Something I really love about being an author is being invited to chat with other nonfiction authors about *their* books. To pay forward the generosity I've received during my own book events. A short 🧵 of Providence bookstore events I did this year: (All of the books are great)

It’s a nice painting, but the town could probably really use some multi family housing and a couple new hotels

This painting contains all the energy of millions of Boomers convinced that any change is equivalent to “destruction” of their neighborhood www.nrm.org/thinglink/te...

Most people think violence is about strength. It isn’t. Most people think democracy dies because people don’t care. It doesn’t. Both beliefs are comforting. Both are wrong. And both get people killed…physically in one case, civically in the other.

Long Fall Nikon Z5 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR lens flic.kr/p/2rPkk7J #Photography #Nature #Landscape #Waterfall #Yellowstone #Nikon #Z5

The DOJ is so incompetent that it is allowing us to *quantify* its cover-up of the Epstein files.

#Reform youtube.com/shorts/A0cRn...

putin slaughters Ukrainians. trump calls him generous. #SlavaUkraini 💙💛

Watching my daughter grow up without evangelical religious trauma is breathtaking. She’s not scared of a hell, or a god who would condemn her to everlasting torture, and she’s never heard of a rapture. Growing up without that fear really does something good to a young person.

'My friends will get hurt': Trump blew up over threats to expose Epstein accomplices www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...

I just can’t keep up anymore.🤪

The cymbidium orchids are just loaded with #flower buds

More people need to know this: In Epstein’s 2008 federal deal, prosecutors agreed not to pursue federal charges against Epstein or any unnamed “potential co-conspirators.” That functioned as protection for people involved before 2008, similar to immunity.

Here, the fool says he’s building a bigger ballroom with bulletproof glass because “we’re gonna do the inauguration in that building.”

They should test it at their legislature. Fuckwads.

Might be hard to detect with all of that lead. True story.

Missouri... The last in education, last in earning power, last in federal tax contribution is pretending to give a fuck about kids? Who's falling for it?

Do I really have to click this to find out how they claim this information will benefit anybody except private prisons?

I moved to MO from a blue state, thinking I’d save money. Even accepted a $100,000/yr lower-paying job to do it. I moved my family businesses too. Outside of of salary decrease, I only saved $1200/yr due to vehicle insurance tripled, & workman’s comp ins more than doubled. Moved back to blue state.

Plus all the personal property taxes added up to way more than I saved on property taxes.

MO still has Fed Minimum starve wage

Missouri has the 3rd lowest starting teacher salaries in the U.S. “With the state ranking near the bottom nationally for teacher pay and grappling with rising living costs, nearly one in four Missouri teachers works a second job just to get by…” www.stlamerican.com/education/lo...

Missouri Launches School Wastewater Testing Pilot to Detect Fentanyl and Other Drugs www.missourinet.com/2025/12/29/m...

Or, just a thought, Missouri could use those resources on education.

Got my Goodreads summary. I only use it to get review copies -- my full reading is tracked on StoryGraph. But the stats! With 34 books read, I'm in the top 15%. And in the top 5% of reviewers. That is terrible for literacy. (My actual number of titles read this year is 498.)

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Trump’s Appeasement of Putin Threatens the World open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

Buildings are usually named after dead people. It's a tradition Donald Trump should honor.

#TVsins #Plur1bus1x1 youtu.be/e_XPFLrQxpE?...

#Homeopathy #OutrageousFraud The only thing that homeopathy does is make money. youtu.be/w3KuXGB9K3c?...

#SarahPaine #HitlersMistakes youtu.be/YcVSgYz5SJ8?...

So the President did disclose a CIA drone strike inside Venezuela. And this does cross a red line of violating the UN Charter -- where the boat strikes on high seas had not. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

Just a personal observation. I'm 73 & had difficulty finding a gyno accepting Medicare for a routine exam. I recently wanted to change doctors & had no difficulty finding a gyn. I think many are shifting their practice because it is less dangerous for them to work w/women who cannot get pregnant.

More and more will close services like emergency rooms and OB care. This has always been a problem in the US, but the cuts to Medicaid and ACA will make it even worse, yup

With cuts to Medicaid, rural hospitals are closing. Fewer hospitals + fewer OB/GYNs means it's dangerous to be pregnant.

That’s a right. The healthcare desert keeps getting bigger and bigger as medical providers flee. Why risk a life sentence or stand by and watch patients die?

Gerbera Daisy May 6th 2024

The funniest moment with shrimps I've seen. "I'm not sharing thankyouverymuch." Is that a Stomiidae they're squabbling over? From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 665 #salasygomezridge #MarineLife

@upvotegreyhounds.bsky.social I don't think you should be using Facebook or Twatter while driving your Subaru Aha by Harman no that won't be happening

🌟 Mount Katahdin with stars earlier today. Paul Cyr photographer. #maine #winter

Mexican food will always be S-Tier food, and if you disagree, you're simply wrong

Protect our environment - donate to the Sierra Club! Our public lands, endangered wildlife, and clean air and water are under threat. Protect them when you give to the Sierra Club today. All we need now is your help. Please make your gift today. giving.sierraclub.org/page/89706/d...

New tax plan released by R’s Low-income earners, including many single-parents, would pay a higher tax under the proposal because refundable credits are reduced or restricted, while tax cuts for higher earners are expanded and made permanent. That’s not a talking point — it’s how the math works.🤬