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Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>Parsons Avenue <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a> Branch Book Drop - <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DrugUse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrugUse</span></a> and Kids Alone in the Car (<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Columbus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Columbus</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a>) </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EkM0K5yg8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=03EkM0K5yg</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/columbusOH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>columbusOH</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drugs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@columbuslibrarybot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>columbuslibrarybot@c.im</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cmh.one/@columbuslibrarybot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>columbuslibrarybot@cmh.one</span></a></span> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/columbuspolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>columbuspolice</span></a></p>
IndieAuthors.Social News<p>Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve: 11 Library Wearables to Broadcast Your Pro-Library, Anti-Fascist Ideals</p><p>These library wearables let the people know you love the library, and let them know you will fight to make sure libraries are for everyone.<br><a href="https://bookriot.com/library-wearables/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bookriot.com/library-wearables/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/TheGoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGoods</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>indieauthors</span></a></span></p>
Robin Riley<p>I can't wait to celebrate the re-opening of the Petaluma Library next week! Sneak peek (gift link): <a href="https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/petaluma-library-renovations-reopening/?utm_source=article_gift&amp;utm_medium=copy-link&amp;ac=YXJ0aWNsZS1zaGFyZQ==&amp;ah=gz1A5Z5lBv8y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">petaluma360.com/article/news/p</span><span class="invisible">etaluma-library-renovations-reopening/?utm_source=article_gift&amp;utm_medium=copy-link&amp;ac=YXJ0aWNsZS1zaGFyZQ==&amp;ah=gz1A5Z5lBv8y</span></a></p><p>It's good times in the Sonoma County Library system, between this, other renovations, and progress toward the Roseland Library.</p><p><a href="https://social.riley.pub/tags/SonomaCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SonomaCounty</span></a> <a href="https://social.riley.pub/tags/Petaluma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Petaluma</span></a> <a href="https://social.riley.pub/tags/SFBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SFBA</span></a> <a href="https://social.riley.pub/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a></p>
CoinOfNote<p>A couple of followers were quite interested in last week's E-Sylum article on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authors</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/coins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coins</span></a>..... And this week they posted an update to it! Here it is: <a href="https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n33.html#article12" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n3</span><span class="invisible">3.html#article12</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Numismatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numismatics</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/CoinCollecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoinCollecting</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Newsletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newsletter</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Collecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collecting</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/numismatics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>numismatics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Young San Franciscans aren’t drinking at bars. They’re at the library</strong></p> <a class="" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion </a><span class="">//</span><a class="" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Emily Hoeven</a> <p><strong>Young San Franciscans aren’t going to bars. They’re hanging at the library</strong></p> <p><strong><em><strong>Is it any surprise that young people like me are forgoing moody bars for free books when a glass of wine can set you back $20?</strong></em></strong></p> <span class=""><span class=""><span class="">By </span><span class=""><a class="" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/emily-hoeven/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Emily Hoeven</a></span><span class="">, </span></span><span class="">Opinion Columnist, </span></span><span class="">Aug 16, 2025</span> <p>San Francisco Main Library, photographed in 2023. The library’s marketing and community engagement teams have made concerted efforts to capture the attention of millennial and Gen-Z audiences.</p> <p><span class="">Stephen Lam/The Chronicle</span></p> <p>It’s no secret that young people in San Francisco <a class="" href="https://sfchronicle.com/sf/article/aging-bars-nightlife-20335735.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">don’t frequent bars and nightclubs</a> the way they once did.</p> <p>This has left many perplexed. If the city’s <a class="" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san-francisco-20somethings-exodus-20178534.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dwindling population of 20-somethings</a> isn’t drinking and dancing, what are they doing?</p> <p>This 20-something has spent much of her time this summer at the San Francisco Public Library. And based on my observations, plenty of other young adults have, too.</p> <p>No, we aren’t geeks. The library is cool.</p> <p><strong>To start, it’s a free third space&nbsp;— a perk that cannot be overstated in this ridiculously expensive city.</strong></p> <p>I recently visited the Chinatown library shortly before it closed at 8 p.m. There was barely an empty seat in the house. And it was impossible not to notice the sizable number of young adults.</p> <p>Is it any surprise we’d forgo a moody bar when a glass of wine can set you back $20 these days?</p> <p>Meanwhile, the library’s marketing and community engagement teams have made concerted efforts to capture the attention of millennial and Gen-Z audiences.</p> <p>Their smart gamification strategy is working.</p> <p>The library offers a tote bag as a prize for completing its Summer Stride program — which challenges residents to complete 20 hours of reading from&nbsp;<a class="" href="https://sfpl.org/summer-stride-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">June through August</a>.</p> <p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/article/library-book-san-francisco-20759794.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Young San Franciscans aren’t drinking at bars. They’re at the library</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/article/library-book-san-francisco-20759794.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/20-year-olds/" target="_blank">#20YearOlds</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/bars/" target="_blank">#Bars</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/books/" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/california/" target="_blank">#California</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/drinking/" target="_blank">#Drinking</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/education/" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/hanging-out/" target="_blank">#HangingOut</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/san-francisco/" target="_blank">#SanFrancisco</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/san-francisco-chronicle/" target="_blank">#SanFranciscoChronicle</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/san-francisco-public-library/" target="_blank">#SanFranciscoPublicLibrary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>

