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I-270, Exit 1@i270exit1.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨🚨 FEDS and everyone else 🚨🚨 🧵Tomorrow is the last day to comment on the Office of Personnel Management rule, “Promoting Employee Accountability" at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... This rule eliminates employee protections and rights, and hastens the firing process. Specifically, it... 1/4

Behind bars, pads & tampons are scarce, and the ones sold at commissary cost a fortune. To make matters worse, menstruation is treated as misconduct: Bleeding through uniforms can lead to severe punishment.

Bleeding Behind Bars Is Extra Grim When Prisons Fail to Offer Menstrual Products

Twenty-two states have laws requiring prisons to provide free menstrual products, but not all of them do.

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After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Wrote about the expansion of socio-political representation in @taliahibbert.bsky.social novels A Girl Like Her and Take a Hint, Dani Brown urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Come and talk about romance with us in Spain in June 2027!

Javaria Farooqui@javariafarooqui.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm so glad to share the CFP for the Eleventh conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Link to the full CFP  www.iaspr.org/conferences/... Please share with your cool academic circles! #popularromancestudies #romance #CFP #AcademicSky @iaspr.bsky.social

Some of the young demonstrators who forced India’s education minister to resign on Saturday describe their deep-seated anger, frustration and desires that drove them into the streets.

Who Are the People Protesting in India?

Some of the young demonstrators who forced out the country’s education minister described their deep-seated anger, frustration and desires that drove them into the streets.

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The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.

This is genuinely moving

Minnesota House DFL@mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

iPhone doesn’t do justice to the rust-coloured haze over Toronto, or the stench. I was fine in an N95. Birds were having a bona fide party in an utterly deserted Home Smith Park. Thinking about my impassioned speech in elementary school arguing for the swift implementation of the Kyoto accords.

I totally recommend getting a bunch of people to perform the pilot you wrote based on your novel and then getting a hat custom made based on one of the jokes in that novel. This Sunday 7/19! Live in LA and also via live streaming! Tix: calendar.dynastytypewriter.com/shows/no-not...

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 4w ago

The pilot I wrote for my first novel, The Survivalists (black lawyer falls in with black brooklynite doomsday preppers) will be performed live on 7/19 at dynasty typewriter in LA & Molly from Insecure is playing Aretha! I am deceased! Tickets: calendar.dynastytypewriter.com/shows/no-not...

I've posted recently about some of these individually, but here's my latest list of new items of scholarship about popular romance novels. Lots of dissertations/theses and the articles from the new issue of JPRS which weren't online first:

I took this post down ages ago for reasons I won’t get into, but Gwen deserves better than that. Gwendolyn Johnson-Acsadi aka Gwynne Forster was an extraordinary woman who happened to also be a beloved romance author. romancehistory.com/2021/03/04/g...

Gwynne Forster (1922-2015)

(Author’s note- this post had been sitting in drafts for far too long, for reasons. But Gwen’s story deserves better than that.) There are a countless number of romance authors who I wish I’d…

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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Walked down two blocks in between doing laundry today because I heard this mural has been in my neighborhood for a few years @ny-knicks.bsky.social @jalenbrunson1.bsky.social In my defense, I didn’t know anything about basketball before last week 😅

New PhD thesis: Šmídová, Monika Markéta. Kissing for Dear Life in a Dead Land: English Folkloric Liminality in Queer Paranormal Historical Popular Romance.

Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...

Open letter from NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to the Mayor re: public library budget

NYC Public Library Action Network is asking writers, authors, and scholars based in New York City’s five boroughs to sign on to an open letter to Mayor Mamdani asking him to fulfill the promise he mad...

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Hey all! If you want to help out, here is how you can do it!

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2mo ago

If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday: chuffed.org/project/1865... You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...

Remember, this is how they respond to peaceful protests. Remember that when they indict our people. They do this to us and call us violent. They did this to a crowd without warning, without a dispersal order even. This video didn't even capture the flash bangs they deployed first.

After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

Outside of the St Paul courthouse, protesters are fighting with agents. The feds are now charging 15 people with impeding immigration enforcement in Minneapolis- under the guise of "antifa". As an aside- in LA they have failed to obtain guilty verdicts in most cases brought against protesters.

Today is the last day to comment on the National Park Service website about what you think of Donald Trump's proposed Arch. Please take the time to share your opinion with them, and maybe repost so other people will comment too. The more the better. parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

I would love* to hear the reasoning why anyone thinks paying $91 for a thing you don't actually own, AND that expires after being used 26 times, is fair and reasonable. If this was YOUR money, would you pay that? *no I wouldn't. Because there is no reasoning.

HEA discourse again? Groundbreaking. Every few months, someone discovers that romance novels end happily and mistakes genre convention for creative failure. Just because you don’t understand the system doesn’t mean the system is shallow. #romancebks shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/hea-discou...

HEA Discourse Again? Groundbreaking.

This… “HEA”? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you.

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seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

KNICKS IN FIVE! The New York Knicks rallied to win Game 5 in San Antonio, beating the Spurs 94-90 to win New York's first NBA championship since 1973. https://wapo.st/4uEvvBd

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

Looking for a #RomanceResearch piece to read during this Pride Month? We've got you covered: Jessica Taylor analyzes E.M. Hull’s The Sheik (1919) through the lens of queer and trans studies in JPRS' article "Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik". Find the article: doi.org/10.70138/VBE...

this level of edging is a lot #knicks

TRUMP CANT KILL OUR VIBES KNICKS IN FIVE

Wu-Tang cleansed the building. Thank goodness

PDXToddDiskin@pdxtoddiskin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That was so spursy. Wu tang cleansed the building