Yup.

Just got back from a retreat with the R&S crew to discuss plans for the 2026 Residency. What should we keep the same? What should we change? Should we add... karaoke night??? Register for a mini MFA-style residency for fun times, inspiration, and community. www.revise-and-shine.com/writing-retr...

TOMORROW Virginia can STOP TRUMP from rigging the November Midterms! #VoteYesVirginia for free and fair elections and STOP THE STEAL! 🇺🇸💙🌊

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.

The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

Take a look at this opportunity. I can't wait!! #kidlit #vtwriter

Spotlight on Residency 2026 (Part 1) April 2026: Revision Reflections

More on the R&S Residency. Just 8 spots left! #kidlit open.substack.com/pub/revisean...

I kind of forgot just how horrible it is. I don't even know if these are real people. I hope not. But wow.

Left a comment on a post I thought was in Bluesky but I was on FB and... yeah, that place still sucks and is full of MAGA devotees. Sad.

What a loss. Marlboro was so sad too. I wonder if Bennington will be next.

Thanks for sharing, Cindy!

This Freedom to Read Panel is happening April 15 at 6 pm at the St J Athenaeum.
Panelists:
• Christine Owens & Caitlin Wallingford —St. Johnsbury School Librarians
• Merlin Heima — Tunnel Books
• Jo Knowles— Vermont Author
• Moderator: Loralee Tester
• Youth Moderators: Donley & Florie Johnson

Yep!

“I just heard about it, and I said how did they come up with that? It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better and I do make people better.”
Other than enriching his friends, who has this guy made better? [I also don't think wealth makes people better, as we've witnessed repeatedly.]

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Damn this hurts

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

More please

Just to be clear, every YA author and publishing professional worth their salt hates this condescending bullshit.

Seed potatoes ready.
#gardenersofbluesky

The damage we are doing to our kids by keeping them in the dark is absolutely unforgivable. I never read to escape, though of course that’s fine. I read to be found, and to find my way. Real life isn’t “clean.” Pretending it is? That’s what really endangers children, in countless ways.

We can automatically sign young men up to be forced to die for a deranged president but we can't automatically register them to vote?
thehill.com/policy/defen...

Fruit tree receipt

Arrived yesterday 😅

My husband and I have replaced stress drinking with stress gardening. Local friends: be prepared to benefit from this madness. #gardenersofbluesky

Even four can be true at once if you add Trump and Hegseth. Wait. Five. Miller. I guess we could probably go on and on.

The silence that comes from wiping out "a whole civilization" is not peace.

Is America broken beyond repair?

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

There are no words I can put into a social media post to properly condemn how evil and deranged this is.

Trump is threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” That’s a war crime. Full stop. [1/3]