Trump’s D.C. crackdown: Hundreds protest outside White House : NPR

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Hundreds march to White House to protest Trump’s D.C. crackdown

August 16, 2025 9:03 PM ET

By Brian Mann

,

Chandelis Duster

Hundreds of protesters march to White House on Aug. 16, 2025. Brian Mann/NPR

WASHINGTON — Hundreds gathered peacefully in the nation’s capital on Saturday afternoon to protest President Trump’s attempted takeover of the city’s police department and deployment of  National Guard units alongside federal agents.

National

Three Republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington

Starting with a rally in the northwest neighborhood of DuPont Circle, protesters chanted, “Shame” and “Trump must go now!” while demanding an end to the “crime emergency” that Trump declared in an executive order on Monday.

Protesters later marched to the White House, continuing to chant, as D.C. Metropolitan Police officers and National Park Service police looked on from a distance.

Law

Teenagers in Washington, D.C., say the federal police takeover makes them feel unsafe

Mason Weber of Maryland told NPR he attended the march because he was concerned that the deployment of troops is a “serious ethical and legal breach.”

“The most concerning thing about it is there’s been no check and balance of the systems of power,” Weber said. “Congress, if it comes to it, we expect to authorize it for longer.”

A protester stands in front of Metropolitan Police Department officers and National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 16, 2025. Brian/Mann

The demonstration took place two days after Attorney General Pam Bondi attempted to appoint Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole as an “emergency police commissioner” who would assume full operational control over D.C. police. Trump officials backed off that effort on Friday after D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit in federal court.

“The hostile takeover of our police force is not going to happen — a very important win for home rule today,” Schwalb told reporters late Friday.

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Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Ars Technica

A video musical introduction…

https://youtu.be/GKhPVHoodrU?si=3HL5c-VqXjknl3dT

And some memorable images…

“He had a pickup truck and the devil’s eyes”: Columbia (Little Nell) is mad about Eddie.“It’s just a jump to the left”: castle denizens love doing the Time Warp 20th Century Studios“There’s a light over at the Frankenstein place”: Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) seek shelter from the storm. 20th Century StudiosCredit: 20th Century Studios

Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Ars Technica

When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, no one could have dreamed that it would become the longest-running theatrical release film in history. But that’s what happened. Thanks to a killer soundtrack, campy humor, and a devoted cult following, Rocky Horror is still a mainstay of midnight movie culture. In honor of its 50th anniversary, Disney/20th Century Studios is releasing a newly restored 4K HDR version in October, along with deluxe special editions on DVD and Blu-ray. And the film has inspired not one, but two documentaries marking its five decades of existence: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror and Sane Inside Insanity: The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror.

(Spoilers below, because it’s been 50 years.)

The film is an adaption of Richard O’Brien‘s 1973 musical for the stage, The Rocky Horror Show. At the time, he was a struggling actor and wrote the musical as an homage to the science fiction and B horror movies he’d loved since a child. In fact, the opening song (“Science Fiction/Double Feature“) makes explicit reference to many of those, including 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still, Flash Gordon (1936), King Kong (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Forbidden Planet (1956), and The Day of the Triffids (1962), among others.

