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Writer, teacher, grandmother. Learning to paint. Words in MQR, New Letters, BLR, Salon, december. Adjunct CUNY Baruch. Bookβ€”Bearing Witness: Teaching about the Holocaust. Student at Art Students’ League πŸŽ—οΈ

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Freed hostage Eli Sharabi on being held captive by Hamas
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning Freed hostage Eli Sharabi on being held captive by Hamas

@sari2.bsky.social piece for CBS Sunday Morning:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCM5...

28.09.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You put inept people in charge, you get inept.

14.07.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, I don’t want to hear my priest or rabbi or Γ­mam endorse someone or some partyβ€”particularly if I don’t agree. In a holy space I want to feel the spiritual, not the profane.

08.07.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

$5.99 a gallon of regular in Mt Kisco β€” or was it Bedford?β€” yesterday.

03.05.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day

03.05.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 8440    πŸ” 1933    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 46

So much easier to drive in Manhattan with congestion pricing. Freedom from being stuck in traffic.

30.04.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Consider that Columbus likely got expelled Jews and the recently converted out of the country before they could be declared heretics.

27.04.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Ticking Clock on American Freedom It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

"Look around, take stock of where you are, and know this: Today, right nowβ€”and I mean right this secondβ€”you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America."

25.04.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 303    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

$14 last week.

25.04.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm. Just like Germany built their camps in Poland.

15.04.2025 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

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And where are the clients?

11.04.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

07.04.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 42552    πŸ” 12714    πŸ’¬ 511    πŸ“Œ 289
 A quote from the novelist Katie Kitamura that reads, β€œNovels and writing in general feel incredibly important, because it is already clear, in the new Administration, that language is going to be a terrain where a substantial part of this battle is going to be fought: what language people are allowed to use, how language is manipulated or denuded of meaning. I think what writers do or can try to do is to use language with precision and care.”

A quote from the novelist Katie Kitamura that reads, β€œNovels and writing in general feel incredibly important, because it is already clear, in the new Administration, that language is going to be a terrain where a substantial part of this battle is going to be fought: what language people are allowed to use, how language is manipulated or denuded of meaning. I think what writers do or can try to do is to use language with precision and care.”

β€œWhen words stop meaning what they’re meant to mean, then we’re in trouble.” In a new interview, the novelist Katie Kitamura talks about why writing is particularly important right now.
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06.04.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 306    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 8

Oh, wonderful!!

06.04.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NYC.

06.04.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And I’m a little woman not afraid to ride the subway at night.

05.04.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nobody is coming to save us but us.

Yesterday I launched my campaign for U.S. Senate because we deserve – and we need – a new path.

03.04.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3840    πŸ” 743    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 33

We’ll be there at the livestream.

01.04.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amen to Delaware AG Kathy Jennings’ open letter to BigLaw 100:

29.03.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2272    πŸ” 640    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 27

Just got a hotdog from a Midtown vendor who asked me, Is this for here or to go?

29.03.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 512    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow.

28.03.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very weird first paragraph.

28.03.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wisconsin, you know what NOT to do.

27.03.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1614    πŸ” 631    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 18

We were just saying that in so many words as we made our morning coffee.

28.03.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m having nightmares.

26.03.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But it’s still only March!!

21.03.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haven’t had to carry these in the past. Only a state issued driver’s license. If there is a new law the public needs to know. (Planned to carry my passport after May when the new law was supposed to go into effect).

21.03.2025 07:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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