I'm honored to have a guest post in the newsletter "I Grow Strong Again," about an encounter at the @nateaglecenter.bsky.social and the struggle to birth a book with trauma alive in my body. jeannieewing.substack.com/p/he-squawks...

"The eagle squawks for food because his nervous system remembers starvation."

Author Kim Kankiewicz writes about her connection to a partially blind bald eagle.

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This is a fabulous pack, if I do say so myself go.bsky.app/J5kV6xE

I’m not sure how to describe the feeling of submitting the fully revised manuscript of my book to my editor, but here’s a picture of a rainbow around the sun. #amwriting

Reminder! Mens rights don’t vary by state by women’s rights do.

Reading Kristine Langley Mahler's new book of erasure essays, Teen Queen Training, feels at first like a game but soon becomes an excavation revealing pernicious messages that shape young womanhood. Here's my review for @coloradoreview.bsky.social. @suburbanprairie.bsky.social tinyurl.com/24xek3pr

Teen Queen Training: Essays after The Seventeen Book of Etiquette and Entertaining, 1963 - Center for Literary Publishing

$18.00 Buy Book About the Book Author: Kristine Langley MahlerReviewed By: Kim KankiewiczGenre: NonfictionPublisher: AutofocusPublished: 2026Pages: 160 Book ReviewThe experience of reading Kristine La...

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Please help me identify the critter in our air ducts while I ponder how I’ll sleep pending tomorrow’s visit from the animal removal pro.

Well now I guess I have to read everything Sarah Carson has ever written. @short-reads.org @rhinopoetry.bsky.social www.short-reads.org/no-one-in-th...

No One in This Dumb Bar Will Acknowledge How Famous We Are

by Sarah Carson | Waiting to be seen.

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Such excellent reporting on such a tragically cruel story.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 8mo ago

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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

REVIEW: Woman House: Essays and Assemblages by Lauren Westerfield | Hippocampus Magazine

The memoir in essays, Woman House: Essays and Assemblages by Lauren Westerfield is, among other things, a book about secrets.

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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.

Elle Ess@viamarsala18.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

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

Harper’s Magazine@harpers.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Given the public fervor about the case, the state’s decision about how to handle it should not have been a surprise. I was, nevertheless, surprised.” Rosa Lyster on the trial of the Sycamore Gap killers. harpers.org/archive/2026...

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Liberals Get So Upset About Every Little Jeans Ad and Blatant Corruption Scandal

Some hyper-sensitive Americans love to cry buckets of liberal tears over every minor provocation, like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad or how the polic...

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

Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · last yr.

Why not slip into our downline and let us sell you this new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social on the gender politics of multi-level marketing, on backlash politics and on garages overflowing with alfalfa supplements! With @bridgetgillard.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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.

Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's shortly video of his detention, full video coming.

Eager to read this.

Michelle Young@michelleyoung.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to @Hyperallergic, who writes that I've put forth "stunning new revelations" and "uncovered astonishing findings" about Rose Valland's remarkable life! Read, watch, or listen to my interview with publication founder @Hrag Vartanian hyperallergic.com/1014426/rose...

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

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last yr.

Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. Jia Tolentino writes about how more and more of the world is slipping beyond comprehension.

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.

Short Reads@short-reads.org · last yr.

In this week's Short Reads, Jeanette Mrozinski (@jeanettemrozinski.bsky.social) finds hope in a very unlikely place, and maybe we all can, too. www.short-reads.org/literally-any/

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.

Amy Siskind@amysiskind.com · 2y ago

@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.

Resistance is alive and well in the United States

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

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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

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interesting exchange from today's hearing to require the 10 Commandments in schools, during which an ordained minister noted Baptists' long support of church-state separations, prompting a Texas Senator to essentially tell her that protecting said separations isn't a real part of Christian faith.

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! 🙏🏽

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 2y ago

Do you care about access? 🫂 Please try updating your settings to prompt alt text descriptions with media! 🙏🏽 Under, Accessibility, you can select "Require alt text before posting" to remind you! 👀 That way, if you forget, then you are unable to post until you provide a description of your media! ✨️

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...

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas@ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Part of thriving under collapse has to be to mourn the life that you thought you'd be able to live. That will take a while. Most of us are not there yet.

State-sponsored terrorism in our neighborhood.

Alp Beck@alpbeck.com · 2y ago

Homeland Security agents removing employees from Liberty restaurant, in Missouri. #hsi #ICE #immigrants and what do they mean by, "Will be returned when they check out?" Check papers first not an option? Rounding up like #pogroms is? www.kctv5.com/2025/02/07/h...