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Dana

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Mostly retired blogger, book lover, and appreciator of most things random and nerdy.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?
Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 22/09/2026
Not sure about phonebanking? Here's some actual footage from last weekends's Fated States session. We're doing it again this Saturday! Join us to call Texas for James Talarico & Gina Hinojosa. REGISTER: fatedmates.net/fatedstates
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
PHONE BANK WITH US TOMORROW!!!
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I can vouch for Archita, a fellow writer in Kolkata who's sick & struggling with costs to support her mother through cancer treatment. Chemo is degrading her mother's blood cells, & she urgently needs expensive transfusions, & might need them every time. Please share & donate, Archita's all alone:
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/09/2026
So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...) And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said.
Flyer for Think Write Edit Romance. Quote: “...she offers up here the sort of expert advice on the nuts and bolts of prose, from punctuation to grammar, that makes my copyeditorial heart sing. And if that weren't enough, she does it all engagingly and wittily.  I can't imagine a writer, of romance or of anything else, who won't find much that's invaluable in these pages.” --—Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer's English and former Random House copy chief. Out 15 Dec in print, e and audio
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AOC is propagating dangerous nonsense about MAHA: That it’s “not partisan,” driven by legitimate concerns. No. Stop it. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right, channeling vague grievances into a radical project. I spelled this out here:
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The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation
MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The cuts of meat covered by Trump’s proclamation aren’t fresh sirloins, rib eyes, and filets. They’re lean beef trimmings that will be added to fattier American cuts to make ground beef. They’re small chunks of frozen meat that could have been kept in cold storage overseas for years.“
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I've launched a new limited-run podcast. Liberating Lit brings to listeners the advocacy origin stories of the people who have been defending the right to read and championing literature, with the goal to inspire new advocates and refill the cups of those feeling depleted.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 08/09/2026
Vote as early as possible and, if you can, in person. Make this your mantra for the next few months. Don't shut up about it until the polls close. IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO BE PEDANTIC AND ANNOYING ABOUT VOTING, STAY IN LINE!!!
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Mariah Scary 👻 🎃 • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
Still raising $. Currently at $825/ $1500. More than halfway there, but still got a ways to go.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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A Vietnamese man was beaten on the tarmac in Fort Worth when he refused to get on the plane. Another man, who was shouting, “This is not right!” and “political things” during the flight, was knocked against his seat, dragged to the back of the plane, and put into the full-body straitjacket known as “the WRAP.” Guards stood over him and laughed. He doesn’t know when the man was let out of the WRAP, but he saw that he was back in his shackles by the time they got to Ghana. (All adult passengers on ICE flights are shackled and the ankles and wrists tied to a waist chain.)

Most of the guards were drinking alcohol from red and blue cups and laughing at the detainees. (Another passenger on the flight who did not want to be identified confirmed this.) If anyone stood up to use the lavatory, the guards swarmed them and shouted at them, “Get down now!” An older guard who was not drinking said this was going to be his last ICE flight, because he was going to quit.

