Booklover, meditator, golfer & @UMichLaw alum. #GoBlue I write for @BookPage, @Bookreporter, @ShelfAwareness, & @KirkusReviews & care about our democracy.
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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From @ShelfAwareness my review of Welsh writer Liam Higginson’s terrifying debut novel, THE HILL IN THE DARK GROVE: shelf-awareness.com/theshelf…
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In America, on June 14 we no longer will celebrate the pedestrian holiday of Flag Day.
Instead, the day forever will be known as “Trump’s Announcement of the Expected Signing of the Deal to Make a Deal Someday (Maybe) Day.”
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@coynewriter’s A COURSE CALLED HOME is "a heartwarming tale of determination, teamwork, and the leaps one sometimes has to take on the road to realizing a dream.”
@AvidReaderPress @simonschuster
Read our full review!
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Jun 13
What an absurd insult to everything that America once stood for. What these people are doing to our country is sickening on so many levels. Shame on all of them.
Marco Rubio thinks Trump’s UFC event at the White House belongs in the same conversation as the Moon landing. 😂
So, I guess: “One small step for morons… one giant leap for moronkind?”
Seriously, America is being run by blithering fucking idiots.
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Jun 13
An utterly lawless act undone. There is still hope for our country. apple.news/ANLNtQOeuSkiJ35tz…
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Jun 12
In November, we have the power to tell him, “The people of this country are so much better than you. You don’t deserve to be our leader.”
Jun 12
Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants.
According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet:
“These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”
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Jun 10
The numbers aren’t lying, folks. . .
Jun 10
The inflation rate in Biden's last month in office was 2.9%. Trump (supported by a Republican Congress) has driven it up to 4.2%.
Thank you, voters, for your attention to this matter.
wapo.st/3S2PCeA
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Jun 10
You mean just like they’re turning their back on Ken Paxton? Yeah, right.
The three guiding principles of the MAGA Cult (f/k/a the Republican Party) are: 1. Lie. 2. Lie. 3. Keep lying.
Jun 10
Trump on Platner: "Can you imagine if the Republicans had him?"
Scalise: "We wouldn't let it happen."
Trump: "If it meant losing the Senate, you would not let that happen."
Scalise: "Correct."
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Jun 10
The fact that the most morally bankrupt POTUS in history is attacking Graham Platner hardly counts for much.
And as always, if you listen carefully, when Trump is denouncing someone as corrupt, stupid, or the like he’s actually talking about himself.
Jun 10
Trump on Platner: "Can you imagine if the Republicans had him? What if we had him? If it meant losing the Senate, you would not let that happen. There's never been a guy like that that's run for office."
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Jun 9
So being fat like Ted Cruz makes you masculine? That’s a good one.
Jun 9
Ted Cruz on Talarico: "If you were making a list of 1,000 adjectives to describe this guy, 'masculine' would not be one of them. I mean, if a stiff breeze came by it would blow him over like a feather."
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Jun 8
From the beginning, he was an actor playing the part of a president in a reality TV show. In that role, he thought they could do for him what the producers of the apprentice did to make him look like a successful businessman. They couldn’t. Because this job is real.
When the illusion finally shatters, what’s left isn’t just disappointment,it’s total embarrassment.
The man you invested your faith in isn’t a savior at all, just an empty act stitched together with arrogance, noise, and relentless self-promotion.
All that confidence, all those grand promises, all the swagger,it collapses into something painfully small the moment it’s tested against reality.
There’s no hidden genius, no bold disruptor underneath it all.
Just a loud, impulsive figure flailing through responsibilities he clearly wasn’t equipped to handle, drowning incompetence in a flood of bluster.
In the end, what once looked like strength turns out to be nothing more than cheap theatrics.
Not leadership,just a gaudy performance.
A caricature.
A spectacle.
And the real sting isn’t that it was absurd,it’s realizing how long it took to admit you were taken in by all his bullshit....
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Jun 6
From @Bookreporter my review of CHECKMATE: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in #Chess: bookreporter.com/reviews/che… @GrandCentralPub
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From @ShelfAwareness my review of Lee Kuhnle and Nathan Radke’s UNCOVER UP: How to Think Clearly in an Age of Conspiracies: shelf-awareness.com/theshelf… @ecwpress
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Jun 3
When it comes to finding "talent" to staff key jobs, it's remarkable how the Trump administration keeps scraping the bottom of the barrel to find yet another bottom.
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Jun 2
Appointing this man should be an impeachable offense. He’s there for one reason: to do Trump’s bidding when it comes to election interference. apple.news/Ai86uGvsTQT27qPv0…
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Jun 1
Our president has lost all touch with reality. . .
Jun 1
I spoke to President Trump on the phone last hour about the end of negotiations with the Iranians. He told me: “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.”
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May 31
Might be the dumBest statement ever made by a US president. . .
May 31
I think they do
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May 30
With Ken Paxton, the corruption isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. . .
May 29
This is a 6-minute Republican video outlining Ken Paxton’s corruption.
This now “unlisted” YouTube video was repeatedly sent out by the NRSC. It’s devastating.
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May 30
From @Bookreporter my review of @coynewriter’s A COURSE CALLED HOME: Adventures of an Accidental #Golf Course Owner: bookreporter.com/reviews/a-c… @AvidReaderPress
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May 30
Based on 41 years of practice as a trial lawyer, no lawyer wants to be on the receiving end of an order like this one from an obviously (and justifiably so) angry judge. A call to their malpractice insurer first thing Monday morning might be a good idea: nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/po…
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