@therealcshea
She/her. Freelance writer and editor living in New York. Author of Lambflesh (Kelsay Books, 2019). Open to editorial clients now: https://caroline-fitzgerald-shea.squarespace.com/editorial-consultations
my hot writing take is that playing with POV is neat and you can do what you want. present tense first! close third! first-person-direct-address with bits of omniscient third! anything is legal if you look good doing it!!
I can do all things through spite which strengthens me.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
“But, someone will say, did not Rome make her greatest advances through war? That is a question requiring a lengthy answer to those who define ‘advance’ in terms of wealth, luxury, and empire rather than safety, restraint, and honest independence.” - Plutarch
Henri II of France (1519–1559), on Horseback
François Clouet
National Trust, Upton House
Last promo today, just popping this up again. Online a few more weeks. Very kind of Undertow to make it available temporarily. If it it intrigues you, you can support the indie publisher and maybe grab a book (any book! they're all killer. so many killer collections). Ty.
undertowpublications.com
hey i wrote about this yesterday and compared our tech oligarchs to the planter class of the South pre-civil war
www.patreon.com/posts/152399...
Plans to build more than 50 data centers in Pennsylvania face opposition from a growing network of community groups, environmental activists and state lawmakers from both major parties.
From @insideclimatenews.org
This isn’t just impeachable, this is criminal negligence and in a just society everyone involved (including the weapons officer who released the munitions) should face prison. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."
She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!
Context:
Just caught up with this:
France is dumping Zoom and Teams. So are soldiers in Austria. And bureaucrats in Germany.
They are seeking digital sovereignty, autonomy from the American tech oligarchs.
apnews.com/article/euro...
Art isn't treated as representation of reality (or the dialectic between reality and desire) but as a symbolic expression of ideology, a readymade whose purpose decoding and demystification, what I have elsewhere referred to as "grist" (in opposition to "slop" which a pure representation of desire).
Calvino nailing what bothers me about a lot of contemporary criticism 70 years ago:
“some look for something that they didn’t know or understand before and some look for confirmation of the ideas they already have...seek[ing] in literature illustrations, examples, of a discourse created elsewhere.”
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech
While we waited we were visited by the ghosts of the girls who had already died. Those who were closest to the explosion, in the kitchen sneaking butter and bread when the gas ignited, the ones who died immediately, in a sense without injury, the girls who died explosively.
lithub.com/history-of-g...
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
I've written up a brief script for anyone who wants to call or write your representatives regarding this bill (yes, even the ones you think won't care). PLEASE DO THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE. This bill *cannot* pass.
You can find your representatives here: www.congress.gov/members/find...
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.
real!!! if dante can do it so can we imo
difficult time to not believe in hell or prisons. stand behind my reasoning for both but every other headline causes me to briefly start writing Dante-esque fanfic feat. my least favorite public figures
Had this been done a year ago, I would have been shitting out my abdomen directly onto the floor (colostomy bags are considered durable medical equipment)
you don't hate these people enough, and certainly not as much as they hate you
gonna get off the internet now before I [tos violation]
Kat Abughazaleh on ICE in IL-9 debate
"We need to fully abolish and prosecute ICE. We need to repeal the Patriot Act. We need to lift refugee caps.
And we need to offer complete amnesty and citizenship to any immigrant here who has not committed a violent crime."
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
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www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Trump does not respect the rule of law, the Constitution, or the American people.
That’s why I didn’t attend his nearly two hours of lies.
