Harvey Freedenberg

Booklover, meditator, golfer & @UMichLaw alum. #GoBlue I write for @BookPage, @Bookreporter, @ShelfAwareness, & @KirkusReviews & care about our democracy.

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

From @Bookreporter my review of CHECKMATE: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in #Chess: https://t.co/HO5QMdgIzy @GrandCentralPub

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

@jjabbott McCormick has made his vast fortune. His goal now is to stay in the Senate as long as he can. That requires appeasing the cult leader whenever he has to.

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

From @ShelfAwareness my review of Lee Kuhnle and Nathan Radke’s UNCOVER UP: How to Think Clearly in an Age of Conspiracies: https://t.co/5FkL00kcVf @ecwpress

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

@RajLakra The word isn’t even in their vocabulary.

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

@TheBookshopMan @TinderPress A wonderful novel. Here’s my review from @ShelfAwareness: https://t.co/gyy9HTWwNH

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

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.

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

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. https://t.co/HWWuDgSvbJ

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

Our president has lost all touch with reality. . .

[Eamon Javers @EamonJavers]

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.”

https://t.co/Erp6SKZ2Tx

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

Might be the dumBest statement ever made by a US president. . .

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

I think they do

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

With Ken Paxton, the corruption isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. . .

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

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.

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

@rlmgrandpa @Bookreporter @coynewriter @AvidReaderPress I live only about three hours from there. I’m thinking about taking a drive up in August.

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

From @Bookreporter my review of @coynewriter’s A COURSE CALLED HOME: Adventures of an Accidental #Golf Course Owner: https://t.co/7lvDRLGTk7 @AvidReaderPress

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

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: https://t.co/R7XZw1keLX

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

If you still are looking for a bottom to the corruption of this administration, stop looking. There isn’t one, and there never will be one.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is said to have opened an investigation into E. Jean Carroll, who had accused Donald Trump of rape. In her civil case against him, a jury had found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll. https://t.co/DW2BiHgkfM

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

Over the next five months, Republicans will spend hundreds of millions of $$ trying to persuade Americans that stopping trans athletes from playing HS sports is more critical to their well-being than the price of gas or groceries.

Maybe the biggest con in US political history.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

This is just so mindblowingly corrupt.

And there's something new like this almost every day.

The corruption is beyond staggering.

It's bottomless.

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

Looks like vandalism to me. Disgusting. But what would you expect from a narcissist with no taste or class and whose only value is self-aggrandizement?

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

OMG 💔

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

From @BookPage here’s my review of @matthaig1’s latest novel, THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN: https://t.co/WTswYNs2jt

[Harvey Freedenberg @HarvF]

Ken Paxton once pocketed a $1,000 Mont Blanc pen another lawyer left behind in a courthouse security line. He returned it to its rightful owner only after security footage revealed what had happened and the owner requested its return. There is no bottom to this man.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...