Sarah Diligenti
@sarahdiligenti.bsky.social
"Frères humains, qui après nous vivez,
N’ayez les cœurs contre nous endurcis,
(...)"
- François Villon (1432-1463), Ballade des pendus.
N’ayez les cœurs contre nous endurcis,
(...)"
- François Villon (1432-1463), Ballade des pendus.
"I will never have any memoirs. All I have are memories." Moura, Baroness Budberg, to Nina Berberova, 1937, in Paris, France.
In: Moura, The Dangerous Life of The Baroness Budberg, by Nina Berberova. Translated by #MarianSchwartz and #RichardSylvester @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
#literature
In: Moura, The Dangerous Life of The Baroness Budberg, by Nina Berberova. Translated by #MarianSchwartz and #RichardSylvester @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
#literature
September 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
"I will never have any memoirs. All I have are memories." Moura, Baroness Budberg, to Nina Berberova, 1937, in Paris, France.
In: Moura, The Dangerous Life of The Baroness Budberg, by Nina Berberova. Translated by #MarianSchwartz and #RichardSylvester @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
#literature
In: Moura, The Dangerous Life of The Baroness Budberg, by Nina Berberova. Translated by #MarianSchwartz and #RichardSylvester @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
#literature
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
Hanne Ostarvik, stay with me. Translated by the wonderful Martin Aitken.
@archipelagobks
Such amazing writing that it brought tears to my eyes. This paragraph is directly talking to me.
#WomeninTranslation #scandinavianliterature
@archipelagobks
Such amazing writing that it brought tears to my eyes. This paragraph is directly talking to me.
#WomeninTranslation #scandinavianliterature
September 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Hanne Ostarvik, stay with me. Translated by the wonderful Martin Aitken.
@archipelagobks
Such amazing writing that it brought tears to my eyes. This paragraph is directly talking to me.
#WomeninTranslation #scandinavianliterature
@archipelagobks
Such amazing writing that it brought tears to my eyes. This paragraph is directly talking to me.
#WomeninTranslation #scandinavianliterature
Today is not a party, it is a funeral.
There is nothing to celebrate.
We should ask ourselves why we are allowing Democracy to die and American values to be used as a doormat by heartless oligarchs and ball-less politicians.
#AmericaUnderDistress
There is nothing to celebrate.
We should ask ourselves why we are allowing Democracy to die and American values to be used as a doormat by heartless oligarchs and ball-less politicians.
#AmericaUnderDistress
July 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Today is not a party, it is a funeral.
There is nothing to celebrate.
We should ask ourselves why we are allowing Democracy to die and American values to be used as a doormat by heartless oligarchs and ball-less politicians.
#AmericaUnderDistress
There is nothing to celebrate.
We should ask ourselves why we are allowing Democracy to die and American values to be used as a doormat by heartless oligarchs and ball-less politicians.
#AmericaUnderDistress
#RussianLit Tell me whether I should apply myself and continue reading Sorokin's Dispatches from the District Committee... or give up.
This sentence is as long as a Proust's sentence but makes less sense than dear old Marcel. #ProustTogether
This sentence is as long as a Proust's sentence but makes less sense than dear old Marcel. #ProustTogether
June 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#RussianLit Tell me whether I should apply myself and continue reading Sorokin's Dispatches from the District Committee... or give up.
This sentence is as long as a Proust's sentence but makes less sense than dear old Marcel. #ProustTogether
This sentence is as long as a Proust's sentence but makes less sense than dear old Marcel. #ProustTogether
This is by far the best book I have read so far this year.
#Sámi #Scandinavia #AnnHelénLaestadius #WorldLiterature #NordicLiterature
#Sámi #Scandinavia #AnnHelénLaestadius #WorldLiterature #NordicLiterature
June 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is by far the best book I have read so far this year.
#Sámi #Scandinavia #AnnHelénLaestadius #WorldLiterature #NordicLiterature
#Sámi #Scandinavia #AnnHelénLaestadius #WorldLiterature #NordicLiterature
Reposted by Sarah Diligenti
Theater tonight!
Hughes Bonneville, of Downton Abbey fame, will be playing in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the #Shakespearetheater in DC.
#RussianTheater #UncleVanya
Hughes Bonneville, of Downton Abbey fame, will be playing in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the #Shakespearetheater in DC.
#RussianTheater #UncleVanya
March 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Theater tonight!
Hughes Bonneville, of Downton Abbey fame, will be playing in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the #Shakespearetheater in DC.
#RussianTheater #UncleVanya
Hughes Bonneville, of Downton Abbey fame, will be playing in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the #Shakespearetheater in DC.
#RussianTheater #UncleVanya
Reposted by Sarah Diligenti
non-crazy republicans, where are you?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
non-crazy republicans, where are you?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I am so busy at work, so preoccupied with my adult son's mental health, and so afraid of what is happening to us in this country that I can't sleep, I have panic attacks and heart palpitations and I can barely read.
I have this on command fixed smile on my face while all I want is to scream and cry
I have this on command fixed smile on my face while all I want is to scream and cry
March 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am so busy at work, so preoccupied with my adult son's mental health, and so afraid of what is happening to us in this country that I can't sleep, I have panic attacks and heart palpitations and I can barely read.
I have this on command fixed smile on my face while all I want is to scream and cry
I have this on command fixed smile on my face while all I want is to scream and cry
Reposted by Sarah Diligenti
Interesting point raised by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social: Trump has the same complaint against Mexico, but isn’t talking about annexing it
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Column | As Putin sees Ukraine … Trump sees Canada?
Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to want to claim or annex Canada. But it backfired last time.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Interesting point raised by @ishaantharoor.bsky.social: Trump has the same complaint against Mexico, but isn’t talking about annexing it
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Avro and Vimy wish all the #BlueSky folks a Blessed Sunday.
Furry love in a world of Brutes.
#cats #catsruletheworld
#catslife #TheAristocats
Furry love in a world of Brutes.
#cats #catsruletheworld
#catslife #TheAristocats
March 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Avro and Vimy wish all the #BlueSky folks a Blessed Sunday.
Furry love in a world of Brutes.
#cats #catsruletheworld
#catslife #TheAristocats
Furry love in a world of Brutes.
#cats #catsruletheworld
#catslife #TheAristocats
March 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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5 mars 1944. Elle est arrêtée. Motif : "assistance à terroristes". Une institutrice, si paisible...? Impossible ! Et pourtant... Depuis 1940, Marcelle Nadaud est un maillon essentiel de la Résistance en Charente. Atrocement torturée, elle ne dira rien et mourra à Ravensbrück. 33 ans.
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
5 mars 1944. Elle est arrêtée. Motif : "assistance à terroristes". Une institutrice, si paisible...? Impossible ! Et pourtant... Depuis 1940, Marcelle Nadaud est un maillon essentiel de la Résistance en Charente. Atrocement torturée, elle ne dira rien et mourra à Ravensbrück. 33 ans.
@literaturesc.bsky.social For when I have caught up both with Powell and Knausgaard, here is another Nordic Septology. Not Fosse. This time, it is written by a Danish woman writer!
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/on-the...
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/on-the...
On the Calculation of Volume I | Solvej Balle | London Review Bookshop
Translated by Barbara J. HavelandLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025The first volume of the poetic, page-turning masterpiece about one woman's fall through…
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
@literaturesc.bsky.social For when I have caught up both with Powell and Knausgaard, here is another Nordic Septology. Not Fosse. This time, it is written by a Danish woman writer!
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/on-the...
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/on-the...
Reposted by Sarah Diligenti
The Social Security Administration’s records include all Social Security numbers, comprehensive medical records for disability benefits, bank information, earnings records and more, Altman said.
“There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is"
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is"
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Social Security Administration’s records include all Social Security numbers, comprehensive medical records for disability benefits, bank information, earnings records and more, Altman said.
“There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is"
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is"
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Sarah Diligenti
I wrote about JD Vance's visit to Dachau today, and how Christians appropriate sites of Jewish murder into Christian penitential narratives: religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-...
JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Na...
religiondispatches.org
February 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I wrote about JD Vance's visit to Dachau today, and how Christians appropriate sites of Jewish murder into Christian penitential narratives: religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-...
Reposted by Sarah Diligenti
Bien que menacé, l'abbé refuse de fuir. "Je serai arrêté, dit-il, dans l’une de mes églises à l’issue de la Messe du dimanche." C'est ce qui se produit, le 13 février 1944. La torture lui est fatale. "C’est de sa faute, dira un de ses bourreaux, on ne pouvait le faire parler". Henri Péan. 42 ans.
February 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Bien que menacé, l'abbé refuse de fuir. "Je serai arrêté, dit-il, dans l’une de mes églises à l’issue de la Messe du dimanche." C'est ce qui se produit, le 13 février 1944. La torture lui est fatale. "C’est de sa faute, dira un de ses bourreaux, on ne pouvait le faire parler". Henri Péan. 42 ans.
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. Notebook
2. Masks
3. Rose quartz heart
4. Dog treats
5. Anti-eczema hand cream
1. Notebook
2. Masks
3. Rose quartz heart
4. Dog treats
5. Anti-eczema hand cream
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. BuJo
2. 2+ mechanical pencils
3. painkillers
4. book
5. mint humbugs
1. BuJo
2. 2+ mechanical pencils
3. painkillers
4. book
5. mint humbugs
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. E-reader
2. Pocket Knife
3. 7 Lipsticks
4. A Phone
5. At least 3 “good” pens
1. E-reader
2. Pocket Knife
3. 7 Lipsticks
4. A Phone
5. At least 3 “good” pens
February 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment:
1. Notebook
2. Masks
3. Rose quartz heart
4. Dog treats
5. Anti-eczema hand cream
1. Notebook
2. Masks
3. Rose quartz heart
4. Dog treats
5. Anti-eczema hand cream
Reposted by Sarah Diligenti
Excellent article by @rbreich.bsky.social: Trump is the most lawless president in American history | Robert Reich www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is the most lawless president in American history | Robert Reich
If Trump simply ignores the high court, is that the end of law?
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Excellent article by @rbreich.bsky.social: Trump is the most lawless president in American history | Robert Reich www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Sarah Diligenti
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
@literaturesc.bsky.social I noticed a Day Off on #anthonypowelltogether for this Friday, and it says Day Off 1.
How many days off do we get? :)
Only asking because I am flying to Maine early on Friday and wondering if I should take the heavy volume or not. I will be back in DC on Wednesday.
How many days off do we get? :)
Only asking because I am flying to Maine early on Friday and wondering if I should take the heavy volume or not. I will be back in DC on Wednesday.
February 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@literaturesc.bsky.social I noticed a Day Off on #anthonypowelltogether for this Friday, and it says Day Off 1.
How many days off do we get? :)
Only asking because I am flying to Maine early on Friday and wondering if I should take the heavy volume or not. I will be back in DC on Wednesday.
How many days off do we get? :)
Only asking because I am flying to Maine early on Friday and wondering if I should take the heavy volume or not. I will be back in DC on Wednesday.
#anthonypowelltogether
Best quote so far in this volume:
"... literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed only to those who possess them already."
So true. So true.
Best quote so far in this volume:
"... literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed only to those who possess them already."
So true. So true.
February 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#anthonypowelltogether
Best quote so far in this volume:
"... literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed only to those who possess them already."
So true. So true.
Best quote so far in this volume:
"... literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed only to those who possess them already."
So true. So true.
#anthonypowelltogether
"A French writer who'd been a regular officer said the whole point of soldiering was its bloody boring side. The glamours, such as it was, was just a bit of exceptional luck if it came your way."
I am sure Vigny skipped "bloody" though. Brits and their "bloody" puns.
"A French writer who'd been a regular officer said the whole point of soldiering was its bloody boring side. The glamours, such as it was, was just a bit of exceptional luck if it came your way."
I am sure Vigny skipped "bloody" though. Brits and their "bloody" puns.
February 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#anthonypowelltogether
"A French writer who'd been a regular officer said the whole point of soldiering was its bloody boring side. The glamours, such as it was, was just a bit of exceptional luck if it came your way."
I am sure Vigny skipped "bloody" though. Brits and their "bloody" puns.
"A French writer who'd been a regular officer said the whole point of soldiering was its bloody boring side. The glamours, such as it was, was just a bit of exceptional luck if it came your way."
I am sure Vigny skipped "bloody" though. Brits and their "bloody" puns.
#anthonypowelltogether
"One never takes lessons to heart. It's just a thing people talk about - learning by experience, and all that."
True. If we learned our lessons, on the global scheme of things, we would be forever prosperous and at peace.
"One never takes lessons to heart. It's just a thing people talk about - learning by experience, and all that."
True. If we learned our lessons, on the global scheme of things, we would be forever prosperous and at peace.
February 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#anthonypowelltogether
"One never takes lessons to heart. It's just a thing people talk about - learning by experience, and all that."
True. If we learned our lessons, on the global scheme of things, we would be forever prosperous and at peace.
"One never takes lessons to heart. It's just a thing people talk about - learning by experience, and all that."
True. If we learned our lessons, on the global scheme of things, we would be forever prosperous and at peace.