Leslie Varney - Agent/Cofounder
            
            @virtuallyleslie.bsky.social
          
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          Prentis Literary Agency 🖨📚 • Representing diverse, inclusive voices in modern literature • SF, Fantasy, Romance, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, YA, MG
      
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      “He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,’” Cruz quoted FCC chairman Brendan Carr.
“That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”
        “That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”
        
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              Mignon Fogarty
              @grammargirl.bsky.social
          
              · Sep 27
        
        
        
            Settlement of AI lawsuit gets tentative approval; some writers will get paid, but mostly only if they make claims | NWU
            On September 25, 2025, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California gave preliminary (tentative) approval to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement of some of the...
          
            
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      What the US is experiencing right now is fascism. There's no other word for it and pretending that it's verboten to say so diminishes the truth as much as they are diminishing the truth. It's fascism. It's arrived.
    
  
      Turns out most of the self-righteous Right are Wonderbread Fluffernutters: tasteless white squish on the outside, synthetic white glop on the inside, and a thin layer of appropriated and emptied Brownness
    
        
      The #Right sprinting to embrace #fascism so to prevent #socialism is so on-brand. They want smaller #government & no Nanny-state…until they don't, because it hurts their #feelings. Meaning they finally feel the same pain they've been inflicting or ignoring.
    
  
      “He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,’” Cruz quoted FCC chairman Brendan Carr.
“That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”
        “That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”
        
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      The #Right sprinting to embrace #fascism so to prevent #socialism is so on-brand. They want smaller #government & no Nanny-state…until they don't, because it hurts their #feelings. Meaning they finally feel the same pain they've been inflicting or ignoring.
    
  
        
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              Wil Screamton
              @wilwheaton.net
          
              · Sep 18
        
        
          
      Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
    
  
        
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              Andrew Lawrence
              @ndrew.bsky.social
          
              · Sep 18
        
        
      
     
        