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Sorry, author correction. Jim Defede

#📚💙listening.to an uplifting account of a New Foundland community opening their homes and generous assistance during the 911 aircraft groundings. A most welcome recommendation from a co-worker.
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim Defoe.

What a GAME!!!!!! Is it only after 10 PST? I feel like it is 3 am!!!!! 🔱🔱🔱🔱

Independent bookstores have been getting my money this month. A first visit to Powell's, Portland, OR last Sunday. Today's fun was at Invitation Bookshop, Gig Harbor.

The documentary was heart wrenching, dismaying, personal and hopeful. These dedicated people are heroes. How many of us would have had different paths, maybe not so good paths in life if we had not had access to a library in school or in our communities?

About to watch The Librarians at the Gig Harbor Film Festival! Thank you organizers for all inviting local library peeps to attend!

Wouldn't be a surprise if there is a great big beautiful real estate plan for the UN building. Uggghhh

Fingering merino and nylon sock yarn in yellow blues and red, with speckles of black created by Fancy Image Yarn

🧶 a bit of squishy love arrives each month, I look forward each month to what color combos will arrive to inspire sock creation or maybe something else? (#Fancy Image Yarn sock yarn of the month).
✅ Library Sock books on hold
Thank you Myra for the monthly fun! I love the color combos

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FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge Staffers sound the alarm.

NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money.

"If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

So glad to see this. You have been missed! I'm watching today's report as I type this. ⭐🍒🌈🌛

💙#20TBR #booksky challenge
No explanations, 1 from your TBR list a day.

Author Mira Grant Overgrowth jacket cover plant tendrils embracing earth

Binge reading. Current book. Overgrowth by Mira Grant. Original retelling of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers with A Little Shop of Horrors thrown in. Right now I'm on Team Plant Invader. #📚💙booksky

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Headline from KXLY reading: "Big Beautiful Bill could put millions of acres of Washington, Idaho public land up for sale." Mt. Baker in the background.

Washingtonians should know Donald Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ now includes selling off our public lands — including national forests — to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

BS

John Lennon's "Gimme some Truth" is my earworm tonight.

Love the colors!

At this point, does it matter? Biden obviously had a competent team, the safeguards checks and balances "were" in place.

Ditto! But we started watching from Doctor#1 this week. Doctor no. 4 is now playing 💙💙so many episodes I had missed previously so lovely to have the context all these years later! Tom Baker was our Doctor as that is when we were first introduced to the series. We are loving the progression.

E-reader displaying digital book cover of The Antidote by Karen Russel

💙📚next in the queue "The Antidote" by Karen Russell.

📚💙♥️Just finished John Scalzi's "When the Moon Hits Your eye". 🧀🌕 Perfect timing. One of the few authors that can convince and entertain with silly ideas that make for a delightful read. Takeaways, life happens and not always predictably or logically. It had a bit of everything.

I'm so looking forward to reading. Queue the Jeopardy final answer music📖October seems so far away

Line of hands off participants across the street

Groups lined both sides of the street. Photo shows sign carriers. 1 with upside down American flag. Another sign reads "the only dangerous minority is the rich"

Lines of hands off protestors extend down the sidewalk carrying various hands off messages

A few photos from Hands Off Gig Harbor

Awesome!

A good day for good trouble. 3000 may have shown up to the Gig Harbor, WA Hands Off event.

PBS News Hour | Library and museum support agency faces massive cuts | Season 2025 Library and museum support agency faces massive cuts after Trump order

While ILMS funding supports many programs, poor rural communities will likely feel these cuts first and most deeply. Rural libraries, which serve as lifelines to communities w/o reliable access to broadband, rely heavily on this funding for survival. This is criminal.
www.pbs.org/video/defund...

I just finished reading a grim scandi noir mystery, so I was ready for something completely different. Was delighted last night when the ready to check-out notification for When the moon hits your Eye popped-up! 🧀🌜

Reading, having the dog snuggle next to me while I'm reading. Knitting, listening to music. Getting out in nature with a camera.