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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you are a writer and you are facing a deadline that you're having trouble hitting -- just tell your editor. They can work with you. You are on the same team. Things they can help with. 1. Moving the deadline 2. Contingency planning. 3. Decision making.

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Tomorrow, April 16 at 7 PM ET, I'm being featured during the Author Hour in Massachusetts on Zoom. It's a free, library-sponsored event, and everyone is welcome to come. Register for free: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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When I got home from The Martian Contingency booktour, this is what Elsie asked for. #fluentpet

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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

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Rude Strangers, aka when your cohort is named by a talking cat. (To be fair, we had kept her person on Zoom all day.)

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Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..

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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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once more, for the evening crowd - and I’ll try to get back to posting like normal (or the new normal, anyway) tomorrow, I promise; I just want to get every dollar I can for this under-appreciated little no-kill shelter in Tennessee 👇👇👇

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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

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pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

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It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.

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Anon clearly hasn't read @maryrobinettekowal.com "The Martian Contingency"

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My current hot take. There are now: Professional astronauts Hobby astronauts Space tourists

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@maryrobinettekowal.com I've just finished chapter 51 of The Relentless Moon - which is great btw - so it's incredibly surreal to check the latest news from the BBC and find this!

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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

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Thread and then the nested thread. Read both

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It’s critical yall understand why MAGAs are so hell bent on passing the SAVE Act. They’re suppressing women’s votes for a very particular reason. We cannot let them win. Support my advocacy here: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe #justice #stopsaveact

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Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

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I love when fantastic writers and story physicians make a la carte classes like this 💖

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can't stop won't stop! NOW IN THE AUCTION: Items commemorating the crossover episode of #It'sAlwaysSunny and #AbbottElementary! A mug, a tote bag & a thick, soft Abbott-Sunny sweatshirt you can't buy in stores! So much more in this pop culture charity fundraiser! #philly www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?i...

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literally everything. it's gonna be rough. Check for authors you like. see if they have a ko-fi, a patreon, a subscription service, buy their books (paper to preserve the most at-risk for censorship authors, your local indie, etc) and talk about those books to spread word of mouth. please.

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Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense

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I am DELIGHTED to have been invited to be one of the guests of honor at Iceland Noir in November! And let me let you in on a little secret: Icelandic literary festivals are the best festivals because they are very small and intimate, but for some reason it’s easy to convince big authors to come …

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We watched people standing in line for 8-10 hours to vote in Georgia, so they made it illegal to give them water. They called in bomb threats to majority Black polling places. They did everything they could to suppress the vote. And then folks are out here like, "well Georgia voted for this lol"

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