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Sarah Avery

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Mythopoeic Award winning fantasy writer 🪐📚, escaped academic, beginner permaculture gardener, Gen X Army brat, DC area local, she/her, https://SarahAvery.com, https://www.patreon.com/SarahAvery

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · Sep 10

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! My award-winning, out-of-print book Tales from Rugosa Coven has a new publisher! We're bringing it back in August 2026 in a new author's preferred edition.
#sff #fiction #fantasy #witch #pagan

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Announcing – Tales from Rugosa Coven

Candlemark & Gleam is delighted to announce that we’re bringing Sarah Avery’s 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner Tales from Rugosa Coven back into print in a new and revised edition. This volume of ...

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James Enge @jamesenge.bsky.social · 1d

Sell off your tulip bulbs sooner rather than later.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 1d

OMG, something about our moment in history doesn't suck!

NPR @npr.org · 1d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 1d

Virginia is in the thick of a gubernatorial election season that the Democratic candidate looks likely to win. We'll see how that goes in November. Everybody else on this list of states gets targeted for #Boycott.

G S 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 @gregs2.bsky.social · 2d

The AG’s of AK, AL, AR, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, LA, MS, MO, MT, NE, ND, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV, and WY ALL think Trump should be allowed to deploy the military in a state against the Governor’s wishes.

Let that sink in.

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Attorney General Steve Marshall Joins 22-State Brief Defending Federal Immigration Law Against Radical Illinois Sanctuary Policies - Alabama Attorney General's Office

For Immediate Release:April 10, 2025

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 1d

Important news for my fellow staunch #3A boosters. Our time has come!

Peel @rhpeel.bsky.social · 1d

cc @epicciuto.bsky.social

Tweet about the third amendment allowing businesses to refuse to grant ICE access to bathrooms

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 2d

This was the moment I decided to follow you.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 10d

If you know anyone in the U.S. military at any level, please make sure they see The Orders Project, "a non-partisan program...to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal."

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! It’s going to be a busy month. Lots of companies to research and chastise.

Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t want to blue-state-splain to people who are stuck with terrible elected officials and are doing their best already. Who am I to talk? Through blind luck, I live in Jamie Raskin’s district. I still think boycotts are among the few tools that might help the broader situation, though.

Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, that’s him all over. His staff, who have to field constituent calls and emails may be less so, or might manage him differently depending on how they read the room. And you can deplete his resources to some extent by making his staff spend time dealing with organized constituent opposition.

Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 2d

To contact iHeartRadio about your participation in the #TexasBoycott, the only way I found to get feedback to them was to go to their Help page (help.iheart.com/hc/en-us) and pester the chatbot about letting me speak to a live human until it spat up an email webform. Good hunting!

iHeartRadio Help

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 2d

@danibananica.bsky.social @anymouse.bsky.social As residents in those states, you can exert pressure directly on your elected officials. The electeds in aggressor states don't have to care what outsiders think. The boycott is one of the few available tools from outside.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 2d

More states get into the game, possibly to make the pool of malefactors too big to boycott. They've underestimated us. To start with, #BoycottTexas, using the circulating list of Texas corporations. The next post in the thread I've quote-posted lists all the states signing onto this amicus brief.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

This is getting wild.

The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

The States of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and 14 additional States
respectfully move for leave to submit the attached amicus curiae brief in support of Defendants
and their opposition to Plaintiffs’ requested temporary restraining order and preliminary
injunction. Proposed amici are States with a vested interest in federalism, the relationship between
States and the federal government, and deploying the National Guard. We also each have a vital
interest in supporting the President and Congress in enacting and enforcing valid immigration
laws. Every State has a responsibility to protect our citizens.
The federalization of States’ National Guard units is a matter of profound public
importance, as it directly implicates the delicate balance of power between state and federal
governments—a true cornerstone of Federalism. States generally maintain authority over their
National Guard units, allowing governors to deploy them for state-specific needs, such as disaster
response or public safety. Federalization of state National Guard units without gubernatorial

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 2d

There are a lot of things for us to do, but boycotting Texas is an excellent one, too. #BoycottTexas

M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 4d

Texas has sent their National Guard to attack Chicago. There is no excuse for trying to start a civil war. There is one thing for us to do, we must boycott Texas. Do not travel there, do not buy Texas products especially beef.
#BoycottTexas

The Texas flag in the shape of the state with the words NOT TEXAS above it

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 3d

@propublica.org @washingtonpost.com @thetnholler.bsky.social
Please investigate this!

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 3d

I have to wonder what is happening to all these deported people’s belongings.

Because the Holocaust was very profitable for the Nazis that way and I’m just wondering if anyone in media is following the money — albeit it is moving so quickly.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

💯. At the very least, if a criminal calls you or you call a criminal in the middle of his execution of a criminal conspiracy, you should expect that those conversations may be a subject of inquiry.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 3d

I've spent the last hour calling, emailing, and messaging the corps in this thread that would be affected by my personal boycott. They try to claim they have nothing to do with politics, but corps have lobbyists, and lobbyists talk to elected officials. This is what their lobbyists are for.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

First response to Texas mobilizing their National Guard for occupation of blue states is to boycott companies based in Texas. Long list but start with

American Airlines
AT&T
Container Store
Dave & Buster’s
Dell
Dr Pepper Snapper
Exxon Mobil
FedEx Office
Frito Lay
I Heart Media
JC Penney

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List of Texas companies - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 3d

@exxonmobiloil.bsky.social Texas-based businesses are about to be hit with massive boycotts if the Texas National Guard invades other any states. If that's not conducive to your business plan, you might want to have a word with Governor Abbott. The boycott lists are already circulating online.

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 5d

All the journalists who rushed to lionize Kirk and decry political violence are gonna get right on this, right?

Right?

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 7d

Fun research rabbit hole: What traditional Hungarian dance would my main character and his ex-wife have done at their wedding?
#Fiction #SFF #Research #WIP #AmWriting

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Dancing the Csardas | Sarah Avery

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fubar.bsky.social @fubar.bsky.social · 9d

Let’s keep in mind Trump said he’s taking the war to the enemy within using US military. That means any protesters and pretty much all democrats or independents who voted against him. In fact voting against him could be considered an attempt to overthrow the current government.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 9d

Hegseth announced the administration's intention to commit war crimes: "We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9d

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

Trump announces 'TrumpRx' website for pharmaceutical drugs after Pfizer deal

Trump said the move will help improve healthcare access for low-income Americans.

abcnews.go.com

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 9d

We have a cat who's scared shitless of everything but growls when he runs up the stairs to hide under the bed so you know how ferocious he is. Like that.

Ford the mad meezer and vicious predator (not)

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 11d

I would advise anybody to avoid traveling to my country right now.