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Joseph P. Garland

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JPGarlandAuthor Stories in the Gilded Age, modern NY, Austen variations. Erotic romances. He/him. Tuckahoe NY native. NY lawyer. My books: https://dermodyhouse.com/books/ (Dermody is my father's mom's first surname; the second was Campbell.)

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · Nov 22

By way of introduction, I write literary fiction. My books and stories are contemporary, set in the early Gilded Age in NYC, or Jane Austen Fan Fiction (JAFF). Most, except for the JAFF, are set in and around NYC.

You can sample them on my webpage. dermodyhouse.com/books/

Books

Contemporary Available widely in paperback and hardcover formats and exclusively in ebook, including on Kindle Unlimited, on Amazon. I Am Alex Locus is the story of a twenty-three-year-old woman wh…

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 2h

Were those PPD officers just standing there?

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 23h

So they're not really acting.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Not being shown at Westchester County Airport.

Ken Jenkins, the Westchester County, N.Y., executive and a Democrat, said in a statement that the video was “inappropriate, unacceptable and inconsistent with the values we expect from our nation’s top public officials.”

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I think it was for the best that I didn't get into The Yale Law School.

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 1d

I thought that was Ellis in "Die Hard."

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Wait. I'm supposed to get paid? No one told me.

And, yeah, Sean, I took the NYC subway last Friday. It was nice. At one point I was in a car on the 4 train. About 50 passengers. I was the only white guy. I♥️NY.

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 2d

But didn't Kavanagh say...?

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know. I signed up. I'm too white, too old, too male to be targeted by the Gestapo.

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 2d

@mikesacks.bsky.social @lohud.com Maybe someone should ask Mike Lawlor about this. And about Greg Abbott.

Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 3d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 3d

I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings Pelham, NY” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

No Kings Pelham, NY · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Father of the Bride and First Wives' Club are bad movies.

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, New York Cardinal Dolan favorably compared Charlie Kirk to St. Paul.

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 3d

What's with the local cop?

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Great expression on the PPD officer on the left.

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 4d

There are, or at least used to be, two signs on the Taconic State Parkway referring to "Trump Park." Local politicians have been trying for years to get them removed.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Is that 8.5 X 14 Paper?

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I think you did more of it in Book 2. I think it's hard to get a sense of space in Vegas given, as I've said, it's artificiality. But even though I've only been in Seattle for a few days, your references to specific place I know nothing about helps build and make real the "world" of the second book.

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 4d

I emailed the link. Let me know if it works.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Are the WH ballroom contractors getting paid? It is essential work, after all.

Joseph P. Garland @jpgarlandauthor.bsky.social · 4d

For anyone who wants a look into my day job, here's a recording of an oral argument I made today in a New York State Appellate Court in Brooklyn. My case is called at the 2:40:00 mark. cmi.nycourts.gov/vod/WowzaPla... @anelsonlmpotter.bsky.social @reporterenato.bsky.social

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 5d

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