Kristen M. Clark (she/her) @bykristenmclark.bsky.social · 26/04/2026#edibuddies, use that joy and love you feel after #ACES2026 to apply to be a committee volunteer! 🙋🏻♀️ Help shape how @acesediting.bsky.social develops training, recognizes excellence, builds an inclusive community, and supports editors of all kinds.🤗 aceseditors.org/membership/v... #AmEditing 030
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 25/04/2026To all journalists and news organizations attending tonight's White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner:media.tenor.coma woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below herALT: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her 391500315
Kristen M. Clark (she/her) @bykristenmclark.bsky.social · 21/04/2026#DFW ✈️➡️ #ATL Wishing safe travels to all the #edibuddies traveling to Atlanta this week for #ACES2026! 🤗 2161
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Learn all about plain language and why editing with plain language in mind is beneficial to readers with @bykristenmclark.bsky.social's recent presentation. This video is available for any editor to watch through 3/10, after which it will be for Guild members only. www.edsguild.org/intro-plain-...edsguild.orgIntro to Plain Language with Kristen Clark — Northwest Editors Guild 041
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · 31/12/2025And more free virtual #AmEditing events: 🗓️ Intro to Plain Language with @bykristenmclark.bsky.social, 1/12, 6:30 pm Pacific 🌷 Far North Editors Meeting, 1/14, 11:15 am Pacific ✏ Scholarly Editing in the Humanities Happy Hour (Member Only), 1/14, 5 pm Pacific (🧵: 3/5) 101
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Northwest Editors Guild @edsguild.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Join us online 2 weeks from today (1/12) for "Intro to Plain Language" with @bykristenmclark.bsky.social, where she'll discuss editing for reader-friendly content with this free presentation rescheduled from Red Pencil. Open to all editors, registration required at www.edsguild.org/meetings-eve... 012
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 16/11/2025THAT'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. 1181994612
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social · 08/10/2025🌟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 024
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Pristine Clarity @pristineclarity.bsky.social · 06/10/2025What a joy to be in Calgary today to deliver a #PlainLanguage workshop!🇨🇦 011
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Federal employees should never be used as political pawns in shutdown negotiations. 21176941380
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025A 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. 17356057017512
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Trump 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...cnn.comTrump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN PoliticsPresident 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... 1701180757030
Kristen M. Clark (she/her) @bykristenmclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Today 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!🤗 072
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Once again… Racism is not a different political opinion. It’s racism. 181212307
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Alysha Love @alyshalove.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Hello 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! 072
Kristen M. Clark (she/her) @bykristenmclark.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I'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...editors.caRoster of certified editors - Editors CanadaView a list of editors who are certified by Editors Canada. 030
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Pristine Clarity @pristineclarity.bsky.social · 25/07/2025How 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.✅ 122
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Since 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.") 1121865
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Pristine Clarity @pristineclarity.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Excited 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 052
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer. 18453784810352
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Well, 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. 21563491228
Kristen M. Clark (she/her) @bykristenmclark.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Change your passwords, folks. 000
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder: freedom delayed is freedom denied. #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #FreedomDay #NeverForget 64110822246
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/06/2025Trump's "perade" is the only event today where crowds are smaller than expected. 1735722761
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 12/06/2025This 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. 30067831909
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2025Quay 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.socialpropublica.orgDismissed 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. 11392157
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/05/2025U.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...wired.comThe US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal DatabaseCustoms 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. 9266123
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/05/2025What 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? 1137474
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/05/2025This administration will go to any lengths to keep the public in the dark. Transparency? Why would America deserve that. 794559726
Kristen M. Clark (she/her) @bykristenmclark.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I'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. 🤩 1/ 150
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law: - Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP - Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance. 9327251029
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)WIRED @wired.com · 19/05/2025As fog blanketed Seattle, @knibbs.bsky.social's waited to meet @jay.bsky.team—CEO of Bluesky. Fittingly, just before she arrived, the skies cleared. It felt poetic. Her name, Lantian, means “blue sky” in Mandarin. And her mission? Clear the smog from social media.wired.comBluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social InternetAll the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online. 421506315
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)WIRED @wired.com · 18/05/2025Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.wrd.cmCFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data BrokersRussell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. 50042682841
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/05/2025It’s not just Newark: Nearly all air traffic control facilities in the U.S. are understaffed.nytimes.comNewark Airport's Crisis Puts Spotlight on U.S. Air Traffic Controller ShortageAs of May 7, all but two of the 313 air traffic control facilities in the United States were understaffed, a New York Times analysis found. 48484963056
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/05/2025Across the federal government, DOGE’s push for early retirement and voluntary separation is fueling an exodus of experienced, knowledgeable staffers unlike anything in living memory, according to longtime staffers.washingtonpost.comThousands of experts and leaders are fleeing Trump’s governmentThe U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear. 96568227
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/05/2025In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture “does not shy away from the tragedies, but neither does it give short shrift to the joy,” John McWhorter writes. It “trusts everyone to tolerate — no, celebrate — the contradictions.”nytimes.comOpinion | The Future of Black History 1326051
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Attention, ACES members: Today is the last day to vote for the Board of Directors. It's your association. Where do you want it to go? The ballot closes at midnight ET. tinyurl.com/27rrakhp 022
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I’m not saying this to be fighty, but I would always have put money on librarians being braver under duress than elite law firms and CEOs. The massively unequal distribution of power between librarians, elite law firms, and CEOs tells us a lot about the country, though. 8603116
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 12/05/2025Your periodic reminder that "fancy fonts" on places like Bluesky are unicode & are a nightmare for screen reader users. DON'T use for your name Not only that, good lucky having anyone search for you in the search bar by name. More examples in the original post on Masto: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11... 3530141200
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Attention, ACES members: Five more days to vote in the 2025 Board election. Find the candidate statements and link to the ballot: tinyurl.com/27rrakhp 021
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books. 669145234839
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 08/05/2025As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵 318114493003
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 07/05/2025🚨 SCOOP: DOGE just cut millions in Labor Department grants to support getting women into manufacturing & construction jobs & tackling gender-based violence & harassment at work. It may be illegal since some grants were mandated by law. New @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comDOGE killed dozens of grants that supported women workersAdvocates say the cancellations, which Mother Jones is first to report, will lock women out of construction and manufacturing jobs—and may violate the law. 23859363
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Thanks, @bykristenmclark.bsky.social ! #ACESChat will be back May 21 — but only if we get a presenter. Might that be you? Please sign up: tinyurl.com/43kmajf2 Let's keep this going. It's easy: Just talk about what you know. 363
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social · 07/05/2025 Q9: What resources or best practices do you suggest for those who want to learn more about plain language? #ACESChat, @bykristenmclark.bsky.social 132
Kristen M. Clark (she/her) @bykristenmclark.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Thanks for sharing! #ACESchat 110
Reposted by Kristen M. Clark (she/her)ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social · 07/05/2025 Q8: Can someone become certified in plain language? #ACESChat, @bykristenmclark.bsky.social 111