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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We’re looking at generational damage—in the economy, arts, science, innovation, labor, manufacturing—from this admin’s immigration policies.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you don’t have a Native (if you’re in America) or Indigenous person at the table during your Climate Change conferences and panels and talkbacks— You’re not concerned about climate change. You’re concerned about capitalism surviving climate change.

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Uni-verse @alexa242.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“The Trump administration just moved to open 45 million acres of protected national forests to logging and construction.” Let’s put this into perspective. 45 million acres is: 1) Larger than the whole of England COMBINED 2) Larger than the whole of Greece COMBINED 3) THE SIZE OF OKLAHOMA, COMBINED

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's one month today until A Study in Sparkling comes out in North America (Aus/NZ, you already have it)! She's trying to put herself back together after a brutal divorce. He's the younger man who offers to help her in a very, ahem, particular way. I'm the author who would *love* you to preorder 💖

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/08/2026

He's just windmill dunking on Bezos

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Might I interest you in some Friday reading on @hrnews.bsky.social & the Marathi romance #CactusPears? www.popmatters.com/heated-rival... (N.B. I see the texts as expressions of queer love & desire but @popmatters.com chose other terminology in some cases). (Screenshots of select sections attached)

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Please comment!

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 01/08/2026

Behind bars, pads & tampons are scarce, and the ones sold at commissary cost a fortune. To make matters worse, menstruation is treated as misconduct: Bleeding through uniforms can lead to severe punishment.

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Bleeding Behind Bars Is Extra Grim When Prisons Fail to Offer Menstrual Products

Twenty-two states have laws requiring prisons to provide free menstrual products, but not all of them do.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Come and talk about romance with us in Spain in June 2027!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/07/2026

Some of the young demonstrators who forced India’s education minister to resign on Saturday describe their deep-seated anger, frustration and desires that drove them into the streets.

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Who Are the People Protesting in India?

Some of the young demonstrators who forced out the country’s education minister described their deep-seated anger, frustration and desires that drove them into the streets.

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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is genuinely moving

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

iPhone doesn’t do justice to the rust-coloured haze over Toronto, or the stench. I was fine in an N95. Birds were having a bona fide party in an utterly deserted Home Smith Park. Thinking about my impassioned speech in elementary school arguing for the swift implementation of the Kyoto accords.

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Cormorants in the river with sickly yellow tinge reflected

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026

I totally recommend getting a bunch of people to perform the pilot you wrote based on your novel and then getting a hat custom made based on one of the jokes in that novel. This Sunday 7/19! Live in LA and also via live streaming! Tix: calendar.dynastytypewriter.com/shows/no-not...

Me, wearing an extremely stylish custom Tactical Coffee hat

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I've posted recently about some of these individually, but here's my latest list of new items of scholarship about popular romance novels. Lots of dissertations/theses and the articles from the new issue of JPRS which weren't online first:

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Dissertations/Theses, a New Issue of JPRS and more!

Altamimi, Leena (2026). Desert Desires and the War on Terror: Pre- and Post-9/11 Sheikh RomancesPost-9/11 Sheikh Romances . Master of Arts...

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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I took this post down ages ago for reasons I won’t get into, but Gwen deserves better than that. Gwendolyn Johnson-Acsadi aka Gwynne Forster was an extraordinary woman who happened to also be a beloved romance author. romancehistory.com/2021/03/04/g...

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Gwynne Forster (1922-2015)

(Author’s note- this post had been sitting in drafts for far too long, for reasons. But Gwen’s story deserves better than that.) There are a countless number of romance authors who I wish I’d…

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Walked down two blocks in between doing laundry today because I heard this mural has been in my neighborhood for a few years @ny-knicks.bsky.social @jalenbrunson1.bsky.social In my defense, I didn’t know anything about basketball before last week 😅

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

New PhD thesis: Šmídová, Monika Markéta. Kissing for Dear Life in a Dead Land: English Folkloric Liminality in Queer Paranormal Historical Popular Romance.

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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 17/06/2026

Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...

