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Jobbing writer of spy stories, confessional prose & doppio-driven existential dramas. SERVICES RENDERED series. fmr. Altar-boy/BoyScout. Journo (retd). Sceptic. Drapetomania sufferer. Interests: PoliSci/Chess/Cats. He/Him. Member: SMFS https://is.gd/zsIcH3

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As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers turning away their products The "Buy Canadian" movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of U.S.-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves.

The 'Buy Canadian' movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of US-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves reut.rs/3Y8EZqE

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Federal government orders California DMV to cancel licenses for 13,000 immigrant truck drivers The federal government has ordered the California Department of Motor Vehicles to cancel the licenses of nearly 13,000 immigrant truck drivers across the state, leaving them unable to work and raising...

The affected drivers include those with visas, #refugee status, or asylum status who had obtained legal work authorization and commercial driver’s licenses, or CDLs x.gd/hYrhN

12.03.2026 22:26 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Palestinians in Gaza Slam Kushner’s Reconstruction Plan as Disguised Theft The people “want to rebuild it with their own hands — without foreign pressure or intervention,” said one Gazan.

Kushner — Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former U.S. special envoy — presented his master plan in Davos at the World Economic Forum in the form of a computer-generated, color-coded map of what he described as a “new #Gaza.”
truthout.org/articles/pal...

12.03.2026 22:20 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Meara McBride wants to be a fashion designer and doesn't have time for a relationship. Lieutenant Paul Choy wants a girlfriend, but is too shy to do anything about it. Can a wacky scheme to make Paul a ladies man bring them closer together?

#MomSky #BookSky #Romance #writer #book #MomLife #fashion

12.03.2026 00:01 👍 24 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
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🔔NEW! To best serve our writers, we have capped our spring chapbook reading to 120 submissions only!

If you’re thinking of submitting a chapbook manuscript this spring, please submit sooner than later before we close for this reading period.

12.03.2026 19:39 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump’s DHS Nominee Made Profitable Stock Purchases Days Before US Military Strikes As a member of a key Senate committee, Mullin was privy to information regarding planned military actions.

New #reporting indicates Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of #Oklahoma — who is President Trump’s pick to head DHS — profited from #stocks in #oil and security companies that he invested in just days before US #military strikes in Venezuela and Iran x.gd/PyhSP #InsiderTrading

12.03.2026 21:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When a married woman has an affair, a million questions race through her mind. My ex-wife told me this. And the questions run something like: Should she leave her husband or tough it out? Is she making more out of the affair than it really is? Or is this new guy the man of her dreams? What if she gets divorced, marries the new guy and-oops!-he turns out to be a wife beater?
And what about her ex-husband?
Will he be reasonably cool about the whole thing? Or kidnap their children across the Mexican border?
And then Maggie said something about murder. Really chilled me…

Police car and woman’s red shoe on left.
Book cover of Dead Edna by D. J. Runnels on the right.
Author photo turned into artwork in upper right corner. 

No gen AI in the writing, plotting or artwork.

When a married woman has an affair, a million questions race through her mind. My ex-wife told me this. And the questions run something like: Should she leave her husband or tough it out? Is she making more out of the affair than it really is? Or is this new guy the man of her dreams? What if she gets divorced, marries the new guy and-oops!-he turns out to be a wife beater? And what about her ex-husband? Will he be reasonably cool about the whole thing? Or kidnap their children across the Mexican border? And then Maggie said something about murder. Really chilled me… Police car and woman’s red shoe on left. Book cover of Dead Edna by D. J. Runnels on the right. Author photo turned into artwork in upper right corner. No gen AI in the writing, plotting or artwork.

An 18-second opening has convinced many readers to try this book.

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Mystery
Supernatural
Satire
Amazon.com/author/d.j.runnels

06.03.2026 03:15 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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Book of the Day ~ The Weybourne Witches by @amberravenauthor1.bsky.social

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008707588

10.03.2026 13:52 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Are you ready for a hunt that’s half police procedural, half gothic nightmare? 🦇🔪

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11.03.2026 01:13 👍 79 🔁 60 💬 2 📌 11
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11 March 1985

Mikhail Gorbachev was named as the new chairman of the Soviet Communist Party following the death of Konstantin Chernenko the day before.

Gorbachev oversaw a radical transformation of Soviet society, ended the Cold War and presided over the downfall of the USSR. #HistoryMatters

11.03.2026 09:39 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A throwback both to the Cold War and a time when film actors had faces

12.03.2026 18:05 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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THREE DAYS LEFT to submit to our mums issue! Send us your poetry, visual art, fiction and nonfiction about what “mom” means to you!

Submit your original work here: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissio...

12.03.2026 16:32 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A British tourist facing two years in prison in Dubai for allegedly filming missiles hitting the city - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/british-tourist-facing-two-years-prison-dubai-allegedly-filming-missiles

12.03.2026 21:21 👍 16 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 5
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Lesbian Visibility Week Itch.io Bundle 2026 Hello everyone! If you would like to have your book (or books) included in this year's Lesbian Visibility Week Itch Bundle, you're in the right place. Please read this section in its entirety before s...

🚨 Attention lesbians, sapphics, & women who love women!! 🚨

I'm officially organizing an Itch bundle for Lesbian Visibility Week! 📚📦

The bundle will run from 4/20 to 4/26. Criteria & details are in the link below. Please submit by 3/31! Reposts are very appreciated!

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12.03.2026 21:19 👍 140 🔁 136 💬 6 📌 2
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11.03.2026 00:33 👍 22 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVER LOST A FELINE FRIEND.
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12.03.2026 21:06 👍 27 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 2

Brent Crude closed the day above $100 a barrel for the first time in three and a half years.

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Start the award-winning Stage 3 series with a FREE BOOK!

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#Horror on #Audible and #KindleUnlimited
BAD PENNIES

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12.03.2026 01:05 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Controversial 'illegal orders' billboard goes up near Naval Base San Diego The billboard's sign echoes the messaging of federal lawmakers who appeared in a video late last year encouraging troops not to follow unlawful orders.

"The #SanDiego #Veterans For #Peace, Hugh Thompson Memorial Chapter #91, is very pleased to announce … a billboard reminding active-duty troops that they have a duty to disobey illegal orders," the organization said in a news release
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HARD #scifi WITH EMOTIONAL DEPTH
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“Rich world-building, memorable encounters, and genuine heart make this an easy five stars.”
"This is sci-fi that lingers. Raw and thoughtful and achingly alive."
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12.03.2026 05:36 👍 33 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 2
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Fish caught in the Mediterranean Sea in 1561 said to have been adorned with tattoo-like marking on its skin that looked like images of ships — from Adriaen Coenen’s huge 16th-century treatise on fish. See more from this remarkable book here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #FishFriday

12.03.2026 20:48 👍 83 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1
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Trieste - Terminal Berkeley Denizen A Power Punk couple have their lives up-ended by the appearance of a Pixie Punk

My novella about sudden family relations in the punk scene Trieste is available for Kindle! Check it out! Costs less than a latte'!

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12.03.2026 16:19 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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OpenAI Blurs Its Mass Surveillance Red Line With New Pentagon Contract - The Citizen Lab Senior researcher Wolfie Christl spoke with Forbes about OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon that permits the gathering of bulk data from users.

OpenAI Blurs Its Mass Surveillance Red Line With New Pentagon Contract

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12.03.2026 18:18 👍 34 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 2
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🖤 A Novel Murder
What starts as a disagreement…
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27.06.2025 23:33 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Ike’s Girls: America’s First Women’s Expeditionary Force On January 27, 1943, the first American women’s expeditionary force in history landed in North Africa. This company, the 149th Post Headquarters Company, had been specifically requested by General …

Want to know how the WAACs ended up North Africa in 1943? I really enjoyed writing a bit about the experiences of the 149th Post Headquarters Company in Algiers. I wrote MURDER IN THE RANKS to highlight these trailblazing women! #CRIMEREADS #HISTORICALMYSTERIES
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16.12.2024 17:20 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A faceless vigilante. A fractured police force. A detective who can’t escape the hunt.

Serves You Right by Orion Gregory

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