Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

This powerful picture book is told from the perspective of the Alabama River. In addition to justice and equality, this story also reflects themes of strength, resilience, and hope. The illustrations have a 3D feel, popping off the page to tell their visual half of this important story.

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www.librarything.com/work/3366573... A Library Thing 🦋 A new audiobook review ❤️

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🔥 @repdeliaramirez to @KristiNoem: “Bottom Line: You lie with impunity. You reject checks & balances. You ignore Congress & the courts… you can either resign, Trump will fire you, or you’ll be impeached. You’re going to be held accountable. I’m going to make sure of that.”

Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list of scammers. Don’t click on their email; do send it to spam: Alex Victory Amanda Honour Artcus Technical Par. Mirabell Prosper #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting

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My cousins 🦋🍀💚 how are they gone?

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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

#writer #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

Why Woolf? www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?... A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social "In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."

www.reduxlitjournal.com/2015/03/161-... An old short story about a family and politics.

Hunger doesn’t seem to be an emergency for Alabama leaders alabamareflector.com/2025/11/10/h...

Sugar Skulls open.substack.com/pub/kerrymad...

Why Woolf? www.metropolitanreview.org/p/why-woolf?... A brilliant, "Why Woolf" by @donnarifkind.bsky.social "In love affairs, we can and do adore people without understanding them, and we often perceive their lives to be but dim mirrors of our own. And so it is with a novel like Mrs Dalloway."

Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500. Insane

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

I know cruelty is the point but I never want to become numb to it and this is heartbreaking. Kids are going to go to school with empty tummies.

Magic City Acceptance Academy and the cost of state-sanctioned bigotry alabamareflector.com/2025/10/20/m...

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

In her own words... Dolly Parton is just fine! 🙏🏾✨ #DollyParton

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GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Alabama’s state library board seems hostile to literacy alabamareflector.com/2025/09/29/a...

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Absolutely devastating story of the DOGE cuts to the federal work force, OPM not functioning as before and more. Gift link ⬇️

Trump said in July that he wanted Kimmel fired next. July. Kirk was still alive in July. This has nothing to do with Kirk. Nothing.

tantor.com/werewolf-ham... Audiobook by wonderful Michael Butler Murray is coming soon! #werewolfhamlet #hamlet #werewolves

A new substack.

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights. Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally....

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

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Remembering the late great GENE WILDER - who left us 9yrs ago today.

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

When I was writing my chapter on the river towns of Natchez and Vicksburg, Greg Iles was so generous with his time snd provided incredible insights into his hometown of Natchez. He will be missed. mississippitoday.org/2025/08/15/a...

“Mississippi’s law, by contrast [with UKLaw], would block everyone from accessing the site—teens and adults—unless they hand over sensitive information, and once they do, the law in Mississippi requires Bluesky to keep track of which users are children.” mississippitoday.org/2025/08/25/b...

People are rightly focused on the man being arrested and the arresting officers, but it's worth noting that the circled officer also threatens the person filming: "Better back up," she says. "You're gonna be next." Fire all these cops and the elected Democrats who enable their behavior.

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Good morning. Illustrating this piece's points, a thread: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...