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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's officially pumpkin season, which happens to be a special treat for our ambassador wolves this time of year! 🎃🐺 Although wolves are classified as carnivores, they can sometimes have an omnivorous diet. Along with meat and eggs, wolves may also enjoy fruits like pumpkins. #wolffact

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026

NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey #poets, come to a free workshop on structuring your poetry manuscript. Learn to use structure to add layers of meaning and make your manuscript stand out www.meganalpert.com/workshops/p/...

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just going through and making comments on my students poems . . . and, damn, I love poetry. #poets #poetrycommunity #teachingpoetry

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

First Nurse Logs (poetry) class was today. I love teaching. I love getting to know other people's minds. Writing is a practice that involves the whole self, and witnessing that is a beautiful thing. I'm leaving enrollment open until next week, so join us if you can. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poets

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

a good rule of thumb for stuff that is actually the future is, it doesn’t jerk off in your face every five minutes about how much it’s the future and how sorry you’ll be if you don’t get on board

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

hi! i'm looking for an activist historian / scholar who can speak to me about everyone's new favorite activity: destroying Flock cameras. it's for an article in @theverge.com - please send me your reccs! xx

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tara Campbell has an amazing mind (I know because I read her novel). And you can study speculative fiction with her at Hugo House!

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Every so often, I want to remind people that imprisoning children in these circumstances is not new in the United States. Obama admin went so far as to try to get these prisons licensed as childcare centers. Yes, it is worse under T. But we need to do more than just electing Dems.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today is a good day to sign up for a writing class! #poets #poetry #poetrycommunity

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's the last week to sign up for my poetry class, where we'll be building up a body of work around a chosen theme. You'll leave having generated work can become the basis for a book section, a chapbook, or a full collection, and strategies for sustaining a large project writers.com/course/nurse...

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Nurse Logs: Growing Your Creative Obsessions from Poem to Poem | Writers.com

Find the taproot of your deepest creative fascinations to nurture a body of new poems.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January.

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm offering a free class on August 6th: Writing the Wound: How to Complete Difficult Poems and Projects. I'll discuss both writing and non-writing practices for sustaining a project about anger, grief, trauma, and other challenging topics. #poets #poetry www.meganalpert.com/workshops/p/...

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Writing The Wound: How to Complete Difficult Poems and Projects — Megan Alpert

Learn strategies to sustain yourself while writing poems about trauma, anger, grief, and other challenging topics. Develop practices to help you complete your project without burning out. Note: ...

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just realized this wasn't clear . . . if you are an author whose book is distributed through Ingram Spark, you need to opt out to prevent your book from being scanned into AI/LLMs . . . not that legal barriers have stopped AI companies in the past . . .

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This really shouldn't be something you have to randomly find out about through a social media post. But here we are.

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm teaching a poetry course for Writers.com and you have ONE DAY left (today!) to get the early bird discount. #poets, come join us to build up a body of work around a chosen theme. writers.com/course/nurse...

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Nurse Logs: Growing Your Creative Obsessions from Poem to Poem | Writers.com

Find the taproot of your deepest creative fascinations to nurture a body of new poems.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

say his name. nolan wells.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If I drew a picture, would you say I was "involved in a drawing"? If I drove a car, would you say I was "involved in a driving"? If I smashed a pumpkin, would you say I was "involved in a smashing"? Let's stop making up special sentences for government officials who kill people.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026

After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I stopped submitting my work for several years. When I started again, I found it much more difficult than before. I had changed, but so had the submissions landscape. For @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social's blog, I wrote about how I made submissions flow again. trishhopkinson.com/2026/07/08/i...

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I Created the Submissions Event That I Needed (next one 7/15!) – guest post by Megan Alpert

In 2025, I returned to submissions after several years away, during which I published a book and had a daughter. I’d drop my daughter off at daycare, go to a cafe about a block away, and amp myself…

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Submissions Jumpstart is coming up next Wednesday! You get a list of curated journals, submissions advice, and a supportive group to work with as you get your work to the editors who need to see it. #amsubmitting

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A lot of writers are freaked out by revision. We get caught up in the idea that we need to come to our work with a critical eye and be judgemental and ruthless towards ourselves. That's not what it is at all. I wrote about it here: www.meganalpert.com/writing-life...

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How to Approach Revision — Megan Alpert

And how to know when you’ve gone off track

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It’s a little galling to read Kavanaugh’s majority opinion in the trans athletes case, in which he positions himself as a white-knight defender of women’s equal education access and Title IX.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I'm so glad I follow this account. This painting just created more space in my head

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Desert Breath,1995-97, monumental land art, Eastern Sahara, Egypt, by Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou, Stella Constantinides, covering 25 acres of the Egyptian desert #WomensArt

Aeriel photograph looking down on a huge spiral installation in the desert sands

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I can't imagine the anguish this family is going through, especially the parents.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

Painting featuring a glass cup with a red tea inside and tea bag, all on a white surface with a long shadow to the left

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2026

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said. From the archives:

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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On

In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2026

At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars.

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Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.

In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I've been gathering some of my writing about writing on my website. I think this one can help writers at any stage. It's my "everything is clay" theory: www.meganalpert.com/writing-life...

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Everything Is Clay: How to Draft and Revise Without Getting Stuck — Megan Alpert

The biggest mistake is thinking you can make something perfect on the first try.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/05/2026

These billboards could play a huge role in mobilizing local resistance to Trump’s detention camps, but we need your help to fund them — please pitch in if you can.

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Donate to Indivisible Project

Show your support with a contribution.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This might be my favorite thing that's happened today

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This country will break your goddamn heart

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

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I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves

The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I wrote about how to talk to kids about ICE for Seattle's Child. Here are some things I learned: 1. Children process information much more slowly than adults think they should, so pause a LOT. The younger the child is, the fewer words you should use. www.seattleschild.com/talk-to-kids...

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How to Talk to Kids About ICE: Advice for parents

Experts share age-appropriate advice for how parents can talk to kids about ICE and immigration enforcement while helping children feel safe and supported.

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Megan Alpert @meganalpert.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Writers, get help sending your work out at Submissions Jumpstart. In March, you can bring a friend for free. I've also built a beautiful new website where you can buy tickets: www.meganalpert.com/submissions-jumpstart #writingcommunity #openforsubmissions #amsubmitting #literaryjournals

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