Alicia Dearn :: PEN Amelia Elliot
@aliciadearn.com
Civil rights lawyer, novelist, trauma survivor, political troublemaker, owner of too many animals, chronically-ill nomad. Playing life on hard mode. https://aliciadearn.com
The kittens have lodged a repeated complaint these last few weeks. Have not been fed, they allege.
Husband swears under penalty of making his wife mad that he feeds them every morning at 6 am when he gets up.
An investigation follows.
#dogs #cats #petstories
Husband swears under penalty of making his wife mad that he feeds them every morning at 6 am when he gets up.
An investigation follows.
#dogs #cats #petstories
May 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
The kittens have lodged a repeated complaint these last few weeks. Have not been fed, they allege.
Husband swears under penalty of making his wife mad that he feeds them every morning at 6 am when he gets up.
An investigation follows.
#dogs #cats #petstories
Husband swears under penalty of making his wife mad that he feeds them every morning at 6 am when he gets up.
An investigation follows.
#dogs #cats #petstories
> Put a 22 year old in charge of counterterrorism, along with Kristi Noem and Joe Kent
> Publicly shut down government in November so that everyone sees the understaffing of traffic controllers and TSA
> Piss off allies so they stop sharing intel with us in January
#USPOL
> Publicly shut down government in November so that everyone sees the understaffing of traffic controllers and TSA
> Piss off allies so they stop sharing intel with us in January
#USPOL
March 23, 2026 at 11:46 PM
> Put a 22 year old in charge of counterterrorism, along with Kristi Noem and Joe Kent
> Publicly shut down government in November so that everyone sees the understaffing of traffic controllers and TSA
> Piss off allies so they stop sharing intel with us in January
#USPOL
> Publicly shut down government in November so that everyone sees the understaffing of traffic controllers and TSA
> Piss off allies so they stop sharing intel with us in January
#USPOL
I've lost multiple seven figures because of "bad" employees.
I put "bad" in quotations, because most of these losing employees were just normal humans being inefficient. Though I’ve had my share of thieves and fraudsters, too.
#SmallBiz #Entrepreneurship #EmploymentLaw #LawSky
I put "bad" in quotations, because most of these losing employees were just normal humans being inefficient. Though I’ve had my share of thieves and fraudsters, too.
#SmallBiz #Entrepreneurship #EmploymentLaw #LawSky
March 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I've lost multiple seven figures because of "bad" employees.
I put "bad" in quotations, because most of these losing employees were just normal humans being inefficient. Though I’ve had my share of thieves and fraudsters, too.
#SmallBiz #Entrepreneurship #EmploymentLaw #LawSky
I put "bad" in quotations, because most of these losing employees were just normal humans being inefficient. Though I’ve had my share of thieves and fraudsters, too.
#SmallBiz #Entrepreneurship #EmploymentLaw #LawSky
Writing is the only way I can effectively treat my C-PTSD. It saves my life over and over. And I hope that it will help a reader someday the way it helps me. That's why I publish.
#writingcommunity #booksky #romancebook #disability #ptsd
#writingcommunity #booksky #romancebook #disability #ptsd
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March 23, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Writing is the only way I can effectively treat my C-PTSD. It saves my life over and over. And I hope that it will help a reader someday the way it helps me. That's why I publish.
#writingcommunity #booksky #romancebook #disability #ptsd
#writingcommunity #booksky #romancebook #disability #ptsd
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Stephen Miller complaining about the UK finally eliminating heredity nobility from their legislature is a perfect encapsulation of how perverse it is to have these people in charge during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
March 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Stephen Miller complaining about the UK finally eliminating heredity nobility from their legislature is a perfect encapsulation of how perverse it is to have these people in charge during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
What it's like to be chronically-ill and having the cost of care and insurance fuck you in innumerable ways. A 🧵.
I’ve been extremely sick for the past three weeks. I'm always sick, but the last six months of hell was caused by insurance.
#ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #rareDisease #InvisibleIllness
I’ve been extremely sick for the past three weeks. I'm always sick, but the last six months of hell was caused by insurance.
#ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #rareDisease #InvisibleIllness
March 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
What it's like to be chronically-ill and having the cost of care and insurance fuck you in innumerable ways. A 🧵.
I’ve been extremely sick for the past three weeks. I'm always sick, but the last six months of hell was caused by insurance.
#ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #rareDisease #InvisibleIllness
I’ve been extremely sick for the past three weeks. I'm always sick, but the last six months of hell was caused by insurance.
#ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #rareDisease #InvisibleIllness
Today’s lesson: Never underestimate Trump’s ability to find a new floor.
#uspol #markwaynemullin #kristinoem
#uspol #markwaynemullin #kristinoem
March 5, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Today’s lesson: Never underestimate Trump’s ability to find a new floor.
#uspol #markwaynemullin #kristinoem
#uspol #markwaynemullin #kristinoem
March 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Uh no...we definitely realize it.
![Quote from Washington Times editorial board
"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:222p42fegwhwfyrc3gqam76j/bafkreib4nkrafaic6rpwa7wyeesnlmjeu23sshxjjpvqtr33wk7ztuxb2y)
March 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Uh no...we definitely realize it.
My service dog Amelia has a deep-seated hatred of Cold Play. She’s flipping out and barking at the speakers. Fortunately, I don't need to attend any of their concerts.
#disability #servicedogs #accessibility
#disability #servicedogs #accessibility
March 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
My service dog Amelia has a deep-seated hatred of Cold Play. She’s flipping out and barking at the speakers. Fortunately, I don't need to attend any of their concerts.
#disability #servicedogs #accessibility
#disability #servicedogs #accessibility
I have these neighbors who are generous people. But generous to a fault. They have a nonstop stream of homeless people that they take in, usually strangers. People of all ages. Some disabled. Some drug addicts. Some down on their luck. Some criminals.
#poverty #StLouisMO #humansofbluesky
#poverty #StLouisMO #humansofbluesky
February 28, 2026 at 8:26 PM
I have these neighbors who are generous people. But generous to a fault. They have a nonstop stream of homeless people that they take in, usually strangers. People of all ages. Some disabled. Some drug addicts. Some down on their luck. Some criminals.
#poverty #StLouisMO #humansofbluesky
#poverty #StLouisMO #humansofbluesky
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The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”……
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At the risk of having this skeet blopped on my head in a couple of months, the birthright citizenship case is an incredibly easy case decided by straightforward text, and that’s part of why these amicus briefs are all such dunks.
February 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”……
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Well my morning started with responding to another lawyer’s email as follows:
“Counsel: Nice to meet you, too. The below is nonsense, and you know it.”
So it’s going to be that kind of day.
#lawsky
“Counsel: Nice to meet you, too. The below is nonsense, and you know it.”
So it’s going to be that kind of day.
#lawsky
February 27, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Well my morning started with responding to another lawyer’s email as follows:
“Counsel: Nice to meet you, too. The below is nonsense, and you know it.”
So it’s going to be that kind of day.
#lawsky
“Counsel: Nice to meet you, too. The below is nonsense, and you know it.”
So it’s going to be that kind of day.
#lawsky
I’ve got a bold prediction. AI is going to kill most indie publishing. But not through generative AI. But rather by taking over the cultural ecosystem altogether.
Let me explain.
#writers #ai #publishing #indieauthors
Let me explain.
#writers #ai #publishing #indieauthors
February 26, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I’ve got a bold prediction. AI is going to kill most indie publishing. But not through generative AI. But rather by taking over the cultural ecosystem altogether.
Let me explain.
#writers #ai #publishing #indieauthors
Let me explain.
#writers #ai #publishing #indieauthors
Nephew is jumping on an air mattress while I'm babysitting. A 🧵 about #FAFO.
Me: Stop jumping on that. You’re going to fall and hurt yourself.
Nephew looks at me and then takes one last, defiant, exuberant jump. Falls. Hurts himself. Starts crying.
Me: Are you ok? Did we learn something?
Me: Stop jumping on that. You’re going to fall and hurt yourself.
Nephew looks at me and then takes one last, defiant, exuberant jump. Falls. Hurts himself. Starts crying.
Me: Are you ok? Did we learn something?
February 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Nephew is jumping on an air mattress while I'm babysitting. A 🧵 about #FAFO.
Me: Stop jumping on that. You’re going to fall and hurt yourself.
Nephew looks at me and then takes one last, defiant, exuberant jump. Falls. Hurts himself. Starts crying.
Me: Are you ok? Did we learn something?
Me: Stop jumping on that. You’re going to fall and hurt yourself.
Nephew looks at me and then takes one last, defiant, exuberant jump. Falls. Hurts himself. Starts crying.
Me: Are you ok? Did we learn something?
