500-word Fiction Challenge — nycmidnight The 500-word Fiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to create short stories based on genre, action, and object assignments in 48 hours.

Up for a writing challenge? Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 500-word Fiction Challenge on August 15th! Learn more at nycmidnight.com/500

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Pope Francis: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of God!"

In Pope Francis’s last public address, he preached care of the marginalized, the vulnerable, and migrants, saying: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves.” May we heed his wish.

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I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy.

Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.

All with an average donation of $21.

THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️

Everyday we inch closer to the point of having to warn citizens that they’re in danger. There are still obstacles that this regime has to overcome, but they’re doing it swiftly. Eventually we reach a point of Nazi-Gestapo level danger. This is how things are trending. I will call it when I see it.

🔥WATCH: “Stop acting like you don’t know what this is all about.”

Rep. Hakeem unleashes on @AronMaberry for 1 of 2 his anti-DEI bills (he claims are actually fighting discrimination🤔)

McKenzie, Glynn, @votegloriaj.bsky.social also made some Maberry juice.

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A little history on racism and housing is...

This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺

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Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Inside Cory Booker’s Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m....

Good morning. Cory Booker has now been speaking on the Senate floor for 12 hours straight. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

YouTube video by chasefukuoka61 Jack-a-Roe, 5/13/77 ☮ Grateful Dead

Good morning my Friends 🌲🌊🌞

Just another day unless you let your mind roam free 😏

Be where you are, recall & drift away 🧚‍♂️

You aren’t what are right now~> What you’ve been & who you’ll be…all fluid, see a lil’ furthur 👌🏻

Always good
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As the pearl-clutching over @Justinjpearson’s reaction to @RepAndrewFarmer disrespecting him for grieving his brother rolls in, we don’t remember @timburchett or anyone else calling for expulsions when Clemmons & Cepicky got in each other’s faces on the house floor:

He was a stray, see what love does.💕

Happy birthday to the legendary Aretha Franklin, born on this day in 1942!

Honored as the “Queen of Soul,” she’s among the best-selling musicians, with global sales exceeding 75 million records…

#soulsky #funksky #jazzsky #music

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.

Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

Himes: "As far as I can tell, we're now on team Kremlin ... the president's chief Russia negotiator, Steve Witkoff, is repeating Russian talking points and participating in a mad cap Signal chat about an attack on Yemen while inside Russia."

CNN: Details shared by Hegseth in Signal chat were classified

Hegseth must resign or be fired. This is not a close call.
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