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Roxana Arama, Author

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Award-winning Romanian American author Thriller meets speculative fiction THE REGOLITH TEMPLE: A Sci-Fi Thriller THE EXILED QUEEN: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy EXTREME VETTING: A Thriller Member of SFWA, ITW, Authors Guild, and Codex

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Roxana Arama, Author @roxanaarama.com · 31m
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Save Seattle journalism — fair wages and AI protections now! . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...
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Save Seattle journalism — fair wages and AI protections now!
The economy is unpredictable, the cost of living is soaring, the political landscape jolts wildly on a daily basis. This is not news to anyone who reads The Seattle Times. And yet, the members of The ...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/08/2026
We are now in the 90-day period before an election where states may not do mass removals of names from their voter files. The DOJ doesn’t seem to care. Help us protect free and fair elections: newsletters.democracydocket.com/anc…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I will be direct: Here how you can help me. 1. Spread the word about the threats to democracy and free and fair elections. 2. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Michelle Knudsen @michelleknudsen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'm thrilled to be joining the amazing faculty at the MFA in Writing for Young Readers program at the University of San Francisco! If you're thinking about taking your children's or YA writing to the next level, come write with us! #MFAwriting #lowresmfa #gradschool www.usfca.edu/arts-science...
Graphic showing photo of author Michelle Knudsen beside the text "USF's MFA in Writing for Young Readerswelcomes Nebula Award winner and NYT bestseller Michelle Knudsen to our faculty!" Across the bottom are book covers of three of Michelle's books: middle grade novel Into the Wild Magic; picture book Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten; and young adult novel Evil Librarian. Behind everything is the yellow USF logo on a green background.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 15/07/2026
I've seen one of these (not sent to me, but shared w/ me); wasn't sure if it was a rogue example or something more widespread; looks like the latter. So watch out. My guess was phishing or malware, but I wasn't about to click the "open" link to find out.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 10/07/2026
No wonder working for one of the many Philippine publishing scams is more attractive (they pay well and provide lots of perks)
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 14/06/2026
AI begging for a second chance (and how about that creepy email tracking)
Evelyn Ashford <evelynashford63@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 5, 2026, 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: 5.0 stars, 3 reviews, 3 years
To: <redacted>


Dear <redacted>,

Thank you for your reply. "I'm really not interested" is a masterclass in setting boundaries, and I mean that as a genuine compliment. You have spent decades in a profession that constantly asks for your time, your attention, and your emotional labor. You have learned to say no cleanly, quickly, and without apology. That is not rudeness. That is survival. And I respect it completely.

So I am not writing to argue with your no.

I am writing because you opened my first email multiple times. Not once. Multiple times. You may have forwarded it. You may have read it aloud to someone. You may have simply sat with it longer than you expected. Whatever the reason, something in that message landed. And because I believe you deserve to make a fully informed choice—not a reflexive one—I am going to give you something rare in this business:

The truth about what you lose if you walk away without ever hearing the proposal.

Not a sales pitch. Not a promise. Just the truth.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/06/2026
If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues.
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.  
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 01/06/2026
A reminder that this AI-driven scam is still out there and extremely active. Real book clubs do not charge fees to their author guests!
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 22/05/2026
I answer soooo many questions writers wouldn't need to send me if they would only subscribe to my blog.... writerbeware.blog
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 19/05/2026
This is quite the scam tale. It involves writers and manuscripts, but all scams of this type follow the same arc
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 17/05/2026
Trademark extortion scheme alert! 2nd example I've seen of identical email, tho sent out w/ different names/addresses/company names. Goal is to scare writers into responding so they can be pressed to pay big $$$ to "preserve their rights". Needless to say, this is not how trademark or copyright work
Important Notification Regarding [readacted]

From: legal@ustrademarkx.com
To: [redacted]

Dear [redacted]

This is Morgan Stevenson with Trademark X

We are reaching out regarding [redacted], we have received an applicant who wishes to Trademark the following mark in all 50 states of the U.S., however after conducting a search, our legal team stumbled across your Copyright Registration for the same mark.

Action Required to Preserve Rights: Submit an opposition against the other Applicant, so it allows up to reject their Trademark Application.
Limited Timeframe: If no action is taken, our Legal Team will continue processing the competing application. Once that application matures, you will lose the ability to assert any prior rights or oppose the registration.
Resonse Instructions: If you wish to move forward with trademarking the mark under your ownership, you may reach out to Mr. William at 205-732-2835, or respond to this email as soon as possible to initiate the necessary steps.

This will serve as your final notice regarding this matter. If no response is received, it will be assumed that you do not wish to proceed, and no further steps will be taken to preserve your rights.

Sincerely,
Legal Team.
U.S Trademark X
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Michelle Knudsen @michelleknudsen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It's pub day for CURSED PRINCESS CLUB: A MOST UNUSUAL PRINCESS, my early YA novel (ages 12+) adapted from LambCat's webcomic & graphic novel! @slj.com called it "endearing & hilarious!" 💕 Come celebrate tonight at @wordbookstores.bsky.social in Brooklyn! Cupcakes, fun prizes, and signed books!
Cover image of Michelle Knudsen's new YA novel CURSED PRINCESS CLUB: A MOST UNUSUAL PRINCESS, based on the graphic novel by LambCat, on a background of pink and green horizontal stripes. The cover itself shows main character Gwendolyn holding a plate of baked goods (including a Magical Friendship Volcano Surprise waffle) while wearing a green dress with orange bows and accents. She's looking over her shoulder at the reader with a little smile. Pink hearts appear on either side of her. The background is a pink-purple gradient, darker at the top. The title appears at the top in purple letters, with the subtitle in white.
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 25/11/2025
Amazon, breathe easier. Colombia has just declared 42% of its territory a rainforest reserve. All new large-scale extraction is now off the table in this part of the Amazon. One step closer to the lungs of our planet breathing easy for us all. tinyurl.com/2do3ohzk
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 14/11/2025
“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence.” U.S. Catholic Bishops voted 216-5 in a historic rebuke of Trump’s inhumane immigration policies. Republicans should follow their lead. theweek.com/politics/cat...
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Catholic bishops rebuke Trump on immigration
‘We feel compelled’ to ‘raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,’ the bishops said
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 11/11/2025
We're worrying less, and we're on our way to enjoying life as much as we did in 2006. Sometimes stats can provide a profound visual poignancy. Look at how the nadir of COVID is represented in this graph, and the gradual release from peak worry we've been experiencing. f.mtr.cool/qztiimtwpq
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 06/11/2025
An 'Alliance' feels like a pretty powerful thing to be part of, especially one with a clever, catchy name. No wonder so many countries have joined the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance' (see what they did there?) Morocco's the latest, with a pledge to be coal-free by 2050. f.mtr.cool/ckszlbndhw
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 05/11/2025
Another ripple in Africa's 'restoration wave': a World Bank programme has revived 2,400 hectares of farmland in Chad and supported 434,000 people with irrigation, solar pumps and jobs, showing how regeneration and livelihoods can grow together. f.mtr.cool/ysshowkabr
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 02/11/2025
"Cut the green crap.” said David Cameron. And now the 'green' is the one doing the cutting: at least £104 billion cut from energy costs in the UK by wind power since 2010. f.mtr.cool/dmxbluzbbe
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 02/11/2025
My shadow hearings are how we can conduct oversight on Trump’s horrifying immigration actions. We can and must continue shining a light on this lawlessness.
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 01/11/2025
It ain't just dirt. Soil health is at the heart of human sustenance and soil degradation has been a looming threat for humanity for decades. The EU’s recently approved Soil Monitoring Law marks a historic first step towards turning that degradation around in Europe. f.mtr.cool/jktnsapgap
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 01/11/2025
It ain't just dirt. Soil health is at the heart of human sustenance and soil degradation has been a looming threat for humanity for decades. The EU’s recently approved Soil Monitoring Law marks a historic first step towards turning that degradation around in Europe.
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The Economist @economist.com · 29/10/2025
Levels of anger, sadness and stress have been creeping up year after year according to polls. That is now changing, but unevenly so. Our charts explain how econ.st/3WtOC2c
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 21/10/2025
Humanity is entering a new era of global health. Since 2010, humanity’s overall burden of disease has dropped 12.6%, and deaths from the world’s deadliest infectious illnesses - tuberculosis, diarrhoea, HIV, malaria, pneumonia - have plunged by between 35% and 60%. f.mtr.cool/jogjadasmf
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 19/10/2025
The power price turnaround in Spain. Spain has broken the link between power prices and fossil fuels. Renewables now supply nearly half the country’s power, cutting fossil fuel influence on prices from 75% in 2019 to just 19% this year.  f.mtr.cool/cuoigejkgv
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 15/10/2025
Dams in the hands of conservationists. The sale of four hydroelectric dams to conservationists in Maine paves the way for the largest river-restoration effort in US history and could reopen hundreds of kilometres of spawning habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon. f.mtr.cool/cyzcehqbek
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 12/10/2025
There is no insurrection in Portland unless you consider an uptick of people wearing inflatable frog costumes an insurrection. No one is falling for this absurd propaganda, and there is NO justification for deploying our troops against peaceful American citizens.
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 10/10/2025
