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Jennifer L. Gadd

@jenniferlgadd.bsky.social

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Author; free-lance editor; retired reading teacher; proponent of tea & scones; more left wing than you could possibly imagine; living blue in red Kansas; still masking; no AI, are you even kidding me; she/her. https://jennifergadd.wixsite.com/jenniferlgadd

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 11d

Looking for a good October-Halloween read? We've got not only werewolves, but a whole assortment of were creatures--all written with tropes and traditions honored, but with a few twists and turns, too! #paranormal #YA #middlegrade #kidlit #amreading #shifters

Against a black background with a full moon behind tree branches, the cover of Cat Moon by Jennifer L. Gadd is featured. Text reads: "Spooky Read? Werewolves, with a few twists!" "A gripping evocative tale filled with love and hope in dark, dangerous times," and "From beginning to end, this is a completely compelling read. The world and the characters that inhabit it are recognizable, but unique."

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 14h

Introduce yourself using one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

Green beans, Dragonheart, and "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel

Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 14h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Veal

3-way tie:
Requiem for a Dream
Stepmom
Love Actually

Hot Blooded by Foreigner

TonnHELL 👿 @tonnielles.bsky.social · 14h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, & one song you can't stand:

Liver

Fight Club

Horse With No Mame

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 17h

It's disingenuous to say that someone has triumphed over their nay-sayers after ten seconds on the job.

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 21h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 20h

"Halloween is on Monday."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 1d

Anybody else laughing at the number of his old cronies who did his bidding for so long getting indicted now? There isn't much to laugh about, but that part is cracking me up.

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited Schtick Pick.

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Helen Pappas❤️💙 @hpappas.bsky.social · 2d

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, how fast I saved! 😆

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 3d

I have once again, for the umptieth time, figured out how to format odd-even page numbers in a not-like-previous-section in MS Word. Please clap.

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 4d

In Kansas, it's El Dorado.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 4d

Secret's out.

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 5d

I won't make it again this week. Today has been so, so hard, and I've been needed almost constantly. This introvert is wiped. I'll read through tomorrow.

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe we aren't heading towards civil war. Maybe it's World War III, but with Germany, Italy, and Japan as the good guys and UK, Russia, and the US as the bad guys.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 6d

Emma is a young girl who wants a home and a family. The Were-Guard wants her dead. And you want a story about people putting up a fight against the religious zealots terrorizing a marginalized community. #paranormal #kidlit #YA #middlegrade

The cover of Cat Moon by Jennifer L. Gadd is featured against a red background. Text reads "A gripping, evocative tale filled with love and hope in dark, dangerous times" and "From beginning to end, his is a completely compelling read. The world and the characters that inhabit it are recognizable but unique."

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 6d

His handlers have already admitted they feed him briefings disguised as news shows. They can feed him any footage they want and wrap it in whatever rhetoric they want to make him do whatever they want.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 7d

if jesse singal “hasn’t violated the terms of use,” but the goofy autistic space law nerd with the bad food opinions has, maybe your terms of service are bad.

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 8d

Bee Gees' Mr. Natural.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 8d

In defense of Taylor Swift...what's the best 12th album anyone has ever made?

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 8d

Such a great read!

Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 8d

My debut novel ROOT MAGIC is a great intro for both kids & adults to Hoodoo and Gullah Geechee culture, full of historical events, folklore, & rootwork.

If you're looking for a book about making a way when there’s no way, I hope you'll get a copy!

www.harpercollins.com/products/roo...

#booksky 📚

The cover of ROOT MAGIC on a light and dark green background, strewn with foliage. Young Black twins (boy and girl) stand back to back in the middle of a marsh of blue, yellow and green mist lined with trees and reeds. She is holding a book, and her doll is peeking out of the pocket of her blue dress. He is wearing dark blue overalls and holding a bottle of magic potion and had a mojo bag around his neck.

Text reads: "A must-read, sure to leave readers wishing for more after the final page." -Booklist (starred review)
Root Magic A Walter Award Honor Book Eden Royce
"Black Girl Magic has never been more powerful" - Ronald L. Smith, author of Hoodoo

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 8d

Pritzker is squandering all his political good will for not much. I mean, I thought he had PLANS, but he's blowing it.

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 9d

"Brand New Key"

ɪᴍᴍᴀɴᴜᴇʟ ᴋᴜɴᴛ @soberthots.bsky.social · 9d

question for the timeline

Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 9d

Gross. I bet his loins are quivering over it. Which is also gross.

Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 9d

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 9d

hey where's the governor who was talking a big fuckin' talk about preventing this from happening, surely no mainline democrat would say a bunch of shit and then just roll over when the rubber hit the road

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