Kim Middleton

Sixty years ago today, Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law - securing health care for millions and saving countless lives. As GOP politicians try to tear them down, it's up to us to protect and expand these programs for Americans who rely on them today and for future generations.

All these things are not without their meanings.

So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.

1st meeting with a cohort of doctors today & when I asked them to share something that had brought them joy lately, several shared books they were currently reading...& OTHER PEOPLE WROTE THEM DOWN

This is why I ask this question

Also: respect to the MD who said "Buying 3 burgers at Five Guys"

The Alchemist: To Dream and To Love This Book Made Me · Episode

When you think of Paulo Coelho's award-winning, best-selling novel The Alchemist, do you groan or clap? Up now on the podcast: creator/educator/coach Marq Mervin on how it changed his life. #booksky #books #reading #alchemist
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im so obsessed with these German editions for The Infernal Devices

i mean just look at them 😮‍💨

#booksky

It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment

A framed watercolor drawing of cyclamen and primula plants, each in a pot with a paper wrap around it, sitting side by side on a ledge or windowsill.

A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 is on at The Clark through Sept 14. Read about it on here:

British Women Artist-Activists at The Clark Art Institute
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Pictured: Cyclamen & Primula, 1923, by Winifred Nicholson; @kettlesyard.bsky.social

can we please just have more book reviews instead of these weird pieces about whether or not straight white men can still read or publish novels

Same.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Marines are now stationed on the California border. Newsom's office calls it 'mission creep' As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented immigrants deep in the country, it's sending Marines and soldiers to patrol the border.

Marines and mission creep:

Thankfully, I learned this juuust under the wire. #monsoonwedding

Inciting Joy: More Capacity, More Access, More Poetry This Book Made Me · Episode

Up now on the pod: stewarding the practices of joy, especially in doom times. A chat about the brilliance of #rossgay 's Inciting Joy, with @leeleewilma.bsky.social. #booksky #joy open.spotify.com/episode/7uGw...

Who doesn't have time to take a 5 minute survey about reading? Go help an Irish writer out! @1adoyle.bsky.social #booksky

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> Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment: “I can’t even describe how good it feels to know that someone who was trying to obliterate me and all the other women that he harmed did not succeed… His path to victory was to destroy all of us… and it didn’t work.” More below:

The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would:
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land

Great! Let us know what you think! And what the line is!

Jen and I say exactly the same thing!

Written on the Body: Words as Art Object This Book Made Me · Episode

"This Book Made Me treat my words like an art object," says Emmy-nominated Sesame Street writer @jencapra.bsky.social. In this Pride Month episode, we fan-girl over Jeanette Winterson's luminous novel Written on the Body. #booksky
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My friend in LA says the city is in chaos. No one knows how to park in the Trader Joe's parking lot

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a MASSIVE crowd peacefully protesting and marching in LA to protest ongoing ICE raid operations and Trump’s federalization of the National Guard

📍Los Angeles, CA

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.

These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

Why I Hate Saturn: Anything Goes This Book Made Me · Episode

It's still #AAPI heritage month, and do we have an interview for you: it's @thaoworra.bsky.social , talking about the woefully under-recognized graphic novel Why I Hate Saturn.

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I have that one too, and I love it!!

In honor of National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, may I present to you these two goobers, who make our lives better every single day (and also posed for this very awkward prom pic).

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic