Kristen M. Clark (she/her)
@bykristenmclark.bsky.social
Government editor | plain language writing coach and trainer | owner and founder of @pristineclarity.bsky.social | award-winning former journalist. (Opinions my own.)
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THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
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🌟Want to be recognized for your impact and innovation? The Connolly Rising Star Awards celebrate early-career editors (10 years or less) who have made significant contributions—whether through innovation, advocacy, or excellence in editing. Nominate through 10/15. tinyurl.com/593pa5d8
October 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🌟Want to be recognized for your impact and innovation? The Connolly Rising Star Awards celebrate early-career editors (10 years or less) who have made significant contributions—whether through innovation, advocacy, or excellence in editing. Nominate through 10/15. tinyurl.com/593pa5d8
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What a joy to be in Calgary today to deliver a #PlainLanguage workshop!🇨🇦
October 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
What a joy to be in Calgary today to deliver a #PlainLanguage workshop!🇨🇦
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Federal employees should never be used as political pawns in shutdown negotiations.
September 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Federal employees should never be used as political pawns in shutdown negotiations.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday mor...
www.cnn.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
Today begins ACES #VCON25! 🎉 Fellow attendees: Don’t miss my chat with Jess Stampe, Jonathan Fusfield, and Brian Tich at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT. We promise it’ll be a fun time and a worthwhile conversation!🤗
September 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Today begins ACES #VCON25! 🎉 Fellow attendees: Don’t miss my chat with Jess Stampe, Jonathan Fusfield, and Brian Tich at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT. We promise it’ll be a fun time and a worthwhile conversation!🤗
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Once again…
Racism is not a different political opinion. It’s racism.
Racism is not a different political opinion. It’s racism.
September 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Once again…
Racism is not a different political opinion. It’s racism.
Racism is not a different political opinion. It’s racism.
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Hello there! I'm not on Bluesky much, but I'll be here to host an #ACESChat on Oct. 1 about marketing yourself as an editor (whether you're freelance or just thinking about your personal brand). See you then!
September 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hello there! I'm not on Bluesky much, but I'll be here to host an #ACESChat on Oct. 1 about marketing yourself as an editor (whether you're freelance or just thinking about your personal brand). See you then!
I'm thrilled to share a new achievement: I'm officially a Certified Copy Editor and Certified Stylistic Editor through @editorscanada.bsky.social! 💖 It's an honor to see my name on their roster of certified editors: editors.ca/professional...
Roster of certified editors - Editors Canada
View a list of editors who are certified by Editors Canada.
editors.ca
September 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm thrilled to share a new achievement: I'm officially a Certified Copy Editor and Certified Stylistic Editor through @editorscanada.bsky.social! 💖 It's an honor to see my name on their roster of certified editors: editors.ca/professional...
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How time has flown… Pristine Clarity is celebrating its second anniversary!🥳 This past year, we’ve expanded our client base and our services to offer #PlainLanguage training and help more professionals write more clearly and precisely.
Learn more at PristineClarityLLC.com.✅
Learn more at PristineClarityLLC.com.✅
July 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
How time has flown… Pristine Clarity is celebrating its second anniversary!🥳 This past year, we’ve expanded our client base and our services to offer #PlainLanguage training and help more professionals write more clearly and precisely.
Learn more at PristineClarityLLC.com.✅
Learn more at PristineClarityLLC.com.✅
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Since we seem to be doing this again ... I recently investigated the origin of the ridiculous myth that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. (The people who blew up the idea didn't even know it's called a dash. They called it "the long hyphen.")
I kept hoping this myth would burn itself out, but no — the idea that em dashes are a sign of AI writing just keeps spreading.
I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment into the latest Grammar Girl podcast. 🧵
APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/4kV4HbF
SPOTIFY: bit.ly/45YGCfh
I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment into the latest Grammar Girl podcast. 🧵
APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/4kV4HbF
SPOTIFY: bit.ly/45YGCfh
July 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Since we seem to be doing this again ... I recently investigated the origin of the ridiculous myth that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. (The people who blew up the idea didn't even know it's called a dash. They called it "the long hyphen.")
