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Alia Maria
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I sell books to bookstores. Bit of a twerp, certainly a bruja. Cuban Miamian living in NYC. Her/ella
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🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration?

I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for *meaningful* opposition to each.

I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24
February 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I think everyone should watch wicked but also it is not a good movie
December 3, 2024 at 6:12 PM
jesus, the levine querido list gives me mad hope
November 19, 2024 at 8:46 PM
what are we seeing move the needle when it comes to the midlist? Reviews are late; mktg is fake or for amaz*n; every year the ARC cuts are more and more w/ the caveat of digital. Has ANYTHING been helping? IDEK how we get the big mouths to talk bc we're all sad or whatever.
November 19, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Staying up late past your bed time when ur 30ish is more mental health issues than cool kid stuff.
November 15, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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Bumping this - I talked to my Senator on the Judiciary Committee and the staffer who picked up was very supportive. I said I'll tell my friends in other states to call their Senators, too, and her response was "call, call, call, every minute of every day. It makes a big difference"

(202)224-3121
Okay, all. As promised.

1. Here is the call script to ask our Dem Senators to appoint judges.

2. And a second script *specifically* for New Yorkers to use for Schumer.
November 14, 2024 at 9:45 PM
my favorite thing about living in nyc these days is the fact that you can play the lotto online.
November 14, 2024 at 9:52 PM
My favorite thing to do now is shake my milk up before pouring it into my coffee so I’ve made a lazy American cappuccino
October 24, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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Anyone need a book recommendation? I'm up watching the Bruins for a little bit & trying to catch up on some writing & reading as well, but it's been a minute since I've recommended books on here, so why not add that too.
October 23, 2024 at 1:46 AM
I hate life with AI prompts
October 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM
I didn’t realize how much lexapro made me sweat until I got off it and while I’m grateful for how it helped, I’m so fucking happy to not be sweating for no reason
January 2, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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“Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands.”

Love this whole article.
December 29, 2023 at 9:41 PM
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My latest newsletter is about the attempts to evict Bluestockings, and the new laws that require maximum cruelty towards unhoused people.

And I talk about why we want to judge unhoused people for their behavior, and how it's part of our American disease.

buttondown.email/charliejane/...
December 27, 2023 at 6:24 PM
Reese’s movie when?
November 27, 2023 at 10:55 PM
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also just my opinion but if you're taking the carcass straight from dinner to the stockpot you're missing a crucial important intermediate step of roasting the bones first
shout out to all the dads making turkey stock right now against their partner’s express wishes
November 24, 2023 at 3:26 AM
Gimme ur Greece/crete/athens recs
November 22, 2023 at 4:42 AM
I’m told ghost story
New tag yourself just dropped

I'm "washwoman objected to her"

(From Chicago Tribune, Illinois, October 15, 1905 apparently)
November 10, 2023 at 1:21 AM
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ICYMI: I have two items up for the Books for Palestine auction and they’re still pretty low 👀

*extremely Meredith Gray voice* Pick me, choose me, love me…for some great causes! 🍉
November 8, 2023 at 7:38 PM
Do you think the orcas saw avatar 2 and got inspired?
November 8, 2023 at 7:52 PM
I LOVE my cats so much.
November 8, 2023 at 7:26 PM
A big thing I keep looking at on that CT book deal announcement is the fact that publisher and trade outlet were ok with not ID’ing main character but the love interest gets called out as a Black nanny…
November 4, 2023 at 4:17 AM
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I don't know what'll happen if I don't make payments on time for the Japan trip. I didn't know there WERE payment dates.

Maybe I shouldn't have signed up to go.
$400 is due Nov 9.
I don't know if I'll make that with kiddo's payment due too.
Why did I have to have no money.
So if you wanna donate.😭
Pay Kelly Russell using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/panediting and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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November 3, 2023 at 1:20 AM
Let’s say you’re adopting two kittens and you want to make smell is not a thing after being scarred from smelly apts where you catsat…what cat litter things would you buy/get?
October 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM
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Happy Indigenous People's day, the crimes of the conquistadors were known and recorded not just by their victims but by their cultural and linguistic contemporaries.
Catherine's tweet is one of the best. Bringing it over here for preservation.
October 9, 2023 at 12:58 PM
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I think as Banned Books week is celebrated we in the book industry need to ask two questions about what we're doing: Does it provide access to books to those who have lost it? And. Does it help create a political system in which book bans don't happen at all?
October 3, 2023 at 12:28 PM