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Lauren Royal

@laurenroyal.bsky.social

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NYT & USA Today bestselling historical romance author. I ♡ my family, kittens/cats, games, Oxford commas, Hamilton, and HGTV. Long Covid ✧ Crohn’s ✧ celiac ✧ gluten-free ✧ ADHD. ✡ She/her #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #LoveIsLove #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Lauren Royal @laurenroyal.bsky.social · Nov 15

Dear Romance Readers: I don’t list Bluesky on my website or anywhere else, and that’s because I’m unmasked here—and by that I don’t mean I’ve stopped wearing N95 masks in public. 😷 What I mean... (1/3)

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 5h

I recently read an article
the headline of which noted:
“Post-pandemic
COVID-19 linked with
high numbers
of workforce absences and exits,”
and though I know
the headline begins
with “post-pandemic”
it seems to me
that the rest of the headline
shows we are still in the pandemic.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 12h

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.

So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.

Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 22h

San Diego!

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Lauren Royal @laurenroyal.bsky.social · 17h

Me, too. Thanks for the reminder.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22h

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Gramophoneman @gramophoneman.bsky.social · 22h

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 18h

Hey Democratic leadership. Here is the message, and it's the ONLY message. Full stop.

Are you telling me we can spend
$40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump's Qatar jet, $250M on Trump's ballroom, $150M on
Trump's golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem's jets - but we can't spend a penny on lowering our healthcare premiums. Oh, hell no.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

A friend sent me a screenshot
of some old prediction
about how everyone
who got “the jab”
would be dead by now,
and though I am confident
(I am fairly confident)
that I am still alive,
were I actually dead
and in hell
I feel that would explain a lot
about the state of the world.

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Jillianne Hamilton 🦇 @jilly.ca · 1d

this season of The West Wing fkn sucks.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

GEORGE CARLIN WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Most of us who are covid conscious understand that widespread masking is not returning.

But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask.

Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask.

Cleaning the air should be an easy ask.

It’s time we adapt!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov · 2d

Trump wants an army that serves a King, but in America, in our democracy, our military does not police the people.

I urge the Supreme Court to reject the President’s latest bid to defy our constitutional norms and grab power he does not have. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Attorney General Bonta: Supreme Court Must Reject President Trump’s Unprecedented, Unconstitutional Use of Military Troops in American Communities

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. Illinois opposing the Trump Administration’s efforts to stay a lower court’s order tha...

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Lauren Royal @laurenroyal.bsky.social · 2d

This is beyond scary. And nearly everyone's heads are in the sand.

Michael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · 2d

Who needs horror movies when we have reality?

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Rising HAI Rates: The Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare

Explore the unsettling rise of healthcare-associated infections post-COVID, driven by immune dysfunction and chronic issues in our healthcare system.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.

And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

We Americans live in a country that doesn't even care about rape or pedophilia anymore, at least not when it comes to the most powerful people in the country

I am not over that, I cannot get over that, and I will never be able to get over that

How could one *ever* be proud of such a country again?

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 3d

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 3d

Not for nothing but also love it when the “you should just not go out in public” people then yell at you for spending your time advocating online. Okay. Where should I go then? Not out. Not online. Dead? Would dead be okay?

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 3d

I want a series of books with titles including words that don't rhyme but should.
The Discount Viscount
The Banished Danish
Naked and Baked By the Chef

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