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  • Kintsugi
  • December 17, 2021December 17, 2021

Garden & Gun’s Favorite Cookbooks of 2021

Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking, by Cheryl Day Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day, by Rodney Scott and Lolis Eric Elie ** Just a Few Miles South, by Ouita Michel

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  • Prof Patty
  • December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Best Books 2021 NY Times

Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2021 from the NY Times The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers No One Is Talking About This By Patricia Lockwood When We Cease to Und

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  • Prof Patty
  • December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021

FictionBewilderment by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (One World)Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dut

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  • Kintsugi
  • February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

These 5 books by Black women are must-reads this month – and any month

By Candace McDuffie, Correspondent, Christian Scientist Monitor Black feminist thought has become crucial to how we navigate the social, economic, and political currents in America. To un

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  • Prof Patty
  • August 18, 2020

Books You’ll Want to Read This Summer

“The Black Count,” by Tom Reiss: The true story of General Alex Dumas, the son of a Black slave who inspired “The Count of Monte Cristo” and other swashbuckling tales written by h

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https://youtu.be/2S2L4e914po?si=YmVt_MwoVlBysYzK

NY Times

  • Lesson Learned From Iran War: Reduce Reliance on Strait of Hormuz
  • Triumph of the Tasteless
  • 2 Deadly Earthquakes Hit Venezuela, and Why Chemo Drugs Could Soon Be Rationed
  • Iraq’s New Leader Faces Resistance Trying to Bring Militias Under State Control
  • U.S. Inflation Problems Are Far From Over
https://youtu.be/ZALIdsv_3cg?si=FZBaK7cjVEztCJnB

NPR

  • A volunteer otter watcher helped make a scientific discovery
  • Leading Lebanese conservationist dies after an Israeli airstrike on her home
  • Butterflies may hold clues to longer lives
  • A new app could help streamline loon data by enabling citizens to log observations
  • A new study rewrites the history of the plague
https://youtu.be/7aGbj3LAHsI?si=Iso1GGmZlbrOj5nO

The Progressive

  • Queer Media Workers Navigate an Uncertain Landscape
  • The U.S. Supreme Court May Continue the Culture War Around Religion and LGBTQ+ Personhood
  • Mohammad Sabaaneh’s Desperate and Defiant Vision
  • When a Bullet Enters an Ordinary Moment
  • Trump’s Deal with Iran Is Good Enough
https://youtu.be/oKbsiNd4Q-Y?si=MF6Eq8qv49QiZkTB

FactCheck.org

  • How Trump’s Preliminary Deal with Iran Compares with His Rhetoric
  • No Evidence for Trump’s Right to Try Claim
  • The Shaky Assumptions Behind Trump’s Over $500 Billion in Projected Drug Savings
  • Trump Makes Unsupported Claims About Drug Flows
  • Trump’s Inaccurate Anecdote on ‘Right to Repair’ Cars
https://youtu.be/FA8AZSMEOD0?si=uBmpaQx4ZdqASMpy

Snopes.com

  • Don't fall for fake image of Donald and Ivanka Trump with Epstein
  • Investigating claim Trump got exclusive access to potent obesity drug retatrutide
  • Did JPMorgan Chase fire DEI executive who stole Knicks trash can? What we know
  • Trump blamed 'vandals' for reflecting pool damage without providing evidence
  • Misleading posts compare Obama Presidential Center's ID requirement to voter ID laws
https://youtu.be/OFkeKKszXTw?si=y7SJCxWT57VseByL

Tradeoffs

  • With Millions Expected to Lose Coverage, States Look for New Ways to Prevent Medical Debt
  • Medicaid Overhaul Complicates States’ Plans to Bring Care Into Jails and Prisons
  • Where Did the No Surprises Act Go Wrong? And Can It Be Fixed?
  • Mental Health Courts Offer People Facing Prison an Imperfect Alternative
  • A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy
https://youtu.be/JbpcNGe1IoY?si=OKq0SBDBFxiyWQAo

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