The flight medic was repeatedly summoned to check on a man from Maryland, who had gotten a concussion a few days earlier when the driver of an ICE vehicle braked suddenly. The man kept passing out. He was shaking uncontrollably and saying his head hurt. The flight medic told him there wasn’t much he could do.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The promise: Robots will do your house cleaning. The reality: Robots will arrest you.
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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 26/08/2026
we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I wrote about this ****months***** ago, and no outlets paid attention. Frankly, very few people paid attention to that at all. Now outlets are doing this and I'm not getting a lick of credit, even though a simple Google pulls it out.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/08/2026
What in the absolute fuckery is this????
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/08/2026
It will never stop being amazing to me that we are in a time when (a) we are curing multiple kinds of cancer, (b) measles are returning, and (c) Billly Kristol wants to abolish ICE
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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Book bans are segregation Scooby snacks. They allow people with no political power to feel power over their neighbors. They allow conservative politicians to say they're 'successful' while they fail at every other meaningful government action. bookriot.com/utah-bans-pu...
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Utah Bans Its 37th Book From All Public Schools
PUSH by Sapphire, published 30 years ago, is the 37th book now banned in all public schools in the state of Utah.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Make illegal now thank you
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Is “Woke 1” in the room with us or is a convicted rapist the President, with a cabinet full of mediocre white people, institutionalizing racism across the federal government?
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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There is, actually, a pretty clear and obvious way to dismiss what Enes Kanter is doing, insofar as he’s not trans, has never given any indication he’s anything but a cisgender man, and is just doing this as a giant troll. There’s really no reason the WNBA has to say anything other than that.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The excesses of the left lead to performativity. The excesses of the right lead to death.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/08/2026
New in PN: Transgender athletes are a red herring "None of this discourse happened bc there is a new high-profile trans athlete in the news. Instead, Republicans are starting a culture war to rile up their base, co-opt Dems into agreeing with them, & push trans people out of public life altogether"
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Transgender athletes are a red herring
It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
One way you can help: Donate to or volunteer with the Young Center For Immigrant Children's Rights www.theyoungcenter.org Their big Waymaker fundraiser is coming up September 1, you can sign up (and join my team!) here: www.theyoungcenter.org/6th-annual-e...
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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights | Child Advocacy
The Young Center advocates for unaccompanied immigrant children in legal proceedings. Volunteer as a Child Advocate or donate to support our mission.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 15/08/2026
This is so true.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You can help Hammam's family survive Israel's genocidal siege by sharing & donating. They're homeless & sick with intestinal & skin diseases from destroyed sanitation & healthcare. His disabled brother Abood has a broken leg & urgently needs surgery, & his mother needs meds for asthma:
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Support for the Nurse and My Brother Abood
Hi! My name is Hammam Al-Shanti.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hay prices are up all over the place this year, help the Farm Sanctuary feed the herbivores?
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We Need To Talk About Kevin @kdreyfuss88.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This boils it down to its essence, right here. Anyone who says that the Charmin bears taking a knee for racial justice or some shit in 2020 was an outrage that demands societal restitution but says nothing about what the backlash has wrought is an unserious person to be safely ignored.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/08/2026
this is cartoon villain level shit but the first time an ICE agent reaches down to scratch his balls and tases himself is going to be incredible content
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Joe Hass @hassgocubs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Via @moryan.bsky.social via @runwithskizzers.bsky.social, a friendly reminder: JK Rowling is a transphobic bigot.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If These Books Are Banned in Prisons, Why Are They In The Schools? Book banners asking why books banned in prisons are allowed in public schools shows their whole hand. bookriot.com/school-priso...
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If These Books Are Banned in Prisons, Why Are They In The Schools?: Book Censorship News, August 7, 2026
Book banners asking why books banned in prisons are allowed in public schools shows their whole hand.
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Jess @jessicaesquire.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Don't brush this off as just happening in a southern state so it should be expected. This is happening in Durham, one of the bluest cities in the south.
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 06/08/2026
Shit like this is why I question the "we're losing the Iran war" rhetoric. Because, who's included in the "we"?
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meave (boo) @meave.nyc · 04/08/2026
you know mohamed's faith in God is undying, but without the ability to materially support his family; as occupation forces having isolated mawasi; as the threat of a concentration camp and forced transport—read: ethnic cleansing—grows closer; he's powerless. before it's too late bit.ly/help-mohamed
a rectangle with a yellow background. in the center, in a gradient green frame, a photograph of a large sunflower with a man’s arm extended, his hand turning its head toward the camera.
Title: A Sunflower for Hope.
Text: Join the #FriendsoftheSmallFarm and help Mohamed support his family of 13 in Mawasi camp. Become a Sustaining Friend —  make a recurring donation today!
bit.ly/help-mohamed
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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Man, I desperately miss picking up mass market paperback romances at the grocery store.
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Mouse, of the Tiny Chaos variety @tinychaosmouse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Well after an ambulance ride, an ER trip, and a medication overhaul, I am fully overwhelmed with medical bills. It's my birthday month so I'm asking for help to even make a dent in all of this. Anything helps. T-minus 18 days until birthday. ko-fi.com/tinychaosmou...
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Support TinyChaosMouse
Support TinyChaosMouse
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 03/08/2026
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A very hard read. Hegseth (and his allies and enablers) should never know a moment's peace for their vile bigotry.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
if americans couldn't eat a burger under a democratic president, you would not hear the end of of it for prob 100 years
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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Please protect your neighbors, because the fucking Feds don't mind orphaning & traumatizing children AT ALL.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I actually think the trillionaire saying his AI tool will remake a movie without the Black and trans actors in it should be a bigger story because it’s a perfect example of why the ruling class wants AI to succeed: so they can remake reality without those they deem undesirable - every nazi’s dream.
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is so grim. I hate everything about this.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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