🚨NEWS: U.N.-backed investigators say they found “reasonable grounds” to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including one on a school in Minab. apnews.com/article/un-h...
Melissa
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Author: Rural Indigenousnness (SU Press, 2018). Historian turned fiction writer - querying my debut women’s fiction manuscript in 2025! k-drama fan since Covid. Love my family, travel and learning about people and places and especially Democracy!!
Romance writers: agents are already signing up for Love at First Pitch on LitConnect. Get matched to agents building their romance lists and submit your pitches Aug 24 to 31. #LoveAtFirstPitch litconnect.net/romance-pitc...
Love at First Pitch - Romance Pitch Event for Writers on LitConnect
Love at First Pitch is a romance-only pitch event on LitConnect. Submit your romance pitch Aug 24 to 31, 2026. Your pitch is matched to agents building their romance lists, and an agent's like opens y...
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Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴
Tonight the Senate is voting to start debate on the annual defense bill. It's essentially an Iran War authorization bill. A totally unprecedented 50% increase in spending to fund the war without any meaningful restraints. I'm voting NO.
President Trump signed orders to shrink two national monuments in Utah by more than a million acres each, potentially opening up vast wilderness and sacred tribal lands to exploration for minerals, oil and gas.
Trump again shrinks two national monuments in Utah
The president’s orders trim Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments to a small fraction of their current size.
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traffic stops, workplace operations, and in public spaces. The surge appears to be national rather than limited to a single region. If you or someone you know lives in one of these communities, stay informed, know your rights, and follow trusted local updates as enforcement activity continues.
Reports indicate heightened enforcement activity in Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston, Dallas, McAllen, Brownsville, New York City, Newark, Passaic, Plainfield, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Nashville, Charlotte, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Officials have made arrests during immigration check-ins,
🚨 The number of ICE activity reports we’re receiving is overwhelming. Communities across the country are reporting enforcement at a rapid pace, and we’re working to verify and share as much information as possible.
Chump Always Admired Dick Tators, So Now He Copies Them, And Copulates With One, Right, Putin......?
Steve Hutkins, a retired New York University professor and a leading advocate for the USPS through savethepostoffice.com, told Democracy Docket that if the agency ultimately moves forward with the proposal, he believes “it will destroy the Postal Service.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘It will destroy the Postal Service’: USPS plan to crack down on mail voting spurs alarm
“It won’t just be tainted. Its whole brand will be destroyed," one leading Postal Service advocate told Democracy Docket.
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Writing Day Workshops (Writers Conferences) on Instagram: "The 2026 Online New England Writing Workshop is an online “How to Get Published” writing event on July 24-25, 2026. Writers are welcome to at...
24 likes, 1 comments - writingdaywksp on May 20, 2026: "The 2026 Online New England Writing Workshop is an online “How to Get Published” writing event on July 24-25, 2026. Writers are welcome to atten...
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This is really important. “More than 100 retired NASA astronauts have banded together to form a new nonpartisan organization…” and its members believe deeply in “principles such as the rule of law, checks and balances, and the peaceful transition of power.” Follow @astronauts4america.bsky.social
Former NASA astronauts launch new group to promote U.S. constitutional values
More than 100 NASA astronauts have signed on to a nonpartisan effort to promote “the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years”
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I STAND WITH THE PROTESTERS If a detention facility can’t withstand public scrutiny, congressional oversight, and media attention, the problem isn’t the protesters. The problem is what’s happening inside. #ShutDownDelaneyHall
If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week. We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.
BREAKING: We're challenging President Trump's executive order that aims to restrict mail-in voting. Once again, the president is trying to seize power he doesn't have at the expense of our democracy.
@writingdaywksp.bsky.social New FREE contest for writers of Romance and Women's Fiction — tinyurl.com/wdwcon9 — Judged by Agent Rachel Beck of Liza Dawson Associates, via @writingdayworkshops. Winners get an agent critique of their work.
First Page Contest #9: Romance and Women's Fiction -- Judged by Agent Rachel Beck of Liza Dawson Associates
FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to a First Page Contest . Contest #9 is for writers of Romance and Women's Fiction. If you write in these categories, keep reading and submit your work! This...
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Elections are decided by just a few hundred votes. But the GOP’s SAVE Act 2.0 would block over 21 MILLION American citizens from voting. They aren't securing our elections—they're silencing dissent to hold onto power. #StopTheSaveAct social.demcast.com/s/Yz1u9dKU
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