Carol Bartold
@cbartoldwrite.bsky.social
Nonfiction writer, choral singer, accountant. I work from both sides of my brain. MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. NYC, former Angeleno
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#amreading The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
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#amreading The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
"Drops" as in publishes the list, not "drops" as in eliminates it.
The Best Thing About the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books List: The paper of record drops its biggest reading list, Bookshop names the Best of 2025, and what to read if you love Pluribus.
The Best Thing About the New York Times’s 100 Notable Books List
The paper of record drops its biggest reading list, Bookshop names the Best of 2025, and what to read if you love Pluribus.
bookriot.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Drops" as in publishes the list, not "drops" as in eliminates it.
Thank you, #Starbucks for closing the Bronxville, NY store. We have much better locally owned places to get coffee in this small village. ☕
While unionized Starbucks workers are on strike for a fair contract, don’t cross the picket line!
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Thank you, #Starbucks for closing the Bronxville, NY store. We have much better locally owned places to get coffee in this small village. ☕
According to his theory, shouldn't you have financialized - love the made-up word - your dissent? 😂
Wow!
First impression is hogwash mixed with pure bullshit.
But I listened again and I'm pretty sure that he said absolutely nothing.
First impression is hogwash mixed with pure bullshit.
But I listened again and I'm pretty sure that he said absolutely nothing.
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
According to his theory, shouldn't you have financialized - love the made-up word - your dissent? 😂
And, since Megyn Kelly is a Christian, I'm sure she means this in only the most loving, charitable Christian way. ✝️
Absolute blood-gargling psychopath. She's talking about drug runners at worst, more likely fishermen.
I was in Pakistan eight weeks after 9/11, then combat with al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan in early 2002. Never heard anyone around me say anything similar with this level of maniacal earnestness.
I was in Pakistan eight weeks after 9/11, then combat with al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan in early 2002. Never heard anyone around me say anything similar with this level of maniacal earnestness.
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
And, since Megyn Kelly is a Christian, I'm sure she means this in only the most loving, charitable Christian way. ✝️
My first guess is that they're hanging out with the journalists who didn't speak up when #Trump said, "Quiet, piggy," and, "Are you a stupid person?" to female colleagues.
This is racist and dangerous. Last I checked, Somalians are Black and Rep. Omar is a colleague. Where are the @housedemocrats.bsky.social? The @blackcaucus.bsky.social ?
Do not allow these insults to go unanswered.
Do not allow these insults to go unanswered.
Trump calls Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) "garbage," says that Somalians don't belong in the U.S. because they "do nothing but complain... do nothing but bitch"
December 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My first guess is that they're hanging out with the journalists who didn't speak up when #Trump said, "Quiet, piggy," and, "Are you a stupid person?" to female colleagues.
My bingo card says it never will.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My bingo card says it never will.
And I still don't have my jetpack!
1990s: "we're going to have flying cars and restore the planet until the entire planet is a rainforest utopia"
2025: -planet is on fire- "you only have 5G and two bars, don't you think trying to load this one app is a bit too ambitious?"
They fucking lied
2025: -planet is on fire- "you only have 5G and two bars, don't you think trying to load this one app is a bit too ambitious?"
They fucking lied
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
And I still don't have my jetpack!
"Windows that collide into each other and a staircase to nowhere." Isn't that a tragically accurate metaphor for where we are?
Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Windows that collide into each other and a staircase to nowhere." Isn't that a tragically accurate metaphor for where we are?
Yes, Megyn, and a blessed Advent season to you, too.
What are we even doing here? I can’t find common ground with people who get off on the suffering of others. Don’t just kill the people we haven’t even proved are criminals, bring them pain. I can’t relate to this. This is inexcusable to me. I’m sickened.
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Yes, Megyn, and a blessed Advent season to you, too.
I might be one of the very few who thank Sara Boone for the ironing board. I actually enjoy ironing!
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I might be one of the very few who thank Sara Boone for the ironing board. I actually enjoy ironing!
The country is safer for whom? I'm not feeling it so much.
The guys who call themselves Alphas are the weakest men in America. Thats why they're fronting all the time.
Vote these spineless cowards out of their majorities so we can actually have some oversight on this serial criminality.
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The country is safer for whom? I'm not feeling it so much.
Reposted by Carol Bartold
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
Yeah, protecting me from what, exactly?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Yeah, protecting me from what, exactly?
Reposted by Carol Bartold
"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little ..." ~ Tom Stoppard
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little ..." ~ Tom Stoppard
The Cialis of ballrooms.
Ballroom that President Convicted Felon is now planning for the White House "is more than four times as large as the 20,000-square-foot one at Mar-a-Lago" in #Florida. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u... via @nytimes.com
Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Cialis of ballrooms.
Reposted by Carol Bartold
‘It’s the wanting to know that makes us matter.’
[from Arcadia, one of the most moving plays I have ever seen]
RIP Tom Stoppard. Absolute legend
#TomStoppard
[from Arcadia, one of the most moving plays I have ever seen]
RIP Tom Stoppard. Absolute legend
#TomStoppard
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
‘It’s the wanting to know that makes us matter.’
[from Arcadia, one of the most moving plays I have ever seen]
RIP Tom Stoppard. Absolute legend
#TomStoppard
[from Arcadia, one of the most moving plays I have ever seen]
RIP Tom Stoppard. Absolute legend
#TomStoppard
The day can't come soon enough when these people will no longer have a platform.
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The day can't come soon enough when these people will no longer have a platform.
A relative of #KristiNoem?
Oh, #Florida! Woman from Clearwater travels to Carabelle & turns 10 hunting dogs loose from their pens, gets arrested for stealing them. www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
a white dog is running through a field next to a fence .
ALT: a white dog is running through a field next to a fence .
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A relative of #KristiNoem?
Reposted by Carol Bartold
I’m seeing “Hagueseth” lately and I’m promoting its ubiquitousness.
November 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I’m seeing “Hagueseth” lately and I’m promoting its ubiquitousness.
Got it, #HomeDepot?
ICE Is Targeting Workers. Here’s How Employers and Unions Are Fighting Back.
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ICE Is Targeting Workers. Here’s How Employers and Unions Are Fighting Back.
twp.ai
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Got it, #HomeDepot?
And what happens in the middle of the night when they come to life? 😱
I’m fascinated by the kinds of people who have £250 to spend on 5ft tall Nutcracker ornaments with lower teeth smiles.
November 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
And what happens in the middle of the night when they come to life? 😱
Not the first time the Department of Defense has been run by a war criminal - thinking back to Robert McNamara for one - but #PeteHegseth is absolutely unhinged!
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Not the first time the Department of Defense has been run by a war criminal - thinking back to Robert McNamara for one - but #PeteHegseth is absolutely unhinged!
#StephenMiller is not compatible with humanity.
Stephen Miller is not compatible with western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#StephenMiller is not compatible with humanity.