Johanna Schlegel
mysecondbook.bsky.social
Johanna Schlegel
@mysecondbook.bsky.social
It’s never too late to shave the other leg.
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They say your second book is harder to write than your first one, so I’m writing my second book first. So far it’s 0 pages and 0 words long. I’m sixty.
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Hey all,

The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.

Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.

You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Watch Pluribus on Apple TV. From Vince Gilligan, starring Rhea Seehorn. No, I can’t tell you what it’s about. No, you shouldn’t try to find out. Just trust me. You trust me, right? Go in blind. (Also ignore the stupid ad campaign.)
The only bad part so far is they’ve only released two episodes.
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Fundraising text message informs me that the “calvary” has arrived. I guess that’s one way of saying the quiet part out loud…albeit at the wrong point in the liturgical year.
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I don’t know how to cook with soy lecithin, but I DO know how to pronounce it. I’ll eat those words…and still go hungry. See also mascarpone.
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Last weekend, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.

Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Hear me out: a line of organic catfood made from house sparrows and small rodents.
August 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you don’t have anything to complain about then you shouldn’t say anything nice.
August 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."
We Can Save Public Radio and Television
Viewers and listeners like us.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The United States should not wage war against Iran.

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.

This is a horrific war of choice.
June 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I have some advice for political journalists. (The list continues) presswatchers.org/2025/05/the-...
May 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This was ridiculously fun. If only writing was as easy as answering questions like these! Thank you, @paniogianopoulos.bsky.social and the Next Big Idea Club! And Caleb Bissinger and Rufus Griscom! (Couldn't find names to tag!)
Twenty-One Questions With Susan Dominus
The New York Times staff writer and author of the forthcoming book The Family Dynamic talks writing, social media, and the life-changing magic of rotating your sneakers.
authorinsider.nextbigideaclub.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
They gave her the lantern! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @hrishikesh.co @joshuamalina.bsky.social Old North Church April 18, 2025
April 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Now can we press Send
April 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Hello may I please opt out of all the AI.
April 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Plus it’s becoming a panopticon of sentient digital microplastics from which no tinfoil hat, no pussy hat can shield us.
April 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

—Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
March 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Judge Boasberg is a hero.
March 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Thanks to Rev. Nell Fields for organizing a rally in support of Ukraine in Falmouth today. Hundreds lined the streets in support, and I shared my message in support of Ukraine, our allies, and our American values.
March 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I don’t think anyone just gets to decide the Kennedy Center is going to be theirs now for their own private parties and maybe some hotel rooms and an auto dealership where this nice flat stage is.
February 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
When you have a cold or flu and the ugly parts of yourself you normally can’t see parade past you in fever dreams carrying outtakes from the reels of your life and chanting “ ‘TURD’ SIGHT SWIDT” and you roll over and groan and they follow you because the most mortifying scenes are on shuffle now.
January 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM