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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

🥳🥳 TWO LEFT if you want to grab one!!

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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 02/07/2026

WE DID IT! We've raised $100,000 for voting rights, and it hasn't even been a full day. Thank you all so much--now let's see what we can do over the next four days!

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The text says: $100,000 raised for voting rights

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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 30/06/2026

Hello everyone! On the day before the auction, we're going to talk about WHY we do this, something that has particular salience on the day that final SCOTUS opinions are released and we once again have to try to remove the knives from our backs.

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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 03/06/2026

HERE WE GOOOOOOO! The donation form is open for 2026! Give us your arts & crafts, your signed books & special editions. We want your consultations and your expertise. Help us raise money for Vote Riders & The Southern Coalition for Social Justice! Submit by June 28th! form.romancingthevote.com

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Alt: A group of penguins running toward our donation form, because penguins also believe in voting rights.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/12/2025

The fact that we're letting a bunch of men who can't feel happiness or wonder or curiousity decide how everyone else has to live IS REALLY A PROBLEM!

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

So excited to follow my wonderful agent @jemiscoe.bsky.social on her new venture!

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/11/2025

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

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Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.

After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/11/2025

YES

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This is amazing news!

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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

More books from me! CALL OF THE DARKNESS is a paranormal romance out next fall! Thank you to @jemiscoe.bsky.social for her hard work!

A publisher marketplace deal report reads: Author of THE NIGHTMARE KEEPER Vienna James's CALL OF THE DARKNESS, a dark paranormal romance in which a deadly hex sweeps through Salem, killing its victims with plague-like fury, and an investigative reporter must join forces with the high witch's other grandson-a gifted potion maker haunted by his past-to uncover its source before it consumes them both, to Lauren Plude at Montlake, for publication in fall 2026, by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at Andrea Brown
Literary Agency (world).

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KUTV2News @kutv2news.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Clearfield coffee shop serves free breakfast after SNAP benefits stall in federal shutdown. kutv.com/news/local/c...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

E g. The food bank here in San Diego buys bulk quantities of rice for a fraction of supermarket costs and re-packages it themselves in consumer-sized packages for distribution. Your money there goes much, much further than an in-kind donation. (In kind donations and volunteering are still good tho!)

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Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Wait, are we heisting? I've got a book for that! www.amazon.com/Jewel-Me-Twi...

Book cover image: a white man wearing a suit leans against one side holding a diamond. A Black woman wearing a green gown leans against the other side holding a necklace. Between them, the title JEWEL ME TWICE by Charish Reid

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Jem is OPEN to queries @jemiscoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Morning, #DVPit creators! I am currently closed, but I will be participating and reading through your pitches. If I like your pitch AND you think we'll make a good fit, please send your sample using this link: querytracker.net/query/Jemisc.... Thank youuuuu!

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a cup of cappuccino with the words good morning written in the foam

Alt: a cup of cappuccino with the words good morning written in the foam

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 18/09/2025

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 11/08/2025

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

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Nadia Fisher @ariadelsole.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I’m SO excited to share the cover for AT THE COOKOUT, my author-illustrator debut, coming April 7, 2026! tinyurl.com/At-the-Cookout You can get a behind the scenes look at the cover process and more info about how this story came to be on my Substack (in thread). #kidlit #booksky 1/2

Cover illustration of AT THE COOKOUT, a picture book written and illustrated by Nadia Fisher. It shows a young Black girl in the center with her grandmother and some cousins in the background. There’s an uncle on the grill on the back patio.

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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Use code: PREORDERS25 to get 25% off ENCHANTED TO MEET YOU the US edition 🎢🏰🎠 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/enchanted-...

Cover of book Enchanted To Meet You with a couple sitting in chairs. Blue background with a Ferris wheel. Text: 25% off Barnes & Noble pre-order sales. Use code: preorders25

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Maybe the plagiarism machines use em-dashes because they stole copyrighted work from writers like me who freakin' love em-dashes and use them in all our books.

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

ENCHANTED TO MEET YOU is publishing in the US with Harper Teen ☺️🥳 so exited to share it with more readers @jemiscoe.bsky.social

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

Today's Supreme Court decision, though couched in the language of freedom and inclusivity, is a tragic failure for both the right to read and the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. Authors Against Book Bans stands firmly and fiercely against the decision and its rationale. To allow parents to "object" to the presence of positive books about the lives and rights of LGBTQIA+ people is to allow them to "object" to the existence of LGBTQIA+ students, parents, educators, and others in the wider community. You cannot “opt out” of reality, no matter what today’s majority opinion states. These books belong on shelves and these stories belong in classrooms and curricula.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.

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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 13/06/2025

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If that’s what they do to a US Senator with a question, imagine what they do to farm workers, day laborers, cooks, and the other nonviolent immigrants they are targeting in California and across the country. Or any American that dares to speak up. I will not stop fighting to demand accountability.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 22/05/2025

The reason you're having trouble concentrating if you are here in the US is because we're basically being chased around by serial killers and being asked to disregard the fact.

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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I am thrilled to announce my new book THE NIGHTMARE KEEPER. An adult dark paranormal romance set in an alternative Salem Massachusetts where magic and witches are commonplace, but some magics are still feared. 🌕🔮 Thanks to @jemiscoe.bsky.social My wonderful agent #paranormalromance #dealannouncment

A book deal announcement on a grey background with black trees, a silver moon, and black bats.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🎢🎅🏼COVER REVEAL🏰🎄 I’m so excited to share the cover of A KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS coming out November 6 2025 Louisa Cannell did such an incredible illustration. All the little details are so prefect and I can’t wait for readers to step back inside this world!

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Writing a novel right now feels like I'm doing it on the deck of the Titanic as a comet is headed to Earth and also I'm covered in fire ants. I'm sure it's fine. Just don't blame me if every fifth paragraph is something like WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS THIS HAPPENING IS ANYBODY EVEN READING THIS OH GOD

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"I'm here despite his speech. I'm here, because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." Booker says about beating Strom Thurmond's record

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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS coming Nov 6th 2025 from Penguin UK 🎢🎄 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It’s Pub Day!! 🥳💕🎢🎠🏰 ENCHANTED TO MEET YOU is out today in the UK. I’m so excited for readers to enter the world I had the best time creating. So, while this isn’t the end, it sure feels like a happily ever after. www.penguin.co.uk/books/461549...

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