Heidi Pitlor

So sorry, Celeste.

And the bubble expands. Watching this is like watching a different planet, one where little boys fantasize and see the world as one big game. It is beyond grotesque, given the state of the economy in every other aspect.

The ugliness of our times. The ugliness of his/their faces. It's all a lot.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Author and editor Heidi Pitlor on letting your perspective change – The Creative Independent Writer and editor Heidi Pitlor discusses stepping down from a long-standing role, exploring holistic editing and working on her own writing.

I also interviewed previous series editor @heidipitlor.bsky.social for her final issue last year thecreativeindependent.com/people/autho... via @thecreativeindependent.com

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Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years.

Not bad for an Indy publisher!

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So maybe the thing to do is one boycott at a time instead of hundreds.

Swamp goblin here we come!

What do you think it was that they didn’t like? #hozier #hoziertok #fyp TikTok video by Bo Grant

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Thank you @hozier.bsky.social

Fuck off with this autism bullshit. That is all.

Only a dictator would want effective control over messaging in the media.
Comedy fights fascism.

Can we add a free speech response to our Northeast Collective? (And what is up, VT and NH??) www.reuters.com/business/hea...

the strongest pushback is coming from the right because media figures and electeds on the left are currently cowed by fear

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Now we're talking.

I miss celebrities being celebrities and politicians being politicians.

More than anything else, the whole world runs on the disregarded suffering of children.

This is true. If you don't believe me, perhaps this Harvard Business Review article will convince you.

hbr.org/2025/08/bewa...

A roll of toilet paper would do a better job as head of HHS. So would a gun. Perhaps they would approve the latter. Yes, I'm angry.

Reader, I choked up

In Praise of Liberal Arts I moved my twins to their colleges this past weekend, and oh, was it a lot in every sense of the words “a lot.”

It's ok not to be a business major: substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is what we need right now, dems.

We are delighted to share the cover for the witty and emotionally-charged new novel The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers, available to pre-order now: buythebook.online/the-ten-year...

'Somers's wit is as cool, caustic and dry as liquid nitrogen' TONY TULATHIMUTTE

'Hilarious' BRANDON TAYLOR

Dare I ask what they seek to elevate...?

Can a christian person explain this to me like I'm 5.

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

variety.com/2025/film/fe...

The latest Covid is a beast, people. Heads up. (2 weeks and counting here.)