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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 7h

My short story His Mothers and the Mountain is out today in The Table Review. San Bruno Mountain rises between San Francisco and smaller cities. Climb it with eight-year-old Rory Leary unaccompanied in the dark of an autumn night:

thetablereview.org/2025/10/09/h...

Past a foreground of park paths and cypresses a mountain rises, first in a tree-capped ridge with boxlike houses zigzagging up its near slope, then in green-black peaks topped with radio towers.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 16h

America’s unions mourn the loss of our brother Kent Wong.

As APALA's founding president & a leader throughout our movement, he relentlessly fought for worker, immigrant, civil & human rights across the country & around the world. He inspired us all.

Rest in power.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 19h

Pfizer (COVID) in one arm, flu in the other at Mission Bay Kaiser in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 20h

See Yeats, “Easter, 1916” (on the Rising, in commemoration of which I marched with Sinn Féin in Dublin and Belfast 2016), first stanza.

Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 1d

In discussions for the recent Strategic Plan of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District I specifically mentioned bus service on Hwy37 as one possible expansion of transit connections between the Hwy101 and I-80 corridors.

Wouldn’t that be lovely?

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 2d

Radicchio starting to form heads in my garden.

Half a dozen radicchio plants, their leaves variously red-tinged and red-veined and starting to curl toward what will be heads, on a gray sandy soil sprinkled with dry pine needles.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 3d

Bird more often heard than seen, in my experience, so nice work.

Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 4d

September was exceptionally busy: (short stories, not poems) 23 rejections, 4 acceptances, a ratio harsh enough to keep me striving, sweet enough to keep me going.

Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 5d

Spent an almost ecstatic evening once in this City of St. Francis in the cheap hot crowded standing-room zone at the very top and back of the Opera House, listening to Messiaen’s St François d’Assise, with its wild close transcriptions of birdsong. I’m deeply apostate, but: Respect.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 5d

They hang out under the Golden Gate Bridge sometimes. Bicycling across one time, I glanced over the rail and saw one directly below. Another time, I saw their distinctly columnar spouts all around it as I started to cross.

Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 7d

The resident knitter, shown the Etsy pattern, says that his presence in her life is already excessive.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 7d

I always suspect they know but stop partway into the bike lane to object to it and our existence.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 8d

Recalling that repeated motions to adjourn (always in order) ultimately succeeded in frustrating Ben Franklin’s motion for daily prayer in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. In respect for him, most delegates didn’t want to argue directly against it, though Alexander Hamilton did.

Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 9d

Having been a plan trustee, I confirm the deterrence of the threat of being sued personally by plan participants for breach of fiduciary responsibility. Also, many pension plans are ruled with equal labor-management votes, so management would have to be convinced of pro-labor investment strategies.

Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 10d

The Table Review has taken my short story “His Mothers and the Mountain” for 9Oct25 publication. San Bruno Mountain rises from the SE edge of San Francisco. The story sends an 8-yr-old boy up it in an autumn night, away from one home, in hope of another. I’ll post a link when it’s out.

Past cypresses and a pine in the foreground and a ridge climbed by zigzagging “little boxes” houses in the midground, a green mountain capped with radio towers rises toward high clouds.

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 12d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 14d

Actually not the first time I’d faced a rifle, and I was pissed off and inclined to be confrontational again, but wisdom prevailed and (with a little struggle because I’d secured it against pickpockets) I produced the magic American passport and was let pass.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 14d

Was held at Colombian army riflepoint in Medellín 1980 and demanded to show a “libreta militar,” draft card all males apparently required to carry. (I passed for local in Antioquia.) Coltejer strike just “settled,” young men were being hauled off the streets. I’ve seen how national ID can be used.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 14d

Happy to own the designation apostate, earned by an arduous struggle with Catholicism. See my photo on this site? Enthusiastic soprano cantor in a Catholic 1960s choir.

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Literland @literland.bsky.social · 14d

El realismo mágico explicado en una frase:

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 15d

I retired in 2018, so I can’t testify to current practice.

Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 15d

Careful what you wish for. Here, my signature is on this one, for which I was lead negotiator, as on many others. It’s a public doc.

www.tjpa.org/files/2011/1...

www.tjpa.org

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 15d

Yes, I understand, they leave you all buffleheaded. They come at you in sprigs and scaups and it’s impossible to scoter away.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 15d

A closet rod becomes a mode of communication and an element of power in my story Her Delight, out now in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social. My thanks to John T. Leonard and the editorial crew, and my greetings and congratulations to my fellow contributors.

rawheadjournal.org/issue-one/

In a half-dark closet clothing is hung in a tight array of wire and plastic hangers.

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Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social · 16d

Scored ours yesterday.

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