Mona Molarsky
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Writer, researcher, flamenco aficionada. No DMs.
Have you noticed that book reviews are disappearing from the public discourse? Dwight Garner is on the nose here. (Free link)
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Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/books/review/ai-book-reviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.klA.RRux.laE9j5IwhA-e&smid=url-share
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦
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If justice can be negotiated in secret for the powerful, it’s no longer justice. Americans should be outraged by any secret deal made by Trump & his cronies behind closed doors The people deserve answers, transparency & accountability, no matter who’s involved!
#SheShed
#Democracy
#Accountability
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Frank Beck
10 days ago
I'd never translate this Russian poem by Galina Galina (1870-1942) into English verse; its perfection cannot be replicated elsewhere. And Rachmaninov's luminous setting flows effortlessly from the simplicity of her words. (Poem and paraphrase in Comments.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu1e...
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Loved Asmik Grigorian's performance of "Eugene Onegin" at the Met last night. Wonderful singing and conducting. The staging and choreography, not so much.
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"A spokesman for Mr. Mamdani referred all questions to the Police Department." Not a good look, Mayor Mamdani! FREE ARTICLE.
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8 Arrested at Protest Over ICE Detention Outside Brooklyn Hospital
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/nyregion/ice-arrest-protest-nyc-hospital.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f1A.JN4E.o1G04wURbLdS&smid=url-share
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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Must watch this video to learn what's happening with those who sailed on the Global Sumud Flotilla.
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Mother Jones
26 days ago
Activists sailed to Gaza to deliver aid, but were met with drone attacks and imprisonment. An exclusive look at the Global Sumud Flotilla. From our colleagues at
@revealnews.org
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Activists tried to deliver aid to Gaza. They were met with drone attacks and imprisonment.
Activists sailed to Gaza to deliver aid, but were met with drone attacks and imprisonment. An exclusive look at the Global Sumud Flotilla.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/global-sumud-flotilla-gaza-israel-aid-blockade-2026/
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Big story, little coverage. Why?
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A rare chance for New Yorkers to see Lina Wertmuller's "The Seduction of Mimi" on the big screen. You may be shocked by her harsh, satirical vision, but you won't be bored.
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Film Forum · Lina Wertmüller’s THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI
Lina Wertmüller’s THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI Friday, April 24 – Thursday, April 30
https://filmforum.org/film/the-seduction-of-mimi
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Robert Reich
26 days ago
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 this week. It was a slap in the face to the countless activists who fought for the VRA — and those who died for it. But we cannot give up. Here's how we should respond.
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Frank Beck
26 days ago
This looks interesting: a study of German fiction of the 1890s by Holly Yanacek, including Theodor Fontane, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Thomas Mann, and Hedwig Dohm. Glad to see Andreas-Salomé in such good company! Details from the publisher:
www.bloomsbury.com/us/rethinkin...
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Frank Beck
26 days ago
A conversation with Frida Escobedo, the Mexican architect who designed the new wing of New York's Metropolitan Museum.
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Frida Escobedo: ‘The accessibility of a museum is also about who feels represented’
The Mexican architect is the first woman commissioned to design a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, scheduled to open in 2030
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-05-01/frida-escobedo-the-accessibility-of-a-museum-is-also-about-who-feels-represented.html
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Solidarity with the Romany people.
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Sometimes words fail me. The murder of this journalist is one of those times. Make no mistake, it was an intentional murder by the Israeli forces.
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Best news in quite a while!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
about 2 months ago
At a packed Budapest metro station, crowds of Hungarians are chanting: “Russia, go home.” It’s our turn now.
#Vote
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This is great news! I wish they could complete the task in less than 5 years. But maybe that's unrealistic.
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about 2 months ago
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Professa Murray
about 2 months ago
I remember 1989, when the wall fell in Berlin. I remember 1990, when Mandela walked free. One time I mentioned to my students, what that felt like and they could not understand.
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Frank Beck
about 2 months ago
Israel intentionally kills another journalist in Gaza. But it can't kill the facts of its own barbarous behavior. Palestine will be free!
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Israeli attack kills Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in Gaza
Israeli drone strike kills Mohammed Wishah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, west of Gaza City.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/8/israeli-attack-kills-al-jazeera-journalist-mohammed-wishah-in-gaza
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"The Sleepers," a Sophie Calle installation at MoMA, is open now.
www.moma.org/artists/6655...
about 2 months ago
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Elizabeth Warren
about 2 months ago
Trump is threatening mass death in Iran if he doesn’t get his way. He has spiraled out of control—and Congress has the power to stop him and end this war. Every Republican lawmaker who refuses to speak out, ducks a question, or votes to continue this war bears responsibility.
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Steven T. Dennis
about 2 months ago
First unalloyed pushback from a Senate Republican is, unsurprisingly, from Lisa Murkowski.
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Frank Beck
about 2 months ago
My fellow Americans, what kind of nation are we? Paul Krugman says the fate of the American idea is on the line tonight. He has a message for every elected official -- Republican and Democrat. (Photo: a highway in Tehran.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKSX...
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So true!
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about 2 months ago
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Senator Ed Markey
about 2 months ago
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
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Timothy Snyder
about 2 months ago
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.
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Joshua Erlich
about 2 months ago
call for an investigation into the president's fitness. call for the house to impeach. say you will obstruct every last bit of senate business. call for soldiers to disregard illegal orders. say you will prosecute the people who do this. say you will take their military pensions and benefits.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
about 2 months ago
We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.
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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost
about 2 months ago
Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price. Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.
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ElieNYC
about 2 months ago
Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???
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Prem Thakker ツ
about 2 months ago
Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.
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Will the Roma people of Hungary vote against Orban and in favor of better education for their children? It's not a foregone conclusion. (FREE ARTICLE)
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Why Hungary’s Election Could Swing on Roma Votes
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/world/europe/hungary-roma-orban-election-education.html?smid=url-share
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Frank Beck
2 months ago
Is there anything you can do to stop the Republic from turning into Trump, Inc.? And to stop the Mideast War? You can join the rest of us at tomorrow's No KIngs Marches. More than 3,000 are planned, in all 50 states. Let's show the world what democracy looks like.
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Over 3,000 No Kings Events Planned for March 28; More Events Added Daily — No Kings
With less than two weeks to go until the next national No Kings Day of Nonviolent Action, organizers across the nation are now planning over 3,000 local events – more than any previous No Kings nation...
https://www.nokings.org/news/over-3000-no-kings-events-planned-for-march-28-more-events-added-daily#:~:text
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Aaron Rupar
2 months ago
again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state
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MeidasTouch
2 months ago
BREAKING: Award-winning journalist Scott MacFarlane is joining MeidasTouch as our Chief Washington Correspondent. This is a major expansion of our enterprise and investigative reporting in D.C.
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Chris Murphy
2 months ago
Trump is suspending sanctions on Iran and Russia, which will put over $15 billion in their treasuries to help them fund the wars against us. It’s stunning. We have never ever seen this level of war incompetence in American history.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett
2 months ago
“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” — Tupac said it years ago… and here we are. The Pentagon is now asking for an additional $200 BILLION for this war. We always find the money for war. But when it comes to housing, healthcare, or feeding people? Suddenly it’s crickets.
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Finally now, Mr. Putin? What took you so long?
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Don Moynihan
2 months ago
This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
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So interesting to read this interview with Mahmood Mamdani in the Times today! (FREE ARTICLE)
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As Mamdani Walks a Tightrope, His Father Pushes Boundaries
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/africa/mahmood-mamdani-gaza-war-book.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.eGCh.p--pM4wtHoym&smid=url-share
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Matt Novak
3 months ago
CNN at the site of an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed 9 people, including 5 children: "We're told it was a yogurt factory by the neighbors here." "The children's bodies, we're told, are in pieces and are going to take a while to identify the DNA so that they can actually do a burial."
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Politico
3 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: Military leaders warned Hegseth not to gut the offices that limit risk to civilians. He ignored them. The decision faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed hundreds of children.
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Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians
The Defense secretary’s decision to cut offices that mitigate civilian harm faces renewed attention as the Pentagon investigates a strike that killed hundreds of Iranian children.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/military-leaders-warned-hegseth-not-to-gut-offices-that-limit-risk-to-civilians-00827722
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Mark Jacob
3 months ago
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
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In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic
While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/in-first-cia-acknowledges-1953-coup-it-backed-to-overthrow-leader-of-iran-was-undemocratic
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Timothy Snyder
3 months ago
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States, thereby justifying the need to “federalize” elections. We must anticipate it, with sadness and resolution, and not be surprised, if it happens.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
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The Desire for Terror
And the defense of democracy
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire-for-terror
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Most essential point to remember: we had a nuclear non-proliferation deal with Iran. Trump ripped it up.
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Stars and Stripes
3 months ago
The latest Quinnipiac University poll found more than half of the American electorate opposes the ongoing military campaign against Iran, and nearly three-quarters said they would be against the use of U.S. ground forces there. From Stars and Stripes' Phillip Walter Wellman:
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Poll says majority in US doesn’t want ground invasion in Iran
Nearly three-quarters of correspondents in a new Quinnipiac University Poll say they are against sending American ground troops into Iran.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-03-10/quinnipiac-poll-iran-conflict-21014733.html
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The Independent
3 months ago
ON THE GROUND | Is Trump’s war over? Not for the thousands in Beirut left homeless by bombs
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Trump’s war over? Not for the thousands in Beirut left homeless by bombs
Washington has given mixed signals in the past two days over how long its war in Iran will last. Families sheltering from Israeli bombs in the suburbs of Beirut tell Bel Trew that the devastation has left them without hope for their country’s future
https://trib.al/qNzJHpQ
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The Washington Post
3 months ago
Breaking news: A drone assault hit a major U.S. diplomatic facility in Iraq in a suspected retaliation by pro-Tehran militias to the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, according to a security official and an internal U.S. alert reviewed by The Post.
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Drone hits U.S. diplomatic facility in Iraq as Mideast violence deepens
The attack on a major U.S. diplomatic facility in Baghdad was a suspected retaliation to the U.S.- and Israeli-led war on Iran by pro-Tehran militias.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/10/baghdad-diplomatic-drone-strike/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Frank Beck
3 months ago
Is the US about to send troops to Iran? Kudos to PBS for covering this important story. Not a word on the CNN website.
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WATCH: U.S. seems 'on a path' to deploying ground troops in Iran, Blumenthal says after classified briefing
“I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war,” Blumenthal told reporters after the briefing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-u-s-seems-on-a-path-to-deploying-ground-troops-in-iran-blumenthal-says-after-classified-briefing
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