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cristian josé lopez (he/him/his) @ihatepatriarchy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

That was the problem with men. They couldn’t just be nice. -Marcy Dermansky, “Hurricane Girl”

Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My friend @marcymccreary.bsky.social has put together a terrific auction to raise money for Alzheimers research and awareness in honor of her husband Lew. Signed books, author book club visits, and more. You can even bid on an editorial critique by me. www.32auctions.com/organization...

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First Fifty Pages Critique

Auction item 'First Fifty Pages Critique' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The big news today is that you can preorder a copy of the paperback edition of HOT AIR today and today only for 25% off at B&N. Because the real news is so awful and as @zoezolbrod.bsky.social wrote on my FB post: "One of my bright spots last year. So good. So diverting. So satisfying."

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Ready to oppose the National Book Ban Republicans are moving through the House of Representatives? Use 5 Calls to contact your Representative in the House. They'll find your rep for you and even have a script!

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Oppose Nationwide Book Ban Bill ⭑ 5 Calls

Rather than prosecuting people involved in child sex trafficking, House Republicans are trying to “Stop the Sexualization of Children” by turning the …

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is insane.

By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
Article linked below

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There are people who would like to bring back slavery. This WH tweet is for them.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I will be putting in notice Friday morning with DHS to return to Dilley to check on Liam again and the many other children and families there. Liam did not look well. My staff and I are very concerned about him.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening

On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The murder of Renee Nicole Good is horrifying. So is this. I would have seen no coverage of chemicals released in a school, chemicals released in a school, if not for this post.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations.

Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.”

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This is what I look for in a reader. Thanks, Donald!

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Let’s make sure everyone sees this for what it is: The president tearing down a historically significant edifice so he can build himself a ballroom while the American people face food insecurity and anonymous thugs kidnap people on the streets.

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Brattleboro Literary Festival @vtbookfest.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Tomorrow, Sunday, October 19th will be the final day of the #2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival! You won't want to miss it! Featuring authors like @paullisicky.bsky.social @tiyamiles.bsky.social @mdermansky.bsky.social @adacalhoun.bsky.social and more! The events are free and open to the public!

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

We love a funny single-sitting book

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

It is the end of summer, the end of summer reading. I love this shelf talker, as pictured at @bookpeople.com in Austin, Texas. I wanted to offer this public reminder that there are three more days to read HOT AIR this summer, but not to worry you can also read it in the fall.

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Spoonbills in the Bonnet Carré Spillway on May 16 in Norco. Shot by Julie Dermansky. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

We will be publishing cultural criticism every day at The Rumpus. We hope to fill some of this egregious void being created by the mainstream media. Relaunch is in October but we are also publishing between now and then.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Thank you.

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime. roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...

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South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display

The branch manager at the Pierce County Library was fired after displaying a trans-inclusive children's book in a public display.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 19/06/2025

On Juneteenth, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, culture, and the enduring strength of community across generations. We acknowledge our nation’s full history and the long, ongoing fight for freedom and justice for Black Americans.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

Text reading: I had to come down to Los Angeles for Work and ended up trying to help with the raid last night. As a Bernie usefully. Waited by the entrance for detainees
We were repeatedly denied access of any kind, and eventually LAPD force removed attorneys ice. Also tear gassed a baby under age two. Today they told us to come back at eight to see the clients, but they ever refused entry to us as well as politicians, including Jimmy, Gomez, and right now. They’re releasing some kind of gas, so the Attorneys can’t breathe

Text reading: Post it so everyone knows. When we were trying to chant their rights ice honked so no one could hear.

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The best of the best books are being banned, the ones that blew my teenaged mind wide open, like Elie Wiesel's and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I lay out why we can and must stop this atrocity in the House. The first step is to make sure they know we're watching. So everybody who can should call their reps today.

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Defend Medicaid from Republican Budget Cuts (UPDATED 5/8) ⭑ 5 Calls

Update May 8, 2025: A Congressional Budget Office analysis has concluded that various Republican approaches to cutting Medicaid funding to fund …

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Babies are starving. This couldn't be more clear.

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

ICE is now also terrorizing American citizens.

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Sarah Randall @cookcanread.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I read Hot Air by Dermansky and Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One by Arnett this week and please, author friends, keep giving us this type of smart-but-not-apocalyptic fiction.

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Here's an interview I did with Anna Dorn about Hot Air where I do a not so great job casting my film, talk about @amyshearn.bsky.social's Animal Instict and reveal details about my office where I sometimes write. www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

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Marcy Dermansky on Hot Air by Anna Dorn

Marcy Dermansky’s sixth novel, Hot Air, opens with a bang—or rather, a hot-air balloon crash. Writer and single mom Joannie is on a date with her neighbor Johnny when her childhood crush quite literal...

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I am funny when it comes to book tour. I dread it and then I head out, get a sesame bagel with creem cheese, good coffee, catch the train to Boston and I feel happy. Come see me & @laurazigman.bsky.social tonight @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge. www.portersquarebooks.com/event/marcy-...

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

So, you want funny? Here are three new books by women that made me laugh. Sucker Punch by @scaachi.bsky.social, Stop Me If You've Heard This One by @kristenarnett.bsky.social, and Hot Air by @mdermansky.bsky.social. www.islandbooks.com/book/9780593... www.islandbooks.com/book/9781250...

Sucker Punch, Stop Me If You've Heard This One, and Hot Air on display table at Island Books.

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