blowing up mountains to build a wall / important reporting from @cetracey.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social

Bought a new computer and spent the past week disabling AI features. Here's what I've figured out so far. I am not a tech person, so feel free to add -- and I'd love to see a guide for the #WritingCommunity all in one place! Here goes: 1/

5 questions with @elsewherejournal.bsky.social www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2026/1/...

Great piece on the history of the sanctuary movement in Tucson! by @cetracey.bsky.social in @placesjournal.bsky.social placesjournal.org/article/a-th...

beccagrady.substack.com/p/a-year-of-... California part two, a year in beaches and books:

A year of California in a few lists: open.substack.com/pub/beccagra...

Just another reason I subscribe to @propublica.org.

Here's my first Starter Pack. This Starter Pack contains writers who completed Granta writing courses in memoir, nature writing, short fiction, and longform journalism. There's some amazing writers in here for you to follow and get to know.

The Public Comment period for Trump's State Department policy change to deny accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is open - please submit a comment! @aclu.org has put together all the links below: action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...

"My favorite shade of blue is the sky at 6:15pm on March 1" Since yesterday was that day, I released a video I made for "Black and White Cookie," the last song on my album Two Wires and a Spark. Full video is on my website! Marianrunk.com #musiciansky #folkmusic #indiemusic

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far

As you may have heard, most (not all) of the people who produce Outside magazine (and the website) were laid off on Thursday. The ex-ME has a complete archive of issues going all the way back to the 1970s. If anybody knows of a library that might want to house these, lemme know.

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

If we won’t make room for the wildness we live within, how can we possibly hope to save the wilderness? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

after the rain at the San Diego creek, zoom in for flight and foam #runviews

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

In case you need Zillow humor today courtesy of @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/its-zillow...

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

If you’re in the US, what’s your plan for maintaining your sanity through the incoming administration? My favorite ideas so far: novels and poetry instead of doomscrolling, daily exercise (even 15 minutes is better than nothing), and maybe we don’t need to check the news more than 1x/day

congrats @sypgrant.bsky.social on your great piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

tfw you love your job at the Bird Naming Factory

Local government policies to make the experience of living on the streets a crime are worsening the problem and depleting the limited resources to help homeless people said advocates and experts. The third and final installment in the Camping Out series: https://buff.ly/409HpGX

LiLo 🎄 x @sabs.bsky.social @defector.bsky.social = 💫💫💫

Incredible news! Montana’s Supreme Court just affirmed that the state’s gender affirming care ban is likely unconstitutional. This makes the state the first state Supreme Court to rule that trans medical care is protected. This applies REGARDLESS of what the US Supreme Court does.

Grateful for this read today: Understanding What's at Stake (It's Always Been Transition) open.substack.com/pub/sadbrown...

Chase Strangio, first trans attorney to argue at SCOTUS, walks out to cheers.

snack or hat? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Here's a great roundup of writing and art residencies and calls for submissions from #adrianshirk 's catalog if anyone is in the market for such things. #amwriting adrianshirk.substack.com/p/december-o...

Between Kim and Steve’s widow Heather, this was surely the most profanity – laced street naming ceremony in Chicago’s history.

echo mountain ruins w/ @sypgrant.bsky.social

reading, lately ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #dinukamckenzie @rosannaxia.bsky.social #katherinebrabon #shzehuitjoa @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social

New comics-based interview with #vanessagerman about her solo show is now live! chicagoreader.com/visual-arts-...

From 2019, an interview with the wonderful @jessicajlee.bsky.social. "It’s taken me a really long time to realise that home didn’t have to be singular, that I didn’t need to pick one place to call home." www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2019/9/...

An excerpt from a larger book project I've been working on is up on @elsewherejournal.bsky.social (welcome to @bsky.app Elsewhere!) This piece is from a sliver of time @sypgrant.bsky.social and I spent in Wyoming and Montana on a residency moon. www.elsewhere-journal.com/twilight-pos...

many days I am jealous of the dog. cc @sypgrant.bsky.social

CIS WOMEN we need you. SIGN THIS NOW.

it’s Trans Day of Remembrance, where we honor those we’ve lost to violence which is some 350 of us worldwide but there’s something i need you to know the numbers are much higher 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2024/11/20/t...

Love these illustrated notebooks from Orhan Pamuk in @vqr.bsky.social on the push and pull of writing versus painting. And there are mountains and the sea! www.vqronline.org/fall-2024/ar...

therapy

excited to see my mountain manuscript on the Santa Fe Writers Project long list, judged this year by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social

We never ask this about bombs.

A queer teenager from Nebraska, where lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care last year, responds to Pamela Paul. "I fear for my future. I fear for my friends and their future."

my first poem out in the world! ✨✨✨✨✨

The eighth part of PERVERSE issue 7 is out now, with poems by Kat Payne Ware, C.P. Nield, Heidi Williamson, Becca Grady and Jo Colley. Read them here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-7h

very best writing companion, this one gets me through the toughest of edits 💕

tough week in news, but good in book mail, excited to read these from @dorothyproject.bsky.social @pipadam.bsky.social Kate Briggs @aminamemory.bsky.social and Marguerite Duras 💕💕💕💕

my fall resolution is to send more letters so here goes: wrote about catching up and losing the sky and reading Annie Dillard beccagrady.substack.com/p/eclipsing