Such excellent reporting on such a tragically cruel story.

Cliché & basic point, i know, but it's really fucked up how many people refuse to ask "but how will we pay for that" about war & jail shit. Like they fully & fundamentally accept & believe in endless money taps for killing & jailing & hurting other people, but not like… food or medicine or housing.

Out now from @umasspress.bsky.social: Woman House, a probing memoir in essays by Lauren Westerfield. @lwwesterfield.bsky.social Thank you @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for the opportunity to review this necessary book. bit.ly/4csLFrL

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

At 3rd Place Books, in my former home of Seattle. In this spot in 2015, I recognized a fellow browser and blurted, "Are you Ken Jennings?" 30 seconds later, thinking celeb gawking must feel dehumanizing, I said, "I'm Kim Kankiewicz." 10 yrs later I'm fangirling over @kenjennings.bsky.social again.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

This year, I resolve to be more Rosa Lyster excavating profundity from absurdity and less a reactive bundle of nerves.

lolsob

This was an especially satisfying and disheartening episode of an always satisfying and disheartening podcast.

The regime has now arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/ A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN. And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.

Eager to read this.

I nodded at every sentence of this essay while an automated voice read it to me from my phone.

Wow, this essay. I drove past that Confederate flag before filling my gas tank in Paducah last week, and I'm finding comfort in sharing the road with @jeanettemrozinski.bsky.social and her witness of resistant beauty.

I have drunk the third Coke Zero that was in the icebox and which you were probably saving for after school Forgive me it was delicious so sweet and so cold

This is the reminder I needed after a family member’s screed about LPJ. Apparently her ownership reveals “Operation Signalgate” as a deep state plot because she’s been photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell and The Atlantic ran a story debunking child pedophile conspiracies.

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

Usually when I hear someone loudly explain something to their table mate at any local coffee shop, it's the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. Today, it's a plan for democratic action. #Missouri #resistance

Here we have a Texas government official telling a Baptist minister what they are supposed to believe

Please consider updating this setting & providing alt text for media going forward as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to your posts on BlueSky as those of us who can see that @lambdalegal.bsky.social refused to take just a few minutes to invest in accessibility! 🙏🏽

I frequently think about the beetle sex scene in North Woods and imagine Daniel Mason chortling at his typewriter, delighted by his audacity. #booksky

Having facilitated a Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity series, which delved into Collective & Ancestral Grief, Disenfranchised & Suffocated Grief, Movement Grief, Anticipatory Grief, Carceral Grief, Disability Grief, Climate Grief, etc, so sharing those resources: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

State-sponsored terrorism in our neighborhood.

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

I took some time with this. Here is my full report at Law Dork on Trump's order revoking Executive Order 11246: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-fede...

In a week of upheaval, one executive action feels strikingly surreal to me: the rescission of Executive Order 11246. EO 11246 was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 as part of the enforcement process that gave teeth to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 1/12

A statement alongside my fellow Democratic EEOC Commissioners regarding the rescission of Executive Order 11246.

1. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT "WOKE" Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors It has been in place for 60 years It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II And now it is gone

From Naked Pastor: Never apologize for loving.

Thankful for Mother Jones and other media outlets who are shining light on this brazen takeover of the MN House. It’s unprecedented, unlawful and undemocratic. #GOPCoup #Resist @mnhouseinfo #mnleg #mndfl

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

Here’s an #EssayThread of eight example essays that I handed out to my Nonfiction Workshop students in our final workshop of the semester, which had thematic and craft similarities to their workshop drafts.

Christmas keytar session. Merry everything!

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

Woot! Congrats @zeets.bsky.social and @beltpublishing.bsky.social

Posting this again because today it's in print! Go buy the paper. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/13/a...

new distracted boyfriend meme dropped

It’s two weeks before Christmas, and I’ve done nothing to prepare. Maybe I’ll gift myself this t-shirt and stick a copy of Holding It Together by @jessicacalarco.bsky.social in everyone’s stocking. www.teepublic.com/long-sleeve-...

"Next time you catch yourself thinking a topic has been done to death, consider what you can do to put a new spin on it. ... stories are universal; it’s the particulars that change." ~ Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/i...

Leaving this here in case you need it like I did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwMR...

One of the most demoralizing things about reading lots of posts by writers is how few understand advances & royalties are the same thing, & how this misunderstanding hurts non-corporate presses

I’m excited to read this!

My good friend John Gram and I wrote an article for the JAH on why teaching historical narrative construction in college survey courses is vital to civic life. And it’s open access! doi.org/10.1093/jahi...

‘Tis the season for free glaucoma testing at Gate City Bank in Fargo.

This starter pack now has 125 #journals (and societies with journals) 🎉 Please message me (or reply here) if you know of any other journal to be added! 🙂 🗃️ bsky.app/starter-pack... #skystorians #history #AcademicSky

Prepping for the day, stressed about the work I can’t do while driving my dad to med appointments, I spotted this necklace he gave me after my 3rd eye surgery. I never considered what he might be stressed about while driving me to eleventy thousand childhood eye appointments. Thanks, Dad.

🚨ACTION NEEDED: H.R. 9495 includes a poison pill provision that is a serious threat to nonprofits. This bill would remove due process and hand over considerable power to future administrations. Join us in urging Congress to vote NO on H.R. 9495! 🔗bit.ly/STOP9495

This is timely, she says while scrolling Bluesky to avoid grading an AI-generated essay.

Hello new people! My latest project was a 10+ year labor of love and it would mean the world to me if you checked it out. www.tested-podcast.com It’s a narrative, deep, complex and suspenseful story of gender, sports, science, and “fairness.”