Vicki Madden

"There is nothing Christian about Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism is the worship of power in the name of Christ."

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie S...

Big Aquarius eclipse and hearing of deaths of eccentric geniuses: Frederick Wiseman, Jessie Jackson, Robert Duvall, and Michael Rosenblatt of the podcast Bookworm

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Fascism always about theft.

Evil twisting of the Good Samaritan story.

Julie Brown covered this when so many were burying or ignoring it

if you remember the FBI + ICE + local raid on a horse race track in Wilder, Idaho that detained hundreds of families (including many kids & U.S. citizens) the @acluidaho.bsky.social just announced a lawsuit.

The complaint is just as disturbing as previous reporting www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com

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I think this is the news I did not want to hear…

My general opinion of Rand Paul has been that he undoubtedly deserved to get beaten up by his neighbor. (Maybe he was using a leaf blower).

I knew it was about him.

How is Rand Paul the senator making the most sense and doing the most good?

Where evil and incompetence overlap

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor." Two charts show trends since 1980: corporate profits rising as a share of gross domestic income, while labor compensation steadily declines.

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs.

This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."

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Such a loss! She was a brilliant writer and teacher who went deep in every way.

Having a mom who is a lawyer comes in handy.

Amna A. Akbar | In South Minneapolis I live in one of the south Minneapolis neighbourhoods that ICE and CBP have been pummelling for the last few weeks. This...

‘Our opponent is tricked out with military gear, staying in Hilton hotels and renting Enterprise cars, with technological support from Palantir and Amazon Web Services.’

NEW: Amna A. Akbar writes from South Minneapolis

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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

What--what direction did popular opinion shift? I am afraid to ask.

How, exactly, do we put the 14 year olds out of the picture?

This whole thread is infuriating and galvanizing. We must fight!

Suzannah Lessard wrote a New Yorker piece on the border between Upper East Side and Harlem in the nineties...when she interviewed a psychologist who served both populations, he said difference was that kids on UES had infinite chances while kids in Harlem had no more than one.

Suzannah Lessard Dies at 81; Stanford White Descendant Who Wrote a Haunting Family Memoir

So sorry to hear of Suzannah Lessard's death. She was such an original! And my first professor in the nonfiction program at Queens University's MA program in nonfiction. Her book about her family was brilliant. The wheel of time is spinning faster and faster.
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Thank you for posting this! Such a hero!

This is on my to do list.

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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Chomsky bemoaned "the hysteria over the abuse of women."

The Satanic Day Care Panic, QAnon, and Pizzagate were moral panics. They relied on distorted, exaggerated, and misconstrued interpretations of the underlying facts. What Epstein did is real. It is not a "moral panic" to call for investigation and punishment of those who participated in his crimes.