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Alyssa Cole
@alyssacolelit.bsky.social
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Writes romance, thrillers, and more. Lives in France. Note: Scammers are currently impersonating me on social media and via email. I DO NOT COLD EMAIL FELLOW AUTHORS OR OFFER MARKETING SERVICES.
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blbalthaser.bsky.social
Mayor Johnson is cooking
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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courtneymilan.com
The goal here is to eliminate trans people's ability to exist in public.

But note that it will also have the impact of being able to police anyone whose gender presentation does not match what they believe it is, because how do you even know someone is trans?
jessdkant.bsky.social Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · Aug 8
EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex:

“A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.”
archive.ph/2025.08.07-2...
The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination. It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected. It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service users. "A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".
August 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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smashfizzle.bsky.social
When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.
bradlander.bsky.social Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Aug 9
Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws.

The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated.

www.politico.com/states/new-y...
Another Cuomo noninterference story falls apart
Andrew Cuomo has always been careful to maintain a plausible-looking deniability when it comes to his role in keeping his own party out of power in the State Senate.
www.politico.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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kthorjensen.bsky.social
All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.
waiterich.bsky.social Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · Aug 9
What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?

I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
August 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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jackielaubooks.bsky.social
It appears libro fm is having a sale for Bookstore Romance Day. You can find all the books on sale here:
All sale audiobooks
Check out the selection of Libro.fm’s on-sale audiobooks!
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August 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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oliviawaite.com
Sapphic aunt with a feckless nephew solving murders on a cruise ship in deep space — MURDER BY MEMORY is the first Dorothy Gentleman mystery novella and a short, sparkly read for summer weekends: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Murder by Memory
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detectiveA mind is a terrible thing t...
us.macmillan.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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aquedita.bsky.social
friends,
just finished this wonderful book and it's the perfect summer read. the epilogue made me cry happy tears because our heroines find dignity, safety & community support to make their dreams come true 🥰💖
pick up your copy today!

#BookSky #romancelandia
July 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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bibiladiva.bsky.social
Je n'ai pas les mots.

Et c'est dans ce contexte qu'on va offrir la mort sur un plateau.

"L'effort" ultime pour ne pas coûter à la société.
brevesdepresse.bsky.social Brevesdepresse @brevesdepresse.bsky.social · Jul 15
🔴🇫🇷 FLASH - François #Bayrou demande « un effort » aux #malades pour baisser le déficit de la Sécurité sociale. Le 1er ministre annonce 5 milliards d’€ d’économies sur la #santé en évoquant notamment la prise en charge des affections de longue durée (ALD).
July 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
I recently had a similar conversation was was telling them about our experience with the even what is nominally private media but owned by politicians. It poisons your politics so quickly and so completely.
fieldsmeyer.com Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · Jul 18
I've been saying to friends for a few months that the more I study authoritarianism in other countries, the more concerned I become that the CBS story is the sleeping giant here. The process has been a simmer (people inside the network have spoken out in real-time) but don't mistake slow for safe.
juliaioffe.bsky.social Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · Jul 18
One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert
July 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
alyssacolelit.bsky.social
Just a heads up that in addition to fake accounts popping up across social media, someone is now using a fake email (alyssacole717@gmail.com) to mass email other writers with the intent to scam them. Please be aware that THIS IS NOT ME!! 😩
Thank you to everyone who has made me aware of this.
July 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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laurenbeukes.com
My favourite book festival in all the world, Open Book in Cape Town, has fallen foul of funding shortages. If you love African lit, and want to support a vital and electric and critically important festival that highlights African writers, please donate here: booklounge.co.za/product/open...
Image shows two Black women writers laughing and chatting in bright pink outfits on stage at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town Image shows a Black woman storyteller in a t-shirt and peach coloured trousers, kneeling and animatedly reading a kids book to kids and parents at The Book Lounge (the beloved indie bookstore that runs Open Book Festival) Image shows a young Black woman with a natural afro and glasses in a black top and black and white geometric print pinafore, smiling and talking into a microphone in the audience at the Open Book Festival. Out of focus behind her on the left is a young Black man with a lanyard and a film camera. On the right, an older White woman with a red scarf is laughing in delight.
July 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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oliviawaite.com
Just thinking about violence and resistance in @alyssacolelit.bsky.social’s exquisite novella Let it Shine, where a Black preacher’s daughter and a Jewish boxer join forces during the Civil Rights Era: alyssacole.com/let-it-shine/ #romancelandia #booksky
Let It Shine - Alyssa Cole
alyssacole.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
alyssacolelit.bsky.social
This is still on sale!
luciennediver.bsky.social Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · Jun 25
ONE OF US KNOWS by @alyssacolelit.bsky.social, a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past, is currently just $1.99 in digital!
Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/006311495X/
Nook: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/one-of-us-...
One of Us Knows: A Thriller
Amazon.com: One of Us Knows: A Thriller: 9780063114951: Cole, Alyssa: Books
www.amazon.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
alyssacolelit.bsky.social
Book news!! Another thriller is heading your way in 2026! It Takes A Village is set in the wider world of When No One Is Watching, so get ready for another deep dive into corporate conspiracy and the everyday people fighting against them!!
Screenshot of Publishers Marketplace deal memo: NAACP Image Award and New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Cole’s new thriller IT TAKES A VILLAGE, set in the same world as WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING, where a new employee discovers that the nonprofit organization she works for is hiding nefarious intentions, to Erika Tsang at Forge, for publication in Fall 2026, by Lucienne Diver at the Knight Agency on behalf of the author and Temple Hill Publishing (World).
February 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
Looking for something sexy and sweet?!

