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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The BPJ decision is morally reprehensible and legally wrong. EPC clearly covers trans girls and women as much as everyone else, and it’s shameful that the justices allowed their personal feelings to override a clear reading of the constitution.

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫 @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

𝑮𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑶𝑵𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝒙 𝑴𝑰𝑺𝑺 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑰𝑻𝒀 Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is perilous enough without her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Especially her. #WIPPIT #A #BOOKCLUB #MM #R

A WORKING TITLE by KALA PATEL
90K BOOKCLUB
Locations - London, Greece, France

THEY'RE ALL HIDING SOMETHING. SO IS SHE.
Tropes: Mistaken Identity, Deception, Fake-Dating, Murderous Ambition, Enemies-to- Lovers
Image of Mont St Michel. Woman in the foreground to the right of the image, looking over her shoulder.
Gold Starry shape with AGENT INTEREST written in the centre.

PITCH - Mistaken for her fashion model friend, a reporter plays along. But the story - a killer hiding their past - is dangerous enough w/o her falling for the infuriating man she's fake-dating. He has reason to hate reporters. Esp. her.
GLASS ONION x MISS CONGENIALITY

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Jenni - Fantasy Romance Author ✨️ @authorjbecker.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Wrong Move, Right Lie - A Romcom💞 When life gives you lemons…you enter a fake relationship 🤷‍♀️ 💘Meet-cute 💫Fake dating ❤️‍🔥Mutual pining 😻Adorable kitten ☀️Summer vibes ⏳Turning 30 and spiralling #WipPit #NA #F

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/04/2026

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

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Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Unbelievable any lawyer will stand up and tell the Supreme Court that the US constitution is not the Constitution. That the 14th amendment does not say what it says about birthright citizenship. A disgusting, infamous day.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Hegseth and Stephen Miller ridiculed "rules of engagement" and vowed this war won't be "politically correct." Now it looks like we may have bombed an elementary school. Hegseth/Miller's certainty that their version of "strength" would have support is imploding. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2074...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

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Dallas Rose 🌹 @dallasrosebooks.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Now #amquerying: LEARNING FOR YOU, the teaching/karaoke romance of my heart 💜 YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER When budget cuts threaten her district, new teacher Jules must compete with her annoying(ly handsome) rival to keep her dream job—and avoid falling for him. #QuestPit #A #R

Agent pitch guide title slide: LEARNING FOR YOU, Adult Contemporary Romance

Pitch blurb: Due to impending budget cuts, high school teacher Jules Clark's dream job is already in jeopardy before it's even started. With each department set to get rid of one new hire, Jules must compete with the annoying(ly handsome) former lawyer, Adrian Pierce, to keep her place. Where she finds herself in over her head, he seems to breeze through it all. He also pops up everywhere, from heated encounters in the copy room to a tension-filled work karaoke league, culminating in an assignment to collaborate on a joint teaching unit.
As they spend more time together, Jules finds she and Adrian have a lot in common...including a simmering attraction that becomes impossible to ignore.
With one job and two of them, Jules worries their growing chemistry can only lead to resentment. Though she lets Adrian in, old fears of not being good enough consume her as the deadline looms closer.
If she lets selt-doubt take over, Jules could lose everything-not only her career, but also the love that's right in front of her.

Tropes and Vibes:

Golden retriever love interest
Workplace rivals to lovers
Karaoke league shenanigans
Complicated family dynamics
Forced proximity/collaboration
Strong female friendship

With the academic setting and workplace rivalry seen in YOU BETWEEN THE LINES, ONE ON ONE, and THE MAKEUP TEST

Hazy yellow moodboard with images of teaching, karaoke, books, and rumpled bedsheets 😏

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Morgan is Querying @morgan-writes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A new RomCom for fans of FUNNY STORY and NEXT TO YOU. Featuring: 💙 Kira Larson as the newly single emotional wreck 💙 Xavier Herrera as her ex's broody neighbor 💙 Lots of shenanigans as the lines between casual hookups, friends, or maybe a bit more start to blur #Questpit #R #A #Q

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Rebeccah Sheridan @rsheridan92.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

THE SLOW BURN (80k words) She’s an event planner up for a promotion. He’s a firefighter and her dad is his chief. They’re planning the fire dept’s holiday gala and agree to a no-strings fling 👀🚒🎄 Small town Holiday romance Found family MMC in uniform Slow burn #amquerying #questpit #a #r #q

A moodboard for The Slow Burn, featuring side profiles of a man and woman individually and together, as well as atmospheric images including a Christmas tree farm, an event tablescape, a Christmas tree, and sparks from a fire.

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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Here’s some free advice from a Washington insider: behave yourself at that office happy hour. You never know what a Capitol Spill reporter might overhear… #questpit #Q #A #R

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Text: Out-of-Context quotes from A Boyfriend, If You Can Keep Him: a contemporary romance

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books
Text: Grant scoffs. “She was born at LA General, in a hospital sandwiched between a freeway and a McDonald’s! How much more American can you get?”
“A megachurch across the street?” I suggest.

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books
Text: “I’d want to die from something peaceful. Like when you’re really happy, and you sometimes think that if you were to die right there, that wouldn’t be so bad?”
Stacy takes a contemplative sip of soup. “Yeah. When was the last time you felt like that?”
My thoughts immediately jump to Grant, and I’m grateful Stacy can’t see the flush creeping up my neck. “Um, I don’t remember.”
Stacy laughs. “Yeah, I’d want to die during sex, too. It’d be inconvenient for my partner, but what would I care? I’d be dead.”

I’m disappointed when he starts walking in the same direction as me. “Aren’t you going back to your castle? Where’s your palanquin?”
“Damned palanquin thieves cut through my lock again.” Grant’s voice is dry, but his eyes spark behind his glasses.
“Serves you right for buying a cheap palanquin lock.”

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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM is what you’d get if Ali Hazelwood turned National Treasure 2 into a romance novel. ⚔️Smithsonian x Library of Congress feud 📜Secret alliance 💃Rivals-to-lovers 📚Hunt for Jefferson’s lost library 🧠Mental health rep #questpit #Q #A #R

Alt-text: Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM: A Contemporary Romance

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: After losing out on her dream job as a research librarian at the Library of Congress, Kathleen Gallagher is done chasing things. Not jobs, not boyfriends, not Beyoncé tickets. So when her meddling mentor lands her a consulting job hunting the missing volumes from the Library of Congress’s original collection, Kathleen takes the gig only to avoid disappointing him yet again. Never mind his hints that this might be her ticket out of self-imposed exile at a boring industry job in Chicago; Kathleen plans to work just hard enough to prove that the books are lost for good.

Across the National Mall at the Library of Congress’s archival arch-rival, Smithsonian historian Dr. Grant Ordoñez vows to find the missing books first. As the eldest son of a mixed-status immigrant family, Grant is used to playing catch-up. He’s confident he can outpace an entitled librarian who doesn’t even have a PhD and seems immune to the concept of actual work.

But when Grant’s interference forces Kathleen to actually do her job, banter between the stacks and late nights together at the National Archives lead to a romance better than the revenge Grant was chasing. Meanwhile, Kathleen confronts the life she could have had if she hadn’t given up on her dream job—and her growing feelings for the wry, loyal historian who shows her. With each book found bringing Kathleen’s contract in D.C. closer to an end, Kathleen must decide if leaving her comfortable exile for a second shot at her dream is worth risking another humiliating failure and whether opening her heart to Grant is worth the risk he could break it.

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: I’m halfway across the room when Grant speaks again. “Hey Kathleen, how tall are you?”
“Five foot six,” I say automatically. Then I stop and turn around. “Wait, why? How tall are you?”
“Five-eleven,” he says.
“If you were actually five-eleven, you’d round up to six feet,” I challenge.
“That’s small-minded of you.” He lowers his laptop screen. There’s a smile playing around his mouth. “I prefer to play the long game and round down to five-ten. Make the other five-elevens sweat a little.”
I laugh. “That’s surprisingly diabolical. And you still haven’t answered my question.”
Grant looks pointedly at the books in my arms and thumbs something into his phone. “I just want to be sure I’m giving the U.S. Marshals an accurate description of the midnight book thief.”
“Oh my god, it’s not even six o’clock in the evening.”
He peers around the desk hutch at me. “‘But wearing high heels, so… five foot nine?”

