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Marianne Leone will be at Belmont Books in Belmont, MA to discuss her new book, "Christina the Astonishing!" October 22 at 7PM @strega54.bsky.social belmontbooks.com/event/2025-1...

Join Marianne Leone at the Kingston Council on Aging as she discusses her hilarious new book, "Christina the Astonishing" on Oct. 7 at 6PM. @strega54.bsky.social

Today is the day! See @strega54.bsky.social discuss her hilarious new book “Christina the Astonishing” at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge tonight at 7pm portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

Looking forward to reading at Porter Square tomorrow night!

Today’s the day! At your local indie bookstore!

Join Marianne Leone and Newtonville Books at the West Newton Theater as they discuss the new book Christina the Astonishing @strega54.bsky.social @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social @westnewtoncinema.bsky.social #indielit #indiebookstore www.westnewtoncinema.com/movie/marian...

Congratulations to Marianne Leone for this shout out in Publishers Weekly! @strega54.bsky.social @publisherswkly.bsky.social

Thanks Akashic & Publisher’s Weekly!

Like her late Italian immigrant mother, @strega54.bsky.social‬ is imagining what could befall her if the US’s slide into authoritarianism continues. #ThisIsAmerica

T#@$p wanted his nephew Fred to "maybe just let (his child with cerebral palsy)die....so he is right up there with his idol Hitler, who instituted the T4 Eugenics program that killed disabled people first. This soulless creature heads our government.

My mother was born to non-citizen Italian immigrants. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

“Unless there’s another small miracle … I worry that my country’s administration won’t wake from this fever dream of hate.” — @strega54.bsky.social‬ #ThisIsAmerica ‪@cogwbur.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/HwIfyEm

Mother's Day is May 11th!

A true work of art....

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

HERE'S MY TATTOO marianneleonecooper.com/2025/03/26/h...

HERE’S MY TATTOO Today, March 25th, is World Cerebral Palsy Day. I sent this piece to the Boston Globe and dared them to print it (they won't). So here it is: Hey Donald (I won’t dignify you with the title you have desecrated forever): I hear you’re looking for people who might not be Americans…

I stand with Ukraine.

Hero Zelensky has to answer to this fat-faced, eyelinered little FUCK? He deserves the Nobel prize for not throat punching this little piece of shit.

Coming September 2, 2025 from Akashic Books!

FKING VALENTINE'S DAY! marianneleonecooper.com/2025/02/14/f...

FKING VALENTINE’S DAY! My husband and I lying in bed last night: Me: I feel battered by everything: February, the coup. The coup. February. We should get massages. Him: Yes! We have those gift cards from when we were in lockdown, still, right? Me (excited): Yes! I’ll book tomorrow. (after a…

important information here to help protect the rights of people with disabilities... dredf.org/protect-504/

Graphic Chapter from Ma Speaks Up! A few years ago when we were under lockdown, I spoke via zoom to Courtney Ruffner's class at Florida State College, where Courtney is the Department Chair of the Language and Literature Department. Courtney assigned my memoir, MA SPEAKS UP to her class and one of…

I think it may be time to share an essay I wrote during the first regime: www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

ACCURATE.

South Shore friends! #writingcommunity, #booksky, #writingandbooks

Watching Cabaret on TCM and just saw the scene with the young Nazi singing "Tomorrow Belongs To Me." Chills. Not in a good way, either.

This is the same d#$khead calling the LA fire chief a "DEI hire".

#booksky Boston friends:

RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Linda McMahon, and Kash Patel, explained.

Is it sinking in?

An excellent article about the importance of community news to a thriving democracy: localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/1...

Akashic Books is offering a 30% holiday discount on autographed copies of my book, FIVE DOG EPIPHANY. Akashic site offers a 25% discount, and at checkout use the Promo Code “Holiday30” for an additional 5% off. This promotion is only available via AkashicBooks.com

If you are in your indie bookstore doing Christmas shopping, please think about my memoir about rescue dogs/grief/mutual healing if you know someone who might need a book like this.

Nor is there a "mandate."

this is, I guess, my first cartoon of the new era www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

Well duh.

youtu.be/25AUCNZKEnY?... I have played this at least ten times....

My father, Jerry Leone, who fought fascists in WWII.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken

Jessica Valenti and these young women are helping to preserve what's left of my sanity....https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/the-fury-gap?r=1nkytz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web