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Amanda Becker@amandabecker.bsky.social

At Pete Hegseth’s directive, books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

nbcnews.comMaya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purgeNearly 400 volumes were removed from the academy’s library this week after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office ordered it to remove books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

propub.liGeorgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.

Encyclopaedia Britannica@britannica.com

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The assistant commissioner of a division of the General Services Administration told staff to prepare for deep cuts. Federal workers have until Thursday to accept an offer to resign now and be paid through September.

washingtonpost.comFederal layoffs ‘likely’ if too few employees choose to quit, memo saysWorkers have until Thursday to decide whether to take an offer to resign now and be paid through the end of September.

Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social

Librarians aren't going to save us. Librarians aren't superheroes. They're just people trying to keep largely underfunded and overwhelmed public services going. Praise is nice; realistic expectations are better; material support is best.

CNN@cnn.com

Former President Jimmy Carter posthumously won his fourth Grammy Award for his audiobook "Last Sundays In Plains: A Centennial Celebration." Carter was 100 years old when he was nominated, making him the oldest nominee – and now winner – in Grammy history. Follow the Grammys live: cnn.it/3Q2lagi

Axios@axios.com

SCOOP: Hakeem Jeffries has privately floated embracing the wholesale elimination of the debt limit next year rather than simply raising it.

axios.comScoop: Jeffries' plan to kill the debt ceiling foreverJeffries has privately expressed openness to embracing Trump's demand to abolish the debt ceiling.

Carol Watson@cwatson290.bsky.social

Appropriate thanksgiving dinner discussion topic…so what’s everybody stocking up on in anticipation of tariffs?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

BREAKING: Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general.