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Mary Clark @maryaclark.bsky.social · 1d
Find your gift for the #holidays at the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale! www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #EOYSale25 #booksky #indiebooks
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NEW: Senate Republicans plan vote on a health care alternative as ACA funds look likely to expire

Democrats will force a vote Thursday on a 3-year extension of ACA money.

Thune endorses Crapo-Cassidy bill as the GOP alternative. Here's what it will and won't do.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Senate Republicans plan vote on a health care alternative as ACA funds look likely to expire
The Senate will vote this week on a GOP bill to put money in health savings accounts, as well as a Democratic bill to extend the expiring ACA subsidies. Both are expected to fail.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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We have a broken healthcare system that must be fixed, but the solution in the short-term isn't to deny people the ACA tax credits that they rely on.

We must extend the subsidies so people aren't kicked off their healthcare next month, *and* we need Medicare for All.
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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This week, the Senate will vote on Democrats' clean, three-year extension of the ACA tax credits.

Republicans have a choice: stop health insurance premiums from skyrocketing or abandon their constituents.
December 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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My novelette "Diary of an Indoor Cat" is available in eBook or soft cover/printed copy formats in your favorite bookstore! Great gift idea for #catpeople 🤘😺🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛
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For you #kittylovers out there - can’t wait for you to meet Chucky! 😻
#booksky #humor #smallbusinesssaturday
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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My Book, Diary of an Indoor Cat is part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale!
Get it ow at 50% off, woot! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... - Follow @smashwords for more promos like this! #EOYsale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks #booksky #kittylovers
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Look at my pretty new book 😍

#Indie #Romance #BlackAuthors #RomanceBook #BookCover #WriteSky #WriterCommunity #BookSky #IndieBooks #BookCommunity
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Holiday sales are here! Smashwords is having a big book sale and several of my books are 50% off. If you want to get a new story, try one of mine out.

💲sale
📚books
👬gay fiction
📖reading
🏷️50% off
🌈queer books
🏳️‍🌈diverse books

#diversebooksky #readersky #indiebooks

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M.D. Neu
M.D. Neu is a LGBTQA Fiction Writer with a love for writing and travel. Living in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California) and growing up around technology, he's always been fascinated with ...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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New Release! 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
“The Impoverished Orphan,” a sweet #PrideAndPrejudice #RegencyRomance with a touch of #CozyMystery!
mybook.to/TIO On #KindleUnlimited!
An unsolved murder & a beloved horse complicate Darcy’s life!
#JaneAusten
#HistoricalRomance
#MrDarcy
#IndieBooks
#BookSky
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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My ebooks are part of the @smashwords.bsky.social 2025 End of year sale. www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #WritingCommunity #authors #indieauthors #WolfPackAuthors #books #bookboost #Booksky #readersky #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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currently 50% off on smashwords! 🌈📚 #booksky #romancelandia #QueerAdultSFF #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks
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vriccithode.bsky.social Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · Jul 14
if you like the ace romance and humour of someone you can build a nest in by john wiswell, the messy-queers-fighting-for-justice vibes of the kingston cycle by CL polk, and the worldbuilding of sky on fire by jenn lyons then you’re gonna love the dragon next door 🌈📚 #booksky
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A trope card with cover art featuring two women and a dragon in the centre surrounded by white text on a blue night sky background that reads: friends to lovers*, *they’re ace, found family, loveable rogue, big magic, secret baby**, **she’s a dragon, sword lesbian (she’s bi), queernormative. Art by @leeshahannigan
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I’m thrilled to take part in a holiday-themed event with CHRISTMAS AT SOLACE LAKE! N. N. Light’s Book Heaven’s Christmas and Holiday Book Festival has your ho-ho-ho holiday reading covered: https://substack.com/@nnlightsbookheaven/p-180518371 #holidays #books #giveaway #smalltownromance #Booksky
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I'm thrilled to share my review of 🌟The Cameo Keeper🌟 by @deborahswift.bsky.social.

