LindaBVan's Avatar

LindaBVan

@lindabvan.bsky.social

Retired high-tech PR exec and history buff.

79 Followers  |  50 Following  |  12 Posts  |  Joined: 19.11.2024  |  1.9241

Latest posts by lindabvan.bsky.social on Bluesky

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

25.02.2025 18:57 — 👍 20705    🔁 6404    💬 1038    📌 392
Preview
Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

23.02.2025 16:34 — 👍 90349    🔁 19751    💬 2854    📌 1490

"Patriot" is a profound book. Everyone should read it.

16.02.2025 18:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

March '79 was also the incident at Three Mile Island, 18 miles from where I attended Dickinson Vollege. We were let out of school for a week while they tried to assess the danger.

16.02.2025 14:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

'79 was my junior year overseas in England, and it was the hostage crisis as well. Edifying to view it thru a British lens instead of an American one and to lose any sense of ethnocentrism.

16.02.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really hoping Bluesky keeps its current nature of openness and its non-algorithm structure. The former Twitter has become a great case study on how to kill a brand swiftly and effectively. For business books, it is the antithesis of the Tylenol case study from the 80s. #PR #Tylenol #Branding

23.01.2025 14:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow!

18.01.2025 20:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes - he wanted me to see his answers (in red) too.

18.01.2025 01:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Post image

I've been following it since the 8th grade/1973, when I wrote a huge book report about it, including the results of a survey I passed out to students. Interesting to see 2025 vs 1973. #ERA

17.01.2025 23:13 — 👍 51    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Or as I coined, those who cannot remember the past are doomed to vote Republican

23.12.2024 15:50 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
Post image

Hello, winter! #wintersolstice

22.12.2024 19:56 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Patty Hearst

22.12.2024 00:05 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

End of an era! I remember seeing "Rocky Horror Picture Show" there because it was the closest theater that had a current run movie lineup at the time.

03.12.2024 13:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Should I try reading it? Started once many decades ago and couldn't get through it. Maybe a different perspective now?

26.11.2024 16:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@lindabvan is following 19 prominent accounts