Bolts staff writer Alex Burness explains how Southern states ignored a Reconstruction-era law and manipulated the criminal legal system to prevent Black people from voting. This year, that has finally caught up with one state: Virginia.

If you like mysteries, check it out. The more books sold, the more likely Ms Priest will be able to sell another book in the series

High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com · 2d ago

Heads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...

Once again Bsky is working well enough that I won't install the latest update. Maybe it's harmless, maybe it will mess things up. I don't need to know yet. Maybe in a few days, if I have enough patience for app shenanigans

This is an awesome thread 🧵. - historian giving facts and suffering 0 nonsense - Kathryn Tewson inherited these skills & inclinations

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Amazing to see this in Texas of all places. Who would have thought an openly pro-trans Dem would outraise one of the country's most rabidly anti-trans Rep demagogues by over 1,000% in the reddest states?!!? Other Dems take note.

“ I never doodled,” Christy Meshel said, reflecting on her life up to the point she discovered her talent for visual arts. “I wrote. When other people were doodling, I was writing poetry because that's my real secret talent that I really don't express very much.”

Jackson’s Patton House Gives Black Mississippi Artists Space for Unapologetic, Unfiltered Art

Garry Brown of Jackson, Mississippi, opened the Patton House and Gallery, an art museum that displays works created predominantly by local Black artists.

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This is TOMORROW, so don't forget to register today! I posted the wrong URL to register earlier: it's www.screenwritingwebinar.com

Tananarive Due - The Reformatory@tananarivedue.bsky.social · last wk.

Even if you’ve never written a script, we invite you to our FREE HOUR-LONG WEBINAR, “WRITING YOUR SCRIPT!” With decades of writing and screenwriting experience, Steve and I are teaching a TOTALLY FREE hourlong class (followed by Q&A!) on story, writing, and screenwriting. 7/29 5p PT / 8p ET

We are excited to announce the first Waging Nonviolence Fellowship for writers who want to tell compelling movement stories! Apply by August 10 and help spread the word.

Announcing the first Waging Nonviolence Fellowship

The Waging Nonviolence Fellowship is a five-month journalistic training program that offers the opportunity to work closely with experienced editors and generate a body of clips on an undercovered mov...

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Dr Cottom sees what Emily Wilson was doing in that review of The Odyssey in the LRB. In case you were wondering.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Tired: saying Nolan can’t write Wired: proving Nolan can’t write by citing excerpts from the script. Inspired: Writing a review of Nolan’s film that is so compelling, we immediately accept its thesis, Nolan can’t write

Saw the Hadestown film (a proshot of the stage version). It is very good. If you like contemporary musicals, it is definitely worth seeing. To find a theater, check your local listings. Some are adding showings, apparently. About the show: bleeckerstreetmedia.com/hadestown-th...

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HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL In Theaters July 24, The live theater capture of the hit musical Hadestown, Directed by Brett Sullivan and Starring Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Amber Gray, Eva Noblezada, Pa...

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A little bit of the story behind my upcoming solo show at MOAH:CEDAR in Lancaster CA. Co-curated by Thinkspace Projects. Opening August 1st, reception from 4 to 6pm.

My #SoloRPG LONELY HOUSE started life as a novel, but to really do justice to the liminal, mutable nature of the space, shifting it into a journaling game of collaborative fiction where players shape key aspects of the narrative allows the house to breathe In some cases, literally 👻

M. Belanger@sethanikeem.bsky.social · 2w ago

For #SelfPromoSaturday allow me to introduce my #SoloRPG of haunted memories & liminal spaces LONELY HOUSE Think #Backrooms meets haunted Victorian mansion You can find it on @itch.io & @rpgtrader.bsky.social Audiobook narrated by @raincorbyn.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Audible-Lone...

Disability Pride Month 2026, A Reading List from Library Journal. This list and five previous years' lists are available as a downloadable spreadsheet. www.libraryjournal.com/story/disabi... #DisabilityPride

Disability Pride Month 2026 | A Reading List

Disability Pride Month commemorates the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which President George H. W. Bush signed into law on July 26, 1990. In recognition of this month-long observance...

