@cydney.bsky.social just came here to say that I adore and appreciate your thoughtful reviews on @the.storygraph, and I wish the app would let us "like" reviews. ♥️

748/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Beautiful writing…but a bit of a mess with too much going on. May have worked as short stories or as a novel focused on 1 of the characters’ point of view or 1 time period, not a multitude of both #booksky

Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."

These young adults are amazing, and these s**theads are the ones running the country. It's infuriating. www.instagram.com/reel/DLp-Eze...

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www.instagram.com/reel/DLA0au6... @bootsonthegroundmidwest

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"Nelson also said Sharp is the one demanding a public vote on the city hall project: “It’s you who’s doing it, not your constituents.”" Yep yep! www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

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The 2025 Kansas Notable Books Kansas Notable Books recognizes outstanding titles written by Kansans or about a KS-related topic. KS Notable Books highlight our contemporary writing community & encourages readers to enjoy some of the best writing of authors among us. library.ks.gov/librarians/n...

protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/ Contact Congress now and tell them not to steal this funding from our public media!

May Reading Wrap-Up... @thestorygraph.com

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

“Y’all, we did it — Tulsa just created a $105 million reparations plan for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.” (From @thebwstimes.bsky.social )

Love to see a community come together when ICE Nazis show up to their neighborhood and send them packing ….👏👏👏👏 South Park neighborhood of San Diego

headline construction masterclass

DEMOCRATS WOULD BE WISE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THIS… There’s a new alignment happening and it’s not about left or center. Rank-and-file Dems want two things: 📌Leaders who stand with workers 📌And who stand up to Trump If you’re not doing either, expect to get primaried. Watch…

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Paused this for awhile but finally finished it last night. ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25 A page turner for sure. I loved the relationships between Ruby and Aunt Marie and Ruby and Nene. Inez was irredeemable. Eleanor and her mother's relationship was lovely tho. I loved the inclusion of real historical figures...

Excellent reference. Blue check well deserved.

"Trump had expressed that he wanted the King of Norway, Harald, to invite him to Norway. So the King invited Obama instead." 🤣

James Comey jamescomey.substack.com?r=505bz5&utm...

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I almost forgot to review this, but I'm happy to finish this book forever. Maggie Haberman is an amazing journalist. There's a lot of new infor here (to me), and none of it makes me like this person any better. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for the author 📚💙📚🎧📚💡📚

New audiobook: Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon A "reinvention of Persephone and Demeter’s story" 📚💙📚🖋️📚🎧📚 app.thestorygraph.com/books/d000e7... u

Reading now finally: James by Percival Everett 📚💙📚🖋️📚 app.thestorygraph.com/books/cd626f...

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Tell your Republican Representative You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks act.indivisible.org/petition/no-...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My review: "... The inner monologue of a (post WWII) woman, her observations of her spouse, her grown but still at home children, her aging parents, and a budding new romantic love outside of her marriage. Though the book is presented as all diary entries, the story is riveting." More:

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Lawsuit challenges ‘unconstitutional’ Kansas law cutting grace period for mail-in ballots | #ksleg via @crazeywriter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/05/06/l...

Listening to VA Sec. Doug Collins testify to Senate He said stories on VA cuts have "not been backed up, even articles from today." We just published story on VA cuts W/ internal emails “Enrollment in clinical trials is stopping" "life-saving cancer trials” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

@propublica.org won the prestigious Pulitzer for public service for “Life of the Mother,” which judges described as “urgent reporting abt pregnant women who died after Drs delayed urgently needed care for fear of violating vague ‘life of the mother’ exceptions in states with strict abortion laws.”

LFG, Kansas!

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Percival Everett's 'James' wins Pulitzer for fiction. Very often these awards go awry, but not in 2025. 'James' is most powerful book I have read in a long time. Congrats.

💯 agree! Others' lack of faith in me helped keep me from being a teen parent and to graduate college. Fuck the haters. "Don't vanquish your critics. Prove them wrong." ~ @bradmeltzer.com

Reading now: Only 10% in and I'm hooked to the story. Actually the writing had me hooked from page 1. Homeseeking by Karissa Chen 📚💙📚⏳📚🖋️📚 app.thestorygraph.com/books/a2163b...

April @thestorygraph.com Wrap-Up 📚💙📚

Freedom’s just another word for everything left to win

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

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Finished! Yes, just now. At 12:13am. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This was hard to put down especially after the fun and lively book club discussion with the author hosted by Bliss Books & Wine in Kansas City tonight! 📚💙📚⏳📚 blissbooksandwine.com

You are either for democracy or you’re not. If you’re not, get out of my way. Thanks @joycewhitevance.bsky.social for an amazing conversation tonight. (If you’re interested in hearing more, please subscribe to my Substack: katiephang.substack.com)

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.

Well, at least JoCo did that. (I didn't even know since I went offline immediately after.) Too bad it wasn't enough to carry the whole state (and country- ha!). Keep protesting JoCo! I'll join you soon! (screenshot from @johnsoncountypost.bsky.social )

Nine dead after a horrific car attack on Filipino festival in Vancouver. And the same evil man who wants to make Canada the 51st state has said not a word on it. President Joe Biden would have issued a statement and already probably offered to PM Mark Carney to call victims' families.