Cathy Halley (they/she)

OMG love it. That shade, too!

Smart Search List of the Day The Smart Search List of the Day is: Literary Nonfiction feat. @ploughshares.bsky.social @therumpus.net @pitheadchapel.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/nonfiction/literary-nonfiction-6IQ06pz8

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Literary Nonfiction feat. @ploughshares.bsky.social @therumpus.net @pitheadchapel.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

It's a disgrace.

Every Gazan who has survived this far is a miracle, please help if you can.

Now www.archistrati.com better invite me to your dinner parties.

@qatpow.bsky.social I have two friends with famous names. You and Carla Bruni.

Can Intellectual Humility Save Us from Ourselves? - JSTOR Daily Intellectual humility is defined as a willingness to admit you’re wrong. It could be just the idea for our self-righteous times.

If I could embed a microchip into Trance and Trusk, it'd contain this one series from JSTOR Daily on intellectual humility. Because by god, these boys need it.

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#intellectualhumility #IH #Trump #Musk #JDVance

La estrella de la música country Sheryl Crow vendió su Tesla y donará sus fondos a la @npr.org

“Llega un momento en el que tienes que decidir con quién estás dispuesto a alinearte. Adiós Tesla”.

#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
#BoicotTesla

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Musk, I want a quarterly report on your f-ing Q1 OKR. Where's the 2 trillion that all the government workers are wasting?

This story took me two weeks to report, I hope you share it.

Environmental justice should not be a footnote in this historical moment.

Me too! I got no platform!

Biden commutes life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, 80 Native American activist spent half a century in prison over 1975 murder of two FBI agents in South Dakota

⭐️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A-fucking gain?

“By withdrawing, the United States will join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only four countries not party to the agreement, under which nations work together to keep global warming below levels that could lead to environmental catastrophe.”

JD Vance in May to CNN on those violent on January 6th: “If you beat up a cop, of course you deserve to go to prison. If you violated the law you should suffer the consequences.”

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We are Taco Bell Quarterly: ultra prestigious, super gay, always Literary. We are here to encourage you in your existential dread. We open 4/20 we pay $100, we want prose, poems and art for an upcoming print issue. Look into the abyss and send us what you see.

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

USA Rail Pass Flash Sale. $299 when you book by January 17.

Flash sale on Amtrak Rail Passes. They're $299 for 10 segments within a 30-day period. That's pretty cheap for a coach seat. I mention this because I *love* writing on the train!

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#train #traintravel #writing #flashsale

New year, new project May 2025 be the year of better documentation of life and toil on the farm

New year, new project. Well, new attempt to document our prairie restoration work! #prairie #Wisconsin #Driftless

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Dear writers: I recommend that you try out Speechify, just so you can hear the Gwyneth Paltrow bot read your dirty words.

Land Access Baseline Study Writers at Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA The Land Access Baseline Study Writers will contribute to the research and writing of a geographically-focused baseline study of land and market access issues in the continental US southeast, Puerto R...

Interesting #writing job based in the southestern US for RAFI: Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI)

$75/hour, 12 hours/week, writing about land access in the U.S. Southeast, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands, for RAFI.

rafiusa.hire.trakstar.com/jobs/fk0pj88/

Church in Kenya for L.G.B.T.Q. Africans Thrives Despite Attacks The congregation in Nairobi, Kenya, has been forced to move to 10 different locations over 10 years, and yet it has survived as a sanctuary in an increasingly hostile environment.

So proud of my friend Joseph for his work with the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, to promote #LGBTQ+ inclusive worship in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/w...

Notice that TapeACall Pro Call Recorder is raising prices from $19.99 to $69.99 a year.

A steep 250% price increase on an app I only use occasionally anymore!

When Black Celebrities Wore Blackface - JSTOR Daily A Black Bohemia flourished in New York before the Harlem Renaissance and with it a new type of self-determined, contradictory Black celebrity.

Here's Dorothy's story: daily.jstor.org/when-black-c...

The Black Blackface Performer Who History Tries to Forget Bert Williams, the first modern Black entertainment star, was born 150 years ago. The contradictions at the heart of his career are still relevant today.

If you read this, I encourage you to read the essay @dorothyjberry.bsky.social wrote about Bert Williams for JSTOR Daily in 2020. It provides more context and free access to related research. Link in comments.

The Black Blackface Performer Who History Tries to Forget www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/a...

I thought you’d all like to know that I found my prescription sunglasses in the bedside basket at the farm. Delighted to leave that self-recrimination behind.

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Congratulations to my colleagues at JSTOR Daily for a Silver #AnthemAwards!
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Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.

www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/two-...

New Pew Research Center report finds two-thirds of news influencers are men--and most have never worked for a news organization.