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Cat came by for petting, still purring

Lancaster, California! August 1 to mid-Nov. 45 minutes north of LA. Hurd's last show outside of New Mexico for awhile. See it if you can.

Anthony Hurd@anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Gentle Nature - opening August 1st at The Museum Of Art and History: CEDAR curated by Thinkspace Projects. Hope you can join us for my latest solo exhibition.

The ebook is on sale for £9.99 this week!

Caroline Derry@carolinederry.bsky.social · 2y ago

My book Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent is out with @edinburghup.bsky.social later this month! The law on sexual consent is notoriously problematic – but why focus on time? 🧵(1/7) 🌈🎓

My friend Sterno might have liked Cosmo Sheldrake's music a lot. Tardigrades? You bet. I'm glad Sterno missed all the bullshit he'd have had to live through to get here, to this song. (I saw more shows with Sterno than anyone else. We both had very broad tastes in music. Gone almost 20 years now.)

Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tonight’s song to welcome in the apocalypse

<health care lawyer> This is incredibly important: if you're in California or Minnesota and rely on Medicaid for health care, YOU ARE STILL COVERED. You should not delay care because of Oz's bullshit. </>

rmeas002@r1chard07.bsky.social · 2w ago

By pausing Medicaid payments, will people on Medicaid in those states have any options to continue their healthcare without being stuck with medical bills?

Saw The Odyssey film. Epic

Finally the air quality is in normal ranges. Opened a window for the first time in days. Not for long because it's going to be too hot soon, but I missed the clean air and also the birds.

...if you've ever wondered why many cis ppl believe that trans identities can be "spread via social contagion" yet never consider whether transphobia & anti-trans pseudoscience might also be "socially contagious", well, I get into that in the video: youtu.be/rJq9ran4Sdc

I am glad that the gay hockey show means that I heard about this play-then-TV-show that plays with the Baba Yaga tale. Normally I hear about cool shows at least a year after they end. Canadian shows? Hardly ever.

Heated Rivalry News@hrnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

The AMC+ version

DID I MENTION THAT I WROTE A MG HORROR??? It’s part of the Cabin 23 series & coming soon! Trapped in a a sinking house: the water’s rising, and you aren’t alone …

ICYMI yesterday: Under questioning from Ted Cruz, acting AG Todd Blanche said he’d review Biden-era DOJ guidance that greenlit the mailing of abortion pills. This could upend access to abortion in all 50 states.

Trump’s Attorney General Nominee Just Opened the Door to a National Abortion Ban

Under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche committed to reviewing Biden-era guidance on the Comstock Act.

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Drive Thru Fiction is having their ‘Christmas in July’ sale right now, and I bunch of stuff I wrote either short stories or essays for is part of the sale! Take a look: www.drivethrufiction.com/en/browse?pr...

im writing a gay arctic exploration romance novel but its set in 1907 im 30,000 words in call it unheated rivalry

David Avallone@davallone.bsky.social · 3w ago

Gay World War One arctic exploration romance. Heated Rivalry, but it’s Shackleton and Amundson. Just spit-balling here.

The best time to start thinking about and talking about making a website accessible is at the very beginning, before any content or code has been written. But the second best time is right now.

“Don’t you dare hold me to a higher standard than you hold your president. Also if want people to not celebrate your death, maybe try not being an insufferable cunt while you’re alive.”🤷‍♀️ Feel free to copy paste this as a go to response to anybody who tries this. You don’t even gotta credit me 😘

Matt@nosoupforgeorge.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you see any MAGA folks clutching their pearls about how we respond to Lindsey Graham's death, just send them this:

Good news: Alternative tech available for stabilizing the cervix, for less pain & bleeding. Article also shows how new medical tech is developed & launched, including difficulties: men in financing, insurance coverage, & OB/GYNs who think the old tech is fine.

Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?

A new medical device is part of a broader effort to make gynecological care less painful — and to take patients more seriously.

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