Aggeliki Pelekidis

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

One Drink Book Club | Unlucky Mel by Aggeliki Pelekidis | One Drink Book Club In this episode of the One Drink Book Club, Jamey discusses Unlucky Mel with author Aggeliki Pelekidis. The book follows Melody Hollings, a creative writing...

I had so much fun chatting with Jamey, the host of the One Drink Book Club! And the drink assigned to my novel Unlucky Mel was an Unlucky Martini, which only had two olives instead of three! It was a vodka martini to fit a particular scene later in the book!

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The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

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Absolutely loved seeing Unlucky Mel included in BU Magazine’s spring issue as part of the latest releases! But you’d think my alma mater might know that I also received my Ph.D there in 2012! #book #books

Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts boosting her, report claims South Carolina congresswoman previously accused four men of sexual misconduct in committee hearing

I got a lot of death threats after I confronted Nancy Mace at a tech conference in DC and I guess it's nice to know that most of them were probably just from her and her bot army? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

My debut novel, Unlucky Mel, has won an IPPY Gold Medal for Best First Book, Fiction! Annually since 1996, Independent Publisher Book Awards selects books published by independent presses to receive a gold, silver, or bronze medal. Thanks to Cornell University Press for publishing my novel!

Thrilled to be participating in the Distinguished Writers Series at @binghamtonu.bsky.social! Especially alongside such amazing writers! Looking forward to hearing them read from their works!

How do people with allergies do it? One day of being on an allergy med (b/c I’m stuffed up with a cold) and I will never do it again. My IQ dropped by at least 30 points. My body aged into the 100s. My mental health plummeted. Motivation to do anything like move, breath, exist became nil.

Nice! It’ll be exactly how you like it then!

And iced matcha latte is amazing! Though sometimes a little too sweet when you buy it.

Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

🚨 CALL YOUR REP TODAY. The cuts to Medicaid spell euthanasia to thousands of nursing home patients.

Why tax billionaires when we can ask grandma and grandpa to work until they drop? And let’s not pay workers fair wages throughout their careers so they can afford to retire. Let’s just keep concentrating wealth at the top.

‘Ludicrous and unfair’: older workers react to pressure to delay retirement IMF is urging countries globally to act to ease stress on public finances, sparking mainly outrage but also support

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The 70's is definitely not the new 50's. Nice try. Don't believe it, I'm living it.

And then they get in that consensus bubble of only reading or watching right wing propaganda and think everyone thinks the same way as them.

I’d read somewhere that dancing improves mood and realized I couldn’t remember the last time I danced. Maybe at a wedding a few years ago. But yesterday as I cleaned, I played an eclectic mix of music and moved! We’re talking hip hop, 90s pop, disco, and more. Did I feel better after? Sure did!

I think they believe everyone else is and they’re in the know.

This is so perfect (because I tend to use parentheses when I digress in writing)!

Thanks, Gabino. THE EL is on its way. Preorder for an August arrival or NetGalley now. Happy #FridayReads!

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Everyone should check out my Weird Western novella, THe Woodcutters. If you like historical horror, give it a shot.

If anyone would be so kind to boost my debut, Unlucky Mel, which is a funny, feminist revenge narrative and campus novel, I would be eternally grateful! It’s hard getting the word out when you’re an unknown published by a university press, even if it’s @cornellupress.bsky.social

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing the comeback baby, the first barrio noir, the novel that gave me a career in France, the little book that could!

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Excited to give @jamiattenberg.bsky.social #1000wordsofsummer a shot! I could use some extra focus as I work on rewriting this novel MS I’ve had kicking around for a while. Anyone else doing this?

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?

RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research

D: I just read them to you!

R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

Barn on a hill surrounded by fog

One of my favorite photos of our barn.

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

Little known fact that Grover Cleveland used to ride around the world in the Statue of Liberty and have sensitive national security discussions inside it, before taking possession of it himself after he left office.