Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott
@annelamott.bsky.social
· Jan 7
How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My current husband Neal Allen created substck page for me:
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Here's a gift link to my July 4th piece in today's Washington Post.
Here's a gift link to my July 4th piece in today's Washington Post.
Opinion | Does Trumpland chaos bode better times ahead? I say yes. Happy Fourth!
If difficult times mean something good is trying to be born, let’s celebrate this Independence Day.
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July 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Here's a gift link to my July 4th piece in today's Washington Post.
Here's a gift link to my July 4th piece in today's Washington Post.
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Trump is turning our military away from our historic partnership with Europe towards a new enemy - blue America.
FOTUS
redirected 20k special anti-missile drones to American peacetime services
Peace not war=no reason for tools of war
His goal is clearly to support Putin
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redirected 20k special anti-missile drones to American peacetime services
Peace not war=no reason for tools of war
His goal is clearly to support Putin
kyivindependent.com/trump-redire...
Trump administration redirects 20,000 anti-drone missiles meant for Ukraine, Zelensky confirms
"We counted on this project — 20,000 missiles. Anti-Shahed missiles. It was not expensive, but it's a special technology," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
kyivindependent.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Trump is turning our military away from our historic partnership with Europe towards a new enemy - blue America.
Here's the gift link to my piece in yesterday's Post:
wapo.st/43MqtXX
wapo.st/43MqtXX
Opinion | The one thing liberals need to address before the June parade
Putting Biden’s head on a stake is not helpful.
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June 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Here's the gift link to my piece in yesterday's Post:
wapo.st/43MqtXX
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Anne Lamott
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April 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Here is the gift link to a new piece I wrote for this mornings Washington post. You don't need to be a subscriber:
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Opinion | Loving the nickel life
Could it be true that I was born for a time like this?
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April 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Here is the gift link to a new piece I wrote for this mornings Washington post. You don't need to be a subscriber:
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Here’s a new piece I posted on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott
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April 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Here’s a new piece I posted on Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott
Here’s my new piece at the Washington Post. You don’t have to subscribe although you have to give them your email: wapo.st/4iY3aAf
March 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Here’s my new piece at the Washington Post. You don’t have to subscribe although you have to give them your email: wapo.st/4iY3aAf
WRITERS: come hear the legendary writer Elissa Altman and me discuss her new book Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create. Tomorrow, Thursday night, 3/13 at 5:00 PT. Think of it: permission to write what has always been inside you. m.facebook.com/AnneLamott/
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March 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
WRITERS: come hear the legendary writer Elissa Altman and me discuss her new book Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create. Tomorrow, Thursday night, 3/13 at 5:00 PT. Think of it: permission to write what has always been inside you. m.facebook.com/AnneLamott/
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Very laugh-til-you-cry: WaPo Opinions declined a chagrined column by American icon and reader fave @annelamott.bsky.social—in fairness, it is NOT an ode to the free market—so she took it to the LAT. There, of course, it was auto-countered by AI…calling for REVOLUTION www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
![Los Angeles Times — AI responses to an Anne Lamott column:
Different views on the topic
• Critics might argue Lamott's focus on individual spiritual renewal dangerously minimizes the urgency of structural political action, particularly given her dismissal of Musk/Trump conflicts as comic fodder rather than existential threats to democracy!61.
• Her analogy comparing national crises to
12-step programs ("trust and surrender") could be seen as passive compared to direct challenges to power structures, echoing critiques that 12-step models prioritize personal acceptance over systemic change 3116]
• While Lamott cites 1960s anti-war protests as evidence small actions create change, opponents note today's polarized media landscape and authoritarian leanings require more confrontational tactics than her proposed "community organizing" and boat-building symbolism 41161.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zwlj2d6nr2yun2poyvokffjy/bafkreicjsggarxlsmpy4p5oqksp37ktbhg5pwyao5wdr6cumiewggurikq@jpeg)
March 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Very laugh-til-you-cry: WaPo Opinions declined a chagrined column by American icon and reader fave @annelamott.bsky.social—in fairness, it is NOT an ode to the free market—so she took it to the LAT. There, of course, it was auto-countered by AI…calling for REVOLUTION www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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A DIFFERENT WAY ONLY I KNOW, ONLY I KNOW. Trump: “Ukraine wants to make a deal because I don’t think they have a choice. I also think Russia wants to make a deal because in a certain different way—a different way that only I know, only I know—they have no choice.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=of8f...
I am Oz
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March 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A DIFFERENT WAY ONLY I KNOW, ONLY I KNOW. Trump: “Ukraine wants to make a deal because I don’t think they have a choice. I also think Russia wants to make a deal because in a certain different way—a different way that only I know, only I know—they have no choice.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=of8f...
Ash Wednesday: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/
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March 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Ash Wednesday: www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/
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Agreed. Hope there's a list in the morning. Hooray for the disruptors.
my take on all this: the folks who smuggled in signs, booed and chanted, walked out - those are the folks to watch here. they're the ones who pushed back
March 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Agreed. Hope there's a list in the morning. Hooray for the disruptors.
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Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction
March 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction
A sweet week in Costa Rica—workshops, ocean, rain forest, yoga, great food, and —you know me—daily 12-step meetings. Neal’s work w/clients is about tools to tame the inner critic, which keeps us anxious, small, terrified of making mistakes. Me? I know something about writing.
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Neal Allen on X: "Stay calm in troubling times: a retreat with @NealFAllen and @ANNELAMOTT. Easy-to-learn methods to reduce anxiety while acting decisively. July 26-August 2?in Costa Rica. https://t.co/VVDhf6ocC6" / X
Stay calm in troubling times: a retreat with @NealFAllen and @ANNELAMOTT. Easy-to-learn methods to reduce anxiety while acting decisively. July 26-August 2?in Costa Rica. https://t.co/VVDhf6ocC6
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February 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A sweet week in Costa Rica—workshops, ocean, rain forest, yoga, great food, and —you know me—daily 12-step meetings. Neal’s work w/clients is about tools to tame the inner critic, which keeps us anxious, small, terrified of making mistakes. Me? I know something about writing.
x.com/nealfallen/s...
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#Emails2DOGE
cc: HR@OPM.gov
cc: HR@OPM.gov
Five things I accomplished last week:
1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly)
2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury
3. Sued Trump (repeatedly)
4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place
5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social
Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!
1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly)
2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury
3. Sued Trump (repeatedly)
4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place
5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social
Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!
February 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
#Emails2DOGE
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Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14.
Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo
Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo
February 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Something refreshing to hear: in a new poll Americans oppose Trump’s pardoning of violent January 6th insurrectionists by 83-14.
Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo
Credit: Aaron Blake from WaPo
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Please don't say that no one is doing anything. We're waiting for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov to catch up with their constituents.
February 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Please don't say that no one is doing anything. We're waiting for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov to catch up with their constituents.
Stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination.
February 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER!
she shouts into the void
she shouts into the void
BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the plans tell NBC News.
White House preparing executive order to abolish the Department of Education
The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the federal Education Department.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER!
she shouts into the void
she shouts into the void
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
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Exactly
He is going to say "pinky swear you will protect our border. And buy more booze and stuff from us. "
They will say yes. Won't actually buy the stuff. And he will declare victory
Trumpenomics
They will say yes. Won't actually buy the stuff. And he will declare victory
Trumpenomics
Trump: i’m speaking with Trudeau tomorrow morning and Mexico tomorrow morning too
February 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Exactly