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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR x GREEN DOT SURFACE TENSION: The problem with studying intelligent women who make bad choices? You start to see yourself scribbled all over the syllabus. Jenny’s entanglement with her English professor isn’t fiction, but she’s starting to wish it was. #U #W #A #questpit

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Hope Engel 📚 @hopeengel.com · 31/01/2026

Emerson's tired of being single. But as he enters junior year of college, is he finally ready to bend his disciplined ways and do the work to overcome what's been holding him back from finding love? AT YOUR PACE is an 87,000 word new adult contemporary romance. #Q #R #NA #QuestPit

images of a classroom, latina young woman with brown curly hair and closed eyes, a baseball on a field, a bookshelf, a close up of a young white male with green eyes, a study group, a couple holding hands, a university brick building, and a neutral toned bed on an orange background, tropes listed include classmates to lovers, puerto rican FMC, college baseball player MMC, he falls first, and cozy autumn vibes

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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Here’s some free advice from a Washington insider: behave yourself at that office happy hour. You never know what a Capitol Spill reporter might overhear… #questpit #Q #A #R

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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

ALL FOURS x THE WEDDING PEOPLE THIS ENDS NOW: Lainey can orchestrate perfect days but can't stay put in a marriage, no matter how good the man. Only one way to quit bolting: face the cunning ex who taught her love is a disappearing trick—and who still has his hooks in her. #A #U #Q #WF #QuestPit

A collage of photos: row 1 (l-r): the interior of Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, showing a Gothic cathedral-like entrance; a classic red Vermont farmhouse in winter, covered in snow, nestled among bare trees; a woman silhouetted against a frosted window, while sunlight spills through the window; row 2 (l-r): two hands reaching for each other in low lighting against a black background; a dark-haired woman floating face upwards in water, surrounded by white flowers, her eyes open; Spilled glass candle with wax still aflame, flickering against a black backdrop; row 3 (l-r): Sunlight streaming through a quiet pine forest, illuminating a narrow dirt path; black and white photo of a person gripping the back of another person’s head from behind ; a man’s hand clasping a woman’s hand showing her wedding ring, with a snow-covered fir tree in the background; row 4 (l-r): three antique keys on twine; dark green leaves, covered in dew; the title of the novel, “This Ends Now” written on a scrap of spiral-bound lined notepaper.

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Spencer Barnardo | Author @spencerbarnardo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

FLEABAG x ROMANTIC COMEDY Hennie's in freefall when she inherits a London flat from the father she never knew - and gains a downstairs neighbor, Everett, who’s about to be caught in her chaos. Too bad they make questionable choices. Sex tends to complicate things. #Questpit #A #R #Q

WRITING HENNIE mood board: snapshots of different London locations over the Union Jack and New Jersey state flag

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#Editors THE THINGS WE RUN FOR ( #OnSubmission 2026!) Emma Bridge ran to find a safe home, but the town she picked is anything but. When she gets wrapped up in a cold case that threatens her siblings, who can she turn to while keeping her secrets safe? #QuestPit #YA #MY #R #AG #OS #OWN #LGBT

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Drama Mystery with Romance
94k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says Going on submission in 2026

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

MARK OF A MAGPIE is #OnSubmission! 🐦‍⬛📖 When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #YA #A #F #RF #OS #DIS #EditorsGuide #Editors

Editor's Guide To MARK OF A MAGPIE
Crossover Romantic Fantasy
118k Words

Text is on a piece of parchment. Behind the parchment are blue seas and gold flower outlines.

Blurb

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy…

Ryn is a small-town thief who has a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d be a fool to take up, but with her family scattered across the sea after the draft, a fool is what she’ll need to be to find them.

Five for Silver, Six for Gold…

Seven is set on his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. Once whispers of the past begin to resurface and nobles begin dying around them, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The castle is under lockdown, and all bets for the crown are placed on their capture.

Seven for a Secret, Never to Be Told.

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The Atmosphere:
There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand. Picture seven shows a bottle of alcohol. Picture eight has a medieval alleyway. And picture eight shows a ship's crew enjoying a sunset.

There is text below the collage that says: ON SUBMISSION NOW!
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media, contact information available on my website!

Behind the parchment, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA × BEST SERVED COLD × THE BUTCHER BOY When a Court Jester snaps and brutally murders the tyrant king, he must perform and slay his way out of a kingdom in chaos, hunted by loyalists, hailed by rebels, while his sanity slips and fractures. #QuestPit #A #F #DF #H #W

Book cover for "Mark of the Jester" by B. van Bodegom (author of Dad Bodies). Dark fantasy novel. Features a split jester mask in black and white halves with a red smile on the white half. 'The' runs vertically down the center, with decorative silhouettes of roses framing the mask. High-contrast graphic design in black, white, and red.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END When their detective friend is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #MY #Q

The image, made with free non-AI stock pictures, shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

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Darya is querying @aryazare.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A DEVOTION SO RUINOUS is a 90K adult fantasy following Soraya, a young woman tormented by a jinn, a dictator, and her first love, as she fights for freedom 🏳️‍🌈 LGBT characters 🧠 Mental Health Rep 🌍 Middle Eastern Setting ✨ Gods Based Magic System ❤️ Lovers To Enemies #️⃣ Own Voices #QuestPit #Q #F #A

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M S Dyliacco @msdyliacco.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

She sees love as a balance sheet. He gets paid to read romance novels out loud. Dating isn’t working for either of them, so what are best friends to do? Start a podcast to figure out what they’re doing wrong, of course. #questpit #W #A #R

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Samantha Lebans @samanthalebans.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

An #agentsguide to my contemporary romance, DEFINITELY NOT A BUCKET LIST featuring: 🚗Tension-filled road trip 💉Illness rep 🌄Coastal Canadian landscape ⛴️Boat ride in costume 📝(Not) a bucket list #questpit #Q #A #R

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

On January 8, 2026, petitioner Juan T.R. filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.' The Court issued an order requiring respondents to file an answer no later
than January 12, 2026. See 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (requiring judges to either "forthwith award
the writ" or order the respondent to show cause, within three days, why the writ should not be granted).

Respondents failed to answer. Accordingly, the Court granted the writ in part
and ordered respondents to afford Juan a bond hearing within seven days or, failing
that, to immediately release him from detention. ECF No. 4.
Respondents neither held a bond hearing within the required time nor released
Juan. ECF No. 6. The Court then issued a show-cause order and scheduled a hearing at
which it ordered the personal appearance of Todd Lyons, Acting Director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE"). ECF No. 7. The Court noted,
however, that if the parties filed a stipulation indicating that Juan had been released, the
Court would cancel the hearing and would not require Lyons to appear. Id. The parties
have now filed such a stipulation (ECF No. 9), and thus, as promised, the Court will
cancel the hearing, and Lyons will not be required to appear.
That does not end the Court's concerns, however. Attached to this order is an
appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of
ICE's noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined
to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by
extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that
should have appeared on this list were omitted.
This list should give pause to anyone —no matter his or her political
beliefs— who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in

January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. The
Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future
show-cause orders requiring the personal appearances of Lyons or other government
officials. ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this
Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are
overturned or vacated
Juan asks that the Court schedule a hearing at which he may present evidence
and argument concerning the hardships that he has suffered as a result of respondents'
failure to abide by the January 14 order. See In re Tetracycline Cases, 927 F.2d 411, 413
(8th Cir. 1991) ("Civil contempt sanctions may be imposed for either or both of two
distinct purposes, to coerce compliance with a court order, and to compensate the
complainant for actual losses sustained by him as a result of the defendants'
contumacy." (quoting In re Chase & Sanborn Corp., 872 F.2d 397, 400-01 (11th Cir.1989))).
The Court will not schedule a hearing at this time. If Juan wants to seek monetary
sanctions, he may file a properly supported motion to that effect.
ORDER
Based on the foregoing, and on all of the files, records, and proceedings herein,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the hearing currently scheduled for Friday, January
30, 2026, at 1:00 pm in Courtroom 15 (MPLS) is CANCELED.

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Here’s some free advice from a Washington insider: behave yourself at that office happy hour. You never know what a Capitol Spill reporter might overhear… #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #R

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Text: “Sometimes being a librarian is like trying to hold onto a fistful of sand. The more you try to convince people of the truth, the faster they slip through your fingers.”

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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM is what you’d get if Ali Hazelwood turned National Treasure 2 into a romance novel. #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #R ⚔️Smithsonian x Library of Congress feud 📜Secret alliance 💃Rivals-to-lovers 📚Hunt for Jefferson’s lost library 🧠Mental health rep

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: A BOYFRIEND, IF YOU CAN KEEP HIM: A Contemporary Romance

Background: shelves full of old-fashioned books.
Text: After losing out on her dream job at the Library of Congress, Kathleen “Sour Grapes” Gallagher is done chasing things. Not jobs, not boyfriends, not Beyoncé tickets. If it’s meant to be, it’ll happen, and if not, she never wanted it anyway. So when a disgraced movie mogul taps her for a vanity project tracking down missing volumes from the Library of Congress’s original collection, Kathleen only accepts the gig to appease her well-meaning mentor. Never mind his hints that this might be her chance to escape academic exile.
Across the National Mall at the Library of Congress’s archival arch-rival, Smithsonian historian Dr. Grant Ordoñez vows to get revenge on the Hollywood mogul who stalled his sister’s promising acting career by finding the missing books first. As the eldest son of a mixed-status immigrant family, Grant is used to playing catch-up, so he’s confident he can outpace an entitled librarian who doesn’t even have a PhD and seems immune to the concept of actual work.
But Grant finds out that Kathleen isn’t some lazy nepo baby when his interference forces Kathleen to actually do her job—and to confront what she gave up by leaving her dream behind. As they chase leads around the Beltway and back, their frigid rivalry turns into a love affair steamier than a summer in the nation’s capital. But with their feuding institutions breathing down their necks, Grant and Kathleen learn that finding what you’re looking for isn’t the same thing as getting to keep it.

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Claire MacLachlan @clairecommemoi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Here’s some free advice from a Washington insider: behave yourself at that office happy hour. You never know what a Capitol Spill reporter might overhear… #BluePit 📖 #Q #A #R

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✨Meagan Essary swears she's querying✨ @thecrumpet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

HELLO BEAUTIFUL x SANDWICH THIS ENDS NOW: Lainey can orchestrate perfect days but can't stay put in a marriage, no matter how good the man. Only one way to quit bolting: face the cunning ex who taught her love is a disappearing trick—and who still has his hooks in her. #A #UP #Q #WF #BluePit 📖

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Speaker Julie Menin @speakermenin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We are doing everything we can to secure the immediate release of our @council.nyc.gov employee, who was detained today by federal immigration officials at a routine appointment, despite following the rules. We demand his return.

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Katie Carlson is seeking new rep! @katiecarlsonwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

👫Two childhood best friends 💍One marriage pact IF WE'RE STILL SINGLE, a contemporary romance Querying soon! #BluePit📖 #W #A

a backlit image of two people kissing in the snow, with the words "An Agent's Guide to If We're Still Single, A contemporary romance by Katie Carlson"

The Pitch: When Fiona unexpectedly ends up celebrating her thirtieth birthday by moving back to the tiny Wisconsin hometown she always dreamed of escaping, the one bright spot is the chance to reconnect with her childhood best friend, Henry. After a drunken night of remember whens, they agree to fulfill the marriage pact they made at seventeen.
The pair sets out to rebuild the magical friendship of their youth, armed with a list of things the internet tells them all couples must do before they walk down the aisle: try each other’s hobbies, cook together, travel, even... (gulp) have sex. Soon, the feelings Fiona’s always had for Henry can no longer be ignored. But Fiona never intended her stay to be permanent, and she’ll have to figure out if she’s ready to redefine what--or who--home is to her.

Excerpt:
What I really want is to settle next to him on the roof outside his bedroom window, tall evergreens our only witnesses as I tell him every single thought I’ve had over the last year, every question I tried to answer on my own, every choice I tried to make, every worry, every tiny heartbreak that chipped away at me. There’s a pang of sadness that comes with the knowledge that we’ll never do that again, but still… the fact that he and I are sitting here together makes me feel lighter than I have in years.

I don’t say that though. Instead, I rest my hand on his and enjoy it when he rotates his wrist, twines his fingers with mine, and squeezes.

Comparable books: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Best friends to lovers, Burying feelings for years tropes), Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn (small town, Checking off a list tropes), and You, with a View by Jessica Joyce (grief and healing, self-discovery tropes)

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brittney is agented!🔮✨ @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

GOOD BOYS ONLY is a tender, funny slow burn where the dogs behave better than the exes, and the crackling chemistry is impossible to ignore 💚 🌿 confident plus-sized fmc 🐾 black cat x golden retriever 🌿 she’s his dog sitter 🐾 found family 🌿 facetimes & texts 🐾 tattooed MCs #BluePit📖 #Q #A #R

Green background with the text "He falls first. His dogs fall harder." Images of a plus-size woman, a tattooed man, and a golden retriever + corgi. Sample text from the book: The text is accompanied by the cutest picture of Pawvel and Crouton curled up on my be—no, not ‘my.’ Laying on the guest bed.

Owen: i think the boys like you more than me
Owen: they won’t leave your room
Owen: they miss their new mom

Fighting the upward curve of my lips is impossible.

Syd: Maybe if you were nicer? Fed them more snacks? They love me
because they get cute accessories and snuggles
Owen: maybe if you were here to snuggle it would be better? ;)
Syd: You want your dogs to humiliate you in person? They would definitely choose me
Owen: oh i think all three of us would choose you, no question

Text at the bottom: GOOD BOYS ONLY, adult plus-size romcom, dual POV

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brittney is agented!🔮✨ @brittneyjoan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

GOOD BOYS ONLY🐾🌿 A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever #BluePit📖 #Q #A #R

Good Boys Only cover page. Stock images of a plus-size white woman, and a plus-size white man with tattoos. Agent's Guide, 89,000 words, adult-plus-size rom-com. Images of polaroid pictures with stock images, including tattooed hand-holding, a Red Wings game, and a corgi + golden retriever. On a green background with Sydney and Owen repeated in a transparent deboss over the background

Good Boys Only pitch. Includes a stock image of a man with tattoos, and a plus-size woman. Emoticons of a pawprint and leaf. Split green background with sage green and light green. With this text: After her boyfriend of six years moves out, retail manager Sydney Bennett is barely hanging on—juggling long shifts and a side hustle dog-sitting to tide her over. When she meets Owen Sutton in the personal care aisle after a rant about two “demonic Pomeranians,” he’s instantly charmed—and in need of a sitter for his own, much better-behaved dogs.

What starts as a business arrangement turns into something gentler and deeper: a slow-burning romance between two people still healing from betrayal. But as Sydney faces losing her apartment and the past comes back to haunt Owen, they’ll have to decide if the safety they’ve found in each other is worth risking their hearts for.

Sample page and comp titles. Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings. You, With a View by Jessica Joyce. Curvy Girl Summer by Danielle Allen. Young & Hungry (TV Show). Text: “I hate to admit it, but you might be onto something,” I say with a small smile.
“A compliment? From the chef herself? Whew, I’m gonna need to sit down.” Owen beams at me, and it’s a blast of electricity straight to my heart. “But think about it—you can finally get out of retail hell. I can help you, too. With a business plan. I’m kinda good at that stuff.” His grin turns sheepish before he dips his pinky finger into the sauce, sneaking a taste.
My body processes the feeling before I do, and I lean closer to him, a newfound buoyancy floating across my limbs. “You’d do that for me?”
“I’m not sure when you’ll get it through your pretty head that I’d do anything for you, Syd. Literally anything you asked.” He steps toward me, body radiating heat like the oven, casting me in a warm glow.
His words have my stomach sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Tension circles the space between us, grasping the string and yanking us impossibly close. I scan across him, the art decorating his perfect form, and it’s suddenly a bucket list item to be part of his canvas. “Would you get a tattoo for me?”
Owen’s nostrils flare and he squeezes his fists, as if he can feel the sting of the needle inking me onto him. “What’d you have in mind?” he chokes out.
I crane my neck. He’s so close, eclipsing the steam from the pan surely teetering toward burnt. I can’t find it in me to care. “I think a sage leaf sprig would suffice, since you do love using my middle name.”
“I’m not opposed. Where would you want it? Somewhere hidden? Where you’d only see it if I let you? Maybe front and center for a daily reminder of you?” He shifts. Our chests brush. Breathing is an illusion, a magic trick. I’ve never drawn in a breath in my life.

Good Boys Only Tropes: black cat x golden retriever, stranger to lovers, she's his dog sitter, confident plus-sized FMC, facetimes & texts, found family, he falls first his dogs fall harder, set in Michigan, starting over at 30, when the spice hits... The Couple. Two images with Sydney Sage Bennett text over a plus-size woman, and Owen James Sutton over an image of a tattooed man. Text: 30, Aquarius | Retail Ops Manager Empathetic. Competitive. Amazing cook. Loves hockey. Sarcasm as a shield. Pilates girlie. Brunch is her love language. Poor spending habits. Younger sister. Sworn off relationships to focus on herself. 31, Cancer | National Events Manager. Patient and loyal. Flirty. Loves hockey. Bottles everything up. Former company co-founder. Amazing dog dad. Acts of service. Takes care of his elderly neighbor. Older brother. Prone to emotional spill-overs.

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Samantha Gwyn @sgwyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

As a new crew member of the World Cruise, Reese wants to see the world & find out who she is after a toxic relationship, NOT fall for the grumpy guitar player onboard. Who knew a life at sea meant tipsy tourists, swinger passengers, rocky seas & lots of crew drama?! #bluepit📖 #A #Q #R #WF

Map background featuring two polaroid images. The first is of a young woman on a cliff staring out at the sea. The photo is labeled “274 Nights by Samantha Gwyn”. The second, smaller photo, is of a group of young people standing on a mountain and overlooking a sunset, the woman has a hand in the air celebrating. The photo is labeled “A contemporary rom-com at 76,000 words”.

Map background featuring they following text: The Pitch As a new crew member of the World Cruise, Reese wants to see the world and find out who she is after escaping a toxic relationship, NOT fall for the grumpy guitar player onboard. Who knew a life onboard meant tipsy tourists, swinger passengers, rocky seas and ALL the crew drama?!

Map background. Labeled Comps & Tropes. Featuring book covers of The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang, People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry and Christa Comes Out of Her Shell by Abbi Waxman. Below it are Themes and Tropes: Reluctant co-workers to lovers A self-discovery journey Quirky side-characters Nicknames & banter Grump x sunshine Flirting with a K-pop star Exotic locations Series potential Dual POV Elements of suspense

Map background featuring the following text: The first few lines… Reese stared at the giant ship in front of her. Boat? Vessel? Whatever it was, it was huge. Her bulging suitcase and backpack sat at her feet as heat from the cement radiated up to her already warm face. Anxiety rolled through her as she stared at her new home and workplace. Thanks to the Miami humidity, sweat ran from her temples and she brushed it away with her fingertips while staring up at fifteen decks of the largest ship she had ever seen.

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Lilith Murphy || Writer @lilithwrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

PRETTY GIRLS x BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN x SHARP OBJECTS When Alex's sister goes missing, there is nobody in her small town she can trust. She must cut through lies, secrets, and her own paranoia if she wants to save the little that's left of her family. #BluePit📖 #A #H #W #LGBTQIA+ #DIS #WF #ND #OV

An agent’s guide to "Dissonance"
An adult psychological thriller (Work In Progress) by Lilith Murphy

Comps Include:

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
- Protective sister dynamic
- Prior trauma/haunted by the past
- Paranoia

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- Domestic thriller
- Complicated family dynamics
- Family secrets dragged into the open

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
- Imperfect victims
- FMC who isn’t believed by men

An arrow connects the following bullet point to both Pretty Girls and Bright Young Women:
- Beauty and its influence on the treatment of women

The Pitch

Three years after the death of their parents, former psych student Alex Doyle’s life is turned upside down by the kidnapping of her younger sister Charlie. Unsure of who to trust, Alex must unravel the secrets of their small hometown to find her before it’s too late.

Tropes:

Unreliable narrator
Unhinged women
Small Town/Insulated community
Secrets dragged to the surface
Past haunts the present

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