Shelby Edwards
@sedwards.bsky.social
Writer poet with a day job | Senior senior risk manager with a knack for things going sideways | Army Maj (Ret). | Plant geek | Northwesterner | @STEWest at that other place
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Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?
January 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?
Very good Wordle word to start the year...
January 2, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Very good Wordle word to start the year...
Clearly going to have to find Mamdani's inaugural and watch it from the start, the clips have been just wow.
January 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Clearly going to have to find Mamdani's inaugural and watch it from the start, the clips have been just wow.
Making late pancakes for the New Year because no way in world I'm rushing 2026...
January 1, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Making late pancakes for the New Year because no way in world I'm rushing 2026...
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Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
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Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion o...
tinhouse.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
"Congratulations, Mr. Mayor." Happy New Year, New York, what a thing you've done.
January 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM
"Congratulations, Mr. Mayor." Happy New Year, New York, what a thing you've done.
Just inviting 2026 in with all the curiosity...can't wait to see what amazing things we can get up to.
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Just inviting 2026 in with all the curiosity...can't wait to see what amazing things we can get up to.
Oh this needs a lot more attention.
“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Oh this needs a lot more attention.
Elect a Democratic congress please, so we can get some oversight on this ideologue exercising entirely too much power.
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Elect a Democratic congress please, so we can get some oversight on this ideologue exercising entirely too much power.
Okay Wordle, acceptable word for the last day of the year.
Can y'all believe we've just finished the first quarter of the new century. Twenty-five years in already, so fast, it goes so fast. I very much would like it to slow down now.
Can y'all believe we've just finished the first quarter of the new century. Twenty-five years in already, so fast, it goes so fast. I very much would like it to slow down now.
December 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Okay Wordle, acceptable word for the last day of the year.
Can y'all believe we've just finished the first quarter of the new century. Twenty-five years in already, so fast, it goes so fast. I very much would like it to slow down now.
Can y'all believe we've just finished the first quarter of the new century. Twenty-five years in already, so fast, it goes so fast. I very much would like it to slow down now.
I do get a wee bit judgy about colleagues "best reads" lists this time of year that feature nothing but problematic white men with big names. Know it's not my best trait. Applaud the reading (assuming it wasn't AI cliff notes), but oof, stretch a little, think some.
December 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I do get a wee bit judgy about colleagues "best reads" lists this time of year that feature nothing but problematic white men with big names. Know it's not my best trait. Applaud the reading (assuming it wasn't AI cliff notes), but oof, stretch a little, think some.
The future is ours to make. Always.
December 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The future is ours to make. Always.
Aggressively tax the rich. Every loan, every unrealized gain, all of it, estate transfers and trusts. You could tax them at 50% and they'd still get richer every day.
December 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Aggressively tax the rich. Every loan, every unrealized gain, all of it, estate transfers and trusts. You could tax them at 50% and they'd still get richer every day.
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Democratic erosion, but for public health. People will die.
December 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Democratic erosion, but for public health. People will die.
A most helpful guide, here at the ending of the year. (And a very good read.)
From @bcdreyer.social
in conclusion open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
From @bcdreyer.social
in conclusion open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
in conclusion
[a few last thoughts for 2025]
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A most helpful guide, here at the ending of the year. (And a very good read.)
From @bcdreyer.social
in conclusion open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
From @bcdreyer.social
in conclusion open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
There should be consequences for American medical facilities not taking measures to control for respiratory infection. This isn't the middle ages, we know how flu and COVID spread, we know how serious the consequences can be. No inpatient person should have to face the risk of it. (Family subtweet)
December 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There should be consequences for American medical facilities not taking measures to control for respiratory infection. This isn't the middle ages, we know how flu and COVID spread, we know how serious the consequences can be. No inpatient person should have to face the risk of it. (Family subtweet)
Hey y'all, still not too late to mask up when you're traveling. Save yourself the flu and COVID and all the rest. N95's work.
Also, rapid combo Flu/COVID tests are available at every pharmacy. Power in knowing.
Also, rapid combo Flu/COVID tests are available at every pharmacy. Power in knowing.
December 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Hey y'all, still not too late to mask up when you're traveling. Save yourself the flu and COVID and all the rest. N95's work.
Also, rapid combo Flu/COVID tests are available at every pharmacy. Power in knowing.
Also, rapid combo Flu/COVID tests are available at every pharmacy. Power in knowing.
Zelensky is the President of Ukraine. Not some vassal. The head of state. Rubio knows better, even if the rest of them don't. Shameful.
Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Zelensky is the President of Ukraine. Not some vassal. The head of state. Rubio knows better, even if the rest of them don't. Shameful.
Makes me sad, the CDC and USAID and NOAA and so many others...
what else is there to say
December 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Makes me sad, the CDC and USAID and NOAA and so many others...
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But why would anyone remove a nonpartisan Archivist? What could she possibly do that Trump would care about?!? Oh… that’s right… the Archivist receives the official record of presidential Electors and the certified Electoral Votes for President from the states.
December 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
But why would anyone remove a nonpartisan Archivist? What could she possibly do that Trump would care about?!? Oh… that’s right… the Archivist receives the official record of presidential Electors and the certified Electoral Votes for President from the states.
Always have that smug little sense of satisfaction when I get the woodstove lit with a single match and a whoosh from the start. The secret to fire is air. Well, and super dry kindling, a little brown paper, and a handful of dried clementine peels (sparky).
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Always have that smug little sense of satisfaction when I get the woodstove lit with a single match and a whoosh from the start. The secret to fire is air. Well, and super dry kindling, a little brown paper, and a handful of dried clementine peels (sparky).
Here at the close of the year is a great time to look at your book shelves and ask who and what are you reading. Is it all white men? Especially non-fiction, are you really only reading the thoughts of white men? Is there fiction? Including speculative, romance, historical (there's lessons)?
December 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Here at the close of the year is a great time to look at your book shelves and ask who and what are you reading. Is it all white men? Especially non-fiction, are you really only reading the thoughts of white men? Is there fiction? Including speculative, romance, historical (there's lessons)?
This idiocy makes me absolutely crazy. The weaponized ignorance. I have no idea if Kennedy's substance abuse and brain worms have compromised his intelligence or if he is being simply malicious, but this nonsense, this disinformation, cannot be tolerated. (Great thread.)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This idiocy makes me absolutely crazy. The weaponized ignorance. I have no idea if Kennedy's substance abuse and brain worms have compromised his intelligence or if he is being simply malicious, but this nonsense, this disinformation, cannot be tolerated. (Great thread.)
Remain ever amazed at these birds, we share the planet with some outrageous creatures. Fantastic shot, this.
One more pelican before I put my phone down down for the night.
Taken this morning. 🪶
Taken this morning. 🪶
December 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Remain ever amazed at these birds, we share the planet with some outrageous creatures. Fantastic shot, this.
This is such a good list!!
I really appreciate the science & medicine reporting in the Atlantic, yet still the news cycle is so rapid, I miss out on reading a great number of their articles in that area.
So every year's end I really appreciate their handy list with links.
Gift link.
So every year's end I really appreciate their handy list with links.
Gift link.
55 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2025
We’ll never look at potatoes the same way again.
www.theatlantic.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is such a good list!!