If you enjoy Renaissance fiction in sumptuous settings, full of political intrigues and dangers, then have a look!

ruinsandreading.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
#HistoricalFiction #Renaissance #BlogTour #BookSky
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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My Book THE HAUNTED PURSE is part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale! Check it out here: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
or browse all the books at www.smashwords.com/sale.
#EOYsale25 #ebook #sale #ebooksale #books2read #indiebooks #bookstagram
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I'm my own guest today on #windowholidays I hope I'm a good one. :-) Thank you for coming by to say hello. #windowoverthesink #booksky #romancelandia #romancegems #blackfriday www.lizflaherty.net/post/twas-th...
'Twas the Month Before Christmas
My guest today was unable to blog, so I'm sneaking in a surprise guest--me. It's an old one (another surprise, right?) but I hope you'll like it. The picture is of my girls and me on Black Friday a fe...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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My collection of ebooks is available as part of the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale! Find your next favorite book this month at smashwords.com/sale and follow smashwords for more promos like this! #romancegems #romancelandia #booksky #TTPPublishing #EOYSale25 #ebook #sale #books2read #indiebooks
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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9. Countries visited through the books in 2025 💙📚👀🌶️📚🎧🪐📚💡

I'm sure there were more, but here's some of the ones I really enjoyed (‾◡◝)
Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, China, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, United States
- The Kamogawa Food Detectives, by Hisashi Kashiwai. - A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib, audiobook narrated by JD Jackson. - The Island of Books, by Dominique Fortier. - You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-King. - River Mumma, by Zalika Reid-Benta, audiobook narrated by Tymika Tafari. - Saint, by Sierra Simone, audiobook narrated by Sean Crisden & Jacob Morgan. - Unlovable, by Darren Hayes, audiobook narrated by the author - The Dogs of Venice, by Steven Rowley.
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers

From Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan.
...Then it hits me. "Maybe we're the pieces," "What?" "Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking." Tikkun olam.
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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9. Countries visited through the books in 2025 💙📚

Off the top of my head Italy, USA, Russia, UK, Egypt, Vietnam, Japan, France, Finland, Spain, Jamaica, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Nigeria, Sweden, French Polynesia, and Iraq
December 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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@rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social and @barbnatividad.bsky.social made this look like fun 💙📚
Book Wrap up for the year 2025 1. First book finished 2. Top 3 (or 5) books read in 2025 3. New genre tried this year 4. Favorite new author from 2025 5. Favorite character you met in 2025 6. Favorite romance/ romantasy/romance sub plot from 2025 7. Best mystery / thriller / crime fiction from 2025 8. A book you want adapted on screen 9. Countries visited through the books in 2025 10. A book that you wish had a sequel / alternate ending 11. A book with unnecessary sequel (or prequel that came later ) 12. A book that made you sad / made you cry 13. A book that someone recommended and you loved 14. A book that was not worth the hype on SM 15. Some books deserve DNF. Which were yours ? #bookwrapup25 Book Wrap up for the year 2025 16. A book that more people need to read 17. Re reads from previous years 18. A series you finished in 2025 19. Most read genre in 2025 20. A book adaptation you saw and liked in 2025 21. A series you started new & plan to continue 22. A book you wish you could live in / be a part of 23. Book with the prettiest cover 24. A book that made you want to travel 25. A book that made you happy / laugh 26. A book with the best friendship 27. Best world-building in a book from 2025 28. One new lesson you learned from the books this year 29. Most inspiring character you met in 20204 30. Last book you read in 2025 31. A book you look forward to read in 2026 #bookwrapup25
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Florida governor designates Muslim rights group as terrorist organization reut.rs/4iPW2Ht
Florida governor designates Muslim rights group as terrorist organization
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order designating one of the country’s most prominent Muslim civil rights groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, as a “foreign terrorist organization,” becoming the second high-profile Republican governor to do so in recent weeks.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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#Nantucket
Nantucket MA.
December 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
damages if those officers violate constitutional rights while carrying out immigration-related operations. Pritzker also finalized a previously passed measure that prohibits immigration enforcement from taking place outside court proceedings.
Gov. JB Pritzker signs bills protecting Illinois immigrants from federal immigration enforcement
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a slate of legislation Tuesday morning to protect immigrants from "unjust" federal immigration enforcement actions.
www.cbsnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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One law directs hospitals, schools, and childcare centers to safeguard the immigration status of the people they serve, keeping that information confidential. Another creates a pathway for individuals to sue law enforcement officers for financial
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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We need more of this across the USA! Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has approved a set of new laws designed to strengthen protections for immigrants and limit abusive immigration enforcement practices.
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $7.1 billion to nonprofits in 2025, a major increase
The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM