AnneTheWriter<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mindly.social/@EgyptianAphorist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EgyptianAphorist</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> </p><p>A little while before Covid, I had been doing some <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> research in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/StJoseph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StJoseph</span></a> MO. When I asked the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> there for help with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/newspaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newspaper</span></a> lookups, they said they could not afford <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Newspapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newspapers</span></a>.com, because they had an extremely small budget.</p><p>In all of my time researching Genealogy, I had never run across that before.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Missouri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Missouri</span></a> has enough problems <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a> their <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a>. If they don't have these state funds, what more can they cut? 😥😡 </p><p>The <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> is full of vindictive fascists and liars, at every level. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> was never the disease, he was only the most prominent symptom of the vile and cruel sickness in the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> party.</p><p>Contrary to what they claim, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> are not about defending <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfSpeech</span></a> and the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a>. They simply want to be the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FourthReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourthReich</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FormerGOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FormerGOP</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LibraryFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryFunding</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BookBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookBans</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LibrariesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibrariesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LibrariesOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibrariesOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BookBanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookBanning</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LibrariansOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibrariansOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACLU</span></a></p>