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@notgivingup.bsky.social
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Middle aged white woman proud to live in Portland. I'm not giving up.
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Virginia @notgivingup.bsky.social · Jan 29
I have a green card marriage from 1971 to report. The bride confessed to the crime in her autobiography. She ditched the fake hubby, married a loser from Queens, and had 3 anchor babies. Her permanent residence is in Bedminster NJ, lower level.
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Today federal investigators are scrutinizing every minute of #MarcosLeao's life looking for a traffic infraction, juvenile prank, or Democratic vote they can blow up to justify the shameful actions of #USMarines. It's the same reverse #probable cause used on #AbregoGarcia.
June 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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This is creeping dread,
haunting fear.

It’s the knock on your door
during a roundup
of those deemed different.

History howls its brutal lessons
through the centuries.
We’re not listening again.
#Booksky #TheTrumpYears #poetry
February 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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20/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#SheilaLevineIsDeadAndLivingInNewYork #GailParent #Funny
Sheila Leving Is Dead And Living In New York, a novel by Gail Parent. Black text in a 1970s font on a white cover. The "I" in Sheila is a brown female silhouette, arms at her sides and feet together, standing in a flowerpot with 3 daisies growing in it, long stemmed and the blooms are at crotch level of the female silhouette.
February 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I was a #CFPB contract lawyer a few years ago. The scams the CFPB shut down targeted people deep in debt with student loans, home mortgages, and credit cards. Desperate people who fell for fast talk and fine print. The CFPB protects the weakest among us. #SaveCFPB
February 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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19/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#James #PercivalEverett
James by Percival Everett.The cover is Black with the title in orange block letters. The straight of the "J" is elongated like a road. The serif of the "J" holds a silhouette of a man walking with a pack on his back.
February 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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18/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#LincolnInTheBardo #GeorgeSaunders
Lincoln in the Bardo, a novel by George Saunders, NYT best selling author of Tenth of December. Title and author are in white upper case textover a black-and-white illustration of a landscape with a dirt foreground with tall trees on either side, looking out over a vast valley with a river and opposite shore in the background and cloudy skies overhead.
February 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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17/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#AmericanFlyGirl #SusanTateAnkeny
American Fly Girl by Susasn Tate Ankeny. A black-and-white photo of Hazel Ying Lee, wearing a vintage flight suit and goggles, leaning against the wing of a plane.
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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‪16/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#OliveAnnBurns #ColdSassyTree
Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree. Illustrations are a tall green tree that wraps the left side and top of the cover, and a young barefoot child sitting on a bench beneath the tree looking out at 2 women wearing long dresses and fancy hats, walking past white houses with pillared porches and picket fences. The illustration is styled in silhouettes showing shadows but not detail. "A hilarious and passionate book...one of the best portraits of small-town Southern life ever written." - Pat Conroy
February 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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15/20
(my numbers were out of order)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#HendrikGroen
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen 83-1/4 Years Old by Hendrik Groen
February 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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‪‪13/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#StillAlice #LisaGenova #Alzheimers
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
February 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Thanks to #BlueskyBooks and the #20BookChallenge, my reading list is full, a testament to the power of written words to comfort, inspire, and delight.

14/20
Choose 20 #books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

#Booksky #BookChallenge
PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
February 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Jaws meme reads: we gonna need a bigger Luigi
January 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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‪12/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#BelCanto #AnnPatchett
Bel Canto, a novel by Ann Patchett
February 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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11/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#ThisIsHappiness #NiallWilliams
This is Happiness, a novel by Niall Williams.
February 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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10/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#DemonCopperhead #BarbaraKingsolver
Demon Copperhead, a novel by Barbara Kingsolver. WInner of the Pulitzer Prize
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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9/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #Books #BookChallenge
#Persepolis #GraphicNovel
February 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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The first clue for the AppleNews + Mini Crossword yesterday nearly stumped me and brought me joy once I got it. #BlackHistoryMonth #ErikAgard
An image of a completed mini crossword puzzle. The clue for 1 across is "National Anthem's first word." The word is "Lift."
February 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The presidency has been outsourced.
February 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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‪8/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #BookChallenge
#AWrinkleInTime #HoardBannedBooks
Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle In Time. The cover illustration's grey background looks like someone scooped a dip out of it. In the dip are three preteen, windblown children dressed in black, reaching and floating and running across the dip from right to left. A large, ethereal female figure with windblown hair, drawn in transparent pixellated dots of green and white, looks down on the children. The illustration evokes action and movement.
February 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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7/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #BookChallenge
#InColdBlood #HoardBannedBooks
In Cole Blood by Truman Capote
January 31, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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6/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #BookChallenge
#WashingtonBlack #Booksky #20BookChallenge #HoardBannedBooks
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan. A flying canoe,borne by a hot air balloon, is suspended in the sky over a tropical forest. "Extraordinary...Edugyan is a magical writer." One of the New YorkTimes' 10 best books of the year.
January 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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In the tradition of Legendary Liars Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany.
adamparkhomenko.bsky.social Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Jan 28
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to reporter: "I commit to telling the truth from this podium every single day.”

This is a lie.
January 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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5/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #BookChallenge
#LessonsFromTheEdge #Shero #Courage #Fearless
Marie Yovanovitch, Lessons From The Edge. A black and white head and shoulders portrait of the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and witness at Trump's first-term first impeachment trial.
January 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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4/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Booksky #20BookChallenge #BookChallenge
#LetTheGreatWorldSpin
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann. A horizontal line spans the width of the cover between the first and second lines of the title text. Centered on the line is a tightrope walker, holding a long balance wand. An illustration of a city begins at the lower left of the cover, getting smaller and narrower as it continues to the top right of the cover. The buildings are encircled with curved lines, as if spinning. The illustration and lettering are red on a white background,
January 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 57. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 57
… Tommy Tuberville says it’s Biden’s fault that Trump can’t end the war in Ukraine quickly like he promised: “This has been handled so badly by the Ukrainians and by NATO and the US that Putin has got...
open.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM