Paola Trimarco
@paolatrimarco.bsky.social
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Writer and linguist. Fiction, creative non-fiction and sociocultural blogs. Academic editor.
Jane Goodall - one of my heroes. RIP
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The Independent UK
https://app.independent.co.uk/2025/10/01/2814518/content.html
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Carole Cadwalladr
3 months ago
Will ChatGPT kill your child? If you have teenagers, you need to understand the risks. Join me at 6pm BST, 1pm EDT with a campaigning mother & crusading lawyer, stars of new doc Can’t Look Away, who are seeking to end big tech’s impunity
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Will ChatGPT kill your child?
Join me for a Substack Live with a campaigning mother and lawyer fighting Silicon Valley's culture of impunity
https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/will-chatgpt-kill-your-child?r=nv9u6&utm_medium=ios
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My latest blog comes in the aftermath of the US president's domestic policy bill. Comments welcomed.
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Today’s Inbox – or WTF is happening to America?
Still surfacing from a deep night’s sleep, I checked my inbox to find an email from the US Social Security Administration. The subject header read: ‘Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation …
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/07/04/todays-inbox-or-wtf-is-happening-to-america/
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Some thoughts on languages, immigration and literariness.
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Titanic Languages
This is not another linguistic term, nor is it figurative. I literally mean the big cruise ship whose sinking continues to intrigue and entertain over a century later. I’ve been listening to the BB…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/06/26/titanic-languages/
5 months ago
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Yesterday was World Oceans Day. Here's my contribution to the conversation.
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Ocean awareness: an essay
Yesterday was World Oceans Day 2025, and today is the start of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice (I’m writing from Menton, further along the coast). While I cannot add to the tranche of news sto…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/06/09/ocean-awareness-an-essay/
5 months ago
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The Lincoln Project
5 months ago
81 years ago, America's bravest generation stormed the beaches of Normandy in hopes of freeing Europe from the clutches of a brutal authoritarian. Today, we face authoritarianism on our shores. We owe it to ourselves, our country, and that great generation to fight for freedom here at home.
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The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1U9dgt501Y&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=171
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European Movement West London #FBPE #FBPR #RejoinEU
5 months ago
Journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion. According to YouGov 66% of the public support a closer relationship with Europe and (53%) are in favour of undoing
#Brexit
altogether. Remember when newspapers cared about the will of the people?
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The public doesn’t like Brexit. Has anyone told the media?
From the broadsheets to the tabloids, journalism is increasingly out of touch with public opinion.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/06/the-public-doesnt-like-brexit-has-anyone-told-the-media
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My latest blog looks at politics, sex and a short story. Enjoy 😉.
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Finding humour in uncomfortable spaces
I follow Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labour under Clinton, on Substack. With his constitutional expertise, Reich has been pointing out the authoritarianism and fascism being perpetrated b…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/06/04/finding-humour-in-uncomfortable-spaces/
5 months ago
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The New York Times
6 months ago
The Trump administration improperly withheld funds under a $5 billion federal infrastructure program, according to an independent government watchdog, which concluded that officials violated the law by refusing to spend money on electric vehicle charging stations as authorized by Congress.
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Trump Administration Wrongly Impounded Infrastructure Aid, Watchdog Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-federal-funds-gao.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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My latest blog looks at the US government's ban word list and as always has a couple of book recommendations.
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Cultural words in the time of MAGA
Aside from having a form of the word cultural, what do these words have in common: cultural competence, cultural heritage, cultural differences, culturally appropriate, cultural relevance, cultural…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/05/22/cultural-words-in-the-time-of-maga/
6 months ago
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Mark Carney
6 months ago
I had a productive call with Ursula von der Leyen this morning. We’re ready to build on our free trade relationship, bolster economic security, and work side-by-side on shared defence and security challenges. When Canada and the European Union build together, our futures are stronger.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
6 months ago
“Do not mock us.”
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The New York Times
6 months ago
A vehicle manufactured for Pope Francis’ visit to Bethlehem in 2014 is being transformed into a mobile health clinic to treat ill and wounded Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip — an initiative that he blessed in the months before he died.
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A Popemobile Used by Pope Francis Will Become a Mobile Clinic in Gaza
In his last months, Pope Francis blessed an effort to transform the vehicle he used when he visited the West Bank in 2014 into a mobile health clinic to treat Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/world/middleeast/a-popemobile-will-ride-again-this-time-into-gaza.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Some politics, some feminism and a book recommendation. My latest blog.
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Ten Days in a Woman’s Life
Ten days ago, the UK Supreme Court made a pronouncement clarifying that in Britian’s Equality Act, ‘woman’ referred only to those assigned female at birth. This in effect says that a transwoman is …
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/04/29/ten-days-in-a-womans-life/
6 months ago
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My latest blog started on a train and ended up in politics, psychology and books. Enjoy
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Train Journeys are always non-linear
I’ve taken the train between Peterborough and Edinburgh countless times over the past 40 years. The hilly landscape, the rugged coastline and the familiar stations – York, Darlington, Newcastle – h…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/04/22/train-journeys-are-always-non-linear/
7 months ago
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The Lincoln Project
7 months ago
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George Takei
7 months ago
I have lived through unstable economic and political times before. Tariffs and isolationism are breeding grounds for fascism. We are at strong risk of repeating history.
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The New Yorker
7 months ago
Donald Trump’s executive order on history, which takes particular issue with the Smithsonian, aims to rewrite the darker parts of America’s past.
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At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History
The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/at-the-smithsonian-donald-trump-takes-aim-at-history
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My latest blog is on tremors, earthquakes and talking about Tr*mp.
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8 months ago
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Fact checked this. Sad but true.
