Alexandra Grabbe
@alexandragrabbe.bsky.social
Author of The Nansen Factor, Refugee Stories. Former talk show host in Paris; former green innkeeper on Cape Cod. Now living in Arlington, MA. Memoir to be published by Koehler Books in March 2026. @AuthorsGuild
#Traindreams, on Netflix, is a great movie. So original!
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#Traindreams, on Netflix, is a great movie. So original!
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The targeting of Mark Kelly isn’t politics...it’s the sick new normal created by a movement that can’t win arguments, only intimidate. When public servants become targets, freedom isn’t next in line… it’s already in danger. Fortunately, the outrage is intensifying rapidly.
#HOLDFAST
#HOLDFAST
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The targeting of Mark Kelly isn’t politics...it’s the sick new normal created by a movement that can’t win arguments, only intimidate. When public servants become targets, freedom isn’t next in line… it’s already in danger. Fortunately, the outrage is intensifying rapidly.
#HOLDFAST
#HOLDFAST
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This young man has it exactly right.
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its easy to feel powerless. But each of us has the power to save or transform lives.
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Gifts You Can Give That Save Lives
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
its easy to feel powerless. But each of us has the power to save or transform lives.
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
@nickKristof’ has done the research. Read his suggestions on gifts we can give that save lives
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
“Caregivers wait too long to ask for help,” said Yvette Nicole Brown at the #Endwell conference today in LA. #letstalkaboutdeath
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Caregivers wait too long to ask for help,” said Yvette Nicole Brown at the #Endwell conference today in LA. #letstalkaboutdeath
There are 120 different forms of dementia. #endwell #letstalkaboutdeath
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
There are 120 different forms of dementia. #endwell #letstalkaboutdeath
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Jamal Khashoggi was a US resident, a journalist & critic of the extremist policies of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. To silence him, bin Salman organized his murder & dismembering with a bone saw.
The lavish welcome of this murderer to our WH is disgusting
The lavish welcome of this murderer to our WH is disgusting
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Jamal Khashoggi was a US resident, a journalist & critic of the extremist policies of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. To silence him, bin Salman organized his murder & dismembering with a bone saw.
The lavish welcome of this murderer to our WH is disgusting
The lavish welcome of this murderer to our WH is disgusting
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
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This is how the depraved, unprincipled Trump excuses the murder of Jamal Khashoggi : blame the victim.
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he says sitting with the culpable MBS.
Sickening and infuriating.
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he says sitting with the culpable MBS.
Sickening and infuriating.
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is how the depraved, unprincipled Trump excuses the murder of Jamal Khashoggi : blame the victim.
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he says sitting with the culpable MBS.
Sickening and infuriating.
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he says sitting with the culpable MBS.
Sickening and infuriating.
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"The rate of warming is showing signs of accelerating" PIK Director Johan Rockström gives an analysis of the current situation on climate & planetary boundaries at #COP30. The data suggests the world is heading for global temperatures not seen in millions of years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNn...
November 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"The rate of warming is showing signs of accelerating" PIK Director Johan Rockström gives an analysis of the current situation on climate & planetary boundaries at #COP30. The data suggests the world is heading for global temperatures not seen in millions of years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnNn...
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A Member of the Queen's Guard breaks protocol to comfort a lost child.
Makes me tear up.
WHat has happened to our humanity, folks?
WHy is it not things like this that we venerate?
Why do we tolerate cruelty all over our land???
Makes me tear up.
WHat has happened to our humanity, folks?
WHy is it not things like this that we venerate?
Why do we tolerate cruelty all over our land???
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
A Member of the Queen's Guard breaks protocol to comfort a lost child.
Makes me tear up.
WHat has happened to our humanity, folks?
WHy is it not things like this that we venerate?
Why do we tolerate cruelty all over our land???
Makes me tear up.
WHat has happened to our humanity, folks?
WHy is it not things like this that we venerate?
Why do we tolerate cruelty all over our land???
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If only the Orange King was the backbone of the right wing movement. He’s just a front man. The real danger is behind him, obscured from view. ONE of the biggest problems we have is the Supreme Corruption who broke the Constitution to allow him on the ballot. They have lifetime appointments.
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If only the Orange King was the backbone of the right wing movement. He’s just a front man. The real danger is behind him, obscured from view. ONE of the biggest problems we have is the Supreme Corruption who broke the Constitution to allow him on the ballot. They have lifetime appointments.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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So proud of my friend and fellow Welsh Pembroke Corgi owner @andrewfeinberg.com for asking this question:
“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So proud of my friend and fellow Welsh Pembroke Corgi owner @andrewfeinberg.com for asking this question:
“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
“What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"
Did you miss the #Arlington Author Salon Book Fair? It’s a fun event. Come next year!
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Did you miss the #Arlington Author Salon Book Fair? It’s a fun event. Come next year!
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"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology."
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa
Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence.
ecfr.eu
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology."
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...