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Roxana Arama, Author
@roxanaarama.com
Award-winning Romanian American author
Thriller meets speculative fiction

THE REGOLITH TEMPLE: A Sci-Fi Thriller
THE EXILED QUEEN: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
EXTREME VETTING: A Thriller

Lead Editor, Planetside: The Online Magazine of SFWA
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It's pub day for CURSED PRINCESS CLUB: A MOST UNUSUAL PRINCESS, my early YA novel (ages 12+) adapted from LambCat's webcomic & graphic novel! @slj.com called it "endearing & hilarious!" 💕 Come celebrate tonight at @wordbookstores.bsky.social in Brooklyn! Cupcakes, fun prizes, and signed books!
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Amazon, breathe easier. Colombia has just declared 42% of its territory a rainforest reserve. All new large-scale extraction is now off the table in this part of the Amazon. One step closer to the lungs of our planet breathing easy for us all.

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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence.”

U.S. Catholic Bishops voted 216-5 in a historic rebuke of Trump’s inhumane immigration policies. Republicans should follow their lead. theweek.com/politics/cat...
Catholic bishops rebuke Trump on immigration
‘We feel compelled’ to ‘raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,’ the bishops said
theweek.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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We're worrying less, and we're on our way to enjoying life as much as we did in 2006. Sometimes stats can provide a profound visual poignancy. Look at how the nadir of COVID is represented in this graph, and the gradual release from peak worry we've been experiencing.

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November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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An 'Alliance' feels like a pretty powerful thing to be part of, especially one with a clever, catchy name. No wonder so many countries have joined the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance' (see what they did there?) Morocco's the latest, with a pledge to be coal-free by 2050.

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November 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Another ripple in Africa's 'restoration wave': a World Bank programme has revived 2,400 hectares of farmland in Chad and supported 434,000 people with irrigation, solar pumps and jobs, showing how regeneration and livelihoods can grow together.

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November 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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"Cut the green crap.” said David Cameron. And now the 'green' is the one doing the cutting: at least £104 billion cut from energy costs in the UK by wind power since 2010.

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November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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My shadow hearings are how we can conduct oversight on Trump’s horrifying immigration actions.

We can and must continue shining a light on this lawlessness.
November 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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It ain't just dirt.

Soil health is at the heart of human sustenance and soil degradation has been a looming threat for humanity for decades. The EU’s recently approved Soil Monitoring Law marks a historic first step towards turning that degradation around in Europe.

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November 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It ain't just dirt.

Soil health is at the heart of human sustenance and soil degradation has been a looming threat for humanity for decades. The EU’s recently approved Soil Monitoring Law marks a historic first step towards turning that degradation around in Europe.
November 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Levels of anger, sadness and stress have been creeping up year after year according to polls. That is now changing, but unevenly so. Our charts explain how econ.st/3WtOC2c
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Humanity is entering a new era of global health.

Since 2010, humanity’s overall burden of disease has dropped 12.6%, and deaths from the world’s deadliest infectious illnesses - tuberculosis, diarrhoea, HIV, malaria, pneumonia - have plunged by between 35% and 60%.

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October 21, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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The power price turnaround in Spain.

Spain has broken the link between power prices and fossil fuels. Renewables now supply nearly half the country’s power, cutting fossil fuel influence on prices from 75% in 2019 to just 19% this year. 

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October 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Dams in the hands of conservationists.

The sale of four hydroelectric dams to conservationists in Maine paves the way for the largest river-restoration effort in US history and could reopen hundreds of kilometres of spawning habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon.

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October 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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There is no insurrection in Portland unless you consider an uptick of people wearing inflatable frog costumes an insurrection.

No one is falling for this absurd propaganda, and there is NO justification for deploying our troops against peaceful American citizens.
WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly
October 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Our latest edition of Fix The News is out!

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October 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Protecting infants from Malaria

Eight African countries are soon expected to approve a new low-dose, cherry-flavoured, anti-malarial treatment that can be given to newborns and babies, replacing the riskier practice of splitting tablets.

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October 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...
October 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Dr Doolittle files #2: Humpbacks

A Whale-SETI team studying non-terrestrial (aquatic), nonhuman communication systems to help parse cosmic signals for signs of extraterrestrial life, have documented humpbacks producing bubble rings in friendly encounters with humans.

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October 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
My legal thriller Extreme Vetting (2023) is featured in @electricliterature.com!

Grateful to @cindyfazzi.bsky.social for reading and including it alongside such wonderful books.
electricliterature.com/7-powerful-n...
7 Powerful Novels About Undocumented Immigrants - Electric Literature
These books, primarily written by immigrants, offer poignancy and pathos you won’t find in the news
electricliterature.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Democrats are fighting back against Trump and MAGA’s authoritarian book bans. Today, Senator Brian Schatz and I are introducing a resolution to protect the right to read at schools, libraries and universities across the country.
Raskin and Schatz Defend the American Freedom to Read and Call to End Nearly 23,000 MAGA Book Bans in the Nation’s Schools
Raskin and Schatz Defend the American Freedom to Read and Call to End Nearly 23,000 MAGA Book Bans in the Nation’s Schools
raskin.house.gov
October 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"Where's everyone else?"

Excellent point from Marc Elias on the complete lack of elite revulsion to Pam Bondi's sycophantic performance in the Senate yesterday.
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...
I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Kidney replicas get closer to the real thing.

Scientists report lab-grown organoids that better reproduce kidney structure and function, promising sharper disease models and drug tests — a step toward lab-built tissue that could one day ease transplant shortages.

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October 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM