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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 11d

New Yorkers! There’s a very real possibility Schumer & Gillibrand will throw trans people under the bus to help Trump & keep the government open. Call them & tell them no! Script below.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 24d

so: what do we need you to do? two things.

1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi

what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm one of Senator [THEIR NAME]'s constituents. House Republicans are trying to insert a multiple articles of anti-trans legislation, including a full transgender healthcare funding ban, into the F-Y '26 budget. I'm calling to tell the Senator to stand up for trans Americans and vote NO on any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown.

[you can stop here at 0:20 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

This care funding ban follows the map the G-O-P charted while attacking abortion. Democrats lost that fight by giving in to the G-O-P an inch at a time. Giving an inch at a time on trans care will devastate trans Americans and it'll get Democrats nothing in return but contempt.

[you can stop here at 0:40 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

Right now, the most popular Democrat in the U-S, [Zo-RAHN Mom-DA-nee], is campaigning on making trans healthcare cheaper and easier to access, and he's only got more good will because of it.

[you can stop here at 0:50 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

I'm asking the Senator to refuse to allow any anti-trans language including a healthcare ban in the F-Y '26 bill. Do not vote for any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown. Standing with trans people is the right thing to do and it's politically smart. Voters and donors show up for Democrats who fight.

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · 18d

What does recognition of a Palestinian state mean when the material reality remains the same? Palestinians in Gaza are still suffering through a genocide; Palestinians in the West Bank are still under siege. Recognition is an empty gesture in the face of actual change

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18d

No but seriously where are the hundreds people that disappeared from the monstrosity of the so called “Alligator Alcatraz”? Why aren’t people talking about it? I can find very little and it’s from weeks ago!

Are we at the disappearing phase of this horror?!

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Sep 1

true, & this is because ethnic cleansing is genocide. "ethnic cleansing" was a term made up by serb ethnonationalists to justify the bosnian genocide/cover up the fact that they were committing genocide. they are one and the same

Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · Sep 1

Genocide apologists and ethnic cleansing apologists share a similar condition--they blame the victim.

If you hadn't started the war, we wouldn't have to kill you (forgetting that they had started a perpetual war a long time earlier). 1/2

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Sep 1

Help email, call, and pressure media to get this story out: tinyurl.com/FREETHOXHA

A tweet from Nerdeen Kiswani that states: Teuta Hoxha, a 28-year-old Palestine Action activist, is on her 20th day of a hunger strike in a UK prison. She’s refusing food because prison authorities stripped her of basic rights—her library job, classes, even her mail. Her blood sugar is collapsing. She’s at risk of death.

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Alex Land @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

I am re-opening to queries for underrepresented/marginalized writers ONLY!

If you think we’d be a good fit, feel free to use this link to query me: QueryTracker.net/query/AlexBr...

I’ll try to stay open for at least a month! Can’t wait to read your work!!! 🥳

Query Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency

QueryTracker.net

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Stephanie Binx @stephwrites.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s official!

@alcovepress.bsky.social is bringing HELLBOUND to a bookstore near you in Fall 2026!

A publisher’s marketplace deal announces HELLBOUND has been acquired by Alcove Press for publication in Fall 2026. The background depicts a man and a woman facing away from each other.

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Aug 18

This has started today - you can bid on over 380+ items now! I’ve donated three 30 page critiques but there are lots of other great items out there: www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Aug 10

how many more journalists? babies? children? doctors and nurses? men? women? mothers? fathers? aid workers? anyone - any single person who is owed life simply for living? how many more?

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Aug 10

Gaza is the graveyard of international law

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Aug 5

anyone who has a platform based on making/eating food needs to be speaking on the manmade starvation in gaza + sudan. it feels dystopian to pass by recipe videos right after videos of people being starved

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Mad Woman Literary Agency @madwomanliterary.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congratulations to @deenahelm.bsky.social on the sale of her upmarket Palestinian horror novel, OUR CUT OF SALT, exploring generational trauma, grief, and the horrors of the Israeli occupation, out in September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hahaha thank you!!

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you!!

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · Jul 30

As I said before: OMG

Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸

If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

A screenshot from Publisher’s Marketplace that states:

Deena Helm's OUR CUT OF SALT, an upmarket horror in which three generations of Palestinian women converge in their ancestral haunted home and must learn what the price of the past truly is, exploring generational trauma, grief, and the horrors of the Israeli occupation, to Kristin Temple at Nightfire, in a significant deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in September 2026, by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency (NA).
Rights also to Nadia Saward at Orbit UK, by Anna Carmichael at Abner Stein, on behalf of Taryn Fagerness Agency and Mad Woman Literary.
Translation: Taryn Fagerness

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you!!

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

This sounds amazing and I can’t wait!!

Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸

If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you!!

Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

Omg thank you Sophia!! 🥹♥️

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · Jul 29

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY

I had the absolute joy of reading the synopsis of this and it was mind-bogglingly good, I'm so excited to read the whole thing 💜

Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸

If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · Jul 29

This one is straight to the books I really anticipate for 2026. Today, more than ever, we need Palestinian voices, and horror is one of those genres that allow for the best.

Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸

If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

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Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸

If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

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