Lauren Royal
@laurenroyal.com
NYT & USA Today bestselling historical romance author. I ♡ my family, kittens/cats, games, Oxford commas, Hamilton, and HGTV.
Long Covid ✧ Crohn’s ✧ celiac ✧ gluten-free ✧ ADHD. ✡ She/her
#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver
#LoveIsLove #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Long Covid ✧ Crohn’s ✧ celiac ✧ gluten-free ✧ ADHD. ✡ She/her
#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver
#LoveIsLove #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Lauren Royal
@laurenroyal.com
· Nov 15
Dear Romance Readers: I don’t list Bluesky on my website or anywhere else, and that’s because I’m unmasked here—and by that I don’t mean I’ve stopped wearing N95 masks in public. 😷 What I mean... (1/3)
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The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."
Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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I need Pantone to step up with the 2026 colors of the year, I need them to be called things like Maybe It’ll Be Today Maroon and Fuck ICE Fuschia
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I need Pantone to step up with the 2026 colors of the year, I need them to be called things like Maybe It’ll Be Today Maroon and Fuck ICE Fuschia
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Apparently in the UK
hospital admissions for flu
have hit a record high
with the NHS warning
that the UK must prepare
for the“worst year ever,”
but here across the pond
we are ready,
yes, here in the US
we are quite ready,
we are ready
to keep pretending
that everything is fine.
hospital admissions for flu
have hit a record high
with the NHS warning
that the UK must prepare
for the“worst year ever,”
but here across the pond
we are ready,
yes, here in the US
we are quite ready,
we are ready
to keep pretending
that everything is fine.
December 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Apparently in the UK
hospital admissions for flu
have hit a record high
with the NHS warning
that the UK must prepare
for the“worst year ever,”
but here across the pond
we are ready,
yes, here in the US
we are quite ready,
we are ready
to keep pretending
that everything is fine.
hospital admissions for flu
have hit a record high
with the NHS warning
that the UK must prepare
for the“worst year ever,”
but here across the pond
we are ready,
yes, here in the US
we are quite ready,
we are ready
to keep pretending
that everything is fine.
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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"COVID Shots Tied to a Lower Risk of Death From Any Cause"
According to a nationwide study of 28 million people in France, vaccinated adults had a 74% lower risk of dying from severe COVID-19, and a 25% lower risk of death from any cause compared to unvaccinated.
Source: archive.md/me3mp
According to a nationwide study of 28 million people in France, vaccinated adults had a 74% lower risk of dying from severe COVID-19, and a 25% lower risk of death from any cause compared to unvaccinated.
Source: archive.md/me3mp
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"COVID Shots Tied to a Lower Risk of Death From Any Cause"
According to a nationwide study of 28 million people in France, vaccinated adults had a 74% lower risk of dying from severe COVID-19, and a 25% lower risk of death from any cause compared to unvaccinated.
Source: archive.md/me3mp
According to a nationwide study of 28 million people in France, vaccinated adults had a 74% lower risk of dying from severe COVID-19, and a 25% lower risk of death from any cause compared to unvaccinated.
Source: archive.md/me3mp
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To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
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The White House is launching a “Media Bias Offender Tip Line” and asking Americans to hold the fake news accountable
It would be a real shame if they were flooded with calls reporting Karoline Leavitt for being “fake news”
It would be a real shame if they were flooded with calls reporting Karoline Leavitt for being “fake news”
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The White House is launching a “Media Bias Offender Tip Line” and asking Americans to hold the fake news accountable
It would be a real shame if they were flooded with calls reporting Karoline Leavitt for being “fake news”
It would be a real shame if they were flooded with calls reporting Karoline Leavitt for being “fake news”
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Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Hey America, if you were a Christian nation, you’d be feeding the poor, not yelling at them for using food stamps.
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Every single day he just gets more pathetic, I don't even know how that's possible
“Donald J. Trump” is now emblazoned in several places on the building that houses the U.S. Institute of Peace in downtown D.C., according to eyewitnesses and photos obtained by The Post.
Building gets a new name: The ‘Donald J. Trump’ Institute of Peace
The changes comes as Trump’s administration has touted his peace deals and ahead of a signing of a deal between the leaders from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo this week.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Every single day he just gets more pathetic, I don't even know how that's possible
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ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ATTN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: The VA sent out an announcement with a link for employees to self-report their disabilities. I wouldn’t do this if I were you. They’ll likely use it to discriminate against you.
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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A year ago we were explaining nuance. Now we're defending that vaccines don't cause autism. In 2025.
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from seeing something coming, having the evidence, and watching it happen anyway.
They said they weren't coming for vaccines. We knew.
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from seeing something coming, having the evidence, and watching it happen anyway.
They said they weren't coming for vaccines. We knew.
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A year ago we were explaining nuance. Now we're defending that vaccines don't cause autism. In 2025.
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from seeing something coming, having the evidence, and watching it happen anyway.
They said they weren't coming for vaccines. We knew.
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from seeing something coming, having the evidence, and watching it happen anyway.
They said they weren't coming for vaccines. We knew.
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Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Maybe we should just, y’know, give everybody adequate time to complete their tests. Maybe timed tests are mostly measuring things like “did you get a good night’s sleep last night?” that we don’t actually need to measure.
Even by the standards of The Atlantic, this is an extraordinarily weak evidence base for an article.
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Data from a tiny handful of schools that isn't measuring the variable at issue and a few thin, secondhand anecdotes.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Maybe we should just, y’know, give everybody adequate time to complete their tests. Maybe timed tests are mostly measuring things like “did you get a good night’s sleep last night?” that we don’t actually need to measure.
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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I don't know enough but shouldn't they all have ear pieces? Can anyone cross reference what agents there that day and if they were in other details? I don't seem to remember Trump having women on his detail ever.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I don't know enough but shouldn't they all have ear pieces? Can anyone cross reference what agents there that day and if they were in other details? I don't seem to remember Trump having women on his detail ever.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
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English actress Ellen Terry. This photo looks amazingly modern but was taken 161 years ago (in 1864). Ellen Terry went on to have a distinguished acting career and passed away in 1928. (Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron).
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
English actress Ellen Terry. This photo looks amazingly modern but was taken 161 years ago (in 1864). Ellen Terry went on to have a distinguished acting career and passed away in 1928. (Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron).
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I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay