Karlina

Anyone have advice on reaching your reading goal while going through a divorce, coming out as a lesbian, and just generally dealing with the existential dread that is the daily news?
#booksky

Reading goal update
Gathering Blue
16/50
3.5/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#booksky

Simply have not been able to get into this book so it’s on pause for now (sorry Eugene!)

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...

Reading goal update
Dawnshard
15/50
4/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I finally FINALLY finished Rhythm of War it took me exactly 1 month to listen to this behemoth.

Reading goal: 14/50 📚
4.25/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#booksky

Couldn’t decide on my next read so I left it up to Eugene. #booksky 📚

Confirmed cases of measles
in the US.

2020: 13

2021: 49

2022: 121

2023: 59

2024: 285

Total cases: 527 (5-years)

2025: (first 90 days)
628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.

I kind of want to go

Join me on April 5th

TOMORROW April 5, we’re uniting to say HANDS OFF! Join citizens across the country to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented incompetence & blatant criminality.

DO IT FOR THE PENGUINS!

Go to app.sosha.ai/s/mkKNZwsa

Trump tariffs imposed on uninhabited islands where just penguins live US president mocked after ‘reciprocal’ tariffs placed on territories that are home only to wildlife

Any time you’re feeling down, just remember Trump's economists are so incompetent they imposed a 10% tariff on 3 uninhabited islands.

Sure, costs will go up on ice, volcanic ash, & penguin poop.

But sources say the severe tariffs will incentivize U.S. penguins to make more America-first poop. 👊🇺🇸🔥

March reading summary
#booksky
#storygraph 📚

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

It’s about Haymitch’s games. Proceed with caution, it’s traumatizing 😂😭

I am simply unwell 🥲
#sotr #sunriseonthereaping #booksky 📚

Moment of clarity today in the Senate where Republicans sided with big banks & against customers. Higher fees, lower transparency.

Now it goes to the House - so call your Member of Congress to ask how they’ll vote!

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

If you’ve been personally victimized by Suzanne Collins raise your hand 🙋🏻‍♀️

But seriously if anyone needs me I’ll be taken to bed like a Victorian widow in grieving 😭 #booktok

Reading goal update
13/50
Sunrise on the Reaping
5/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#booktok

Trump: "We're gonna have tremendous goodies in the bag for women too. The women, between the fertilization and all the other things we're talking about, it's gonna be great. Fertilization. I'm still very proud of it, I don't care. I'll be known as the fertilization president and that's okay."

Reading goal update
12/50
Wisteria
3.5/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#booksky

Image of the black cat from Flow next to a photo of an adorable black cat tilting its head curiously at the camera. Text reads, "The global success of Academy Award-winning animation Flow has helped to increase the adoption rate of black cats." Not attributed but I fact checked it.

The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈‍⬛

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.

I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense

I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

You ever think about how in the original Star Wars, the way the Empire is shown to be evil is by attacking a civilian population for allegedly harboring terrorists?

The reason for my parallelism of Jonestown with the Cult of Trump is that

Jones was a pretend-protector turned-sadist, who tortured his own cult into loyal followers.

As Trump hurts veterans, farmers, tariffs... you will see that bringing harm to his own followers becomes a sadistic loyalty test.