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Gifford MacShane
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PwME Cat herder, gardener, & author of Historical Fiction/Romance that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. https://Books2Read.com/GiffordMacshane #Ally #EqualRights4Everyone #AdoptDontShop No bees=no food=no humans #ClimateChange #SlavaUkraini
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Gifford MacShane @authorgmacshane.bsky.social · 13d
#HistFic #Romancelandia #BookSky

THE WOODSMAN'S ROSE, Donovan Family Saga Book 2

- A solemn oath
- A shattered friendship
- The gift that might heal

Available now at most major digital & print book retailers. Or ask your library to order it for you!
Books2Read.com/TheWoodsmansRose
A white rose on a deep green background. Text: A tale of family loyalty, love, and the challenges they faced. There were times when I found myself reaching for the tissues & there were times where I feared for a character's life. - Amazon Review.
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Willa Blair @willablair.bsky.social · 2d
Check it out! WAITING FOR THE LAIRD is a Trick or Treat Bonanza pick, and there's a contest. See what you might win here:
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#Halloween #FriendlyGhost #Mystery #Romanticread #BookSky
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N. N. Light's Book Heaven #NNLBH @nnlightsbookheaven.bsky.social · 1d
It’s why I mounted a Hell-spat horse, the only way to get into my homeland again.
Raven Crosses the Line, Book Four in The Raven Tales series by J. B. Dane is a Trick or Treat Bonanza pick
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#urbanfantasy #halloween #giveaway #nnlbh
Raven Crosses the Line, Book Four in The Raven Tales series by J. B. Dane is a Trick or Treat Bonanza pick #urbanfantasy #halloween #giveaway
I used to be totally fictional, but I’d been out of the book for five months and earning points toward becoming fully human.
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N. N. Light's Book Heaven #NNLBH @nnlightsbookheaven.bsky.social · 1d
“Or maybe I’m thinking you really do need an adventure. A way to start over, find out what the rest of life is going to be.”
New Release | Forever Cowboy by Nan Reinhardt
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#sweetromance #westernromance #cowboyromance #mustread #newrelease #nnlbh
New Release | Forever Cowboy by Nan Reinhardt #sweetromance #westernromance #cowboyromance #mustread #newrelease
It was supposed to be just a vacation fling…
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N. N. Light's Book Heaven #NNLBH @nnlightsbookheaven.bsky.social · 1d
We have a fabulous giveaway running this month! The prize is a $100 Amazon gift card and is open internationally. So head on over and check it out!
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#giveawayalert #nnlbh #October
Trick or Treat Book Bonanza Giveaway
Trick or Treat Book Bonanza Giveaway by N. N. Light's Book Heaven. Hosted by KingSumo Giveaways
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BookSeek @bookseek.bsky.social · 5h
Reading a great book is both thrilling and devastating.

You want to finish it, but you never want it to end.

#booksky
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Kaurifish @kaurifish.bsky.social · 5d
Met with a new cat sitter. One doesn't realize how many caches of cat toys are in one's home until forced to walk a stranger through them one by one by one by one...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 7h
Cat making biscuits to disco music
🎶🐈🕺😅😂
#Caturday
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Rachel Martin @racheljo.bsky.social · 6h
It’s Scrappy’s world and the rest of us just get to live in it (this used to be the dog’s bed).

#caturday
A calico kitten sleeps on a dog bed onba wooden floor. Behind her are our shelves for records and cd’s. Her bed is a gray cushion, and it’s covered with a fuzzy black blanket that has a red and black plaid backing. The room is sunlit.
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Ramblings of a Wannabe Writer @kaylee-scott.bsky.social · 7h
Just a couple of girls trying to write a book, apparently together 🤷🏻‍♀️😂📖🖋️ #writersofinstagram #writestagram #writerslife #writingcommunity #catlover #amwriting #cats #catsofinstagram #catstagram
Photo of my laptop on my lap with my cat curled up, her paw stretched across my arm as I try to type
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 16h
Simple & powerful protest! This is fascism!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8h
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Gifford MacShane @authorgmacshane.bsky.social · 6h
#Caturday

How it started/2 yrs ago: Winken, Blinken & Nod

How it's going now: Ollie, Rory & Wendy
3 teensy kittens on a cheetah-pattern rug One very large black cat One not-quite-so-large black cat One little (but chonky) tortoiseshell cat
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d
An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...
This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 2d
#onthisdayinhistory 9th October 1514 18 year old Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII, married 52 year-old King Louis XII of France. Their wedding, and its consequences, feature in MARY - Tudor Princess:

mybook.to/MaryTudor

#Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Kindle
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💙💙~Patty ~💙💙 @pattyger.bsky.social · 2d
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d
ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d
The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 2d
The Trump administration wants to mine at the doorstep of the Boundary Waters. Twin Metals, owned by a Chilean mining company, wants to build a copper-nickel sulfide-ore mine immediately upstream of the Boundary Waters.​
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · May 9
Playing this on repeat to get us through.

Hours after Trump’s FBI opened an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James, she appeared at a town hall with a powerful message for the resistance.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d
Real estate investors now own about 20% of single-family homes in the country.

A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed in recent years is a lack of supply — and investors sinking their teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.
How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 3d
These people vote too,
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Donald Johnson @donjohn8.bsky.social · 2d
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