Victoria J Barnett

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVowels

“Escher”

Brown dog behind the wheel of his people’s car, waiting patiently.

Waiting patiently in the grocery parking lot, Thanksgiving morning…

Happy Thanksgiving, GP! We’re using some of your recipes this weekend 😏

No. I’d say you have new insights into the complexities of memory and experience. Which is not a bad thing for students to think about these days.

I’ll send you a copy!

I’m old to remember Hegseth’s defense of US soldiers accused of of war crimes back in 2019. That’s why Trump picked him.

Congratulations to you both! And happy Thanksgiving.

On my way to #aar #sbl Boston to weigh in tomorrow afternoon on #Bonhoeffer movies, why I think the hagiography has gotten way out of hand etc. etc. Looking forward to seeing some old friends!

These are good shovel-ready jobs, people. Come and join us. Do consider & share!

‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump For her new book Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Broadleaf Books, 2025), Denker again traversed the country. This time she was investigating the radicalization of whi...

Great article by @angeladenker.bsky.social in today's @barnraiser.bsky.social: ‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump barnraisingmedia.com/disciples-of...

The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.

Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’ve ordered it!

“Like the demon-possessed man in the gospels, Chatbot Jesus is not one but legion…” A conversation between Robert Jones and Chatbot Jesus. This is fascinating (& just as alarming as you’d expect).

Bishops’ Statement on Immigration Falls Short The USCCB released a statement in support of immigrants—but its failure to mention Trump and ICE undermines its welcome message.

My analysis: I'm glad the bishops spoke out about immigration but the only way to get "unity" on this issue was to be careful to still placate the Trump administration.

www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-stat...

Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.

Oh, that’s lovely.

A few clouds reflecting sunlight in a fading late afternoon sky. In the foreground almost bare trees (with a few glimmers of gold and red).

Evening walk, fading light.

Brass, pure brass.

Lucien Stryk

known for his translations from Japanese, he was also a wonderful poet

A poem about a cat. The child who wrote it deserves an A+++

Interesting. You've probably looked all these places but: researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/... (it's down right now); Also: www.bcri.org/archives/ and other civil rights museums; archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/hesc..., www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer..., etc.

Good grief. There must be one somewhere. Have you checked various archival collections (esp the papers of others who who were there)?

For today: "September, 1918" by Amy Lowell:

"....For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world."

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42990/...

👇As is so often the case, historically remarkable women get left out of the story. Which distorts the story.

Wonderful picture!

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Lucy (GOP) holding football for Charlie Brown (Dems), promising to not screw him for the millionth time

I am so angry.

YouTube video by U.S. Embassy The Hague Alabama to Margraten

I’m sharing this video from around 2015 from the US Embassy, The Hague youtube channel. If current attempts to erase the historic record of black American GIs in the anti-DEI climate of the Trump administration, it may not be available much longer. youtu.be/QE0QszXRg3k?...

Shame on you.