Audra Winter (PART 2): The Fallout Continues - What Indie Authors Can Learn From The Scorpius Saga! YouTube video by Raechel A. Gasparac

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Imposter syndrome is very heavy right now. Also, I need to find a way to get ARC (advanced readers), and find a way to distribute my book to them. Any and all advice is appreciated/needed while I second guess myself.
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Everyone is at risk of #ICELawlessness!

Business leaders, YOU are at risk.

Your business may be raided & even intentionally destroyed because you're a competitor with the regime or an adversary willing to pay off ICE thugs who think they have ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY.
See post ⬇️ for good news on that.

Once again here to tap the mic and say Texas is a gerrymandered, voter repressed state, not a "red" state. And every one of you celebrating the (significant) win in Tarrant County better not be the same people in my mentions saying to throw the whole South away. There are good people fighting.

Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Not fake news.

100%. I'm sorry the world is this way now. At least we can work towards it never being like this again? ::goes to clasp your hand as a friend even though we are perfect strangers who have no idea how or where to start::

Former criminal defense attorney here.

If what we’ve seen of the Epstein Files so far—heavily redacted and with 3 million pages still missing—is bad, keep in mind that the *Files in full* are a *hundred* times worse.

That’s how this works.

You’re seeing the G-rated version.

A new statement from Epstein survivors:

"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."

Illegally arresting journalists before releasing the Epstein Files.

Falsifying Georgia voting records before releasing the Epstein Files.

Tying to destroy the independence of Federal Reserve before releasing the Epstein Files.

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.

As long as I have a bucket to vomit into I am willing to bear witness if it means no one will ever be subject to it again.

It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black.

And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act.

Sit with that.

God having to type all that made me nauseous. We shouldn't even have to have this discussion right now.

You forget we operate under basic human decency. Those predators do not. They are monsters who get their claws into them before people like us are aware because they depend on it. They depend on our good side. We need to be able to armor the youth to know the warning signs. :(

By then they have already been groomed not to come talk to you is my point. Your heart is in the right place and I wish I could tell you it was still standard operating procedure- but what these files have dropped today show they get in their heads long before that point.

Never been prouder to never get an e-vite.

Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp:

www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

While I applaud you thinking about it this way- this is the same rationale that got the world to this point unfortunately. Either we keep pretending and shielding the future generations as the abuse continues or we have the courage to arm our youth with the hard truths to armor themselves from it :(

I would argue you are preparing this child to be a functional member of society. If they know how bad it can get they know why checks and balances need to be enforced before history repeats itself again. Just checking in and help them through this mentally.

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

What do you think it's like in ICE detention while pregnant?

A LIVING NIGHTMARE!

Foul water!
Inedible food!
No medical attention!

ICE is ignoring DHS policy & detaining pregnant women.

Call your Senators NOW and tell them no funding the government until there's accountability!

202-224-3121

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later.

Wonder why that is.

The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.

Today, Rep. Castro and I visited precious Liam and his father, Adrian, at the Dilley Detention Center.

My heart absolutely breaks for Liam, his family, and every person being wrongfully detained.

‘Five alarm fire for democracy’: Dems, voting advocates voice outrage at FBI raid of Georgia elections office Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office.

🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social