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Lawrence Allan

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Midwestern as f@!k! Award winning and Shamus Finalist! Mystery/crime writer of tales involving heroes using humor to cover emotional turmoil. https://linktr.ee/lawrenceallan Newsletter: https://newsletter.lawrenceallanwrites.com/newsletter

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · Dec 3

It's a 2nd wave of a starter pack. This time Crime/Mystery/Thriller authors with NEWSLETTERS.

Authors: reply to this thread if you want to be added because I know there are more of you!

AND!

For ease of your followers, put a link in your bio to where they can subscribe to your newsletter!

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 6h

The first movie I love and it's all about loving it as a *kid.* As an adult, I watch it through that lens. There are moments that push the nostalgia button...

But, I haven't dared show it to my kid. I think he'd be bored.

This is an example of a company being IP brained.

Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 10h

I’m more concerned what Democrats will do … or more specifically won’t do … when they retake the House and Senate.

There needs to be consequences for breaking the law and the norms.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10h

Voters punish representatives more for voting lock-step with their party than extreme ideology. The winning Democratic message is to bind Republicans to Trump

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11h

If you look closely, you can see signs of GOP lawmakers fearing the long-term political consequences of paying more attention to Trump's demands than to the voices of their own constituents - or consciences.

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 10h

Simply put: she likes what they are doing, these mumbles give her cover.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 10h

It’s not irresponsible when they are doing it on purpose. They are collaborating at this point.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13h

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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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 11h

I have reigned in most of my anger but know my books are STILL up on Amazon. Please do not purchase them.

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 1d

GIVE IT TO ME NOW!

Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 1d

Another reason why Democrats should not give one dime to this government. Do not collaborate.

Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 1d

When you choose a hollow phrase it is infinitely flexible in meaning.

Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 1d

Sounds like a great list of things to do when the Democrats are back in charge.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 1d

This guy is so cooked. He does not look well, at all.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 1d

Another reason to not buy a Tesla. If the self-driving won't kill you, the inability to avoid ads.

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 1d

Maybe Carter knows how it works and doesn't care or maybe he doesn't.

Either way, this is dumb authoritarian performance. It's what you do when you have no principles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 1d

don't give the administration any money until they stop this un-American behavior.

Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 2d

Not even book 1?

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 2d

I don’t know, doesn’t everyone love to be spammed?

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 2d

New blog post up! Don't Underestimate the Power of a BAD Idea! Thoughts on coming up with ideas and a trick to do while in search of a "good" one.

I'm hoping to do more posts in between the newsletter going out.

Check it out!

#booksky #indieauthor #writing

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Bad Idea - Lawrence Allan Writes

Sometimes finding a great idea leads to frustration and creative block. This is where the power of a bad idea can save you.

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 2d

TACO

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Second threat walked back after a couple days.

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Four Seasons Total Landscaping (not really!) @4seasonstl.bsky.social · 2d

Did Schumer hire a new social media team?

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 2d

Someone like JD Vance, who has been on the receiving end of a lot of insinuations, should know to couch his language more carefully.

Anyways, I’ll be here, ready to make a deal to save Americans’ health care and reopen the federal government that Republicans shut down.

A headline from the New York Post reads: “JD Vance calls Chuck Schumer ‘one of the most famous Palestinians’”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 2d

He's like that General in Dr. Strangelove... without any of the charm.

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Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 2d

Not for nothing, but I'm enjoying Rubio having to sit there like he has to eat a bowl of shit.

May everything he eats taste like shit for the rest of his life.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Lawrence Allan @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com · 2d

This is what happens after decades of assault on expertise by the Republican Party. You have idiots saying idiotic things.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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