Robin the Librarian

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Screenshot of a Facebook post from Caldwell Public Library featuring a graphic titled “Juneteenth Book Recommendations” on a black background with green, red, and orange African-themed border accents. The graphic shows four book/audiobook covers: “The 1619 Project,” “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” “On Juneteenth” by Annette Gordon-Reed, and “A Mercy” by Toni Morrison, with text reading “Available with your library card www.caldwellpl.org.” Below, a comment from user Nicholas includes an image with text reading “Juneteenth, June 19th, 1865: The day Republicans and the Union Army freed the remaining slaves… from Democrat slave owners”
Newsweek magazines from October 1969. Cover features white people of all ages and the caption THE TROUBLED AMERICAN: A Special Report on the White Majority
Newsweek magazine dated June 24, 1968 with a white hand holding a gun facing front. The headline says: “A Question Of GUNS”
Text message says Then: George Soros in HANDCUFFS?! Trump just EXPOSED the BONE-CHILLING truth Me: Fuck you and your antisemitism STOP
Ben Wyatt from Parks & Rec. First image: "I don't even have time to tell you how wrong you are." Second image: "Actually, it's gonna bug me if I don't."
Image from Duolingo and says “Bruno works in two libraries”
Top book: How Democrocies Die Bottom book: The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
Book: Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum