Kelly Magee

Episode 09: Short Stories We Love — Third Person Limited The first in an occasional series focusing on short stories we found in various journals, and interviews with those authors. Short stories don't get much love outside of The New Yorker or MFA workshop...

Here's Episode 9: "Short Stories We Love". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Long shot of the Hands Off! protest in Bellingham, WA.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

in all seriousness: one of the most important philosophical questions of our time

Trees on a mountain and the bay below, blue skies with chaotic clouds.

Oyster Dome.

YouTube video by National Book Ursula Le Guin

I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now.

@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...

#booksky #wordoftheday

"The Next Ark" by Kelly Magee — River Styx Magazine A social media influencer live-tweets the apocalypse.

An influencer live tweets the apocalypse:

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

—Adrienne Rich

Robots! Hauntings! Doxing! Live-tweeting the Apocalypse! River Styx 109 is our biggest and most unexpected issue ever. Explore internal and external Posthuman landscapes. Preorder today. www.riverstyx.org/river-styx-109

Today, around ten thousand people gathered at Tesla showrooms across 50 states and internationally to protest Elon Musk (DOGE). We encourage everyone to join again next Saturday, March 8th, with more events planned.

Me, popping in to see what news I missed today
*remembers what timeline I live in*
Fifteen hours later…

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

This week, approximately 200,000 federal workers have been let go.

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights. Later, the Q+ also disappeared.

Erasing our history won't erase us.

Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?

The overwhelm has reached max capacity.

Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps Portrait of Fernando Cervantes Jr. Fernando Cervantes Jr. USA TODAY

Google Calendar removes Pride, Black History Month, and other events from millions of devices worldwide https://www.gbnews.com/tech/google-calendar-pride-black-history-month-removed

We think they should be powerful enough to afford principles. They think they have a lot to lose (and they lost their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago). Google, you coward, you quisling.

Oregon, Washington sue over Trump order targeting gender-affirming care The lawsuit accuses the president, and other members of the executive branch, of “attempts to dictate medical care by executive fiat.”

Gender affirming care is essential!

Recall of USAID’s global workforce causes havoc and distress USAID employees stationed overseas are struggling to navigate the sudden upheaval, having received little clear information from the Trump administration.

“We’ve seen this sort of thing happen in evacuations of war zones,” one official said. “I just can’t believe we’re doing it for the flippant kind of political pageantry that this administration seems to be doing it for.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Entire USAID agency worldwide was deleted by a consulting government employee with no authority to do so. It’s a constitutional crisis that puts US national security at risk and normies won’t get this until legacy media says this clearly and loudly.

Canadian radio is on it! I’ve been hearing ads to buy Canadian all week.

Good morning, hellscape.

Chaos Consumes USAID as State Department Moves to Send Overseas Staffers Home The US government’s primary foreign aid agency has employees stationed all over the world, many of whom are now bracing to abruptly leave their posts.

NEW: Chaos is consuming USAID as the State department moves to send overseas staffers home.

Already, some USAID employees’ email and systems access have been abruptly cut off, making it harder to get official information about what might happen next.