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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow)

@maiaknp.bsky.social

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YA author and occasional rabblerouser. ⭐️ Alaska-grown Midwest transplant. ⭐️ Drummer in a Judy Blume tribute band. ⭐️ Please do not talk to me about basketball. ⭐️ https://maiaknolan.com Rep: Paula Weiman, ASH Literary

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 28d

Some professional news: Very happy to share that I have signed with @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social at @ashliterary.bsky.social! I’m super excited about their vision for my book and can’t wait to get to work.

ashliterary.com#maianolan

Screen grab of Maia K. Nolan’s author listing on the ASH Literary website

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 2h

Holy cow did they arrest Mary Magdalene

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 19h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

This is quite good.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 18h

The little salmon in there!

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 18h

Valdez

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

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

Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 18h

If you can't run your business without stealing, your business is a criminal enterprise. Hope that helps.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 18h

If ICE thinks it's okay to assault a pastor in broad daylight, imagine what they're doing in the dark.

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 1d

Being middle-aged & from Alaska is wild because for example the newly-elected mayor of the city where I was born is a woman who once dated my now-husband but the mayor of the borough where that city is located is the younger brother of my childhood best friend and also all our friends are judges now

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1d

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 1d

This guy needs to buy a lottery ticket on the way home

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 1d

I kept panicking while querying that I was including comps that weren't fresh off the presses. I ended up signing with an agent who told me specifically they loved that I comped "Dumplin'," which came out a decade ago.

Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 1d

Texting with my bestie in PDX, where we went to college. She's stressed out living in a war zone.

To be clear, the "war zone" is entirely the making of the federal government. She was not stressed out a week ago, before there were military helicopters circling above her house.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 2d

Alaskans, get your dialing fingers ready!

Ptarmageddon @ptarmageddon.bsky.social · 2d

Murkowski may be on Talk of Alaska this Tuesday at 10am. You can call 1-800-478-8255 to ask a question live, or email [email protected]. #AkLeg #Alaska #AlaskaSky

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

Read more about your rights when interacting with military troops or federal agents at aclu.org/deployment_kyr

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 3d

So Hulk Hogan, why are you a great candidate for the Administrative Assistant position?

Hulk Hogan:

An app icon of a printer/scanner combo and the app name "brother iPrint&Scan"

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

again this person once got so mad that the kids on his dorm floor were circulating a birthday card for a janitor that he wrote an entire column about how college kids should not be forced to "touch the animals" who live in the towns where schools are located. he is utterly triggered at all times.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

CNN: Isn't that hyperbolic to call them terrorists?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. If anything I'm understating the severity of the situation

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite thing about human beings is that we discover incredible things like life-changing medical breakthroughs.

My least favorite thing about human beings is that instead of making them available to all who need them, we insist on selling them to one another.

WBAY-TV @wbay.com · 3d

A 12-year-old girl is selling lemonade so she can possibly walk again.

12-year-old girl sells lemonade to afford stem cell treatments that could help her walk

A 12-year-old girl with cerebral palsy hopes stem cell transfusions will help her walk, but the treatment isn’t cheap.

www.wbay.com

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3d

fellas, it is "woke" to point out when the administration is violating most of the Bill of Rights

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 3d

Anchorage folks, go see my mom in “Outside Mullingar” at Cyrano’s! She’s acting alongside Charlie Cardwell, who was in the cast of the 2009 play I co-wrote for Perseverance Theatre because that’s the Alaska theatre community in a nutshell

www.americantheatre.org/2025/10/02/k...

Know a Theatre: Cyrano’s Theatre Company of Anchorage, Alaska

A small, nimble theatre in the Last Frontier's largest city has been programming classics and new works there for 33 years.

www.americantheatre.org

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like at least some of those incidents got meaningful media coverage, too. The guy in his 70s who was knocked down in Buffalo was definitely covered in all the national media.

Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 3d

My head. It hurts. Police brutality during 2020 protests was EXTENSIVELY documented.

Violence Against Black Lives Matter Protesters - Berkeley Human Rights Center

humanrights.berkeley.edu

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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 3d

It is fucking wild to me that in our lifetimes we've gone from "Clinton was a draft dodger" being a defining issue of two presidential elections to servicemembers smiling and clapping as a CIC who never served makes light of a conflict that decimated a generation.

Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 3d

My grandparents had that blue and gold oil rig one on their mantel in Fairbanks when I was growing up!

Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social · 3d

My parents had so many friends who came back from Vietnam permanently traumatized (and many more who came back in coffins) and this is so deeply offensive to me

My dad was also a draft dodger and he never would have bragged about how "easy" he would have won a war he didn't want to fight

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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