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Jamie Etheridge
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Winner @fracturedlit Anthology II
Long List Wigleaf Top 50
Words: @xraylitmag @jmwwjournal @bendinggenres @essayingdaily @reckonreview @antiheroinchic @pitheadchapel @storySouth +

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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Happy to have an essay from my forthcoming collection up @literaryhub.bsky.social today! "The time a library lends, I suspect, is a little like love: the more it gives away, the more comes back to it in kind."
On the Infinite Lives of the Library
One might say that a library’s most abundant resource—what it lends most freely—is not books and information but time. Time to think, breathe, be, and become. Last spring, in exchange for my servic…
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December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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@bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 48 is now live!!! Our Nov/ Dec 2025 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue! Congratulations to all BG editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity bendinggenres.com
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December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I love personal essays with work settings. They are rare and rarely done well but wow did this one by Heather Bursch knock me flat.

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
Balthazar, 1997 by Heather Bursch
December 11, 2025 – “I’d been working at Balthazar for a few months when Debra pulled me aside to tell me they knew I’d lied on my resume. Was I fired?”
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December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Submission fees waived. Today only!
I'd love to read your work on a Para/Social theme!
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Got my reading list for 2026! What an incredible lineup.
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“We’re all just swapping stories at the bar on a slowly sinking ship. The goal, then, is not to conquer time, but to enjoy the telling before the water reaches our feet.” - Luciano Murano on writing. (Quoted in Beyond Craft substack newsletter today).

#onwriting #quotes2liveby
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.

People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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"it is in the shelter of each other that the people live" ~ Pádraig Ó Tuama
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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A judge has permanently blocked Trump's destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Really good news for libraries (and those like me, who love them! www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
www.ala.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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🎯🎯
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."
Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High, and Elitist Liberals Should Stop Attacking This Traditional Value
Since Biblical times, stoning people to death has been a horrible punishment reserved for the worst criminals. But now, in PC liberal America, the ...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The GOP-drawn map shifts more Republican voters into a Democratic-held battleground district, positioning the party to potentially gain another U.S. House seat in 2026.
NC Senate passes a new voting map to flip another seat in Congress to the GOP • NC Newsline
NC Republicans move on their plan for a new congressional map that will add another GOP seat, as President Trump requested.
ncnewsline.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Not exactly unheard of food stamps for example have a 76% return frac.org/programs/sup...

It's almost as if giving people money to spend on goods rather than tax cuts for billionaires is very good for the economy
October 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Max Ritvo – my favorite from The Final Voicemails
September 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Every GOP accusation is a confession
August 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I did nothing but walk & read this weekend. Walked several miles, exploring the green belt and nearby neighborhoods & then bought 2 books from my local bookstore. The world is a horroshow right now and some days I need just to escape #weekendgoals
August 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
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August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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„Divine previously left little doubt, referr[ed] to abortion providers as killers of “pre-born babies” and railing against insurers for covering what he falsely calls “abortifacients,” like hormonal birth control.“
I wrote today in @slate.com about the anti-abortion movement's quiet but devastating implementation of its Project 2025 agenda.

"If Democrats think the battle ended with Dobbs, they’re making the same mistake that allowed that catastrophe in the first place."

slate.com/news-and-pol...
American Abortion Policy Will End Up in the Hands of This 34-Year-Old Trump Appointee
Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate handed Trump nominee Josh Divine a lifetime seat on the federal bench.
slate.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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That demon tried to leap out of him
July 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM