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Theresa Göttl Brightman

@treeskwerl.bsky.social
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Poetry. Writing. Art. Knitting. Birds. Squirrels. Politics. Religion. Books. Libraries. (she/her) linktr.ee/treeskwerl

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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Yes! I see too many people saying we’ll just put everything back together. No—the old system had too many flaws and too many points of vulnerability. Time to build something new. And I don’t want to hear anymore about how we need to give it time for change. We saw how fast things move if they want.
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I loved this movie so much and really wanted a sequel ❤️
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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 · 15/04/2026
Nothing to see here…just a guy promising to tax the rich and actually doing it.
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Theresa Göttl Brightman on Instagram: "Link to join 30 Days of Poetry Writing Exercises: Observations and Interpretations is in the profile. Join us as we write through April! $30 for the course #nap...
1 likes, 0 comments - treeskwerl on April 1, 2026: "Link to join 30 Days of Poetry Writing Exercises: Observations and Interpretations is in the profile. Join us as we write through April! $30 for the...
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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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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
You could kind of hear the boos on the nbc broadcast but the announcers didn’t acknowledge it.
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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 · 18/07/2025
100%….Because everything with him is personal and petty af.
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Maybe the Dems need to stop trying to copy off the republicans’ tests and just do their own work to turn out voters. And put to bed the stupid lie of centrist electability. /end
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
And it doesn’t really seem to matter how far left a democrat is, the fact that they won’t identify with the Republican Party means that every right wing talk show will be screaming “socialist” about them. 7/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
And not once did it matter how centrist, how vanilla, how lackluster the Democrat—they have never “won the center” by being centrist. Those years democrats won, they won by boosting turnout, not by converting republicans. 6/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Anyone left of Reagan for the last 40 years (and probably longer) as been called a “socialist” by the Republican Party. Most of them were never even remotely close to being socialist. 5/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
And then Harris, who was barely a stitch left of Biden…. And the republicans screamed “socialist socialist socialist!” 4/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
And the Republicans screamed “socialist!” Then we ended up with Joe Biden instead of any of the 20 other candidates in 2020. Joe Biden, who is exactly as radical left as George W Bush. And the republicans screamed “socialist!” 3/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Except that the democrat establishment has repeatedly picked conservative centrists exactly for this reason. Because they’re afraid of losing the middle. So instead of Bernie Sanders, we ended up with Hillary Clinton as the nominee in 2016. So that they could “win the center”. 2/
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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
For all the hollering about the “MSM agenda”, the ones with the blatant agenda seem to be the right wing talking heads. And this just makes me horrifically sad. /end
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The right wing talking heads don’t care about keeping people informed, they don’t want people informed, they aren’t even interested in spinning the story. They want no story. They want to stoke irrational hatred, so people won’t care enough to seek other sources of information. 11/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
People who are isolated in the right wing media info cycle aren’t hearing about the same events, and probably don’t even realize the things I take for granted as being common knowledge are happening. 10/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I was under the impression that right wing media was talking about the same basic events, but spinning them to suit their messaging. Now I realize they aren’t even getting the same basic events. 9/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
That’s how much they are bending over backwards to avoid talking about anything that is actually happening. And it scares me, and saddens me, but explains so much. 8/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Now I only left it on for a minute, and it’s a long talk show. So maybe they talked about current events elsewhere in the show. But they’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel to pull up old fabricated nastiness about a former First Lady who’s been low profile for a year. 7/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
She’s going to run for president. No she wants to be a model. No, she’s [insert old vileness they’ve been repeating for almost two decades]. 6/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Here’s what they were talking about: Michelle Obama. 5/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Was EM the villain, was this DT’s plan all along? I mean, it was eating so much oxygen in the news cycle, Glenn Beck and his sidekick MUST be talking about it, right? 4/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
And when I realized it, I almost flipped back to FM reflexively, but then stopped myself and thought that I wanted to hear how the right was spinning the EM/DT breakup. 3/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Now the only AM preset on my car radio is the station that carries Guardians baseball, and that is literally the only time I listen to AM radio. But this station is mostly right-wing talk during the day. 2/
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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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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
And she SMILED while she said it!
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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
We can talk about the ways that those relationships can be managed, but to refuse to acknowledge them at all is the most dangerous of hubris. /end
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
To fail to understand that and persist in cutting ties believing that it will somehow making things in one country better, or safer, or more abundant is head-in-the-sand ignorance. 12/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Good leaders understand this nuance, this complexity of an interconnected planet, and they comprehend that isolation is impossible. 11/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
And the counter is true--when we provide aid to prevent disease, when we help preserve vital ecosystems elsewhere, when we stabilize the food supply, when we help another nation preserve its sovereignty, we make the world better for people here at home, too. 10/
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Theresa Göttl Brightman @treeskwerl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We cannot insulate ourselves from what happens in other nations. It will affect us here. And when we screw up abroad, it will come home to haunt us. When we provide aid to dictators and genocide, we will feel the consequences here. 9/
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