Nancy Townsley
@nancytownsley.bsky.social
Just a gramma who sews and writes. Author of SUNSHINE GIRL, Heliotrope Books, 2025.
This. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This. ⬇️
Joanne Carducci, aka @jojofromjerz.bsky.social, says it plain: "... we shouldn’t have to cut a deal with political arsonists just to keep people fed. We shouldn’t have to act civil while the country has a gun to its head and the shooter says, 'Let us kill your healthcare or we’ll starve your kids.'"
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Joanne Carducci, aka @jojofromjerz.bsky.social, says it plain: "... we shouldn’t have to cut a deal with political arsonists just to keep people fed. We shouldn’t have to act civil while the country has a gun to its head and the shooter says, 'Let us kill your healthcare or we’ll starve your kids.'"
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The only silver lining to last night’s cave.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The only silver lining to last night’s cave.
Robin Snyder on Senate shutdown vote: "Republicans don’t want to 'negotiate' jack shit; they want to jam whatever they hell they want down your throat. Also, way to give Republicans back all the momentum less than a week after historic D victories which represented a total rebuke of MAGA."
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Robin Snyder on Senate shutdown vote: "Republicans don’t want to 'negotiate' jack shit; they want to jam whatever they hell they want down your throat. Also, way to give Republicans back all the momentum less than a week after historic D victories which represented a total rebuke of MAGA."
C'mon now ... he hasn't had time to consider it. 🤨
What will Mike Johnson's new excuse be for not swearing in Grijalva?
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
C'mon now ... he hasn't had time to consider it. 🤨
For ... what?
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
For ... what?
Appreciated the analysis this morning re: Ketanji Brown Jackson's ruling. I'm all for understanding. But Bree is right. This is nutso.
this is really my problem. if we have a system where someone we mostly trust to be decent has to make the decision to starve people a little bit for a day or two just to make it so it's harder for her coworkers to starve people a lot more for longer...
what are we even doing here?
what are we even doing here?
I appreciate the legal reporters explaining the likely reasoning behind the SNAP ruling but also rube goldberg-ing our way to maybe possibly giving food to hungry kids is pretty damning in itself
November 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Appreciated the analysis this morning re: Ketanji Brown Jackson's ruling. I'm all for understanding. But Bree is right. This is nutso.
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NEW: Here's Judge McConnell's order telling the USDA to fully pay SNAP benefits immediately.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71820...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71820...
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
NEW: Here's Judge McConnell's order telling the USDA to fully pay SNAP benefits immediately.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71820...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71820...
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I am digging the creative dunking by the Dems
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I am digging the creative dunking by the Dems
Sharing a few photos taken at the marina by neighbor @rmklumpp.bsky.social. Amazing images of bald eagles.
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Sharing a few photos taken at the marina by neighbor @rmklumpp.bsky.social. Amazing images of bald eagles.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Yes. Love her. The bright face of the future.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Yes. Love her. The bright face of the future.
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Local woman wakes up, puts the former Teen Vogue writers in charge of the Washington Post, makes oatmeal.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Local woman wakes up, puts the former Teen Vogue writers in charge of the Washington Post, makes oatmeal.
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Hey MAGA: I'll see your "mandate" and raise you a MAMDANI.
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hey MAGA: I'll see your "mandate" and raise you a MAMDANI.
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We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.
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California voters sent a strong anti-Donald Trump message on Tuesday by passing Proposition 50, another big win for Democrats during the 2025 off-year election.
Rebuking Trump, California passed Prop 50 to redistrict in favor of Democrats
Prop. 50 is a constitutional amendment that would allow the nation’s most populous state to temporarily stop using a nonpartisan commission to draw congressional district boundaries.
www.inquirer.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
California voters sent a strong anti-Donald Trump message on Tuesday by passing Proposition 50, another big win for Democrats during the 2025 off-year election.
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Making the case for joy in an upcoming workshop — brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/j... #writingworkshops #joy #MaryOliver #KephartKeepers
Making the Case for Joy
By Beth Kephart “I drop to the sand,” Mary Oliver writes in “Owls,” as she traces a moment’s reverie. “… I am replete, supine, finished, filled to the last edges with an immobilizing happiness.” To…
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November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Making the case for joy in an upcoming workshop — brevity.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/j... #writingworkshops #joy #MaryOliver #KephartKeepers
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It's been 40 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
November 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It's been 40 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social never disappoints.
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social never disappoints.
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It's been 38 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's been 38 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Probably just a coincidence, but SNAP benefits end for 42 million Americans tomorrow, on the Day of the Dead.
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Probably just a coincidence, but SNAP benefits end for 42 million Americans tomorrow, on the Day of the Dead.
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The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/