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My Birthday Curse Is Back, and This Time It Brought Reinforcements
Tomorrow, I turn forty-one. Which means, statistically, something will either break, catch fire, go missing, bleed, ghost me, explode, or die. No need to sugarcoat it. The birthday curse is real. I don’t care if you’re religious, spiritual, or just one of those people who puts rose quartz in their bra and calls it healing.
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Traditional Family Values: The Proposal Was a Lie—But the Applause Was Real
A closeted Senate candidate proposes on live TV. His ex—the ghostwriter behind the speech—must decide if telling the truth is worth losing everything. A devastating queer political love story about optics, erasure, and survival. Read Traditional Family Values. #Booktok #AmReading #BookLover #BookWorm #BookTwitter #booksky #bookrecommends #2025TBR
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From Bench to Bar Fight: Jeanine Pirro Confirmed as U.S. Attorney for D.C., Chaos Ensues
Well, it finally happened. After years of performative shouting, a few too many box wines, and one very persistent eye twitch that could double as a metronome for national decline, Jeanine Pirro has officially been confirmed by the United States Senate as the new U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. That’s right—our nation’s capital’s
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Lines in the Sand: How Redistricting Became the Supreme Court’s Favorite Shape-Shiting Weapon
It’s once again that magical time in America when maps are less about geography and more about strategy—where lines aren’t drawn by cartographers but by career politicians with a vengeance kink. This month, the Supreme Court decided to up the ante in Louisiana’s redistricting case, because apparently we haven’t suffered enough slow-moving constitutional erosion for
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Why Thanks for the House, Stupid Might Be the Most Honest Love Story You’ll Read This Year
ChatGPT said: “We grieved him differently. He fell apart; I took inventory.” Thanks for the House, Stupid is a darkly funny, emotionally wrecked queer romantic dramedy where grief throws two ex-rivals into forced cohabitation—and maybe something like healing. Haunted, horny, and halfway healed.
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July’s Over. Thank You, Everyone: 7,174 Books Sold, 64 Titles Published, and One Heart About to Burst
In July, I sold 7,174 books across 64 titles—my first full month of self-publishing after years of silence and shelved manuscripts. From memoir to romance to horror, you showed up. Thank you. Every read, share, and review keeps this dream alive.
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Jamie Lee Curtis Is Self-Retiring—Because Hollywood Can’t Be Trusted with a Calendar
Jamie Lee Curtis—Oscar winner, Activia spokeswoman, scream queen, and matriarch of aging on her own terms—has announced she’s been “self-retiring for 30 years.” Which is, of course, the most emotionally intelligent and quietly devastating resignation letter Hollywood has ever received. According to Curtis, the decision wasn’t spontaneous. It was a long, slow fade-out. Like the
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We Met in the Fire: What Holding Pressure Says About Love and Burnout
Read it here → Holding PressureAuthor Page → Brandon’s Books on Amazon What happens when survival and connection can’t coexist?When showing up for a patient means bleeding out in the process?When you want to let someone in, but your trauma has a waiting room with no open chairs? That’s what I asked myself when writing
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Lone Star, Shady Lines: Texas GOP Dusts Off Crayons for Another Round of “Find the Democrat and Move Him”
If you thought gerrymandering was a once-per-decade tradition—like the census or Taylor Swift re-recordings—think again. Texas Republicans, fueled by barbecue, brazen ambition, and a deep-seated allergy to representative democracy, have decided to crack open the redistricting map early, because why wait for 2030 when you can tilt the scales right now? Welcome to mid-decade redistricting,
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Trapped Together, Falling Apart: The Real Story Behind Until Further Notice
Start Reading Now:📚 Amazon Author Page📘 Until Further Notice – Free with Kindle Unlimited What happens when your only human contact is a total stranger with a pineapple vape and no sense of boundaries? You write Until Further Notice. This book wasn’t planned. It emerged the way a lot of things did during lockdown—messy, improvised,