Dinah Lenney

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

Dear @nytimes.com, one of the largest peaceful protests in this country's history, and it winds up on page 22 in the Sunday paper? Gave you the benefit of the doubt yesterday, figured maybe you'd cover it today, but no. What's going on there? What kind of reporting is this?

Thank you, Jeremy Kauffman—

Opinion | The Pointless Triumph of a Hapless President

“Overpromise, underdeliver, change the subject.”

The Pointless Triumph of a Hapless President www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

“There is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink…”

Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.

Stuart Little, my first without an ending, no way to know what would finally happen to Stuart, he just drives away to who knows where, geez, I cried myself to sleep over him...

So, basically, we have reality TV to blame for all of this, talk about trickle down…

This coming Sunday, talk about a grand finale, come hear @davidulin.bsky.social @atticalocke.bsky.social @emipasbeck.bsky.social and Alex Espinoza read from #snapshotsthebook @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social at Stories Books & Cafe! You’ll be so glad you did! 🥳

Daily Inspiration: Meet Johanna Blakley Today we’d like to introduce you to Johanna Blakley Hi Johanna, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to spee...

"We enter into parallel worlds that give us the chance to explore “what if” scenarios: What would I do in that situation? How are my values similar or different?" @mojojohanna.bsky.social about the work she does @learcenter.bsky.social
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Just leaving these here, just in case you want to put the dates in your calendar—

Let’s get something clear. The GOP has the power to keep the government from shutting down in March. They control both chambers of Congress and the White House. If they can’t reach a budget deal within their own ranks, that completely on them.

Dems: Don’t lift a finger to help them. Not one.

Goodbye to Everything and Everybody, by Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye recalls the “precious tender threadbare glory of each day” she experienced as a child who was not in a hurry to grow up.

"...how could childhood be the center? You had to be grown up longer than you got to be a child. This did not feel fair." Naomi Shihab Nye in #snapshotsthebook. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social

www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/g...

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A beautiful event for SNAPSHOTS with @dinahlenney.bsky.social @todgoldberg.bsky.social and so many others!

He nails it.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

Sometimes a moment has you pass through a portal. Coming out as trans was a long process for me, but it was also something that happened on one particular day. For the new @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @dinahlenney.bsky.social anthology SNAPSHOTS, I wrote about it. Thank you, Dinah & Lit Hub.

Here’s a beauty…

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Excerpted from #snapshotsthebook ! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social

Excerpted from #snapshotsthebook !@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social

Today is pub day! These 36 essays spread out on the big kitchen table altogether finally in #snapshotsthebook — thanks all you writers for your words and photos, and to @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social for putting the album together— wait till you see, everybody, and I hope you like it!

For your final prompt (number 30) choose from the following titles, and write: On Chutzpah; On Nudity; On Looking Up; On Geraniums… (h/t @aimeeliu.bsky.social )

Dinah Lenney: On Essay and Image The story behind Lenney's new ekphrastic anthology 'Snapshots'

With the wise and wonderful @aimeeliu.bsky.social—on chutzpah (and those other things, too)...

Dinah Lenney: On Essay and Image
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I’m so glad—they’re good fun when they work…

Thank you!

Prompt number 29: So much to do— how will you ever get it all done? When will you ever get it all done? What if you do and what if you don’t?