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Open letter from NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to the Mayor re: public library budget

NYC Public Library Action Network is asking writers, authors, and scholars based in New York City’s five boroughs to sign on to an open letter to Mayor Mamdani asking him to fulfill the promise he mad...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/06/2026

Hey all! If you want to help out, here is how you can do it!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Remember, this is how they respond to peaceful protests. Remember that when they indict our people. They do this to us and call us violent. They did this to a crowd without warning, without a dispersal order even. This video didn't even capture the flash bangs they deployed first.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16/06/2026

After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 16/06/2026

Outside of the St Paul courthouse, protesters are fighting with agents. The feds are now charging 15 people with impeding immigration enforcement in Minneapolis- under the guise of "antifa". As an aside- in LA they have failed to obtain guilty verdicts in most cases brought against protesters.

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pistachiowork.bsky.social @pistachiowork.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Today is the last day to comment on the National Park Service website about what you think of Donald Trump's proposed Arch. Please take the time to share your opinion with them, and maybe repost so other people will comment too. The more the better. parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

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ParkPlanning - Triumphal Arch - Section 106 Assessment of Effect and Draft Programmatic Agreement

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I would love* to hear the reasoning why anyone thinks paying $91 for a thing you don't actually own, AND that expires after being used 26 times, is fair and reasonable. If this was YOUR money, would you pay that? *no I wouldn't. Because there is no reasoning.

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Shelf Love Podcast @shelflove.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

HEA discourse again? Groundbreaking. Every few months, someone discovers that romance novels end happily and mistakes genre convention for creative failure. Just because you don’t understand the system doesn’t mean the system is shallow. #romancebks shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/hea-discou...

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HEA Discourse Again? Groundbreaking.

This… “HEA”? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/06/2026

KNICKS IN FIVE! The New York Knicks rallied to win Game 5 in San Antonio, beating the Spurs 94-90 to win New York's first NBA championship since 1973. wapo.st/4uEvvBd

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

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Looking for a #RomanceResearch piece to read during this Pride Month? We've got you covered: Jessica Taylor analyzes E.M. Hull’s The Sheik (1919) through the lens of queer and trans studies in JPRS' article "Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik". Find the article: doi.org/10.70138/VBE...

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Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

Introduction [End Page 1] Near the end of E.M. Hull’s bestselling 1919 novel The Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan, an Arabian sheik who has abducted and raped the English Diana Mayo, lies delirious in his tent...

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Hands Off NYC @handsoffnyc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

TRUMP CANT KILL OUR VIBES KNICKS IN FIVE

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026

Wu-Tang cleansed the building. Thank goodness

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

People turned out! The verdict is that it was challenging (especially the music round) and fun. Excited to do more in the future, especially once season 2 of #HeatedRivalry is out @hrnews.bsky.social

Image of a dark-haired woman wearing a face mask and using a clicker while pointing at a screen that shows a slide with a screenshot from the show Heated Rivalry and "I'll set the scene and give you a block of text. You fill in the blanks"

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daily hudson williams @dailyhudwilliams.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

You gotta love libraries ❤️

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

ICYMI @hrnews.bsky.social #trivia this Sunday, June 7 for Queens Pride 2026, Queens public library

Flyer for event on Sunday June 7 at 1 pm at the Jackson heights public library

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I think it's worth noting that this was something many BIPoC communicators and activist in tech circles spoke up about and were pushed aside and is a repeating pattern in AI and automated systems. A System carries the biases of it's creator and can not be divorced of this.

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Music round, guess who’s wearing that round, and more! Come with friends—teams can be up to 4 people 🏳️‍🌈

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Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Time to test that #HeatedRivalry hockey romance IQ... Sunday, June 7 @1 pm, @queenspubliclibrary in #JacksonHeights for #QueensPride2026

Flyer for the event with a photo of actors from the show and of a dark-haired woman with a mic

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Of course, corruption is not exceptional or unheard of, but the normalization of corruption *as* governance, so that the two concepts become indistinguishable, is crucial to the fascist project. People have already begun to shrug off Trump's manipulation and extraction as par for the course.

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