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📬️ Our special winter issue 233 Inhale/Exhale: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling is here!

❄️ guest edited by @richardvancamp.bsky.social
❄️ cover art by Kristi Bridgeman
❄️ poetry, fiction, cnf, art, & more
The Malahat Review Issue 232
The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada’s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international and contemporary works of poetry and…
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February 5, 2026 at 6:11 PM
artukdotorg.bsky.social
It's LGBT+ History Month UK 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTplusHM

Read stories about LGBTQ+ subjects on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/view_as/grid/search/2026--sttopicr:lgbtq-subjects

'The Student' by Nina Hamnett (1890–1956) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. 📷 Ferens Art Gallery
Portrait of a woman with dark brown tied up hair. They wear a blue top with white scarf, holding a book on their lap, as they look off to the right-hand side.
February 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
Is January over already? (Good riddance.) Favorite reads this month:

–Daniel Nayeri's "Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)"
–Isaac Asimov's "Foundation"
–Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's "Persians: The Age of the Great Kings"
–Kao Kalia Yang's "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir"

💙📚 #BookSky
The cover of Daniel Nayeri's autobiographical novel "Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)" as illustrated by David Curtis: young Khosrou (Daniel) sits atop the roof of a cookie-cutter American house, whose shingles are being swept up into the torrential funnel of a great Oklahoma tornado—a tornado of vibrant whirling colors and patterns like an unraveling Persian rug. Glimpses of a different life from a different place and time swirl amidst the volatile threads: birds and beasts, fruits and flowers, palaces and homes, Chevy chariots and rolling suitcases and spilled photographs. The cover of Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "Foundation" as illustrated by Michael Whelan: aging psychohistorian Harry Seldon sits in his wheelchair, straight-backed and congenial, garbed in silver and black scholarly robes; a blanket drapes his lap, and in his hands he fingers a red book. Behind Seldon spread the steel veneer and towers of Trantor, metal stretching to every horizon beneath a rosy dusk as twilight falls upon the heart of the Empire. The cover of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's historical nonfiction book "Persians: The Age of the Great Kings" as designed by Anna Kirchner, with images credited to the Louvre, Paris, France; Bridgeman Images; and Zita, Photonova, and Magdalena Cvetkovic on Shutterstock: on a deep blue field darkening with age a line of Persian soldiers in colorful glazed brickwork marches across a border of blue and gold bricks. Each soldier is dark-skinned and bearded, and he wears a vibrant and decorated long-sleeved tunic; in his hands he grasps a tall lance before him, and over his shoulder is slung a tasselled quiver and a curving bow. The cover of Kao Kalia Yang's memoir "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir" as designed by Christina Vang, with images by Christina Vang and Miro Novak on Shutterstock: on a canvas painted in gradient from white above to deep navy blue below, stylized clouds in bold lines gather and curl upon themselves.
February 1, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Junior Bridgeman
January 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM
artukdotorg.bsky.social
Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders is currently on at Charleston in Lewes.

Read about the artists' work in this story 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

'The Fortune Teller' by Robert Colquhoun (1914–1962) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman. 📷 Tate
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
imaginariumcon.bsky.social
Imaginarium 2026 is proud to announce the addition of three new Workshops to our programming! Presenters include USA Today bestselling, award-winning author Hallee Bridgeman and author Ariella Talix! See descriptions at: www.entertheimaginarium.com/2026/01/15/t...

#writing #writingcommunity
January 15, 2026 at 6:43 PM
andyscollick.bsky.social
A potential meme for #NATO

It's actually the funeral of Manfred Wörner, who served as NATO Secretary General 1988-1994 until his death on 13 Aug 1994. His funeral service at Saint Jacques sur Coudenberg church in Brussels on 19 Aug.

📷 Reuters/Jerry Lampen/Bridgeman Images
January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
terpsichorecmlos.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan.... Joyce Vance, Tess Bridgeman
Live with Tess Bridgeman: Understanding The War Powers Act
A recording of our live conversation
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January 13, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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How War Powers Work: Substack Live With Tess Bridgeman
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How War Powers Work: Substack Live With Tess Bridgeman
Monday at 12:30 pm ET
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January 13, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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How War Powers Work: Substack Live With Tess Bridgeman
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How War Powers Work: Substack Live With Tess Bridgeman
Monday at 12:30 pm ET
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January 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
willowlthewisp.bsky.social
Finished "Persians: The Age of the Great Kings" by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones!

