Megan Birch-McMichael
@mbmcmichael.bsky.social
Mother, wife, writer, runner and GM @SilUnicornActon. Bylines @nytimes @washingtonpost @bostonglobe @WriteinDC alum. http://www.meganbirchmcmichael.com
Dunkin for a Day: Town of Stow Will Change Name on July 24 to Welcome Return of Dunkin Brand news.jgpr.net/2025/07/17/d...
Omg it’s happening!! Dunkin’ Desert no more!
Omg it’s happening!! Dunkin’ Desert no more!
Dunkin for a Day: Town of Stow Will Change Name on July 24 to Welcome Return of Dunkin Brand
Local Fans Invited to Attend Grand Opening Celebration and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony STOW – Stow’s drought as a “Dunkin’ Desert” is almost over. On Tuesday,…
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July 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Dunkin for a Day: Town of Stow Will Change Name on July 24 to Welcome Return of Dunkin Brand news.jgpr.net/2025/07/17/d...
Omg it’s happening!! Dunkin’ Desert no more!
Omg it’s happening!! Dunkin’ Desert no more!
Everyone has read this story already, right? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...
The Emperor's New Clothes - Wikipedia
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June 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Everyone has read this story already, right? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...
I’ll say one thing about having to drive teenagers everywhere: if I started with surcharges for making me wait around until they are done doing whatever they are doing instead of being in my car at the agreed upon time I’d be a very rich woman.
April 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’ll say one thing about having to drive teenagers everywhere: if I started with surcharges for making me wait around until they are done doing whatever they are doing instead of being in my car at the agreed upon time I’d be a very rich woman.
It’s a sad day for our country when that drivel passes for a presidential message on Easter Sunday.
Spending the day in Lexington yesterday gave me such hope that we can, and will, prevail as a nation.
Spending the day in Lexington yesterday gave me such hope that we can, and will, prevail as a nation.
April 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It’s a sad day for our country when that drivel passes for a presidential message on Easter Sunday.
Spending the day in Lexington yesterday gave me such hope that we can, and will, prevail as a nation.
Spending the day in Lexington yesterday gave me such hope that we can, and will, prevail as a nation.
Finally updated the website so a lot of my writing is in one place. Still a giant picture of me, but I have an MFA in creative writing, not in website design.
www.meganbirchmcmichael.com
www.meganbirchmcmichael.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Finally updated the website so a lot of my writing is in one place. Still a giant picture of me, but I have an MFA in creative writing, not in website design.
www.meganbirchmcmichael.com
www.meganbirchmcmichael.com
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🖋️ “Call for Hegseth and Waltz to resign!” hit 2,000 signers!
💬 Text SIGN PJTPZE to 50409
💬 Text SIGN PJTPZE to 50409
Call for Hegseth and Waltz to resign!
Text SIGN PJTPZE to 50409 — I am HORRIFIED that top Cabinet officials—including the Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Adviser—were caught using a commercial messaging app to discuss secret war plans for Yemen this week. Shockingly, they accidentally included a journalist in the group chat. This alarming breach of national security not only highlights the gross incompetence of the Trump administration, but also underscores the growing disregard for the chain of command, oversight, and the rule of law. It also represents a huge risk to our national security as well as to all those who serve in our military. It’s terrifying, infuriating, and unacceptable.
This level of carelessness would be unthinkable under a functional democratic administration. But under Trump, it's just another day in a government increasingly run by loyalty over competence, secrecy over transparency, and militarism over diplomacy. When will Congress speak out against it?
As my representative, I want you to call for the immediate resignations of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.
Also? Congress needs to start conducting oversight like they mean it. YOU ARE A COEQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. Act like it! Otherwise you will soon be out of a job. Thanks.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🖋️ “Call for Hegseth and Waltz to resign!” hit 2,000 signers!
💬 Text SIGN PJTPZE to 50409
💬 Text SIGN PJTPZE to 50409
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
A huge thank you to @maris.bsky.social for writing this. As a bookseller who is also a writer who is also a local elected official…I fully agree with ALL of this: lithub.com/shilling-boo...
Shilling Books While Rome Burns: Why Politicians Need to Focus on Their Day Jobs
To some of his constituents, it may seem as though Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader of the US Senate, has spent a bunch of time pontificating on Bluesky lately and not enough time taking decisive…
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March 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A huge thank you to @maris.bsky.social for writing this. As a bookseller who is also a writer who is also a local elected official…I fully agree with ALL of this: lithub.com/shilling-boo...
I just saw the most terrifying “ad” while watching CBS this morning…Kristi Noem suggesting that if immigrants leave the country voluntarily then they might be allowed back? But if not, DHS is going to hunt you down?
Also, it was a literal “bow down to dear leader” bit of propaganda…terrifying.
Also, it was a literal “bow down to dear leader” bit of propaganda…terrifying.
March 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I just saw the most terrifying “ad” while watching CBS this morning…Kristi Noem suggesting that if immigrants leave the country voluntarily then they might be allowed back? But if not, DHS is going to hunt you down?
Also, it was a literal “bow down to dear leader” bit of propaganda…terrifying.
Also, it was a literal “bow down to dear leader” bit of propaganda…terrifying.
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I’ll be on CNN at 6 with @jaketapper.bsky.social to discuss Senate Democrats’ responsibility to protect the federal government and vote NO on cloture and the GOP spending bill
March 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I’ll be on CNN at 6 with @jaketapper.bsky.social to discuss Senate Democrats’ responsibility to protect the federal government and vote NO on cloture and the GOP spending bill
BEST book mail!! @maureenstanton.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
BEST book mail!! @maureenstanton.bsky.social
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
If history has taught us anything, the art (the books, the movies, the music, the paintings and sculpture) that is going to come out of **all of this** is going to be weird and wild and big and loud and I for one am here for it.
February 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If history has taught us anything, the art (the books, the movies, the music, the paintings and sculpture) that is going to come out of **all of this** is going to be weird and wild and big and loud and I for one am here for it.
What if we just say…no.
February 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
What if we just say…no.
Also, me EVERY time I hear El%n M$s&’s name lately.
a man in a hoodie and sunglasses is standing in a crowd of people .
ALT: a man in a hoodie and sunglasses is standing in a crowd of people .
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February 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Also, me EVERY time I hear El%n M$s&’s name lately.
Alright folks, mourning month is over. Time to get to work.
February 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Alright folks, mourning month is over. Time to get to work.
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Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
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A soft, small, hopeful thing.
January 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A soft, small, hopeful thing.
For years I have cited Mike Judge’s Idiocracy and Dave Eggers’ The Circle as extremely prescient pieces of work (albeit taken as fantastical satire at the time) of where we have ended up as a society. What other texts/films to add to the list?
January 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For years I have cited Mike Judge’s Idiocracy and Dave Eggers’ The Circle as extremely prescient pieces of work (albeit taken as fantastical satire at the time) of where we have ended up as a society. What other texts/films to add to the list?
Also, as the proud daughter of a female Episcopal priest? Those women do not mince words. They had to fight for the right to even be serving at that table and have only been doing so in full capacity since 1974.
January 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Also, as the proud daughter of a female Episcopal priest? Those women do not mince words. They had to fight for the right to even be serving at that table and have only been doing so in full capacity since 1974.
And what say you now “Christians”? To this Episcopal bishop preaching the teachings of Christ. Love thy neighbor, indeed.
Trump is mad because he realized yesterday that he got told off by a woman who he assumed was not powerful.
Clergy. Soft voice. Woman. Oh but power comes in many forms. Disarming these folks is very effective. Love to see it.
Clergy. Soft voice. Woman. Oh but power comes in many forms. Disarming these folks is very effective. Love to see it.
Trump exploded in fury at Bishop Marian Budde on Truth Social a little after midnight, calling her a "hater."
As we argue on today's pod, there is nothing MAGA despises more than appeals to common decency and humanity.
newrepublic.com/article/1905...
As we argue on today's pod, there is nothing MAGA despises more than appeals to common decency and humanity.
newrepublic.com/article/1905...
January 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And what say you now “Christians”? To this Episcopal bishop preaching the teachings of Christ. Love thy neighbor, indeed.
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Trump is mad because he realized yesterday that he got told off by a woman who he assumed was not powerful.
Clergy. Soft voice. Woman. Oh but power comes in many forms. Disarming these folks is very effective. Love to see it.
Clergy. Soft voice. Woman. Oh but power comes in many forms. Disarming these folks is very effective. Love to see it.
Trump exploded in fury at Bishop Marian Budde on Truth Social a little after midnight, calling her a "hater."
As we argue on today's pod, there is nothing MAGA despises more than appeals to common decency and humanity.
newrepublic.com/article/1905...
As we argue on today's pod, there is nothing MAGA despises more than appeals to common decency and humanity.
newrepublic.com/article/1905...
January 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Trump is mad because he realized yesterday that he got told off by a woman who he assumed was not powerful.
Clergy. Soft voice. Woman. Oh but power comes in many forms. Disarming these folks is very effective. Love to see it.
Clergy. Soft voice. Woman. Oh but power comes in many forms. Disarming these folks is very effective. Love to see it.
Hey Bluesky!
Trying to rebuild my writing/bookstore connections since the other side is a bit of a hellscape right now.
I’m a writer and an indie bookstore manager and I live with my family in MetroWest Massachusetts where we have one cat and no chickens. Yet.
Trying to rebuild my writing/bookstore connections since the other side is a bit of a hellscape right now.
I’m a writer and an indie bookstore manager and I live with my family in MetroWest Massachusetts where we have one cat and no chickens. Yet.
January 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Hey Bluesky!
Trying to rebuild my writing/bookstore connections since the other side is a bit of a hellscape right now.
I’m a writer and an indie bookstore manager and I live with my family in MetroWest Massachusetts where we have one cat and no chickens. Yet.
Trying to rebuild my writing/bookstore connections since the other side is a bit of a hellscape right now.
I’m a writer and an indie bookstore manager and I live with my family in MetroWest Massachusetts where we have one cat and no chickens. Yet.
#ncte folks: you are the some of the kindest people I have had the pleasure to meet in a long time! What a balm for the soul!! Stop by The Silver Unicorn booth 322 this morning for a high five and a pencil (and we STILL have signed Justice Jackson books if you want them :) )
November 24, 2024 at 11:10 AM
#ncte folks: you are the some of the kindest people I have had the pleasure to meet in a long time! What a balm for the soul!! Stop by The Silver Unicorn booth 322 this morning for a high five and a pencil (and we STILL have signed Justice Jackson books if you want them :) )