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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.

Before learning Monday that Lee would not be intervening in her case, Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser:
"Whether my clemency is granted or not, l am at peace."
"I am not afraid to die," wrote Pike, who has been on death row for more than three decades. "I'm only nervous about the process."

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Underrated writing perk: the therapeutic cry near the end of the draft when you're making the characters finally say what they've been unable to.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's not a Cornell problem. It's a patriarchy, misogyny, rape culture problem.

The first paragraph of a U Oregon email sent today at 11:45am. "The University of Oregon is aware of reports of five sexual assaults
that occurred on or near campus in the past week. Four involved
university students, and the fifth occurred near the Alton Baker Dog
park, adjacent to university property. An arrest has been made in the
fifth case. All impacted students have been offered university support
resources."

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The people want hard dicks in men’s fat assess you fucking fools. You blithering failures

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3. The Cornell Daily Sun! Need I say more? These fierce, courageous journalists -and Jane Doe herself- are heroes. www.cornellsun.com/page/donate May the students who graduate this year not find themselves 35 years later, as I do, feeling that nothing has changed. /end

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Support the Sun! - The Cornell Daily Sun

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 1 of new “AI-proof” online writing course. No more discussion board posts + responses. Instead they upload videos answering weekly question & talk like we‘re f2f in class. Stuttering, doubling back, pausing, saying ummm are allowed/encouraged. The first ones are a JOY & a DELIGHT.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kudos to writers who know where or when in a first draft. I have 215 pages of floating through a nebulous town-ish whatever while ranging in and out of the vaguest of seasons.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

100% this. And talk about rape culture. Our college-bound son knows we won't pay for a fraternity because of their endemic rape culture.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What's the word for being desperate for midterm elections but with zero confidence in either party?

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 25/09/2026

It’s an honor to be part of this anthology. “Home” is definitely the most white-knuckle terrifying story I’ve ever written. And I’m glad it found its own home alongside so many other terrific stories.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!

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Donna Miscolta @misdonnacolta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little about the inspiration, or better, provocation for my novel, which releases in a few days from @regalhouse.bsky.social

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026

IN MINNESOTA.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These are human beings

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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good lord the season premiere of @heavyweight.bsky.social is not playing. Cried and cried.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

With elementary school back in session across the street from my house, it's the kickoff of my annual study, Pickup and Dropoff as a Feature of Late Capitalism:

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So glad TASK won something. That series moved me to tears.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I invite the "but it makes sports unfair" activists to my son's high school baseball team. You want to see what happens when some kids have $$$$$ for private lessons and others don't? I look forward to the abundant donations that will surely come pouring in.

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Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Writing will outlast the robots.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Is it really a writing residency is you don’t cry for the good part of a day then pour yourself a glass of wine?

Photo of a laptop screen with writing and a glass of white wine on a pad of paper and post-it notes.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey, look what I did. Got my rights back on my first novel! 💪

Photos of the hardback, paperback, Australian edition, and Italian edition covers of The Local News.

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Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

People afar who cannot come to my real world show at Edgewood University Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin. I have a second show, too! Please check out my solo online show at the Drawing Rooms! Signed, numbered prints of my work for sale! www.artsy.net/show/drawing...

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Shawn Levy @shawnlevy.com · 09/09/2026

Join us to celebrate the life and work of Brian Lindstrom at Cinema 21 on Sept. 16. I'll chat with Brian's colleagues and film subjects, we'll show clips, and we'll screen his essential 2013 feature "Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse." Tickets/info: www.cinema21.com/.../brian-li...

Poster for "Brian Lindstrom: A Life in Film" at Cinema 21 in Portland, OR, Sept 16, 2026

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Gen Z fighting for their lives in the face of so much garbage nonsense.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Writers and authors, if you haven't read this essay by @miriamgershow.bsky.social yet, you should. It's 💥.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/09/2026

Nobody can afford the necessities of life, authoritarianism is on the march, oligarchs are immiserating everyone, the climate crisis is intensifying, AI is on the verge of getting out of control… …and this is the “one goal” Corporate Dems are singularly focused on

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Rich Tate 🎃 @richtate.com · 03/09/2026

Kate is one of the coolest people on Bluesky. Let's help get this copay sorted! Even a couple of bucks helps. And if you choose to donate, thank you.

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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Holy SHIT. CRONE's been printed, copies are beginning to make their way out into the world for 9/22 pub day. Damn, that looks good.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lucky to have been a kid raised with Ms. Magazine (& Free To Be You & Me)

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Chiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Honestly loving being *picky as hell* about what to review for this year's 100 Small Press Books. Bring me the debut poets! The poets with NO MFA! The SMALL small presses, the ones with no $35-a-pop annual prize! And thank you @miriamgershow.bsky.social and @robinvanille.bsky.social for helming 🫡

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Faded Seaside Glamour (Chris) @displaced.co.uk · 03/09/2026

I'm neither a woman nor a writer, so I don't have the same pressures, expectations or the same variety of societal crap, but my word... "running so hard and so fast away from my own face" is exactly what I've been doing my entire 46 years on this planet and it's exhausting.

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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a very good essay.

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Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Must-read essay from @miriamgershow.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽

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Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stop what you’re doing and read this.

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is a gorgeous and brave piece, and not for nothing, Miriam, but I see the pic at the end and you ARE, clinically, hot.

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Chuck Jordan @sasquatchers.wtf · 03/09/2026

This is really wonderful and insightful.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 03/09/2026

Wow

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

(someone plz tell me enough already if I've reached the unspoken maximum reskeet amount)

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HAD @havehashad.com · 03/09/2026

Here's the link, which will be live in a little over an hour and a half, at 9pm central (and will then be dead once it hits 150 submissions) havehashad.submittable.com/submit/36697...

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