Michelle 📚✨
@michelleaster.bsky.social
Writer, Reader, Visual Artist and Feminist
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This is creeping dread,
haunting fear.
It’s the knock on your door
during a roundup
of those deemed different.
History howls its brutal lessons
through the centuries.
We’re not listening again.
#Booksky #books #TheTrumpYears #poetry
haunting fear.
It’s the knock on your door
during a roundup
of those deemed different.
History howls its brutal lessons
through the centuries.
We’re not listening again.
#Booksky #books #TheTrumpYears #poetry
May 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is creeping dread,
haunting fear.
It’s the knock on your door
during a roundup
of those deemed different.
History howls its brutal lessons
through the centuries.
We’re not listening again.
#Booksky #books #TheTrumpYears #poetry
haunting fear.
It’s the knock on your door
during a roundup
of those deemed different.
History howls its brutal lessons
through the centuries.
We’re not listening again.
#Booksky #books #TheTrumpYears #poetry
April was super busy IRL and I didn’t read as much as I hoped. Blood Orange as a re-read, this time in audio, was so good.
Got in some good non-fiction too!
#booksky 📚💙 #romantasy
Got in some good non-fiction too!
#booksky 📚💙 #romantasy
May 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
April was super busy IRL and I didn’t read as much as I hoped. Blood Orange as a re-read, this time in audio, was so good.
Got in some good non-fiction too!
#booksky 📚💙 #romantasy
Got in some good non-fiction too!
#booksky 📚💙 #romantasy
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Happening right now!!
🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢
Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...
🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢
Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...
Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Live on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
www.youtube.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happening right now!!
🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢
Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...
🔥🏛️ Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the Capitol steps ✊ to protest Trump’s proposed budget cuts — including attacks on Medicaid — and defend democracy! 📢
Livestreaming here: www.youtube.com/live/5ceR90l...
So excited for this upcoming book from @authorkarinahalle.bsky.social
I love her writing and this has so many of my favorite things!
#booksky 📚💙 #paranormalromance
I love her writing and this has so many of my favorite things!
#booksky 📚💙 #paranormalromance
April 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
So excited for this upcoming book from @authorkarinahalle.bsky.social
I love her writing and this has so many of my favorite things!
#booksky 📚💙 #paranormalromance
I love her writing and this has so many of my favorite things!
#booksky 📚💙 #paranormalromance
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
March was a light reading month but a really good one!
What was everyone’s favorite March reads? Have you read any of these?
#booksky #readingrecap #romantasy 📚💙
What was everyone’s favorite March reads? Have you read any of these?
#booksky #readingrecap #romantasy 📚💙
March 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
March was a light reading month but a really good one!
What was everyone’s favorite March reads? Have you read any of these?
#booksky #readingrecap #romantasy 📚💙
What was everyone’s favorite March reads? Have you read any of these?
#booksky #readingrecap #romantasy 📚💙
In February I read some meaningful, important and some fun books.
Did you like any of these? What others would you recommend?
Did you like any of these? What others would you recommend?
March 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In February I read some meaningful, important and some fun books.
Did you like any of these? What others would you recommend?
Did you like any of these? What others would you recommend?
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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
February 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
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I need more people talking about that they added parts from One More Day into the epilogue
Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all
Here's a little 'dip'
There a little 'touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much
youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI
Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all
Here's a little 'dip'
There a little 'touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much
youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI
Les Misérables Epilogue Scene Performed at the White House Governors Ball by the US Army Chorus
YouTube video by The DailyFAFO
youtu.be
February 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I need more people talking about that they added parts from One More Day into the epilogue
Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all
Here's a little 'dip'
There a little 'touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much
youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI
Watch 'em run amuck
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all
Here's a little 'dip'
There a little 'touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much
youtu.be/pIQh_5dZUwI
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Claiming the save act is anything other than an attack on women is gaslighting.
#saveact #womensrights
#saveact #womensrights
February 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Claiming the save act is anything other than an attack on women is gaslighting.
#saveact #womensrights
#saveact #womensrights
This book is off to a good start. A poignant epigraph and then chapter one starts with this gem
“She didn’t think things could get any worse, then she saw the sign. Welcome to Florida, it read. The Sunshine State.”
- Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
#booksky
#currentread
“She didn’t think things could get any worse, then she saw the sign. Welcome to Florida, it read. The Sunshine State.”
- Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
#booksky
#currentread
February 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This book is off to a good start. A poignant epigraph and then chapter one starts with this gem
“She didn’t think things could get any worse, then she saw the sign. Welcome to Florida, it read. The Sunshine State.”
- Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
#booksky
#currentread
“She didn’t think things could get any worse, then she saw the sign. Welcome to Florida, it read. The Sunshine State.”
- Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
#booksky
#currentread
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I spent my whole life listening to cis straight men talk about their dicks. It's about time they get jump scared by women talking about smutty romantasy books in crude detail on TikTok.
February 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I spent my whole life listening to cis straight men talk about their dicks. It's about time they get jump scared by women talking about smutty romantasy books in crude detail on TikTok.
This Will Be Fun 📚
4.5⭐️
Cozy fantasy can sometimes be hard for me to get into but this book engaged me from the start. It was funny and light while still finding meaning and moving the story. I really liked this one.
#booksky
4.5⭐️
Cozy fantasy can sometimes be hard for me to get into but this book engaged me from the start. It was funny and light while still finding meaning and moving the story. I really liked this one.
#booksky
February 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This Will Be Fun 📚
4.5⭐️
Cozy fantasy can sometimes be hard for me to get into but this book engaged me from the start. It was funny and light while still finding meaning and moving the story. I really liked this one.
#booksky
4.5⭐️
Cozy fantasy can sometimes be hard for me to get into but this book engaged me from the start. It was funny and light while still finding meaning and moving the story. I really liked this one.
#booksky
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.
November 21, 2024 at 8:12 AM
My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.
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With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.
But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.
But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.
February 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.
But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.
But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.
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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
February 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
I am sad because I love ACOTAR but I’m also relieved because I love ACOTAR.
Outlander (TV) is amazing but it is not the same as the book and I’m not prepared for that to happen to the Maasverse just yet. Let’s see how it goes with Fourth Wing.
Outlander (TV) is amazing but it is not the same as the book and I’m not prepared for that to happen to the Maasverse just yet. Let’s see how it goes with Fourth Wing.
Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVNews #Hulu #ACourtofThornsandRoses #Romance A Fan-Favorite Fantasy Romance Set for a Big Budget Hulu Series Is Officially Dead http://dlvr.it/TJ0R7z
February 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I am sad because I love ACOTAR but I’m also relieved because I love ACOTAR.
Outlander (TV) is amazing but it is not the same as the book and I’m not prepared for that to happen to the Maasverse just yet. Let’s see how it goes with Fourth Wing.
Outlander (TV) is amazing but it is not the same as the book and I’m not prepared for that to happen to the Maasverse just yet. Let’s see how it goes with Fourth Wing.