Diane Josefowicz
@dianejosefowicz.bsky.social
novelist, historian, amateur hoofer
www.dianejosefowicz.com | GUARDIANS & SAINTS out now from @cornerstonepress | THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL coming in May 2026 from @sohopress
www.dianejosefowicz.com | GUARDIANS & SAINTS out now from @cornerstonepress | THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL coming in May 2026 from @sohopress
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Forte tempesta geomagnetica in atto! Aurore boreali già visibili dalle Alpi. Questa una webcam nella zona del Cervino
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January 19, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Forte tempesta geomagnetica in atto! Aurore boreali già visibili dalle Alpi. Questa una webcam nella zona del Cervino
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A message from Bernice King, the daughter of MLK Jr. Let’s not allow people to white wash who he was, because what we learn in school is a sanitized version.
What lessons do you take from MLK/the Civil Rights Era, that can help us today?
What lessons do you take from MLK/the Civil Rights Era, that can help us today?
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
A message from Bernice King, the daughter of MLK Jr. Let’s not allow people to white wash who he was, because what we learn in school is a sanitized version.
What lessons do you take from MLK/the Civil Rights Era, that can help us today?
What lessons do you take from MLK/the Civil Rights Era, that can help us today?
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Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.
January 19, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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Back then, wannabe dictators either declared dictatorship or staged a coup. Today wannabe dictators use “electoral autocracy” — they come to power via elections but then hollow out the electoral system through voter suppression, banning rivals from running for office, intimidation, & other tactics.
January 19, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Back then, wannabe dictators either declared dictatorship or staged a coup. Today wannabe dictators use “electoral autocracy” — they come to power via elections but then hollow out the electoral system through voter suppression, banning rivals from running for office, intimidation, & other tactics.
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When the moment feels heavy, the answer isn’t disengagement—it’s focus.
Step by step, action by action.
Step by step, action by action.
January 19, 2026 at 2:25 PM
When the moment feels heavy, the answer isn’t disengagement—it’s focus.
Step by step, action by action.
Step by step, action by action.
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THE NIGHTS ARE QUIET IN TEHRAN by Shida Bazyar, tr Ruth Martin (@scribepub.bsky.social). Reviewed by Megan Peck Shub. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...
January 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
THE NIGHTS ARE QUIET IN TEHRAN by Shida Bazyar, tr Ruth Martin (@scribepub.bsky.social). Reviewed by Megan Peck Shub. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...
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Great piece. Heading there next Monday for research and it was bracing but important to read. FYI my take on the Renee Good killing: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...
History Teaches . . . Demonizing White Female Race and Gender Traitors
Do We Need To Start Giving White Women 'The Talk'?
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Great piece. Heading there next Monday for research and it was bracing but important to read. FYI my take on the Renee Good killing: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...
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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
A little history courtesy of the NYT. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/w...
A Failed State Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate?
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
A little history courtesy of the NYT. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/w...
HEY NEW YORK: Whatcha doing on Saturday, Jan 31?
January 19, 2026 at 1:11 AM
HEY NEW YORK: Whatcha doing on Saturday, Jan 31?
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where are you taking our neighbors? where are you taking our beloved friends? where are you taking our precious strangers?
January 18, 2026 at 5:02 PM
where are you taking our neighbors? where are you taking our beloved friends? where are you taking our precious strangers?
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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
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Now we go live to antifa headquarters in Minnesota
January 18, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Now we go live to antifa headquarters in Minnesota
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Want to help out in Minneapolis" CANMN are looking to raise $10k. They do mutual aid distributions and have since 2020:
www.canmn.org/donate
www.canmn.org/donate
Donate Funds — Community Aid Network MN
www.canmn.org
January 18, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Want to help out in Minneapolis" CANMN are looking to raise $10k. They do mutual aid distributions and have since 2020:
www.canmn.org/donate
www.canmn.org/donate
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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Feed: "The Providence Eye"
By: Diane Josefowicz on Wednesday, April 30, 2025
By: Diane Josefowicz on Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Kirstin Allio Wants You to Wake Up
Double-Check for Sleeping Children is Providence writer Kirstin Allio’s second volume of short stories and her fourth book. It might also be her best. In twenty lyrical short stories of [...]
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May 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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By: Diane Josefowicz on Wednesday, April 30, 2025
By: Diane Josefowicz on Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #WomensArt
January 17, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Clare Youngs, contemporary graphic designer and artist who works with collage, paper and fabric #WomensArt
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Blue Green Yellow Orange Red by Ellsworth Kelly, 1966
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137719
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137719
January 17, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Blue Green Yellow Orange Red by Ellsworth Kelly, 1966
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137719
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137719
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NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force.
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 17, 2026 at 1:55 AM
NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force.
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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A federal judge bars DHS and ICE agents in Minneapolis from using "pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools" against peaceful protesters. Federal agents there now also cannot stop vehicles that are following them at a safe distance. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:01 AM
A federal judge bars DHS and ICE agents in Minneapolis from using "pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools" against peaceful protesters. Federal agents there now also cannot stop vehicles that are following them at a safe distance. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...
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next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans
January 17, 2026 at 2:18 AM
next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans
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Signing off with a sleeping cat, drawn by Federico Barocci. Italy c. 1600. Today has been his day.
January 17, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Signing off with a sleeping cat, drawn by Federico Barocci. Italy c. 1600. Today has been his day.
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This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 AM
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)