Vicki Madden
@vlmadden.bsky.social
Teacher, very slow writer, lover of libraries & trains. Words in A Public Space and The New York Times. Rewilding my 1/3 acre garden, mending and darning socks and my little corner of the world
Also I help school leaders.
truenorthbk.org
vickimadden.net
Also I help school leaders.
truenorthbk.org
vickimadden.net
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February 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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The Satanic Day Care Panic, QAnon, and Pizzagate were moral panics. They relied on distorted, exaggerated, and misconstrued interpretations of the underlying facts. What Epstein did is real. It is not a "moral panic" to call for investigation and punishment of those who participated in his crimes.
February 5, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The Satanic Day Care Panic, QAnon, and Pizzagate were moral panics. They relied on distorted, exaggerated, and misconstrued interpretations of the underlying facts. What Epstein did is real. It is not a "moral panic" to call for investigation and punishment of those who participated in his crimes.
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February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The devaluing of expertise and skill—all flattened for shareholde and billionair CEOs to extract money
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 3:56 PM
The devaluing of expertise and skill—all flattened for shareholde and billionair CEOs to extract money
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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
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Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported.
6 years old.
She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
6 years old.
She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
Kindergarten teacher wants kindergartener deported
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
m.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported.
6 years old.
She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
6 years old.
She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.
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It’s been frustrating how little attention legacy news has paid to how Silicon Valley is “helping this administration aggressively scale a data dragnet that will eat our civil liberties for lunch, if we let it.”
Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
It’s been frustrating how little attention legacy news has paid to how Silicon Valley is “helping this administration aggressively scale a data dragnet that will eat our civil liberties for lunch, if we let it.”
Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.
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“Most of my life, / I had consorted with the unspeakable, longing to put my mouth / on it.”
— Lucie Brock-Broido from “Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination” in Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2013)
— Lucie Brock-Broido from “Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination” in Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2013)
February 3, 2026 at 1:17 PM
“Most of my life, / I had consorted with the unspeakable, longing to put my mouth / on it.”
— Lucie Brock-Broido from “Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination” in Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2013)
— Lucie Brock-Broido from “Meditation on the Sources of the Catastrophic Imagination” in Stay, Illusion (Knopf, 2013)
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This is how I felt after I read pretty much every email between Epstein and Bannon after the House Oversight release in December.
So many truly sociopathic men with so much power, bent on destroying humanity for their own fascistic aims & chatting about it in real time, is enough to drive you mad.
So many truly sociopathic men with so much power, bent on destroying humanity for their own fascistic aims & chatting about it in real time, is enough to drive you mad.
I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?
I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
February 3, 2026 at 10:49 AM
This is how I felt after I read pretty much every email between Epstein and Bannon after the House Oversight release in December.
So many truly sociopathic men with so much power, bent on destroying humanity for their own fascistic aims & chatting about it in real time, is enough to drive you mad.
So many truly sociopathic men with so much power, bent on destroying humanity for their own fascistic aims & chatting about it in real time, is enough to drive you mad.
Our conspiracy theories did not go too far.
I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
February 3, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Our conspiracy theories did not go too far.
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Reagan And Republicans Have Devastated Our Economic System For Everyone But The Rich….
February 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Reagan And Republicans Have Devastated Our Economic System For Everyone But The Rich….
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"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."
"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."
"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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New episode, first of 2026!! 🎉🎙️
A deep dive into metaphor with @sflusberg.bsky.social!
Metaphors delight, provoke, captivate, shock, and galvanize us. What does it say about the human mind that we simply can't escape them—and frankly don't want to?
Listen: disi.org/the-aura-of-...
A deep dive into metaphor with @sflusberg.bsky.social!
Metaphors delight, provoke, captivate, shock, and galvanize us. What does it say about the human mind that we simply can't escape them—and frankly don't want to?
Listen: disi.org/the-aura-of-...
February 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
New episode, first of 2026!! 🎉🎙️
A deep dive into metaphor with @sflusberg.bsky.social!
Metaphors delight, provoke, captivate, shock, and galvanize us. What does it say about the human mind that we simply can't escape them—and frankly don't want to?
Listen: disi.org/the-aura-of-...
A deep dive into metaphor with @sflusberg.bsky.social!
Metaphors delight, provoke, captivate, shock, and galvanize us. What does it say about the human mind that we simply can't escape them—and frankly don't want to?
Listen: disi.org/the-aura-of-...
This thread...
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
February 1, 2026 at 12:40 AM
This thread...
Skill and the process of learning, which deepens knowledge, changes the learner and their thought process. It’s not just about producing some product or widget. We need deeper thinking now more than ever.
A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.
The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job
January 31, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Skill and the process of learning, which deepens knowledge, changes the learner and their thought process. It’s not just about producing some product or widget. We need deeper thinking now more than ever.
WTF
The UAE provided Russia with the identities of US intelligence officers.
Is the UAE really a superb ally?
The United Arab Emirates assists in Russian sanctions evasion, helps China technologically, and harbors serious criminals.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:38 PM
WTF
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A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse
Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.
Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.
January 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse
Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.
Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.
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This illustrated geologic timescale of Earth focuses on the landscapes, flora and fauna of the West, drilling into the region’s deep history.
See the West’s rich geologic past - High Country News
This illustrated geologic timescale of Earth focuses on the landscapes, flora and fauna of the West, drilling into the region’s deep history.
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January 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
This illustrated geologic timescale of Earth focuses on the landscapes, flora and fauna of the West, drilling into the region’s deep history.
@mayor.nyc.gov I want to give appreciation to the team that just dealt with person in my apt bldg have a mental health crisis: @nypdnews.bsky.social , @fdny.bsky.social paramedics, a couple of what I believe were social workers. They were all so thoughtful and professional. Quiet tones. Impressive!
January 30, 2026 at 12:14 AM
@mayor.nyc.gov I want to give appreciation to the team that just dealt with person in my apt bldg have a mental health crisis: @nypdnews.bsky.social , @fdny.bsky.social paramedics, a couple of what I believe were social workers. They were all so thoughtful and professional. Quiet tones. Impressive!
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friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
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Mayor Mamdani is personally checking on the outer boroughs during the storm. Here he is stopping in Bed-Stuy to help NYCHA residents whose car got stuck.
January 25, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Mayor Mamdani is personally checking on the outer boroughs during the storm. Here he is stopping in Bed-Stuy to help NYCHA residents whose car got stuck.
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stuff like this, etc
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
stuff like this, etc
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My Beacon Hill neighbors are going door to door signing the community up on a group Signal and sharing resources for dealing with ICE.
www.greatforallcid.com/neighborhood...
www.greatforallcid.com/neighborhood...
Neighborhood Defense Toolkit — GREAT for all CID
www.greatforallcid.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:46 PM
My Beacon Hill neighbors are going door to door signing the community up on a group Signal and sharing resources for dealing with ICE.
www.greatforallcid.com/neighborhood...
www.greatforallcid.com/neighborhood...
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Boycotting is one way to fight them: psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...
Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace
The beast eats money. Don't feed it with yours.
psychopete1.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Boycotting is one way to fight them: psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-pet...