Dunkin for a Day: Town of Stow Will Change Name on July 24 to Welcome Return of Dunkin Brand news.jgpr.net/2025/07/17/d...
Omg it’s happening!! Dunkin’ Desert no more!
Everyone has read this story already, right? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...
I…cannot….
I’ll say one thing about having to drive teenagers everywhere: if I started with surcharges for making me wait around until they are done doing whatever they are doing instead of being in my car at the agreed upon time I’d be a very rich woman.
It’s a sad day for our country when that drivel passes for a presidential message on Easter Sunday.
Spending the day in Lexington yesterday gave me such hope that we can, and will, prevail as a nation.
Finally updated the website so a lot of my writing is in one place. Still a giant picture of me, but I have an MFA in creative writing, not in website design.
www.meganbirchmcmichael.com
🖋️ “Call for Hegseth and Waltz to resign!” hit 2,000 signers!
💬 Text SIGN PJTPZE to 50409
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
A huge thank you to @maris.bsky.social for writing this. As a bookseller who is also a writer who is also a local elected official…I fully agree with ALL of this: lithub.com/shilling-boo...
I just saw the most terrifying “ad” while watching CBS this morning…Kristi Noem suggesting that if immigrants leave the country voluntarily then they might be allowed back? But if not, DHS is going to hunt you down?
Also, it was a literal “bow down to dear leader” bit of propaganda…terrifying.
I’ll be on CNN at 6 with @jaketapper.bsky.social to discuss Senate Democrats’ responsibility to protect the federal government and vote NO on cloture and the GOP spending bill
BEST book mail!! @maureenstanton.bsky.social
I’m reading a galley of The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy (out 9/25 from Mariner)
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
If history has taught us anything, the art (the books, the movies, the music, the paintings and sculpture) that is going to come out of **all of this** is going to be weird and wild and big and loud and I for one am here for it.
What if we just say…no.
You think if we start referring to him as “President E&on” *maybe* that’ll piss him off enough to do something? I say we try and get it trending at least.
Alright folks, mourning month is over. Time to get to work.
Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be
Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don't have to believe in everything, but I believe in that. - Nikita Gill
A soft, small, hopeful thing.
For years I have cited Mike Judge’s Idiocracy and Dave Eggers’ The Circle as extremely prescient pieces of work (albeit taken as fantastical satire at the time) of where we have ended up as a society. What other texts/films to add to the list?
Also, as the proud daughter of a female Episcopal priest? Those women do not mince words. They had to fight for the right to even be serving at that table and have only been doing so in full capacity since 1974.
And what say you now “Christians”? To this Episcopal bishop preaching the teachings of Christ. Love thy neighbor, indeed.
Trump is mad because he realized yesterday that he got told off by a woman who he assumed was not powerful.
Clergy. Soft voice. Woman. Oh but power comes in many forms. Disarming these folks is very effective. Love to see it.
Hey Bluesky!
Trying to rebuild my writing/bookstore connections since the other side is a bit of a hellscape right now.
I’m a writer and an indie bookstore manager and I live with my family in MetroWest Massachusetts where we have one cat and no chickens. Yet.
#ncte folks: you are the some of the kindest people I have had the pleasure to meet in a long time! What a balm for the soul!! Stop by The Silver Unicorn booth 322 this morning for a high five and a pencil (and we STILL have signed Justice Jackson books if you want them :) )
This is the actual anti-drug slogan Kristi Noem came up with for South Dakota. Story here: www.borowitzreport.com/p/hide-fido
