The Book Rest
@thebookrest.bsky.social
aka Carole-Ann - just learning how to work this :) 💙 runs & owns a second-hand bookshop; tweets on Books; History; Space, & Oddities. RL pic but more grey hair
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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March 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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When the bees go, we'll be not long to follow.
March 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
When the bees go, we'll be not long to follow.
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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
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I've been MIA on social media lately. My husband needs a shoulder replacement, so I've been taking on all his responsibilities around the house (shopping, animals, yard work, etc.) around my full-time job. Tl;dr: Pls buy my books: www.tfrohock.com/fiction2
February 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I've been MIA on social media lately. My husband needs a shoulder replacement, so I've been taking on all his responsibilities around the house (shopping, animals, yard work, etc.) around my full-time job. Tl;dr: Pls buy my books: www.tfrohock.com/fiction2
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Tomorrow February 28h is no buy nothing day! Boycotts work; it's a start. When it starts effecting retailers they will make noise. Target notice a decalin this month. I like to make a suggestion, cut down or do not Buy Eggs as long as you can. Big ask, might work! 😏💙💙✌️
www.axios.com/2025/02/25/e...
www.axios.com/2025/02/25/e...
What to know about the Feb. 28 "economic blackout"
The grassroots group behind the blackout says it is about "sending a clear message: we have the power."
www.axios.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Tomorrow February 28h is no buy nothing day! Boycotts work; it's a start. When it starts effecting retailers they will make noise. Target notice a decalin this month. I like to make a suggestion, cut down or do not Buy Eggs as long as you can. Big ask, might work! 😏💙💙✌️
www.axios.com/2025/02/25/e...
www.axios.com/2025/02/25/e...
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Really happy with how the guys at @prospect have framed my post.
@arusbridger.bsky.social and others at Prospect's support for this Weekly Constitutional series of posts is well received.
@arusbridger.bsky.social and others at Prospect's support for this Weekly Constitutional series of posts is well received.
February 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Really happy with how the guys at @prospect have framed my post.
@arusbridger.bsky.social and others at Prospect's support for this Weekly Constitutional series of posts is well received.
@arusbridger.bsky.social and others at Prospect's support for this Weekly Constitutional series of posts is well received.
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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.
They Don't Care
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.
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“I wanted to make that very clear to the council that in a normal city council meeting this shouldn’t be happening,”
Ex-NFL player Chris Kluwe explains why he got arrested protesting Huntington Beach MAGA library sign
'You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,' he told the council during Tuesday's meeting. The chambers erupted in applause.
www.latimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“I wanted to make that very clear to the council that in a normal city council meeting this shouldn’t be happening,”
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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.
Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.
He's 4 mths older than me & I (fortunately) still have ALL my marbles - enough to say he's already declined into stupidity 😟
He's 78 and already showing signs of cognitive decline.
February 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
He's 4 mths older than me & I (fortunately) still have ALL my marbles - enough to say he's already declined into stupidity 😟
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Just to remind people that tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of Putin’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage.
Be there if you can to support them 🙏
His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage.
Be there if you can to support them 🙏
Hallo everyone planning to go on the Ukraine 🇺🇦 solidarity rally on Saturday 22
I’m all booked to come to London. All being well on train times I should get to the rally start point at St Volodymyr’s statue, London, W11 3QY by 11.30 am (for a noon start)
I’m all booked to come to London. All being well on train times I should get to the rally start point at St Volodymyr’s statue, London, W11 3QY by 11.30 am (for a noon start)
Can I ask if anyone might be interested in going to this and meeting up on 22 Feb?
I feel as if we need to make as many connections as possible as soon as possible. Make our physical solidarity with 🇺🇦 and one another evident.
And our disdain for Trump’s 🇺🇸 betrayal of 🇺🇦 clear.
I feel as if we need to make as many connections as possible as soon as possible. Make our physical solidarity with 🇺🇦 and one another evident.
And our disdain for Trump’s 🇺🇸 betrayal of 🇺🇦 clear.
February 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Just to remind people that tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of Putin’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine.
His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage.
Be there if you can to support them 🙏
His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage.
Be there if you can to support them 🙏
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This is significant. Farage is meeting Musk’s preconditions for bankrolling Reform UK.
February 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is significant. Farage is meeting Musk’s preconditions for bankrolling Reform UK.
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And here you have it ladies and gentlemen
The truth
The truth
February 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
And here you have it ladies and gentlemen
The truth
The truth
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As I keep saying - Musk will do to the US state what he did to twitter. Only this time it's people's lives he's playing with not just blue ticks, disinformation and impressions.
February 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
As I keep saying - Musk will do to the US state what he did to twitter. Only this time it's people's lives he's playing with not just blue ticks, disinformation and impressions.
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"They are not on Twitter, but they are in local communities"
The Lib Dems could not have paid an agency for a better slogan.
The Lib Dems could not have paid an agency for a better slogan.
🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch acknowledges the existence of the Lib Dems
- Considers them a “protest party for mainly people on the left”
- "They are not on Twitter, but they are in local communities"
- "They will destroy the whole country..."
Transcript from DailyWire interview with Jordan Peterson 👇
- Considers them a “protest party for mainly people on the left”
- "They are not on Twitter, but they are in local communities"
- "They will destroy the whole country..."
Transcript from DailyWire interview with Jordan Peterson 👇
February 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"They are not on Twitter, but they are in local communities"
The Lib Dems could not have paid an agency for a better slogan.
The Lib Dems could not have paid an agency for a better slogan.
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The media are crying out for a serving politician to decry Trump, so here goes: he’s a lying, corrupt, incompetent criminal who is a useful idiot to Putin. Together they are literally destroying the fabric of western democracy and European security.
Is any MP prepared to agree?
Is any MP prepared to agree?
February 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The media are crying out for a serving politician to decry Trump, so here goes: he’s a lying, corrupt, incompetent criminal who is a useful idiot to Putin. Together they are literally destroying the fabric of western democracy and European security.
Is any MP prepared to agree?
Is any MP prepared to agree?
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DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion; Data Show Much Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
www.bloomberg.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...