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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/05/2025

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I do love the ~drama~ of Catholicism

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

$5000 to have a baby?! lmao have they looked at a hospital bill lately, I’d still be in the red

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Apologies for not answering your email right away, *gestures* ig: @ alisharaiwrites

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

idk guys I’m starting to think DEI policies weren’t the source of incompetent government officials

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Please watch Deli Boys on Hulu so we can squee about it together. It is SOOOOO funny, why am I rooting for criminals.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Ready to create a little fence around my baby’s head so strangers stop touching his hair 😩

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“Were you all really checking two bags on Southwest?” Were you NOT? Have you never experienced the pleasure of throwing all your toiletries in a bag without checking the size? The joy of walking to your gate with simply your computer on your back? You have not truly lived!

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I never liked daylight savings time, but after having a baby, I want to light it on fire

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I keep getting served weird trad wife content like this these days and I just want to make it VERY CLEAR that this is the actual propaganda. Babies aren’t inherently oppressive, but being forced into motherhood is. Bye.

Woman and baby with caption “Imavine how much propaganda it took to convince an entire generation of women this is oppressive”

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“Its not even her house she’s filming at!!!” Be SO fucking for real do you have any idea how much equipment and disruption filming requires? I know multiple people who rent whole ass apartments for their podcasts. And they are not Megan Sussex.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It has not even been two months.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

if we're going back to olden times in this country, i think that should include throwing tomatoes during speeches

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Sometimes I wish I had my kid when I was younger, but then he melts down because I peeled a banana wrong and I find myself wanting to laugh more than scream. Better emotional regulation is worth the occasionally creaky knees.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In the very cute animated baby Ariel show on Disney Jr, Triton and Ursula are siblings! Were they always brother and sister??? I had no idea.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If you need help consuming less, may I suggest the book and the show The Swedish Art of Death Cleaning? I still feel the itch to buy things every now and again but I am so at peace lately when it comes to stuff.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Canadians really don’t want to be a part of America and I know this because of how horrified they are when I tell them the cost of literally anything healthcare related over here.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I didn't change my last name when I got married, totally out of laziness, and now after a couple years I just don't see any reason to changing it? Like, I can socially go by my married name, I don't care if anyone calls me Mrs., but all my documents stay uniform.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Ugh I know we’re all anti dunking on people who reply foolish shit to you over here but lord do some men like to test that feature

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Equal parts amused at the HUD AI Trump/Musk video and nauseous that it went in my eyeballs

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

man everyone panicking about how romance has gotten too smutty these days clearly was not consuming during the lora leigh era and it shows

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

maybe we need to make more movies where nazis get punched

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In good news not going to Target anymore has definitely resulted in saving us a ton of money

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If you’re going to be staying at the Biltmore for RomantasyCon this weekend in LA, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the resident magician, Minkin. His show was my husband’s birthday gift! He’s very good.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

*whispers* it’s plausible that Trump calling himself a king is an attempt to distract from all the terrible stuff he is doing AND we should still pay attention because that’s the justification he’ll use to do even more terrible thingsssss bye

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My baby has a terrible hacking cough and cold and the only OTC drug you can give a kid this young is Tylenol/Motrin so all I can do is run steamy baths and watch him struggle. Please for the love of god keep you and your kids home when they are sick. 😷

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Already anticipating a buffoonish Trump number in the musical they make in a hundred years about America’s second revolution. Somehow still written by Lin Manuel Miranda

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Girding myself for four long years of white people demanding to know BUT WHERES KAMALA

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born OTD in 1964. Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program. Image: NASA

Astronaut Leland Melvin in his orange NASA astronaut jumpsuit, with his two dogs climbing all over him.

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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

One of my favorite conversations in the first season of Black Romance Has A History was with Ms. Bev. We tried to come up with questions we’d never heard her asked, and the end result is great! Happy b-day, @authormsbev.bsky.social ! We’re so glad you’re here. blackromancehistory.com/podcast/epis...

blackromancehistory.com

Episode 5- 1994 Debut Author Beverly Jenkins – Black Romance Has A History

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

is there a support group for people who gobble down each week's new severance like candy and then have to wait a full week for the next dose 😅

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Never thought I'd be pinning my hopes on Pfizer at al to fight HHS, but here we are

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Can’t get over this amazing review for the library

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My husband's been trying to find a new job for months now and on a completely selfish note I am stressssssed about what the huge influx of fired federal workers is going to mean for the private sector job market

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

There's a lot of "well when they lose their medicare/medicaid/SS/healthcare, they'll see!" which MAKES SENSE YES but the truth is that the majority of them will not, in fact, see, because by then Fox News and FB will have convinced them that Obama snuck in to the White House to delete their money

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Every time we see a Cybertruck monstrosity out and about my husband and I have both taken to uttering disgusted UGHs in unison and I am reminded again how important it is for couples to have shared hatreds.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This story is so fascinating to me, because conservatives really want art and music to be about them and for them (see also: the half time show pouting), but the problem is that many conservatives are also donuts who can't empathize and therefore cannot actually appreciate or create good art.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Applied for my baby's passport today, and if you've been putting it off, please know it's pretty quick and not too bad. And by not too bad, I include my kid throwing a tantrum because we ran out of applesauce pouches and smacking his head on the floor, and then having a tantrum re: the head smack.

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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

There were Black authors who wrote romance for Harlequin and Silhouette in the 80s and 90s, but they often had to write white stories in order to get published. Here are four examples: romancehistory.com/2024/02/10/w...

romancehistory.com

Writing in Black and White

While I like to use Black History Month as an opportunity to share stories of Black love, there’s another aspect of the romance industry that I think is worth highlighting to give context to …

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My god. It has not even been a month. 😮‍💨

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Buying my husband bell bottoms

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I do not care for football, but I do love snacks, and I grew up in Buffalo and love people who love the Bills, so I currently dislike the Chiefs, so I'm hoping the Eagles win. Anyway, here's what I'm making for tomorrow, Indianish nachos: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...

cooking.nytimes.com

Indian-ish Nachos With Cheddar, Black Beans and Chutney Recipe

These vegetarian nachos take their cues from paapdi or papri chaat, the spicy, tangy and sweet Indian snack of fried dough wafers piled with chickpeas, tomatoes, onions, yogurt and various chutneys Th...

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 08/02/2025

ICYMI: I built a starter pack of classic romances that goes all the way back to the 1950s. Selected to show the genre’s breadth, not simply to hit familiar highlights. It’s a lot of hidden gems, and I’ve probably left off at least one of your faves (gift link). #RomanceColumn #Romancelandia

nytimes.com

Classic Romance Novels: A Starter Pack (Gift Article)

These vintage books introduce the archetypes, settings and lavishly bonkers sensibility that are the hallmarks of great romance.

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I've spent three days agonizing over a plot point in my next book because I feared it's too unrealistic but. I mean. Is anything unrealistic any longer. WHAT IS REALITY REALLY

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

media is just like DOGE this and DOGE that when they should be qualifying it as “totally made up and unofficial entity DOGE”

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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Turns out the 25-year-old DOGE operative that got access to the Treasury Dept payment systems that manage 95% of all US govt payments, didn't just get "read only" access was previously claimed. He got "admin" access and has already made extensive changes to the code base

talkingpointsmemo.com

Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base

Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Remember in Trump v 1 how the gop was complaining because they couldn’t eat out without getting yelled at? More of that energy would be nice.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base

Overnight Wired reported that contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...

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Alisha Rai @alisharai.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“These republicans are NOT doing things legally so we will just keep conceding to them until they follow our example! 😇” - dem WhatsApp chat probably

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