War. Drought. Dread. But I haven't read all the books yet, so I remain.
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War. Drought. Dread. But I haven't read all the books yet, so I remain.
Hurricane Season: Knowing nothing as usual, I assumed the author was Brazilian because the long sentences and lack of paragraphs made me think of Saramago, and maybe Portuguese lends itself to this? But Melchor is Mexican.
Sarah Moss, My Good Bright Wolf. This is a style of memoir I can get behind, with the intrusive voices critiquing her story as she writes it.
Oh desperate as you are wash your foul minds with tears. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...
January 24, 2026 at 18:42 Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
Murphy says Trump wants to trade ICE "murder and mayhem" for control of Minnesota's election. He also says yeah, that may sound conspiratorial but Pam Bondi's letter to Walz spells it out.
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”
I embrace becoming Maurice Sendak: "I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more."
Food prices are skyrocketing, so President Snow is launching the Hunger Games!
one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
Bar graph showing these 100 richest americans spent a couple million in 2000, but last year crossed over 1 billion dollars in election spending
Federal election spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans is now 140x what it was in 2000.
Last year they crossed $1 billion in election spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Happy late birthday, Lisa.
Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI is frighteningly good. Good, and frightening.
Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.
I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.
Maybe what will save us is Australia declaring war on the government for targeting a reporter.
I anticipate verbiage concerning non-citizens claiming they have no rights that the white man is bound to respect.
Good morning.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
All books are one book: missing digits on the dominant hand in Our Wives Under the Sea and, the next day, in Lab Girl. #aba1b
"According to Texas state representative Vince Perez, it will take about 445,000 white residents to secure a member of Congress, but about 1.4 million Latino residents or 2 million Black residents to elect one." -- HCR
"carry a quiet laughter" is, like "misunderestimate," going to become an idiom. For what, I don't know.
Rebecca Romney quotes in Jane Austen's Bookshelf: "If a comet is ordained to consume the world, however long it may remain unseen ... when least expected, it will shine forth with additional lustre.” Andrew Boyd's I Want a Better Catastrophe mentions "Don't Look Up." #andrewboyd #rebeccaromney
"The" fact checker, not "a"? Did WaPo really have only one? I can't believe that I can believe that.
I don't read much horror but I want a horror novel titled Terror Incognito.
Are I Want a Better Catastrophe and Book of Joy a strange pairing? But we live in strange times. #andrewboyd #desmondtutu #dalailama
This weekend I read in I Want a Better Catastrophe of author Andrew Boyd in a session with Joanna Macy. Today I learned she died (at 96). #aba1b is really All Books Are One Life, as indeed everything on Earth is. #andrewboyd #joannamacy
Still reading I Want a Better Catastrophe. Still underlining and taking notes. Still working through a lot. #andrewboyd #climatechaos
Will Rebecca Romney's Jane Austen's Bookshelf spur me to get through Castle Rackrent or Cecilia?