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Amos Magliocco

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Writer, Teacher, Tornado Seeker Stories & essays in Missouri Review, Yemassee, Redivider, Pushcart Prize. Tornadoes at cycloneroad.com. Copy ed., EJSSM.com. Principal Lecturer, UNT English.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · Jun 13

These tornadoes from 20 years ago today mean a lot to me because they were amazing, and because it was a brief window of pure freedom: Eric Nguyen, Scott Blair, and me had all graduated various degree programs and, with no jobs lined up yet, we chased until the money ran out. youtu.be/RspFa7VFfjk

Tornadoes in Kent County, Texas, 12 June 2005 (4K60 Remaster)

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 2h

It was a terrible mistake. And to think I was so excited in 1992 because we'd have all the books and all the music.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 2h

Haven't seen that argument since grad school, when a few MFA classmates got stoned on literary theory and attacked almost every manuscript for failing to include X and Y (thereby reifying Z) which they decided must be the writer's favorite flavor of oppression.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 2h

It’s such a firehose of doom scented shit it makes Reddit seem clean as the ICU.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4h

Uncanny, except of course DT can cover a TE in the flat *and* take on a pulling guard, no problem.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4h

He’s 6’3” and 225, eh? Was the Kremlin this ridiculous in the 80s? Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I remember their fiction having more dignity.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 7h

Sounds like you're one of those who "still don't get it."

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Leaving FilmStruck @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social · 17d

Another incredible photo of Rev. David Black being assaulted by ICE agents outside an ICE facility in Broadview. Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

Hilarious to see Max Scherzer in some new team’s dugout every October, chewing sunflower seeds and wearing a strange uniform, injured and ominous with his cyborg eyes.

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 1d

GREAT NEWS from Leander ISD. To Kill a Mockingbird, House on Mango St, and Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass will be returned to classrooms after a massive outcry. Thanks to everyone who spoke up!!!

From an email to teachers today:

*An important update regarding the books that
were previously paused from curriculum use as a
result of concerns around Senate Bill 12.
Thirty-six of the forty books are being reinstated
to the secondary curriculum book list, with
revisions made to the curriculum to ensure TEKS
alignment and compliance with SB 12. Four
titles, Stamped, Melissa (George), Gracefully
Grayson, and The 57 Bus, will remain paused for
additional review of curriculum alignment. Please
note that all books, including these four, should
remain available, or be returned if removed, to
classroom libraries for individual student choice
reading.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

What explosive information might be in those files that their electronic propaganda apparatus can't disintegrate overnight?

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

For the weather nerds, Karen Russell once wrote a short story called "The Tornado Auction," which you can find in her story collection, Orange World and Other Stories. It's about a guy who buys and raises (like horses) a tornado. Greatness.

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

I also want to stop everything and read this right now, another NBA finalist.

Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 3d

I was a weapon in the war. I am one.

THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell

#SundaySentence

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

I could never understand the refusal to offer solutions for the housing crisis, unless of course the reasons for such willful neglect are as bad as the crisis itself.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

I also want to stop everything and read this right now, another NBA finalist.

Maureen O’Leary @maureenow.bsky.social · 3d

I was a weapon in the war. I am one.

THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell

#SundaySentence

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

There was a proposal in Harris's platform to limit or bar entirely the cornering of residential housing market by investors or corporations, but nobody with the campaign seemed too interested in promoting it. When I volunteered and made calls, voters were often happily surprised to hear it.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 1d

What a cool moment for Dallas's Deep Vellum Publishing @deepvellum.bsky.social, a nonprofit who brought out Ethan Rutherford's, North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Estheris, now a finalist for the National Book Award.

(Ethan's short story, "The Peripatetic Coffin," is also great)

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature for the 2025 National Book Awards.

Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Award…

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone know where Tim Marshall was when they drew the Dakota border? Hmm? See, it goes way back

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 2d

See? They already moved it!

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s announcement that a recent South Dakota tornado was upgraded to an EF5 echoes a more innocent age of conspiracies, when damage indicators were hidden by agents of Big EF4.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

The solution to homelessness is not forced institutionalizations.

It’s social supports. Healthcare. Housing. Education. Harm reduction. A universal basic income.

Anyone can become homeless at any time. It’s not a personal failing.

We must fix it together.

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 3d

Agree with all this except the verb "slid." Might use "plummeted." Or "collapsed."

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 4d

Reminder Ippei was a patsy.

(Ippei must go free.)

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 6d

I think they'll remember it all right. "Guess we should've voted that one time!"

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 6d

At least everybody is very fired up about the last election now!

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Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 8d

Who can say what the freakiest day has been so far, but for me this is it. I wouldn't have dreamed they'd collect all the general officers and explain their treasonous new mission *in public.*

Amos Magliocco @amosmagliocco.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like this is the end of a years long conversation we've had about the role of the military in American politics. Give it another three days or a week, I guess, but this feels like the end of the third act. They were told to invade and wage war on US cities directly, in person. Hardly subtle!

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