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.
Standing in solidarity with the Minnesota General Strike. We do what we can.
January 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Standing in solidarity with the Minnesota General Strike. We do what we can.
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Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.
I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.
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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
Here is the annual Lamott Anti-Diet Program: open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...
THE LAMOTT ANTI-DIET PROGRAM
Here is a version of the anti-diet piece I publish every year just before New Year’s Day:
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Here is the annual Lamott Anti-Diet Program: open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...
Here is the official announcement of the new writing book that my current husband and I have written, that will publish in March. You can get 3 chapters now if you preorder:
substack.com/@annelamott/...
substack.com/@annelamott/...
Anne Lamott (@annelamott)
Here is the official announcement of a new book and a great offer:
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Here is the official announcement of the new writing book that my current husband and I have written, that will publish in March. You can get 3 chapters now if you preorder:
substack.com/@annelamott/...
substack.com/@annelamott/...
My current husband Neal Allen created substck page for me:
open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...
open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...
WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT?
MY HUSBAND CREATED A SUBSTACK FOR ME
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My current husband Neal Allen created substck page for me:
open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...
open.substack.com/pub/annelamo...
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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.
wapo.st
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
kyivindependent.com/trump-redire...
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.
wapo.st
June 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Here's the gift link to my piece in yesterday's Post:
wapo.st/43MqtXX
wapo.st/43MqtXX
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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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wapo.st/42EsQeM
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:
wapo.st/42EsQeM
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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.