Audry T. ~ she/her
@audryt.bsky.social
Worked in games, manga, animation, publishing. I love writing stories about hot bad guys getting their asses kicked by snarky girls. Los Angeles girl, dog lover, activist. You have the right to be you & live your best life! Profile Art: Me by Candy Palmer
TOMORROW IS ELECTION DAY. 🎉🗳️👏 Pull your Democratic primary ballot when you go in, y’all, and vote blue for a Better Sumner - and don’t forget, this is the general election for our local candidates and some of these races will come down to a handful of votes.
At least 54 people died in ICE custody since Trump took office. Another 11 died after being shot by ICE-with 41 gunshot victims altogether El-Sayed is right. ICE must be disbanded. And everyone responsible needs to be held accountable. Even if-especially if-that includes criminal prosecutions
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoEl-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
I unapologetically love this unknown person.
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 2h ago“Officers subsequently checked the various locations where the Flock cameras were placed and found that the poles were cut down near the base. Officers located the poles nearby in the weeds, but the cameras had been removed.”
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Breaking news: Charlie Brown sets up secret Football task force
"Pirro clearly wanted to spare herself any further scrutiny by the courts, but her motion to dismiss is comically inept, an attempt to paper over the fact her office charged Hearn based only on Trump's fevered imaginings. All it does is highlight how much she was willing to lie in the first place."
Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies
It's one thing to bullshit on Fox. It's another to lie in court.
publicnotice.co
Dr. Jeffery Cornelius of Moab Dental Health Center said he'd provided Medicaid-covered care to children since arriving in Moab in 2006 and did not take the decision to leave the program lightly. “It just was too much of a cut to be able to function."
Some Moab families now have to drive an hour or more for routine dental care after state program changes
Moab's two dental offices are no longer seeing Medicaid patients after reimbursement rates dropped to levels they say would make them operate in the red.
sltrib.com
The direct line between what happened to Mamie Till Mobley after Emmett was killed and what’s happening to this woman now is becoming a circle. A dot, actually.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 6h agoChristine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
Days after Nick Judin reported that Mississippi had suddenly denied scholarships to 170 Mississippi foster students, a nonprofit has pledged $800k and colleges are working to ensure their education isn't disrupted. Lawmakers are also vowing to fix it. This is what impactful journalism looks like.
Mississippi Nonprofit, Colleges Help Foster Students Denied Scholarships as Lawmakers Vow Fix
The Woodward Hines Education Foundation is dedicating $800,000 to help fund Mississippi foster students denied full-ride scholarships.
mississippifreepress.org
1 I don't; too many other unread books to get to. 2 Impossible question. 3 F&SF but I read almost all categories. 4 Better question is what sections DON'T I browse, which would be Sports (unless a specific sports book has been rec'd). 5 All existing ways to buy a book. con't>>
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
More likely number one in Movies People Piss On.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4h agoTrump claims Melania's movie was the number one movie of the year
F&SF, New Adult, and Young Adult writers: What lit agents are on your submit lists? Aside from really big names who rep really big authors. Or if you have an agent and you want to flail about their being awesome, maybe name drop them? I have a good list but no harm in finding more to research.
Just stuff you need for solar power. No big deal. bsky.app/profile/reut...
Reuters@reuters.com · 5h agoThe Trump administration plans to impose a 15% tariff on polysilicon derivative products, sources told Reuters, and also plans to unveil results of its Section 232 investigation into foreign imports of polysilicon as soon as Thursday reut.rs/4pYh9uB
F&SF, New Adult, and Young Adult writers: What lit agents are on your submit lists? Aside from really big names who rep really big authors. Or if you have an agent and you want to flail about their being awesome, maybe name drop them? I have a good list but no harm in finding more to research.
26 years after Al Gore urged it, it's time for Climate Action. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Progressive climate organizer William Lawrence wins Michigan Democratic House primary
Activist who rallied around a datacenter moratorium will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in November
theguardian.com
annepmitchell.substack.com/p/omg-the-ad...
OMG!! The Administration Attempted to SUPPRESS Newly Naturalized Citizens from Registering to Vote! The Court Just Blocked It
I just discovered this *disgusting* action on the part of the administration - I don't know *why* nobody has covered it, because to me it is a Very Big Deal.
annepmitchell.substack.com
Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Important story: A #malaria-spreading mosquito species from Asia & the Middle East is invading Africa with alarming speed It's resistant to insecticides, too (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities (Gift Article)
The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.
nytimes.com
There was a knock on the door and then her mother came in. "Ten minutes until the bus arrives." "I feel sick," Adele replied. "I'm not surprised. I saw what you had for dinner." "I didn't feel like cooking." "A #box of ice cream is hardly nutritional." #Wipsnips #writesky #nowIwanticecream
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2d agoThe #WIPSnips word for August 4th is "box" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#wipsnips #wip #writesky He saw before him two paths dividing, two futures dark and treacherous to the unwary traveler. One on which he traveled alone, the glowing hero reaping a bloody path through thorn bushes endless as the horizon, the head of his betrayer gripped tightly in one hand. con't >>
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4d agoThe #WIPSnips word for August 2nd is "thorn" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#wipsnips "My job is to get you to express yourselves honestly and #coherently. Open your journals. Answer this question impulsively." Mr. Dunsany gazed at the student who least wanted, most wanted his attention. His eyes flickered with a strange light. "I want to know, what is your darkest desire?"
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 5d agoThe #WIPSnips word for August 1st is "coherent" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
OK. In the Santa Monica hills in Los Angeles County, it's after midnight, and there is bird out there making a shriek-like caw off and on. This doesn't normally occur so asking y'all if you know of any birds that do this kind of thing at night and is it maybe because of mating/breeding season?
