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Linda Jones

@lindajonesnyc.com

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Actor, writer, runner, reader, lover of cats and dogs. Award-winning audiobook narrator. I have fallen down in every borough. SAG-AFTRA, AEA

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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · Jul 25

Oh, was it some #ShirleyJackson you were looking for this fine summer day?

#audioboook #audiobooks #literaryfiction #horrorfiction #darkfiction Penguin Random House Audio

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

A map of the over 2,700 events planned across the US for No Kings Day on Saturday, October 18.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

Shoutout to @eva.computer for putting together a handy one click blocklist for the fashy US gov accounts

Let's give them the 'ol bluesky welcome and show them how the block button works over here

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 2d

ChatGPT is not doing the subway system too well.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12d

Dunno guys maybe states should stop paying federal taxes weird no one has come up with a plan for this obviously no one saw this coming it was impossible to predict

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 13d

Double release day, p. 2.

Detailed and unflinching, Stories of Struggle is a meticulously researched study of the Civil Rights movement in SC, written by award-winning journalist Claudia Smith Brinson. From @tantoraudio.bsky.social
www.audible.com/pd/Stories-o...

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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 13d

Double release day, p. 1! Stone Creek by Kate Brandes is both a taut, edge-of-your-seat thriller and a complicated coming-of-age novel brilliantly balancing lyricism, suspense and emotion. From @tantoraudio.bsky.social.

@audiofilemagazine.bsky.social

www.audible.com/pd/Stone-Cre...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 18d

Kavanaugh raids.

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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 18d

I have been here more than 20 years and I still take pics like I’m a tourist. I love it here.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 18d

Woot!! Congratulations to @leonardoaudio.bsky.social & @bostonvoiceguy.bsky.social on these two brand new anthologies!! I narrated the fabulous dystopian story, ‘Pure Wrath,’ by A.M. Adair in “Fighting Words”—can’t wait to listen to the others. So much talent here!!

www.audible.com/pd/B0FPGLSWY...

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The Saturday Morning Podcast 🎙️ @satmornpod.bsky.social · 19d

Janice Lester, in the body of James Kirk, has ordered the execution of those who don’t follow him. The crew know it’s wrong, but they have their orders. Can you imagine living in a world where a lunatic is in charge and normal people know he’s wrong?

Oh, wait.

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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 21d

How about, “In July, the Norwood FB page revealed,” “the AI wrote,” “it also said.”

Also reporting, “I’m feeling very real emotions right now,” should come with a huuuuuge caveat: LLMs don’t feel. They don’t have that capacity no matter how much we want to anthropomorphize them.

Report the facts.

Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 21d

Hey @variety.com:

Please stop reporting on this AI as if it’s a person—it isn’t.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

“In July, Norwood revealed…,” “Norwood wrote,” “She added.” There is no “she,” this is a digital construct, programmed to spit out predictive text: it says exactly what you would expect.

AI Actress Tilly Norwood Debuts at Zurich Summit as Industry Grapples With Emerging Tech: We Want Her ‘to Be the Next Scarlett Johansson’

AI actress Tilly Norwood has attracted the attention of multiple talent agents.

variety.com

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 21d

There's nothing scary about New York City's first horror-centric bookstore... unless you're terrified of a welcoming atmosphere and dark academia decor.

For a Spooky Good Time, Hit the Twisted Spine

New York City's only horror-themed bookstore is sweet as can be.

hellgatenyc.com

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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 21d

Jump start spooky season with this fabulously creepy novel from @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social! Free today from @crossroadpress.bsky.social. Go get it go!!

Nicholas Kaufmonster @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social · 22d

For a limited time only, @crossroadpress.bsky.social is giving away the audiobook of my bestselling novel THE HUNGRY EARTH, narrated by award-winning voice artist @lindajonesnyc.com! All you have to do is send an email to [email protected] and they'll send you a code for a free download!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 22d

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Tucker May
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My name is Tucker May. In April I married the love of my life, Barbara Marques. Right now I fear for her life.
A week and a half ago she was taken by ICE at our properly scheduled green card meeting at the Federal Building downtown. At the end of what we were told was a successful meeting, the officer used the excuse of a broken copier to trick her into walking away from our lawyer. Once separated from her legal counsel, she was arrested. The reason for her detention was a missed court date from 2019 which my wife was never notified about.
We have been working with lawyers since that time to correct the situation. The Adelanto detention center has actively been keeping my wife from correspondence with her lawyer by delaying in giving her documents that were mailed to the facility.
راال

Last night, she was taken from the Adelanto facility to an undisclosed destination despite our lawyer having filed a temporary restraining order to stop this from happening. They could be sending her anywhere in the world and we have no way of knowing.
I'm asking for help in bringing to the attention of media and authorities these multiple lapses in due process and proper procedure through the unwarranted deportation of a woman whose legal marriage has been duly recognized as legitimate by immigration through the 1130 petition process.
Please, if you have any contacts who could help, send them this information.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 22d

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 22d

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22d

Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23d

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

The Washington Post
WP Exclusive

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
The defense secretary is expected to lecture about the “warrior ethos” for less than an hour, according to multiple people familiar with the event. But top generals are bracing for possible firings or demotions.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 23d

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

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