The regime in the White House is making devastating cuts to the social safety to finance tax cuts for the super rich. And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years. Oligarchy.

💙📚🪐 Congratulations @taramoeller.bsky.social !!!

I won an Award! Like Second Skin, my science-fiction semi-dystopic military novel, won two third-place awards from The BookFest Fall 2025

Trump has canceled hundreds of millions in public health research grants since taking office — endangering pediatric cancer research. Now he wants to slash the National Cancer Institute's budget by 37%. How is this Making America Healthy Again?

I'm with Dan

This would explain a lot.

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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"ICE" does not exist in any way that resembles what it was in its former life. This warrantless....non-identification bullshit...is the extension of the most evil, lawless...heartless son of a bitch in the United States of America.

JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ

Trump is fighting for the average American by striking a deal with the UK that will reduce prices for Rolls Royces and Bentleys.

trumptariffstracker.com/products In case you want to track them…

So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?

Finished just over 2000 words in my sci-fi WIP today. It's been a while since I've felt able to write...and this feels so good. (Let's not dwell on the fact that it took me almost all day to put those 2000 words together.) #author #writing #💙🪐 #💙📚

1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally. I interviewed Hermosillo. He says the government is lying.

3 Technical Writing Resources from my Personal Shelf As a technical editor for 25 years, I've accumulated a lot of book resources. Here are 3 that I think would be great to have on your shelf (if you can find them). 1. Technical Editing : The Practical Guide for Editors and Writers by Judith A…

7 [personal] Rants about Editing 1. Editing is not proofreading (and vice versa). Editing and proofreading are two different, but related tasks, and have overlapping, but not identical, skill sets. Proofreading is the last task that should be completed before a piece of writing is typeset (or…

youtu.be/fNAzAowrURo?... I read an excerpt from Like Second Skin on DreamPunk Press' YouTube channel if anyone wants to go listen. I cringe listening to my voice; I hate how it sounds in playback. 📚🪐 📚💙

1 HUGE Reason Books are Political If you've followed Bookstagram or Booktok for a while, you have probably seen those older book influencer videos where they practically begged readers not to make books political. I (and many other readers and writers) did not take that stance then, and are even…

3 Quick Grammar Tips English grammar can be tricky. Here are three little tips to help make your writing clearer. 1. The possessive "s." The possessive "s" is pretty straightforward, you add an 's to the end of a word signifying ownership (you can do this for words ending in "s" now, too). Unless…

Vance is lying (again). Social Security has repeatedly debunked this. The actual claim is that 40 percent of direct deposit fraud occurred via calls to the agency. That is wholly different, and massively less, than 40 percent of calls being fraudulent. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Trump announces tariffs. 10% minimum. 20% for EU. 34% for China. Segments in Canada and Mexico face 25% or more. Expect everything to get a little more expensive and some things to become much more. Stocks sharply down in after market trading. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

This is the list of nations Trump is imposing tariffs on. Who isn’t listed? Wait for it. ….. ….. ….. Russia. #RadioFreeAmerica

“Outside economists have warned that tariffs could slow the global economy, raise the risk of recession, and increase living costs for the average American family by thousands of dollars.” "This is how you sabotage the world’s economic engine…” #RadioFreeAmerica www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Saturday. Everywhere. #RadioFreeAmerica

we're deciding, at scale, that laws do not apply to republicans during an election cycle

if you think this violates the law (and it very clearly does imo), you don't seek an injunction, you seek an indictment, given that the law makes it a class 1 felony. cowardice from the AG, cowardice from the courts, nobody wants the responsibility of actually enforcing the law. cowards all around

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

Yesterday (a poem) I wrote this on May 11, 2022. Might have been a bit depressed (probably forgot to take my meds.) Reality in pieces bite-sized seconds of minutes, of hours, days slurring into rain-washed pastels blurring into tie-died eddies along empty sidewalks of memory. Chalk drawings on…

Like Second Skin (a novel) This is a sci-fi novel that was published earlier this month (4 March 2025), and I forgot to post about it. Go me! Honestly, so much was happening that it's not a big surprise that I forgot. In 2114, the future is bright and the world is burning. Kaalinda is studying…

By “create a ruckus for us,” Secretary of State Rubio means “voice your personal opinion about your private university’s investments abroad” Land of the free, baby!

3 Important Questions for your Beta Reader Beta readers represent your target audience. They should be regular readers of the genre you are writing. They shouldn't be reading first drafts; they should be reading something that you have worked on and think is final, though before you get an editor.…

3 Reasons Word Sucks for Formatting (and how I’m dealing with it) I have been formatting documents in Word for at least 30 years, and I made it easy for myself by modifying Word's styles to format the way I need them to. I have different sets of styles in my own Word templates. Recently, I've…

Editing Services I will edit a lot of things: fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, short stories, creative nonfiction articles and essays, theses, and dissertations. With a 25+ year career as a technical copyeditor, in theory, I could copyedit technical documents. I have also been editing short and…

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

#books #ian1 #iartg #amwriting #writingcommunity

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

First set of five scifi short stories from @portfolimo.bsky.social set in a near future where all is not what it seems. Available for preorder now. Amazon, Bookshop, B&N, and DreamPunkPress.com. 📚💙 📚🪐

Less than a month until the release of Like Second Skin, a dystopic military scifi from @taramoeller.bsky.social .

Last weekend at Marscon 2025-signing at my publisher, @dreampunkpress.bsky.social table in the dealer's room. #Booksky #writingcommunity #books

I will be at the Writer's Round Up by Powhatan Public Library this Saturday, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. If you live in the #RVA area or anywhere in Virginia, come on by-it is free. Meet Virginia authors, check out their #books, and more. 2270 Mann Road Powhatan, VA.