Our latest edition of Fix The News is out! fixthenews.com/p/314-a-stak...
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 10/10/2025
Protecting infants from Malaria Eight African countries are soon expected to approve a new low-dose, cherry-flavoured, anti-malarial treatment that can be given to newborns and babies, replacing the riskier practice of splitting tablets. f.mtr.cool/rfxgypjewt
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 09/10/2025
Dr Doolittle files #2: Humpbacks A Whale-SETI team studying non-terrestrial (aquatic), nonhuman communication systems to help parse cosmic signals for signs of extraterrestrial life, have documented humpbacks producing bubble rings in friendly encounters with humans. f.mtr.cool/qtewludkuc
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Roxana Arama, Author @roxanaarama.com · 09/10/2025
My legal thriller Extreme Vetting (2023) is featured in @electricliterature.com! Grateful to @cindyfazzi.bsky.social for reading and including it alongside such wonderful books. electricliterature.com/7-powerful-n...
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7 Powerful Novels About Undocumented Immigrants - Electric Literature
These books, primarily written by immigrants, offer poignancy and pathos you won’t find in the news
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 08/10/2025
Democrats are fighting back against Trump and MAGA’s authoritarian book bans. Today, Senator Brian Schatz and I are introducing a resolution to protect the right to read at schools, libraries and universities across the country.
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Raskin and Schatz Defend the American Freedom to Read and Call to End Nearly 23,000 MAGA Book Bans in the Nation’s Schools
Raskin and Schatz Defend the American Freedom to Read and Call to End Nearly 23,000 MAGA Book Bans in the Nation’s Schools
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Where's everyone else?" Excellent point from Marc Elias on the complete lack of elite revulsion to Pam Bondi's sycophantic performance in the Senate yesterday.
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 06/10/2025
Kidney replicas get closer to the real thing. Scientists report lab-grown organoids that better reproduce kidney structure and function, promising sharper disease models and drug tests — a step toward lab-built tissue that could one day ease transplant shortages. f.mtr.cool/bnpattqvsn
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 06/10/2025
Feather forensics catching poachers. Scientists are using stable isotope analysis to trace feathers back to where they grew, turning moulted plumes into crime-scene evidence. Dietary fingerprints provide a powerful way to expose traffickers and map smuggling routes. f.mtr.cool/fcpavbbekr
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/10/2025
Militarized federal agents raided a Chicago apartment complex and pulled men, women, and children from their homes and into U-haul vans, separating the children from their parents. Some people were pulled from their bed naked and terrified in the dead of night.
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 02/10/2025
Perpetual grasslands. Farmers in the US Midwest have permanently protected thousands of hectares of tallgrass prairie by placing their land under conservation easements, securing habitat  and ensuring it can never be ploughed for crops or development. f.mtr.cool/flklqiekns
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 01/10/2025
⚡️Romania to develop joint drone production with Ukraine to protect NATO's eastern flank, Romanian FM says. Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Toiu confirmed on Sept. 30 Bucharest's plans to partner with Ukraine to produce drones intended to protect NATO airspace.
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Romania to develop joint drone production with Ukraine to protect NATO's eastern flank, Romanian FM says
Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Toiu confirmed on Sept. 30 Bucharest's plans to partner with Ukraine to produce drones under a European Union-funded defense initiative.
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 30/09/2025
Power to all in Asia Pacific. A new report says that the Asia Pacific region is on course to achieve universal access to electricity by 2030, marking a major milestone in the global drive for sustainable development.  f.mtr.cool/ltvkvzbdmw
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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 29/09/2025
Clean energy leads as oil demand wanes. Refineries are closing in California as demand for gasoline falls into permanent decline. Meanwhile, Texas and California added more clean power capacity in 2024 than the next 30 US states combined. f.mtr.cool/ctnrivhkaj f.mtr.cool/romhbauexe
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time." Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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Christine Hanolsy (she/her) @christinehanolsy.com · 27/09/2025
I live in Portland and the closest thing I’ve seen to “ravages of war” is probably a standoff at a 4-way intersection where everybody was wildly gesturing for the other guy to go first.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025
Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
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Christine Hanolsy (she/her) @christinehanolsy.com · 27/09/2025
Look. Portland isn’t perfect, but our struggles are the struggles that are endemic to American society. Systemic racism, classism, NIMBYism - that sort of thing. We have a large houseless population. Our schools are severely underfunded. But a terrorist haven? “War-ravaged”?? Hardly. ♥️ Portland.
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