Country 🇺🇸 and Casino 🎰 • The posting sprees still aren’t normal. • The cabinet fractures aren’t normal. • The impulsive public rants aren’t normal. This is a manic presidency in crisis. He couldn’t save his casinos and he can’t save America. And he doesn’t want to. #trump

I just want to make Christmas magical for children. You never know what’s going on in a child’s household/life, but you can be a positive part of their life every day. I teach and my students are my extended family. #WeAreOne www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Tickled that ABOMINATION- The Story of David & Jonathan made one of my favorite BEST BOOK lists. Thank you for the honor! Check out ABOMINATION available for sale everywhere! If you don’t find it, ask for it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ www.iamjezabelle.com/abomination #BookSky #bisexual

Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 2 #OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #December2 #CharlesDickens #IsaacAsimo #BernardCornwell #booksky

JUST AN INDIE AUTHOR slightly screaming to remind you about her books: Bridgerton x GoT x Ever After: books2read.com/u/4jxVAD Quentin Tarantino's version of Percy Jackson: books2read.com/u/bwxlaO And free steamy romances: www.wattpad.com/user/StephRo... #booksky #indieauthor

Spilled Ink and Coffee!! #crochet 🧶 #booksky 💙📚 #handmade #candles #smallbiz

This Giving Tuesday send the books that support precious deliveries. Just £2 allows us to send a brand-new book that could provide life-saving information to midwives like Mariam and Gorret. Donate now and help more bundles of joy arrive safe and well: bookaid.org/support-us/p... #BookSky

If you need a distraction today, hop over to my ko-fi page. Free short stories for all to enjoy. #booksky #shortstory #reading #writing #happyplace #ko-fi.com/helenvoysey

George Saunders was born 2 December 1958. He is a New York Times bestselling American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, and children’s books. He won the Man Booker prize in 2017 for 'Lincoln in the Bardo'. Click through for his writing tips.

LIES..LIES..LIES #Trumpmrireport No way in hell is he in perfect health.

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I find it beyond incomprehensible that Dumpster remains in power.

If you don’t remember who the “Front Line COVID Critical Care Alliance” is, they did not work on the front lines but sold millions of dollars of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin - and merch - at flea markets and online and both of the founding members had their medical board certifications revoked.

Perspective from the North West "A House for an Art Lover". Charles Rennie Mackintosh & Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. 1901.

Order your beautiful print: duille.com/cactus "Cactus Walberswick". Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1915.

We enjoy the spare utility and volatile designation of one’s status at the Bauhaus. As with so much there the use of a drawn line meant so much. ( Via Bauhaus Movement)

New! Send greetings in style with our stunning Mackintosh Memories cards. Six new designs. Each one tells a story ... Order yours duille.com/memories

40 years of The Point. The Point is to MK as The Lift Tower is to Northampton as The Millennium Wheel is to London as The Opera House is to Sydney. 20th century icons that make the place what it is. Don’t let The Point be lost. ( Via @c20society.bsky.social )

A prime example of why mediocre white men should not be elevated to positions of power.

It is the birthday in 1949 of the American author and illustrator Jan Brett. If you’ve gotten books for a child in the last 30 years, you know her work. Her titles include "The Mitten," "The Hat," "Gingerbread Baby," and "Who’s That Knocking on Xmas Eve?" #WriterSky #ArtSky #BookSky #BOTD

The sequel. 😂

Bologna spent most of their life gently reminding others that their first name was not spelled "O-S-C-A-R.".

I am delivering a live and totally free ZOOM presentation on my work with the late and legendary Ray Bradbury on Dec 12 at 11am EST. It takes 30 seconds to register! I hope you will sign up and join me! #RayBradbury #ScienceFiction #writerscommunity libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...

Welcome December ~ Welcome Yule ❤ Artist - Eugène Grasset (1845-1917)

November is officially wrapped! 📖 And, time for the Question of the Week. Best November Read? GO! 👇 (Seriously, one title is all I need!) #BookSky 💙📚

It was on this day in 1860 that the first two chapters of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations were published in All the Year Round, his weekly magazine. #Booksky

'December' Art by Suzanne Schafer Bakert from her book, The Poetic Year Water color and gouache Text from Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #Booksky

"To usher in the season, you need no other reason In the morn, before you speak another word, say rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, to ensure a month of luck, and a super cool Yule!" ~ John Forti, The Heirloom Gardener Image by Carrie Paris #Witchsky

"What drives the MAGA-religious is passion, identity & even something so transcendent that it elevates a believer’s consciousness to unshakable sublimation to the leader—there are no unforgivable transgressions & that includes pedophilia & sexual violence." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” James Baldwin died in Saint-Paul de Vence, France on this day in 1987 (aged 63).

It was on this day in 1589 that the first part of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem “The Faerie Queene” was registered for publication in London. Prince Arthur and the Fairy Queen by Johann Heinrich Füssli, ca. 1788 #Booksky

Happy Monday & happy December! Today's poetry reading is Unveiling from my latest collection. It's about making memories 😄 #poetryreading #memories #unveiling A Fragile Map and Other Poems paperback: mybook.to/poetryfragil... A Fragile Map and Other Poems Kindle: mybook.to/fragilemappo...

😒 And of course not acknowledged this year by HWSNBN (He Who Shall Not Be Named) 😠

One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue has died.

The latest Goodreads review of my first book, Cold Fish Soup. At this point my books should be categorised under “Not your usual thing but you’ll probably like it.” Importantly, everyone listen to Cerys. @saraband-books.bsky.social

I was told for many years that criticizing the antivaccine movement was a waste of time and “a liability” for science communication in general

Wow, kinda makes me wonder what he and Coke Jr have been up to.

Ask him what fucking part of his body was in the tube, simple. The tell, and there is always a tell, is that he brought up his cognitive test again so you know they were imaging his brain.

All these trump administration officials keep going on the teevee, talking shit like there isn't a judge out there in the midst of deciding whether they're in contempt. Who's in the bubble now?

A war crime/murder but with turtles. That'll help.

💙📚 Submitted for your approval: a cool bookmark from a Canadian bookstore #ContactEditions contacteditions.com discovered in a used copy of #BarryLyndon purchased from another online used bookseller. Inclusions in a used book can be like a prize (or a curiosity) inside 🙂 Happy reading, everyone! 📖

From over on the tumblr

Boston had a growing coffee-price problem as a result of tariffs, drought, and supply disruption. The average price per pound of coffee in Boston is $17.79, a 36 percent increase since January. Nationally, it’s $9.14. One way to start a revolution is to mess with Boston’s caffeine.

I’m sure Pete Hegseth and his out of control, depraved, and quite frankly sickening “ethos” of war and murder, wasn’t counting on being checked by oversight. It’s almost as if Congress is finally realizing they are, in fact, being made obsolete in every way imaginable.

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." "I have ever hated all nations, professions and communities, and all my love is towards individuals.” Born on this day satirist Jonathan Swift 1667 #Booksky

“Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again.” "Live every day as if it’s your last, and one day you’re sure to be right." Born on this day William Michael Albert Broad akas Billy Idol 1955

"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." Mark Twain plays w/ electricity w/ Nicolai Tesla, Tesla Laboratory, 1894