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I love cats, naps, & my pups.
In case anyone outside the UK has enjoyed this extract, I feel duty bound to let you know that Blackwell’s will send you the book with - amazingly - free international shipping: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
16.12.2025 01:27 — 👍 75 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 21/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
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The final two first edition hardbacks of my novel 1983 that I have in my house.
Two cut-out linoprint hares by my mum, Jo. This is a hare linoprint which she originally did to illustrate a chapter in my earlier (non-fiction) book, Ring The Hill, which has a hare subtheme darting through it.
I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.
All you have to do to enter is repost this (& leave a reply).
The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.
Love your writing!
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Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation.
Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
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🚨BREAKING: The North Carolina Senate hastily passed a GOP gerrymander Tuesday in a 26-20 vote, advancing a proposed congressional map that aims to dismantle one of the state’s Black Democratic seats at the request of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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768 days! How is this girl still at the shelter?! She's only 3.5 years old. Most of her life has been there! Please adopt MELIA! 🙏 Adult only peaceful home, someone who will train her. Please Bluesky friends, repost. We have to find her a hero 💔
💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
☎️516.785.5220 #gh #ny #dog
Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!
So were the signs...
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Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
“When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement,” DHS’ Tricia McLaughlin asserted, “while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs.”
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
18.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 89048 🔁 28873 💬 2308 📌 1846MIKE JOHNSON IS ABETTING AUTHORITARIANISM
THE SPEAKER REFUSES TO NEGOTIATE OR EVEN ALLOW CONGRESS TO RECONVENE!
MIKE JOHNSON IS HOLDING OUR GOVERNMENT HOSTAGE!
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Three absolutely loves Taylor Swift so why does #nycacc want him dead? He was found all alone in a hallway! He needs help! NY NJ NH NE RI VT CT ME MA DE DC MD PA VA WE NEED A FOSTER FAST! Can’t kill a pup that’s a #swiftie -Please repost this sweet boy! DM for info- #dogsofbluesky
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A PR person for ABC asked me to stop asking about Pete Hegseth's speech during this episode about the death of Vanessa Guillén.
They emailed me today and asked I not include the interruption in the final show.
I will not. So tune in to listen to a lecture from a PR person about Guillén's legacy.
TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:
He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group.
There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi.
He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
MAGA lawmakers are now pushing a bill to criminalize homelessness in D.C., threatening those who sleep outside with imprisonment. The measure would give Trump greater power to disappear the city’s homeless population under his military occupation of Washington.
10.09.2025 21:26 — 👍 1265 🔁 478 💬 104 📌 31While Donald Trump needlessly deploys the National Guard in DC — where crime is at a 30-year low — California continues to bring down crime in nearly every major category.
No one should look for advice from a felon who pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists on Day One.
A photo of displaced Palestinians receiving hot meals distributed by aid organizations in Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City, Gaza on July 24, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "“Food Has Become a Memory”: My Hunger Diary in Gaza," and the DEK, "A 21-year-old writer living in Gaza documents her daily life under the U.S.–Israeli program of mass starvation."
A photo of writer Sara Awad overlaid with the quote, "This is my attempt to document what it feels like when your stomach rumbles, becoming louder than your thoughts."
A photo of the only food for the day for a family of eight, overlaid with the text, " mom baked eight pieces of bread, one for each of our family members, and each one of us chooses the way to eat it."
A photo of the daily bread, baked, overlaid with the text, "For me, I choose to separate it into two portions — the second is for dinner. Very small portions for a person who does not eat enough for months. And we do not know when the next bread will come along."
"Today marks the 89th day of the starvation war. I woke up with a dizzy feeling in my head as I had not eaten anything since yesterday morning." interc.pt/3IHtVw9
27.07.2025 18:05 — 👍 81 🔁 44 💬 4 📌 4
Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."
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Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
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.
Let this sink in.
Even the Los Angeles Police Chief, Jim McDonnell, made it clear: the people protesting immigration raids were not the ones causing violence.
During a Sunday evening press conference, McDonnell condemned the violence as “disgusting”
Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.
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