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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, man, the Cheeto ain’t gonna to like this!

www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins

Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

www.bbc.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Curtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 4d

The paperback of On Fire and Under Water is now available on @bookshop.org and is on sale! Support your local independent bookstore and grab a copy.

tinyurl.com/fbeux58s

On Fire and Under Water on sale for $12.08.

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 5d

I’m so excited to be an author at @a.blank.show’s Villainesque show October 17th at @anthembrewing! Come early and buy signed copies of my books. I’ll have other goodies too!

Show starts at 8 pm, and trust me—you do not want to miss these amazing performers! Theme is villains, so come dressed up!

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 6d

Thank goodness!

consequence.net/2025/10/doll...

Dolly Parton Is Suffering from Kidney Stones As Her Sister Apologizes for Worrying Everyone

Dolly Parton is suffering from kidney stones. Her sister, Freida, says she didn't mean to cause alarm when she asked fans for their prayers.

consequence.net

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not a believer myself, but I’m sending all the healing in the world to this beautiful woman who’s been such a big part of my life. 💜

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 7d

After the shutdown during the 1st Trump admin, Congress passed a law to guarantee back pay for furloughed workers.

That bill was signed into law by Donald Trump.

Workers will be paid.

This chaos is a distraction from Trump's failure to secure a deal to lower health care costs.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 9d

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 11d

That’s awesome!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 11d

Gee, I wonder why people went from calling me a queer horror author to a cosmic horror author.

The fun part is how few were on purpose (Worm trilogy + Game in Yellow) vs how much is cosmic by accident because I'm a weirdo (the rest of it 😅)

Nonetheless, make horror gay AF 🌈 including cosmic horror

Includes or is cosmic horror: The Worm and His Kings, Even the Worm Will Turn, Song of the Tyrant Worm, Your Mind is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Cruel Angels Past Sundown, A Light Most Hateful, A Game in Yellow, All the Hearts You Eat, No Gods for Drowning

No cosmic:

Cranberry Cove, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow

I don't think it's cosmic but many disagree and refuse to explain, is it the p***y tentacles, the rebuilding of a mind from the inside, what is ittt

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 11d

At a bookstore in France that is featuring my books
If you're seeing this post and you are an aspiring artist know this..I grew up in a trailer in rural Virginia. My mom was disabled. We had very little money
But today my books are all around the world, nothing is impossible if u really want it💙

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 11d

💜💜💜

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David Tromblay @davidtromblay.bsky.social · 12d

I'll be at #CommonplaceBooks in #okc on 11/19/25 in conversation with @heatherlevy.bsky.social Signing to follow.

*One lucky attendee who buys Coydog from Commonplace Books will win a complete set of David and Heather's books.

RSVP->
www.commonplacebooksokc.com/events/36062...

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you Barnes and Noble for including Lotería: Stories on this list -

31 Best Books to Read for Halloween

www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/31-best...

31 Best Books to Read for Halloween - B&N Reads

We've got you covered for the month of October. These 31 best books to read for Halloween include debuts, classics and, of course, the King.

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 13d

I donated. I encourage you to donate as well. We need public media now more than ever.

NPR @npr.org · 13d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Elizabeth Warren: "If fighting to reduce the cost of healthcare and avoid a coming catastrophe is not worth fighting for, then I don't know what is."

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13d

Showing up to work to avoid a shutdown is apparently a minimum threshold Republicans can’t be bothered to meet.

Photo of the House Chamber where Republicans are absent.

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 13d

Last day for this deal!

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 14d

Happy pub day to all!

Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 14d

TODAY: Some say the world will end in fire. Some say flood. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social Listen to Jordan Harper and order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 14d

And we can’t allow it to happen.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14d

Erasing history.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15d

Books can cannibalize books 😈🍖

BENNY ROSE THE CANNIBAL KING is back in print, just in time for his month of legend 🎃 read about a group of teen girls facing a flesh-eating ghost on Halloween 1987, alongside 12 more coming-of-rage stories in TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS, out now from Titan!

A four-panel story of one book, a Hailey Piper short story collection Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, eating another, Benny Rose the Cannibal King, and then displaying it inside the first book as one of its stories

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 14d

Why am I torturing myself by listening to this press conference? Just rambling nonsense.

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Victor De Anda @victordeanda.bsky.social · 15d

👇👇👇👇Check it out! coldcallermag.substack.com/p/bams-25-me...

BAMS '25: Meet James D. F. Hannah

Part 2 of the 'Best American' Interview Series

coldcallermag.substack.com

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Heather Levy 🌈 @heatherlevy.bsky.social · 15d

This movie has my perverse heart always.

NPR @npr.org · 15d

Rocky Horror aficionados used to attend screenings of the film over and over to take notes on the details. Accurately mirroring every line and dance move has gotten easier over time.

'Rocky Horror' is 50! We propose a toast. (You know what to do)

Rocky Horror aficionados used to attend screenings of the film over and over to take notes on the details. Accurately mirroring every line and dance move has gotten easier over time.

n.pr

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