💕 Pick what you pay & snag a copy of XENI, HARBOR, A WALK IN THE PARK & A MAN FOR MRS. CLAUS! Bundle available Feb 1-28, 2025💕

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2025 Birthday Book Bundle. Neon 80s graphics surround the cover for XENI, HARBOR, A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS and A WALK IN THE PARK on a white background. These are my favorite books with Black heroines/Black couples. This is a pick what you pay bundle. You can pay $0 or you can pay $500. You pick!
February 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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kellyekell.bsky.social
When one of your favorite people who wrote one of your favorite books last year wins a NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary Work!

Congrats @alyssacolelit.bsky.social and One of Us Knows!

If you want to pick up a copy: www.harpercollins.com/products/one...

Full list
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February 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
Brilliant photographer Chandra Wicke is kickstarting her amazing project The Happily Ever After Society, which will feature interviews and photographs with some of your favorite authors as well as photo essays of scenes from your favorite romance novels!
💕

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...
The Happily Ever After Society hardcover coffee table book. The cover has vibrant flowers on a black background.
February 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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historleans.bsky.social
Drafted and deleted around five posts on how I'd appreciate it if society could collectively stop acting like memos now supersede laws. Found it hard to simultaneously express that legal fundamentals have historically only been reliable for sociopolitically dominant segments of a population anyway.
February 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
This is really good
February 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
Hey y'all! The FAB @rdotspoon.bsky.social is giving US a gift for her birthday!

She has two book bundles up where you can pay what you want to get four AMAZING books.

If you are broke, get some joyful books. If you are not, throw in some extra to pay it forward!

payhip.com/RWBirthdayBo...
Birthday Book Bundle featuring A Walk int he Park, A Man for Mrs. Claus, Harbor, and Xeni. Pay what you want! Birthday Book Bundle #2: firsts in series, with Fit, So Sweet, Haven, and Rafe
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
alyssacolelit.bsky.social
😭🥺💕
lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · Jan 29
Everyone needs at least half a shelf full of @alyssacolelit.bsky.social books! 😍😍

#booksky #fanboy 📚💙 #amreading
January 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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My jaw hit the floor here.
The other, who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024, according to a mirrored copy of an online résumé and his high school’s student magazine; he lists jobs as a camp counselor and a bicycle mechanic among his professional experiences, as well as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company.
January 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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dceiver.bsky.social
for as long as I've been covering politics the chattering classes have demanded that Democrats lead on bipartisanship and it turns out that—as I've always suspected!—it's the exact quality that voters do not want in their politicians
anatosaurus.bsky.social Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · Jan 29
Voter eligible Americans, especially 2024 non-voters and independents, give Dems edge on "bipartisan" and fail on...actually doing things.

Notable in case any Dem leaders would like to, say, win future elections.

CREDIT: Center for American Progress
Chart showing that voters associate Dems with "bipartisan solutions" but much more highly view Reps with "will do what's necessary" "believes in the American Dream" "Wants to shake things up in Washington."
January 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM