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Brett Tam
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Author. Music fan. No rhyme/reason to what I read and listen to.

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don't know who's worse, the pedophile or the people still supporting the pedophile #epsteinfiles #epstein
Email text from an image featured on the front page of the New York Times, accompanying an article about the Democrats releasing a trove of Jeffrey Epstein-related emails: From: Jeffrey Epstein To: Ghislaine Maxwell Sent: 4/2/2011 i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump..[REDACTED VICTIM'S NAME] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. (An excerpt from one of the emails released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The victim's name was redacted by Democrats on the committee.)
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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could not stop laughing. this book! children's books are for kids and the kid in all of us, even (especially?) during such challenging times

Mac Undercover (from the Mac B., Kid Spy series) by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Mike Lowery #booksky
Illustrated bookcover for Mac Undercover, the first book in the Mac B. Kid Spy series by author Mac Barnett. Illustrated by Mike Lowery. The cover shows a boy and a dog, both smiling and wearing dark sunglasses. In an upper corner is Queen Elizabeth sticking out her tongue. In another corner is a handheld gaming device. The background is blue, with a jagged yellow background highlighting the boy and dog.
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Feels like we're stuck in Orange Beach. Much to ponder in Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell #booksky
Book cover of Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell. The side view of a shape of a person's head is in the center. Inside that shape is a picture of the open road leading to mountains and a wide sky. The background is green on top, blue on the bottom. Dividing the background are white lighting/electrical zigzags emanating from the person's head. The book title and author name are printed in bold, black letters across the top and bottom, respectively.
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo can't win any more awards. Cover has no more room!

(One of the best books I've ever read, highly recommend) #booksky
Cover of the book Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo. Atmospheric night time scene of mid-century San Francisco Chinatown with neon signs galore and two young people holding hands and facing each other under the glow of a streetlight. Four impressive award seals on the book cover obscure almost one third of the cover.
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Station Eleven fans will❤️. Set on the NYC American Museum of Natural History rooftop in a flooded future. Inspired by wartime Iraq &Leningrad curators who protected their collections of human knowledge/history. Offers hope that what matters most--love/work, community/knowledge--will survive #booksky
Book cover of the novel, All The Water In The World by Eiren Caffall. The cover, awash in blues and grays, depicts New York City skyscrapers under water, with a few of the tallest buildings poking out of the water.
October 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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This Sat, Oct 18. NO KINGS. Everyday American people are gathering across the country, small towns and large. Link below lists locations #nokings
Map of Oct 18 NO KINGS Event. About 3/4 of the United States mainland map is covered with dots, each dot representing a No Kings protest against the current hate-filled administration. Dots can even be seen as far north as Canada and far souh as Panama.
October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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What📚do u keep buying? I regularly gift The Quiet Damage:QAnon &the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook, follows 5 families who've lost a loved one to QAnon/right wing conspiracies,shows who they were before,how they fell in,if/how they got out. Quick rd,insightful,ultimately hopeful
Book cover of "The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family" by Jesselyn Cook.
September 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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may god have mercy on this violent man's soul