What a wonderful—and wonderfully researched—history book! As someone who isn't a scholar, I found this very readable, neither too academic nor too dramatized; and best of all, there's not a whiff of Western superiority.

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The cover of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's historical nonfiction book "Persians: The Age of the Great Kings" as designed by Anna Kirchner, with images credited to the Louvre, Paris, France; Bridgeman Images; and Zita, Photonova, and Magdalena Cvetkovic on Shutterstock: on a deep blue field darkening with age a line of Persian soldiers in colorful glazed brickwork marches across a border of blue and gold bricks. Each soldier is dark-skinned and bearded, and he wears a vibrant and decorated long-sleeved tunic; in his hands he grasps a tall lance before him, and over his shoulder is slung a tasselled quiver and a curving bow.
January 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
remydean.bsky.social
Blue & purple extracted from woad, ivy, Portuguese laurel... golden hues from cornflower, crocus, myrrh, turmeric... Nabil Ali celebrates this long legacy of botanical pigments recipes since C3rd BCE

book preview @thisiscolossal.com 🌿 www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/gold... #botany #illustration
After the German School (19th century). Potentilla hybrida, Astilbe japonica, Bergenia crassifolia, Saxifraga granulata. Color lithograph illustration for ‘Pilmorin’s Blumengartnerei’ (Paul Parey, 1896). © Look and Learn, courtesy of Bridgeman Images. All images courtesy of Princeton University Press, shared with permission Black walnut. Köhler’s ‘Medizinal Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte’ (Medicinal plants in realistic illustrations with brief explanatory texts). Image from Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
January 10, 2026 at 1:23 AM
rgoodlaw.bsky.social
It was an honor to work with Brian Egan and Tess Bridgeman on this important piece.

- The President did not have constitutional authority for the Venezuela operation.

- It also violated the "supreme Law of the Land" - UN Charter, which the Senate passed 89-2.
Congress, the President, and Military Force in Venezuela
Experts write the president did not have authority to undertake Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela without congressional authorization.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Keith Moon
Ringo Starr
Billy Ficca
Gene Parsons
John Densmore
Chris Sharrock
George Hurley
Jody Stephens
Sly Dunbar
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yutzer-futz.bsky.social Yutzer-Futz @yutzer-futz.bsky.social · Jan 5
Who are your top-10 all-time favorite drummers?

1. Stewart Copeland
2. Buddy Rich
3. Neil Peart
4. Jose Pasillas (Incubus)
5. Chad Sexton (311)
6. "Philly" Jo Jones
7. Mike Portnoy
8. Nicko McBrain
9. Dennis Chambers
10. Dave Lombardo
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
justsecurity.org
International Law and the U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Operations in Venezuela

