Therese Walsh
@theresewalsh.bsky.social
co-founder and director of Writer Unboxed;
novelist (The Moon Sisters);
believer in science, democracy, and semi-colons;
backyard birder and dog mom;
chaotic good human of New York 🗽
novelist (The Moon Sisters);
believer in science, democracy, and semi-colons;
backyard birder and dog mom;
chaotic good human of New York 🗽
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The countdown has reached “one”—CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT releases tomorrow—and this blurb from @theresewalsh.bsky.social encapsulates my goal in writing it!
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The countdown has reached “one”—CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT releases tomorrow—and this blurb from @theresewalsh.bsky.social encapsulates my goal in writing it!
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide
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The national library has apparently, by accident, modified its online copy of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president’s least favorite part.
Govt. Website 'Glitch' Removes Trump's Least Favorite Part of Constitution
Trump is trying to take over the Library of Congress, but its website already deleted a part of the Constitution that Trump officials don’t like.
rollingstone.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The national library has apparently, by accident, modified its online copy of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president’s least favorite part.
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A quiet piece of dialogue that does strong work in a story - @theresewalsh.bsky.social on Sally Rooney at @writerunboxed.bsky.social writerunboxed.com/2025/07/25/r... #womenwriters #writingtips #writingcommunity #skywriters
Reading and Writing the Morse Code of Character
I paused my TV two minutes into the second episode of Normal People (BBC production, on Hulu, adapted from Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel) to write this. I can’t tell you the number of arti…
writerunboxed.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A quiet piece of dialogue that does strong work in a story - @theresewalsh.bsky.social on Sally Rooney at @writerunboxed.bsky.social writerunboxed.com/2025/07/25/r... #womenwriters #writingtips #writingcommunity #skywriters
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Breaking on MSNBC: A senior admin official confirms to NBC News that Ghislaine Maxwell was granted limited immunity by the Justice Department in order to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case.
July 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Breaking on MSNBC: A senior admin official confirms to NBC News that Ghislaine Maxwell was granted limited immunity by the Justice Department in order to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Nineteen years in a row!
Congratulations to the entire Writer Unboxed team--and thank you for sharing your best insights with other writers!
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Congratulations to the entire Writer Unboxed team--and thank you for sharing your best insights with other writers!
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Writer’s Digest Best Writing Advice Websites for Writers 2025
Here are the top writing advice websites as identified in the 27th Annual 101 Best Websites from the May/June 2025 issue of Writer's Digest.
www.writersdigest.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Nineteen years in a row!
Congratulations to the entire Writer Unboxed team--and thank you for sharing your best insights with other writers!
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Congratulations to the entire Writer Unboxed team--and thank you for sharing your best insights with other writers!
www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...
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The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
(Published April)
(Published April)
Trump’s NOAA Budget Cuts Could Gut Critical Climate Modeling
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
(Published April)
(Published April)
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Breaking: After a classified briefing with Cabinet officials, Sen. Chris Murphy says: "I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the programs."
"The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated."
"The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated."
June 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Breaking: After a classified briefing with Cabinet officials, Sen. Chris Murphy says: "I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the programs."
"The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated."
"The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated."
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A federal appeals court has declined to rehear Trump's challenge to the $5 million E. Jean Carroll civil judgment.
June 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A federal appeals court has declined to rehear Trump's challenge to the $5 million E. Jean Carroll civil judgment.
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America is flirting with such incredible disaster www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/p...
More than 100 National Security Council staffers put on administrative leave | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has put more than 100 officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave on Friday as part of a restructuring under interim national securit...
www.cnn.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
America is flirting with such incredible disaster www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/p...
