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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I had so much fun chatting with Jamey, the host of the One Drink Book Club! And the drink assigned to my novel Unlucky Mel was an Unlucky Martini, which only had two olives instead of three! It was a vodka martini to fit a particular scene later in the book! onedrinkbookclub.com/episode/one-...

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One Drink Book Club | Unlucky Mel by Aggeliki Pelekidis | One Drink Book Club

In this episode of the One Drink Book Club, Jamey discusses Unlucky Mel with author Aggeliki Pelekidis. The book follows Melody Hollings, a creative writing...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Absolutely loved seeing Unlucky Mel included in BU Magazine’s spring issue as part of the latest releases! But you’d think my alma mater might know that I also received my Ph.D there in 2012! #book #books

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I got a lot of death threats after I confronted Nancy Mace at a tech conference in DC and I guess it's nice to know that most of them were probably just from her and her bot army? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts boosting her, report claims

South Carolina congresswoman previously accused four men of sexual misconduct in committee hearing

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

My debut novel, Unlucky Mel, has won an IPPY Gold Medal for Best First Book, Fiction! Annually since 1996, Independent Publisher Book Awards selects books published by independent presses to receive a gold, silver, or bronze medal. Thanks to Cornell University Press for publishing my novel!

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Thrilled to be participating in the Distinguished Writers Series at @binghamtonu.bsky.social! Especially alongside such amazing writers! Looking forward to hearing them read from their works!

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

How do people with allergies do it? One day of being on an allergy med (b/c I’m stuffed up with a cold) and I will never do it again. My IQ dropped by at least 30 points. My body aged into the 100s. My mental health plummeted. Motivation to do anything like move, breath, exist became nil.

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sosuume.bsky.social @sosuume.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨 CALL YOUR REP TODAY. The cuts to Medicaid spell euthanasia to thousands of nursing home patients.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Why tax billionaires when we can ask grandma and grandpa to work until they drop? And let’s not pay workers fair wages throughout their careers so they can afford to retire. Let’s just keep concentrating wealth at the top.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’d read somewhere that dancing improves mood and realized I couldn’t remember the last time I danced. Maybe at a wedding a few years ago. But yesterday as I cleaned, I played an eclectic mix of music and moved! We’re talking hip hop, 90s pop, disco, and more. Did I feel better after? Sure did!

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Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. ✶✶✶✶ @tvayyyy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thanks, Gabino. THE EL is on its way. Preorder for an August arrival or NetGalley now. Happy #FridayReads! theodorevanalst.com

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Josh Hanson (Calliope Street/House on Blood St) @doomglossary.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Everyone should check out my Weird Western novella, THe Woodcutters. If you like historical horror, give it a shot.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing the comeback baby, the first barrio noir, the novel that gave me a career in France, the little book that could! www.amazon.com/Zero-Saints-... bookshop.org/p/books/zero...

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Excited to give @jamiattenberg.bsky.social #1000wordsofsummer a shot! I could use some extra focus as I work on rewriting this novel MS I’ve had kicking around for a while. Anyone else doing this?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

One of my favorite photos of our barn.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2025

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Local and Ithaca friends, if you’re looking for something to do tomorrow, I’ll be participating in a panel with several wonderful writers (Roohi Choudhry Jennifer Savran Kelly and K.E. Semmel). Details: Friday 5/9 from 5:30-6:20 at Buffalo Street Books! Hope to see some familiar faces there!

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thank you so much to Aphrodite Kotrotsios for this wonderful interview and giving me a chance to share Unlucky Mel with the readers of the Hellenic News! hellenicnews.com/empowering-w...

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Empowering Women Through Storytelling: Aggeliki Pelekidis' "Unlucky Mel"

Aggeliki Pelekidis is a Greek American author whose debut novel, Unlucky Mel, combines humor, heart, and a deep exploration of cultural identity

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Hear me out…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/04/2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

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Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office

The app facilitated communications in a building where cell service is poor and personal phones are not allowed in some areas.

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K.E. Semmel @kesemmel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'll be doing a number of readings/panels in May. First, up this panel at Ithaca's SpringWrites Festival, along with these fine writers: roohichoudhry.bsky.social, @aggeliki.bsky.social, @jsavrankelly.bsky.social. Free event at Buffalo Street Books, but registration at springwrites.org required.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Was afraid that all the garlic I planted last fall didn’t make it because of the brutal winter we had but here it is popping up! And to think these approximately 325 eventual heads of garlic came from last years harvest, which means they cost me nothing. Love how garlic perpetuates itself!

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Such a pleasure participating in the first Women’s Wellness Fair at the Broome County Library! The fair was created to help women prioritize their health and I was invited to share info on Unlucky Mel, which is about how women put the needs of others ahead of their creative & professional ambitions.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The older you get, the less nonchalant you can be about your health. Be very chalant, my middle-aged friends. Hüber-chalant.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I want you all to know the enormous discipline and restraint it’s taking me to sit inside at my desk, grade and revise a novel, when the weather is nice, the sky is blue, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and all I want is be outside working on projects and cleaning up the garden.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Not sure what pleases me more, the wonderful review of Unlucky Mel by a writer whose own novel I loved (Heading North by Holly Wendt is a terrific read) or the photo of my book next to their gorgeous grey cat!

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

My inner Yiayia, who survived the Nazi invasion of Greece, kept 3 of her 4 children alive during the Great Famine, was a farmer who passed along her skills to her daughter and granddaughter, is telling me to grow more seedlings, expand my garden, get more chickens. I’m listening, Yiayia Aggeliki!

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Dear Friends: if you’re in Cortland please consider coming to this event, which is open to everyone!

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

There’s a display cabinet across from my office on campus that holds books written by faculty. For years I’ve hoped to have a book of mine on the shelves. Unlucky Mel made that possible! It’s just proof that if you work at your dreams consistently and frequently they may just come true.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This Monday 2/24/25 at 6pm via Zoom I’ll be participating in a Binghamton University panel covering writing and publishing! All are invited just use the QR code to RSVP!

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

What’s ridiculous is how easy it is to avoid shopping at Amazon. Pet food = chewy. Books = so many other options. Beauty products = Ulta. Housewares = thrifting.

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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

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NASA to wipe mentions of women, Indigenous people from websites

NASA employees told to remove mentions of women, indigenous people, and environmental justice from websites.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I have emptied one of three email inboxes. How do I celebrate? Champagne? A trip to the Caribbean? Getting dual citizenship for Greece in case things go way south here?

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I debated about whether I should add some chickens to my aging flock of old ladies who are living their best retirement life in their fancy coop. What say you, Bluesky folks? Do I go for it and add some Black Copper Marans, Faverolles, and other varieties of chicks?

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This pattern that occurs where TFG says something outrageous or lies and then Dems have to explain why this is an issue constantly has us on the defensive. Why can’t we be more proactive and reverse the pattern? Where is the dem willing to spout nonsense about TFG and let repugs have to defend him?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2025

The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...

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Revisiting January 6th: The Truth in Motion (Videos Of Pardoned Criminals)

Uncovering the Lies, Confronting the Violence, and Standing Firm for Democracy

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Today I downloaded Goods Unite Us, which lets me know the political standing of companies I’m considering buying from so I can vote with my dollars. You can also submit companies that don’t appear on the app so they can be researched.

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Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’m going to try to do something everyday that’s a small act of rebellion against the current administration and its backward policies. These will pertain to my everyday life, particularly how I spend my $. I hope they add up to something significant brick by brick. And I welcome others to join me.

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