Tina Kress
@tina-rina.bsky.social
A profound project attempting to undo so many mistakes of the past: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
A Stunning New Pool in Central Park Helps Heal Old Wounds
The $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A profound project attempting to undo so many mistakes of the past: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
Useful description of whether or not it's a peace process by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Is it a peace process? (short video)
Five quick tests for the US in a two-minute video
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Useful description of whether or not it's a peace process by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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"If we have a president who considers himself an aspiring dictator among real dictators, the United States is weak where it might have been strong... we find ourselves in a submissive position that no one ever actually wanted – no one, except for Trump, Putin, and Xi."
Reposting "The Submission Chain" from November, since it is all happening.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-submis...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-submis...
The Submission Chain
The Transitive Property and Trump
snyder.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"If we have a president who considers himself an aspiring dictator among real dictators, the United States is weak where it might have been strong... we find ourselves in a submissive position that no one ever actually wanted – no one, except for Trump, Putin, and Xi."
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Iowa’s Republican governor signed into law on Friday a measure that ends state civil rights protections for transgender people, a move that LGBTQ rights advocates said made the state the first to eliminate such broad and specific protections for transgender people.
Iowa Governor Signs Bill Ending Transgender Civil Rights Protections
The Republican-backed bill passed both legislative chambers by large margins despite warnings from Democrats that the measure could lead to discrimination and harassment.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."
March 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.
February 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.
Same
When Kendrick said hey Drake and smiled at the camera I screamed laughed in a way I didn’t think possible. #superbowl
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Same
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Timothy Snyder: Of Course It’s a Coup. It used to be “the center of power was a physical place”, but in an era when “power is more digital than physical”, coups look quite different. We still need to recognize it for what it is. [kottke.org]
Timothy Snyder: Of Course It’s a Coup
Historian Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, is urging people and the media to understand and acknowledge that what’s happening right now is definitely a coup.
Imagine if it had gone like this.
Ten Tesla cybertrucks
kottke.org
February 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Timothy Snyder: Of Course It’s a Coup. It used to be “the center of power was a physical place”, but in an era when “power is more digital than physical”, coups look quite different. We still need to recognize it for what it is. [kottke.org]
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A trans veteran unalived themselves at the Syracuse VA medical center garage while wrapped in a trans flag.
The way this administration is creating the exact conditions for this to happen is soul crushing.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...
The way this administration is creating the exact conditions for this to happen is soul crushing.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...
VA patient died by suicide at top of hospital’s garage in Syracuse
The veteran, a VA mental health patient, was wearing a transgender flag, a witness said.
www.syracuse.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
A trans veteran unalived themselves at the Syracuse VA medical center garage while wrapped in a trans flag.
The way this administration is creating the exact conditions for this to happen is soul crushing.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...
The way this administration is creating the exact conditions for this to happen is soul crushing.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...
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I can’t remember who said it, but “if you can’t find the time to meditate once a day, you should do it twice a day.”
If you can’t afford a break from all the news in normal times, doubly important to do it now.
If you can’t afford a break from all the news in normal times, doubly important to do it now.
February 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I can’t remember who said it, but “if you can’t find the time to meditate once a day, you should do it twice a day.”
If you can’t afford a break from all the news in normal times, doubly important to do it now.
If you can’t afford a break from all the news in normal times, doubly important to do it now.
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Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.
this is theft on an unimaginable scale
3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Control of the entire federal purse is being stolen in the middle of the night by a Nazi. There has never been anything like this.
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is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
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Do something @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov.
Please! We implore you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Please! We implore you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Do something @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov.
Please! We implore you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
Please! We implore you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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It’s not legal it’s an ongoing active coup
How can a non-elected person go into our payment system and cut off funds Congress already appropriated? How is any of this legal?
Remember this, by the way, the next time you see a Tesla — a company totally kept aloft by "carbon credits" but whose owner is now effectively starving immigrant families in the name of ending DEI, including "environmental justice" payments.
February 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s not legal it’s an ongoing active coup
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The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies.
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Fired Jan. 6 prosecutors were told they were terminated "based upon your actions in the prosecution of persons relating to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," and cited Trump calling it a "grave national injustice."
February 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The insurrectionists have seized power. They are purging their enemies.
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
Does the broader public have a sense of how extraordinary this moment is?
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Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
January 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials.
It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
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When he heard a Black Hawk was involved, he probably just associated “black” with “DEI” because he’s that fucking evil and stupid.
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
When he heard a Black Hawk was involved, he probably just associated “black” with “DEI” because he’s that fucking evil and stupid.
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He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
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In his third order in eight days focused singularly on attacking trans people, Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday attempting to block the availability of gender-affirming medical care for transgender children and teenagers across America.
Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
Trump continues attack on trans people, going after trans kids, teens in new order
After anti-trans orders defining "sex" and seeking to ban trans people from the military, Trump's latest discriminatory order attacks gender-affirming medical care.
www.lawdork.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."
January 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."