Melissa
@mmfbooks.bsky.social
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I read. I blog. I sell books. What more do you need to know? thebooknut.com
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dogsmile.bsky.social
Call them!!
Vote them out!
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$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
mmfbooks.bsky.social
Such a melancholy, mid-winter sort of book. #mmfbooksreviews2025
Cover of Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
mmfbooks.bsky.social
This was absolutely charming. And delightful on audio #mmfbooksreviews2025
Screenshot of the audiobook of Busted by Dan Gemeinhart
mmfbooks.bsky.social
Put this on the shelf next to Matthew Desmond and Heather McGee. #mmfbooksreviews2025
Cover of Paper Girl by Beth Macy
mmfbooks.bsky.social
It was fine. #mmfbooksreviews2025
The cover of joy to the girls by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
mmfbooks.bsky.social
Solid MGN about moving and making new friends #mmfbooksreviews2025
The cover of Winging It by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter
mmfbooks.bsky.social
In which I re-learn that time travel books are not for me. #mmfbooksreviews2025
The cover of The Everlasting by Alice E. Harrow
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Rogue Nation on the High Seas
Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.
www.theatlantic.com
mmfbooks.bsky.social
Very silly. But lots of fun. #mmfbooksreviews2025
The cover of Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
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whstancil.bsky.social
Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
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karnythia.bsky.social
I honestly think the idea that this could be infighting between conservatives never occurred to the people making up lies about trans ideology on bullets and that says so much about the thirst to justify fascism
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kellybarnhill.bsky.social
Yup. Fascination with and access to guns is the problem. Every time.
pattho.bsky.social
The Annunciation killer and Kirk’s killer have/had more in common than what differentiates them.
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.
iwriteok.bsky.social
the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah

very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme

knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
Facebook post by Tyler Robinson's mother of him dressed as a gopnik meme, wearing a track suit and squatting on the ground
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kellybarnhill.bsky.social
The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing.

Half-mast, my ass.
phillewis.bsky.social
Trump says he is ordering all U.S. flags lowered to half-mast in honor of Charlie Kirk
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karnythia.bsky.social
My completely unpleasant take is that you cannot make a career of inciting others to violence and normalizing using politics as a motive for violence and expect a good outcome. There has been a decade of sewing. And the reaping is of a bitter bloody harvest. My condolences to the children.
mmfbooks.bsky.social
Holds up after 18 years. Such a good fantasy. #mmfbooksreviews2025
The cover of Dreamdark:Blackbringsr by Laini Taylor
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scalzi.com
I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.
mmfbooks.bsky.social
Turns out I don’t like books that are based on rape/Stockholm syndrome. It’s a DNF. #mmfbooksreviews2025
Screenshot of the audiobook of Rose in Chains by Julie Soto
mmfbooks.bsky.social
Good but in an insane way. #mmfbooksreviews2025
Screenshot of the audiobook of Discontent by Beatriz Serrano
mmfbooks.bsky.social
Shannon Hale knows how to capture all the big feelings kids can have in an incredibly accessible way. #mmfbooksreviews2025
The cover of Dream on my Shannon Hale and Marcela Cespedes
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50501movement.bsky.social
Dictators silence our freedoms. In America, the people will be heard. Oct 18: #NoKings. RSVP: nokings.org?utm_source=5...
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davelevitan.bsky.social
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING.

This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups.

Full House budget markup is tomorrow.
heykellyjensen.bsky.social
The House subcommittee marking up the budget containing the IMLS meets *tonight* at 5 pm eastern.

appropriations.house.gov/schedule/mar...