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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

AHHHHH! *deep breath* AHHHHHH! My twisty summer gothic story When He Calls Your Name is a #HUGO FINALIST! I am so beyond happy—I’m so proud of this story & so hoped it would find its people. SEE YOU IN LA DARLINGS, IMMA WEAR A VAMPIRE GOWN www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Hey Ohio, maybe instead of eliminating property tax along with all public services that rely on them, we should just, y know, shift the brunt of the tax burden onto multibillion dollar businesses—like Amazon and data centers—that are currently paying zero taxes while sucking up our resources.

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Join me for 30 days of poetry writing exercises in April. Link to the $30 course in profile.

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I have followed Catherynne Valente since I was a baby poet who showed up at a reading in a little Cleveland art gallery. I’ve read every book she mentions in this essay and my heart is breaking for her. I know it’s a tool, it helps people, that to shun it all together is ableist. But at what cost?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The saga of the beautiful husky who needed a home, & the BlueSky folk who stepped forward to make an old-fashioned internet miracle...has had a lot of developments I've been too busy handling to update you all on. She's ON HER WAY! The whole story, for all to read: www.patreon.com/posts/142111...

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The Pawshank Redemption: A Dog And Her People | Catherynne M. Valente

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Omg, I just wrote what might be my favorite eco poem of my own work ever! ….edits and polishing needed, but, this one was really fun to write. More to come.

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

To order your copy of The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures: A 40 Over 40 Poetry Anthology… 1. Visit www.akroncantonfoodbank.org 2. Click the ”Donate” button and donate at least $10. Books are $10 each. 3. Email your donation receipt and mailing address to 40over40poetry@gmail.com

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Since Tuesday all I’ve heard from republicans is a screeching choir of “he’s a socialist! The democrats will never win anything again with a socialist!” 1/

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Last weekend, while running errands, I reached to turn on the car radio, and with the touchscreen, I accidentally switched the radio to AM. 1/

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2025

It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The cognitive dissonance of people who are politically “conservative” complaining about “indoctrination” in higher ed, using the examples of how liberal their own college profs were. When pointed out that they themselves were not “indoctrinated” they insist they are somehow special…

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

English major weighing in on the “dire wolves”….Romulus and Remus were RAISED by wolves, not wolves themselves, but I’m most annoyed that they named the female “Khaleesi”—why in the world are they naming a dire wolf after a Targaryen?! Call her Sansa, Nymeria, SOMEthing Stark-adjacent! Ugh…

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Dumb stuff I can only post about here… One conversation: “Liberals always claim to be morally superior!” Another conversation, that was criticizing the ultra wealthy: “Commie Godless scum! Why do you hate Jesus!!” …Claiming moral superiority is kind of the GOP’s thing….

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

You know it’s bad when the most eloquent politician, who will normally tear you stem to stern verbally but in the most respectful way, puts on his dad shirt and drops the f-bomb. Look what you made Pete do, you monsters! #petebuttigiege www.instagram.com/reel/DHmb8I4...

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Everything is connected. Everything and everyone. Everything thing you do, everything that happens anywhere will have an effect on the rest of the planet. We are an interconnected ecosystem. This isn't kumbaya-love everybody platitudes. It's scientific and sociological fact. 1/

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Submissions are now open for the 40 Over 40 Poetry anthology! Open to poets over 40 years old in Northeast Ohio (or who have a connection to the area). Submissions are free and accepted poets receive a $40 honorarium. I can’t wait to see your work! gottbrightpoems.blogspot.com/p/40-over-40...

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40 Over 40: A Poetry Anthology

Submit HERE! This anthology of 40 poets over 40, will celebrate exemplary poems by poets who have had a little more time to hone their cra...

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The good: Artist Launchpad at Summit Artspace is open for applications for their next series of courses. As a creative, working/learning in community was more important than I realized until I took the course. More info and how to apply: www.summitartspace.org/artist-launc...

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Artist Launchpad - Summit Artspace

Here’s your chance to connect with local professionals on topics like goal setting, protecting your art, finding your audience, structuring your arts practice, and planning your financial future. Expe...

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

White House press secretary was asked if Musk et al have security clearances. If the answer isn’t “yes”, then it’s “no”… newrepublic.com/post/191100/...

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Does Elon Musk Even Have Security Clearance to Access Sensitive Data?

Elon Musk is rooting around highly sensitive data, and he might not even have been properly vetted.

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is one of many reasons why unions matter…

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lazuleo.bsky.social @lazuleo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We need to amplify this—the Republican House refused Secretary Buttigieg’s request for safety improvements at Reagan International.

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Let’s be clear: Musk was a test. They’re seeing what they can get away with. Half the country is willing to do ethical gymnastics and make absurd excuses for him rather than call out objective evil. America is failing the test.

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 22/01/2025

ICYMI: The rich have class solidarity. So should the working class. Join a union. #SolidaritySeason

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?

Photograph of a building in Florence. A tall thin stone section rises up, from street level several stories. About the level of the second story, a yellow section sticks out from the outside of it, awkwardly wrapping around the outside of the stone part, supported by elegant sticky-outy triangular struts. The yellow section has several small circular windows, much too small for a human to climb through, barely large enough for a chubby cat.

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I feel like the cold weather was trying to give us a WH Harrison kind of situation tomorrow. I’m surprised his ego let him reschedule for indoors with no crowd.

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Jeffrey Levy 💙 @jeffreymlevy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Would be a shame if everyone shared this un-redacted report on Trump by Jack Smith. Read Jack Smith’s unsealed court filing that says Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ after 2020 election www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

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Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing that says Trump 'resorted to crimes' after 2020 election

Donald Trump “resorted to crimes” in a failed bid to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, federal prosecutors said in a newly unsealed court filing that argues that the former president is n...

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Someone commented at me with some homophobic stuff on a Catholic insta I follow. The original post was about not being the kind of Christian that makes people hate Jesus, and all I did was agree. I have no idea why this person singled me out from all the others who commented on the post 1/

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

For those who aren’t aware… “I’m sorry if anyone was offended,” isn’t an apology. It’s a statement of ignorance, because someone definitely was offended, otherwise you wouldn’t be saying that right now.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

"We cannot change the world all at once. But we can change the way we think. We can clear away the clichés and make ourselves more lively. We can work together and then, when other things are in motion, be ready to turn the change in the right direction." snyder.substack.com/p/the-berlin...

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The Berlin Wall Never Fell

It Didn't

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

As it had gone from the internet, I've posted The Beasts Who Fought For Fairyland, a story I wrote 8 years ago to explain the 2016 election to children, for free on both Patreon & Substack. It's not really just for children. www.patreon.com/posts/115615... catvalente.substack.com/p/the-beasts...

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The Beasts Who Fought For Fairyland Until the Very End--and Further Still | Catherynne M. Valente

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky. How are we doing today? Sharing a feature done by Ideastream Public Media on the Ohio Reclaimed multi-media exhibit: www.ideastream.org/shows/applau...

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"Ohio Reclaimed" exhibit and Les Délices

A trio of artists examine the relationship between humans and nature.

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