Avery Flynn

Beige graphic with black and red text: "ICE and CBP funding exploded in 2025. Congress must not give these agencies any more no-strings-attached money" and a red bar graph showing ICE and CBP funding gradually increasing from $23B in 2020 to $29B in 2024 before drastically increasing to $169.7B

ICE and CBP are operating with record money and without necessary restrictions.

Tell Congress to hold the line against additional funding at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-

BY THE WAY, acknowledging that writer pay is generally low and always has been does NOT mean that one should abandon the idea that a) one's work has value and b) that this value should be reflected in what is offered for it by others, says the former president of a writers' association.

The illustrated cover of DESIRE AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Olivia Dade, featuring a sunset and rocky cliffs in the background near a sandy shoreline, with an embracing couple in the foreground. The woman is brunette and fat and pretty, with her hair swept back. She's wearing a Grecian-style dress and has her arms around the neck of a dark-haired, lean man with glasses in a dark gray suit.

One of my self-published novellas, DESIRE AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, has a gorgeous new cover from @lenikauffman.bsky.social and a new audiobook narrated by the incomparable Joy Nash--and that audiobook is out today!

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I hope you love the cover and the story! ♥

More than 2 million American women get married each year- most change their names. Not to mention the number who move is even more. This is not some “small fraction” of people.

The Partridge family would definitely win.

This right here.

That book was so good.

If Judy Blume were mad at me I would simply curl myself into a ball and roll into a volcano.

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"As a society, I fear we’ve forgotten that romance works best when there’s friction between the two leads."

DEFINE WE. 🤣

Ok. Where are my DC, NoVa and MD suburbs romance authors at? I’m thinking about doing a thing.

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

Pentagon says 4 US soldiers who died in Iran war were reservists who worked in logistics Four of the six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war have been identified by the Pentagon as members of the Army Reserve.

The Pentagon has released the names of four of the six service members who have been killed in the Iran war, saying they died in a drone strike in Kuwait.

'Evil Dead' Icon Bruce Campbell Reveals Cancer Diagnosis, Cancels Future Fan Events The "Evil Dead" actor says that his cancer is not curable but is treatable, and he is canceling future fan events.

2026 fucking sucks.

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WSJ: “.. U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information say the Trump administration’s assertions about threats from Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong.”

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a man in a hat says " we 'll always have paris " to another man Alt: From the movie Casablanca. Rick in a hat says " we 'll always have paris " to Ilsa

Listening to a podcast to chill out and they are arguing that Rick is not Ilsa’s great love but Laslo is and now I am incandescent with rage.

"no stupid rules of engagement"

Minnesota would like a word.

Good for them.

According to our sources in Williamsport, the vehicles have arrived.

The best reporting I've seen on this to date. What is happening to this rural library system, where I worked for five years, it's a tragedy. The admin is incompetent AND the oversight is incompetent. bit.ly/4u6iz84

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

One thing I have learned spending hours coordinating addresses to send whistles to is that there are so, so many churches that are trying to protect people in this moment and making their spaces open for whistle kit making, community gathering, and so forth.

Clarence Thomas Just Struck Another Blow to Black Power In his majority ruling in a sleeper case about mail delivery, Thomas opened the door to a new way for Republicans to suppress the Black vote.

In an overlooked decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the post office can refuse to deliver your mail, which is KIND OF SIGNIFICANT if you choose to mail your ballot.
To do this work, the anti-democracy wing turned to their favorite “black friend,” Clarence Thomas.

Now on netgalley Opposites attract in this sweet, sapphic romance about to two girlS who reluctantly join forces to escape the effects of going viral... Preorder Now On Sale April 14, 2025 Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.

For your ARC reviewing pleasure, SUMMER OFFICIAL is available on Netgalley! 🛹🩵🍦
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When I said birth control was in danger people said I was catastrophizing. But here we are, wait until they come for the right to own property. It's a fantasy where only wealthy white men have rights. No one else

Congrats!!!!!!

Black and white photo of Delroy Lindo embracing Michael B Jordan at the BAFTAs

There’s just so much sadness in this photo. This should have been the night of their lives.