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Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴‍☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Got pirates 🏴‍☠️? Last day to grab savings on my High Seas series at #Smashwords. Fill your ereader and enjoy award-winning historical romance! www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...

Cover of historical romance What the Parrot Saw (High Springs 4) by author Darlene Marshall.

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CNN @cnn.com · 26/07/2026

Katy Perry responded with strong words against the use of her hit 2010 song “Firework” by the White House in a video posted on X featuring declassified imagery of strikes against Iran. CNN's Betsy Klein reports.

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Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴‍☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Now is your best chance to find my entire ebook collection for 25% off during the Smashwords Annual Summer/Winter Sale! You can find all my on-sale books at www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #SWSale2026 #Smashwords #GotPirates #HistoricalRomance

Scattered covers of author Darlene Marshall's historical romances

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The 10th Amendment comes out of hiding again, does not see its shadow, and decides to stick around for a while.

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Danielle (TBQ) @thebookqueen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Friday Romance Deals (01/09): A hockey goalie wakes up married to a cellist, second chance with secret baby, forced proximity with childhood friends & more! 📚 www.tbqsbookpalace.com/2026/01/frid...

This is the daily book deals graphic, with all 5 of today's covers.

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CNN @cnn.com · 06/01/2026

The Trump administration is slashing $10 billion in funds for social services and child care in five Democratic-led states, a Health and Human Services official confirmed to CNN, with the agency suggesting without evidence that the funding has been used fraudulently. cnn.it/44ZeJTd

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NPR @npr.org · 06/01/2026

Abortions will remain legal in Wyoming. The state’s supreme court ruled Jan. 6 that two near-total abortion bans are unconstitutional. (via @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social)

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Wyoming Supreme Court protects abortion access

The state’s highest court ruled that two near-total state abortion bans violate the constitution.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

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Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴‍☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Heart of a Stranger: An Unlikely Rabbi’s Story of Faith, Identity, and Belonging, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl: www.facebook.com/100042941772...?

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#BookReview--Heart of a Stranger, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We can see from losses in recent school board elections around Texas and the number of local groups fighting censorship documented by @penamerica.bsky.social that Americans are tired of library censorship battles and are pushing back. What can you do? Join @uabookbans.bsky.social to start!

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CNN @cnn.com · 09/10/2025

More than two years after Hamas and its allies kidnapped 251 people from Israel and took them to Gaza, 47 hostages remain in the enclave, with at least 20 believed to be alive. cnn.it/4h36wST

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Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴‍☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

People of varied religions and communities came together a few years ago to sing for peace. One Day is now: youtu.be/XqvKDCP5-xE?...

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קולולם | חיפה | יום אחד - מתיסיהו One Day - Matisyahu

YouTube video by Koolulam

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Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴‍☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’m celebrating #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay with a @smashwords.bsky.social sale on SEA CHANGE (High Seas 1) with code SDXPW. Seize the booty and enjoy special savings! #booksky 🏴‍☠️

Barbie doll dressed as pirate captain with a copy of paperback historical romance SEA CHANGE (High Seas 1) by Darlene Marshall

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Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴‍☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Ahoy! Prepare for #ITLAPD with SEA CHANGE (High Seas 1) from my award-winning series, $1 through Friday at @smashwords.bsky.social with coupon code SDXPW. Fill your ereader with book booty! (Read The Pirate’s Secret Baby [High Seas 3] for more pirate 🏴‍☠️ life lessons.) #TalkLikeAPirate #booksky

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NPR @npr.org · 09/09/2025

In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."

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Spinal Tap is back. Director Rob Reiner says they're still dialed up to 11

In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2025

Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.

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Hurricane science has come far since Katrina. That progress is now at risk

Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2025

NEWS: Far-right MAGA network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 MILLION to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over 2020 election lies LINK: meidasnews.com/news/newsmax...

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A new breakthrough suggests that lithium could play a role in both causing and treating Alzheimer’s disease. However, this research is among the thousands of projects that lost funding due to President Trump’s cuts to the NIH.

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Lithium May Have A Role In Causing—And Treating—Alzheimer’s

This important breakthrough and other research projects have lost funding because of Trump’s cuts to the NIH.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

You can join PBS Passport for on demand streaming of the PBS library for a minimum of $5/month for PBS Passport, of $8/month for PBS and NPR. This is linked to my local station (WETA) but you can find your local at pbs.org give.weta.org/page/50762/a...

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WETA | Passport

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CfP 🚨 The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now accepting paper submissions for its Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman", focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism: 📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025 📄 Send 300-word abstracts ➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

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Special Issue Call for Papers | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

JPRS publishes special issues on a range of topics relating to the study of romantic love and its representations. These issues contain at least 3 articles on their shared topic, as well as an introdu...

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Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴‍☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

For $200,000,000 I’d rather have weather forecasters, air traffic controllers, and cancer research.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/07/2025

"It saddens me to see how the holiday has become so cheapened. It’s all about getting the best deals, and no one stops to think about the true reason for the season: absolutely destroying independent bookstores."

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Amazon Prime Day Has Become Too Commercialized

Amazon Prime Day used to mean something. When I was young, my family would joyfully celebrate the legacy of a mega-corporation that runs hundreds o...

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Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴‍☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It’s hot and it’s here, the #Smashwords #SWSale2025. All my books are 50% off so fill your ereader! www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...

Ad graphic for Smashwords July Summer/Winter sale, a beach on the left, snowy trees on the right.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/06/2025

ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer. I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.

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Warren, Markey call for probe into ‘escalating aggression’ by federal agents in immigration raids - The Boston Globe

The Massachusetts senators called for the investigation in a letter sent Wednesday to the US Department of Homeland Security.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/06/2025

Saying there are “too many non-working holidays” on Juneteenth is so on brand for a man who is actively trying to erase Black history. This from the same man who’s wasted over $26 million in taxpayer dollars and spent more than 30 days golfing since January 20, 2025? Please.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 19/06/2025

FDA approves powerful HIV drug that nearly eliminated spread in clinical trials www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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