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
On gun violence "I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." – Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023
September 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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may his soul be delivered from the vitriol and hatred he spread to others. may this world and his afterlife be that of peace.
On gender, feminism and reproductive rights "Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge." – Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025 "The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered." – Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024 "We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024
September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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may his soul leave this world and RIP where it belongs 🙏
On race "If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024 " If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?" – The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022 "Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023 "If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?" – The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024 "If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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From Ian McEwan, writing in The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/world/2001/s...
"We heard her tell him through her sobbing that there was no escape for her. The building was on fire and there was no way down the stairs. She was calling to say goodbye. There was really only one thing for her to say, those three words that all the terrible art, the worst pop songs and movies, the most seductive lies, can somehow never cheapen. I love you. "She said it over and again before the line went dead. And that is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers." - Ian McEwan, "Only love and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against their murderers" (The Guardian, Sept 15, 2001)
September 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Mural at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, CA.
Mural at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, CA. It is a painting of an old-fashioned typewriter in red against a black background. Coming out of the typewwriter is a piece of white paper with the following typed onto it: I will forever be in love with you. And that's not fiction. -WRDSMTH
July 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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i have the cutest desk partner
fuzzy pink smiling crab stuffie sitting on a desk
July 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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i admit i initially judged "last night at the telegraph club" by its knockout cover and reader i was not wrong #malindalo #booksky #bookrecs
cover of "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo. shows a mid-century San Francisco Chinatown streetscape, a dark avenue lit up by neon signs at night
July 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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absolutely zero people raised the alarm years ago. we're all astonishment fr #offshoring #outsourcing #nationalsecurity #manufacturing
NPR headline from a bsky post: How Apple turbocharged China's development A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have ["may have" is highlighted in pink] undermined America's lead in technological innovation and even its national security. [An unhappy happy face is drawn in pink.]
June 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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stack of three reference books
March 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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life's outro #DoctorAndTheMedics #BestSongHeardToday
(also gave a listen to the original by #NormanGreenbaum)
Record single of "Spirit in the Sky," a cover by the band Doctor and the Medics.
February 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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finished the library book by susan orlean and now i must make a pilgrimage to LA public library central #SusanOrlean #lapl #booksky 💙📚
Book cover of "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean. It is red with gold lettering.
February 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Share the book you always recommend to others. Share 1 a day if you like. Explanations/reviews optional. #booksky💙📚 #bookchallenge

couldn't get tix to the author's bk fest talk but later spotted author at a booth! so starstruck,forgot to ask for an autograph!😅

The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
Book cover of The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest. Cover shows an attactive skyscraper cityscape in shades of gold and orange in the background. Front and center is a purple brick building with a fire escape. A man in a white shirt and black pants is handing a blue book to a woman in a gold dress, which matches the colorscape of the city. A pile of books sit on the fire escape.
January 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Share the book(s) you always recommend to others. Share one a day if you like. Explanations and reviews optional. #booksky 💙📚 #bookchallenge

one of the best books i have ever read. had no idea it won the natl book award. (congrats!) an easy rec.

(3/4) Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Beautiful book cover for "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo. The cover shows a night sky lit up by a streetful of neon signs mostly of Chinese characters. It's clearly a popular business district, though right now only a few cars are parked there and it's mostly deserted. Under a single, pagoda-style streetlight, two girls, one with dark hair in a white shirt and reddish skirt, another with light red hair in a brownish top and green pants, face each other and hold hands.
January 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Share the book(s) you always recommend to others. Share one a day if you like. Explanations and reviews optional.
#booksky 💙📚 #bookchallenge

(2/4) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Book cover of "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt. Cover is blue with an orange octopus in the center, with a woman with long gray hair and a yellow top looking at it.
January 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Share the book(s) you always recommend to others. Share one a day if you like. (I have 4.) Explanations and reviews optional. #booksky 💙📚 #bookchallenge

(1/4) The Quiet Damage by Jesselyn Cook
Book cover of "The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family" by Jesselyn Cook. Cover features a family portrait of an adult and a small child. The portrait hangs from a wall. The center of the photo has been ripped out and replaced with the "QAnon and the..." subtitle.
January 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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stuck at the 80% mark because i don't want the book to end #booksky
stack of books. book on top of stack has a red bookmark inserted at the 80% mark.
January 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I'm envious you got to go! As for McCabe, perfectly understandable -- I loved her!!! Took her for modern American poetry and post-modern. One of my favorite profs. She was the best.

BTW look what I found. ☺️📚
January 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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loved this book: Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All. enjoyed following magnolia and her friend iris on their surprising adventure. laughed and felt and thought. new york city in a different light #ChanelMiller #mglit #books #reads #booksky 📚💙
Book cover of "Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All" by New York Times bestelling author Chanel Miller. Two girls and a furry dog cross a busy city intersection. One girl is holding a sock.
December 17, 2024 at 8:48 PM