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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

John Waters at the No Kings protest in Provincetown.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 27/05/2025

“Sure, he knew it could get him into a lot of trouble, but life was tough enough just getting by that it was hard to care about the risks.”

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My Uncle Doesn’t Need to Die in Prison to Learn His Lesson - Electric Literature

Despite his crimes, every last one of them, I still believe he deserves a good, happy, vibrant life

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Feeling overwhelmed? Wondering Ouate de Phoque? You should take a 10 minute qigong break—it helps! Videos linked in my post.

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How to Stay Sane Despite It All, V. 1

Managing Anxiety with Qigong

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Huge thank you to Judge Susan Illston, who ordered a two-week pause on the DOGE’s mass layoff plans blocking two dozen agencies from carrying out the largest wave of job cuts yet. She ruled the move was illegal without congressional approval.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

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Kim C 💖🫘 🧙✨💙⚾️ @kconti.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

65% increase for Homeland Security. Sounds like more kidnappings and illegal prisons and concentration camps…

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Michelle R. Brady @bradymicheller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

List of NEA grant recipients no longer receiving funding. You don't have to care. You just have to know. @electricliterature.com @onestorymag.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #writingcommunity

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NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

In case anyone still believed that the anti-DEI purge had anything whatsoever to do with limiting organizations to their core competencies, I give you “the NEA now does disaster recovery.”

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.

This is to inform you that the above referenced National Endowment for the Arts award has been terminated, effective May 31, 2025.

The NEA is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President. Consequently, we are terminating awards that fall outside these new priorities. The NEA will now prioritize projects that elevate the Nation’s HBCUs and Hispanic Serving Institutions, celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, foster AI competency, empower houses of worship to serve communities, assist with disaster recovery, foster skilled trade jobs, make America healthy again, support the military and veterans, support Tribal communities, make the District of Columbia safe and beautiful, and support the economic development of Asian American communities. Funding is being allocated in a new direction in furtherance of the Administration’s agenda.

Your project, as noted below, unfortunately does not align with these priorities:
Purpose: To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 01/05/2025

Today, we're officially leaving Twitter, along with our friends @literaryhub.bsky.social. We're happy to be here on Bluesky, but we hope you'll also connect with us the “old-fashioned” way: by getting our emails and going to our site! Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/4aNcHae

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Why Electric Literature Is Leaving Twitter - Electric Literature

X has become a dystopian shadow of itself—and a very bad place for literature

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 01/05/2025

"Some Contemporary Characters" by Rick Moody was originally written in 180-character segments and serialized on EL's Twitter account from November 30th to December 2nd, 2009. In honor of our Twitter exodus, we're reposting it here on Bluesky over the next few days. Pt. 1 of the story begins below👇

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Tara Conlan @taraconlan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Doomscroll respite: bluebells on Bluesky

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 30/04/2025

Last day! All current Rumpus merch sales end at midnight EST TODAY/April 30! Only . . . 1 Be Brave mug left 7 Rumpus x Pilsen Community Books tote bags left 24 Write Like a Mofo black tumblers left SOLD out of Write Like a Mofo ceramic mugs therumpus.net/store/

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

FBI ARRESTING JUDGES IS A TEN ALARM CONSTITUTIONAL FIRE. WHAT THE FUCK

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This administration has fired crisis counselors for our veterans and now for kids. This bullshit doesn’t make us great. Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 23/04/2025

1 week ONLY! Get your deeply discounted Rumpus merch while supplies last! therumpus.net/store/

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

They have our business!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

It's time to talk about how if people really want this American experiment aka "democracy" to survive, they will need to put bodies on the line to protect the vulnerable. Otherwise, the United States will just become yet another nation ruled by kings, thugs, and cowards.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

Fight the Oligarchy Rally Poster with event details for: Las Vegas, NV, Tempe, AZ, Greeley, CO, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Celebrated my birthday by signing my contract with @vineleavespress.bsky.social 🥳🥳 UNREFORMED: A CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE will be published in February of 2027. Sign up for updates at djsugi.substack.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In this interview Schumer is so delulu and out of touch and wrong. I vote in CA but if you’re a NY voter, I hope you alll can find someone to primary him. He is unfit for the moment as are many of his colleagues.

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Aaron Sylvester @rockymtnsly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Just read your chapter in Empty the Pews and, wow. Excited to learn UNREFORMED will be a book. Count me in for a preorder.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What Trump & Musk both believe and their actions betray is that black people are inferior to white people and none of them are qualified to hold any job they consider prestigious or important. That’s it. There’s no need to decode DEI any further.

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I wrote about how I’m managing anxiety through breathing. I included resources over at my Substack—would love for you to subscribe.

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I’m surviving the present moment by breathing...

File Under Survival Skills

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Starlings in Athens, Georgia at sunset

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

You have to take breaks from the news. It’s too much. Then, once you recover, you’ll be strong enough to fight the good fight. Be good to yourself. You’re the only one who can.

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