It isn’t often that I pick up a book and want to put everything aside to read it. I will make an exception with this. #Books #HarperLee

@rebeccanagle.bsky.social, I started By the Fire We Carry yesterday. I finished it about ten minutes ago. What an amazing book and incredible story! Thank you!

@chicagorob1968.bsky.social, happy birthday!

@roamingrebecca.bsky.social, this is from my hometown.

We’re in the final stretch of the year and it’s time to check in on my reading goal. I currently sit at 118/60 books, or 197%, for the year. I had no idea, on January 1, what the year would be like or how much refuge I would need between the covers of books. I am thankful for the joy of reading.

I just heard a radio commercial for ICE. “Join ICE and help us catch the worst of the worse.” If they were really trying to catch them, they could stop at 1690 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and get a bunch of them all at once.

Here I am at the local Antifa Headquarters this morning. The coffee was hot.

@buzzburbank.bsky.social, happy birthday, good sir!

Imagine if Kamala was president and decided that she should be on the $1 coin. These people would be screaming that she can’t do that because it’s against the law. Also, because she is a woman, the $1 coin would only be worth about, what, 82 cents. #dollarcoin

21st Century Antifa. Third generation.

@stephaniedray.bsky.social, because I read and loved Becoming Madam Secretary earlier this year, I am now reading Kirstin Downey’s The Woman Behind the New Deal. Both books are excellent!

Stumbled across the top 70 songs of 1972 on SiriusXM. I’m digging it!

My day is booked!

When you pick up a book by a favorite author, library books will get bumped down. I don’t make the rules. #books @authorrhysbowen.bsky.social

When comedy is outlawed only outlaws will do comedy.

I feel like I hit the jackpot today at the library bookstore and the local independent bookstore.

Today on “What’s My Lie?” Reporter: Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

I have some thoughts about last week. open.substack.com/pub/tamson/p...

The best thing that I’ve heard today was said at a bookstore. Customer: “What I want from the library isn’t available so I came here to buy books to read until the library books are available.” Yes, Ma’am! Support your local library and independent bookstore!

It was such an honor to meet @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/tamson/p...

@rochkubatko.bsky.social, happy birthday!

I have just a few things to say about the #CharlieKirk shooting: 1. There was a school shooting yesterday. 2. Release the Epstein files 3.Get the military out of our cities 4. Vaccines work 5. Stop immigrant kidnappings 6 Restore women's rights 7. Protect voting rights 8. Oct 11 No Kings March 💙

Sharing this so I can listen to it later.

It is nasty misty at Camden Yards!

After the way he just spoke to @yamiche.bsky.social, NBC needs to stand up for her and to him! If they don’t, their reporting is worthless.

Why stop there? Let’s rename all Depts after what Trump is inflicting on America. Dept of HHS -> Dept of Hepatitis and Human Suffering Dept of VA -> Dept of Veteran Abandonment Dept of Education -> Dept of Erasure of History Dept of Commerce -> Dept of Corruption Just a start.

I miss having a president who wasn’t afraid to go to a baseball game. www.facebook.com/share/v/17EB...

Ha! He can’t claim San Diego is in need of cleaning up! The Baltimore Orioles came in and swept it!

This seems interesting! #Books

This young man, a man of the people, paid me the greatest compliment today. He walked 105 miles from Philly to our great state Capitol in Harrisburg. I was at the Fund Public Transit rally in Lancaster and Harrisburg. He said that I was a part of the journey. Be still my beating heart!

I will be there! I am taking the Amtrak to get there. It’s a lot faster, and less painful, than walking. #fundpublictransit

I’m not going to lie! I got emotional seeing him walk up N Queen Street to Ewell Plaza. What a beautiful day for democracy! Thank you, @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social!

I will be on my way to Lancaster shortly in support of Rep Kenyatta. He is doing what feels right others are doing. He is talking the talk and, literally, walking the walk.

I told my local independent bookstore that I am making the transition from Audible and Kindle to @bookshop.org books. She is pleased. Hey! Anything I can do to avoid giving a penny to bezos! Support your local independent bookstore!

Six days clean and I ran into my dealer today. Buying books is a hard habit to break.

@roamingrebecca.bsky.social, guess who accidentally called me today!

Does anyone know why two @amtr.com trains from Harrisburg to NYC were terminated in Philly this morning? Something about Congress critters being on the train to NYC. There was no notice to passengers or conductors. It was very last minute and very shifty.

This is exactly correct!

My local independent bookstore owner asked for my opinion of @karinslaughter.com’s We Are All Guilty Here. I read her my review from GoodReads. She has declared me a “connoisseur” because I have now read 23 Slaughter books. I should get some kind of ribbon for that!

THE MORE YOU KNOW On this date, in 1959, Hawaii (Kenya) became the 50th state.

In honor of her birthday, I donated to Tails of Joy. Happy birthday, @eboosler.bsky.social!

Trump, Netanyahu and Putin all belong in prison at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

@lisascottoline.bsky.social, I have two books from this week’s USA Today’s bestseller’s list.

Is having a character named Ramon Rodriguez, in @karinslaughter.com’s new book, what you call an Easter egg? #WeAreAllGuiltyHere

Here is the thing about reading a Molly Murphy book by @authorrhysbowen.bsky.social. You can’t wait to start the next one ASAP! The Ghost of Christmas Past made me cry in the last chapter. I can’t wait to see what happens next!

Taking the Capitol back from what? Liberation Day? Bitch, please! Liberation Day will be when we get the emergency alert that someone has died!

Best news of the day: An email announcing that the new @karinslaughter.com book is in the library system. I am one of eleventy billion holds on the first ten copies across the county. We Are All Guilty Here #newseries

Gunnar! That is all!