/politics/kratom-trump-administration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qVA.VP2_.nEtUcug_LDZf&smid=url-share
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Linda Holmes
13 days ago
Can you pass out from irony alone?
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Carl Quintanilla
13 days ago
“.. a gap in the tarps allowed a New York Times photographer to observe a worker pulling the letter ‘A’ from the wall. There was no sound of power tools; the letter appeared to come off by hand.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/a...
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Musicology Duck
13 days ago
They tried to hide but I got em anyway
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Brooke Harrington
14 days ago
The Germans have a word for this: "verschlimmbesserung." To make something worse by trying to make it better.
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Marisa Kabas
14 days ago
someone can be heard on the livestream yelling "take the T down first!" 😂
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Phil Lewis
14 days ago
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationwide
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Trump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rules
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on topics like slavery and climate change that it had removed from parks and monuments nationw...
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-administration-must-restore-history-science-materials-parks-us-judge-rules-2026-06-12/
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Sam Reich
15 days ago
who did this to me
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Liz Dye
14 days ago
Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds.
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JustHere4Coffee
15 days ago
While Pink News has the best headline, GoMag has the best pictures, i.e. pictures of the actual ex-nuns, not just random stock photos:
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Stella Sacco
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Alyssa Long
14 days ago
I need a word for what it feels like to be a 40 year old woman who has been putting up with incompetent men’s delusions for her entire life and have people who could legally drink in this decade telling me I can’t think for myself because I have a vulva. I guess “rage” covers it but like, not quite
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Adam Stemple
15 days ago
My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.
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Dan Devine
15 days ago
The Knicks were down 27 at halftime and looking absolutely desolate. All was lost. Until ... “Had to give ’em a little Wu-Tang prayer, nahmean?” Ghostface Killah told me. At Y! Sports: I wrote about the greatest comeback in NBA history.
yhoo.it/3ShQDPX
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NBA Finals: A Wu-Tang prayer, OG Anunoby, Jose Alvarado and the greatest comeback in NBA history
There have been bigger deficits overcome on an NBA court, but none has been greater than what transpired Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden to give the Knicks a 3-1 series lead.
https://yhoo.it/3ShQDPX
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Molly Knight
16 days ago
Here are the Chicks performing “Not Ready to Make Nice” on Kimmel last night on the 23rd anniversary of them being right about the Iraq War and getting actually canceled for it:
youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pg
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The Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
https://youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pg
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Mark Harris
16 days ago
Ugh, you know... [makes world's biggest jerking-off hand gesture]
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Becky Spratford
16 days ago
You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with:
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Authors Guild Looks at Why Author Incomes Are in Decline
A survey commissioned by the Guild found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription, with readers increasingly turning to low- or no...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/100605-authors-guild-survey-looks-at-why-author-incomes-are-in-decline.html
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Sarah Taber
17 days ago
You know what's crazy? This guy sells almost everywhere in the US EXCEPT MINNESOTA. Minnesota's public health dept is famous in the food safety world for being #1 at tracking down the source of outbreaks- way faster than any other state. What an interesting coincidence!
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kelly jensen
17 days ago
"You know you are striking a nerve when national publisher groups start driving a digital sign truck around the Rhode Island legislature to try and kill a library eBook bill." Wow.
ebookstudygroup.substack.com/p/james-patt...
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James Patterson's Latest Op-Ed is Another Work of Publisher Fiction
The publishers' latest salvo against eBook state laws is to send in their millionaire author clients to repeat their false copyright and market claims
https://ebookstudygroup.substack.com/p/james-pattersons-latest-op-ed-is?r=5izrd1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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Marisa Kabas
18 days ago
tell them there’s a sex criminal in the building
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Rebecca Solnit
18 days ago
Men's complaints today: we are horribly oppressed because a woman translated Homer. Women's complaints: see Heidi Blake's utterly horrific report on the Tate brothers' long campaign of rape, violent physical and psychological abuse, and trafficking of, apparently, hundreds of women.
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TrumpsTaxes
18 days ago
LOL if you thought the Trump boos were loud on TV, wait until you hear them from inside MSG. Video courtesy of Evan Roberts from WFAN on X.
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Aaron Rupar
18 days ago
Trump, shown on camera during the national anthem, is booed loudly at MSG
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her)
18 days ago
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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Tim Onion
18 days ago
Folks we're getting some extremely cursed energy all the way around for the game tonight.
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