tstark1.bsky.social
@tstark1.bsky.social
Writer, thinker, feminist, humanist.
Ruth Kiew Dies at 79; Botanist Made Discoveries in Remote Forests www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/s...
Ruth Kiew Dies at 79; Botanist Made Discoveries in Remote Forests
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December 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
U.K. Spy Chief Warns of Acute Russia Threat: The ‘Frontline is Everywhere’ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/w...
U.K. Spy Chief Warns of Acute Russia Threat: The ‘Frontline is Everywhere’
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December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Jeanette Winter, Who Told Children About Artists’ Lives, Dies at 86 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Jeanette Winter, Who Told Children About Artists’ Lives, Dies at 86
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December 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Accurate! 😂
Trump Just Made A Bonkers Claim About Operating A Lawnmower—And Gavin Newsom's Reaction Is Priceless
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December 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Wow! The Democracy Docket YouTube channel now has more than 600,000 subscribers.
NEW VIDEO: I explain the Republican Voter Suppression War Machine — a breakdown of the tactics, laws, and strategies that GOP is using to restrict voting access in the United States. youtu.be/di-eBOz4dRU?...
Trump's Plan to Steal the Election: What's Beneath the Surface?
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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December 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Today we feature Boy and Canary (c. 1952) by Dod Procter (1890–1972). This intimate portrait shows Gilbert Gray, the son of a family who lived near Dod in North Corner, Newlyn. She painted Gilbert several times between the ages of 8 and 12, capturing the quiet curiosity and presence of childhood.
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
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December 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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"A second agent then joins them and appears to help restrain him, who can be heard repeating 'I’m a citizen' and screaming. Several people then come into the hallway from outside and begin filming the interaction and whistling before the agents pull him outside..."

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This US citizen went on his lunch break and ended up in a chokehold by a masked federal agent and detained, video shows | CNN
Mubashir had just stepped outside into the snowy Minneapolis winter weather to take his lunch break when he says he saw a masked federal officer running toward him “at full speed.”
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December 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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this is crazy:

"ICE agents descended on one construction site in subzero temperatures, leading to a standoff with protesters and workers.

One man was taken to hospital for exposure. The other waited out the siege and was taken to safety after the agents left."

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ICE agents visit Brooklyn Park coffee shop, arrest cook after ruse to get him outside
The ICE operation in the Twin Cities is increasingly moving into the suburbs.
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December 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Marina Yee, Elusive Avant-Garde Designer, Dies at 67 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/f...
Marina Yee, Elusive Avant-Garde Designer, Dies at 67
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December 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Listen up, folks.
Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Slams Trump In Blistering New Ad: 'I Am P*ssed Off As Hell'
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December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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BREAKING: A federal grand jury — for the second time in one week — rejects the DOJ's attempt to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on alleged mortgage fraud charges. The decision suggests the department does not have sufficient evidence to establish she committed a crime.
Second Grand Jury Rebuffs DOJ Attempt to Re-indict NY AG Letitia James
Read more here.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
@NYTObits NYT obits discriminates against Women. Your choices based on patriarchal values. You take lazy route, not research to find Women worthy of national obituaries.Call it MEN's obituary page. WOMEN'S LIVES MATTER! We=51% of pop, not 1%! Excluding Women=Misogyny

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Obituaries
The New York Times obituaries and death notices: remembering lives that touched our own.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
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December 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
As Luis Manuel Miranda sang in "Hamilton,"--'IMMIGRANTS, WE GET THINGS DONE!' Fascism, Jingoism, Cultism, Greed and Corruption are a rot on humanity and a threat to democracy.
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants
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December 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote
Read more here.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Many Republican women have “internalized basic feminist assumptions about their entitlement to equal treatment. What they’ve failed to understand, however, is that those aren’t assumptions their party shares,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes.
Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
There’s a big difference between being useful and being respected.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Asserting a Personal Role in Warner Bros. Battle, Trump Expands His Powers Again

The move comes as the Supreme Court also appears poised to put antitrust enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission under his control.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Asserting a Personal Role in Warner Bros. Battle, Trump Expands His Powers Again
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December 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Kristen Stewart Wants to Blow Up the Myth of the Brilliant Male Actor www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/m...
Kristen Stewart Wants to Blow Up the Myth of the Brilliant Male Actor
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December 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is a turning point for all our people to rise for justice, bring back the rule of law, separation of church/state, US Constitution, 3 branches of Gov, decency, a democratic government.

Judge Approves Release of Epstein Grand Jury Documents in Florida Case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Judge Approves Release of Epstein Grand Jury Documents in Florida Case
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December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
it's not just Big Brother everywhere but assault on our privacy fr snoopers & criminals & rapacious Big Biz. As the old song that the Andrew Sisters and (also B Cosby) sang "Don't fence me in."

Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
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December 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future
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December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM