Brenda Horrigan
@brendahorrigan.bsky.social
Co-founder of The Creative Current, a collective Substack focusing on the ups & downs of staying inspired & creative, whether you're on-island or off. https://thecreativecurrent.substack.com/
ICE mayhem ~ here on Martha’s Vineyard continuing ~ so they also went all the way to Nantucket for 7 people? Give me a damn break~ These folks are not your priority! I call BS! Fear is the point here.. @msnbc.com @maddow.msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social
ICE active on Martha’s Vineyard today. “We were not informed they would be here,” Dukes County Sheriff Bob Ogden said. www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/27/i...
ICE agents make arrests on Vineyard - The Martha's Vineyard Times
Updated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — along with assistance from other federal agencies — made multiple arrests on the Island Tuesday morning. Officers wearing masks and vests tha...
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Rev Laura Everett@reveverett.com · last yr.It appears that ICE is active and present across Massachusetts right now. Pray that rights be upheld and God’s people remain safe. #mapoli #KnowYourRights www.masscouncilofchurches.org/resources/ne...
I live on Martha’s Vineyard the gestapo radioed the local dispatch center complaining they were being followed everywhere by people videoing them asking for police support. The answer was… sorry we cannot help you.
This on Martha’s Vineyard… www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/28/i...
Islanders push back on ICE detentions - The Martha's Vineyard Times
Islanders, for months, have protested the Trump administration’s immigration policies and its aggressive tactics in deporting undocumented immigrants. But Tuesday, Island residents pushed back in new...
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"...every word had to be his word, in the right order, the right sequence." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/05/19/p...
Paul Karasik On the Graphic Novel Adaptations of Paul Auster’s “New York Trilogy”
The New York Trilogy is author Paul Auster’s best-known work, a collection of three interconnected stories: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. All three employ the twists and mysteries fou…
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Thank you @brendahorrigan.bsky.social & @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social for the amazing review & @univnebpress.bsky.social for sharing alongside these fine books❤️ @janellebassett.bsky.social @ichinoy.bsky.social @evamaggi.bsky.social @tim-manners.bsky.social @fourcrickets.bsky.social @rhemley.bsky.social
University of Nebraska Press@univnebpress.bsky.social · 2y agoNews and Reviews feat. @lizshick.bsky.social @janellebassett.bsky.social @ichinoy.bsky.social @evamaggi.bsky.social @tim-manners.bsky.social @fourcrickets.bsky.social @rhemley.bsky.social and more!
Announcing! Our second annual Colab Summer! Three weeks of generative workshops, enriching panels, community building and accountability groups to get you going and keep you on track this summer! Registration is open: www.writingco-lab.com/summercamp
As the media talks incessantly about Democrats being down, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders draw tens of thousands in rallies nationwide. See images, videos, and more in our coverage of the Democracy Movement.
The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement
Monday: As the media talks incessantly about Democrats being down, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders draw tens of thousands in rallies nationwide. See images and video and more.
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@lizshick.bsky.social's amazing novel The Golden Land was a highlight of my reading year--so a natural to review for #vol1brooklyn.bsky.social! Don't miss this incredible tale set in #Myanmaar & #Boston.
Elizabeth (Liz) Shick@lizshick.bsky.social · 2y agoThank you @brendahorrigan.bsky.social & @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social for the amazing review & @univnebpress.bsky.social for sharing alongside these fine books❤️ @janellebassett.bsky.social @ichinoy.bsky.social @evamaggi.bsky.social @tim-manners.bsky.social @fourcrickets.bsky.social @rhemley.bsky.social
Over on The Creative Current, this week we're thinking about the challenges of writing setting while I explore the world of a forgotten, once-famous Irish tenor. #authors #nonfiction #fiction #opera #operetta thecreativecurrent.substack.com/p/there-was-...
"There was no care at Innisfail…"
One way to recapture a setting long gone.
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I was proud to stop by Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore’s annual Volleyball Challenge in Newark today to celebrate all it does throughout the year to support our seniors, people with disabilities, and their families live independently and with dignity.
i wrote some thots @ sustaining sanity & creativity in these maddening times—read the link in bio & sign up for the newsletter, 100 days of creative resistance, to access the archives. thks @writingco-lab.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute!
Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter on Monday to the Treasury secretary demanding answers for why the Dept. of Government Efficiency was granted access to the federal payments system, giving Elon Musk's team a powerful tool that could be used to track and potentially limit government spending.
Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System
In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.
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TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship