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Holly Welker

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Editor & writer published in Best American Essays, NY Times, Slate. MFA in poetry, PhD in English lit with emphasis in literary nonfiction. Here for the difficult task of telling & hearing the truth.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Apr 25

My favorite type of writer to work with, regardless of genre, topic, or stage of career, is someone whose life experiences have given them a hard-won wisdom they hope to share with others.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 3d

the people opposed to Project 2025 think the United States was created to "ensure the blessings of liberty" promised to American citizens in the Constitution, and they'll throw out the exclusive interests and power of white men to achieve that aim.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 3d

Trump and the people behind Project 2025 think the United States was created to protect the exclusive interests and power of affluent white men, and they'll throw out the Constitution to achieve that aim, while
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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 4d

I love this beautiful poem from @rattlepoetry.bsky.social about recent shootings in Michigan. #LDS #exmo

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Two Mass Shootings, Same Day, Michigan by Ron Riekki - Rattle: Poetry

The half-burned wreckage of her last cigarette, —George Bilgere, “Blank” I went to two locations of mass shootings this week. […]

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 6d

Really, @azcentral.com? It's bad enough that the world is on fire, but now I have to wake up to an email from you with "Arizonan's" in it?

Have some editorial standards already.

Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 11d

I remember a lecture at the Missionary Training Center from a 50-something woman who'd once been a first runner-up in a Miss Utah pageant all about how if we had skirts with pockets, we could never put our hands in them--it would make our hips look fat.

That's what this reminds me of.

a bunch of military leaders in fancy outfits sitting stone-faced while Pete Hegseth body-shames fat people.

Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 23d

I really don't enjoy watching my country rip out its own heart.

Over and over, we widen the cracks in society, and then punish people when they fall through them.

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Lucy 🌎 🐝 🦊 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍀 @lckwd.bsky.social · 28d

Charlie Kirk had no college experience, yet he made an all-in-one search engine for college prep, plus a "Professor Watchlist" to "unmask radical professors"?
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Dean's List

The Dean’s List is your all-in-one search engine for college prep. Check out our interactive map, score cards, and debt clock to find the right university for you.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28d

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.

But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 28d

as if his death somehow sanctified him & absolved him of his sins.

Being murdered doesn't make the victim a good person. Being murdered just makes someone's death a crime that should not have happened.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · 28d

It's revolting but unsurprising to watch people who began demonizing Trayvon Martin & George Floyd (& the other black men murdered by police and/or vigilantes) the moment we learned of their deaths insist now it's beyond the pale to say anything bad about Charlie Kirk

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Sep 8

The decisions of the Roberts court will be as infamous and reviled as the Dred Scott decision is now.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Tweet from Benjamin Alvarez of DW
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The U.S. Department of Labor has now placed a large banner of President Trump on the outside of the department's building in Washington, D.C. The banner reads "American workers first."

His photos show three angles of a Trump banner hanging outside of the U.S. Department of Labor, next to an American flag.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Previously decent Trump supporters who've let their support for Trump turn them into terrible people are another manifestation of the phenomenon demonstrated by the Milgram Experiment & the Stanford Prison Experiment. Their role requires them to be horrible, & they fulfill that role with relish.

Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 15

Aren't you glad Mormons discourage tattoos? Imagine leaving the COJCOLDS and having an outline of the Salt Lake Temple on your shoulder or the CTR symbol on your ankle.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 15

I just checked CMOS 18 (which I should have done first). 7.96 says

ex
ex-partner
ex-marine
ex–corporate executive

So I guess it's ex-Mormon for something officially, but yeah, I tend to write exmo when referring to myself

Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 14

ExMo writers and editors: Let's make a style guide.

Should it be exMormon or ExMormon or Ex-Mormon?

ExMo or exMo or exmo?

I vote exMormon and exMo (or even exmo). But I'd like input from others.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 9

People are remarkably proud of worshiping a god who finds them too sinful & fallen to be allowed in his presence without ~someone~ being tormented.

It's like that old Groucho Marx punchline: They refuse to join any club that would have them as a member.

Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 4

If you listen to the women and girls victimized by Maxwell say her name, you learn that the S is silent & the vowel in the first syllable is a long e, as in "he." This attack ad, which gets her name wrong, sounds like it creators haven't bothered to listen to any of the victims. 😞

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · Aug 4

This isn't justice. This is one monster helping out another.

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 4

Why didn't someone tell the voice over actor how to pronounce her name? The S is silent and the vowel in the first syllable is a long e, as in he. Now you just sound like you haven't actually listened to any of the victims. The first thing she did was tell them how to pronounce her name.

Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm taking an online course on copyediting because I want to get better at my job. The third question on the midterm involves the preferred style for writing the name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

For once, my decades of writing about Mormonism have come in handy! #exmo

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 3

Utah…

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 3

It's not my greatest achievement, but I'm nonetheless THRILLED to have succeeded in getting a full course of antibiotics in my elderly dog as of this morning. I don't have to try to trick her into swallowing them again. YAY

a rotund oatmeal-colored poodle gazes at the camera

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 2

I am continually struck by how much Trump sounds like my father as his Alzheimer's became advanced--all these weird tangents, self-interruptions, repetition, & even the weird chuckling. Trump's dementia seems more advanced than Biden's, & it endangers us all.

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Trump’s mental decline is undeniable — so what now?

hemselves, that there is a problem, just as Biden’s supporters did for him. Donald Trump is showing all the signs of suffering from dementia. If this were a neighbor, a parent, or a family frien…

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Holly Welker @hollywelker.bsky.social · Aug 1

I cannot believe this will make anyone's life better.

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting, funder of NPR and PBS, says it will end operations within months after federal budget cuts

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a nonprofit that provides funds to public radio and TV stations, including NPR and PBS.