b. rubrecht
@bbrecht23.bsky.social
writer focusing on grief, haunting, mental health, & history. migration & int’l politics enthusiast. here sharing poetry & moments of humanity amidst the wreck.
Beautiful, as always, from @nikitagill.bsky.social.
“Survival a poison but necessary on my tongue; my life now a memento mori.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Beautiful, as always, from @nikitagill.bsky.social.
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It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
Another great day to cancel The New York Times and switch to @theguardian.com —
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Another great day to cancel The New York Times and switch to @theguardian.com —
What if—hear me out—no one apologizes to Trump ever again? I feel like everyone would be fine with that.
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What if—hear me out—no one apologizes to Trump ever again? I feel like everyone would be fine with that.
Unequivocally awful.
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Unequivocally awful.
This is the point on the academy folding to this administration’s threats. Either you believe in academic freedom and education or you do but aren’t willing to fight for it. Which means you don’t. End of story.
As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This is the point on the academy folding to this administration’s threats. Either you believe in academic freedom and education or you do but aren’t willing to fight for it. Which means you don’t. End of story.
Ffs
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ffs
Inspiring words and so grateful to see this victory for the people of New York!
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Inspiring words and so grateful to see this victory for the people of New York!
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Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
A must read from @edwardluce.bsky.social in the Financial Times…
"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr
The Trump Supremacy
[FREE TO READ] Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
on.ft.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A must read from @edwardluce.bsky.social in the Financial Times…
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“Even with that brand new, raw despair
still erupting in our throats, never did we wish
to make children become ash.”
— Erica Miriam Fabri, from “How To Destroy A Building”
still erupting in our throats, never did we wish
to make children become ash.”
— Erica Miriam Fabri, from “How To Destroy A Building”
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“Even with that brand new, raw despair
still erupting in our throats, never did we wish
to make children become ash.”
— Erica Miriam Fabri, from “How To Destroy A Building”
still erupting in our throats, never did we wish
to make children become ash.”
— Erica Miriam Fabri, from “How To Destroy A Building”
“…hope is the only thing that Israel can’t bomb. Obviously, sometimes I feel hopeless and helpless, but other times I’m like, nothing lasts forever. …. One day Palestine will be free, and maybe right now we’re a step closer to a free Palestine.” Read the amazing interview at @electricliterature.com
“Gaza is full of stories. The stories we see are nothing compared to the stories that we don’t actually see.”
A Diary Detailing 45 Days Living Through Genocide in Palestine - Electric Literature
Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad wants her book “The Eyes of Gaza” to remind us that what she experienced is still happening in Gaza today
buff.ly
October 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“…hope is the only thing that Israel can’t bomb. Obviously, sometimes I feel hopeless and helpless, but other times I’m like, nothing lasts forever. …. One day Palestine will be free, and maybe right now we’re a step closer to a free Palestine.” Read the amazing interview at @electricliterature.com
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It's fundamentally insane that providing health care coverage is left to employers. hbr.org/2019/03/why-...
October 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It's fundamentally insane that providing health care coverage is left to employers. hbr.org/2019/03/why-...
To all the devoted federal workers whose last day is today per the DRP, please know that your civil service is commendable and new doors will open as you step out of 47’s reckless racist administration. 💔❤️🩹
September 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
To all the devoted federal workers whose last day is today per the DRP, please know that your civil service is commendable and new doors will open as you step out of 47’s reckless racist administration. 💔❤️🩹
It feels like the democrats are yelling the rules for checkers at people who have already stolen their tv and are walking out the front door with it. Authoritarianism doesn’t care about the rule of law; the point is to create enough fear that no one else does either.
September 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It feels like the democrats are yelling the rules for checkers at people who have already stolen their tv and are walking out the front door with it. Authoritarianism doesn’t care about the rule of law; the point is to create enough fear that no one else does either.
America has always been deeply rooted in violence, but the escalation of rhetoric for retribution, especially from elected leaders, and endorsements at the highest level that target vulnerable populations, is terrible to witness.
September 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
America has always been deeply rooted in violence, but the escalation of rhetoric for retribution, especially from elected leaders, and endorsements at the highest level that target vulnerable populations, is terrible to witness.
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The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
I couldn’t care less about viewing an explicit drawing on a sex trafficker’s birthday card. But to see the Supreme Court greenlight racial profiling—this decision will be studied years from now as one of the more grievous moments in the American jurisprudence.
September 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I couldn’t care less about viewing an explicit drawing on a sex trafficker’s birthday card. But to see the Supreme Court greenlight racial profiling—this decision will be studied years from now as one of the more grievous moments in the American jurisprudence.
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The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
August 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
The White House press conference on deploying the National Guard to DC is worth watching, if only for the notable advocacy of violence by the President: "They fight back until you knock the hell out of them because it’s the only language they understand."
August 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The White House press conference on deploying the National Guard to DC is worth watching, if only for the notable advocacy of violence by the President: "They fight back until you knock the hell out of them because it’s the only language they understand."
Let’s go—and while you’re at it, support the local journalism of @lataco.bsky.social who is on the ground documenting and shining a light on what’s happening for the world to see.
Working hard to defend the rights, dignity, and well-being of immigrants, refugees, and the undocumented, they need our help more than ever right now.
By Hadley Tomicki
The full guide: lataco.com/donate-non-p...
By Hadley Tomicki
The full guide: lataco.com/donate-non-p...
August 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Let’s go—and while you’re at it, support the local journalism of @lataco.bsky.social who is on the ground documenting and shining a light on what’s happening for the world to see.
On not complying with this Administration, V (formerly Eve Ensler) quotes organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson. “It’s not decided where we go yet. Which is why it feels tense.’” But together we can collectively imagine a different reality. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We do not comply: how do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty? | V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Every day brings more devastation. But daily forms of rebellion can restore our sense of purpose
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
On not complying with this Administration, V (formerly Eve Ensler) quotes organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson. “It’s not decided where we go yet. Which is why it feels tense.’” But together we can collectively imagine a different reality. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A fiery little hummingbird with shock white feather cap seems like a perfect symbol for a resistance movement 🔥
August 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A fiery little hummingbird with shock white feather cap seems like a perfect symbol for a resistance movement 🔥
“We’re all dreaming of a better time from the past, since there is no future. We’ve stopped dreaming about building – now we dream of recreating.
It’s not recreating the actual thing that we want, it’s the yearning to recreate the feeling we had back then.”
It’s not recreating the actual thing that we want, it’s the yearning to recreate the feeling we had back then.”
Nostalgia is eating us alive. Instead of building a new world, we’re regurgitating a past that never existed | Martin Ingle
Nostalgia is eating us alive. Instead of building a new world, we’re regurgitating a past that never existed | Martin Ingle
We want to go back to a time when we could drive our big cars and tease our hair – without thinking about the ozone or whatever
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“We’re all dreaming of a better time from the past, since there is no future. We’ve stopped dreaming about building – now we dream of recreating.
It’s not recreating the actual thing that we want, it’s the yearning to recreate the feeling we had back then.”
It’s not recreating the actual thing that we want, it’s the yearning to recreate the feeling we had back then.”