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MarleneStringer

@marlenestringer.bsky.social
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Literary Agent, pop culture follower, Opera lover, birder, early am beach walker, knitter, & my best work: Mom of four. Insta & Threads: @manuscriptadventures.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 22/07/2025
So...I wrote a release day blog post (finally) and uh, it might not be what you were expecting but I'm kind of Going Through It over here right now, so here goes nothing. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/getting...
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Getting Naked on Main: It Was Her House First — The Haunt*
I’m not gonna lie: I’ve been putting this off. It’s not like I didn’t know I had a book coming out today, and it’s not that I had better things to do with my time than tell you, the reading public, ab...
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Bookstores & Pets - a natural - www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/b...
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More Purring, More Buying? Why Bookstores Showcase Their Pets.
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We need new rules to make it easier/one-click to cancel subscriptions. Contact your Rep today. www.businessinsider.com/ftc-blocks-s...
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Click-to-cancel is canceled — and only a glimmer of hope remains for its revival
The FTC's rule to make canceling subscriptions as easy as they were to sign up was blocked just days before it was set to go into effect.
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Michelle McAdorey @michm.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"Now, music is free and you get the news that you want to see. The web is an echo chamber of your own prejudices, so you only hear the music that it thinks you like. It’s a silo of the self. So I don’t think music can survive being the spine of the culture as it was" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/a...
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40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
jfc. The far-right radicals in northern Idaho have now reached beyond ruining the Community Library Network (Kootenai County) and have made it so the entire consortium providing interlibrary loans + more decided to dissolve: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Regional library consortium members vote to dissolve Cooperative Information Network
Members of North Idaho’s interlibrary loan consortium have decided to dissolve the Cooperative Information Network that has shared materials with patrons across the region for more than 40 years.
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Michelle-in-NS @michelleinns.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
People are dying
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Corruption is the brand
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/06/2025
Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.
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A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400.
Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
On sale from Charlie Donlea - TWENTY YEARS LATER - www.amazon.com/dp/B091M75X6...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
They’re doing jobs Americans refuse to do and they’re being hunted ….
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Spotted in the garden in MD this am. Anyone know what sort of turtle/tortoise this is??
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ringlingtownhall.bsky.social @ringlingtownhall.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
📸: Robert Pope Photography
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...
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Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
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Nick Walden Poublon @nwpinpdx.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Billy Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A hill I’ll keep dying on: Whatever your politics, the fact that so many U.S. leaders do not understand basic constitutional law—or willfully distort it—reflects extremely poorly on our country.
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Kristin Kisska, Author 💙🧡💙 @kkmhoo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
@marlenestringer.bsky.social 🌺
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
What did Marjorie Taylor Greene know about the tariff announcements and what stock trades did she make? We need answers.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/04/2025
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We are literally being led by the dumbest people alive
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds district court order that the Trump administration "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was improperly sent to El Salvador. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
The application is granted in part and denied in part, subject to the direction of this order. Due to the administrative stay issued by THE CHIEF JUSTICE, the deadline imposed by the District Court has now passed. To that extent, the Government's emergency application is effectively granted in part and the deadline in the challenged order is no longer effective. The rest of the District Court's order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the Government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. The intended scope of the term "effectuate" in the District Court's order is, however, unclear, and may exceed the District Court's authority. The District Court should clarify its directive, with due regard for the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the Government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps. The order heretofore entered by THE CHIEF JUSTICE is vacated.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 07/04/2025
If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal-
vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a
2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal-
vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was
an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to
seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip-
lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ-
ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego
Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they
are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur-
ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador
will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such
detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor-
ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay
Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is
what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish
sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to-
night—is unprecedented and indefensible.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If you want to call your Senators or Congresspeople today & make your views known, here’s the number: (202) 224-3121
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
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Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Stocks Mark Worst Month in Years as Trump’s Tariffs Loom www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/b...
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Stocks Mark Worst Month in Years as Trump’s Tariffs Loom
Markets around the world have wavered as fear and uncertainty over tariffs and trade wars rattle investors. The S&P 500 just recorded its worst month since 2022, shedding 5.8 percent in March.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 27/03/2025
Pilot to Hegseth: "You’re going to kill somebody.” For the safety of our troops, Hegseth has got to go.
New York Times: Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots. Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/03/2025
Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat. “If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
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Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots
Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
More Tammys...Fewer polite Dems
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/03/2025
It's not just that just about everything I've ever published is in this particular database and used without my permission. It's that everything I've ever published was used without my permission to develop such a shitty, flawed and fundamentally useless tool. I deserve compensation for THAT itself.
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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Wow, the Atlantic looked at what Meta stole for AI training, and made a search tool where you can see what it sucked up via LibGen (a pirated data set of books). Let's check one thing real quick.... ok yup www.theatlantic.com/technology/a....
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happytimes503.bsky.social @happytimes503.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
#FYP #BreakingNews #Viral #TrendingNow #SaveOurForests #ProtectPublicLands #ClimateCrisis #TrumpExecutiveOrder #ActNow #StopDeforestation #EnvironmentalJustice#trump
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Chinese state media are celebrating President Donald Trump’s move to gut Voice of America..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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China expresses delight with many of Trump’s most radical moves
As Trump shutters Voice of America, officials in Beijing couldn’t be more pleased. Such reactions are surprisingly common lately.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 16/03/2025
If Vladimir Putin had a plan to foul our air and water, wreck public health and drive America over the cliff of irreversible lethal climate change, it would look exactly like Lee Zeldin’s plan. This is a plan for self-inflicted environmental disaster. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say
Former agency leaders, including two Republicans, say rollbacks by Lee Zeldin could cause ‘severe harms’
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
One of the best photos I have seen in response to “why don’t you wear a suit”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid
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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Perfection.
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
He’s been way too quiet.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/03/2025
The Environmental Protection Agency didn't provide details about what it wants to do with the regulations — whether it will try to weaken them or eliminate them entirely.
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EPA announces dozens of environmental regulations it plans to target
The Environmental Protection Agency didn't provide details about what it wants to do with the regulations — whether it will try to weaken them or eliminate them entirely.
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Ilene Goldman @ilenegold.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
BIG SAME
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Ilene Goldman @ilenegold.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hey, @duckworth.senate.gov. No one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t have voicemail. It takes you 6 weeks to read my emails. So: Vote no on cloture and the spending bill. Repeat: VOTE NO ON CLOTURE AND THE SPENDING BILL.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“Johns Hopkins has bet very heavily on a century and a quarter of partnership with the federal government. If the federal government decides it doesn’t want to know things anymore, that would be bad for Johns Hopkins and devastating for Maryland.”
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Is Elon Musk still the richest person on earth?
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MarleneStringer @marlenestringer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is what this country is about. We don’t have to like what someone says, but they have the right to say it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
August 4, 2024
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