BrowsingTheStacks
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Retired school librarian—slightly vintage, rarely quiet, and forever curious. I’ve traded shushing for speaking up, and I’m still chasing answers to the things I don’t yet understand.
I had a “wait a minute…” moment reading about Blakeman’s denied matching funds. That sent me down a rabbit hole. Here’s what I found.
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Bruce Blakeman Denied $7,000,000 in Public Funds. NOT EXACTLY
A closer look at the math behind the claim, the 5,000 donor threshold, and what’s missing from the coverage.
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April 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I had a “wait a minute…” moment reading about Blakeman’s denied matching funds. That sent me down a rabbit hole. Here’s what I found.
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It makes you laugh… until it doesn’t.
A look at the myth of “family values” and what it hid.
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#Feminism #FamilyValues #Politics
A look at the myth of “family values” and what it hid.
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#Feminism #FamilyValues #Politics
The Underbelly of Female Perfection
The Hidden Cost of the “Family Values” We Were Taught to Believe In
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March 20, 2026 at 6:49 PM
It makes you laugh… until it doesn’t.
A look at the myth of “family values” and what it hid.
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#Feminism #FamilyValues #Politics
A look at the myth of “family values” and what it hid.
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#Feminism #FamilyValues #Politics
Having a bit of fun with Valentine's Day, James Madison, and the Bill of Rights.
February 10, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Having a bit of fun with Valentine's Day, James Madison, and the Bill of Rights.
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We’re here to support libraries. Take action at action.everylibrary.org.
#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarylove #author #publiclibrary #literature #lit
#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarylove #author #publiclibrary #literature #lit
February 8, 2026 at 1:01 PM
We’re here to support libraries. Take action at action.everylibrary.org.
#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarylove #author #publiclibrary #literature #lit
#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #librarylove #author #publiclibrary #literature #lit
You know I love a good bodice ripper.
#BeStillMyHeart #ByThePeople #ForThePeople #Democracy
#CivicLove
#BeStillMyHeart #ByThePeople #ForThePeople #Democracy
#CivicLove
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
You know I love a good bodice ripper.
#BeStillMyHeart #ByThePeople #ForThePeople #Democracy
#CivicLove
#BeStillMyHeart #ByThePeople #ForThePeople #Democracy
#CivicLove
RetailMeNot for drugs.
TrumpRx isn’t drug price reform. It’s a promo dressed up as policy, built on leverage, branding, and short-term optics.
A closer look at what’s really going on.
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TrumpRx isn’t drug price reform. It’s a promo dressed up as policy, built on leverage, branding, and short-term optics.
A closer look at what’s really going on.
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TrumpRx
Coupons, Credit, and No Accountability
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February 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
RetailMeNot for drugs.
TrumpRx isn’t drug price reform. It’s a promo dressed up as policy, built on leverage, branding, and short-term optics.
A closer look at what’s really going on.
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TrumpRx isn’t drug price reform. It’s a promo dressed up as policy, built on leverage, branding, and short-term optics.
A closer look at what’s really going on.
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
Meanwhile, the orange dude is saying only criminals carry guns in the street.
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Justice Department weighs rollback of gun regulations
The Justice Department is considering loosening a slate of gun regulations as it seeks to bolster support from ardent Second Amendment advocates.
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January 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Meanwhile, the orange dude is saying only criminals carry guns in the street.
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When community is weakened, rights become fragile. A look at libraries, passport access, and why authoritarianism targets the spaces where people gather.
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Our Rights Are Safe No So Much Our Communities
Recently I came across a story that y’all may have missed or scrolled past because it seemed innocuous in our new American reality.
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January 25, 2026 at 7:55 PM
When community is weakened, rights become fragile. A look at libraries, passport access, and why authoritarianism targets the spaces where people gather.
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My thoughts on 2025.
December 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
My thoughts on 2025.
