Litsa Dremousis
@litsadremousis.bsky.social
ALTITUDE SICKNESS (Future Tense Books). Upcoming: FIRE IN THE HOLE: A EULOGY FOR THE LIVING. Left WaPo b/c of Bezos. The Blvr, Esquire, McSwy's, NPR, NY Mag, NYT, P&W, PW, The Rumpus, Short Beasts, et al. #pwME in #Seattle. https://litsadremousis.com
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Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named my first book Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books) to its all-time 20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read list and then to its Big Seattle Reading List. I'm now writing my second book, Fire in the Hole: A Eulogy for the Living.
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Promoting one's writing in this era can feel bonkers, but I've got three new poems in the November issue of the lit journal The Write Launch.
"Dinosaurs", "Casino", "Disabled with Dog".
'Night, all! xo
#BookSky #WriterSky #PoetrySky
thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/dino...
"Dinosaurs", "Casino", "Disabled with Dog".
'Night, all! xo
#BookSky #WriterSky #PoetrySky
thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/dino...
"Dinosaurs," "Casino," and "Disabled with Dog" | Poetry by Litsa Dremousis in the November issue of The Write Launch
My childhood friend says: I don’t believe in dinosaurs anymore. I laugh but he insists he’s not kidding. Stunned, I search his eyes for a glimmer of the person I’ve loved
thewritelaunch.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Promoting one's writing in this era can feel bonkers, but I've got three new poems in the November issue of the lit journal The Write Launch.
"Dinosaurs", "Casino", "Disabled with Dog".
'Night, all! xo
#BookSky #WriterSky #PoetrySky
thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/dino...
"Dinosaurs", "Casino", "Disabled with Dog".
'Night, all! xo
#BookSky #WriterSky #PoetrySky
thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/dino...
If you have a bit extra to spare:
Cynthia Johnson @minetodo.bsky.social has had #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis since 2009--she'd already survived #breastcancer-- and still needs help w/ her medical and everyday expenses.
#pwME #chronicillness #NEISVoid
www.gofundme.com/f/financial-...
Cynthia Johnson @minetodo.bsky.social has had #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis since 2009--she'd already survived #breastcancer-- and still needs help w/ her medical and everyday expenses.
#pwME #chronicillness #NEISVoid
www.gofundme.com/f/financial-...
Donate to Financial Stability for Chronically-Ill Advocate, organized by Shane Johnson
This is a humble request for financial help for my mother, Cynthia John… Shane Johnson needs your support for Financial Stability for Chronically-Ill Advocate
www.gofundme.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If you have a bit extra to spare:
Cynthia Johnson @minetodo.bsky.social has had #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis since 2009--she'd already survived #breastcancer-- and still needs help w/ her medical and everyday expenses.
#pwME #chronicillness #NEISVoid
www.gofundme.com/f/financial-...
Cynthia Johnson @minetodo.bsky.social has had #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis since 2009--she'd already survived #breastcancer-- and still needs help w/ her medical and everyday expenses.
#pwME #chronicillness #NEISVoid
www.gofundme.com/f/financial-...
For Night 11 of Scorsese Fest, I watched CASINO for the first time since its release.
I’d forgotten just how extraordinary Sharon Stone is as Ginger. Bravura performance as a woman who was sex trafficked from young and whose self-loathing is rivaled only by her beauty.
I’d forgotten just how extraordinary Sharon Stone is as Ginger. Bravura performance as a woman who was sex trafficked from young and whose self-loathing is rivaled only by her beauty.
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
For Night 11 of Scorsese Fest, I watched CASINO for the first time since its release.
I’d forgotten just how extraordinary Sharon Stone is as Ginger. Bravura performance as a woman who was sex trafficked from young and whose self-loathing is rivaled only by her beauty.
I’d forgotten just how extraordinary Sharon Stone is as Ginger. Bravura performance as a woman who was sex trafficked from young and whose self-loathing is rivaled only by her beauty.
All people had to do was vote for the eminently qualified, exceptionally intelligent woman who wanted to expand Medicare to cover home health care.
But, hey, a child rapist unilaterally declaring war on half our hemisphere is good, too 🙄
But, hey, a child rapist unilaterally declaring war on half our hemisphere is good, too 🙄
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
All people had to do was vote for the eminently qualified, exceptionally intelligent woman who wanted to expand Medicare to cover home health care.
But, hey, a child rapist unilaterally declaring war on half our hemisphere is good, too 🙄
But, hey, a child rapist unilaterally declaring war on half our hemisphere is good, too 🙄
We're gonna still refer to MS Now as MSNBC, right?
The way we do w/ X and Twitter?
Even Elon didn't choose a name that invokes a horrible fucking disease.
The way we do w/ X and Twitter?
Even Elon didn't choose a name that invokes a horrible fucking disease.
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We're gonna still refer to MS Now as MSNBC, right?
The way we do w/ X and Twitter?
Even Elon didn't choose a name that invokes a horrible fucking disease.
The way we do w/ X and Twitter?
Even Elon didn't choose a name that invokes a horrible fucking disease.
Promoting one's writing in this era can feel bonkers, but I've got three new poems in the November issue of the lit journal The Write Launch.
"Dinosaurs", "Casino", "Disabled with Dog".
'Night, all! xo
#BookSky #WriterSky #PoetrySky
thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/dino...
"Dinosaurs", "Casino", "Disabled with Dog".
'Night, all! xo
#BookSky #WriterSky #PoetrySky
thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/dino...
"Dinosaurs," "Casino," and "Disabled with Dog" | Poetry by Litsa Dremousis in the November issue of The Write Launch
My childhood friend says: I don’t believe in dinosaurs anymore. I laugh but he insists he’s not kidding. Stunned, I search his eyes for a glimmer of the person I’ve loved
thewritelaunch.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Promoting one's writing in this era can feel bonkers, but I've got three new poems in the November issue of the lit journal The Write Launch.
"Dinosaurs", "Casino", "Disabled with Dog".
'Night, all! xo
#BookSky #WriterSky #PoetrySky
thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/dino...
"Dinosaurs", "Casino", "Disabled with Dog".
'Night, all! xo
#BookSky #WriterSky #PoetrySky
thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/dino...
Barbaric.
The aftermath of an ICE raid on a church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has devastated families, leaving them heartbroken by the separations caused by the raid.
November 15, 2025
November 15, 2025
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Barbaric.
"There are about a thousand of us..."
One would be too many.
Release ALL the Epstein files and attending evidence.
One would be too many.
Release ALL the Epstein files and attending evidence.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"There are about a thousand of us..."
One would be too many.
Release ALL the Epstein files and attending evidence.
One would be too many.
Release ALL the Epstein files and attending evidence.
The Epstein Files underscore one of our greatest failings as a nation:
We've never devoted enough time, money, legal assistance, and medical resources to eradicating sexual violence b/c too many powerful individuals--mostly men--are sexual assailants.
They don't want it to end.
We've never devoted enough time, money, legal assistance, and medical resources to eradicating sexual violence b/c too many powerful individuals--mostly men--are sexual assailants.
They don't want it to end.
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The Epstein Files underscore one of our greatest failings as a nation:
We've never devoted enough time, money, legal assistance, and medical resources to eradicating sexual violence b/c too many powerful individuals--mostly men--are sexual assailants.
They don't want it to end.
We've never devoted enough time, money, legal assistance, and medical resources to eradicating sexual violence b/c too many powerful individuals--mostly men--are sexual assailants.
They don't want it to end.
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“I think it's really important that we not talk about all of these families and individuals as if they're falling into homelessness; they are being pushed. This is an engineered neglect, and at every turn there are entire business models that are set up to capitalize on their predicament."
When the employed are pushed into homelessness
Despite working full-time, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit, and have been pushed into homelessness.
www.cbsnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“I think it's really important that we not talk about all of these families and individuals as if they're falling into homelessness; they are being pushed. This is an engineered neglect, and at every turn there are entire business models that are set up to capitalize on their predicament."
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
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You know, none of us have to take a position on MTG’s purported Come-To-Jesus heel turn. We neither have to call her a liar nor put a crown on her head. If she’s full of shit, that will become apparent in time. And she has much to atone for.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
You know, none of us have to take a position on MTG’s purported Come-To-Jesus heel turn. We neither have to call her a liar nor put a crown on her head. If she’s full of shit, that will become apparent in time. And she has much to atone for.
For Night 10 of Scorsese Fest I finally--finally!--watched THE KING OF COMEDY for the first time.
When I was a teen, the reviews invoked Lennon's murder and I thought it'd bum me out, so I put it off.
It is, of course, a masterpiece & DeNiro/Pupkin's monologue at the end is one for the ages.
When I was a teen, the reviews invoked Lennon's murder and I thought it'd bum me out, so I put it off.
It is, of course, a masterpiece & DeNiro/Pupkin's monologue at the end is one for the ages.
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For Night 10 of Scorsese Fest I finally--finally!--watched THE KING OF COMEDY for the first time.
When I was a teen, the reviews invoked Lennon's murder and I thought it'd bum me out, so I put it off.
It is, of course, a masterpiece & DeNiro/Pupkin's monologue at the end is one for the ages.
When I was a teen, the reviews invoked Lennon's murder and I thought it'd bum me out, so I put it off.
It is, of course, a masterpiece & DeNiro/Pupkin's monologue at the end is one for the ages.
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Gentle social realist drama from Greece packs a punch while offering a glimmer of hope in a world void of compassion
From the First Feature Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival:
dmovies.org/2025/11/16/e...
From the First Feature Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival:
dmovies.org/2025/11/16/e...
Elena's Shift - DMovies
Gentle social realist drama from Greece packs a punch while offering a glimmer of hope in a world void of compassion - from the First Feature Competition of the 29th Black Nights Film Festival
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November 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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So beautiful 🩵
The work of Helen Fay, who has been a full time artist #printmaker since 1992 #Womensart
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
So beautiful 🩵
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Concentration camps in America.
Never again never meant a GDMF thing!!
Never again never meant a GDMF thing!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Concentration camps in America.
Never again never meant a GDMF thing!!
Never again never meant a GDMF thing!!
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Now that we’ve all processed the information of Trump giving other men blowjobs (good for him?), let’s return to the fact he raped children and Putin has blackmail on him that Epstein knew about and likely provided to Russia. Impeachment and arrest now.
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Now that we’ve all processed the information of Trump giving other men blowjobs (good for him?), let’s return to the fact he raped children and Putin has blackmail on him that Epstein knew about and likely provided to Russia. Impeachment and arrest now.
My vegan yogurt just went up $1.25 since I bought it eight days ago.
I get sicker when I eat much dairy.
So, I eat vegan yogurt & blackberries & blueberries b/c it's a healthy meal when I'm too ill to make anything else.
The berries cost a fortune now, too.
Just trying to stay alive, man.
I get sicker when I eat much dairy.
So, I eat vegan yogurt & blackberries & blueberries b/c it's a healthy meal when I'm too ill to make anything else.
The berries cost a fortune now, too.
Just trying to stay alive, man.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My vegan yogurt just went up $1.25 since I bought it eight days ago.
I get sicker when I eat much dairy.
So, I eat vegan yogurt & blackberries & blueberries b/c it's a healthy meal when I'm too ill to make anything else.
The berries cost a fortune now, too.
Just trying to stay alive, man.
I get sicker when I eat much dairy.
So, I eat vegan yogurt & blackberries & blueberries b/c it's a healthy meal when I'm too ill to make anything else.
The berries cost a fortune now, too.
Just trying to stay alive, man.
For Night 9 of Scorsese Fest, I rewatched THE WOLF OF WALL STREET and, as a film, it's still wildly entertaining.
The problem is that our current era is SO corrupt--the POTUS is a grifting child rapist FFS--that Jordan Belfort and his ilk, who were truly awful, look small potatoes by comparison.
The problem is that our current era is SO corrupt--the POTUS is a grifting child rapist FFS--that Jordan Belfort and his ilk, who were truly awful, look small potatoes by comparison.
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
For Night 9 of Scorsese Fest, I rewatched THE WOLF OF WALL STREET and, as a film, it's still wildly entertaining.
The problem is that our current era is SO corrupt--the POTUS is a grifting child rapist FFS--that Jordan Belfort and his ilk, who were truly awful, look small potatoes by comparison.
The problem is that our current era is SO corrupt--the POTUS is a grifting child rapist FFS--that Jordan Belfort and his ilk, who were truly awful, look small potatoes by comparison.
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In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation
This is the most anodyne headline for a truly horrific set of facts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
This is the most anodyne headline for a truly horrific set of facts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation
This is the most anodyne headline for a truly horrific set of facts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
This is the most anodyne headline for a truly horrific set of facts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Oh, man. So saddening 💔
Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer.
I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses.
As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️
Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer.
I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses.
As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️
This is so devastating to hear. Alice was a legend—an incredible writer and a fierce advocate. Here is some of the work she did for the Disability Visibility Project. As @helenrottier.bsky.social said, she will be missed by many
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Oh, man. So saddening 💔
Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer.
I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses.
As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️
Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer.
I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses.
As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️
Two dozen.
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Two dozen.
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Don’t ask why victims wait so long to talk about their abuse.
Ask yourself, what systems are in place to keep them quiet.
Ask yourself, what systems are in place to keep them quiet.
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Don’t ask why victims wait so long to talk about their abuse.
Ask yourself, what systems are in place to keep them quiet.
Ask yourself, what systems are in place to keep them quiet.
Today is the day. There is no day but this day. Final day for this round of submissions is, well, today! Poetry art flash micro letters, mix and match them if you want but today. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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November 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM