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Bianca Vandenbos @booknotions.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This was another fantastic Writing 101 Q&A this time with the New York Times Bestselling Author of Historical Fiction, @stephaniedray.bsky.social ! I had the pleasure of interviewing Stephanie in the past I'm so glad we were able to do this again! booknotions.substack.com/p/writing-10...

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Writing 101 A Day In The Life: Stephanie Dray

New York Times Bestselling Author of Historical Fiction Stephanie Dray, has returned for another wonderful edition of Writing 101 A Day In The Life...

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Sherri35 @lewislibrary4052.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Do you love historical fiction? This one was excellent.... 5 stars! #booksky @stephaniedray.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Q&A with Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie about their new novel, A FOUNDING MOTHER. deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2026/05/q-wi... @stephaniedray.bsky.social

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Old North @oldnorth1723.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

On Monday, join us for a free talk about America's founding mothers! @stephaniedray.bsky.social and Laura Kamoie, authors of "A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams", will talk about their research into women who participated in the American Revolution. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/founding-m...

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Text: Founding Mothers: Women of the Revolution with Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Once more watching this absolute classic and I will not rest until everybody does the same and acknowledges it.

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Kristy Cacciapaglia @kristyisreading.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Currently reading: The Women of Chateau Lafayette by @stephaniedray.bsky.social #booksky

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/10/2025

bad season approaches

Winter fans be like ah yes 3 PM and it’s a dark bleak winter landscape

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I love to hear this. Downey’s book is excellent

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Euronews @euronews.com · 10/09/2025

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said an operation is underway related to "multiple violations" of NATO member Poland's airspace, shutting four airports early Wednesday morning.

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Poland shoots down multiple drones over its airspace, PM Tusk says

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said an operation is underway related to "multiple violations" of NATO member Poland's airspace, shutting four airports early Wednesday morning.

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I just want to be able to find clothing that’s not polyester again.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/09/2025

Reminder that things are in fact worse quality for more money, that no, Elder Gen Z/millennials/gen x, you're not imagining it, nor should you accept it as "the way things are." Shirts I've had 30 fucking yrs are still wearable, but a shirt I've had 2 months & worn MAYBE twice is already unraveling

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/08/2025

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER
NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE
AUGUST 29, 2025
Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Not sure what I did to my algorithm or whatever but my feed is filled with so many immature dumbasses today I wish I had the time and the crayons to set them straight. But I don’t.

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a close up of a young woman covering her face with her hand .

ALT: a close up of a young woman covering her face with her hand .

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

ICE detains husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him at his naturalization hearing—he is already a green card holder.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

So much drama can be avoided if you adopt two sibling kittens at the same time.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Hey, did you know that the NLRB has operated in violation of the Constitution for 90 years? It's right there in this original Constitution we found in 2025.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Finally, a united nation.

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I am urging Marylanders to prepare for potential flash flooding and severe storms this afternoon. The greatest risk for impacts are along the I-95 corridor and upper Eastern Shore, but all counties, except Garrett and Allegany counties, are currently under a flood watch.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 29/07/2025

"If you don't do things perfectly there's no point in you having done them at all; in fact, it's worse than having done nothing" is one of those things that kill any and all progress, and it's wild to see it proliferate online.

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Vee @vee-sky.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I need more people in my orbit to be obsessed with The Gilded Age

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The Declaration of Independence asserts some rights are inalienable. That is, they cannot justly be transferred, revoked or taken away arbitrarily by any governmental authority. You have rights by virtue of being a human being. Anyone who says otherwise is Un-American.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

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Unrig Our Economy @unrigoureconomy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

90 years ago, America made a promise: that we could retire with dignity and wouldn't be left behind. That promise is Social Security. Now, it's under attack. Join us and @socialsecurityworks.org as we hold events across the country to protect what’s OURS. 📝 RSVP: ProtectOurChecks.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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ItsTheEnvironmentStupid @debmd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#booksky #reading #historicalnovels #summerreading I'm reading America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray & Laurie Kamoie- great read! Reminds me just how far we have come to create a "more perfect union"... and how is our turn to save it! #WomensRights #CivilRights @stephaniedray.bsky.social

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

My recompense for working all weekend is that I'm going to do it in pajamas. Also, I had a dream last night that we had to hire an electrician, and John Adams scolded me, saying electricity was an unnecessary expense, that he'd lived without it all his life, and that I need to be more frugal.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Is it too much to ask shoe manufacturers to show us their creations on an actual human foot? Don't ask me to imagine!

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS are a series of influential essays by 3 of my favorite Founding Fathers. People forget there were also ANTI-FEDERALIST PAPERS by other founding fathers. Just as important to understanding America. So don't come at me if you haven't read both.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Too few of us have appreciated the unique epoch in which we lived since the end of WWII.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Public Service Announcement: You can machine wash your Kizik Irvines. You shouldn’t but you can. Mine have survived two washes on gentle cycle. Air dry only.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Dear Readers Who Email Me: When people in colonial America protected themselves against smallpox by way of variolation, they called it inoculation. They didn't know the word variolation, so I don't use it in my books. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Whenever people pretend that human beings have fundamentally changed as a species, I remember that one of the oldest discovered writings is a Mesopotamian Yelp Review, bitching about bad customer service and poor quality copper ingots.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 01/07/2025

OPINION: Vladimir Putin is spending millions of dollars, bombarding European voters with manipulative social media and disinformation campaigns on a mass scale. It’s a new type of warfare on democracy that eliminates the need to roll tanks into capitals.

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Putin is invading more than Ukraine

The new battlefield is online, and the stakes are democratic sovereignty.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I am fostering some sickly baby kittens this week. The littlest, Bertie, is so malnourished that at seven weeks he weighs barely a pound. He also wheezes and whimpers in misery. But I am nursing him back to health and so grateful for his love and trust.

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Molly Lindner @life-in-drafts.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Reading ‘Becoming Madam Secretary’ by @stephaniedray.bsky.social Cannot for the life of me get over how much it reads like our current state of affairs. I keep exclaiming to random people and sending screen shots of passages just to say, ‘why can’t we learn from the past instead of reliving it??’

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

July 4th isn't about hot dogs. It's about the Declaration of Independence. Go ahead and read it. It's a whole mood.

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Elonwy of Llyr @redlotus4.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It's unbelievable I never heard of Frances Perkins until now when I picked up the historical fiction book Becoming Madame Secretary by @stephaniedray.bsky.social She was first woman cabinet member and created Social Security. Amazing woman! I need to know more so I am off to the library today.

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Stephanie Dray @stephaniedray.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you haven’t read the Declaration of Independence yet, you should. It will inform how you feel about the next week.

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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Seriously...Imagine Biden tweeting this and the reaction afterwards.

Trump on Truth Social: "ISRAEL is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home, while doing a friendly 'Plane Wave' to Iran. Nobody will be hurt, the Ceasefire is in effect! Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES"

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Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Today on the podcast, we’re talking about a man who spent time in the American Revolution and the French Revolution. No, not Lafayette. It’s Gouverneur Morris! Our guest @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social spills all the tea on this early American sex scandal. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...

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Sex Scandals of an American Founding Father

Listen to Sex Scandals of an American Founding Father from Vulgar History: Revolution wherever you get your podcasts!

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