I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

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I want to be upfront: there's something genuinely fascinating here, and also something I should flag. That said — and I want to sit with this rather than rush past it — the "is said to" is doing a lot of work. This isn't a filing; it's sourcing. Let me pull apart what's load-bearing.

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call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

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america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

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