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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 2d

Although we are glad to see a possible ending of the Hamas-Israel war to end the killing, perhaps the next peace deal Trump brokers can be the one between the two warring divisions in America that he is largely responsible for.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 3d

Just some searing images from T.E. Hulme to keep you believing.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 5d

Just heard from my doctor that Medicare is no longer paying for Tele-Health (Zoom) visits.

Just the beginning, I fear. Another cruel cut from an administration that cares nothing for patients' health.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 6d

I had to give up the role of hoping to inspire others to do things I had had such joy in, i.e., reading wonderful books and even writing one.

Most people just want to be left alone, content not to be someone upon whom nothing is lost.

"The Hard, Gem-like Flame" is Flickering by Jude Hopkins, 10/5/25

One thing I've learned from social media: Just because I wrote a book doesn't mean everyone else wants to write a book—or will write a book. Nor do they want to be reminded of the fact that they have ...

www.judehopkinswriting.net

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 12d

Such images -- all backing up "So much was golden then" and "Schools can be winged things."

Imagination needs to be looked after, too.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 13d

"By way of imposing meaning upon our disparate American experience, the novelist seeks to create forms in which acts, scenes and characters speak for more than their immediate selves" — Ralph Ellison, Introduction to "Invisible Man"

#SundaySentence

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 15d

These three congressmen told then-president Richard Nixon that he had lost congressional support and would be impeached if he stayed. They used the Constitution as their North Star. Where are such men today? Gutless, spineless traitors to the Constitution. That's where they are.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 16d

It's William Faulkner's birthday. He reminds us that America can produce people of genius. Here, a passage from "Absalom, Absalom!" reminds us that sparrows can produce a "cloudy flutter." Think about it.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 16d

It's always so worthwhile—and joyful—to revisit Dorothea Krook's insightful analysis of James's "'vessels of consciousness' who are exposed to the impact of living experience and fully cognisant [sic] of the operation and effect of that experience."

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 20d

"The apples are everywhere; you pick them up from under your feet but to bite into them, for fellowship; you catch their young brightness in the blue air where they suggest strings of strange-colored pearls tangled in the knotted boughs, swarming for a...wasted gaiety” — Henry James

#SundaySentence

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 22d

What a mirthless world this would be if these are the only two TV comics left.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 27d

"The whole aspect of the scene had that depressing effect on Jude that few places can produce like a taproom on a Sunday evening when the setting sun is slanting in, and no liquor is going, and the unfortunate wayfarer finds himself with no other haven of rest" — Thomas Hardy

#SundaySentence

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Whatever distracting concoction someone has come up with in a fluorescent-light-filled Palo Alto mega-office has absolutely nothing on the joy, wonder, and meaning that creativity can bring" — Amie McNee, "We Need Your Art"

#SundaySentence

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Let me get this straight:

It's unacceptable if a federal judge makes a decision that shoots down one of Trump's authoritarian orders, using the Constitution as evidence, but it's OK if Trump threatens Congress members if they vote to forward release of the Epstein files. Just because.

Right?

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Sep 2

A poem for Bill Belichick after his debut as coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, who were defeated 48-14.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Any reports of this award should be accompanied by an asterisk next to his name.

Trump Says He’ll Give Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom

www.nytimes.com

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy September 1 and the advent of fall.

John Updike captured the moment.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Aug 31

"We should never maltreat our idols: the gilding rubs off on our fingers" — Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary"

#SundaySentence

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Let's apply Ernest Becker's profound thoughts on how people beat back the fear of death and seek to appear heroic, above death.

The anti-vaxxers lie to themselves that by not vaxxing, they are symbolic HEROES, cosmically special and distinctive compared to the rest of us sheep.

Dangerous belief.

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Aug 26

Politico estimates the cost of the Nat'l Guard in L.A. to have been $134 million.

Cost of deployment in Washington, D.C., is estimated to be $1 million a day.

Now, if he goes into Chicago and other blue-state cities?

That's a lot of Medicaid, a lot of food stamps, a lot of grants for art ... .

What’s the cost of the National Guard deployment in DC? - WTOP News

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is calling for the Pentagon to provide an estimate of the cost of deploying 2,000 National Guard personnel in the District during the federal law enforcement surge ...

wtop.com

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Aug 24

Is it ever.

Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Aug 24

"She said that would be lovely, and her lashes fluttered like a brace of hysterical butterflies" — Robert Penn Warren, "All the King's Men"

#SundaySentence

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Aug 23

Beware of coarse people who do not do nuance.

Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Aug 17

"You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock" — Harold Bloom, "How to Read and Why"

#SundaySentence

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Jude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · Aug 16

Such an important consideration— poetic restraint—in this mawkish world, full of sentimentality and overkill, as if people can't get the point otherwise.

I love the poetic example used below to show us how restraint can be beautiful and moving.

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