How about we start a new group called Yes You Can Vote For Democrats Even If You Never Have Before (YYCVFDEIYNHB). Oh whoops, that has "DEI" in it so it's never gonna work. 🤷♀️
Nancy Townsley
@nancytownsley.bsky.social
Retired newspaper journalist. Gramma who sews, walks, and writes. Author of SUNSHINE GIRL, Heliotrope Books, 2025, and CARSON McCLINTOCK IS NOT DEAD YET, forthcoming May 11, 2027 from Heliotrope.
If people really want to see live executions they should just follow ICE agents around.
This book is 27 years old and just as relevant now as in 1999, because rape culture. It’s also been one of the most frequently banned books in American libraries since it was published, because god forbid young people know they’re not alone and have a voice to speak out against sexual violence.
I know! I know! The rabbit is finally loose! And you can finally go get your very own copy of Winterset Hollow! Ack! Ebook, audio book, print, call me and I’ll read it to you! Whatever! Go forth unto your bookseller of choice! Your feast awaits! Gonna go spiral now! Love you guys!
Oh yes, @miriamgershow.bsky.social. And that piece in @theatlantic.com about Bobby McIlvaine. Heartstopper.
Miriam Gershow@miriamgershow.bsky.social · 6d agoThe GENEROSITY of this list. I'd only read the first two before, and they spear you right in your solar plexus. Slowly making my way through the rest. "My Unraveling" is astonishing.
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
First review for my new novel, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES, just dropped over at Independent Book Review! #writers #historicalfiction #newnovel independentbookreview.com/2026/09/22/t...
The Neighborhood Dames by Laura Stanfill - Independent Book Review
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES by Laura Stanfill is a subversive portrait of female friendship and feminist activism set in the years leading up to and during Prohibition. Reviewed by Madeleine James.
independentbookreview.com
Thank you to @thisone0verhere.bsky.social for making me laugh almost every day. I often share your memes with my adult kids, to give them hope.
Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 3w agoIt’s allllllll happening you guys
If members of the WH press pool had just put down their mics and closed their notebooks the first time he told a demonstrable lie in the Oval way back in 2017 he would have melted like the bad witch and all of this would have been over. Attention is his oxygen. He can't survive without it.
I hope this email finds you still registered to vote
So it's all fun and games until a bad thing affects little 'ol YOU.
The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 3w agoFrom the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
Oregonians: This IS the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Ballots for the midterms will be mailed to registered voters on Oct. 14. If yours doesn't come by the 21st, contact your county elections office and go pick one up. Fill it out. Deposit it in a ballot box by Oct. 31.
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
The surest sign that a majority SCOTUS decision was moral, fair, and based on existing law:
Submit to Kreatif Magazine’s fall issue through September 25! The editors seek writing and visual art focusing on the issue’s theme: “unsilenced.” Submissions are free: www.clmp.org/members/open...
He who can't respect others deserves no respect.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 4w agoIreland understood the assignment! ✊💚
Twenty-five years ago I was a newspaper reporter interviewing a school official in Beaverton, Oregon. This week I interviewed Naomi Rosenblatt, a book publisher and lifelong New Yorker, who talked about what 9/11 means an entire generation later. nancytownsley.substack.com/p/911-do-we-...
