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Rebecca Bernard

@ohheyrebecca.bsky.social
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Our Sister Who Will Not Die: Stories (Mad Creek Books, 2022) | Asst. Prof @ East Carolina University | Fiction Ed. @ The Boiler |teeth pal | rebeccaibernard.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2025
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
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NPR @npr.org · 13/07/2025
At least 31 Palestinians were fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians.
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At least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza as war deaths top 58,000, officials say
At least six children were killed in an Israeli strike on a water collection point. The Israeli military blamed a technical error which made its munition fall "dozens of meters from the target".
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/07/2025
I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
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Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It is day 100 since Andry was disappeared by Trump admin to a gulag in El Salvador. 100 days since this photo was snapped while he begged for his mom. 100 days of wondering if he is still alive. We’re still waiting for the devastatingly slow wheels of justice to turn. #FreeAndry
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NPR @npr.org · 21/06/2025
JUST IN: Khalil left the Louisiana detention center where he's been since March, when ICE agents arrested him over his pro-Palestinian activism. A federal judge ruled the government could no longer detain him.
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Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil released on bail
Khalil left the Louisiana detention center where he's been since March, when ICE agents arrested him over his pro-Palestinian activism. A federal judge ruled the government could no longer detain him.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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SIR @southerninreview.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 5: Rebecca Bernard Rebecca Bernard is the author of the story collection Our Sister Who Will Not Die. rebeccaibernard.com @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social Instagram: @ohheyrebecca
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The second we begin debating guilt and innocence we have ceded to their terms. The systemic evil fades into the background, continues humming along nicely.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.
Rubio on X: Last night, another 10 criminals from the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua Foreign Terrorist Organizations arrived in El Salvador. 

The alliance between @POTUS and President @nayibbukele has become an example for security and prosperity in our hemisphere.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/04/2025
Federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously. To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica. ➡️ Reach out here: propublica.org/tips
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Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
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Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Every day I am reminded that evil is also very very dumb
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025
whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2025
i am 100% certain that they are weekend at bernie-ing trump and just handing him papers to sign, the content of which is determined by whoever happens to want something to happen
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North Carolina Literary Review @nclitreview.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Happy News! Congrats to Evan Fackler, this year's Doris Betts Fiction Prize Winner! And to all our finalists.
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Peter Dye @peterdye.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss... I loved this story by @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social. I had my suspicions about where it was going and ended up being beautifully surprised. Great read.
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The Flirt
A t forty-five she has become what she never was before: a flirt. A holder of eye contact, …
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Rebecca Bernard @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Thanks, @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for giving me the chance to talk craft & plot on the CR blog!
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Rebecca Bernard @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Grateful to have a story in the latest issue of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & many thanks to @lisaampleman.bsky.social for her thoughtful edits! This one has teens, teeth, and blue paint. Scoop a copy here! www.cincinnatireview.com/issue/21-2/
The Cincinnati review “The theft” in the Cincinnati review
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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you don't want AI to pop up first on all your Google searches you can type "-AI" at the end of the search and the AI disappears.
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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T. Scott Ray @tscottray.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
As we are now in the Christmas season, here's an article I wrote last year for @texasmonthly.bsky.social about the namesake of a Christmas favorite--but it's not a Hallmark movie kind of tale. www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
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The Thorny History of the Poinsettia’s Namesake
Joel R. Poinsett, the first American minister to Mexico, was supposed to help the U.S. buy Texas. He meddled in local politics instead.
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T. Scott Ray @tscottray.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"She’ll be tired tomorrow, but what does tired matter when she’s awake now?" This story dates back to the early days of the The Liberty bar.
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Rebecca Bernard @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My story on hook-ups and party hair set at Liberty bar in Austin now up at The Los Angeles Review! Grateful to the editors! An oldie, I first drafted this in 2011 back in MFA days… 👩🏻🍸🌚 losangelesreview.org/wig-shop-by-...
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Wig Shop by Rebecca Bernard - The Los Angeles Review
“Did I ever finish my story? I mean this woman was seriously one of the worst customers I’ve had in a while—a total hair-mare.” June nudges Laine, who nods but doesn’t look up from her nearly empty gl...
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Rebecca Bernard @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
On aging and finding gems at goodwill. Thanks @wigleaf.bsky.social and thanks to Scott for edits! ❤️👗👢
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