A survey of the top issues by leading experts, Michael Schmitt, Ryan Goodman and Tess Bridgeman
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#OperationAbsoluteResolve
International Law and the U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Operations in Venezuela
Experts survey the international law issues of Operation Absolute Resolve.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
heathermoandco.bsky.social
I HIGHLY recommend this entire article. Trump’s lawless DOJ, manufactures false premises on which to grant Trump’s regime faux “authorization” for any unlawful act it wishes to carry out. I pray one day soon that Bondi, Rubio, Miller, Vance et al, stand trial. www.justsecurity.org/127981/inter...
justsecurity.org JUST SECURITY International Law and the U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Operations in Venezuela By Michael Schmitt, Ryan Goodman and Tess Bridgeman Published on January 4, 2026 Editor's Note This is part of Just Security's Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers. justsecurity.org = JUST SECURITY Q President Donald Trump quickly took to Truth Social to announce, "The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement." For his part, Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained that Maduro "has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States, and that the kinetic action we saw tonight was deployed to protect and defend those executing the arrest warrant." Attorney General Pam Bondi characterized the operations as law enforcement conducted by the armed forces. Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States. They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts. justsecurity.org JUST SECURITY In this article, we explain several international law issues raised by the operation, some of which have been addressed in greater depth in the Just Security collection of articles on the drug boat strikes and other operations dealing with Venezuela. In particular, Operation Absolute Resolve implicates the prohibition on the use of force against other States (e.g., under the UN Charter), extraterritorial law enforcement, and initiation of an international armed conflict (e.g., under the Geneva Conventions). The bottom line is, unlike the boat strikes the U.S. military has carried out to date that have occurred in international waters against stateless vessels, this operation, striking Venezuela and abducting its president, is clearly a violation of the prohibition on the use of force in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. That prohibition is the bedrock rule of the international system that separates the rule of law from anarchy, safeguards small States from their more powerful neighbors, and protects civilians from the devastation of war. The consequences of flouting this rule so brazenly are likely to extend well beyond the case of Maduro's forcible ouster. Likewise, the initiation of an armed conflict - triggering the application of the law of armed conflict, including all four Geneva Conventions - has meaningful consequences, ranging from the protections now owed to Venezuelan nationals in the United States, to the application of rules governing treatment of Maduro and his wife while in U.S. custody, to accountability for any war crimes committed in the course of the conflict. An Unlawful Use of Force
January 4, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1925: In a speech to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Benito Mussolini declared that he had a right to supreme power, effectively marking the beginning of his absolute dictatorship. “Il Duce” remained in power until he was arrested and summarily shot in 1945. /1
Benito Mussolini makes a speech in Italy. Known for his charisma and persuasive rhetoric, the future fascist dictator rose to power amid growing discontent in the early 20th century. Photo credit: NPL - DeA Picture Library / Bridgeman Images.
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
kidphantasm.bsky.social
I remember that time. It was rough. When Mel Bridgeman was your most exciting offensive player. We won't be that for a while. But changes must be made.
December 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Sugar bowl with two masks of fawns on each side, inscribed with 'East India Sugar, not made by SLAVES', 1810-40 (ceramic).
Wilberforce House Museum, Hull, UK / Bridgeman Images
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Our guest: Libro Levi Bridgeman, a non‑binary writer, editor & lecturer reshaping queer storytelling — co‑founder of Hotpencil Press, creator of The Butch Monologues, featured in Private View, and a teacher bringing writing into prisons.
Website: bit.ly/3CdBdzf
December 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
factorygothic.bsky.social
Hood's "The Song of the Shirt" was widely discussed and reprinted in the press, with numerous responses and parodies. It inspired several paintings, including Anna Blunden's 1854 "The Seamstress or For Only One Short Hour" and William Daniels's 1875 "The Song of the Shirt."
A painting featuring a woman in a green dress with a white shirt in front of her on a table. She is looking out the window with her hands clasped, presumably in prayer. Image from: The Song of the Shirt, or For Only One Short Hour, 1854 (oil on canvas), Blunden, Anna E. (1830-1915) / Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, USA / The Bridgeman Art Library painting of a woman with her head in her hand, sitting a table looking at a small candle that is the only source of light in the darkened room around her. There is a white cloth (presumably a shirt) in her lap. Source: https://victorianweb.org/painting/daniels/1.html
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
azifeyekare.myatproto.social
Junior Bridgeman made $3 million in the NBA, died a billionaire
December 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
astroecologies.bsky.social
Thanks to @mishmal.bsky.social & @drspacejunk.bsky.social (Australia), co-authors on the AELA's Declaration for the Rights of the Moon 2021 www.earthlaws.org.au/moon-declara... for joining Dr Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) & Desna Whaanga-Schollum (Rongomaiwahine, Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu). 3/12
poster for “SentientPlace” - dancer Taane Mete stands on the ground with arms crossed over chest against a layered blue landscape. text reads: Desna Whaanga-Schollum, Taane Mete, Terri Crawford with Māhia wānanga collaborators: Piki Huia, Mike Bridgeman, Jade Whaanga, Rhonda Tibble, Laughton Kora; Mana Moana; + Tangaroa Birch. Website: kaitiakitanga.maori.nz Illustrated poster for “Vā Hina.” A painted full moon in pinks and purples fills the frame with a silhouetted woman reaching toward it. Text reads: Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu, Mike Bridgman, Tayla Hartemink, Laughton Kora.
December 14, 2025 at 3:26 AM
justsecurity.org
Operation Southern Spear: Why the Crews, Drugs, and Boats are Not Targetable

A deep dive into international law applicable to US lethal operations against suspected drug boats

By Mike Schmitt, Tess Bridgeman, Ryan Goodman
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Operation Southern Spear: Why the Drugs, Boats, and Crews are Not Targetable
A deep dive on the international law applicable to the U.S. military's lethal operations against suspected drug boats
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December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM