C.M. Bretz
@cmbretz.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Fiction Writer, Home Cook, Read more short stories (he/him)
Rivers honestly moves a lot like late-career Big Ben. Better than I expected
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Rivers honestly moves a lot like late-career Big Ben. Better than I expected
Wake Up Dead Man is so so good. I hope the future installments get better theatrical runs 📽️
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Wake Up Dead Man is so so good. I hope the future installments get better theatrical runs 📽️
Happy 90th birthday to Jacques Pepin!
My favorite nugget about his fascinating life is that he pursued a PhD in French Literature, but his thesis proposal on the history of French food in the context of literature was rejected for being too frivolous. It’s a shame because I’d 100% read that. 📚💙 🧑🍳👨🍳
My favorite nugget about his fascinating life is that he pursued a PhD in French Literature, but his thesis proposal on the history of French food in the context of literature was rejected for being too frivolous. It’s a shame because I’d 100% read that. 📚💙 🧑🍳👨🍳
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Happy 90th birthday to Jacques Pepin!
My favorite nugget about his fascinating life is that he pursued a PhD in French Literature, but his thesis proposal on the history of French food in the context of literature was rejected for being too frivolous. It’s a shame because I’d 100% read that. 📚💙 🧑🍳👨🍳
My favorite nugget about his fascinating life is that he pursued a PhD in French Literature, but his thesis proposal on the history of French food in the context of literature was rejected for being too frivolous. It’s a shame because I’d 100% read that. 📚💙 🧑🍳👨🍳
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Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better
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If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
Avatar is the best sci-fi film series of the 21st century 📽️
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Avatar is the best sci-fi film series of the 21st century 📽️
Non-MAGA Survivor fans are in for a rough night
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Non-MAGA Survivor fans are in for a rough night
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It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.
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Not for nothing but federal law contains several statutory provisions that restrict, if not outright prohibit, this unilateral action by the senile dementia patient in the Oval.
War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act.
All still on the books.
War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act.
All still on the books.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Not for nothing but federal law contains several statutory provisions that restrict, if not outright prohibit, this unilateral action by the senile dementia patient in the Oval.
War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act.
All still on the books.
War Powers Act. War Crimes Act. Anti-Piracy Act. Neutrality Act.
All still on the books.
Belichik to Ann Arbor I’m calling it
December 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Belichik to Ann Arbor I’m calling it
Shadow Ticket is such a blast! 🖋️💙📚
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Shadow Ticket is such a blast! 🖋️💙📚
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Supreme Court to decide if the Constitution says what the Constitution says.
December 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Supreme Court to decide if the Constitution says what the Constitution says.
I still think they blundered the World Cup format when switching to 48 teams. Gimme 8 groups of 6 teams. Each team is guaranteed 5 games. The knockout rounds don’t get watered down. ⚽️
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I still think they blundered the World Cup format when switching to 48 teams. Gimme 8 groups of 6 teams. Each team is guaranteed 5 games. The knockout rounds don’t get watered down. ⚽️
🎵 The world’s gonna know your name, what’s your name, man? 🎵
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Bodacious Ignatius
My name is Bodacious Ignatius
And there’s a million things I haven’t done
But just you wait, just you wait 🎶
🎶
Bodacious Ignatius
My name is Bodacious Ignatius
And there’s a million things I haven’t done
But just you wait, just you wait 🎶
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🎵 The world’s gonna know your name, what’s your name, man? 🎵
🎶
Bodacious Ignatius
My name is Bodacious Ignatius
And there’s a million things I haven’t done
But just you wait, just you wait 🎶
🎶
Bodacious Ignatius
My name is Bodacious Ignatius
And there’s a million things I haven’t done
But just you wait, just you wait 🎶
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If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government."
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government."
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
Cue the Clase / California Penal League jokes.
In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.
In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Cue the Clase / California Penal League jokes.
In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.
In all seriousness, legalizing sports gambling was a mistake.
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See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...