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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh my, yes. Especially The Beatles one.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you to @thisone0verhere.bsky.social for making me laugh almost every day. I often share your memes with my adult kids, to give them hope.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If members of the WH press pool had just put down their mics and closed their notebooks the first time he told a demonstrable lie in the Oval way back in 2017 he would have melted like the bad witch and all of this would have been over. Attention is his oxygen. He can't survive without it.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope this email finds you still registered to vote

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So it's all fun and games until a bad thing affects little 'ol YOU.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oregonians: This IS the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Ballots for the midterms will be mailed to registered voters on Oct. 14. If yours doesn't come by the 21st, contact your county elections office and go pick one up. Fill it out. Deposit it in a ballot box by Oct. 31.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The surest sign that a majority SCOTUS decision was moral, fair, and based on existing law:

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Submit to Kreatif Magazine’s fall issue through September 25! The editors seek writing and visual art focusing on the issue’s theme: “unsilenced.” Submissions are free: www.clmp.org/members/open...

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love dogs…….

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He who can't respect others deserves no respect.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Twenty-five years ago I was a newspaper reporter interviewing a school official in Beaverton, Oregon. This week I interviewed Naomi Rosenblatt, a book publisher and lifelong New Yorker, who talked about what 9/11 means an entire generation later. nancytownsley.substack.com/p/911-do-we-...

A question-and-answer interview with my book publisher, New Yorker Naomi Rosenblatt, about her experiences in the years since the planes hit the towers.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We don’t talk enough about how much of our days have become entangled in determining what’s real. What’s genuine. What’s human or what’s synthetic. What’s worth our time after having already spent it. It’s a grotesque skill we’ve all been forced to master, and a waste of energy none of us can spare.

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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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OregonCrone @lmelina.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a writer, I endorse this practice

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This essay is so damn beautiful and so damn brilliant. Brava, @miriamgershow.bsky.social!

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Super cool photographer @bmacstudio.bsky.social is quite the sport. We tramped all over a west Portland island on a hot August day to places where scenes are set in my new novel. Perhaps such portals are passé, but I do like a central spot for all my professional stuff to live. nancytownsley.com

Nancy Townsley's website redux, August 2026.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Citizens of Canada—and all around the world—will read this news blast by Robin Snyder and seriously wonder if it’s @theonion.com. robinsnyder.substack.com/p/canada-spi...

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Canada spikes the ball on Trump

And the Supreme Court is a sick partisan joke

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026

Never let a writer help you move

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Matt @nosoupforgeorge.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The DOJ is now 245 days overdue to release the Epstein files.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@harrisondsmith.bsky.social, obituaries editor at @washingtonpost.com, chose my vignette about the venerable Steve Arndt for the paper's What We Remember feature. Our dear friend and writing partner is very much missed. 💚

This 150-word vignette I wrote about Steve Arndt was published in The Washington Post on Sunday, August 16, 2026.

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

TIRED: The Oregon Trail 😒 WIRED: The Book Trail 🙂 (You can't die of dysentery on the Book Trail!)

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh, I feel this. Do NOT touch my sewing scissors! ✂️

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Bart King @bartking.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This farewell column’s headline has been optimized for maximum stupidity.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026

FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Portland's @cherylstrayed.bsky.social writes about how things feel—how they ARE—for her right now. 💚 Also, a workshop. open.substack.com/pub/cherylst...

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The Grief Iceberg

And a writing workshop in October.

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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Anyone who has a working brain experiences pain when Trump speaks.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today would have been my dad's 96th birthday. A lifelong Republican, I think he would be incredibly sad if he were still here, witnessing the state of the modern-day GOP 11 years after the golden escalator ride. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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July 29, 2026

Ariel Edwards-Levy of CNN reported today that a new CNN poll conducted by the public opinion research firm SSRS found that 70% of adult Americans disapprove of the way President Donald J.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Spitballing here, but what if instead of "Fighting for an Affordable America" the Democrats used "Fighting for a Return to Foundational Sanity" as their mantra leading up to the midterms?

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The Washington Post's @maurajudkis.bsky.social writes about the rescheduled (and now-defamed) White House Correspondents Dinner. Saddens me to my core that "enemies of the people" guy was given a mic at this event, proving that the sword is, at least last night, mightier than the pen. ☹️

Maura Judkis in The Washington Post, July 25, 2026.

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you can’t find the book you’re looking for, you might be in the…

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

PM Carney: "I'm going to take this opportunity to thank President Scheinbaum and the Mexican people for sending 200 firefighters to help us with our fires here. That's what friends do when you have crisis and fires." 🎥 Credit CBC News ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA🇨🇦🍁❤️

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Watching The Dust Bowl by Ken Burns over the last few evenings really put things into perspective for me. My god, what those people went through. Sure, it was "their fault" it happened in the first place, but at least back then the government actually tried to help. Five stars for illumination.

Photo of a dust storm over the Great Plains in the mid-1930s.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What do you do when you're awake at 3 o'clock in the morning? You write a poem about one of your children. They're never not your children, even at almost thirty-eight. 💚 Link 👉: nancytownsley.substack.com/p/middle-child

A photo of my middle child, now almost 38, when she was in high school.

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My take on Hegseth asking for $37.5 billion so he can pay the troops (‼️) and build more war machinery: Sure, why not hand the kid who blew his spring term college money on skydiving lessons, a spending spree at Nordstrom Rack, and a drunken week in Palm Springs another blank check? Sounds smart.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Guys I’m starting to think these people with no training, experience, or relevant educational background might not know what they’re doing

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Former investigative reporter and Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff kicks off his campaign for president '28 with an announcement on ABC, NBC, and CNN, which had the media equivalent of balls of steel when they declined to carry Trump's lie-fest/election fear-mongering/desperation speech. Who's with me?

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is what fighting fascism looks like.

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