Leslie Gardner
@lesliegardner.bsky.social
International literary agent (Artellus Ltd); assoc to dept Psychosocial + psychoanalytic Studies at university of Essex .. feminist and book lover ...views my own!!
Yeah but bank branches are closing too!
I just go the bank branch to sort anything out.
May 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Yeah but bank branches are closing too!
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A lot of people (self included!) have been deeply trained to not "cause a fuss," to not "act out." To avoid speaking up or taking action. But you can unlearn this.
Every time you take action, it strengthens your resistance muscles. Make a call. Send an email. Put up a flyer. Keep standing up.
Every time you take action, it strengthens your resistance muscles. Make a call. Send an email. Put up a flyer. Keep standing up.
1. Finally some fight.
"Have you no decency!?" asked Rep. Keating after a Republican rep called Sarah McBride "Mr. McBride" repeatedly.
McBride shot back, calling the chairman "Madam Chairman."
Fireworks erupted, Dems protested, and the hearing was cancelled.
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"Have you no decency!?" asked Rep. Keating after a Republican rep called Sarah McBride "Mr. McBride" repeatedly.
McBride shot back, calling the chairman "Madam Chairman."
Fireworks erupted, Dems protested, and the hearing was cancelled.
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"Have You No Decency?": Republican Calls Sarah McBride "Mister," Dems Erupt And End Hearing
During a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Republican representative, Rep. Keith Self, called transgender congresswoman the "gentleman from Delaware." Dems pushed back.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A lot of people (self included!) have been deeply trained to not "cause a fuss," to not "act out." To avoid speaking up or taking action. But you can unlearn this.
Every time you take action, it strengthens your resistance muscles. Make a call. Send an email. Put up a flyer. Keep standing up.
Every time you take action, it strengthens your resistance muscles. Make a call. Send an email. Put up a flyer. Keep standing up.
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In the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump and J. D. Vance nakedly sided with Russian aggression and berated Volodymyr Zelensky “with all the finesse of a couple of small-time hoods,” David Remnick writes.
Trump’s Disgrace
David Remnick on the temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats and firings, the multiple DOGE fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians, and his showdown with Volodym...
www.newyorker.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
In the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump and J. D. Vance nakedly sided with Russian aggression and berated Volodymyr Zelensky “with all the finesse of a couple of small-time hoods,” David Remnick writes.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday and told him he had the U.K.’s unwavering support, a day after the blowout at the White House with President Donald Trump.
Zelenskyy embraced by British prime minister a day after White House blowout
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday and told him he had the U.K.’s unwavering support, a day after the blowout at the White House with President Donald Trump.
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March 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday and told him he had the U.K.’s unwavering support, a day after the blowout at the White House with President Donald Trump.
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Federal workers choose public service to serve our people, but the Trump administration wants to traumatize them.
We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors.
We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.
We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors.
We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.
February 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Federal workers choose public service to serve our people, but the Trump administration wants to traumatize them.
We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors.
We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.
We need cancer researchers, forest service firefighters, nuclear safety experts, VA nurses and food safety inspectors.
We don’t need Elon Musk, whatever his job is.
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It’s a rapeocracy
BREAKING
Andrew and Tristan Tate have been released by Romanian authorities after significant pressure by the Trump administration.
They are en route to Florida via private jet.
Andrew and Tristan Tate have been released by Romanian authorities after significant pressure by the Trump administration.
They are en route to Florida via private jet.
February 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s a rapeocracy
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Reading from The Boy I Love ☺️
February 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Reading from The Boy I Love ☺️
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I’m judging the Plough Poetry Prize this year, deadline 28 March, first prize is £1,000. Send us your best poems!
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...
The Plough Prize - 2025
International Poetry Competition Now in its twenty second year, the Plough Poetry Prize is an international open competition for poems in English up to 40 lines on any subject. The competition this ye...
www.theploughartscentre.org.uk
February 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize opens now, closes in June. The prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri
Details in link.
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Details in link.
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Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Since its inception fifteen years ago, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize has awarded some of the most exciting new voices in life writing, poetry…
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February 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize opens now, closes in June. The prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
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Thank you Bo Mandeville for your wonderful review of My Hummingbird Father on amazon, very appreciated, every review/rating helps authors to sell their books ❤️🌹❤️ @saltpublishing.com @artellusltd.bsky.social
Review on Amazon: Mesmerising, poetic and captivating amzn.eu/d/3h2GvLB
Review on Amazon: Mesmerising, poetic and captivating amzn.eu/d/3h2GvLB
Check out this Amazon review of My Hummingbird Father: A beautifully lyrical debut novel from the Ondaatje and Laurel Prize-winning author (Salt Modern Fiction)
Mesmerising, poetic and captivating
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February 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Thank you Bo Mandeville for your wonderful review of My Hummingbird Father on amazon, very appreciated, every review/rating helps authors to sell their books ❤️🌹❤️ @saltpublishing.com @artellusltd.bsky.social
Review on Amazon: Mesmerising, poetic and captivating amzn.eu/d/3h2GvLB
Review on Amazon: Mesmerising, poetic and captivating amzn.eu/d/3h2GvLB
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The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025
Please share :)
www.writingtheheroine.com
Please share :)
www.writingtheheroine.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025
Please share :)
www.writingtheheroine.com
Please share :)
www.writingtheheroine.com
All I can think of abt Trump's imagining it's easy to give up home, and resettle, is that he has no attachments and doesn't know it's a real experience; no real home himself
February 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
All I can think of abt Trump's imagining it's easy to give up home, and resettle, is that he has no attachments and doesn't know it's a real experience; no real home himself
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Hope so.
donald trump sits at a desk with a bald eagle
ALT: donald trump sits at a desk with a bald eagle
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February 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hope so.
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my god PLEASE do not sign up online for an organized general strike via a slick looking website claiming hundreds of thousands have already registered.
even if it's not a honeypot, it's still going to be a honeypot.
even if it's not a honeypot, it's still going to be a honeypot.
February 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
my god PLEASE do not sign up online for an organized general strike via a slick looking website claiming hundreds of thousands have already registered.
even if it's not a honeypot, it's still going to be a honeypot.
even if it's not a honeypot, it's still going to be a honeypot.
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This isn't my first or even second time at the rodeo. I dealt with Ronald Reagan & George Bush trying to kill my community by ignoring the AIDS epidemic. It happened again when I lived in South Africa with Thabo Mbeki. And we won twice. So: courage. We will beat them too. Stay focused. Get to work.
February 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This isn't my first or even second time at the rodeo. I dealt with Ronald Reagan & George Bush trying to kill my community by ignoring the AIDS epidemic. It happened again when I lived in South Africa with Thabo Mbeki. And we won twice. So: courage. We will beat them too. Stay focused. Get to work.
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Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
February 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
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"The throughline of all of Mr. Trump's criminal efforts was deceit ... and the evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the democratic process," the report says.
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January 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"The throughline of all of Mr. Trump's criminal efforts was deceit ... and the evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the democratic process," the report says.
https://buff.ly/3C8jlv0
https://buff.ly/3C8jlv0
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MP launches legal action against Andrew Tate over social media posts
MP launches legal action against Andrew Tate over social media posts
Lawyer for Northern Ireland MP Sorcha Eastwood said posts were made the day after Commons debate on violence against women and girls
A Northern Ireland MP has launched legal action against the self-styled misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother over…
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
MP launches legal action against Andrew Tate over social media posts
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Important! We do not support the new exception to copyright in a consultation launched by the govt. Current copyright laws must be respected & enforceable.
Pls write to your MP using the following link with letter.
#AI #Writingcommunity #Publishing
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP?mc_cid=bd...
Pls write to your MP using the following link with letter.
#AI #Writingcommunity #Publishing
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP?mc_cid=bd...
Safeguard Creative Rights in AI
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk
January 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Important! We do not support the new exception to copyright in a consultation launched by the govt. Current copyright laws must be respected & enforceable.
Pls write to your MP using the following link with letter.
#AI #Writingcommunity #Publishing
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP?mc_cid=bd...
Pls write to your MP using the following link with letter.
#AI #Writingcommunity #Publishing
creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP?mc_cid=bd...
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If you like your heists with an unlikely band of misfits, vampires, anti-colonialism, and cups of tea, might I suggest this offering from Hafsah Faizal.
January 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If you like your heists with an unlikely band of misfits, vampires, anti-colonialism, and cups of tea, might I suggest this offering from Hafsah Faizal.
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A tutorial on how oligarchs govern:
1. Elon says no.
2. Elon tweets no.
3. Someone reads Elon's tweet to Elon's purchased President.
4. Elon's purchased President says no.
1. Elon says no.
2. Elon tweets no.
3. Someone reads Elon's tweet to Elon's purchased President.
4. Elon's purchased President says no.
December 18, 2024 at 10:41 PM
A tutorial on how oligarchs govern:
1. Elon says no.
2. Elon tweets no.
3. Someone reads Elon's tweet to Elon's purchased President.
4. Elon's purchased President says no.
1. Elon says no.
2. Elon tweets no.
3. Someone reads Elon's tweet to Elon's purchased President.
4. Elon's purchased President says no.