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8 months ago
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Michelle H. 📚Author📚
8 months ago
I'm blown away that this is legal. They made billions of these authors and didn't give them credit or even ask for permission?
#booksky
#authors
#WritingCommunity
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George Takei
8 months ago
Surprise surprise.
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White Nationalist Admits That Liberals Were Right About Trump Being A 'Demagogue'
Ya think?!
https://www.comicsands.com/fuentes-liberals-trump-demagogue?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
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George Takei
8 months ago
What a different world we could have.
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George Takei
8 months ago
I know because I’m old enough to have been there when they adopted it.
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Amnesty International UK
8 months ago
🚨URGENT: Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi, both Kurdish women, are facing imminent execution in Iran. Iranian authorities have executed at least 853 people in 2023 alone. We can’t let them be next. Sign the petition:
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The Lincoln Project
9 months ago
We don’t just need to defeat Trump, we need to defeat Trumpism and everything he has corrupted.
@heathmayo.bsky.social
discusses this and more on the LP Podcast:
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My latest blog. Enjoy, comment.
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Lemons and Oranges: Coping, or not, with the new world order
The nursery rhyme goes ‘Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clements.’ But in Menton, France, lemons come first. With the annual lemon festival kicking off last weekend, the city’s central gard…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/02/23/lemons-and-oranges-coping-or-not-with-the-new-world-order/
9 months ago
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Helene von Bismarck
9 months ago
Your periodic reminder that these people think of women as disposable objects.
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The Lincoln Project
9 months ago
Under President Biden’s leadership, inflation was decreasing. Under Trump's economic malpractice, it's increasing. This isn't rocket science.
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BBC Newsnight
9 months ago
“After hundreds of thousands of killed & wounded, after atrocities that the Russian army committed, what kind of other concessions [could the] Ukrainian people give?” Former Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk reacts with disbelief to the US-Russia talks.
#Newsnight
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I don't like recognizing Trump's site, but it's the only way for people to see directly from the source the dangerous stupidity. Thanks Lincoln Project - and other news sources now reporting this.
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9 months ago
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The New York Times
9 months ago
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation on Friday that authorized $50 million in state funds intended to counter President Trump's agenda.
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Newsom Signs Bills to Fight Trump, Including Legal Aid for Immigrants
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has been balancing a desire to push back on Republican policies with a need to cooperate in seeking federal disaster aid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/newsom-bills-fighting-trump.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Amnesty International UK
9 months ago
The Hong Kong government has put £100,000 bounties over their heads for their human rights activism. Hong Kongers continue to face repression by Hong Kong and Chinese authorities - even if they live in the UK. ➡️ Join the movement:
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#NationalSecurityLaw
#Article23
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In Solidarity Against Repression
Hong Kongers continue to face repression by Hong Kong and Chinese authorities - even if they live in the UK. Join the movement of solidarity against repression. #HongKong #NationalSecurityLaw #NSL #Ch...
http://amn.st/6181xwS5Z
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George Takei
9 months ago
😂😂😂
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Image Of Trump's Press Secretary Goes Viral After Her Head Perfectly Blocks Sign Behind Her
Oh dear 😂
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Here's my latest blog. Enjoy!
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Surviving January
Nope, this is not a blog from a survivor of Dry January – the wine continued to flow as usual. Nor is this about winter depression – at times, a sad month but luckily without the winter blues (hard…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2025/02/04/surviving-january/
9 months ago
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Adam Kinzinger
10 months ago
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The New York Times
10 months ago
President Trump's move to pardon nearly all of the 1,600 rioters charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 would effectively undo years of efforts by federal investigators to seek accountability for the mob assault on the peaceful transfer of power after Trump's loss in the 2020 election.
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Trump Grants Broad Clemency to Jan. 6 Rioters
The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.
https://nyti.ms/3PIHY4D
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About time someone in power speaks up about this serious threat.
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10 months ago
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George Takei
10 months ago
I fear there is deep truth here.
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Amnesty International UK
10 months ago
With women and girls completely prohibited from participating in public life in Afghanistan, the very least the England men’s cricketers can do is speak out and forcefully condemn the Taliban’s grotesque regime of gender persecution.
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Carole Cadwalladr
10 months ago
I can’t be bothered to wade into the Musk-Kier sewers yet because of the insane & mostly unhelpful coverage of what is going on but I will point you towards this piece I wrote in November
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Carole Cadwalladr
10 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't just bend the knee to Trump, he throws himself prostrate on the floor in front of the throne. Darkness falls.
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Meta Moves to End Fact-Checking Program
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts. It is likely to please the Trump administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/business/meta-fact-checking-conservative-views.html?smid=bs-share
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My last blog of the year is about the year.
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My 2024 in review without lists
Regular readers know that I’m not a fan of the listacle – those articles that list the best of or worst of or top 10 etc. They’re click bait and often poor examples of writing. By copping out of th…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2024/12/30/my-2024-in-review-without-lists/
11 months ago
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George Takei
11 months ago
The irony is thick here.
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The Lincoln Project
11 months ago
Five years ago today the Lincoln Project formed to fight Donald Trump and MAGA. We are grateful to those who have joined the fight. The work continues and so do we. Happy Anniversary Lincoln Project!
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Morgan J Freeman
11 months ago
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
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Literary Pearls
11 months ago
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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George Takei
11 months ago
Indeed.
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I'm still new to Bluesky, still creating my bubble of people to follow. In the meantime, here's my latest blog:
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Migrating South for the Winter
As a child in Chicago, I knew elderly neighbours and the grandparents of my classmates who escaped the snow and ice by living in Florida for the winter months. I used to think of these snowbirds, a…
http://trimarcoblog.com/2024/12/07/migrating-south-for-the-winter/
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