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Excited to share that I (@bykristenmclark.bsky.social) will be presenting at the @edsguild.bsky.social's 2025 Red Pencil Conference this fall, offering an introduction to #PlainLanguage editing. Registration is now open at edsguild.org/red-pencil-2025. Will I see you there?!🤗 #edsguild2025
July 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Excited to share that I (@bykristenmclark.bsky.social) will be presenting at the @edsguild.bsky.social's 2025 Red Pencil Conference this fall, offering an introduction to #PlainLanguage editing. Registration is now open at edsguild.org/red-pencil-2025. Will I see you there?!🤗 #edsguild2025
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We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
July 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
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Well, this we can agree on, even Senator Thom Tillis is calling out his own colleagues: “Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who don’t really give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail,” the North Carolina Republican wrote.
June 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Well, this we can agree on, even Senator Thom Tillis is calling out his own colleagues: “Too many elected officials are motivated by pure raw politics who don’t really give a damn about the people they promised to represent on the campaign trail,” the North Carolina Republican wrote.
Change your passwords, folks.
Billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day, researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say.
Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, Cybernews researchers say
Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving cybercriminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day.
bit.ly
June 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Change your passwords, folks.
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Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget
June 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget
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Trump's "perade" is the only event today where crowds are smaller than expected.
June 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Trump's "perade" is the only event today where crowds are smaller than expected.
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This is chilling to watch and utterly unacceptable in the United States of America.
As a former Senator, I’m calling on all current members to speak out on behalf of Sen. Padilla and defend him and the Senate against these outrageous attacks.
As a former Senator, I’m calling on all current members to speak out on behalf of Sen. Padilla and defend him and the Senate against these outrageous attacks.
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is chilling to watch and utterly unacceptable in the United States of America.
As a former Senator, I’m calling on all current members to speak out on behalf of Sen. Padilla and defend him and the Senate against these outrageous attacks.
As a former Senator, I’m calling on all current members to speak out on behalf of Sen. Padilla and defend him and the Senate against these outrageous attacks.
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Quay Crowner believes she may have been targeted for dismissal because she attended a DEI training program offered by the first Trump administration.
However, she says white colleagues who attended the same training hadn’t been pushed out.
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social
However, she says white colleagues who attended the same training hadn’t been pushed out.
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social
Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
www.propublica.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Quay Crowner believes she may have been targeted for dismissal because she attended a DEI training program offered by the first Trump administration.
However, she says white colleagues who attended the same training hadn’t been pushed out.
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social
However, she says white colleagues who attended the same training hadn’t been pushed out.
By @davidmcswane.bsky.social
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4. Their genetic data is uploaded to an FBI database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
Insane dystopia scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
Insane dystopia scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4. Their genetic data is uploaded to an FBI database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
Insane dystopia scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
Insane dystopia scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
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What if, just as an experiment, every journalist and every elected Democrat worked to make this statement from Trump into the explosive scandal it deserves to be instead of just shrugging?
I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.
May 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
What if, just as an experiment, every journalist and every elected Democrat worked to make this statement from Trump into the explosive scandal it deserves to be instead of just shrugging?
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This administration will go to any lengths to keep the public in the dark. Transparency? Why would America deserve that.
May 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This administration will go to any lengths to keep the public in the dark. Transparency? Why would America deserve that.
I'm thrilled and humbled to share that I've been elected as an at-large member on the ACES: The Society for Editing Board of Directors. 🥰 I truly love this organization, so this is a genuine honor.
I'm so excited to serve ACES members in this new capacity. 🤩
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I'm so excited to serve ACES members in this new capacity. 🤩
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Board election: Dilane Mitchell (i), Andy Hollandbeck, and Kristen Clark! We also recognize all the outstanding candidates and their dedication, energy, and continued support of ACES and the editing profession. tinyurl.com/52w7dy8j
May 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm thrilled and humbled to share that I've been elected as an at-large member on the ACES: The Society for Editing Board of Directors. 🥰 I truly love this organization, so this is a genuine honor.
I'm so excited to serve ACES members in this new capacity. 🤩
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I'm so excited to serve ACES members in this new capacity. 🤩
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