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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Literary Birthday to Elmore Leonard, born this day in New Orleans, Lousiana. (192-2013) #BookSky 💙📚

BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Literary Birthday to Nora Roberts, born this day in Silver Spring, Maryland. #BookSky 💙📚

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Literary Birthday to Frank Herbert, born this day in Tacoma, Washington. (1920-1986) #BookSky 💙📚

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Literary Birthday to Sherman Alexie, born this day in Wellpinit, Washington. #BookSky 💙📚

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 4d

TBR Stack getting low? Click the pic below to see my list of forthcoming books you may enjoy. #BookSky 💙📚

Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (October 7, 2025)

Street date October 14, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher. A Wooded Shore and Other Stories By Thomas McGuane Knopf Available in Hardcover or ebook In these nine peerless...

www.quillbilly.com

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 4d

#Politics #Democracy #Constitution #History

Twelve Failed Constitutional Amendments That Could Have Reshaped American History

These proposals sought to change the United States' name, abolish the presidency and the vice presidency, and set a limit on personal fortunes, among other measures

www.smithsonianmag.com

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 4d

I have been trained by @davidbaldacci.bsky.social and @gregghurwitzbooks.bsky.social to expect a hero when America is under siege.

Where are America’s heroes?

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 4d

I find it difficult to understand why Evan Smoak is not a tv/movie star by now.

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 4d

While I was in the Navy I once had to tell a Lieutenant Commander that I could not do what he instructed me to do because it was an unlawful order. When called to the Executive Officer's office you'd better bet I had Navy regulations with the proper wording highlighted in my back pocket.

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote this nine years ago:

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 6d

What have we become?

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 6d

...but take a guess who makes those rules.

BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 6d

Meanwhile, the military is working for free.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7d

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down.

The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed.

And they get another vacation

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 7d

Remember all those U.S. military officers and senior enlisted NCOs gathered in Quantico for Trump and Kegs Breath's performative attempt at a political rally?

They're not getting paid while the government is shut down.

#Trump #Politics

Trump is paid. Members of Congress are paid.

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 7d

Remember all those U.S. military officers and senior enlisted NCOs gathered in Quantico for Trump and Kegs Breath's performative attempt at a political rally?

They're not getting paid while the government is shut down.

#Trump #Politics

Trump is paid. Members of Congress are paid.

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Literary Birthday to Anne Rice, born this day in New Orleans, Louisiana. (1941-2021) #BookSky 💙📚

BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Literary Birthday to Roy Blount Jr., born this day in Indianapolis, Indiana. #BookSky 💙📚

BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 7d

Book Deals. #BookSky 💙📚

Book Deals: Week of September 29, 2025

Ayad Akhtar follows Judy Clain to Summit Books for his third novel; BOA Editions picks up a posthumous Lucille Clifton poetry collection; Tiny Reparations and Avid Reader pick up novelizations of the ...

www.publishersweekly.com

BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 7d

I just talked to an Aunt from whom I have been estranged for many, many years. She is MAGA, & gets all her news from Telegram. She let me know today that every American is about to come into money because Trump has it set up for all Americans to get back all the federal taxes we've paid. 🤪 #MAGA

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BookDude #BookSky 💙📚 @bookdude.bsky.social · 8d

This is not idle chatter; please do not take it lightly:

The Republicans are making drastic changes to our way of life, including the roles of law enforcement & the military.

They would not be doing these things if they thought it could be changed by elections, so they will try to cancel them.

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