Jenny Yacovissi

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I always thought that part of what allows autocrats to keep autocrating is the whole bread and circuses thing. Am I missing something or did they just skip over that in the rush to trample everything and everyone?

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YouTube video by No Kings No Kings Stand Up Short

Love these videos from @indivisible.org
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It's GO TIME, folks--let's do this thing!
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Hey, and since this Administration is so dead-set against Antifa, I guess that makes them Profa? Yup, Republicans=Pro Fascist.

Are you working on your signs? See you out there!

Q from @wirobooks.bsky.social: Feeling subversive this banned books week? A: You bet, & not just this week, either!
Then make it a DIY personal protest: choose your faves from the oft-banned books, read in public, & watch 'em squirm!
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Circle of Days: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

It's an extra-special treat when @wirobooks.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @hsmithwrites.bsky.social gives herself permission to write a review, & she let fly with her latest, on Ken Follett's CIRCLE OF DAYS--700 pages "on a Post-It Note."
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Current situation. We chatted with the gentleman holding the flag, not so much the National Guardsmen (who are still here—thought that time limit was up?) Here on a legislative visit.

Boy howdy, do we all need something to look forward to. And the answer--of course-- is BOOKS! Once again, your peeps at @wirobooks.bsky.social have you covered. Take a look at our round-up of titles coming out this fall & find your new fave.
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I know @zachpowers.bsky.social already did the big reveal of his mention in this week’s @newyorker.com (Alexandra Schwartz’s article on Patricia Lockwood), but it was still cool to come home from vacation and stumble upon it in the wild! I felt the glow.

this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals

Anytime these yahoos question the value of vaccines, tell them to go into any older cemetery and do a quick survey of the percentage of graves of children age five and under. Then tell them to kindly piss off.

Mainstream media might be giving up on delivering solid book reviews, but we never will! (For as long as the lights stay on.) @wirobooks.bsky.social has got you covered. Bookmark us and visit every morning to start the day off right--because happiness is finding a good book (& a good book review)!

"For those of us who believe that attention to and investment in public health is a crucial element of a thriving community," the dismantling of so much of what Anthony Fauci achieved in his 50 years of government service is criminal malfeasance.

I love listening to @ashdashlee.bsky.social preach her love and righteous rage on the #onemillionrising #nokings trainings in strategic non-cooperation. It’s mainlining optimistic action. #indivisible

A photograph of the completely paved-over former Rose Garden, sprinkled with tables, each with four chairs, and each topped with a closed yellow-and-white-striped umbrella, as though we were at a community swimming pool, backed with a new 88-foot-tall flagpole topped with an American flag.

Tennis pavilion went in the last time. Now the no-roses Rose Garden Patio--complete with community-pool-quality umbrellas on the four-tops--and ground breaking soon on the vast ballroom ('cause no one's gonna stop him). Bets on when he opens the White House Club, and what the buy-in's gonna be?

Learning all about the tactics of noncooperation in small and large ways on the second #OneMillionRising call. It’s one way to beat back the darkness. @ashdashlee.bsky.social

Hey, folks! Join the cool kids and get your pre-order in for @writesloud.bsky.social’s debut collection, FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT, from @stanchion.bsky.social. (The pennant is the extra-cool touch—you know you want one.)

After letting the inaugural winner of the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize sit in my TBR for far too long, I just consumed @mshatter.bsky.social’s MALAWI’S SISTERS. It’s a powerful, affecting story of the fallout from the shooting death of a young Black woman; Malawi & her family will stay with you.

Just listened to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER. I kept wanting to tell Jong-Fast, "It's dementia! That means she won't remember! Stop being frustrated! (I mean, about about the memory stuff.)" @wirobooks.bsky.social
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Why did I love this? "Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of memoir as academic dissertation with memoir as blunt 'can we talk?' observations...Perhaps it’s just that she really knows how to frame and tell a story." My review of @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON in @wirobooks.bsky.social.

The love/hate—that is what we are here for!

It's an extra-crappy day under the 47 administration, as ICE becomes better funded than 99% of the world's militaries. We all need to find some joy. I recommend listening to @ejeancarroll.bsky.social read her best-selling memoir NOT MY TYPE. She shines--& unlike spineless Rs, refuses to back down.

And do you know who is huge into wind energy? Midwest red farm states. It’s like the Rs aren’t thinking *any* of this through.

Hey, @kateshaw.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social, & @profmmurray.bsky.social, I think Barrett was assigned the injunction opinion because she took heat from 47’s Mob for those earlier opinions. She had to prove she was true gangster with a bullet to the rule of law. @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

Excellent Warren Zevon reference (“The Envoy”), @radiofreetom.bsky.social on with @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com podcast. It’s a shame this administration has zero actual credibility out in the real world; Zevon would NOT have been able to come up with anything more ridiculous.

Little Belfast, Maine turned out about 1,000 people today to say #NoKings and I was proud to join them. #NoFauxKings

Not sure how comfy I feel parking in a lot that has about 25 of these SUVs surrounding me. I don’t have my birth certificate with me, so if I disappear, check El Salvador.