C.M. Bretz
@cmbretz.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Fiction Writer, Home Cook, Read more short stories, Say No to AI “art” (he/him)
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
Cue the Clase / California Penal League jokes.
In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.
In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Cue the Clase / California Penal League jokes.
In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.
In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.
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See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
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Need to keep saying this:
Again imagine the reaction from US corporate media and Congressional Republicans if a 79 year old Democratic President sounded like this - having no idea what is happening around him.
Again imagine the reaction from US corporate media and Congressional Republicans if a 79 year old Democratic President sounded like this - having no idea what is happening around him.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Need to keep saying this:
Again imagine the reaction from US corporate media and Congressional Republicans if a 79 year old Democratic President sounded like this - having no idea what is happening around him.
Again imagine the reaction from US corporate media and Congressional Republicans if a 79 year old Democratic President sounded like this - having no idea what is happening around him.
I empathize with Blue Jays fans. I also find this meme hilarious. (h/t to Reddit user u/exequutor)
November 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I empathize with Blue Jays fans. I also find this meme hilarious. (h/t to Reddit user u/exequutor)
Yamamoto’s gotta be MVP, right? Crazy we’d get there after Ohtani’s game 3.
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Yamamoto’s gotta be MVP, right? Crazy we’d get there after Ohtani’s game 3.
I’ve always thought Blake Snell looks familiar and just realized it’s because he’s a thinner Danny McBride.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’ve always thought Blake Snell looks familiar and just realized it’s because he’s a thinner Danny McBride.
Watched A House of Dynamite. The first two sections were outstanding. Kathryn Bigelow is excellent as sowing tension. Acting is terrific. The music elevates. There are some uh-ohs with the plot, which have already been discussed ad nauseum on Bluesky and elsewhere.
Regular thumbs up.
Regular thumbs up.
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Watched A House of Dynamite. The first two sections were outstanding. Kathryn Bigelow is excellent as sowing tension. Acting is terrific. The music elevates. There are some uh-ohs with the plot, which have already been discussed ad nauseum on Bluesky and elsewhere.
Regular thumbs up.
Regular thumbs up.
I’m pleasantly surprised how many baseball skeets I’ve seen without even having to go to the MLB feed.
I’m afraid that with every new inning Rob Manfred is going to invent another stupid rule to make sure the die hard fans don’t get to enjoy something like this ever again.
I’m afraid that with every new inning Rob Manfred is going to invent another stupid rule to make sure the die hard fans don’t get to enjoy something like this ever again.
October 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I’m pleasantly surprised how many baseball skeets I’ve seen without even having to go to the MLB feed.
I’m afraid that with every new inning Rob Manfred is going to invent another stupid rule to make sure the die hard fans don’t get to enjoy something like this ever again.
I’m afraid that with every new inning Rob Manfred is going to invent another stupid rule to make sure the die hard fans don’t get to enjoy something like this ever again.
George Saunders has a new novel on the way! Sad to see Phoenix/Tempe isn’t on the promo tour, but excited for the book nonetheless. He claims it’s his craziest! 📚💙🖋️
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
George Saunders has a new novel on the way! Sad to see Phoenix/Tempe isn’t on the promo tour, but excited for the book nonetheless. He claims it’s his craziest! 📚💙🖋️
On top of the now 78 year drought and the ‘97 and ‘16 game 7s, losing to the team you beat in the regular season, who only made it b/c MLB owners realized they could get more money by letting in extra wild cards, money that they don’t use upgrading the roster, is a dick punch and a half #guardsball
October 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
On top of the now 78 year drought and the ‘97 and ‘16 game 7s, losing to the team you beat in the regular season, who only made it b/c MLB owners realized they could get more money by letting in extra wild cards, money that they don’t use upgrading the roster, is a dick punch and a half #guardsball
For the record, there already was a Major League III. It stars Scott Bakula and a young Walton Goggins, and it’s incredible.
📽️🎬🎞️🎥 #mlb #guardsball
📽️🎬🎞️🎥 #mlb #guardsball
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
For the record, there already was a Major League III. It stars Scott Bakula and a young Walton Goggins, and it’s incredible.
📽️🎬🎞️🎥 #mlb #guardsball
📽️🎬🎞️🎥 #mlb #guardsball
A Rangers pitcher plunking a guy with the bases loaded to eliminate the Astros is objectively hilarious #Guardsball
“We're going to keep fighting every single day until we're either popping champagne or we're out of it. That's who we are. We're going to fight every single day.”
That was Stephen Vogt on Aug. 24, after a sweep to the Rangers. The champagne is ready.
www.mlb.com/news/guardia...
That was Stephen Vogt on Aug. 24, after a sweep to the Rangers. The champagne is ready.
www.mlb.com/news/guardia...
Walk-off HBP (!) sends Guardians to postseason, punctuating remarkable run
CLEVELAND -- It was Aug. 24, when the Guardians wrapped up a nightmarish 1-5 road trip that knocked them under .500 for the first time in nearly a month. At 64-65 and losers of eight of nine games, it...
www.mlb.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A Rangers pitcher plunking a guy with the bases loaded to eliminate the Astros is objectively hilarious #Guardsball
Anybody else think of this?
September 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Anybody else think of this?
If I was Tylenol I’d rebrand to “Raging Fever Killer,” or RFK for short, and see just how scientific yesterday’s announcement really was
September 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
If I was Tylenol I’d rebrand to “Raging Fever Killer,” or RFK for short, and see just how scientific yesterday’s announcement really was
So many people skeeting “I told you so” about the rapture like it’s already midnight
September 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So many people skeeting “I told you so” about the rapture like it’s already midnight
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Today, the president of the United States of America said that the country's current pediatric vaccine schedule was "too much liquid... going into that baby" and then issued a decree announcing that anti-fascism is terrorism
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Today, the president of the United States of America said that the country's current pediatric vaccine schedule was "too much liquid... going into that baby" and then issued a decree announcing that anti-fascism is terrorism
The line that gets me is: “I’ve been so into this issue for so many years because I couldn’t understand how a thing like this could happen.” It’s spoken by a man who leads a country with more than a million doctors capable of answering the question.
Trump: "I think it has -- I think it's very bad. They're pumping, it looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess. 80 different blends. And they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."
September 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The line that gets me is: “I’ve been so into this issue for so many years because I couldn’t understand how a thing like this could happen.” It’s spoken by a man who leads a country with more than a million doctors capable of answering the question.
I don’t know what upsets me most:
(1) the announcement itself
(2) the realization that now they proclaim to know autism’s cause, they’re going to set their sights on another group of marginalized people
(3) they’re going to start blaming neurodivergence on mothers
(1) the announcement itself
(2) the realization that now they proclaim to know autism’s cause, they’re going to set their sights on another group of marginalized people
(3) they’re going to start blaming neurodivergence on mothers
September 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I don’t know what upsets me most:
(1) the announcement itself
(2) the realization that now they proclaim to know autism’s cause, they’re going to set their sights on another group of marginalized people
(3) they’re going to start blaming neurodivergence on mothers
(1) the announcement itself
(2) the realization that now they proclaim to know autism’s cause, they’re going to set their sights on another group of marginalized people
(3) they’re going to start blaming neurodivergence on mothers
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My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate.
There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad.
It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.
There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad.
It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.
September 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate.
There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad.
It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.
There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad.
It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.
The baseball gods get distracted by the Browns game. The Guardians immediately poop the bed.
September 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The baseball gods get distracted by the Browns game. The Guardians immediately poop the bed.