Rochellefiguringitout (Emmalita)
@rochellej.bsky.social
Outside of a book or the kitchen, I have no idea what I’m doing. Cannonball Read’s self-appointed cruise director
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When Texas tried to steal 5 seats, I said to watch the litigation my law firm had filed because we had a good chance of winning in court. Today a federal court BLOCKED THE MAP.
While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
When Texas tried to steal 5 seats, I said to watch the litigation my law firm had filed because we had a good chance of winning in court. Today a federal court BLOCKED THE MAP.
While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Happy Thursday! Almost through the week. We're still sitting still at $1473 short of the goal of paying November's overdue bills. I keep vascillating between real scared and just numb. It's been a hard year.
Thank you so much for all your help! Remember even just sharing this can make a difference.
Thank you so much for all your help! Remember even just sharing this can make a difference.
I was just laid off for the second time this year. It's going to be a hard fall and winter. My safety net, as is the case for too many of us especially these days, is the kindness and generosity of friends and strangers. Anything helps.
Paypal: affirmationgin at gmail
Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis
Paypal: affirmationgin at gmail
Cashapp/venmo: showupforthis
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happy Thursday! Almost through the week. We're still sitting still at $1473 short of the goal of paying November's overdue bills. I keep vascillating between real scared and just numb. It's been a hard year.
Thank you so much for all your help! Remember even just sharing this can make a difference.
Thank you so much for all your help! Remember even just sharing this can make a difference.
I think one of the reasons I like friends to lovers romances more now is because the thought of investing energy into a romantic relationship with someone completely new makes me want to sleep for 100 years. Not that I actually have any friends I would want to become lovers, just conceptually
November 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I think one of the reasons I like friends to lovers romances more now is because the thought of investing energy into a romantic relationship with someone completely new makes me want to sleep for 100 years. Not that I actually have any friends I would want to become lovers, just conceptually
We ordered Thai food tonight, I opened my container of stir fried rice noodles and saw a green bean poking out of the noodles so I popped it in my mouth and started chewing.
You know where this is going.
It was not, in fact, a green bean.
Fortunately, I have a high heat tolerance.
You know where this is going.
It was not, in fact, a green bean.
Fortunately, I have a high heat tolerance.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
We ordered Thai food tonight, I opened my container of stir fried rice noodles and saw a green bean poking out of the noodles so I popped it in my mouth and started chewing.
You know where this is going.
It was not, in fact, a green bean.
Fortunately, I have a high heat tolerance.
You know where this is going.
It was not, in fact, a green bean.
Fortunately, I have a high heat tolerance.
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Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.
A friend who is having knee replacement surgery next week asked me to help her with errands yesterday. When she said she wanted to buy canned goods for the food bank I pointed out they would rather have $. We talked about it for a while, mostly I let her talk through her feelings…
November 6, 2025 at 4:09 AM
A friend who is having knee replacement surgery next week asked me to help her with errands yesterday. When she said she wanted to buy canned goods for the food bank I pointed out they would rather have $. We talked about it for a while, mostly I let her talk through her feelings…
My favorite part of every day is the moment when I go to bed. The day is over and no matter what the next day is going to be like, it isn’t here yet.
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
My favorite part of every day is the moment when I go to bed. The day is over and no matter what the next day is going to be like, it isn’t here yet.
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We finally got a group of trick-or-treaters. When I opened the door I commented that they were the first we’d seen. One of the older boys said, “I remember you from last year. You wanted us to take 2 or 3 bags of chips.” I laughed and told the group to take 2 or 3 bags of chips.
November 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
We finally got a group of trick-or-treaters. When I opened the door I commented that they were the first we’d seen. One of the older boys said, “I remember you from last year. You wanted us to take 2 or 3 bags of chips.” I laughed and told the group to take 2 or 3 bags of chips.
2 good things about today. I’ve had a splinter in an inconvenient place on my right hand for days. Today a friend stopped by and I got the bright idea to ask for help. It took 2 minutes.
I remembered I had 1 more birthday cinnamon roll in the freezer. It’s in my belly now.
I remembered I had 1 more birthday cinnamon roll in the freezer. It’s in my belly now.
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
2 good things about today. I’ve had a splinter in an inconvenient place on my right hand for days. Today a friend stopped by and I got the bright idea to ask for help. It took 2 minutes.
I remembered I had 1 more birthday cinnamon roll in the freezer. It’s in my belly now.
I remembered I had 1 more birthday cinnamon roll in the freezer. It’s in my belly now.
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💜✨ Turn up the compassion. Turn up the courage. Turn up the love. 💜✨
#LoveMustBeLouder #ThePowerOfUs #HumanismInAction #EthicalHumanism #EthicalSTL #ChooseCompassion
#LoveMustBeLouder #ThePowerOfUs #HumanismInAction #EthicalHumanism #EthicalSTL #ChooseCompassion
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
💜✨ Turn up the compassion. Turn up the courage. Turn up the love. 💜✨
#LoveMustBeLouder #ThePowerOfUs #HumanismInAction #EthicalHumanism #EthicalSTL #ChooseCompassion
#LoveMustBeLouder #ThePowerOfUs #HumanismInAction #EthicalHumanism #EthicalSTL #ChooseCompassion
For the Steamy Lit Foundation fundraiser, I am offering 2 one hour sessions over zoom to help you declutter, clean, or organize. I only offer this as a fundraising item. Take advantage of my 10+ years of experience and support Steamy Lit.
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
For the Steamy Lit Foundation fundraiser, I am offering 2 one hour sessions over zoom to help you declutter, clean, or organize. I only offer this as a fundraising item. Take advantage of my 10+ years of experience and support Steamy Lit.
