Olivia Waite
@oliviawaite.com
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Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com
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Good news! You can now order signed or personalized or doodled-on copies of my books from @ballastbookco.bsky.social! (Eagle eyes will also spot the pre-order for the second Dorothy Gentleman mystery!) ballastbookco.com/browse/filte... 💙📚
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LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
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epiellie.bsky.social
This is a massive deal. But it’s not a done deal. Workers have been barred from their offices, but there is still time to protect their jobs. Only your Reps can do it though. Don’t let up!
epidbydesign.bsky.social
RIFs at CDC.

Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.

Call your Reps about it.

Then call them again.
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I was at this debate. The Seattle Times is totally misrepresenting what happened to further the false narrative that Katie Wilson is a nitwit. Wilson was talking about the fact that the CARE team has not been allowed to exercise "its full latitude of responsibility" under the existing contract.
At a recent Seattle University/KOMO TV debate, Harrell’s opponent, activist Katie Wilson, didn’t appear to recognize that she has no authority under labor contracts to order police to do anything without going through a bargaining process.

“As mayor, I will absolutely be working with SPD to make sure that they’re allowing the CARE team their full latitude of response and also to make sure that the CARE team can respond without police when appropriate,” she said.

It’s not that easy.
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The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.
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warren.senate.gov
After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
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jamellebouie.net
an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can
lenasun.bsky.social
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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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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This is beautiful and so necessary
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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From 2019 but oooof, this one stings
mcsweeneys.net
MYTH: The President “brandished” an assault rifle.

FACT: Semi-automatic rifles like the Colt AR-15 are not assault rifles; they do not have burst or fully automatic firing capabilities.
GOP Talking Points for President Trump’s Fifth Avenue Massacre
Press reports have given currency to flat-out falsehoods about the Executive Action. MYTH: The President “brandished” an assault rifle. FACT: Semi...
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It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not
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American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving
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Fucking wormtongue yuck but here you are.
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Some poor journalist was sent to live-tweet that match from the start and the results show his visible descent into surreality, it’s a great read.
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They fucking did it!
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This is out and it’s an absolute DELIGHT. I snagged a copy of the audio and the narration is truly chef’s kiss. Freya never misses!
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Coming in October 2025: CINDER HOUSE, a queer Gothic retelling of Cinderella in which our titular character is a very frustrated ghost! 🔥 Fire, skeletons, fairies, intense epistolary friendships, and lots of feelings about ballet.

Preorder US - bit.ly/CH-buyUS
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A book cover for an eerie fairytale, with absolutely rad art by Cristina Bencina. From a roiling bed of orange and yellow stylised flames arises a narrow grey-blue house, which as it rises into a star-speckled night sky becomes the shape of a woman. This woman-house is gazing in profile into the distance, with her hands touching a necklace of railings. A small figure appears backlit in one of the few windows, down in the 'skirt' of the house. Large pale green letters give the title CINDER HOUSE, and at the very top of the image it says USA Today Bestselling Author, Freya Marske.
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The innings will continue until morale improves.
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This is the game that never ends. You may have heard of it my friends. Some people started playing it not knowing what they’d done, and they’ll go on playing it forever just because it is the game that never ends, you may have heard of it my friends….
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
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Ohhhhhhh this looks so unhinged!
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Picked up an old scrap project I’d abandoned, realized that although I had learned a lot from trying it I actually hated all the fabrics and what the piece was turning into — so gave myself permission to consider it done and move on and cut a whole new sweater pattern instead from other scraps.