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   @nicholasthompson7690

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   We have this where I am in Cincinnati Oh. It's really sad to see this in a society where we have options to change things.

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   @nigralurker

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   Exact reason why I avoid public libraries like the plague.

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   @victorbarkley7785

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   Hello America, how come we tolerate homelessness?? How come we tolerate seeing children, young people, and adults homeless??

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   @christinarosed.p.1967

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   Why??? Example, Canada’s current(?) citizenship and integration test does not reveal anything distinctive about the particularities of the nation (eliminating questions about ordinary symbols such as the flag or national anthem, and history) or a distinct philosophy of integration (see Michalowski 2009 for a systematic analysis; also Joppke 2008). (History questions are geared towards capturing the present-day of the country), so for migration assimilation; In its place, citizenship requires achieving a social cohesion driven by achieving active, participatory, and productive obedient individuals; even at all and any price needed including eliminating your life. The current citizenship and integration tests do not reveal anything distinctive about the particularities of the nation (eliminating questions about ordinary symbols such as the flag or national anthem) or a distinct philosophy of integration (see Michalowski 2009 for a systematic analysis; also Joppke 2008). The history questions are in the main geared towards capturing the present-day of the country
   
   In the case of immigrant groups, for example, we find political parties create (funded) radical disparity ideology groups through mosque organizations, and social minority community associations, that operate at local levels but also assume transnational forms by bridging diverse public spaces. An example of this is the Alevite groups (a subsect of Islam), organized both in Turkey and Germany. In examining borrowed models from their Countries, like from the education system, they have raised demands for the recognition of denominational schools in Turkey, which do not have a legal standing in the Turkish educational system. In the same vein, the much-debated Islamic foulard issue in Europe has traversed the realms of local, national, and transnational jurisdictions – from local educational authorities to the European Court of Human Rights.

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   @Thunder_Dome45

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   Thanks for saying it's free, now we'll have to fix that too, like we fixed rent being affordable. Luckily for now my one bedroom apartment only gets about 1/2 income.

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   @Jwa-fo6nb

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   Bless you donna such a inspiration

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   @Jwa-fo6nb

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   Love how these women librarians are helping people when the people who suppose to help them aren't doing their jobs. They are my inspiration to achieve in my career

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   @modernorpheus

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   Librarians are information professionals. They shouldn't have to be social workers, emergency responders, babysitters, therapists, and security guards all rolled into one. They need to be librarians.

   The fact that libraries are at the frontlines of homelessness is an indication that all other institutions have crumbled.

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   @mmacwebb7306

   January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

   How these people would react after opening boarder provide more homeless non English speakers come to their space?
   Library is not for homeless place, I am sure.

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    @user-hy5nd9dr5t

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    I'm homeless and the library is one of the few places to go where you're not forced to spend money

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    @chileanzombie42

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    I have always loved libraries.They have been a safe place for me

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    @nancystadler2683

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    When I a child my local library was a magical place of discovery where I fell in love with reading and learning. Today our public libraries are cesspools full of addicts, panhandlers, and the mentally ill where the true purpose of a public library has been trashed.

    Amid all the sympathy for bums how about some concern for the working poor who used to rely on public libraries to enrich their lives and are now afraid to let their children go there?

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    @user-op1lk2dz5s

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Congratulations Ryan! As always, wonderful job.

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    @emeraldkimble7602

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    69 Th st stop

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    @emeraldkimble7602

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    End of market frank ford line

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    @melanieg6957

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Libraries are a national treasure. I hope they receive all the support they need.

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    @lindafraught1206

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    As a library worker who has taken all of Ryan Dowd's training at least once – he ROCKS! His commonsense, kind approach has been game-changing for me and our entire staff!

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    @modernorpheus

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    "Sanctuary for silence"

    Someone hasn't been around a library recently.

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    @maksgrl

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    I am glad I watched this today, it helped me be more empathetic. There by the grace of God go I.

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    @murielmoloney1043

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    God bless you doanna

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    @natmiles7156

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Ryon is a superstar!

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    @Prodigious1One

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    This is similar for the Central Library of downtown Atlanta.

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    @gc6790

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Informative, eye opening!

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    @michaelweinman9051

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    That was awesome. I think I need to look into volunteering at the library.

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    @LeighPhillips78

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    I should have been a librarian.

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    @jtempleton1465

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Bless these wonderful people occupying various positions within the libraries across the U.S. I've been in a homeless situation before and have been so blessed by walking in the doors of my local libraries. These places are sanctuaries for so many people. I'm deeply grateful.🙏♥💐

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    @MarySchipke

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Public libraries in the U.S. should be open 24/7/365/ so that homeless Americans always have some shelter. Other countries have libraries open 24 hours each day – why not the U.S.? Isn't the U.S. supposed to be the greatest country in the world? Or just more propaganda?

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    @shodopoet

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    A place of refuge ✊🏼 Respect to all Librarians and the unhoused there but for the grace of…

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    @Anthony-dj4nd

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Womp Womp

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    @AMI12349

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Here in Thailand (Chiang Mai), homeless people also hang out a lot at public libraries…mostly the outside garden area, and the cleaner and more respectable ones come inside. The management at the Public Library was friendly to them in the past, but not the management at the National Library, who are unfriendly even to budget tourists who use the computers and read the newspapers there like I used to do a few years ago. They like to keep their library only for Thais and leave out other ethnic groups, like the Shan and hill tribe people. Many of these homeless people, mostly older men, actually like to read books, and are more likely to read than other Thais, simply because they don't have smartphones, and also because they don't have phones, they also haven't lost their social skills to have conversations! Not only at the library, but even when they are sitting outside at the river benches and temple benches, I often see them reading books!

    But it's a shock for me, as, in the past, libraries in less developed countries have generally been associated with high-class, educated people. Libraries aren't the only place for them here, though; they also hang out at air-con shopping malls and in the city's over 100 Buddhist temples, which have free showers and food. I think it's great that the staff of some libraries in the U.S. are getting training to deal with them; we don't have anything like that here! And here you can check a normal size bag in the front, but you can't bring a lot of stuff to the library!

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    @teeconsigliano7631

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    It's nice that some librarians want to help but this isn't what libraries should have to do or taxpayers should have to pay for. I pay for libraries (and public housing) but basically can't use libraries because they're homeless shelters. After 6 years there, that dude is using the library for services, not to find a job.

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32. 

    @borrasca2311

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    I don't like Biden or trump America wake the f<ck up and don't vote neither of them because trump is the police state candidate while joe Biden is the continuation of the policies of right now

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    @MA-vw1pl

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Thank you idiot Biden for this situation

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34. 

    @caroleekeith2823

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Fascism is unregulated captiol. Fascism is very deceptive ( hypocrisy) and always destructive. It is the voice of death and destruction.
    Boycott the entire GOParty of fascism in 23&24 and allow evil to die a peaceful death of non-support.

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    @jaybreese7416

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    This period of history should NEVER be forgotten! There should never be another homeless person in America after this horrific period of living under a crap government whose only interest is profit for a small group of people and mass suffering for everyone else.

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    @goatrockhunters8000

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    You think homelessness is bad now just wait. We have millions of uneducated, unskilled people about to cross the border. They’ll end up in every city in the country!!!

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    @proviah4770

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Lord✝️ Jesus have mercy🙏

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38. 

    @proviah4770

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Anyone reading this, if you haven't repented yet, please REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.

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    @kusheran

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    When we help, they must at least pick up their own trash.

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    @dad102

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    God bless this woman.

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    @brooks8792

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    Is that why Missouri politicians have defunded all the state libraries?

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    @KevinStDenis1

    January 20, 2024 at 10:24 pm

    So now law abiding and descent citizens cannot use the public library ….

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