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Alysa Loring | Bleeding Pen Editing
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Observer. Listener. Creative. Editor. Writing Coach. Mother. Daughter. Spouse. Citizen. Reader of banned books. Human.
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ponderreview.bsky.social
We're starting our 10th year! Won't you join us?
Send us your best #fiction, #nonfiction, #poetry, #plays, #art, and #newmedia.
Reading 12/15-3/15. #callforsubmissions #submissioncall
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December 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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pervocracy.bsky.social
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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ALA is disappointed and concerned following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lower court ruling in Little v. Llano County stand. This decision will significantly restrict the freedom to… |...
ALA is disappointed and concerned following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow a lower court ruling in Little v. Llano County stand. This decision will significantly restrict the freedom to re...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
What’s up? The Aurora Borealis!! Grass Valley, CA
Silhouetted pine trees against a burgundy pink sky
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
Today, I’ve been thinking about how words change over time, how sometimes people get into arguments because they’re using the same words but with different meanings, and how power plays into all of this. Jen I stumbled on this article! A great read! www.laprogressive.com/racism/diver...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
This one hits the spot today. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
It’s #BannedBooksWeek! What are you doing to fight censorship this week?
If you aren’t sure, here’s a list of ideas to help get you started: bannedbooksweek.org/wp-content/u...
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October 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
Up for a rhyming challenge? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social Rhyming Story Challenge on September 5th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/rhyme
The Rhyming Story Challenge — nycmidnight
The Rhyming Story Challenge is a creative writing competition that challenges writers worldwide to create rhyming stories based on three assigned prompts in as little as 48 hours.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
What have you been reading this #ChildrensBookWeek? I revisited some of my favs. and I'm off to my local Public Library today to discover something new!
A collection of KidLit books. Titles include: _My Lucky Day_ by Keiko Kasza, _Petra_ by Marianna Coppo, _Maybe_ by Kobi Yamada, _Make Way for Ducklings_ by Robert McCloskey, _Nightsong_ by Ari Berk, _The Girl Who Drank the Moon_ by Kelly Barnhill, and _Meet Yasmin_ by Saadia Faruqi
May 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
The administration is now deporting US citizens. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
April 26, 2025
Early yesterday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent three U.S.
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April 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
#Handsoff Sacramento! Great turnout! #Indivisible So many excellent signs! I love how you use your words!
Two people with backs to the camera. One wears a sweatshirt reading: Immigrants make America Great White woman holds a sign which says: We The People will not be silenced! Hands off our rights! Protestors. One person wears a penguin costume. The penguin’s sign says: This is not a left or right moment. It is a right or wrong moment. —Cory Booker. Another protest sign reads: No death by miscarriage! A miscarriage of justice! Two elderly women sit back to back on the lawn. Their protest sign reads: Hands off VA benefits
April 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
April is National Poetry Month. I challenge you to write some protest poetry using the 47th administration's ever growing list of banned words! #PenAmerica #FreeSpeech #Poetry
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Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America
Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.
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April 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Cory Booker! I’m glad to see a Dem taking a stand to air The People’s grievances against this administration on the Senate floor! The filibuster has its problems—but it’s good to see someone making a move! www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
#AWP25 panelists, you are On Fire! My fav moment today: in Speculative Memoire, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal suggested that as writers we may be able to restore erased history through quantum entanglement and retro causality!! I'm still going to fight here in the present, but I love this notion!!
March 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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From Roxane Gay: "There's a reason this administration is banning books. They know what we know—The pen is not mightier than the sword ... the pen IS the sword." #AWP25

Use your words! Resist, Fight back!
March 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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The only "rewriting of history" being done is Trump & co's attempted erasure of non-white, male contributors. Adding black, brown, Indigenous, LGBTQ+,& women's voices to wh. history creates nuance & helps everyone (who thinks) better understand. This EO may well black-list museums. Use your words!
jimlokay.com Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · Mar 28
INBOX: Trump signs executive order targeting Smithsonian Institute, putting VP Vance in charge of effort aiming to remove “divisive narratives” from museums, saying some exhibits across the system focus on "divisive, race-centered ideology."
RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light. Under this historical revision, our Nation's unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed. Rather than fostering unity and a deeper understanding of our shared past, the widespread effort to rewrite history deepens societal divides and fosters a sense of national shame, disregarding the progress America has made and the ideals that continue to inspire millions around the globe. The prior administration advanced this corrosive ideology. At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- where our Nation declared that all men are created equal -- the prior administration sponsored training by an organization that advocates dismantling "Western foundations" and "interrogating institutional racism" and pressured National Historical Park rangers that their racial identity should dictate how they convey history to visiting Americans because America is purportedly racist. Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive. For ex…
March 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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We need an empty chair town hall up here in CA-03 @ericswalwell.bsky.social @reptedlieu.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @sarajacobs.house.gov @leftofamerica.bsky.social
maxwellfrost.bsky.social Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · Mar 27
Hey! @chrismurphyct.bsky.social & I are hitting the road to fight the billionaire takeover of our government. This Saturday, we'll be in Warren, MI to give real answers to real people. If your Rep is hiding, let us know—we’ll come to you!

RSVP here to join us in Warren: bit.ly/ThePeoplesTownHallMI
March 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
I’m off to #AWP25. I'm thinking about the power of the written word and the many wise and witty passages I’ve found in my local libraries. I’m thinking about the recent EO to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services. I'm thinking about 1st Amendment Rights. Write on! Use your words!
March 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
PLEASE call your senators TODAY and demand that they vote NO on the Repub spending bill. It cuts vital programs & does NOTHING to rein-in Musk. Congress has the power to take back their Constitutional power of the purse and pass a clean resolution that protects all Americans. 202-224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Spent some time rallying on International Day of Women! Great turn out and support from passer by! Would love for Representative Kevin Kiley to show up for a town hall! #WhereIsKevin
Woman holding sign: “Equal rights for all doesn’t mean fewer rights for you! It’s not cake!” Woman holding sign: “Federal jobs are American jobs!” and #WhereIsKevin
March 9, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
A few people have shared this here today, so I thought I’d post it.
The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns and the fire consumes all. You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. - Nikita Gill
March 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
alysableedingpen.bsky.social
I'm watching the address to the joint congress and I'm getting physically ill—the propaganda spewing from this president's mouth; please, everyone fact check. Worse are the two sitting behind him—alternating between smugness and laughter at very serious matters. He's basically declared WWIII.
March 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM