Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins

@ajcousins.bsky.social

Queer romance author. Obsessive book buyer. Slow runner. Fascinated birder. She/her, bi. Rep'd by Handspun Literary Agency. Volunteer Child Advocate for detained immigrant kiddos. Views my own.

6,862 Followers 2,236 Following 14,001 Posts Joined Jul 2023
5 hours ago

I just cackled. 😂

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5 hours ago

CAN'T. WAIT. 😍

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Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

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5 hours ago

Weekend plans...ESTABLISHED. 🎉👇

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7 hours ago

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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5 hours ago

Right??? I CAN GO ON...

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5 hours ago

I love this. 🥰

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5 hours ago

Ahhhhhhh!!!! 😍😍😍

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5 hours ago

"You do not get to say that you don’t understand these very basic issues of autonomy, respect and self-control. You. Do. Not. "

"You are wrecking the environment so that terrible people who make bad decisions can be enriched"

this is great

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5 hours ago

"A business built on theft is not a business, it’s a scam." 💯👇

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7 hours ago

Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.

A major throughline of the Trump administration.

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1 day ago

Anyone playing at Ironic-But-Not-Ironic Literary Snobbery in a world of book bans and right-wing censorship of history is a dabbler at best, and at worst destined to become part of the problem. They’ve already got one foot in the misogyny bucket, and will surely trip on it.

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This is to say: if you're an attorney who's hesitated to take on habeas cases because you think you lack the knowledge, or you're worried about whether you'll really help, I PROMISE you can make a difference. I'm just a dipshit with a 7-year-old laptop and a bad attitude. If I can do it, so can you.

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This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

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1 day ago

Thread on the Van Hollen and Alsobrooks visit to the Baltimore ICE facility. 👇

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But as he was released on July 11, 2024, he found Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waiting for him. He ended up at California City Detention Facility, the state’s largest immigration detention center, which operates out of a crumbling, shuttered state prison.

Guevara Alarcon was horrified to find that conditions in immigration detention were far worse than anything he had experienced before. In prison, he was able to hug his loved ones during visitation and had access to rehabilitative programming, a job that allowed him to spend time out of his cell, and free sweatshirts and sweatpants.

In immigration detention, he is separated from visitors by a wall of glass, and he has spent most of his time locked in his frigid cell, forced to buy expensive sweats from the commissary to try to stay warm. There isn’t enough food, detainees are forced to share nail clippers and the building has repeatedly flooded. Guevara Alarcon said he has been denied access to medical care. Those who protest their conditions of confinement are punished with pepper spray and prolonged solitary confinement, a recognized form of torture.
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ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up. Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.

ICE detention remains almost completely opaque to the public. So this is essential reporting. @mattshuham.bsky.social and @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social spoke with a man who got paroled out of CA state corrections but was then sent straight to California City.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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1 day ago

Fascinating read. Thx for sharing!

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2 days ago

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

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2 days ago

“the fouling of an entire region in an act of mass ecological terrorism”

- Statement by White House Press Secretary, Nov. 6 1991, describing the burning of oil fields in Kuwait

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Hearts & Skulls Hat Auction item 'Hearts & Skulls Hat' hosted online at 32auctions.

this pirate-y hat!!!! a great subtle nod to gay pirates in love to work into your everyday wardrobe

(oops forgot the hashtag #fandommarket )

www.32auctions.com/organization...

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2 days ago

TIME WELL SPENT. 😍

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2 days ago

Ahhh! 😍 Several faves and a couple books I missed entirely but clearly must read. Great list!

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Borrowed and Blue Reviews, old and new. Mostly books. Mostly SFF. Quite likely gay.

After a month of buildup, may I present...

The Queersar not an award 2020!

10 (+1) great queer SFF novels.

V good year for queer SFF; I found it *really* hard to narrow down to 10. But happy with what's on here & more convinced there *is* a gap in the award landscape for books like these.

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2 days ago

Just gorgeous!

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3 days ago

Cupich is a real one and is absolutely spitting fire here. this is a more courageous statement than 90% of what we’ve heard from Democrats

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3 days ago

Absolutely chilling story

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3 days ago

Ha! As I was posting this, an eBird reviewer was emailing me, asking for photos. 😁 Happy to deliver, Troy!

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3 days ago
Photo of an Anna's Hummingbird with its bright pink head and throat feathers shining in the sunlight as it perches on a tiny thorned twig

SO MANY HUMMINGBIRDS. 😍 I've only seen female Ruby-throateds in Chicago so far, so seeing Anna's and Costa's everywhere I looked was beyond cool. #birds

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