politicalscience

Abundance | Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein

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Referred to as supply side economics for progressives. An indictment of government bureaucracy and regulation the stymie or progress and leave us wanting despite our abundance. How we used to build in our past and how, through often good intentions, regulated ourselves to a country that can‘t get things done, or if we do and at tremendous cost.

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WHEEL OF FORTUNE | Thane Gustafson

December 2025 #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin
Thanks @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! I really enjoyed Snowed In for Christmas - I look forward to Sarah Morgan's new Christmas book every year!! 1w

bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks This is my 2nd Sarah Morgan book and I adored both of them! I'm going to prioritize her backlist because this is exactly what I need right now! ❤️🎄 The one I read last year was

The Book Club Hotel

TheAromaofBooks I LOVED Book Club Hotel!! I actually have it on my reread pile this year!! I really love how she pretty much always has her married couples find reconciliation and renewal together instead of storming off to have an affair, and also how so much of her story focuses on relationships between mothers, daughters, and sisters. She manages to tackle some difficult themes without the whole book becoming a sadness slog. 7d

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bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks I agree will all of that! I love how her families (so far) actually like each other and actively work out their issues. I identified hard with Glenda in this one as I often can't say the right things to my adult kids. 5d

TheAromaofBooks One I read a couple of years ago was a lot about a mother who wasn't a great mother when her daughters were growing up so the daughters pretty much had cut her off as adults. Now, years later, the mother is wanting to change her life and reconcile with them. I felt like Morgan handled it so well, the difficulty of deciding what to do about second chances and reconciliation for someone who has hurt you in the past.

One More for Christmas

bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks Ohhh that one sounds sad but I'm starting to trust Morgan with those difficulties. It's going on the list! 5d

TheAromaofBooks It was so good!! You can trust me to never recommend a sad book 😂 They are NOT my jam! The only thing about this one that annoyed me was the one sister was OBSESSED with her kids believing in Santa because apparently the ONLY WAY to have Christmas magic is via Santa. Since I grew up in a not-Santa household where Christmas absolutely reeked of magic and happy surprises, her attitude started to annoy me after a while haha 4d

bookandbedandtea @TheAromaofBooks Good to know! I'm not a fan of sad books so I'll remember that you don't recommend them. Re Santa...I come from a Santa family and have always had fun with that, both as a kid and a an adult, but I agree that a focus on Santa is weird. I mean, every kid stops believing at some point yet the magic of Christmas remains and isn't dependent on Santa. 22h

TheAromaofBooks Right? I've never been anti-Santa but I do feel like some parents go over the top with it a bit 😂 At any rate, it was only a minor niggle in an otherwise very enjoyable book haha And I just reread The Book Club Hotel the other day and just so thoroughly enjoyed it!! Yesterday I read a similar (although not quite as good) book, The White Christmas Inn by Colleen Wright, so you might enjoy that one, too!! 12h

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Common Sense | Thomas Paine

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The importance of this work is extolled in The Bookshop by Evan Friss. It is interesting but it is hard from this time to understand how someone feeling it ridiculous to be governed by a king far away could not acknowledge how the Native Americans might feel being under the power of people who were new to the land. The author yells for freedom while many colonists were enslaving people. Also, the usual antisemitism.

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century | Timothy Snyder

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Ooooooof. I‘ve been chipping at this extremely small book for the majority of the year. I‘d read a section, get depressed, put it aside, pick it up two months later. It‘s very powerful. It‘s very important. #bookspinbingo

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How Democracies Die | Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

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I was on hold for the audiobook for months at my library. Some parts of this book were a little dry to me but it‘s written by 2 scholars/professors who are very knowledgeable, so I didn‘t mind. This was published during T‘s 1st presidency, & guess what?! He met every point on their checklist for authoritarian government! Big surprise. Would love an update from them now. Interesting info about different countries & their changes in governments.

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Barack Obama Speeches | Barack Obama

#wdncw I said what I said & don‘t care….I miss him. And the other day greeting the plane full of veterans 🥹. I miss uneventful news days & days not filled with scandals. It‘s been an exhausting year

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Butterfinger I miss him so much. And, Michelle. 4w

Deblovestoread Me, too! How I miss decency, common courtesy, all the things 4w

mcctrish I miss him in 🇨🇦 and I miss seeing what Michelle had on and when she worked in the garden with kids 4w

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Aims42 Ugh, yes to this 💔 Remember when we would have a couple of days with no news coming out of the White House and nobody assumed it was because the POTUS died 🙄 4w

dabbe This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k19MB8_ioV8

And I miss when the most scandalous news day was when he wore a 🤎 suit.
😢😢😢 4w

Karisa Yes! So true all of it! 4w

AnnCrystal 👏🏼😭✊🏼 we'll get back to normal... better than normal...some day 🤞🏼🇺🇸🤞🏼🇺🇲🤞🏼. 4w

Amiable Miss him and also miss the days when I could sleep soundly and not wake up in the morning with my first thought being fear of what the geriatric assclown has done overnight. 4w

AmyG With the latest Epstein email dump…..I miss him even more. The respect for others, the decency…on and on. 4w

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism | Rachel Maddow

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Very good but tough to listen to.

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On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization | Douglas Murray

I live here, so why you following me?
Mr. Master Race, but still no GED
...
Fear in your flesh, you so scared to be replaced
Think you a future billionaire, but your future's being erased

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Death Cult Zombie by Genesis Owusu
https://youtu.be/vFT7fZA3ybw

#tuesdaytunes

AmyG These are powerful lyrics. 1mo

lil1inblue I needed this song today. 1mo

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WHEEL OF FORTUNE | Thane Gustafson