An appropriate ending for 2025. I am titling this one
Twisted and Iced by Trump
Twisted and Iced by Trump
December 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
An appropriate ending for 2025. I am titling this one
Twisted and Iced by Trump
Twisted and Iced by Trump
A ceasefire is not peace especially when most of Trump’s “deals” expire faster than a Truth Social post. #TrumpLies #PressReleasePeace #We'veSeenThisBefore
December 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A ceasefire is not peace especially when most of Trump’s “deals” expire faster than a Truth Social post. #TrumpLies #PressReleasePeace #We'veSeenThisBefore
I’m a day late with this week’s Sundays With Stefanik — but when thirty seconds of claims take a week to verify, the timing makes sense.
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Thirty seconds of Claims
A closer look at Bruce Blakeman’s numbers, claims, and context
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December 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m a day late with this week’s Sundays With Stefanik — but when thirty seconds of claims take a week to verify, the timing makes sense.
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I almost didn’t post today’s column. Timing matters — but so do patterns.
This piece looks at storytelling, power, and what history remembers after the chairs are empty.
Bards, Storytellers and Memory.
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This piece looks at storytelling, power, and what history remembers after the chairs are empty.
Bards, Storytellers and Memory.
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Bards, Storytellers, and Living History
Stories are lived and lasting, power is assumed and fleeting
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December 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I almost didn’t post today’s column. Timing matters — but so do patterns.
This piece looks at storytelling, power, and what history remembers after the chairs are empty.
Bards, Storytellers and Memory.
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This piece looks at storytelling, power, and what history remembers after the chairs are empty.
Bards, Storytellers and Memory.
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There’s a difference between proximity to power and actually belonging.
This piece explores how #EliseStefanik’s politics became louder, meaner, and more disconnected from New York — and why that matters. #SaveUsFromStefanik
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This piece explores how #EliseStefanik’s politics became louder, meaner, and more disconnected from New York — and why that matters. #SaveUsFromStefanik
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Disconnected by Design
Trapped in an Echo Chamber of Her Own Making
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December 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
There’s a difference between proximity to power and actually belonging.
This piece explores how #EliseStefanik’s politics became louder, meaner, and more disconnected from New York — and why that matters. #SaveUsFromStefanik
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This piece explores how #EliseStefanik’s politics became louder, meaner, and more disconnected from New York — and why that matters. #SaveUsFromStefanik
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Reduced to claiming ignorance, so sad. Watch out #speakerjohnson, looks like #Rep.EliseStefanik may be gunning for your job. At the very least, she is calling your power into question.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Reduced to claiming ignorance, so sad. Watch out #speakerjohnson, looks like #Rep.EliseStefanik may be gunning for your job. At the very least, she is calling your power into question.
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This week’s Sundays With Stefanik digs into the money — where it comes from, why it matters, and what it reveals about her real endgame. Spoiler: it isn’t the governor’s mansion.
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#Stefanik #EliseStefanik
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#Stefanik #EliseStefanik
Sundays With Stefanik
Putting her Mouth Where the Money Is
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December 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This week’s Sundays With Stefanik digs into the money — where it comes from, why it matters, and what it reveals about her real endgame. Spoiler: it isn’t the governor’s mansion.
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#Stefanik #EliseStefanik
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#Stefanik #EliseStefanik
The anti Christ movement in the extreme conservative Christian population is overwhelming and disturbing on so many levels. Seeing churches acknowledge this is heartening.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The anti Christ movement in the extreme conservative Christian population is overwhelming and disturbing on so many levels. Seeing churches acknowledge this is heartening.
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Curated to Win, Unprepared to Lead
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#SaveUsFromStefanik #EliseStefanik #NY21
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#SaveUsFromStefanik #EliseStefanik #NY21
Curated to Win, Unprepared to Lead
Who knew that one request I made of AI would send me down a rabbit hole — not the fun, quirky, slightly unnerving one that Alice stumbled into.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Curated to Win, Unprepared to Lead
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#SaveUsFromStefanik #EliseStefanik #NY21
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#SaveUsFromStefanik #EliseStefanik #NY21
#EliseStefanik lives in a bubble she has curated into a tiny ecosystem in which she cannot fail. This feedback loop will be her downfall. She cannot operate in a world without control.
