Cassie Mannes Murray
@cassmannes.bsky.social
Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
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My wild controversial opinion is that we do, actually, owe it to strangers to take basic precautions and engage in actions that ensure the safety and well-being of others, to make the world accessible and non-hostile and easy to navigate.
October 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My wild controversial opinion is that we do, actually, owe it to strangers to take basic precautions and engage in actions that ensure the safety and well-being of others, to make the world accessible and non-hostile and easy to navigate.
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During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.
October 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.
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They picked trans folks because there are so few of us they think they can get away with it, and they are perfecting a playbook they will use to go after more groups of people until they've concentrated enough power to be unstoppable. It's entirely up to cis people to stop this. Please help us y'all
September 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
They picked trans folks because there are so few of us they think they can get away with it, and they are perfecting a playbook they will use to go after more groups of people until they've concentrated enough power to be unstoppable. It's entirely up to cis people to stop this. Please help us y'all
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they are, in fact, allowed to do that
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
they are, in fact, allowed to do that
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
#ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/1dT0kCg
#ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/1dT0kCg
August 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
#ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/1dT0kCg
#ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/1dT0kCg
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🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
July 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
🧵
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That Guardian article about AI tanking the graduate job market has an interesting comment from a recruitment consultant saying that the ability to read, write, and form an analysis without using the internet are now "elite skills." Wouldn't it be great if we had degree subjects that teach just that?
July 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
That Guardian article about AI tanking the graduate job market has an interesting comment from a recruitment consultant saying that the ability to read, write, and form an analysis without using the internet are now "elite skills." Wouldn't it be great if we had degree subjects that teach just that?
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Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social
Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social
Memoir Land on Substack
“Jonah’s injury was an anomaly, unexpected personally but not statistically, not if you examine the probabilities; it had to happen to someone somewhere—I had just stupidly, selfishly really, assumed ...
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July 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social
Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social
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LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Nothing says “Jesus saves” like a room full of Republicans locking arms and praying over legislation designed to cut healthcare for dying kids so rich donors can buy their fifth yacht.
July 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Nothing says “Jesus saves” like a room full of Republicans locking arms and praying over legislation designed to cut healthcare for dying kids so rich donors can buy their fifth yacht.
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Dismantling our collective social obligation to care for one another to fund the gestapo and tax cuts for the rich isn't just a moral failure: It will ultimately hurt everyone, incuding those self-same rich people who are about to find out how much the safety net affects their daily lives.
July 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Dismantling our collective social obligation to care for one another to fund the gestapo and tax cuts for the rich isn't just a moral failure: It will ultimately hurt everyone, incuding those self-same rich people who are about to find out how much the safety net affects their daily lives.
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may every congressperson who voted for this bill never know peace
may they be disrupted every time they are in public
may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents
may they be disrupted every time they are in public
may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents
July 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
may every congressperson who voted for this bill never know peace
may they be disrupted every time they are in public
may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents
may they be disrupted every time they are in public
may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents
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It's a fascist regime, folks. You have to start treating it like such. You need all hands on deck and a remarkable change in attitude, language and tactics to confront Trump and MAGA.
The old guard ain't gonna cut it.
The old guard ain't gonna cut it.
July 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's a fascist regime, folks. You have to start treating it like such. You need all hands on deck and a remarkable change in attitude, language and tactics to confront Trump and MAGA.
The old guard ain't gonna cut it.
The old guard ain't gonna cut it.
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I get credited by name when I offer a solicited pre-pub blurb, but not when I choose to write about the book on my own. That's weird. "Salon" didn't say that about your author's book. I did.
Part of my ongoing crusade to get publishers to acknowledge the authors (not just the publication) of review extracts in marketing materials. Also, how do we credit LLMs? open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
An important, but apparently difficult process.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I get credited by name when I offer a solicited pre-pub blurb, but not when I choose to write about the book on my own. That's weird. "Salon" didn't say that about your author's book. I did.
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I forgot to post Book Launch pics! So cool to pack our local cafe with people I love! My art is (still) hanging on the walls! We sold out of books, almost sold out of art prints, and raised $200 for the local domestic violence resource center! Amazing. @cassmannes.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I forgot to post Book Launch pics! So cool to pack our local cafe with people I love! My art is (still) hanging on the walls! We sold out of books, almost sold out of art prints, and raised $200 for the local domestic violence resource center! Amazing. @cassmannes.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social
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I know it's easier said than done but this feels like a really good time for people in positions of power at institutions and those who work for them to refuse to follow executive orders
March 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I know it's easier said than done but this feels like a really good time for people in positions of power at institutions and those who work for them to refuse to follow executive orders
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Lawlessness and grievance, that’s all he’s got.
Fighting back has to be the answer.
Fighting back has to be the answer.
March 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Lawlessness and grievance, that’s all he’s got.
Fighting back has to be the answer.
Fighting back has to be the answer.
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The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.
March 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.
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thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
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One small step news orgs could take is to start using "harm" instead of "impact" if all the impacts expected are bad.
March 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
One small step news orgs could take is to start using "harm" instead of "impact" if all the impacts expected are bad.
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Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number.
A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
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March 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
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Nicole Graev Lipson is bored by the tired notion that “girls and women are wired for rivalry.”
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March 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nicole Graev Lipson is bored by the tired notion that “girls and women are wired for rivalry.”
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"A book as deeply critical of interpersonal codependency as it is on labor-exploitative late-stage capitalism, this collection asks us to question our relationships and how they serve us."
A pleasure to chat with Gabrielle Grace Hogan for @therumpus.net!
therumpus.net/2025/03/19/s...
A pleasure to chat with Gabrielle Grace Hogan for @therumpus.net!
therumpus.net/2025/03/19/s...
Funny and Large and Wild: A Conversation with Sarah Lyn Rogers - The Rumpus
I’m interested in knowing when I’m lying to myself and how that allows me to make different choices later.
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March 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"A book as deeply critical of interpersonal codependency as it is on labor-exploitative late-stage capitalism, this collection asks us to question our relationships and how they serve us."
A pleasure to chat with Gabrielle Grace Hogan for @therumpus.net!
therumpus.net/2025/03/19/s...
A pleasure to chat with Gabrielle Grace Hogan for @therumpus.net!
therumpus.net/2025/03/19/s...
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March 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The very best thing about Parker Posey is that she's been exactly the same for the last 30 years. She was like this back then, in that young person body, she was still this old weirdo.
March 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The very best thing about Parker Posey is that she's been exactly the same for the last 30 years. She was like this back then, in that young person body, she was still this old weirdo.