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author • pirate enthusiast • audhd • antifascist jew • land back • acab Sara Waxelbaum: Don’t Forget to Breathe (10.21.25), Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl Sara Taylor Woods: Hold Me Down, short stories rep: Rebecca Podos www.woodsandwaxelbaum.com

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · Feb 21

BEHOLD. the absolutely gorgeous cover that Clare Vaughn and her team at @epicreads.bsky.social got @briannashrum.bsky.social and me for our next sapphic YA romance, DON'T FORGET TO BREATHE. it's out 10/21, and yes, you can preorder it! bookshop.org/p/books/don-...

book cover: a white girl in a pink mini-dress and athletic sneakers sits on the large branch of a tree, in front of a swath of the tree's blooming white flowers. her head is not in the picture. below the tree branch (about halfway down the image) is a night sky, with two constellations highlighted--Maui's fishhook and Orion. layered on top of the sky is text: the top two lines are in a small white block font, in all caps; they read, "even when/you're falling..." Below, in the same shade of pink as the girl's dress, is the title of the book, one word on each line: "Don't Forget to Breathe." The first and third words "Don't" and "to" are in block caps, and the second and fourth, "Forget" and "Breathe" are in a romantic script, accentuated with the tree's white blossoms. Below the title are the authors' names, in the same white block font as the first lines: Brianna R. Shrum & Sara Waxelbaum.

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

oh and I will stan Alan Alda until I die

sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

since 2015, I haven’t recommended it to anyone, and I’ve actually actively discouraged people from watching it for the first time. Who could possibly say why

sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t watched it since 2006 and I won’t rewatch because I don’t want my millennial nostalgia harshed, but Sam was absolutely right that education is the silver bullet.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

What is your 2025 take on The West Wing (1999-2006 tv show)?

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 2d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social · 2d

my semi regular reminder to all of us who love to cite Mr Roger’s “look for the helpers” in times of stress

like when folks are being abducted by secret police

that that was advice for children to feel safe in times of crisis or need or fear

YOU are not the looker now

YOU are the helper

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA is the logical conclusion of mixing evangelical Christianity with politics:

the oppressing party insisting that they’re actually being oppressed

“because I said so” authoritarianism

the President is the head of the country like Christ is the head of the church

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3d

They literally only know how to be victims

sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve bailed on several synagogues that have espoused politically/ morally problematic ideas. I also live in an area that has a very limited number of congregations—of which Chabad is the least politically problematic. there isn’t a right answer; there’s only the answer that lets you sleep at night.

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

there is a time to daven and there is a time to argue and it’s not while you’re davening. let’s say Kaddish and hear the shofar, and when we get to the kiddush, THEN we can argue.

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

and who out there thinks Jews AREN’T having hard discussions and arguing with each other? a big difference between Judaism and Christianity is that when Jews disagree on doctrine, etc, we don’t just automatically take our toys and make a new congregation.

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

the worst possible punishment in the Torah is not death; it’s exile. it’s separation from the community. when you live somewhere with a small Jewish population and limited congregation options, things get complicated fast.

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

the whole undercurrent of Judaism and Jewishness is community. you can’t say Kaddish without a minyan. you have to learn how to chant/read Torah from someone who already knows. we cannot excise community from our religious lives without sacrificing observance.

This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 5d

This is one of those things that *sounds* reasonable if your context for religion is Christianity, and your assumption is that there is a wide range of congregations to choose from in any given town, and if you still don't like any of them you can just do religious stuff on your own.

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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 3d

STRETCH.

FOR THE LOVE OF BUNNIES, STRETCH EVERY DAY!

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 4d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

with bonus content: autism!

available later this month: bookshop.org/p/books/don-...
available now: bookshop.org/p/books/marg...

Don't Forget to Breathe

Check out Don't Forget to Breathe - "Earnest, evocative, and unapologetically tender. <em>Don't Forget to Breathe</em> is the sort of love story that wears its heart on its sleeve." - Becky Albertalli...

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Zeus and Jupiter are not the same god, either. Jupiter is based on Zeus, and the Romans adopted many Greek stories, but they are not the same god.

sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 3d

with all due respect: the Christian god is wrapped up with the deified Jesus Christ (and the holy spirit) and the Jewish god is very decidedly not, so…no. they are not the same god.

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sloan kilbride @thistle-and-thorn.bsky.social · 3d

i just saw someone try to claim that genai garbage is a disability aid and please know if you say that to me, a disabled person, i will eat you.

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 5d

the best part of the new Daredevil season was the scene where the Punisher cussed out the cops who’d been worshiping him because they were missing the entire fucking point

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5d

reddit occupied government

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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 5d

some of y’all really want to just give Trump the Sudetenland

sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 5d

fuck all these cowards.

404 Media @404media.co · 5d

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Enemy within, but very aesthetic. @robinvetskeptic.bsky.social · 8d

“I’m a very aesthetic person”.

I guess so, if that aesthetic is Liberace meets Saddam Hussein.

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 7d

*chef’s kiss*

heli rain @heli.pet · 8d

Fresh & piping hot

theintercept.com/2025/09/30/t...

Trump and Hegseth Gathered U.S. Military Leaders for an “Embarrassing” Rant

Defense officials were shocked at the cost and danger of assembling the military’s top officers to listen to meandering tirades.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 8d

something nobody tells you about stay at home parenting is that you will probably forget that rush hour exists and definitely forget how bad it is