#SaveUsFromStefanik
#SaveUsFromStefanik
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#EliseStefanik lives in a bubble she has curated into a tiny ecosystem in which she cannot fail. This feedback loop will be her downfall. She cannot operate in a world without control.
#SaveUsFromStefanik
#SaveUsFromStefanik
Today’s Sundays With Stefanik looks at what her endorsements and mudslinging say about her. I’d love your feedback — and if the column resonates, please follow and restack.
Until next time, keep the pages turning and the light on.
#SundaysWithStefanik #SaveUsFromStefanik #NY21
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Until next time, keep the pages turning and the light on.
#SundaysWithStefanik #SaveUsFromStefanik #NY21
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Sundays With Stefanik
Accusations or Confessions? Stefanik Owns Them All
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November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Today’s Sundays With Stefanik looks at what her endorsements and mudslinging say about her. I’d love your feedback — and if the column resonates, please follow and restack.
Until next time, keep the pages turning and the light on.
#SundaysWithStefanik #SaveUsFromStefanik #NY21
bit.ly/4riW5iz
Until next time, keep the pages turning and the light on.
#SundaysWithStefanik #SaveUsFromStefanik #NY21
bit.ly/4riW5iz
Stefanik wants the Governor’s Mansion, but won’t answer for the district she already has. That’s not leadership. That’s ladder-climbing.
#SaveUsFromStefanik
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#SaveUsFromStefanik
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Sundays With Stefanik
From the North Country To Albany: Ambition Without Roots - Stefanik's Hollow Legacy
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November 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Stefanik wants the Governor’s Mansion, but won’t answer for the district she already has. That’s not leadership. That’s ladder-climbing.
#SaveUsFromStefanik
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#SaveUsFromStefanik
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Each Saturday when I sit down to write about Elise Stefanik I know I am in for a tough day. This one was tough, going over her divisive, hateful rhetoric and slimy way of practicing politics required many breaks.
#EliseStefanik #NYSPolitics #SaveNYFromEliseStefanik
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#EliseStefanik #NYSPolitics #SaveNYFromEliseStefanik
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Sharon Stone (@browsingthestacks)
Each Saturday when I sit down to write about Elise Stefanik I know I am in for a tough day. This one was tough, going over her divisive, hateful rhetoric and slimy way of practicing politics required...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Each Saturday when I sit down to write about Elise Stefanik I know I am in for a tough day. This one was tough, going over her divisive, hateful rhetoric and slimy way of practicing politics required many breaks.
#EliseStefanik #NYSPolitics #SaveNYFromEliseStefanik
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#EliseStefanik #NYSPolitics #SaveNYFromEliseStefanik
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This week’s Sundays With Stefanik takes a closer look at her governor run — the image, the narrative, and the gaps she hopes voters won’t notice.
#EliseStefanik #NY21 #SundaysWithStefanik #BrowsingTheStacks
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#EliseStefanik #NY21 #SundaysWithStefanik #BrowsingTheStacks
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Sundays With Stefanik
From the North Country To Albany: Ambition Without Roots - Stefanik's Hollow Legacy
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November 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This week’s Sundays With Stefanik takes a closer look at her governor run — the image, the narrative, and the gaps she hopes voters won’t notice.
#EliseStefanik #NY21 #SundaysWithStefanik #BrowsingTheStacks
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#EliseStefanik #NY21 #SundaysWithStefanik #BrowsingTheStacks
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From tax breaks for billionaires to detention camps for legal residents, to slashing schools & health care, to creating corruption & a constitutional crisis—Elise Stefanik’s MAGA agenda is tearing NY apart.
NYers see the truth. She won’t get away with it
#EmptyElise
NYers see the truth. She won’t get away with it
#EmptyElise
July 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
From tax breaks for billionaires to detention camps for legal residents, to slashing schools & health care, to creating corruption & a constitutional crisis—Elise Stefanik’s MAGA agenda is tearing NY apart.
NYers see the truth. She won’t get away with it
#EmptyElise
NYers see the truth. She won’t get away with it
#EmptyElise