Maria Dahvana Headley
@mariadahvana.bsky.social
NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
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If you have a Dem senator and you're seeing this right now, CALL THEM RIGHT NOW and tell them NO. If you don't know anyone who would be affected by this, call them for my friend Lisa. She cannot afford insurance without ACA subsidies and without health insurance I'm terrified she will die.
! A key group of Senate Democrats is leaning toward voting for a deal to end the shutdown, provided final details can be worked out like worker protections (Gift link)
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thune Plans Test Vote on Shutdown, Saying Deal Is Getting Closer
Senate Republican leader John Thune said a deal is “coming together” as he planned a test vote Sunday on a narrow spending package that would end the 40-day government shutdown.
www.bloomberg.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
If you have a Dem senator and you're seeing this right now, CALL THEM RIGHT NOW and tell them NO. If you don't know anyone who would be affected by this, call them for my friend Lisa. She cannot afford insurance without ACA subsidies and without health insurance I'm terrified she will die.
Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.
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I know quite a few comrades on the ACA exchange. I used to be on the exchange for years. A doubling or tripling of premium costs will be a death sentence for people who NEED HEALTH INSURANCE to survive. PERIOD.
We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????
We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I know quite a few comrades on the ACA exchange. I used to be on the exchange for years. A doubling or tripling of premium costs will be a death sentence for people who NEED HEALTH INSURANCE to survive. PERIOD.
We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????
We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES
Woke up feeling a hopeful gleeful way because people turned out and showed up and did some righteous things yesterday!
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Woke up feeling a hopeful gleeful way because people turned out and showed up and did some righteous things yesterday!
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Book banners ate shit all over the country last night ❤️🥰
Book banners are such pathetic losers I can’t get over it.
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Book banners ate shit all over the country last night ❤️🥰
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Alt text: a lusciously painted silken-textured white owl with fawn & grey dappled wings stands, eyes closed, atop a stone wall, a dead mouse by its feet and a two strands of ivy curling down on its left. The background is absolute black. The owl looks like an Elizabethan gentleman dreaming of love.
'Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.' Tennyson was a great fan of William Webbe who painted this exquisite picture in 1856. Though Webbe is included in Percy Bate's early study of the Pre Raphaelite movement, he remains a mysterious figure.
November 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Alt text: a lusciously painted silken-textured white owl with fawn & grey dappled wings stands, eyes closed, atop a stone wall, a dead mouse by its feet and a two strands of ivy curling down on its left. The background is absolute black. The owl looks like an Elizabethan gentleman dreaming of love.
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You know what's spooky? 12% of the population losing food access.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
You know what's spooky? 12% of the population losing food access.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
If you're in a state where your rep is holding food access hostage, bother the hell out of them and boo them VERY loudly.
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I maintain that every one of these people should be forced to live on SNAP for a month.
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I maintain that every one of these people should be forced to live on SNAP for a month.
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Like other women poets of my generation, writing long works on themes the world reserves for philosophy as such, I am often called ambitious. The word “desperate” would probably be more accurate: I can't accept the Tyrant's truths...
- Alice Notley, "Instability in Poetry" (2001)
- Alice Notley, "Instability in Poetry" (2001)
October 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Like other women poets of my generation, writing long works on themes the world reserves for philosophy as such, I am often called ambitious. The word “desperate” would probably be more accurate: I can't accept the Tyrant's truths...
- Alice Notley, "Instability in Poetry" (2001)
- Alice Notley, "Instability in Poetry" (2001)
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Rough math: 12.3% of Americans (41.7 mil) are about to lose SNAP. Many food banks produce 3 meals per $1, so a November worth of meals for one costs $30. Round it up to $35 for asst. costs & hygiene products. If 13% of us donate $35 each to food banks, we can get everyone through Nov! #EndHunger 🥙💪
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Rough math: 12.3% of Americans (41.7 mil) are about to lose SNAP. Many food banks produce 3 meals per $1, so a November worth of meals for one costs $30. Round it up to $35 for asst. costs & hygiene products. If 13% of us donate $35 each to food banks, we can get everyone through Nov! #EndHunger 🥙💪
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🎃 October 25 🎃
I wanna kiss you like you're Animal
I wanna kiss you like you're Animal
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🎃 October 25 🎃
I wanna kiss you like you're Animal
I wanna kiss you like you're Animal
This! It's going to be so bleak in NC for people, and here's something to be done. (I currently live in NC) My soul is boiling. Thank you, @adapalmer.bsky.social for this good thing.
Feeding the Carolinas: North Carolina is one of the states losing the most in SNAP and this org supplies the whole region:
feedingthecarolinas.org
feedingthecarolinas.org
Homepage - Feeding the Carolinas
feedingthecarolinas.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This! It's going to be so bleak in NC for people, and here's something to be done. (I currently live in NC) My soul is boiling. Thank you, @adapalmer.bsky.social for this good thing.
The redeye flight from Las Vegas to Charlotte NC, a mere hellish 3.5 hours long, beginning at midnight, landing at 6:30am, is the worse of its kind.
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The redeye flight from Las Vegas to Charlotte NC, a mere hellish 3.5 hours long, beginning at midnight, landing at 6:30am, is the worse of its kind.
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Pixar should do a TOY STORY about a group of Beanie Babies who've been in storage for over two decades and have turned into Gormenghast.
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Pixar should do a TOY STORY about a group of Beanie Babies who've been in storage for over two decades and have turned into Gormenghast.
I'm in Chicago giving a speech, and stopped by a protest this morning before heading to the airport. Chicago, I love you. People taking care of each other everywhere I went.
October 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm in Chicago giving a speech, and stopped by a protest this morning before heading to the airport. Chicago, I love you. People taking care of each other everywhere I went.
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Also happy stories
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Also happy stories
My ADHD brain is often awesome when hyperfocused, but for several days it's been clamped tight on an editing project, & as a result I have been unable to do anything but frantically edit, living on handfuls of trail mix. This sounds good, I know, but man, it's intense to have this kind of brain.
October 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
My ADHD brain is often awesome when hyperfocused, but for several days it's been clamped tight on an editing project, & as a result I have been unable to do anything but frantically edit, living on handfuls of trail mix. This sounds good, I know, but man, it's intense to have this kind of brain.
Read More Grimoires. In honor of the small Grimoire in the middle.
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Read More Grimoires. In honor of the small Grimoire in the middle.
My badass sister in law Meghan is doing research about breast milk antibodies - and how to get them for every baby by isolating them so they can be added to formula too. www.king5.com/article/news...
New study shows breast milk could give newborns lifelong antibody protection: HealthLink
The research led by a Fred Hutch immunologist suggests even a few days of breastfeeding could have lasting benefits.
www.king5.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My badass sister in law Meghan is doing research about breast milk antibodies - and how to get them for every baby by isolating them so they can be added to formula too. www.king5.com/article/news...
A 20th Century cocktail in a coupe, sandwiched between two halves of a golden crocodile bookend. 20th Century's are good - 1.5 oz gin, 1/2 oz Lillet blanc, 3/4 oz lemon juice, 1/2 oz white crème de cacao, shaken. Named after a train.
October 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A 20th Century cocktail in a coupe, sandwiched between two halves of a golden crocodile bookend. 20th Century's are good - 1.5 oz gin, 1/2 oz Lillet blanc, 3/4 oz lemon juice, 1/2 oz white crème de cacao, shaken. Named after a train.
Also, related, the time I was the Voynich Manuscript for Halloween and painted my own version of Voynich and made it into a manuscript dress.
October 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Also, related, the time I was the Voynich Manuscript for Halloween and painted my own version of Voynich and made it into a manuscript dress.