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I have a new novelette out today! It's about disabled people caring for one another--even when one of them is a phantom.
It's free to read at @reactorsff.bsky.social.
It's free to read at @reactorsff.bsky.social.
New story day!
"Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.
"Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.
Phantom View - Reactor
A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father try to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.
reactormag.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I have a new novelette out today! It's about disabled people caring for one another--even when one of them is a phantom.
It's free to read at @reactorsff.bsky.social.
It's free to read at @reactorsff.bsky.social.
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Were you not able to participate in #NoKings?
Or did you go and are looking for somewhere to put that energy?
Here's two things anyone can do (from home! which take 5 min!):
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Or did you go and are looking for somewhere to put that energy?
Here's two things anyone can do (from home! which take 5 min!):
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Two things you can do to help remove RFK Jr:
1) Call your electeds and tell them he needs to go. There's already drafts of impeachment/removal work in both House and Senate. Tell electeds to support them.
2) Sign the petition that'll go to the HELP Committee in the Senate at firerfk.wordpress.com
1) Call your electeds and tell them he needs to go. There's already drafts of impeachment/removal work in both House and Senate. Tell electeds to support them.
2) Sign the petition that'll go to the HELP Committee in the Senate at firerfk.wordpress.com
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
October 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Were you not able to participate in #NoKings?
Or did you go and are looking for somewhere to put that energy?
Here's two things anyone can do (from home! which take 5 min!):
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Or did you go and are looking for somewhere to put that energy?
Here's two things anyone can do (from home! which take 5 min!):
bsky.app/profile/did:...
The Steamy Lit fundraiser auction starts in a couple of hours and I am offering 2 zoom decluttering sessions for 1 hour each. Take advantage of my many years of experience and support Steamy Lit’s mission. Auction link in next comment
October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Steamy Lit fundraiser auction starts in a couple of hours and I am offering 2 zoom decluttering sessions for 1 hour each. Take advantage of my many years of experience and support Steamy Lit’s mission. Auction link in next comment
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Our Ancient Tome book boxes are the best way to hide your treasures! This one is book-themed (a bit meta) and hand-painted in several shades of blue with a pearlescent shimmer!
thebrokencircle.etsy...
thebrokencircle.etsy...
October 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Our Ancient Tome book boxes are the best way to hide your treasures! This one is book-themed (a bit meta) and hand-painted in several shades of blue with a pearlescent shimmer!
thebrokencircle.etsy...
thebrokencircle.etsy...
My haul from the bookstore. I finally picked up my preorder of Liz Gotauco’s F*cked Up Fairy Tales and then I needed a couple more books - Nadine Gonzalez’ Only Lovers in the Building and Janine Amesta’s Love at First Flight. We read Latine books all year.
October 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My haul from the bookstore. I finally picked up my preorder of Liz Gotauco’s F*cked Up Fairy Tales and then I needed a couple more books - Nadine Gonzalez’ Only Lovers in the Building and Janine Amesta’s Love at First Flight. We read Latine books all year.
A lot is terrible so I am experimenting with chocolate sourdough starter. This is my first loaf from the starter. I’m pleased.
October 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A lot is terrible so I am experimenting with chocolate sourdough starter. This is my first loaf from the starter. I’m pleased.
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Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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“I got out of my car and tried to explain that I was a U.S. citizen and an Army veteran just trying to get to my job. They didn’t care.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next
OPINION: “No matter your race, background or beliefs — none of us should have to fear being silenced, detained or dehumanized by the very government meant to protect us.”
www.sfchronicle.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“I got out of my car and tried to explain that I was a U.S. citizen and an Army veteran just trying to get to my job. They didn’t care.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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I've taken the time to track more than a dozen ICE claims about officers being assaulted through the eventual dismissal of the charges, every single time, when video evidence proves ICE was lying. Their lies are relentless.
ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.
White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.
n.pr
October 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I've taken the time to track more than a dozen ICE claims about officers being assaulted through the eventual dismissal of the charges, every single time, when video evidence proves ICE was lying. Their lies are relentless.
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I wrote this a couple of years ago, but it’s always worth reuping in October. romancehistory.com/2023/10/03/l...
Lest We Forget- Ann Wassall, Pamela Macaluso, and Nancy Richards-Akers
In the world of romance fiction, 1996 was ages ago. As was 1997 and 1999. Authors and readers have come and gone multiple times over since then, as have entire publishing companies and subgenres. L…
romancehistory.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I wrote this a couple of years ago, but it’s always worth reuping in October. romancehistory.com/2023/10/03/l...
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
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If you want a quick/easy way to find contact info for your electeds, 5calls.org has phone numbers and scripts for you to use on a number of issues.
Phone not happening today? Every senator and representative should have a "contact me" form on their website, and you can paste the script from 5calls.
Phone not happening today? Every senator and representative should have a "contact me" form on their website, and you can paste the script from 5calls.
It's my birthday! And my bday wish is for you to do something to help democracy/community. You could:
Call/email your reps
Donate to a food pantry
Help a disabled friend bring in groceries
Babysit so friends w kids can go to a protest
Help fix a nonprofit's website
The possibilities are endless!
Call/email your reps
Donate to a food pantry
Help a disabled friend bring in groceries
Babysit so friends w kids can go to a protest
Help fix a nonprofit's website
The possibilities are endless!
September 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you want a quick/easy way to find contact info for your electeds, 5calls.org has phone numbers and scripts for you to use on a number of issues.
Phone not happening today? Every senator and representative should have a "contact me" form on their website, and you can paste the script from 5calls.
Phone not happening today? Every senator and representative should have a "contact me" form on their website, and you can paste the script from 5calls.