She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8

Book: The Full Catastrophe. "All I ever wanted...everything I feared." A memoir. Casey Mulligan Walsh. "A searingly beautiful testament to all the ways loss yields to love." Claire Bidwell Smith, author of Conscious Grieving.

"Walsh shows us that we can control how we hold our grief, so grief won’t keep hold of us."

This time last year, we published @dianegotauthor.bsky.social's review of @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social's THE FULL CATASTROPHE. Find it in the archives: buff.ly/7ybJrib

It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

Reading for writing Widen your reading circle

Writers who don’t read. I just don’t get it. How can you be a writer if you don’t? That’s like saying, I’m a composer but I don’t listen to music, or a painter who doesn’t have time or care to look at art. Read more: writingincurves.substack.com/p/reading-fo...

Ah hell, thank you @icooper435.bsky.social for such a fantastic (and so clever!) review of Teen Queen Training!!! I appreciate your time reading my work so, so much ❤️ thediagram.com/26_1/rev_mah...

Book cover with green background with painted crows, some brown-black and one multi-colored.

Cover reveal for our newest Field Guide, releasing in September 2026, The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social! Thanks to Pamela Callahan for more amazing crow artwork! Book details here: rosemetalpress.com/cover-reveal...

ICE smashed her car windows on the way to the doctor. Now she's fighting back. Aliya Rahman is one of hundreds of people filing personal injury claims against federal agents.

In January, Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor’s appointment when ICE agents smashed the glass out of her car windows, pulled her out of her car, and hauled her down the street by her arms and legs.

Now, Rahman plans to ensure her ordeal comes at a cost to the agency that harmed her.

Me about 5 or 6 riding a Big Wheel and carrying some kind of flag I probably made (poorly)

Your instructor for Writing the Younger Self May 7 - May 28 (Thursdays 11 AM - 1 PM CST) Info here: jilltalbot.net/register/p/w... #writingclass #literaryessay #cnf #amwriting #flashessay

"Secret Shadows"
Egg Tempera
Created 2015
By Scottish Painter Colin Fraser (b. 1956)

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

"Free speech wins!" Renea Gamble said as she made her way out of the courtroom Wednesday.
Fairhope, Ala cops arrested Gamble, who was holding a "No Dick-Tator" sign at a #NoKings protest in October, for refusing to remove her inflatable penis costume. ✊️🇺🇸

‘Psychological torture’: outcry over conditions at ICE desert detention camp Detainees tell of abuse at sprawling Texas facility whose giant generators gobble energy and fuel climate crisis

Inhuman concentration camps are already active in the USA, complete with inhuman conditions, torture, and a spiraling death rate.

This is what Trump has done to America.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

CNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.

Meanwhile trump and Republicans just paid a billion dollars to TotalEnergies to abandon two major offshore wind projects off New York and North Carolina.

“Nothing is ever so good that it can’t stand a little revision, and nothing is ever so impossible and broken down that a try at fixing it is out of the question.” ~ Rebecca Solnit

"Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. … in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Hell no, it's not over We still have rights. Time to use them.

We still have rights. Time to use them.

AP publishes a good multi-state rundown on pushback all over the country against plans for huge Trump prison camps:

apnews.com/article/immi...

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

First Words by Jennifer Bryant YouTube video by Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine

Jennifer Bryant reads her nonfiction piece "First Words" from Issue 38 Spring 2026 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jUf...

Simon and Schuster, For the Moms Demeter Press - academic writing Literary Mama Mom Egg Review Mutha Magazine

Shout-out from Simon and Schuster for the work of @literarymama.bsky.social, @merliterary.bsky.social, @muthamagazine.bsky.social, & Demeter Press!

Our submission doors are open. Step on inside and rest awhile. Tell us all about it. We'd love to hear your story. heroinchic.weebly.com

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Submission Guidelines | New Flash Fiction Review

We are open! Send us your bold, weird, wonderful words.

Wordcount - 500 max, we love 100 word stories
Deadline - 15 April
No previous pubs
Sim subs are fine

Read past issues & award noms to get a sense of what we like. Be brave!

Submission Guidelines | NFFR share.google/iEJhTIUa1xIR...

Gooseberry Pie Lit-Annual Writing Competition - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine Photo by Ryutaro Tsukata: pexels.com It’s almost April which means National Gooseberry Month is just around the corner. In celebration we are having our third annual writing contest with $1,100.00 in ...

@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social is opening submissions to our annual writing competition a couple of days early. Read the following post for all the details. Can't wait to read your stories.

gooseberry-pie.com/gooseberry-p...

Heather is a bitch!

The Ecology of Attention About forty years ago, theoretical physicist Michael Goldhaber popularized the phrase “the attention economy” to define the many outside interests that aim to occupy and manipulate our attention. Thre...

Social media’s algorithms, Manifest Destiny style, took the wide-open space of my attention as empty land to be colonized. & to colonize desirable space, land has to be first defined as free, available for the taking...

agnionline.bu.edu/blog/the-eco...