🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

i hope you’re doing well. despite literally everything

i made a new ig account to take pretty aesthetic pictures, share some reading recs, and to bring the good fight to a new audience. if you want to be friends there too, my handle is @jemmamorganbooks

They’re so jealous you can write. They’re so jealous you can draw. They’re so jealous you can make music. They have all the money in the world, but they’ve been driven insane because they don’t have your joy.

Heading into NYC for a live shot, and this is the sign on one of the overpasses

The House subcommittee just PASSED my motion to subpoena the Epstein files. The DOJ must now release them to the Oversight Committee. The American people deserve transparency and accountability, and his victims deserve justice. The wealthy and powerful are not above the law.

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

Al Jazeera Media Network urgently calls upon the journalistic community, press freedom organisations, and relevant legal bodies to take decisive action to halt the forced starvation and crimes against journalists and media professionals in Gaza.

i don’t think we should be funding the “defense” of a belligerent terror state doing a live-streamed holocaust of children. especially when (as we saw w iran) military retaliation that penetrates israeli AA systems (that we fund) is the only thing that causes deterrence.

In new statement, Trump calls Jeffrey Epstein issue a “hoax” that “my PAST supporters have bought into…hook, line and sinker.”

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

AOC: They’re giving people crumbs and they are taking away the whole loaf.

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike “There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

Striving for intelligence in a society that wants to weaken the minds of its people.

A U.S. citizen who was arrested for filming an ICE raid at Home Depot is suing the federal government for $1 million— and I hope he gets every penny. THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.

tomorrow i start alternating days dirty fasting with the hope it will make me feel better in this v shitty time bc at this point i’m willing to try anything 🥲

The evil that men do lives after them

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Congress Passes Blank Bill For Trump To Write Whatever Law He Wants

just when you think writing the pitch is the hardest part of a novel—BAM—here comes the query letter

"What's your creative process like?" My process: Step 1: A new hyper-fixation bashes me over the head Step 2: Become utterly consumed with inspiration Step 3: It wears off after a few months Step 4: Oh nooooo, will I ever create again??? Step 5: Repeat steps 1 through 4

There will be Republicans who will die due to Medicaid cuts. There will be Democrats who die due to Medicaid cuts. There will be Greens who die due to Medicaid cuts. There will be Libertarians who die due to Medicaid cuts. AMERICANS will die due to Medicaid cuts.

After 26 hours of fighting on the Senate floor, Republicans voted to rip health care from millions of people and let little babies go hungry. And they cheered. I'm angry. You should be too. But this fight isn't over.

Don’t pay to get published. Don’t pay for book reviews. Real agents won’t charge you a cent. Real publishers don’t make you pay for anything. Don’t submit to markets that don’t pay.

while i believe kamala would also bomb iran, this isn’t abt winning an argument. i welcome every liberal or rep who joins anti war protests w open arms. every $ spent on weapons to kill children overseas, should be spent on our children’s education, food, healthcare & housing.

sometimes I think about how much money has been invested into AI companies and Facebook's version of Second Life instead of stuff like women's health or greater access to public transit in the US and I get really sad

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

the dhs response is so funny cus they’re not even disputing that it happened, they’re omitting the insane questions that were asked, & instead claiming that i wasn’t targeted for my political beliefs. why’d y’all ask me about trump, israel, houthis, hamas and my twitch bans then?

If we could not bring the "hey, author, I'm in your mentions, saying how I don't like your book" to Bluesky, that would be super great.

People who never read books now in charge of books.

Greg Abbott is pushing the “FURRIES Act” claiming schools are giving litter boxes to students who act like cats. But when I asked the bill author, he couldn’t name one school providing litter boxes to kids. This is all part of Abbott’s smear campaign against our public schools.

welp submitted for harlequin romance’s billionaire pitch day. i’m both excited and so nervous i could throw up

here’s a unique opportunity for all my fellow romance writers! www.writeforharlequin.com/harlequin-ro...

day 4 of wearing a heart monitor and i’m ready to yank it off and scratch myself against a tree like a bear

your email finds me deeply unwell. teetering on the edge really

oh cool a brand new catchy song oh cool a brand new catchy oh cool a brand new oh cool a brand oh cool a oh cool oh oh cool oh cool a oh cool a brand oh cool a brand new oh cool a brand new book oh cool a brand new book idea

introducing my current 🏴‍☠️ wip! ☆ reluctant allies to friends to lovers ☆ nonbinary mc ☆ lesbian relationship ☆ pirates ☆ royal corruption ☆ death magic for those who wished pirates of the caribbean had more violence & lesbians ✨️ #wip #writersky #authorsky

It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel. That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.

Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :

Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement

there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by since it crushed my soul that i don’t think of sunrise on the reaping

The Pink Hydra is fundraising so we can publish 3 more issues this year. Most of this money is for author compensation. Support the smallest of indie SFF freezines with a donation: ko-fi.com/thepinkhydra...

I'm a Clinical Social Worker. I've served folks thousands of low income and unhoused folks during my career and I can tell you this is the absolute truth.

track 5 rankings: 1. 💙 you’re on you’re own kid 2. 🩶 my tears ricochet 3. ❤️ all too well 4. 🖤 delicate 5. 💜 dear john 6. 💛 white horse 7. 🩵 all you had to do was stay 8. 🤎 tolerate it 9. 🤍 so long london 10. 🩷 the archer 11. 💚 cold as you

sometimes sunday mornings aren’t easy and i would like a refund

Honored to be featured alongside one of my favorite professors from @snhumfa.bsky.social in a recent article 🥹🫶 read here: www.snhu.edu/about-us/new...