Just me and Pete Buttigieg, out here posting notes like it’s a joint venture 🤝 #substacknotes
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Posts by Ashley Rovira 📚✍️ 🇺🇦📺 🎞️ (she/her)
The signal just got clearer.
I’ve redesigned my Linktree to bring everything into one place—books, essays, and Heavy Crown Voices Literary Magazine.
📣 Submissions open for Voices 2026
Deadline: June 24
If you’re a writer, I’d love to read your work:
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One of the advantages of the Second Term is being able to pick on Barron. Just saying. It is nice to find an advantage in the free for all that is adulthood.
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What a Spy Novel Knows About Love
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A spy novel about love is already a strange premise.
But Graham Greene understood something we’re still living with: systems don’t need truth—only plausibility.
New piece:
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A lot of people are cracking up today. What is interesting about crack ups is that they reveal the truth. You either become more aware or you get worse. You face the crack and open up, or you avoid it & let it crack you quietly under the surface.
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Last day. FREE ebook promo!
The Signal Between Us is free on Kindle through tonight.
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The Signal Between Us is free on Kindle—today and tomorrow.
A father. A daughter. Eighteen years of silence.
March 24/25 only!
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Wake Up Dead Man is structured like Agatha Christie—
but what it reveals feels closer to something older, and harder to name.
I wrote about the pattern beneath the mystery.
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Donald Trump thinks people with learning disabilities shouldn’t be president? Dyslexia is disqualifying?
Not insurrection. Not dishonesty. Not corruption.
I’d take a leader who’s open about struggle over one who weaponizes it. It’s hard enough feeling different. Leaders should empower, not belittle.
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The Frankenstein movie is about what happens when we create life and refuse to love it.
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We call the intact life a success and the cracked life a failure.
But only one leads to transformation.
More Notes from the Loft on Fracture
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It’s fun to notice things no one else seems to notice.
Even more fun to notice that they don’t notice that you notice.
Then it becomes almost a secret garden.
Anyone could find the key.
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The poetry of an eerie calm.
Old friendships resurfacing — scattered.
And a dream that refuses to stay buried.
When the Wind Turned (13) 🔗👇
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Representative James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA): “My fear is we’re here today as part of a political exercise, part of a long-running fever dream where Republicans want to lock up Secretary Clinton.”
THEY ASKED HER ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES
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This should be a bigger story. Ethical AI bullied by Pentagon to be unethical. Growing industry willing to do it without pressure. 🎁🔗
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They don’t call it starting over.
They call it unpacking.
Chapter Twelve — Brookside.
A loose stair. A pipe that knocks once.
Enough.
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I read the article. The headline misleads a little bit. The writer means the stock market when he says “the economy”. He says affordability is not strong, prices up, and that’s how Trump misses the mark. Voters look at store prices not stocks, housing, can they afford to buy stuff.
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😂 right? I’m glad she arrived at tbd right lesson.
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“What was shattered in the trenches was not merely flesh but illusion.”
On the Somme as Fitzgerald’s master analogy in Tender Is the Night.
#booksky
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Screenshot of a news article preview with a black background and a black-and-white profile photo of Prince Andrew facing left. The headline reads, “The Former Prince Andrew Never Should Have Forwarded Those Emails,” by Helen Lewis. Below, a Facebook comment by Ashley Schneider Rovira says, “Hey 👋 the sky is blue,” reports Helen Lewis from the Atlantic 😂.
The monarchy survived wars, revolutions, abdications.
It may not survive “Reply All.”
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What Organizes the Noise —
On structure, misalignment, and orientation in low light #nvld
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Pretty #booksky
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Staying for the Last Act.
On delay, loyalty, and recognizing your place in history—through Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson.
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I’m glad The Atlantic opened the article here by plugging E Jean.
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To give or not to give?
Altruism may come from the heart, but how we give—and toward what ends—remains deeply contested.
Reflections on Death in a Shallow Pond by David Edmonds.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton:
“To be strong, we need more empathy, not less.”
🎁🔗 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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HRC speaks on the toxicity of Christian nationalism & the urgency of restoring empathy and human dignity. An appeal to remember the words of Jesus—and the cost of abandoning them. The link is a gift. Disrespectful comments will be removed and ignored.
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New book review:
Cinema, illusion, and the art of wonder in Woody Allen: A Magician in Manhattan.
🎬✨ #booksky
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Screenshot of a Heavy Crown Press Substack note quoting Ezra Klein on Trumpism as openly flaunted corruption framed as “thuggish honesty,” with commentary linking the idea to Mark Carney’s Davos speech and Václav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless, dated January 25, 2026.
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“Sometimes, world leaders fall into conflict because they misunderstand each other. But Carney and Trump understand each other all too well.” @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
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