Manda Collins 🐈📚🔎💕
@mandacollins.bsky.social
She/her - Romance/mystery author; Too Nora Roberts™; Bama native #disabled Join my mailing list https://t.co/v60MSLiklr @hroot @rootliterary MA, MLIS, *CCH
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Why am I asking my followers and friend to help me pack @yellowfund.bsky.social Mobile Resource Center?
It’s been on a big ass trip! Each of these hearts represents a community that received free diapers, period products, safer sex kits, and lunches.
Help me pack the bus! a.co/feO0YqY
It’s been on a big ass trip! Each of these hearts represents a community that received free diapers, period products, safer sex kits, and lunches.
Help me pack the bus! a.co/feO0YqY
March 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Why am I asking my followers and friend to help me pack @yellowfund.bsky.social Mobile Resource Center?
It’s been on a big ass trip! Each of these hearts represents a community that received free diapers, period products, safer sex kits, and lunches.
Help me pack the bus! a.co/feO0YqY
It’s been on a big ass trip! Each of these hearts represents a community that received free diapers, period products, safer sex kits, and lunches.
Help me pack the bus! a.co/feO0YqY
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As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
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Crockett: I want to be clear about one thing. Women's issues, they are all of our issues. Because the last time I checked, we all came from a woman.
March 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Crockett: I want to be clear about one thing. Women's issues, they are all of our issues. Because the last time I checked, we all came from a woman.
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After Green interrupted last night, another Democrat should have done the same thing. And then another, until all of them had to be removed. Delay the speech by a few hours. Or walk out en masse. Anything.
Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.
Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.
March 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
After Green interrupted last night, another Democrat should have done the same thing. And then another, until all of them had to be removed. Delay the speech by a few hours. Or walk out en masse. Anything.
Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.
Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.
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Nothing but respect for my president.
As Trump lauds Elon Musk and Republicans go wild, camera briefly cuts to Elizabeth Warren playing Candy Crush on her phone
March 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Nothing but respect for my president.
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- now, attacking Democrats in this way, is what happens in failing democracies.
I've seen it throughout my work, and I want to be clear about that. This isn't just a Trump thing we can shrug about. This is very much a failing democracy sign post, and we have to call it for what it is.
I've seen it throughout my work, and I want to be clear about that. This isn't just a Trump thing we can shrug about. This is very much a failing democracy sign post, and we have to call it for what it is.
March 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
- now, attacking Democrats in this way, is what happens in failing democracies.
I've seen it throughout my work, and I want to be clear about that. This isn't just a Trump thing we can shrug about. This is very much a failing democracy sign post, and we have to call it for what it is.
I've seen it throughout my work, and I want to be clear about that. This isn't just a Trump thing we can shrug about. This is very much a failing democracy sign post, and we have to call it for what it is.
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It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.
February 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.
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I am a ROMANCE NOVELIST. I write FICTION.
I have more fidelity to historical context and background in my "let's take a break for a few hours" books than these ghouls do in their attempts to redo Dred Scott so they can rip citizenship from the arms of literal babies.
I have more fidelity to historical context and background in my "let's take a break for a few hours" books than these ghouls do in their attempts to redo Dred Scott so they can rip citizenship from the arms of literal babies.
February 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I am a ROMANCE NOVELIST. I write FICTION.
I have more fidelity to historical context and background in my "let's take a break for a few hours" books than these ghouls do in their attempts to redo Dred Scott so they can rip citizenship from the arms of literal babies.
I have more fidelity to historical context and background in my "let's take a break for a few hours" books than these ghouls do in their attempts to redo Dred Scott so they can rip citizenship from the arms of literal babies.
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What a remarkable self-own. It’s like watching a bunch of firefighters stand around looking at a burning house, annoyed because people keep calling them about it. “What do you want us to do? We didn’t set the fire! Call the arsonist.”
February 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
What a remarkable self-own. It’s like watching a bunch of firefighters stand around looking at a burning house, annoyed because people keep calling them about it. “What do you want us to do? We didn’t set the fire! Call the arsonist.”
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People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
February 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
A New York City doctor said he will continue providing gender-affirming treatments to his patients younger than 19 despite President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to ban such care.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing”
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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February 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing”
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
This is so good!
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole is $1.99! I haven't read this because I don't do scary but it comes highly recommended
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When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
A Thriller
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February 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This is so good!
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*taps the alt text*
February 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
*taps the alt text*
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It was always obvious that the right-wing moral panic around universities had nothing to do with "free speech". It was about delegitimising critical & dissenting intellectual activity, with a view to suppressing it altogether. Far too many liberals were taken in by this transparent, reactionary scam
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It was always obvious that the right-wing moral panic around universities had nothing to do with "free speech". It was about delegitimising critical & dissenting intellectual activity, with a view to suppressing it altogether. Far too many liberals were taken in by this transparent, reactionary scam
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Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
Musk staff have access to student aid data now.
February 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
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The scale and nature of this breach is insane, but under the current regime (no congressional oversight and no law enforcement) it’s unclear to me how any of the damage can be verifiably reversed.
February 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The scale and nature of this breach is insane, but under the current regime (no congressional oversight and no law enforcement) it’s unclear to me how any of the damage can be verifiably reversed.
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And what got us here is “the president can’t do that because the parliamentarian said so”*
* if the president is a Democrat
* if the president is a Democrat
We sure went from “the president can’t be charged with crimes” to “people working for the president don’t have to follow the law” awfully quickly.
February 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
And what got us here is “the president can’t do that because the parliamentarian said so”*
* if the president is a Democrat
* if the president is a Democrat
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A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …
February 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …
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✨ MISDIRECTED is out today, available now on Audible. Narrated by the fantastic Nicola Coughlan and Gwilym Lee. Thank you so much if you pick it up! 💕❤️
February 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
✨ MISDIRECTED is out today, available now on Audible. Narrated by the fantastic Nicola Coughlan and Gwilym Lee. Thank you so much if you pick it up! 💕❤️
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Just a reminder that people used to put paint and formaldehyde into milk and there had to be a huge movement to get proper food regulation, and without it people will die www.eater.com/2020/1/28/21...
We Owe Food Regulation to a 19th-Century Chemist Who Poisoned His Colleagues
The Poison Squad, as they became known, was a group of men who willingly consumed dangerous substances to force the government into consumer protections
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November 7, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Just a reminder that people used to put paint and formaldehyde into milk and there had to be a huge movement to get proper food regulation, and without it people will die www.eater.com/2020/1/28/21...
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I think body slamming one of these DOGE guys through a table when they show up at your little part of the Department of Agriculture that weighs cows would actually have an impact
February 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I think body slamming one of these DOGE guys through a table when they show up at your little part of the Department of Agriculture that weighs cows would actually have an impact
Who needs oxygen and water anyway?
The Trump administration has notified more than 1,000 employees at the EPA that they could be dismissed immediately.
More than 1,000 EPA employees are told they could be dismissed immediately
An email last week informed some workers that they had been identified as probationary and could be terminated.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Who needs oxygen and water anyway?
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Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.