Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." ~ Alice Walker 093
Reposted by Jamie Etheridge🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I am in a weird mood today. Maybe depressed. Just sick of cruelty and lies and bombings of innocent people. I had all my funny posts ready and recipes ready to go but now doesn’t feel like the right time for some reason. Maybe later. 1514022885
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense but not irrational or naïve. Art invites us to take the journey beyond price, beyond costs into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be." ~ Toni Morrison 194
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)propublica.org“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. 13821375
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026CARL SAGAN on Libraries: "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory. The warehouse of that memory is called a library." 8662541599
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeTyphaneyb 📚aka sourdoughriot @typhaneyb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“In English we say “I’m tired” But in poetry we say: I have been holding up entire skies with hands that were only ever meant to hold flowers — Sophia Bray” 36010
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeYvonne Conza @yvonnec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New fiction up. The Brussels Review print edition. 111
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026The Supreme Court is making more and more consequential rulings in the shadows. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm — and what it means for public trust. propublica.orgWatch: The New Supreme CourtFor likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. We break down how a once-rare emergency process became the ... 23558252
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Just do it, badly. Just write the thing you need or want to write, that you are avoiding. That avoidance is costing you greatly, isometrically, and in general well-being. So can you find one measly hour, to write, badly?" ~ Anne Lamott 02210
Reposted by Jamie Etheridge~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026—Why Bother? Sean Thomas Dougherty 2306
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeMadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today. 249103134302
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeAnti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Friends, our submission inbox is completely empty. If you'd be so kind as to help us spread the word among your communities it would be so greatly appreciated. heroinchic.weebly.com 01315
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeWriting for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026‘Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people’s lives.’ — Matt Haig writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity 0111
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeOne Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Not being thick is the new thicc… 14878481304
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeEmily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Thought I’d share that Short Reads is looking for flash cnf submissions. They PAY writers ($100 for original pieces, $25 for reprints). I had a super nice experience publishing with them, and thought I’d pass this on!! #writesky #creativenonfiction #shortreads @short-reads.short-reads.orgShort ReadsFlash nonfiction, emailed every Wednesday. 0158
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Write with a certain amount of hopelessness. It's better to be shocked by success than by failure." ~ @alexanderchee.bsky.social 1142
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeDr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Putting your principles first. 168100423029
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeAida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Insane! #Pinks #USDemocracy 283113754161
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“But if I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure. I walk out; I see something, some event that otherwise would have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me with its clean wing, and I resound like a beaten bell.” ~ Annie Dillard 0124
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeLeah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I want to talk to you about an article @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social published yesterday that should be getting a LOT more attention than it currently is -- It's all about how the US Census Bureau is overrun with staffers from a notable MAGA think tank.wired.comThe Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think TankThe US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu... 10340212
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect. 7872081140
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026They live in a false reality they have built around themselves….. 23984573019
Reposted by Jamie Etheridgedarren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16/09/2026 295103332168
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeSteve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Another brilliant writer has gone. 1254
Reposted by Jamie Etheridgethe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134241138
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026DOGE was sold as a “massive money-saving operation.” But it actually saved nothing. The story was always about gutting the federal workforce and reshaping the agencies themselves. A new GAO report estimates federal agencies spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative 721454482
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness." ~ Kurt Vonnegut 2103
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeLaura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC @lauritadianita.bsky.social · 15/09/2026For folks wanting to expand on the Macklemore/Ed Sheeran situation, I recommend the 1957 Albert Camus lecture "Create Dangerously," which u can find in this book. In it, he talks about the line good art must walk between frivolity & propaganda, & how art that insists on being a luxury becomes a lie. 828766
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026No shit, 100% agree here. 237207975610
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeSuzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Like I need another reason to love books 📚 #books #reading #learning #sciencefiction #fantasy #animism #peace 36577120
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation." ~ Lorrie Moore 1102
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Stories of New Beginnings, Last Rites, and Betting it All On the Right Horse. Brevity issue 83 has launched this morning. brevitymag.combrevitymag.comBrevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction. 041
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeAaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Incredible headline here (among other things)theguardian.comTexas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to communityDisbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply 13060511426
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeMary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“…because of the decline of reading, the people who purvey all the nonsense and poison can be increasingly confident that fewer and fewer people will come across anything halfway critical or analytical.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWarning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John HarrisWhile fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris 1288
Reposted by Jamie Etheridgescaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026bad news, we all have to like macklemore now slate.com/life/2026/09...slate.comA Major Artist Was Just Kicked Off a Tour For His Political Beliefs. Now I Have to Do the Unthinkable.Yes, we're talking about the man behind "Thrift Shop." 826137
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Paragraph of the Week at The Humble Essayist comes from a brief essay in six parts by Noel Thistle Tague who embeds a story of grief into "some kind of fairy tale." Beautiful, disturbing, and moving at once it is from the newest issue of Brevity. www.the-humble-essayist.comthe-humble-essayist.comPersonal Essay | The Humble EssayistPersonal Essay | The Humble Essayist is devoted to the personal essay and the reflective memoir, forms that use the personal to illuminate a larger truth. Our main feature is the “Paragraph of the Wee... 032
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It's Our Money Anyway, Chump..... 16596176
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui... 6639061332
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Trump is the only president in history to be a completely worthless, vile, unintelligent, piece of child-raping filth. He will be remembered as the absolute worst leader ever. Hopefully. But who the fuck knows? MAGA dicks will vote for any scumbag who they think is as racist as they are. 621486414
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)propublica.orgHow Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading ThemInternal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. 51731428
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. (Published May w/ @adn.com)propublica.orgThis Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the ... 16744367
Reposted by Jamie EtheridgeOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books. 131204220