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Good rundown from @jbhenchman.bsky.social on where things stand now.
Trump Has Other Means to Make Tariff Mischief
Unless Congress takes back its tariff power, there will be no ‘liberation day’ for America
www.theunpopulist.net
February 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Good rundown from @jbhenchman.bsky.social on where things stand now.
As someone with a neurological condition that is involuntary (narcolepsy), I spent a few days feeling sad about the BAFTA attendee with Tourette’s who shouted a terrible word that historically inflicts pain upon its target.
#lawsky #disabilities #chronic-illness #neurodiversity #accessibility
#lawsky #disabilities #chronic-illness #neurodiversity #accessibility
February 25, 2026 at 7:07 PM
As someone with a neurological condition that is involuntary (narcolepsy), I spent a few days feeling sad about the BAFTA attendee with Tourette’s who shouted a terrible word that historically inflicts pain upon its target.
#lawsky #disabilities #chronic-illness #neurodiversity #accessibility
#lawsky #disabilities #chronic-illness #neurodiversity #accessibility
Lawyers have opposition reflex. A 🧵
My client is sued, is the weaker party, but has the more sympathetic case.
Me: *in head* Shoot, this contract has a jury waiver and my client would really benefit from a jury trial. It's part of an arbitration provision. I wonder why they didn't file arbitration.
My client is sued, is the weaker party, but has the more sympathetic case.
Me: *in head* Shoot, this contract has a jury waiver and my client would really benefit from a jury trial. It's part of an arbitration provision. I wonder why they didn't file arbitration.
February 25, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Lawyers have opposition reflex. A 🧵
My client is sued, is the weaker party, but has the more sympathetic case.
Me: *in head* Shoot, this contract has a jury waiver and my client would really benefit from a jury trial. It's part of an arbitration provision. I wonder why they didn't file arbitration.
My client is sued, is the weaker party, but has the more sympathetic case.
Me: *in head* Shoot, this contract has a jury waiver and my client would really benefit from a jury trial. It's part of an arbitration provision. I wonder why they didn't file arbitration.
February 20, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Remembering that one time someone voted for me for President in 2020, and it wasn’t even my mom or my husband (or myself). I peaked at one vote because I’m not in the Epstein Files. Also I wasn’t running.
#LawSky #USPOL #UKPolitics
#LawSky #USPOL #UKPolitics
February 19, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Remembering that one time someone voted for me for President in 2020, and it wasn’t even my mom or my husband (or myself). I peaked at one vote because I’m not in the Epstein Files. Also I wasn’t running.
#LawSky #USPOL #UKPolitics
#LawSky #USPOL #UKPolitics
I spent last December in bed, barely functioning, because I was denied (for months) necessary-to-life medication as insurance tightens access. I stopped writing, stopped working, and wondered what I had left to give. I felt myself fade in a way I hadn’t experienced since the first time I had cancer.
February 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I spent last December in bed, barely functioning, because I was denied (for months) necessary-to-life medication as insurance tightens access. I stopped writing, stopped working, and wondered what I had left to give. I felt myself fade in a way I hadn’t experienced since the first time I had cancer.
Not a single trans person is in the Epstein files, and yet we’re supposed to believe that they’re predators and threats to cis women.
I have a handful of trans friends. I’m also an SA survivor. You know whom I’ve never feared?
#uspol
I have a handful of trans friends. I’m also an SA survivor. You know whom I’ve never feared?
#uspol
February 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Not a single trans person is in the Epstein files, and yet we’re supposed to believe that they’re predators and threats to cis women.
I have a handful of trans friends. I’m also an SA survivor. You know whom I’ve never feared?
#uspol
I have a handful of trans friends. I’m also an SA survivor. You know whom I’ve never feared?
#uspol
Months ago, I blocked all the federal departments’ social media accounts—around the time they started putting out Nazi-adjacent propaganda.
I refuse to help their reach by participating in their algorithms.
I humbly suggest you all do the same.
#uspol
I refuse to help their reach by participating in their algorithms.
I humbly suggest you all do the same.
#uspol
February 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Months ago, I blocked all the federal departments’ social media accounts—around the time they started putting out Nazi-adjacent propaganda.
I refuse to help their reach by participating in their algorithms.
I humbly suggest you all do the same.
#uspol
I refuse to help their reach by participating in their algorithms.
I humbly suggest you all do the same.
#uspol