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Christina Craigo
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Writer of fiction, student of Buddhism, defender of democracy, somewhat talented Speed Scrabbler. she/her
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View from a plane window of the wing with Rothko-like swaths of color in the background. The blue tip of the wing extends up into the orange of the sunset.
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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#NoKings
Protest sign reading “separation of powers; habeas corpus; freedom of expression; due process.” Protest sign with an American flag and the words “I love my country.”
October 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Joliet Jake and Elwood waylaid by Illinois Nazis.
September 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Well!!
Wordle graphic showing no correct letters on the first attempt and all correct letters on the second attempt.
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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“Wordle 1,511 2/6” plus graphic of my astonishing performance.
August 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This is what I was quoting.
Cover of a book called “The roots of evil: the origins of genocide and other group violence” by Ervin Staub.
August 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Plaques which read in French: “Here fell for France on August 28, 1944 Auguste Arnaudo, FFI corps Francs De La Libération, Group Léon.” “Here fell for France on August 28, 1944 Jean Bandino, FFI corps Franca De La Libération, Group Parent.”
August 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Plaques which read in French: “Here fell on August 28, 1944 in the service of France while courageously fighting for the liberation of Nice patriot Jean Morales.” “Here fell for France on August 28, 1944 Jean Bobichon (Bobby) of the liberation movement.”
August 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Plaque which reads in French: “The Notre Dame district to the martyrs of the resistance August 28, 1944.”
August 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Plaque which reads in French: “Here lived from 1940 to 1943 Angelo Donati, 1885 to 1960, diplomat, banker and philanthropist, who through his unwavering commitment under the Italian occupation, saved thousands of Jews, persecuted and doomed to be handed over to the German police by the Vichy authorities.”
August 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Wordle solved in two guesses.
July 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Plaque in Nice which reads “Ange Grassi, Franc-Tireur, French Partisan…hanged here on July 7 1944 and remained exposed for resisting Hitlerian oppressors. Passerby, bow down, remember.”
July 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I love these memorial plaques in France. N’oublions jamais.
Image of a plaque in Nice commemorating a 24-year-old soldier who died fighting the Nazis. Image of a plaque in Paris commemorating Jewish children sent to die in concentration camps with the active participation of the Vichy government. Plaque in Nice which reads “the French Republic, in homage to the victims of racist and antisemitic persecution and crimes against humanity, committed under the de facto authority known as the “government of the French state.” Plaque in Nice commemorating a hero of the resistance who died in exile.
July 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Very pleased to share my short story "Prunus Alleghaniensis," which won Grist's ProForma Contest. gristjournal.com/2025/06/prun...
“Whether the inferno is literal or metaphorical, there is nothing quite like a burning house, and ‘Prunus Alleghaniensis’ offers us both in three short, breathtaking vignettes told by a wife, daughter, and finally, the betrayed husband. The voices here are powerful, the observations keen, and each person’s reaction to the blaze speaks to their level of real or imagined culpability. I also love a story that ends without ending, and the father’s last sentence leaves us in a chasm of pain, grief, and uncertainty. This is a feat of short storytelling, where a world is built three times, then torn asunder in only a handful of pages. Remarkable.” – Destiny O. Birdsong, Judge
July 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Image of the Blues Brothers in their car.
June 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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#nokings Denver
Protest signs “Save the constitution” and “Due Process” with flag overlay.
June 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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#nokings Denver
Protest sign with Trump as a saint, reading “St Upid Patron Saint of Economic Collapse”
June 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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#NoKings
Three protest signs: American flag with “Due Process” overlay; “women’s lives / black lives / immigrants’ lives / trans lives MATTER; and “Be the ‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself’ you want to see in the world”
June 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Excerpt from a Walt Whitman poem: There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. I know I am solid and sound, To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow, All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means. And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill’d and satisfied then? And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. from Leaves of Grass
May 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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...and on the back:
Design for a protest sign reading "Be the 'Russian warship, go fuck yourself' you want to see in the world."
May 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Look what I made :)
Design for a protest sign reading "women's lives / black lives / immigrants' lives / trans lives / matter"
May 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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She resembles Goebbels more every day.
Photograph of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s chief propagandist.
April 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Denver protest. #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #HandsOffDenver
Sign with Trump’s face and the words “Con Man stole my retirement.”
April 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Denver just now. #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #HandsOffDenver
Protester holding a sign which reads “we stand with Ukraine, Canada, Mexico, Greenland.”
April 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Protestors in Denver today. #HandsOff #HandsOffDenver #Handsoff2025
Protestor wearing an LGBTQ flag and others holding signs reading “The most violent element in America is ignorance” and “Trump tariff idiocy is pissing off penguins and bankrupting America.”
April 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM