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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not checking #DVPit today because I’m traveling, but if you think we might be a good fit, please query me when I reopen during the first week of November!

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · 9d

thank you for this <3

Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · 18d

We've been getting them on SNY too. Awful.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Aug 26

I think about this literally all the time, by the way. May your pillows always be cool, editors who confirm receipt.

Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Mar 10

Editors who confirm receipt, I hope your pillow is always cool and your bed's fitted sheet never comes off the mattress in the middle of the night. 💙

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'm so sorry but this is deeply hilarious.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · Aug 20

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

www.thecity.nyc

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Shelly Romero @ NYCC @shellyromero.bsky.social · Aug 19

The We The People Summer Fundraiser has started and I’ve got 3 items up for grabs! I’m offering two 30 min. AMA sessions & a 50-page critique for a MG, YA, or adult fiction manuscript. Be sure to check out and bid on all the amazing items available!
www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS...

Graphic for the fundraiser with text explaining that its ongoing from August 18th through the 27th to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire and immigrant and trans rights

Graphic for my 30 min. AMA featuring my pic and a QR code.

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#PitchDis @pitchdis.com · Aug 12

Hi #agents and acquiring #editors! Registration for #PitchDis 2025 is still open, but it will be closing in less than a month. We'd love to have you join us!
To register, just fill out the form below.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#WritingCommunity

#PitchDis Agent and Editor Registration

Thank you for your interest in #PitchDis! Please fill out this form to register for the event and access pitches from September 16 through September 19. The week before the event, we'll send you instr...

docs.google.com

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you SO MUCH! Sorry to create more work. I love this event and signed an author through it last year. Very excited to see more pitches!

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Aug 12

Is there a way to check if we've already registered, for those of us with occasional swiss cheese brain 😅 (if not, I would like to—my apologies!)

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Apr 20

Despite my best intentions, I’m liking pitches again. DM me for a query link if I liked yours!

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jul 31

On Wanting It—Being called to traditional publishing when we don't really need it.

First newsletter essay. 🙂💀

open.substack.com/pub/maraholl...

On Wanting It

Being called to traditional publishing when we don't really need it

open.substack.com

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jul 29

I promised myself I wouldn't start a newsletter unless I had something new to say. Unfortunately, I found some things. So, newsletter launches today!

open.substack.com/pub/maraholl...

I Guess I'm Doing This

I promised myself I wouldn’t publish anything to this newsletter unless I couldn’t point readers to a blog post or website that said what I would’ve written.

open.substack.com

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · Jul 13

I’m assuming you’ve seen this site that lets you scroll into the depths, with the creatures at each depth… but in case you haven’t, I highly recommend it neal.fun/deep-sea/

The Deep Sea

Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.

neal.fun

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jul 8

I know this is an ad but my god 😭🩵

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 8

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jun 26

Publishing is mostly a long-ass draught, but when it rains, it pours. 👀

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jun 26

For the love of god. Stop doing this. PLEASE.

For one thing, my husband and I are working demonstrations of why you’re going to miscount. For another, oh my god, why do I even have to say the other thing?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Jun 26

a political consultancy that does what now?

While identifying Jewish voters is difficult, Jerry Skurnik of Engage Voters U.S., a political consultancy that counts those with distinctive Jewish surnames, put the Jewish electorate in New York at roughly 13 percent of the city's 4.6 million active registered voters.

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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Sexual harassment should be disqualifying and its a good thing that the sexual harasser lost.

We have to get back to a point where we care about that shit again.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Jun 25

I saw so many people talking about how Mamdani and Lander were clearly running because they love their city and want to make life better there, while Cuomo seems to hate and fear it, and that feels like the key piece of this campaign that could be replicable by progressives everywhere

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · Jun 25

Great point by Courtney Gross on @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social. The portrait of the City painted by Andrew Cuomo (and many of the city's elites) as a crime-ridden, apocalyptic hellhole ... it just doesn't match what most New Yorkers see every day.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Jun 25

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American.

A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jun 25

I love this song!!!!!!!

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Jun 25

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.

It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)

It's so New York.

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jun 25

THIS IS THE SHIT I'M HERE FOR <3

Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · Jun 25

I am weeping

As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, “We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New Yorkers.”

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jun 25

Fwiw, I ranked Mamdani first, Lander second, and Adams third. And every time Fix the City texted me, I sent back the same response.

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Mara @maraalyse.bsky.social · Jun 25

Brad Lander and Mamdani cross-endorsing is one of the best things that's happened to New York City politics in years. Coalition building is so freakin cool. Not letting sexual harassers be the face of the Democratic party in NYC is also very cool. Good fucking riddance indeed.

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Jun 25

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · Jun 20

Turns out a candidate's opinion on a conflict that goes back millenia doesn't fill the potholes in your neighborhood or get your kid's school to provide free lunches

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Jun 20

trying to make every US election about Israel-Palestine is not good for anyone, on either side.

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