🎯I'm so done with this fucking shit. Have we learned nothing at all from the Me Too Movement and the Epstein Files? 🤬
Jamie Etheridge
@lescribbler.bsky.social
Winner @fracturedlit Anthology II Long List Wigleaf Top 50 Words: @xraylitmag @jmwwjournal @bendinggenres @essayingdaily @reckonreview @antiheroinchic @pitheadchapel @storySouth + LeScribbler.com
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." ~ Alice Walker
I am in a weird mood today. Maybe depressed. Just sick of cruelty and lies and bombings of innocent people. I had all my funny posts ready and recipes ready to go but now doesn’t feel like the right time for some reason. Maybe later.
"I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense but not irrational or naïve. Art invites us to take the journey beyond price, beyond costs into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be." ~ Toni Morrison
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
propublica.org
CARL SAGAN on Libraries: "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory. The warehouse of that memory is called a library."
“In English we say “I’m tired” But in poetry we say: I have been holding up entire skies with hands that were only ever meant to hold flowers — Sophia Bray”
The Supreme Court is making more and more consequential rulings in the shadows. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm — and what it means for public trust.
Watch: The New Supreme Court
For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. We break down how a once-rare emergency process became the ...
propublica.org
"Just do it, badly. Just write the thing you need or want to write, that you are avoiding. That avoidance is costing you greatly, isometrically, and in general well-being. So can you find one measly hour, to write, badly?" ~ Anne Lamott
"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.
Friends, our submission inbox is completely empty. If you'd be so kind as to help us spread the word among your communities it would be so greatly appreciated. heroinchic.weebly.com
‘Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people’s lives.’ — Matt Haig writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Thought I’d share that Short Reads is looking for flash cnf submissions. They PAY writers ($100 for original pieces, $25 for reprints). I had a super nice experience publishing with them, and thought I’d pass this on!! #writesky #creativenonfiction #shortreads @short-reads.
Short Reads
Flash nonfiction, emailed every Wednesday.
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"Write with a certain amount of hopelessness. It's better to be shocked by success than by failure." ~ @alexanderchee.bsky.social
“But if I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure. I walk out; I see something, some event that otherwise would have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me with its clean wing, and I resound like a beaten bell.” ~ Annie Dillard
I want to talk to you about an article @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social published yesterday that should be getting a LOT more attention than it currently is -- It's all about how the US Census Bureau is overrun with staffers from a notable MAGA think tank.
The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
wired.com
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social · last mo.The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
They live in a false reality they have built around themselves…..
