Roxana Arama, Author

Congratulations, Mikki! Have a wonderful time tonight! 🌺🌻

Cover image of Michelle Knudsen's new YA novel CURSED PRINCESS CLUB: A MOST UNUSUAL PRINCESS, based on the graphic novel by LambCat, on a background of pink and green horizontal stripes. The cover itself shows main character Gwendolyn holding a plate of baked goods (including a Magical Friendship Volcano Surprise waffle) while wearing a green dress with orange bows and accents. She's looking over her shoulder at the reader with a little smile. Pink hearts appear on either side of her. The background is a pink-purple gradient, darker at the top. The title appears at the top in purple letters, with the subtitle in white.

It's pub day for CURSED PRINCESS CLUB: A MOST UNUSUAL PRINCESS, my early YA novel (ages 12+) adapted from LambCat's webcomic & graphic novel! @slj.com called it "endearing & hilarious!" 💕 Come celebrate tonight at @wordbookstores.bsky.social in Brooklyn! Cupcakes, fun prizes, and signed books!

Amazon, breathe easier. Colombia has just declared 42% of its territory a rainforest reserve. All new large-scale extraction is now off the table in this part of the Amazon. One step closer to the lungs of our planet breathing easy for us all.

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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Catholic bishops rebuke Trump on immigration ‘We feel compelled’ to ‘raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,’ the bishops said

“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence.”

U.S. Catholic Bishops voted 216-5 in a historic rebuke of Trump’s inhumane immigration policies. Republicans should follow their lead. theweek.com/politics/cat...

We're worrying less, and we're on our way to enjoying life as much as we did in 2006. Sometimes stats can provide a profound visual poignancy. Look at how the nadir of COVID is represented in this graph, and the gradual release from peak worry we've been experiencing.

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An 'Alliance' feels like a pretty powerful thing to be part of, especially one with a clever, catchy name. No wonder so many countries have joined the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance' (see what they did there?) Morocco's the latest, with a pledge to be coal-free by 2050.

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Another ripple in Africa's 'restoration wave': a World Bank programme has revived 2,400 hectares of farmland in Chad and supported 434,000 people with irrigation, solar pumps and jobs, showing how regeneration and livelihoods can grow together.

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"Cut the green crap.” said David Cameron. And now the 'green' is the one doing the cutting: at least £104 billion cut from energy costs in the UK by wind power since 2010.

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My shadow hearings are how we can conduct oversight on Trump’s horrifying immigration actions.

We can and must continue shining a light on this lawlessness.

It ain't just dirt.

Soil health is at the heart of human sustenance and soil degradation has been a looming threat for humanity for decades. The EU’s recently approved Soil Monitoring Law marks a historic first step towards turning that degradation around in Europe.

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It ain't just dirt.

Soil health is at the heart of human sustenance and soil degradation has been a looming threat for humanity for decades. The EU’s recently approved Soil Monitoring Law marks a historic first step towards turning that degradation around in Europe.

Levels of anger, sadness and stress have been creeping up year after year according to polls. That is now changing, but unevenly so. Our charts explain how econ.st/3WtOC2c

Humanity is entering a new era of global health.

Since 2010, humanity’s overall burden of disease has dropped 12.6%, and deaths from the world’s deadliest infectious illnesses - tuberculosis, diarrhoea, HIV, malaria, pneumonia - have plunged by between 35% and 60%.

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The power price turnaround in Spain.

Spain has broken the link between power prices and fossil fuels. Renewables now supply nearly half the country’s power, cutting fossil fuel influence on prices from 75% in 2019 to just 19% this year. 

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Dams in the hands of conservationists.

The sale of four hydroelectric dams to conservationists in Maine paves the way for the largest river-restoration effort in US history and could reopen hundreds of kilometres of spawning habitat for endangered Atlantic salmon.

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There is no insurrection in Portland unless you consider an uptick of people wearing inflatable frog costumes an insurrection.

No one is falling for this absurd propaganda, and there is NO justification for deploying our troops against peaceful American citizens.

Our latest edition of Fix The News is out!

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Protecting infants from Malaria

Eight African countries are soon expected to approve a new low-dose, cherry-flavoured, anti-malarial treatment that can be given to newborns and babies, replacing the riskier practice of splitting tablets.

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Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

Yeah, I’m not there much :) Thank you so much, Cindy, for reading and including my book. And congratulations on your new novel! Looks amazing!

Dr Doolittle files #2: Humpbacks

A Whale-SETI team studying non-terrestrial (aquatic), nonhuman communication systems to help parse cosmic signals for signs of extraterrestrial life, have documented humpbacks producing bubble rings in friendly encounters with humans.

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7 Powerful Novels About Undocumented Immigrants - Electric Literature These books, primarily written by immigrants, offer poignancy and pathos you won’t find in the news

My legal thriller Extreme Vetting (2023) is featured in @electricliterature.com!

Grateful to @cindyfazzi.bsky.social for reading and including it alongside such wonderful books.
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Democrats are fighting back against Trump and MAGA’s authoritarian book bans. Today, Senator Brian Schatz and I are introducing a resolution to protect the right to read at schools, libraries and universities across the country.

"Where's everyone else?"

Excellent point from Marc Elias on the complete lack of elite revulsion to Pam Bondi's sycophantic performance in the Senate yesterday.

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
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Kidney replicas get closer to the real thing.

Scientists report lab-grown organoids that better reproduce kidney structure and function, promising sharper disease models and drug tests — a step toward lab-built tissue that could one day ease transplant shortages.

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We believe healthcare is a right for every American.

But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies.

Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

Feather forensics catching poachers.

Scientists are using stable isotope analysis to trace feathers back to where they grew, turning moulted plumes into crime-scene evidence. Dietary fingerprints provide a powerful way to expose traffickers and map smuggling routes.

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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Militarized federal agents raided a Chicago apartment complex and pulled men, women, and children from their homes and into U-haul vans, separating the children from their parents.

Some people were pulled from their bed naked and terrified in the dead of night.