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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 + LeScribbler.com

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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Brevity / 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
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I 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.
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Brevity / 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
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
ProPublica 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)
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“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.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CARL 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."
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Typhaneyb 📚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”
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 
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Yvonne Conza @yvonnec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New fiction up. The Brussels Review print edition.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026
The 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.
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Watch: The New Supreme Court
For 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 ...
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Brevity / 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
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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
—Why Bother? Sean Thomas Dougherty
Why Bother?
Sean Thomas Dougherty

Because right now there is someone 
Out there with
a wound

in the exact shape
of your words.
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MadGreek 🧿 @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.
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Friends, 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
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Writing 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
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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not being thick is the new thicc…
NUDES ARE OUTDATED
SEND ME A VID OF YOU READING OUT LOUD SO I KNOW YOU ARE NOT DUMB
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thought 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.
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Short Reads
Flash nonfiction, emailed every Wednesday.
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Brevity / 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
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putting your principles first.
In September 1964, the Beatles refused to play the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, when they learned the crowd would be segregated.
The city backed down.
The show went ahead - integrated.
Bringing that up this week for no reason in particular...
Music has always
been bigger than just music.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Insane! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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Brevity / 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
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I 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.
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The 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...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unlike 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.
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They live in a false reality they have built around themselves…..
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another brilliant writer has gone.
Annie Dillard quote against water: How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DOGE 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
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Brevity / 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
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Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC @lauritadianita.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For 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.
My hand holding a paperback copy of the Albert Camus book of essays called "resistance, rebellion, and death", with a black and white blocky cover. Behind the book are a blue rug, my son's hot wheels, and a bookshelf.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No shit, 100% agree here.
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Suzanne Daley @suzannedaley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Like I need another reason to love books 📚 #books #reading #learning #sciencefiction #fantasy #animism #peace
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Brevity / 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
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/09/2026
Thread 👇
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stories of New Beginnings, Last Rites, and Betting it All On the Right Horse. Brevity issue 83 has launched this morning. brevitymag.com
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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Mary 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...
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Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While 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
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scaachi @scaachi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
bad news, we all have to like macklemore now slate.com/life/2026/09...
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A 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."
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The 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.com
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Personal Essay | The Humble Essayist
Personal 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...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's Our Money Anyway, Chump.....
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Naomi 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...
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Naomi 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...
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump 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.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
THIS 👇 TOO........
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Internal 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)
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal 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.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Roger 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)
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This 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 ...
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's eight years tomorrow since we posted on Twitter that Sting had been in to return his books.
A shelf on the book return trolley. The titles of the five books are Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, The Bonds That Break, Every Step You Take and I Am Watching You.
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