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Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress may also be a test case to see how susceptible congressional Republicans are to his power grabs.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Is Trying to Control Congress by Taking Over Its Library
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress may also be a test case to see how susceptible congressional Republicans are to his power grabs.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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On NBC, former VP Mike Pence blasts the pardon of violent Jan 6 attackers
He notes the pain police suffered … and he notes how this is the week Washington honors “police week” and those who’ve protected US communities
He notes the pain police suffered … and he notes how this is the week Washington honors “police week” and those who’ve protected US communities
May 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
On NBC, former VP Mike Pence blasts the pardon of violent Jan 6 attackers
He notes the pain police suffered … and he notes how this is the week Washington honors “police week” and those who’ve protected US communities
He notes the pain police suffered … and he notes how this is the week Washington honors “police week” and those who’ve protected US communities
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🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 7-2 ruling Friday said the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants in its rushed effort to remove them from the U.S. last month using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), a 1798 wartime law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS Says Trump Violated Venezuelan Migrants’ Rights With Attempted Removals
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 7-2 ruling Friday said the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants in its rushed effort to remove them from the U.S. last month using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), a 1798 wartime law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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If you're looking for a magical writing workshop/conference/retreat, join us in Santa Fe, NM this October in a thriving artsy community for the Writer Unboxed Un-Conference. I'll be there with many other great writers and workshop leaders! #writingcommunity writerunboxed.com/2025/03/31/i...
Announcing This Year’s Writer Unboxed UnConference, Keepers of the Flame—and Its Beautiful New Location
I’d been planning to host another UnConference ever since our last event in 2023, especially as it would fall within months of WU’s 20th “blog-versary.” We’d return to…
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March 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If you're looking for a magical writing workshop/conference/retreat, join us in Santa Fe, NM this October in a thriving artsy community for the Writer Unboxed Un-Conference. I'll be there with many other great writers and workshop leaders! #writingcommunity writerunboxed.com/2025/03/31/i...
Congratulations, Greer! 🙌 #FiveQueendoms
If all those guys who started epic fantasy series and then just sorta drifted off into nowhere burned you, please comfort yourself with this complete trilogy of matriarchal fantasy, available now! Welcome to the Five Queendoms.
May 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Congratulations, Greer! 🙌 #FiveQueendoms
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I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy. The threats have changed since then, but its commitment has not.
It will never bow down. It will never compromise. It will never will never obey.
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It will never bow down. It will never compromise. It will never will never obey.
Sign-up now to support.
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May 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy. The threats have changed since then, but its commitment has not.
It will never bow down. It will never compromise. It will never will never obey.
Sign-up now to support.
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It will never bow down. It will never compromise. It will never will never obey.
Sign-up now to support.
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The threat to democracy isn’t looming, it’s already unfolding.
Sen. Chris Murphy warns that Trump and his allies are working to consolidate power, control dissent and replace democratic norms with loyalty tests.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Sen. Chris Murphy warns that Trump and his allies are working to consolidate power, control dissent and replace democratic norms with loyalty tests.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
“Trying to Rule Forever”: Sen. Murphy Denounces Trump for Replacing Democratic Norms with Loyalty Tests
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The threat to democracy isn’t looming, it’s already unfolding.
Sen. Chris Murphy warns that Trump and his allies are working to consolidate power, control dissent and replace democratic norms with loyalty tests.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Sen. Chris Murphy warns that Trump and his allies are working to consolidate power, control dissent and replace democratic norms with loyalty tests.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Utterly unfit.
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
May 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Utterly unfit.
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The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
NIH autism study will pull from private medical records
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
www.npr.org
April 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."
April 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."
When you think they can’t be crueler or find a new low:
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
When you think they can’t be crueler or find a new low:
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Authors and translators who use Babelcube, have you had any recent difficulties? These might include late royalties, missing tax documents, or translations completed and accepted but not published. Contact Writer Beware in confidence: beware@sfwa.org Thanks!!
April 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Authors and translators who use Babelcube, have you had any recent difficulties? These might include late royalties, missing tax documents, or translations completed and accepted but not published. Contact Writer Beware in confidence: beware@sfwa.org Thanks!!
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Says the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.
April 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Says the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..”
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April 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..”
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