& it's down to 8 #CurrentReads! Can you belie' dat?

Today’s reward for being here:

My #CurrentlyReading stack, topped with my reward for finishing the next one! #booktuber

Cutting food programs is going to increase crime Cutting health insurance subsidies is going to increase crime The whole plots of Les Miserable and Breaking Bad

Not an expert but pretty sure this isn’t how ceasefires are supposed to work.

London outside the US embassy: many citizens came to rally against tyranny. The frogs and dinosaurs are not missing.

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Join us for an author-to-author talk about #ClimateCrisis, with M.K. Williams! www.youtube.com/live/5tm1rwp... 11am EDT ⏰

Double tag live today at 10am PDT, including 8ish books that bring up a specific place in memory (Long Island, Northampton, Glasgow, California, Paris featured!) and #MyReadingHabits 👋🏼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KCg...

Hi @wweek.com I clicked on a QR code for the Nester destinations and now I can't get them off my GMaps. Can you inform us how to delist the icons please?

The tears I just cried. Jane Fonda, 87, has relaunched The Committee for the First Amendment, the organization of Hollywood stars and filmmakers that her father, Henry Fonda, helped found in September 1947. May Jane's 550-person endeavor outlive Henry's. www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com

Yup: my week of terrifying encounters: best cookies in town (a tie), inspiring mural art, fall leaves on display, and bike table at the farmers market. 😱#pdx

Bizarro cartoon from eons ago that still somehow describes the mood:

Bit of a book haul Mostly used. Canada dollars so Not real money Right? -Poem by a booktuber Come see all the fun bookstores on the livestream at 10am PDT! Bit.ly/booktubemp

Totally last-minute, but I'm participating mainly for solidarity and visibility tomorrow. If you can throw in $20 for #AIDSresearch though, I'd be grateful, since every research institution is feeling the pinch! www.aidswalknorthwest.org/fundraiser/m...

What a powerful strike for #HumanVoicesOnly, a great article by @adamverner.bsky.social for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy 👄🎙️https://lithub.com/why-ai-narrators-will-never-be-able-to-tell-a-real-human-story/

Today! In 1 hour! Our closing session reflections, which I’ve titled BANGARANG since I’m a MILLENNIAL: www.youtube.com/live/mWRYrgH... #AgitationAugust 🪧

Tmw, our final and fabulous #AgitationAugust guest, Marcie from @BrownGirlCollective! Jump in with us LIVE to talk about Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson’s WE REFUSE 🤌 at 3pm PDT/6pm EDT ⏰ www.youtube.com/live/xxpbzso...

I am SO prepared

Today at 10am PDT! ⏰ #AgitationAugust

Ven and I are discussing a #classicoffascism and a new #transvoice novel: how do they get him agitated?? Join us live for #AgitationAugust, 10am PDT tmw ⏰ #1984isnow #andrewjosephwhite

Random assortment of #CurrentReads, how bout you? #classics #howtrustworks #blacknonfiction

Last week of #AgitationAugust!! Have you read any of these? M: Melinda, awebofstories: ATTACK FROM WITHIN T: Ven @venscorner.bsky.social 1984/HELL... W: Leo @pdxleo.bsky.social: ALL WE CAN SAVE R: Marcie, BrownGirlCollective WE REFUSE F: Closing Convo Join Live/Catch the replay! bit.ly/booktubemp 🥳

1984, through a lunch darkly… Ahoy, #AgitationAugust! (@vens_corner’s pick)

And tmw to wrap up Week 3, we have a premiere with author Marion Grace Woolley! We'll be chatting about the fascinating book, EMERGENCY SEX, by a trio of UN aid workers in the 1990s #WriterInRwanda #AgitationAugust Join us in the live chat with your Questions! ⏰ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjj...

Gareth’s turn today, and we’ll be talking #ClassConsciousness and hopefully #SolidarityNow too, for #AgitationAugust! 3pm PDT/ 11pm BST ⏰ bit.ly/booktubemp ❤️‍🔥

"cozy, queer fantasy full of romance, rebellion, and joy. 🌈📚🪐 SIGN. ME. UP. #cozyfantasy #queerfantasy #fantasyromance

@writermollyringle.bsky.social you steered me right with Steering by Starlight, and now I just saw you loved Four Tendencies too! Care to share which one you are? I think I'm a Rebel that leans Questioner... yay, @thestorygraph.com!

Today! Join Grace and me to discuss (heatedly, I’m sure) HOW TO RESIST AMAZON AND WHY by Danny Caine: www.youtube.com/live/5q3WJ4K... #AgitationAugust #ResistAmazon Toss us some of your critical thinking questions!

This week's #AgitationAugust guests! Since Leo had to reschedule to next week: TUE: Grace, Books N Cooks: HOW TO RESIST AMAZON THU: Gareth, Books, Songs & Other Magic MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS FRI: Marion, Writer in Rwanda, EMERGENCY SEX Join Live/Catch the replay! bit.ly/booktubemp 🥳

Elaine has hit 500 subscribers! You want to follow her Youtube channel if you love kitties, garden updates, horror new/old, paranormal, & open discussion of aging, with the wisdom of a Psych major (or something like that) 🤣 Bonus: ask her a Q for her AMA livestream! www.youtube.com/@Cobaltdragon

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

‘Valve-turner’ @enjohnston.bsky.social ?? lol coming from All We Can Save piece you wrote ❤️‍🔥

@smiller.bsky.social when you are here again, is this the same sarah miller that wrote in All We Can Save? Loved the piece. 💗

Friday 10am PDT, our lovely #AgitationAugust is #BookChatWithPat, the teacher we all wish we could have had! We're chatting HOW WE LEARN TO BE BRAVE by Mariann Edgar Budde. Hope you can join us live, or on #TeamRewatch! ⏰https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE1Mqp1dISk #indivisible #resist

Oh yes!! LABOR DAY PROTESTS!! "Workers Over Billionaires" is the theme. Find a group or create your own!! #NoKings #3E #Indivisible #Resist #BlueCrew #Angrets

📢National Day of Action, Sept.1, Workers over Billionaires. Join the Zoom planning call THURSDAY, Aug.14, 7pm EDT. Go to maydaystrong.org to find out more. #Pinks www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

I was wrong, there HAS been one possible BINGO already, heehee, did you pick the right card?? Next up: @authoreloisebahr.bsky.social 10am PDT THU 8/14: 📣 WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 📣 A zine-length essay you could read between now and then! youtube.com/live/dJIb5-7...

Next up we have a #dystopia that turns out to be hopeful... *record scratch* WHAT?!?? Yes! I'm talking to Rachel about @naomikritzer.bsky.social's story, The Year Without Sunshine, WED at 10am PDT ⏰ for #AgitationAugust. Join live or catch the replay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBc8...

To follow up our #GenAI discussion from yesterday for #AgitationAugust: this is a FUNDAMENTAL point.

Today’s mood.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfTB... watch it

Elaine is up next! Steering By Starlight by Martha Beck is the book, and I read it and enjoyed exploring the author's comedic approach to openness to our inner potential. ✨ Join live or watch the replay 10am PDT/ 1pm EDT ⏰ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNgA...

#PoetryMonday #OnlyConnect

All the #HowTo books at once! Clockwise from top right: How Trust Works, Kim How to Kill a City, Moskowitz How We Learn to be Brave, Budde How to Save the World for Free, Fée #AgitationAugust #Climathon🥵 have you read any of these?

✨What book shook you up & made you change something in your life? Live guests all week for #AgitationAugust! M @bookishtexan #GenerativeAI T @cobaltdragon #TrustingTheSelf W @rkstumblingbear #WhenDystopiaArrives R @authoreloisebahr.bsky.social #NewFeminists F @bookchatwithpat #LearningToBeBrave 💙💚💜

"I am confident that the sentiment for home ownership is so embedded in the American heart that millions of people who dwell in tenements, apartments, and rented rooms...have the aspiration for wider opportunity in ownership of their own homes" -Herbert Hoover, 1931 Can't we do better than HOOVER??

You know requires you to pay $50 before having the privilege to review the work you've paid for? Amaz0n. You know who doesn't require ANY payment but allows two acquisition requests per month? @multcolib.bsky.social 💙🫶🏼💙

My guest today = @jennablum.bsky.social! 3pm PDT to discuss #OnTyranny by Timothy Snyder, a work that gets us agitated-- join us for #AgitationAugust! Get your free #AntiTyranny booster shot! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTcw... Bring your #Bingo card!! 💚 @amightyblaze.bsky.social