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The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs | Ed Asner, Ed. Weinberger

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This book was even better the second time around. It‘s a wonderful, funny, entertaining reminder to fight the good fight. I can only imagine what he‘d be saying now if he were still with us in 2025. This book would never be read or taken seriously by a conservative audience, but it absolutely should be. If nothing else, this is a prime example of why conservatives are so afraid of history and historians.

GingerAntics Original Review: This book is funny and entertaining, but also so very important. It addresses some of the hypocrisy of modern conservative thought regarding the constitution along with the actual history on the subject. This book is most assuredly not for a conservative audience. 1d

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The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs | Ed Asner, Ed. Weinberger

I enjoyed this one so much last time, I just need to read it again.
#EdAsner #TheGrouchyHistorian #ReadByTheAuthor

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The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans | Juilene Osborne-McKnight

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#JuileneOsborneMcKnight #TheStoryWeCarryInOurBones #ReadByTheAuthor #UnpopularOpinion #VERYUnpopularOpinion
Here goes nothing. Let‘s break some hearts!
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GingerAntics I should know better, by now, not to even bother with Irish-American versions of Irish history. These works are why I have never attempted my own manuscript of Irish history and never will. This is mostly mythology. She makes these claims that have little to no supporting evidence, but no footnotes or citations, so no way of checking her sources. This makes this book dubious as best and a racist at worst. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d

GingerAntics Unfortunately, we jump almost entirely from the mythological history to the famine - where she claims the English weren‘t as helpful as they could have been but Queen Victoria was great. I‘m going to need you to show your work on that, sweetie, because the math (and currently available sources) aren‘t mathing on that. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d

GingerAntics She claimed sectarian violence - namely The Troubles - was hundreds of years of violence, but fails to mention ALL of that violence stems from the English trying to capture Ireland as their own, while the Irish fought them off in favour of self governance (don‘t even get me started on her precious Catholic Church‘s role in that). Yeah, this was a uniquely Irish problem. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d

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GingerAntics One could definitely NOT ask India, Jamaica, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, the UAE, Malta, Kenya, Botswana, the Maldives, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Zambia, or any number of other former Colonies of the British empire about such things. This is Ireland‘s (and the Irish people‘s) failing. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d

GingerAntics Not having the Bible in public schools is a “modern tragedy?” Really? Gross. Someone is a good little minnow muncher. I went to catholic school too, and I don‘t see any need to force my beliefs on others. Please be a little more Irish and extend the same courtesy to others. Thanks. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 (edited) 6d

GingerAntics I‘m going to need to see some credentials and some citations, because the modern history of Ireland seems a little screwed, and none of my academic sources agree with her on many accounts. I‘m so glad she works at a Catholic college, but I am tremendously grateful I have never had to sit in one of her classes because I read more accurate accounts of Irish history in Middle School. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 6d

GingerAntics I can‘t imagine sitting through 13 weeks of this drivel with a grade on the line. FIN … or perhaps Le gach dea-ghuí would be more appropriate. 6d

GingerAntics I was once working on a paper in grad school where I found a scholarly paper claiming that the Irish people were now embracing Oliver Cromwell as a not so bad bloke… I had an Irish classmate who REALLY begged to differ and laughed at the paper because it was written by an English person and clearly had no clue what it was talking about. I thought of that paper when she talked about English aid during the famine. 🤣😂🤣 6d

Bookwomble Whoa! Sounds like an awful and biased account! Thanks for your review. 5d

GingerAntics @Bookwomble the bias is weird, too. Sometimes it is in the Irish people‘s favour, and other times it‘s in the English people‘s favour. It‘s really weird. 5d

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The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans | Juilene Osborne-McKnight

I‘m hoping this will be a nice pick me up to help me get my mind off of my total PTSD fueled day and that I get to essentially repeat it on Friday.
#JuileneOsborneMcKnight #TheStoryWeCarryInOurBones #ReadByTheAuthor

Texreader Good luck with the rest of your week! I can sympathize; I have a quite awful presentation tomorrow to a client‘s all-men board of directors about the conclusion of a sexual harassment investigation I completed. And it‘s got all the gory details. And I do recall this being an excellent book. I need to read it again, but not listen to it. 6d

GingerAntics @Texreader 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ oh my god, you definitely have a bad week ahead. Oof. I just have no words. I need a stiff drink just reading that description. You need a full on vacation and a mountain of books,.. oof hang in there. We‘re here for you if you need to scream or rage! 6d

GingerAntics @Texreader I know the solution to these situations is less men and more women, but just like they say if you need your doctor to take you seriously to take a man with you… I hope you have a guy on your side of the table. Even if he just sits next to you on his phone… maybe throw in a tisk or a head shake of disappointment every now and then to accentuate your points. Seriously, why are men so gross sometimes? I just don‘t get it. 6d

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Texreader @GingerAntics Today is over and fortunately the right decisions were made but this experience was horrible. Sadly the woman was more problematic than him. As the CEO he was responsible for her actions. She was a world-class manipulator and he fell for her and all her shenanigans. So I still have to clean up the mess they both have left behind. And I wanted to wish you best of luck on Friday. I sure hope you‘re doing ok. 5d

GingerAntics @Texreader oof, that is always hard! It so does not help other women who are not also shady in some way in these situations. I‘m glad they made the right decisions, though. Friday should be better than yesterday because I don‘t have to go to my old floor and the site of my PTSD! Fingers crossed. 5d

Texreader @GingerAntics yes 🤞🏻 And I agree, she is a perfect model for some men who think that‘s what all women are like. It‘s so sad. She called herself a princess in the workplace and she had everyone terrified of her. As secretary to the CEO she pretty much got her way for many years. And she felt protected from misconduct, even this time. They both think I‘m “on their side” because I‘ve been friends with them both but on Monday they‘ll find out. 😬 5d

GingerAntics 😳 Uh-Oh… wow. Okay. Monday it is. 5d

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The Brain | David Eagleman

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This is amazingly philosophical. It addresses the neurology behind in-groups and out-groups. It clearly lays out the ways perception is entirely inside of our brains, and even how by the time we are aware of any given moment, that moment has already passed. Eagleman takes a profoundly complex topic and makes it accessible to the masses to the point that it becomes entirely enjoyable.
#DavidEagleman #TheBrain #ReadByTheAuthor #science #philosophy

GingerAntics This could absolutely be a #DeadPhilosophersSociety read. 1w

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The Brain | David Eagleman

I don‘t know why, but I‘m feeling this tonight.
#DavidEagleman #TheBrain #ReadByTheAuthor

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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder | Reshma Saujani

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I spent over an hour on social media, avoiding this book. When I returned to it, I still just didn‘t care. I just wanted it to be over. Then I realised, I could make it be over right now. So, it‘s over. It‘s not for me. It might be for you. I don‘t know. Maybe it would be for me at a different time. That time is not now, though.
#ReshmaSaujani #BraveNotPerfect #ReadByTheAuthor

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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder | Reshma Saujani

Ugh, can we stop with this BS?! This is doing just as much damage, especially to girls, as the “grit” fad before it. It blames YOU if you fail, never the person teaching you or a source being unclear. You failed, it‘s on you. Try harder. 🙄 This is damaging to girls. It‘s damaging to minorities. Can we just stop this? It breaks my heart that a minority woman trying to encourage women and girls is perpetuating this absolute nonsense.

GingerAntics #ReshmaSaujani #BraveNotPerfect #ReadByTheAuthor #GrowthMindset #FixedMindset #EducationalFad #damaging #PleaseStop #ConservativeDrivel 2w

GingerAntics Never mind this is just another thing to be a perfectionist about. 🙄 2w

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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder | Reshma Saujani

I feel like it‘s time for this.
#ReshmaSaujani #BraveNotPerfect #ReadByTheAuthor

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Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History | Nellie Bowles

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This is a far too long, angry diatribe that is very disjoined and poorly organised. Some chapters are all over the place while others have a followable organisation. It is unclear what this author actually believes or is even raging against. It is frustrating to read. I wanted to take her seriously, but after the first few chapters, that was rendered impossible by the book itself, by her own words.
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GingerAntics Apparently even reading her book is a white supremacist act (words that appear in the book, supposedly said by someone else, but she never refutes them). From her own words, she was fired from the New York Times for speaking out publicly within the company about her bosses, and she‘s claiming this was political... maybe. Or she quit because she saw the writing on the wall about her firing? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 2w

GingerAntics Again, it‘s unclear. It is all so very unclear. If this is her standard writing style, I have a hunch about a contributing factor in her dismissal from the NYT. @TheBookHippie is 100% accurate in saying this book is unproductive. #NellieBowles #MorningAfterTheRevolution #WhatRevolution #WhatDidIJustRead #JustDont #audiobook #readbytheauthor #unproductive #exhausting (edited) 2w

kspenmoll This book sounds totally weird. Mixed up thinking?! Cloudy brain?! 2w

GingerAntics @kspenmoll honestly, she‘s angry. I‘m not sure there is much else to it. She lost or gave up her dream job, and she‘s pissed. 2w

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