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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 25d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 8

The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.

The War for the Imagination

I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sap...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Aug 24

Chronicles (launching September 1st)

Getting back in the newsletter game: I'd love to see you there.

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Living a creative life within the territory of chronic illness. Click to read Chronicles, by Sarah Stockton, a Substack publication.

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Aug 26

maybe poetry in and of itself isn't competitive, unless you're making it a competition with either yourself or others' poems in your mind, but the world of poetry publishing? competitive as f***

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Aug 24

Chronicles (launching September 1st)

Getting back in the newsletter game: I'd love to see you there.

Subscribe to Chronicles

Living a creative life within the territory of chronic illness. Click to read Chronicles, by Sarah Stockton, a Substack publication.

sarahstockton.substack.com

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Aug 1

Lemon Grove Writers has collected all of our Writing Sprint prompts into a PDF and all sales made in August will be sent to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.

lemongrovewriters.com/products/pro...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · Aug 15

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 15

DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · Aug 12

@marthasilano.bsky.social's "When I'm On the Bed": "called death, I hope / to be thinking about / the texture of the bucatini / at Campiello, how they seated us / in the bar by the pizza cooks..." poets.org/poem/when-im... (posthumous volume, TERMINAL SURREAL, forthcoming Sept.) #poetry🎉

When I’m on the Bed

called death, I hopeto be thinking aboutthe texture of the bucatiniat Campiello, how they seated usin the bar by the pizza cooks, but when we asked to sit elsewherethey put us besidea giant strangler ...

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't

you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write

—W.S. Merwin, from “Berryman”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Aug 1

Susan is such a kind poet- this lifted my spirits so much. What are you reading today? I suggest Dressing the Bear, a profound collection: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

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Dayna Patterson @titaniayellow.bsky.social · Jul 24

With all the hard and heavy and heart-breaking news, I’m taking a sliver of a moment to celebrate. My third full-length collection, Our Lady of Thread, will be coming to a bookstore near you in 2027.

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 25

Congratulations Dayna- looking forward to your new collection!

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · Jul 21

The people of G*z* are living an unspeakable nightmare inflicted upon them with absolute impunity & on our watch by the I*r***i occupation. The least we can do is to not give in to resignation. Find some resources here or compile your own.
burgizenhaeusern.com/links-for-ga...

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 19

Please give if you can!

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jul 18

Yesterday we posted about the Trump administration shutting down the LGBTQ+ youth crisis line, the “press 3” option on 988 is officially gone. The Trevor Project is stepping up to help fill the gap, and they could really use some support right now. If you’re able, please consider donating! 🏳️‍🌈 💛

Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 14

Looking forward to this!

Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · Jul 14

Reading with @nadiaalexis.bsky.social this Thursday 7/17, hosted by the Emily Dickinson Museum—it’s free & virtual! Sign up here: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/phosphoresce...

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 14

Virtual? Yay!

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 12

I want my money back

a penguin with yellow hair is reading a book with the words is that it above it

ALT: a penguin with yellow hair is reading a book with the words is that it above it

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 9

One of my favorite poets!

Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you so much @glasspoetry.bsky.social & @anthonyframe.bsky.social for including this poem so dear to me in your beautiful journal!!!🙏💙💃
The child in this poem is now well into their adulthood.
ALSO (😊) the poem is in my forthcoming debut (yep, hard to believe 🙃🙂), White Door in the Flotsam.

Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · Jul 9

Today on Glass!

"Two-legged Sunna" by Burgi Zenhaeusern (@burgi.bsky.social)!

www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 9

Burgi!!! So exciting to see your lovely work out in the world! Congratulations. When I read this poem this morning, I thought wow, who is this poet? And it was you 💙💙💙

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jul 8

Children, they are moving amongst children.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jul 8

How many ICE goons does it take to change a lightbulb? 50 and 48 billion dollars in the budget + a sniper rifle. This clownish swarm of heavily armed and armored clowns chasing children off a soccer field while apparently not dying of the shame and ridiculousness and banality of their own evil....

Mayor Karen Bass @mayor.lacity.gov · Jul 7

This is footage from today in MacArthur Park.

Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through.

The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.

Absolutely outrageous.

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · Jul 3

These people think they’re at the end of a story — that they ARE the end of a story — and they are wrong. More than that: the story is changing around us all the time, in the ways that people who think they will always have the power to write it cannot even begin to anticipate.

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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jun 30

subsection of Rawhead?

Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social · Jun 18

It's a tough one, for sure!