The musical ran for six years in London and was well-received when it was staged in Los Angeles. But the New York City production bombed. By then the film was already in development with O’Brien—who plays the hunchbacked butler Riff Raff in the film—co-writing the script. Director Jim Sharman retained most of the London stage cast, but brought in American actors Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon to play Brad and Janet, respectively. And he shot much of the film at the Victorian Gothic manor Oakley Court in Berkshire, England, where several Hammer horror movies had been filmed.  In fact, Sharman made use of several old props and set pieces from old Hammer productions, most notably the tank and dummy from 1958’s The Revenge of Frankenstein.

The film opens with nice wholesome couple Brad and Janet attending a wedding and awkwardly getting engaged themselves. They decide to visit their high school science teacher, Dr. Scott (Jonathan Adams), because they met in his class, but they get a flat tire en route and end up stranded in the rain. They seek refuge and a phone at a nearby castle, hoping to call for roadside assistance. Instead, they are pressured into becoming guests of the castle’s owner, a transvestite mad scientist called Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), and his merry bad of misfits.

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Military Powers & the Senate Parliamentarian – GovTrack.us

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Military Powers & the Senate Parliamentarian

Aug. 15, 2025 · by Amy West

Hi all,

So we still have your questions and have not forgotten about them!

In fact, a post that we’d originally intended to post last week or possibly the week before is still in limbo because of a disagreement in-house about how to approach the question. So if you ever feel like you should already understand everything about Congress, be assured that even folks who think about Congress all the time don’t necessarily agree on what they understand or how to say it.

In the meantime, we’re going to take two other questions that are a little bit simpler.

When can the military be used domestically?

If you thought this had a cut and dried answer, you would not be alone. One thing that this administration is making clear is that, if it can be litigated, then the answer is not cut and dried. We addressed this in The law President Trump used to deploy the National Guard, and what might happen next. For what it’s worth, the trial in Los Angeles over whether the administration’s deployment of military in June violated the Posse Comitatus Act is ongoing. Both sides rested this week, but the judge hasn’t issued a ruling yet.

What’s the deal with the Senate Parlimentarian?

Conveniently, the Bipartisan Policy Center has already answered this question.

In their post What is the Role of the Senate Parliamentarian? they note that

  • the position is relatively new, having only been formalized in the early 20th century
  • the position is advisory only, meaning that Senators can ignore the recommendations from the Parliamentarian and
  • that because the Senate is an ongoing body, in which rules carry over from Congress to Congress, most of the change to rules comes in changes to precedents, of which the Parliamentarian keeps track.

With respect to item two above, Senators mostly follow the Parliamentarian’s advice. This has generally been most likely when reconciliation bills are in process. However, this year, the Senate Republican majority chose to ignore the Parliamentarian’s advice or bypass her role in two different ways that may mean new precedents in the Senate if Democrats act similarly when they next have control of the chamber.

Regulatory Waivers

The first case was about regulatory waivers issued to the state of California during the Biden administration. The Government Accountability Office and the Parliamentarian both agreed that the waivers did not fall under the Congressional Review Act rules for overturning regulations.

If the Senate had followed the Parliamentarian’s advice, then they could not have voted to overturn the waivers because such a vote would need a 60 vote passage for one or more procedural votes. The only way to overturn those waivers was to rely on a simple majority, which the Senate Republicans have.

So, Senate Republicans voted instead on a slightly different question about whether the waivers fall under the Congressional Review Act. That vote passed and the waivers were overturned. Technically they didn’t ignore the Parliamentarian, but functionally they definitely did.

How to count deficit effects

The bulk of the reconciliation bill passed this year focused on making the tax cuts in a 2017 bill permanent. But reconciliation bills are not supposed to add to the federal deficit. So, to make the tax cuts permanent and meet reconciliation requirements, the bill would have to raise lots of revenue in some other way or the Senate majority could change how they count.

The Senate majority decided to change how they count. There is the “current law baseline” which estimates about a $4 trillion dollar increase to the federal deficit versus the “current policy baseline” which estimates little or no increase to the deficit. The difference between the two approaches is that under current law, the tax cuts expire and estimates are created accordingly while under current policy the tax cuts are assumed to be extended in which case they make no difference to future deficits.

If the Senate Budget Committee had stuck to the current law baseline, then the tax cuts would be subject to review under the Byrd rule by the Parliamentarian and probably most would have been ruled as ineligible because of how much they’d add to the deficit. By deciding in committee that the analysis would based on current policy though, Senate Republicans bypassed an otherwise thorny situation in which they might have to jettison provisions because of cost or ignore the Parliamentarian repeatedly.

Like with the regulatory waivers, the Senate majority didn’t directly challenge the Parliamentarian. Instead, they used other procedural maneuvers to bypass having to go to the Parliamentarian at all.

That said, for the remaining provisions in the reconciliation bill, the Parliamentarian did do a review and items she advised violated the rules were ultimately pulled. So the Senate majority didn’t completely ignore the Parliamentarian; just on the things they cared about the most: overturning regulatory waivers promoting electric vehicles and retaining tax cuts.

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Making the Connection: An Examination of Institutional #Repositories and Scholarly Communication #Crosslinking Practices

#IRs remain a powerful tool for sharing and preserving scholarship. #Scholcom services and resources are essential to promoting and supporting IRs. #Linking SC services within an IR offers support to users at their point of need. This study investigates the prevalence of web linking between IR and SC services.

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Tonight's #movie, unriffed, was 1955's The Quatermass Xperiment, one we've been wanting to see for years. This was the #film that put #Hammer on the map. And it holds up pretty well. A little slow in spots, but pretty good in general. Good atmosphere, good suspense, good cinematography, and surprisingly good subtle humor. Thank you, #InterlibraryLoan! #Libraries are the best!

February. Taking a #library away from a community since February. FFS. Stop pwning #libraries.

"Fort Bend library website targeted by cyberattack to be fully restored by September, county officials say

Patrons have been unable to log into their accounts and use the online catalog for months after a cybersecurity attack in February."

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Houston Public Media · Fort Bend library website targeted by cyberattack to be fully restored by September, county officials sayBy Natalie Weber

Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer : NPR

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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit

Updated August 16, 20251:56 PM ET

By Chiara Eisner

President Donald Trump, right, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo / Jae C. Hong)

Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.

Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees.

At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel’s public printers. NPR reviewed photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, who NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said they feared retaliation.

Pictures of two documents about the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska that were found in a public hotel printer in Anchorage. NPR

The first page in the printed packet disclosed the sequence of meetings for August 15, including the specific names of the rooms inside the base in Anchorage where they would take place. It also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial present.

“POTUS to President Putin,” the document states, “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.”

On Saturday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly dismissed the papers as a “multi-page lunch menu” and suggested leaving the information on a public printer was not a security breach. The U.S. Department of State did not respond to requests for comment.

Pages 2 through 5 of the documents listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. staff members as well as the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. The list provided phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the summit, including “Mr. President POO-tihn.”

Pages 6 and 7 in the packet described how lunch at the summit would be served, and for whom. A menu included in the documents indicated that the luncheon was to be held “in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”

A seating chart shows that Putin and Trump were supposed to sit across from each other during the luncheon. Trump would be flanked by six officials: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to his right, and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff to his left. Putin would be seated immediately next to his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, and his Aide to the President for Foreign Policy, Yuri Ushakov.

During the summit Friday, lunch was apparently cancelled. But it was intended to be a simple, three-course meal, the documents showed. After a green salad, the world leaders would dine on filet mignon and halibut olympia. Crème brûlée would be served for dessert.

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I read I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. 4.0⭐

Mysterious #dystopian speculative science fiction exploring loneliness, humanity, and survival.

📚 #StoryGraph Reads the World #Challenge
✅ Prompt 2: Belgium

A bit difficult to read given there are no chapter or section breaks, but that does make sense. I'll be thinking about this for a while.

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Book cover for I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
app.thestorygraph.comI Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline HarpmanDeep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women ...

Beyond books, libraries offer varied, and perhaps unexpected, free offerings (The Globe and Mail (Alberta Edition)), Aug 16, 2025

And, next year when they write this article the headline will be “Public Libraries help find an alternative to <insert either Evil, Capitalist, USian, Commercial> social networking”