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I wrote and finished a Black YA SFF series! The Path to Dawn (the first book) is currently on sale for 0.99 til next Tues! www.amazon.com/Opal-Charm-P...

The Path to Dawn (Book 1) is on sale for $1 until next week! 🙌🏾 Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01C...

A new consultant contract at a Texas Educational Service Center would muzzle authors & harm students, barring them from inclusive experiences. Y'all, this is REALLY BAD. This is the next step in banning any voices outside those deemed right by white supremacy. bookriot.com/texas-esc-1-...

Happy #BHM ✊🏾

We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

Snag a copy of my completed Black YA SFF series! ✨ #booksky www.miricastor.com/books

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

we actually need to band together and let the dems know we will never donate another cent or vote for the party again if a single member of the party votes to give a single cent to ice ever again

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

Hey APub authors who have Amazon works on the rights list--this could give you a LOT more money out of the Anthropic settlement.

Happening now: a large group of mostly clergy — primarily local faith leaders, some not — are staging an anti-ICE protest at the Minneapolis airport.

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It’s crazy how it’s suddenly “wow we live in a police state” when it happens to white people

Winter Corona 6”x6” oil Available on my website.

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...

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

My 2026 planner finally came today 🥹

New year, same goal: Support and protect independent bookstores at all costs 🫡

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

"WHEELS & ROSES" PILOT OUT NOW!!! 🥹🌹✨🛼🔥 FULL PILOT SHORT ON YOUTUBE: youtu.be/EwWvmESDi8k?... OUR QUEER MAGICAL GIRLS ON SKATES ARE FINALLY HERE 🥹🌹🌹

MESSAGE (to the democrats)

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

When racists build the algo, the algo will be racist.

about 3 weeks late of my original goal 2nd draft of new novel is finished! huzzah!!

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

still think usaid is the biggest story of the year

Call your reps. Yes, even your Republican reps. Tell them to vote to extend ACA subsidies.

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

My goal for the end of the year is to finish the 2nd draft of my new novel so that I can spend the last week of the year catching up on all my games ✊🏾

The book I'm reading on libby is so good I want to buy it but it's a day after bookshop's cyber monday sales so I played myself this week 😭

1/2 I find myself having to make this point more often. The muddying of distinction between the bullshit engine and genuinely life-saving applications of ML / AI is intentional. It allows the people trying to sell you genAI to claim noble intent and dismiss legitimate concerns.

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New: Professor Detained En Route To Middle East Studies Conference Vahid Abedini was on his way to a Middle East Studies Association meeting when he was detained. He’s now in ICE custody. www.huffpost.com/entry/vahid-...

The CDC, now led by RFK Jr., has updated its website to promote a debunked theory on vaccines and autism. “DO NOT TRUST THIS AGENCY. This is a national embarrassment,” says ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-up...

Should go without saying but indie authors should check for their work and file too.

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

A mutation in the flu virus means this year’s flu season is expected to be a bad one, potentially even worse than last year’s record-breaking season. www.huffpost.com/entry/severe...

You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

20 days to wrap up this 2nd draft 💪🏾

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.