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Nicole Oke Author

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📚 Children’s Book Author 📕 Penny Panda and the Emotion Ninjas 📗 Penny Panda and the Gift of Possibility 🔗 https://nicoleokeauthor.com/ ❤️ Social Emotional Learning Champion

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Mar 10

Amplify this.

Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · Mar 10

Historian here:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · Mar 10

Staying the obvious here, but…👇

Is anyone really surprised?!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 10

The U.S. government spent $710 billion in Trump’s first month, an increase from the same period a year prior. Cost-cutting efforts are ineffective, and job losses are occurring without clear justification.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Mar 7

There it is. Raskin always on point.

TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · Mar 6

“…if you really want to proceed to censure the gentleman from TX for talking about no mandate to cut Medicaid, then certainly we're going to have to move to censure the President for using a racial & ethnic slur against a sitting US Senator."
💥⁦‪ @raskin.house.gov

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Nicole Oke Author @nicoleokeauthor.bsky.social · Mar 5

Congratulations ❤️

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Feb 27

Every time I get on my phone to do literally anything

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Nicole Oke Author @nicoleokeauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

Congratulations, being an aunt is souch fun!

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Charlotte Wenger @charlottewenger.com · Feb 12

#MSWL - I'm going to become an aunt this year! Would love to see stories that feature the special relationship between aunts/uncles and their nieces/nephews/niblings. #PB #kidlit #kidlitart

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Nicole Oke Author @nicoleokeauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

So excited for you to open in March 🙂❤️

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Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social · Feb 11

Oh, and I should note I’ll be re-opening to queries on March 1, so please do keep me in mind as you prepare your query lists for pb, mg, ya, and everything in between (as long as it’s for children). Once I reopen, my query guidelines will be live at QueryTracker.net/query/michel... #MSWL

Query Michelle Witte at Mansion Street Literary Management

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Katie Monson @litagentkatiem.bsky.social · Feb 12

Let’s try that again!
It’s #MSWL DAY!! I have updated my wishlist (heavy emphasis on the Thriller category).

www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ka...

Please submit your query here ONLY if it fits my wishlist. (Link only open until Saturday)

QueryTracker.net/query/Katie_...

a woman is giving the middle finger and says `` may the odds ever be in your favor !! ''

ALT: a woman is giving the middle finger and says `` may the odds ever be in your favor !! ''

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Kelly Dyksterhouse @kellydhouse.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thanks to @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social for organizing #MSWL day! I’m open from 1-7 of every month and here is what I’ll be looking for in March:

I rep PB-YA and gravitate towards projects that have a clear, commercial hook and a captivating voice. 🧵

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Vicky Weber - Agent, Author, Educator 📚 @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social · Feb 12

I'm actively searching for more author-illustrators of picture books and illustrated chapter books! #MSWL

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Paige Terlip @pterlip.bsky.social · Feb 12

Happy #MSWL day! I'm Paige Terlip at the @andreabrownlit.bsky.social. I rep PB to YA, as well as adult fiction, & platform-based nonfiction. I'm proud to represent award-winning & NYT-bestselling authors!

Please note: I'm closed to PB, CB, & MG queries except for referrals/conference attendees.
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Nicole Oke Author @nicoleokeauthor.bsky.social · Feb 11

Enter to win today! kingsumo.com/g/3z9kwjm/re...

#bookgiveaway #picturebook #kidlit ##booksforkids #childrensbook #giveaway

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Jan 30

Fourteen hours before the crash. 👇

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · Jan 22

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jan 22

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Tim Jones @themisterlibrary.bsky.social · Jan 22

It's okay to be angry. It's okay to be scared. It's okay to be sad. It's okay to be disillusioned. It's okay to feel anxious. It's okay to be numb. It's okay to be horrified. It's okay to be tired. It's okay to not be okay.

It is not okay to give up. Others are feeling the same way. Resist.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jan 22

If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jan 22

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · Jan 21

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Written right there in the Constitution.

The President cannot change that with the stroke of a pen.

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Nicole Oke Author @nicoleokeauthor.bsky.social · Jan 21

Yay, some happy news ❤️

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Jan 21

CNN reports that the January 6 criminals have been told they are invited to attend inaugural balls tonight. They are going to be released from the D.C. jail momentarily.

All are insurrectionists.

We are not a democracy anymore, folks. We do not have rule of law.

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Nicole Oke Author @nicoleokeauthor.bsky.social · Jan 21

I'm with you!

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