@vikkim11.bsky.social
Global citizen, humanitarian, poet, writer, photographer, lover of science, philosophy, intelligent religious teaching of all faiths and a devotee of literature
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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Pretty fitting that Trump's "electors" receive pardons that are just as fake as they are.
Trump claims he "pardoned" his fake electors. He doesn't have that power.
The president executed a half-baked plan cooked up by pardon attorney Ed Martin.
www.motherjones.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pretty fitting that Trump's "electors" receive pardons that are just as fake as they are.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Socialism, but Make It Trump www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
Socialism, But Make It Trump
After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Socialism, but Make It Trump www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
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From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
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While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
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I get angry with dems at times because I expect better out of them. I dont expect an ounce of decency, decorum, or dignity out of the gop. I'll always fight to elect democrats period. Repubs are the culprits for this mess we are in, however I'm tired of dems always having to save the day.
#RantOver
#RantOver
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I get angry with dems at times because I expect better out of them. I dont expect an ounce of decency, decorum, or dignity out of the gop. I'll always fight to elect democrats period. Repubs are the culprits for this mess we are in, however I'm tired of dems always having to save the day.
#RantOver
#RantOver
Immigration is our foundation.💔
“Nativism has proved politically potent enough to carry Trump to the Oval Office twice,” Idrees Kahloon writes. Now, “it may be powerful enough to bring net migration down to zero, perhaps for some time.” https://theatln.tc/azTwXiQL
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Immigration is our foundation.💔
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President Trump is pursuing a policy of climate-change acceleration. His actions are fueling global warming—and may leave places in the United States uninhabitable by mid-century, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
President Trump is pursuing a policy of climate-change acceleration. His actions are fueling global warming—and may leave places in the United States uninhabitable by mid-century, Vann R. Newkirk II writes.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... I hope more people (especially men) become highly performative and actually read more books, it makes for a more just, intelligent and empathetic society. Read on….📚
Hang on, when did reading become so performative (and the latest ick)?
Whether its highly curated Instagram accounts or the new interior trend for ‘book nooks’, reading show offs are everywhere. But, maybe in our post-literate society, we could turn something cringe int...
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... I hope more people (especially men) become highly performative and actually read more books, it makes for a more just, intelligent and empathetic society. Read on….📚
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"All day, each day we plan for the future, prepare for old age...unaware that there are a thousand deaths awaiting us at every turn."
- CROOKED CROSS, Sally Carson.
- CROOKED CROSS, Sally Carson.
October 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"All day, each day we plan for the future, prepare for old age...unaware that there are a thousand deaths awaiting us at every turn."
- CROOKED CROSS, Sally Carson.
- CROOKED CROSS, Sally Carson.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Highly recommend this novel about the rise of Nazism on a small German town in 1933. Both a country and a family are about to be ripped apart and it all felt sadly relevant.📚 #literature
A prophetic 1934 novel has found a surprising second life – it holds lessons for us all | Charlotte Higgins
Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross was written and set during the rise of nazism. It shows both how extremism takes hold, and the moral certainty needed to resist it, says the Guardian’s chief culture write...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Highly recommend this novel about the rise of Nazism on a small German town in 1933. Both a country and a family are about to be ripped apart and it all felt sadly relevant.📚 #literature
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"The country was like a person tossing in a frightened sleep, half conscious yet half unconscious of the nightmare into which, on awaking, it was to be so abruptly plunged."
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/c...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"The country was like a person tossing in a frightened sleep, half conscious yet half unconscious of the nightmare into which, on awaking, it was to be so abruptly plunged."
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readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/c...
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New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a country’s fundamental …
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson.
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
A brilliant, terrifying novel about the rise of Nazism, the falling apart of a country’s codes of decency & the moral fortitude required to oppose persecution. Frighteningly timely. 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...
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We've been through this a thousand times. The passage of Obamacare took an entire year, each step a painstaking examination of what is possible and beneficial. This is a horrendous step BACKWARDS.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
We've been through this a thousand times. The passage of Obamacare took an entire year, each step a painstaking examination of what is possible and beneficial. This is a horrendous step BACKWARDS.
The Rise of the Anti-Cinderella Story www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
“At some point during our new Gilded Age, as the United States and the world have become more unequal, did Prince Charming die?” Just watched ‘Materialists’ and loved it.🎥
“At some point during our new Gilded Age, as the United States and the world have become more unequal, did Prince Charming die?” Just watched ‘Materialists’ and loved it.🎥
The Rise of the Anti-Cinderella Story
A pair of recent films, Celine Song’s “Materialists” and Sean Baker’s “Anora,” turn the fairy tale on its head, with mixed results.
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Rise of the Anti-Cinderella Story www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
“At some point during our new Gilded Age, as the United States and the world have become more unequal, did Prince Charming die?” Just watched ‘Materialists’ and loved it.🎥
“At some point during our new Gilded Age, as the United States and the world have become more unequal, did Prince Charming die?” Just watched ‘Materialists’ and loved it.🎥
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Quick question: Do you feel swamped in life and overwhelmed with clutter? Don’t worry! Just follow this elegant, life-simplifying rule composed of 11 sub-rules, courtesy of New Yorker Humor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/291XEL
How to Simplify Your Life with the 80-20-17-30-5-1-17-0.29-0-6-66 Rule
Just 30 per cent of your relationships actually serve you. Want proof? Share this podcast with everyone you know.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Quick question: Do you feel swamped in life and overwhelmed with clutter? Don’t worry! Just follow this elegant, life-simplifying rule composed of 11 sub-rules, courtesy of New Yorker Humor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/291XEL
“But the purpose of an economy is also something deeper. Its purpose is also to create a good society. A good, stable society where individuals can be free and flourish and live together in harmony…
Americans are in conflict over policies for health care, housing, immigration, and the role of religion in society. Walter Isaacson on why a key sentence in the Declaration of Independence could help restore stability to our politics:
The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence
Restoring stability to American politics will require reviving an age-old concept: common ground.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“But the purpose of an economy is also something deeper. Its purpose is also to create a good society. A good, stable society where individuals can be free and flourish and live together in harmony…
“I wondered if the crying father might have also become a household name if his story were online. Instead, like most people who are detained across the country right now, he remained unknown and unreachable.” #HumanRights
As Trump’s deportation campaign continues, thousands of detainees with no criminal record are being detained. But “for every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about,” Caitlin Dickerson reports.
The Deportees Whose Stories We’ll Never Know
Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“I wondered if the crying father might have also become a household name if his story were online. Instead, like most people who are detained across the country right now, he remained unknown and unreachable.” #HumanRights
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“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
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Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
Wheels Up
What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Edward Burtynsky built a career photographing landscapes altered by human exploitation—hedgerows of disposed tires, sprawling oil refineries, pockmarked mountainsides. But he hasn’t given up on documenting the pristine, @andrewaoyama.bsky.social writes:
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In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In honor of Viktor Orban's visit to Washington, here's a reminder that Orban has made his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Take the time to read this thread. Shame on Heritage and everyone who will not condemn their erasure of American service and sacrifice
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Take the time to read this thread. Shame on Heritage and everyone who will not condemn their erasure of American service and sacrifice
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Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social
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Kristi Noem ordered ICE to purchase ten Spirit Airlines jets for deportations. Two problems: Spirit doesn’t own the planes, and they don’t have engines. Has there ever been a more incompetent administration?
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Noem wanted to buy Spirit Airlines planes - except the airline didn’t own them
DHS looked at buying the planes from Spirit Airlines, according to a report
www.the-independent.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Kristi Noem ordered ICE to purchase ten Spirit Airlines jets for deportations. Two problems: Spirit doesn’t own the planes, and they don’t have engines. Has there ever been a more incompetent administration?
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...