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Grant Shimmin
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Lover of humanity, nature, poetry, stories, faith, learning and more. Journalist, writer, poet. Words in various places. Read submissions at the brilliant Does it Have Pockets.
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Banger headline. From The Press: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
July 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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A blog post! In which I talk about how writing/reading is political by quoting @ryantpozzi.bsky.social and directing you to an interview with @melruthwrites.bsky.social — bc they are full of wisdom and can articulate that wisdom more eloquently than I can!

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“The Myth of Neutral Books”
The title of this post is in quotes because I appropriated it from an author friend’s newsletter, and I quote him here: Primary days, like today in my state, make politics visible. Books work…
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June 7, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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In today’s Weekend Herald
May 29, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Sam Mahon on the Mark Todd stoush newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/25/s...
Sam Mahon on the Mark Todd stoush
Sam Mahon replies to Mark Todd's recent outburst at the Ockham book awards
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May 29, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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I don’t think most pakeha realise how protective Te Tiriti is for them and for our country. #nzpol
May 16, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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Announcing our Issue 8 Contributors!!!

#Poetry:
Candace Kronen
Joe Coy
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@lauraupat5am.bsky.social
@cake-girl.bsky.social
@shaunjexauthor.bsky.social
Terri Watrous Berry
Amanda Trout
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May 6, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Issue 8: Righteous Rage is now available!

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Current Issue -
digital literary anthology accepting submissions based on theme to open conversations aimed at interpersonal understanding.
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May 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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Joe Kent, a Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official, Resigns Over the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...
Joe Kent, a Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official, Resigns Over the Iran War
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March 17, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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Bam Adebayo took 43 free throws on Tuesday night against the Wizards, more than any player ever in a NBA game.

The result is what etched his name into the history books.
March 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Lorrie Moore
LORRIE MOORE How to Become a Writer First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star / astronaut. A movie star/missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age — say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables.
March 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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#WomensHistoryMonth

J.C. TODD appears in Issue 1: Food with the poem “The Heart Doesn’t Have Four Chambers Yet.”

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THE HEART DOESN'T HAVE FOUR CHAMBERS YET -
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March 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."
March 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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We've won Small Press of the Year for Wales! It's great to be recognised for our work degentrifying the arts, platforming low socio-economic writers, & without grants or institutional support!

To celebrate, everything is 10% off on our website with code 'WINNERS2026'

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The British Book Awards Small press of the year Regional & Country Winner Wales Broken Sleep Books
March 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Someone had the paintbox out tonight… 🎨
A corker of a sunset in broad lurid pink and orange streaks against the last blue of the day - the colours reflected back by the beach at low tide, for double the impact. A fella in silhouette attempting to photograph tonight’s glorious sunset: to the left, long ripples of brilliant orange clouds, radiating from where the sun has just dipped below the horizon; to the right, a more demure mix of pink and purple-grey fluffy stuff. Sunset washing out, now just a long low smear of salmon outlining the hills, and matching underlighting on the edges of the clouds above, with everything else fading into blue and grey… all reflected in the wet sand of a low-tide beach. Intermittent lights of cars and houses along the horizon, like glow worms. Meanwhile at the north end of the beach, where the sky is still a fluffy quilt of pink and blue, lads are being lads and setting off fireworks to and from the pontoon, stranded at low tide. In the background, the “point” of Point Chevalier (Rangi-mata-rau), sandstone cliffs held together by gnarly old pōhutukawa and topped by rickety old pines.
March 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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"Fascism is being afraid. Fascism is fear bossing you. Fascism is worse than all these things, & fascism is closer to you than I can make you see. I’m trying to wake you up to tell you that you’re sleeping with something ten times more dangerous than a poison-fang snake in your bed." —Woody Guthrie
February 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property
February 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Macaulay Culkin posted a tribute to Catherine O’Hara….I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥺🙏
January 30, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢
January 30, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."

"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
Judge Calls DOJ's Statements On Slavery Exhibit Display 'Dangerous' And 'Horrifying'
Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe told the Justice Department's attorneys, "“You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way.”
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January 31, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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Honoured to be back in such an amazing journal:
epistemiclit.bsky.social Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · Apr 30
Poets of Issue 5: #Resistance, continued:

- James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social
- Grant Shimmin @grantshim.bsky.social
- Paul Gardner
- Monica Postma
- Chandra Persaud

Honored to have each and every one!
May 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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I get Richard’s Substack musings as part of a package. He’s prolific, so I don’t see most of them, but the title of this spoke to me: Who Flourishes Because You Have Power?
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Who Flourishes Because You Have Power?
Theologically, I've always had an ambivalent relationship with power.
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February 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Donald Trump. An Apology.

The new Private Eye is out now
A photo of the front cover of issue 1641 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "ON SHELVES NOW!" The headline reads "DONALD TRUMP: AN APOLOGY." The cover features a mock statement claiming that, in contrast to past descriptions of Trump as "a sleazy, deranged, orange-faced man-baby," the magazine now recognises him as "a political colossus, the voice of sanity, a champion of liberty, and the saviour of the Western world." The parody humorously describes him as "slim, handsome, and young," concluding with a note that "this statement has not been fact-checked."
January 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM