Cora Carmack
@coracarmack.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling author of New Adult romance and Fantasy romance. Awkward people need love too!
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Cora Carmack
@coracarmack.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Author friends!!! Did you know I help other authors write blurbs (aka back cover copy) for their books?!
It’s a great outlet for my strategic and ideation strengths, and a fun little side hustle. If you need help for a new release or your backlist, hit me up!
It’s a great outlet for my strategic and ideation strengths, and a fun little side hustle. If you need help for a new release or your backlist, hit me up!
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“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
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There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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Brand new data:
Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).
These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.
Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.
Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).
These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.
Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Brand new data:
Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).
These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.
Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.
Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).
These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.
Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.
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Survivors of Epstein’s abuse want lawmakers to release information about others involved in the convicted sex offender’s crimes. They said if Congress wouldn’t release a client list, the survivors would make their own
September 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Survivors of Epstein’s abuse want lawmakers to release information about others involved in the convicted sex offender’s crimes. They said if Congress wouldn’t release a client list, the survivors would make their own
Can confirm that this is TRUE! The KDP rep in question is one of my dearest friends! 👀 I happen to know that she did A LOT of work over the course of MONTHS behind the scenes to get them to agree to this.
She’s a legend. Someday she’ll be able to tell the full story, and it is GLORIOUS.
She’s a legend. Someday she’ll be able to tell the full story, and it is GLORIOUS.
August 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Can confirm that this is TRUE! The KDP rep in question is one of my dearest friends! 👀 I happen to know that she did A LOT of work over the course of MONTHS behind the scenes to get them to agree to this.
She’s a legend. Someday she’ll be able to tell the full story, and it is GLORIOUS.
She’s a legend. Someday she’ll be able to tell the full story, and it is GLORIOUS.
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Trying to explain that Chinese people do not want to buy Ford F-150s, but do want to pay a huge premium to consume higher education in the US. We are mostly a service economy, and Trump is trashing those services.
“There’s no American goods in foreign countries. And he’s trying to right that wrong.”
April 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Trying to explain that Chinese people do not want to buy Ford F-150s, but do want to pay a huge premium to consume higher education in the US. We are mostly a service economy, and Trump is trashing those services.
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This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that a gibberish idiom is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived -- often including reference links.
www.wired.com/story/google...
www.wired.com/story/google...
‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.
www.wired.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
www.thetimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
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THIS. It was sickening. They essentially argued that any book representing LGBTQ+ people in a positive light (eg. getting married, having a nice day, being people who, you know, exist in the world) was coercing or indoctrinating children.
It was disturbing to be in court today.
As I wrote:
[I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.
As I wrote:
[I]n an alarming sign for LGBTQ people, it was clear that at least three of the justices believe that describing queer people accurately — acknowledging their equal existence — amounts to taking sides or trying to “influence” children.
SCOTUS conservatives seem eager to increase parents' religious rights in public schools
Tuesday's arguments over Montgomery County schools' story-time sessions included alarming questions about LGBTQ people.
www.lawdork.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
THIS. It was sickening. They essentially argued that any book representing LGBTQ+ people in a positive light (eg. getting married, having a nice day, being people who, you know, exist in the world) was coercing or indoctrinating children.
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ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February.
If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
April 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
ICE has detained Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist from Russia working on major advancements in cancer detection, since mid-February.
If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
If deported, she could face arrest over her opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Another reminder that xenophobia hurts all of us.
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Hey chat, is this a violation of international humanitarian law?
SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me.
This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.
This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.
US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement
A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Hey chat, is this a violation of international humanitarian law?
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WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT NOT SENDING OUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?!!!!
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT NOT SENDING OUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?!!!!
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I’m going to be very blunt and say: do not send Atthis Arts any money or manuscripts. The four-alarm red-flag phrase here is “borrow … to pay due royalties.”
Let me explain for those who don’t already know roughly how money works in small presses.
Let me explain for those who don’t already know roughly how money works in small presses.
March 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I’m going to be very blunt and say: do not send Atthis Arts any money or manuscripts. The four-alarm red-flag phrase here is “borrow … to pay due royalties.”
Let me explain for those who don’t already know roughly how money works in small presses.
Let me explain for those who don’t already know roughly how money works in small presses.
Who is ready for the Murderbot adaptation?!
March 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Who is ready for the Murderbot adaptation?!
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This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.
Texas Republican Keithself storms out of the meeting he's supposed to be running because a Democrat asked him to treat his colleague Sarah McBride with respect. These people would not last one day as a trans person.
March 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.
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This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.
March 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This International Women's Day, I'm thinking about how it wasn't required for NIH-sponsored trials to include women until 1993.
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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations."
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources
U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations."
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Astonishing betrayal of an ally.
www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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“ in four years you wont have to vote again”
So Trump is now saying that the Federal Election Commission, which was an independent regulatory agency, "must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President."
February 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“ in four years you wont have to vote again”
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they might play sports in philadelphia but they dont play games
JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
February 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
they might play sports in philadelphia but they dont play games
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they really thought they could stop theater kids by threatening them with negative attention
School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".
In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.
www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED
A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.
www.kqed.org
February 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
they really thought they could stop theater kids by threatening them with negative attention
Me trying to rec @kitrocha.com’s books over on threads 🫠
February 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Me trying to rec @kitrocha.com’s books over on threads 🫠
February 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM