So that's what hope feels like. I'd almost forgotten.

“The alarm was warranted. Everyone on the scene had witnessed the crossing of a crucial line in Donald Trump’s mass-deportation project: ICE had just killed an American citizen on American soil”

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The countdown has reached “one”—CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT releases tomorrow—and this blurb from @theresewalsh.bsky.social encapsulates my goal in writing it!
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide

Govt. Website 'Glitch' Removes Trump's Least Favorite Part of Constitution Trump is trying to take over the Library of Congress, but its website already deleted a part of the Constitution that Trump officials don’t like.

The national library has apparently, by accident, modified its online copy of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president’s least favorite part.

Many thanks.

Thanks for sharing, Roz!

Reading and Writing the Morse Code of Character I paused my TV two minutes into the second episode of Normal People (BBC production, on Hulu, adapted from Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel) to write this. I can’t tell you the number of arti…

A quiet piece of dialogue that does strong work in a story - @theresewalsh.bsky.social on Sally Rooney at @writerunboxed.bsky.social writerunboxed.com/2025/07/25/r... #womenwriters #writingtips #writingcommunity #skywriters

Breaking on MSNBC: A senior admin official confirms to NBC News that Ghislaine Maxwell was granted limited immunity by the Justice Department in order to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case.

Writer’s Digest Best Writing Advice Websites for Writers 2025 Here are the top writing advice websites as identified in the 27th Annual 101 Best Websites from the May/June 2025 issue of Writer's Digest.

Nineteen years in a row!

Congratulations to the entire Writer Unboxed team--and thank you for sharing your best insights with other writers!

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Trump’s NOAA Budget Cuts Could Gut Critical Climate Modeling Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

(Published April)

Breaking: After a classified briefing with Cabinet officials, Sen. Chris Murphy says: "I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the programs."
 
"The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated."

A federal appeals court has declined to rehear Trump's challenge to the $5 million E. Jean Carroll civil judgment.

We are all still recovering our breath. So sad.

Ukraine's Zelenskyy denounces U.S. silence after massive Russian drone-and-missile attacks Russian forces launched a massive overnight barrage as 367 drones and missiles targeted multiple Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv.

www.nbcnews.com/world/ukrain...

More than 100 National Security Council staffers put on administrative leave | CNN Politics The Trump administration has put more than 100 officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave on Friday as part of a restructuring under interim national securit...

America is flirting with such incredible disaster www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/p...

Trump Is Trying to Control Congress by Taking Over Its Library Read more here.

Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress may also be a test case to see how susceptible congressional Republicans are to his power grabs.

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On NBC, former VP Mike Pence blasts the pardon of violent Jan 6 attackers

He notes the pain police suffered … and he notes how this is the week Washington honors “police week” and those who’ve protected US communities

Announcing This Year’s Writer Unboxed UnConference, Keepers of the Flame—and Its Beautiful New Location I’d been planning to host another UnConference ever since our last event in 2023, especially as it would fall within months of WU’s 20th “blog-versary.” We’d return to…

If you're looking for a magical writing workshop/conference/retreat, join us in Santa Fe, NM this October in a thriving artsy community for the Writer Unboxed Un-Conference. I'll be there with many other great writers and workshop leaders! #writingcommunity writerunboxed.com/2025/03/31/i...

Congratulations, Greer! 🙌 #FiveQueendoms

“Trying to Rule Forever”: Sen. Murphy Denounces Trump for Replacing Democratic Norms with Loyalty Tests Read more here.

The threat to democracy isn’t looming, it’s already unfolding.

Sen. Chris Murphy warns that Trump and his allies are working to consolidate power, control dissent and replace democratic norms with loyalty tests.

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Utterly unfit.

NIH autism study will pull from private medical records The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

When you think they can’t be crueler or find a new low:

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Says the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..”

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