Round 2 of @marchxness.bsky.social!
My essay re Collective Soul's "The World I Know" & last chances to change is up against Des'ree/Emily Podwoiski, whose excellent essay helped dispatch Goo Goo Dolls in the 1st rd.😬
CS & I got our game faces on! Let's go!
READ & VOTE!
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Been a rough 1st half for me & Collective Soul & our backs are against the wall...but in the words of Ed Roland, "you don't know what good feels like until you feel bad." We're gonna regroup at half & come out ready to go!
Plenty of time to READ & VOTE COLLECTIVE SOUL!
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Thin line between sad and depressing. Oof. 💔
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
I feel like you and @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social should make some sort of a wager if either of you makes it to the finals or 🙏🏼 if both of you do. I still think about Santa Monica and Africa.
Oh absolutely @mlfaliveno.bsky.social and Counting Crows🐦⬛ for me, lover of sad songs. Beautifully written, wow, and this: “But Round Here is so sad that sometimes I can’t listen. So sad I skip ahead to Omaha. So sad I can’t resist dipping my toe in the water anyway, and eventually step in.” Yup.
Available June 1! Launch @belmontbooks.bsky.social on June 2. You’re invited.
Amazing essay. Voted for it like 20 times! (I kid!!@marchxness.bsky.social!) But I punched my 1 vote super hard.
Because of course, these are the hardened criminals. The callousness and cruelty is astounding.
#teamdictionary
I need to know the message… 💫
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
We need more of this kind of truth telling.
I’m excited to reveal the cover for my new novel WESTERLY. This gorgeous painting by Rebecca Aldernet represents so much to me and perfectly captures the coastal settings in Ireland and Maine. WESTERLY is about motherhood, sisterhood, secrets, silencing, and women, facing forward, into the wind.
Author of WINTER LOON Susan Donovan Bernhard’s WESTERLY, a family saga about one woman’s journey from post WWII Germany to Ireland to Maine, where she lives with a false identity assumed as a child, with far-reaching, life-altering repercussions for three generations, pitched as for readers of Ann Napolitano, Mary Beth Keane, and Ann Patchett.
So excited to finally announce that my next novel WESTERLY will be published by @amazonpublishing.bsky.social next year! ☘️🌊
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ORIENTATION
FACT SHEET
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreigaks7wgy4rvmszhobeed7hlaqap4mynkhqketipzolmesislssci)
CRESTRICTED] ORIENTATION FACT SHEET 64 WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM! Note For This Week's Discussion: Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis; (2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.
In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.
Can somebody do something about this, like, anytime now?
I need to know what the H. stands for in JFC when the F is an H because I want to use the full name.
This is quite the post.
1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes
2. He admits being influenced by online chatter
He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.
Watching Saeed Jones watch The Pitt is the everything joy-fix I need.
Some speech is free and some will definitely cost you.
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
I have emojis specific to each kid so I can text just the emoji and they know. They know. In fact, I’m going to throw some love out right now.
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
THINGS by Fleur Adcock There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
Been thinking about this poem all day because I had to do a hard thing that is weirdly embarrassing. Looking forward to second guessing myself all night long.
Is Texas invading Illinois?
About Time
