Robin Kirk
@robinkirk.bsky.social
Vagina American, science booster, writer, Duke Human Rights Center fan girl, pocket Rottie walker, emotional support human to Maximus Stripus, whistle at the ready. GOOD TROUBLE ALWAYS, she/y'all/youse, posts mine own http://linktr.ee/robinkirk.
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Robin Kirk
@robinkirk.bsky.social
· Oct 26
While watching @nytimes.com interview with Anthony Hopkins, I was delivered at least 12 ICE ads. A good interview destroyed by offers to join the modern Gestapo. All while my non-white US citizen sister on the North Side is too afraid of being targeted by ICE goons to leave her home. Disgusted.
My latest newsletter, a read and reread of @philippullman.bsky.social 's linked trilogies featuring Lyra Belacqua #amreading #bookbans #kidlit open.substack.com/pub/robinkir...
A "Dark Materials" reread
TL;DR Returning to a modern classic
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My latest newsletter, a read and reread of @philippullman.bsky.social 's linked trilogies featuring Lyra Belacqua #amreading #bookbans #kidlit open.substack.com/pub/robinkir...
The room smelled sweet and sour at once, as though a thousand suffering people had lain sweating in it, which, I suppose, they had, and then ground roses into the floor with dirty feet #SundaySentence @madelinemiller.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The room smelled sweet and sour at once, as though a thousand suffering people had lain sweating in it, which, I suppose, they had, and then ground roses into the floor with dirty feet #SundaySentence @madelinemiller.bsky.social
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Art wasn't removed from life, it was life #SundaySentence
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Art wasn't removed from life, it was life #SundaySentence
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"Life is all conjunctions, one damn thing after another, cows and wars and chewing gum and mountains; art—the best, most important art—is all subordination: guilt because of sin because of pain" — John Gardner, "On Moral Fiction"
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"Life is all conjunctions, one damn thing after another, cows and wars and chewing gum and mountains; art—the best, most important art—is all subordination: guilt because of sin because of pain" — John Gardner, "On Moral Fiction"
#SundaySentence
#SundaySentence
n a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty; all are responsible Abraham Joshua Heschel @mashagessen.bsky.social #SundaySentence
Opinion | These Israeli Dissidents Can Show Americans How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country
And why it matters so much to try.
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
n a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty; all are responsible Abraham Joshua Heschel @mashagessen.bsky.social #SundaySentence
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
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Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.
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There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope.
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope.
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
While watching @nytimes.com interview with Anthony Hopkins, I was delivered at least 12 ICE ads. A good interview destroyed by offers to join the modern Gestapo. All while my non-white US citizen sister on the North Side is too afraid of being targeted by ICE goons to leave her home. Disgusted.
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
While watching @nytimes.com interview with Anthony Hopkins, I was delivered at least 12 ICE ads. A good interview destroyed by offers to join the modern Gestapo. All while my non-white US citizen sister on the North Side is too afraid of being targeted by ICE goons to leave her home. Disgusted.
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If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples
Israel shatters ceasefire in attack in southern Gaza. Accuracy is important @apnews.com and you are welcome.
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Israel shatters ceasefire in attack in southern Gaza. Accuracy is important @apnews.com and you are welcome.
Male desperation, loneliness and need, the misunderstandings they bred: these hung in the refrigerated air, permeating public spaces like dry ice. Hilary Mantel #SundaySentence
I Watched Stand-Up in Saudi Arabia
What the surreal Riyadh Comedy Festival foretold about the kingdom’s future
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Male desperation, loneliness and need, the misunderstandings they bred: these hung in the refrigerated air, permeating public spaces like dry ice. Hilary Mantel #SundaySentence
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🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2
October 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2
What she didn't envy was the look that Michael had spoken of on the hillside, the widow's shock at the sudden absence, and perhaps solitude is more frightening when something is snatched away (so much spectacular prose to choose from) #SundaySentence
October 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
What she didn't envy was the look that Michael had spoken of on the hillside, the widow's shock at the sudden absence, and perhaps solitude is more frightening when something is snatched away (so much spectacular prose to choose from) #SundaySentence
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Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.
"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.
"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
In all her youthful visions of the future, of the job she might have, the city and home she might live in, the friends and family around her, Marnie had never thought that she'd be lonely #1linewed
October 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In all her youthful visions of the future, of the job she might have, the city and home she might live in, the friends and family around her, Marnie had never thought that she'd be lonely #1linewed
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We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire
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Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
It's officially #BannedBooksWeek. Support authors, your local indy or @bookshop.org, fight censorship & elevate important voices—especially traditionally marginalized or underrepresented writers. Use BBW25 at Bookshop for a discount on print books www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...
October 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It's officially #BannedBooksWeek. Support authors, your local indy or @bookshop.org, fight censorship & elevate important voices—especially traditionally marginalized or underrepresented writers. Use BBW25 at Bookshop for a discount on print books www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...
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Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."
October 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."
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Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
October 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.