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Cora Carmack
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NYT Bestselling author of New Adult romance and Fantasy romance. Awkward people need love too! #spoonie #pots https://www.coracarmack.com/landing-page/
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Author friends!!! Did you know I help other authors write blurbs (aka back cover copy) for their books?!

It’s a great outlet for my strategic and ideation strengths, and a fun little side hustle. If you need help for a new release or your backlist, hit me up!
I’ve cut way back on social media, and I feel so out of the loop on everything, but also my brain doesn’t feel like scrambled eggs. Soooo 🤷🏻‍♀️.

But added to my wishlist and will be filling my next open borrow! ❤️
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Survivors of Epstein’s abuse want lawmakers to release information about others involved in the convicted sex offender’s crimes. They said if Congress wouldn’t release a client list, the survivors would make their own
How have I missed this until now?! It sounds delightful!
Can confirm that this is TRUE! The KDP rep in question is one of my dearest friends! 👀 I happen to know that she did A LOT of work over the course of MONTHS behind the scenes to get them to agree to this.

She’s a legend. Someday she’ll be able to tell the full story, and it is GLORIOUS.
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Trying to explain that Chinese people do not want to buy Ford F-150s, but do want to pay a huge premium to consume higher education in the US. We are mostly a service economy, and Trump is trashing those services.
“There’s no American goods in foreign countries. And he’s trying to right that wrong.”
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This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule.

Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links.

www.wired.com/story/google...
‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
www.wired.com
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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.

Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.

He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
www.thetimes.com
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THIS. It was sickening. They essentially argued that any book representing LGBTQ+ people in a positive light (eg. getting married, having a nice day, being people who, you know, exist in the world) was coercing or indoctrinating children.
It was disturbing to be in court today.

As I wrote:

[I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.
SCOTUS conservatives seem eager to increase parents' religious rights in public schools
Tuesday's arguments over Montgomery County schools' story-time sessions included alarming questions about LGBTQ people.
www.lawdork.com
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ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February.

If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.

Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
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Hey chat, is this a violation of international humanitarian law?
SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me.

This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.
US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement
A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.
www.thehandbasket.co
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WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT NOT SENDING OUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?!!!!
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
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I’m going to be very blunt and say: do not send Atthis Arts any money or manuscripts. The four-alarm red-flag phrase here is “borrow … to pay due royalties.”

Let me explain for those who don’t already know roughly how money works in small presses.
Who is ready for the Murderbot adaptation?!
Did you see how they were handling it for ppl around you who didn’t have passports?
So you have to go to settings > moderation in the WEB version, not the app. They’ll let you modify most moderation settings in the app, but not sexual content for some reason.
I can’t see it! Boooo bluesky.
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This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.
Texas Republican Keithself storms out of the meeting he's supposed to be running because a Democrat asked him to treat his colleague Sarah McBride with respect. These people would not last one day as a trans person.
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This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.
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“ in four years you wont have to vote again”
So Trump is now saying that the Federal Election Commission, which was an independent regulatory agency, "must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President."
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they might play sports in philadelphia but they dont play games
JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
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they really thought they could stop theater kids by threatening them with negative attention
School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".

In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.

www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED
A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.
www.kqed.org