You can't replant a forest. Once it's gone, it's gone for a very long time. There's more to a forest than your truckload of seedling trees. Protect them.

#Trees #Forests #DataCenterClearcutting

Ilhan Omar being persecuted for maybe saying she was 17 instead of 18. Yet, Melanoma Trump and her parents are here because of her "genius visa."

#IlhanOmar #MelanomaTrump

I saw Legally Blonde. Does that mean I'm a lawyer?

#KatieZacharia

The Story of a Marriage (Highly Recommended)

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer. Romantic love, rendered in all its fragility, complexity, and pain. #bookstodon #booklovers #books #bookreview

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/the-story-of-a-marriage-highly-recommended/

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump (Recommended)

Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Brilliant. Puts reader in the room. I couldn't handle it. #bookstodon #booklovers #bookreview #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/regime-change-inside-the-imperial-presidency-of-donald-trump-recomnended/

Hegseth is a psychopath, streaming a murder for your enjoyment.

#Hegseth #LockHimUp

The Road to Tender Hearts (Highly Recommended)

The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett. Tragic, dark, uplifting, hilarious, profound. Played my heartstrings and funny-bone. Note: And there's a very perceptive kitty. #bookstodon #booklovers #bookreview #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/the-road-to-tender-hearts-highly-recommended/

Rest in peace. You were one in a million, and leading the way for those women who followed.

#MargaretHamiltonNASA

Assassins Anonymous (Recommended, 1st in series)

Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart. Brutally violent. Asking questions about friendship,forgiveness, character, and love. #bookstodon #booklovers #bookreview #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/assassins-anonymous-recommended-1st-in-series/

The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-style government (Recommended, Non-fiction)

The Fix by Barbara McQuade.  Sickening compendium of corruption. Detailed plan for preventing a repeat. #bookstodon #booklovers #bookreview #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/the-fix-saving-america-from-the-corruption-of-a-mob-style-government-recommended-non-fiction/

Vaccines don't cause autism. TORCH infections do.

#Autism

U.S. Fish and Wildlife is essentially removing protections for endangered species, allowing them to be killed as long as it isn't "intentional." In other words, drillers, lumber companies and developers are off the hook as long as they say oopsie.

#USFishandWildlife #EndangeredSpecies #TrumpDestroysEverythingHeTouches #FuckingGOP

Save Me Stranger (Short Stories, not for everyone)

Save Me Stranger by Erika Krouse. Grim, disturbing pivotal moments of mercy. Literary guillotine severs endings. #bookstodon #booklovers #bookreview #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/save-me-stranger-short-stories-not-for-everyone/

The Gate-Keeper (1st in series, Highly Recommended)

The Gate-Keeper by James Byrne. Right clever, this one. Humor. Action. Relevance. I love Dez. #bookstodon #booklovers #bookreviews #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/the-gate-keeper-1st-in-series-highly-recommended/

Heart the Lover (Coming-of-Age)

Heart the Lover by Lily King. Super-smart 20-somethings being super dumb romantically. Underdeveloped characters and plot. Note: It wants you to cry. Just look at the cover. I didn't. Note: Add this to the constellation of plots that couldn't exist in a world with cell phones. Note: If brevity and heartstrings tugging are your thing, go for it. #bookstodon #booklovers #bookreviews #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/heart-the-lover-coming-of-age/

Braiding Sweetgrass (Non-fiction, Audio recommended)

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Indigenous traditions, scientific approaches for respecting, restoring, appreciating non-human life. Note: There's a density to this book beyond its number of pages. I found the audio more easily digested. #bookstodon #booklovers #bookreviews #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/braiding-sweetgrass-non-fiction-audio-recommended/

High school kids marching against ICE on school property.

"We will fight for human rights!"

Go, kids, go.

#ICEisNAZISwithoutUniforms

The Painter (Highly Recommended)

The Painter by Peter Heller. Beautifully evocative, dark combination of oil-painting, fly-fishing, and evading murder. Note: As they like to say, a writer at the top of his game. #Bookstodon #Bookreviews #booklovers #books

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/the-painter-highly-recommended/

I'm outside today because the aqi (air quality) is 16. I have a go bag in my closet for evacuations. I use sunscreen everytime I go outside. Some days are too hot to go out. I worry my life will be disrupted by fire, flood, heat and drought.

This is the future I read about in sci-fi that I never expected to live in. YET, all the power to change the course of climate change is in the hands of a few who don't give a damn. There are more of us than them. Time to act like it.

#ClimateCrisis

Amazon is shoving ai down our throats on phone searches, but I found a simple workaround. Begin your search with "no ai search." Then the item you're looking for. As long as Amazon continues to be a sometimes necessary evil, we have to push back.

#AiClimateVillain #ClimateCrisis #NoAI #AmazonSucks #DataCentersKill