The Bitter Southerner
Over 11 years independent publishing — print mag, James Beard🏅s, books, podcast, t-shirts, working on a #BetterSouth #BetterAmerica #BetterWorld for ALL.
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- "He was keenly aware that certain men wanted him dead, simply because his job was protecting local birds whose plumage had become more valuable than gold in the Gilded Age lust for exotic millinery." —Mike Kane for @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/p...
- A poem very fitting of the unfortunately "interesting" times we currently live in, from the late, great Nikki Giovanni, & thanks to the always amazing @bittersouth.bsky.social . bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/v...
- "Inside, a man lay dead." Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer Mike Kane & @bittersouth.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/p...
- In our Weekly Top 5: * Gambling's grip @harpers.bsky.social * Of plumes and poachers @bittersouth.bsky.social * Bemoaning Americans in Rome @thedialmag.bsky.social * Magical history tour @texasmonthly.bsky.social * Fake poultry flinger @slate.com longreads.com/2026/01/23/t...
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- Don’t waste your time with AI slop. These albums have what you’ve been searching for, and more, this whole year. This year, @bittersouth.bsky.social tapped me to write about the best Southern music of 2025. Check it out, and let me know your top five, ten, 20. bittersoutherner.com/best-souther...
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- “The atrocities in Charlotte” is a perfectly measured lacerating phrase. Hat’s off to @bittersouth.bsky.social. Love you guys. Never stop fighting the good fight. www.instagram.com/p/DRPeGhwkUl...
- This week's Top 5: * Metal medicine, @highcountrynews.org * Hyped humanoids, @harpers.bsky.social * Carnival crossroads, @bittersouth.bsky.social * Divine defiance, @placesjournal.bsky.social * Optimization obsession, @aeon.co longreads.com/2025/11/21/t...
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- This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.
- Choices, choices.
- "Bless your heart" sweatshirt is cleannnnn
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- My great-grandmother was a lunch lady in rural Georgia and was just as tough, resourceful, and caring as all of these wonderful ladies. Thank you for lifting them up, @bittersouth.bsky.social! 🥹 bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
- "Life and Death at the County Fair" Words & Photos by Michael Adno November 12, 2025 Via @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
- "The cast of eccentric people here renews my hope one night and reaffirms all my doubts the next." —Michael Adno for @bittersouth.bsky.social
- "Through the gates, past the gator wrestler, real-life cowboys, and make-believe cowboys, the scent of warm dough beneath a fog of powdered sugar carries me up the midway." A #Florida writer on the joys & pain of his hometown fair. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/... via @bittersouth.bsky.social
- "In reflecting on her now, I wanted to check in with modern-day heroes of the school lunch line."—Jennifer Justus for @bittersouth.bsky.social
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- @bittersouth.bsky.social is doing some of the best and most important work in US food and justice journalism, you should subscribe
"All Praise to the Lunch Ladies" in @bittersouth.bsky.social is moving & illuminating. School nutrition depts. do so much w/ VERY LITTLE. Want to see an efficiently run government feeding program in action? Start w/ the National School Lunch Program. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...- [Not loaded yet]
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- "When you’re Black, every place here might be where you’re from, a forgotten ancestor beneath the soil, all of them pulling on you: Come to us. So, I listened." Nylah Iqbal Muhammad for @bittersouth.bsky.social: bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/... 📸: Jaida Grey Eagle & Camille Farrah Lenain
- always be reposting this on halloween, my very favorite ghost story from the @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/we-salted-na...
- Buy a t-shirt. Fill a food bank. From the good folk at @bittersouth.bsky.social
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- I had to have this one. My mom recently declared my collards are better than hers.
- "These figures were aggressive, but not malevolent. Their purpose seemed twofold: to make us know they were there, and that we could do nothing about it." @tommaxwell.bsky.social for @bittersouth.bsky.social: bittersoutherner.com/we-salted-na...
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- Latest issue of @bittersouth.bsky.social just showed up and y’all what an absolutely gorgeous publication. Please go and subscribe because they produce art four times a year.
- The latest edition (No. 12) just arrived. Can’t wait to read it. #TheBitterSoutherner @bittersouth.bsky.social
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- Things that made me cry this morning: this beautiful offering from Houston’s Poet Laureate, Reyes Ramirez, in @bittersouth.bsky.social “We’re nothing short of miracles, despite what our government says.” bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/l...
- “Seven out of 10 times if you get invited to a party in Miami, you’re gonna find imperial rice on the menu." Arroz imperial , the South #Florida casserole dish that's meant to share. bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/a... via @bittersouth.bsky.social
- "I was lorn, damn it, and depressed. But then arroz imperial sauntered, slick with mayonnaise, into my consciousness, and she demanded answers." —Caroline Hatchett for @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/issue-no12/a...
- Wow, totally missed that this series is out there. Thanks @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/hotel-saint-...
- "Americans are being led, willingly, applaudingly, into the crime of complicity, a callous ruthlessness, an implacable lust for punishment that portends — or demonstrates — the dying of the nation’s soul." @charlesmblow.bsky.social in @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
- what a story from the great folk at @bittersouth.bsky.social bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
