Just this evening walked by the police station a half-a-block down the side street. This flag must have been put up a few days ago. The photos of the three policemen from there lost on 9/11 are always out front.

 

The Living Room Where History Still Happens

Gloria Steinem, now 91, is still at the center of vital conversations. On Tuesday, she gathered a circle of nearly 30 women at her home to talk about women’s health.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/style/the-living-room-where-history-still-happens.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Why Trump is targeting Boston and its Democratic mayor as part of his ‘immigration enforcement blitz’

Standoff has been building since March between Trump and Michelle Wu, who last week said to ‘stop attacking cities to hide your administration’s failures’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/05/boston-ice-trump-michelle-wu

 GOT THIS TODAY.

MY OLDEST GRANDCHILD’S PHOTO from her first game at the University of Wisconsin. She’s been there a week or so.

I HELD THE SIGN ALL SUMMER. The sign’s message has meaning every day. Thursday school starts here. I’m excited. 

 

 

Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies

“Eat, Pray, Love” was a huge hit in part because readers imagined they could be like its author. Her new book, “All the Way to the River,” shows how dubious that notion was.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/all-the-way-to-the-river-love-loss-and-liberation-elizabeth-gilbert-book-review

BACK in my NYC apt. wearing a hat I got in Jackson, Wyoming.

 

RUTH MESSINGER endorses ZOHRAN MAMDANI—-Five boroughs against Trump

https://youtu.be/Ane52XeOZ4o?si=moJxwEucqLRG4bqp

 

DISCERNING PURPOSE IN LIFE’S SECOND HALF:  a conversation with DAVID BROOKS

https://youtu.be/YXgNOb_oiTs?si=GqhB50YRxQmiIVeD

 

SIMON ROSENBERG talks with:

THE INSPIRING JAMIE RASKIN on Trump, the escalation in DC, our fight for Democracy and more..,

https://youtu.be/l_2irFHu4G0?si=2Wq-Qiudyzwi3L0M

WHY NOT HER AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE?

MAYOR WU SAYS ‘Boston Will Not Back Down’ to federal warning on ‘sanctuary’ policies

https://youtu.be/zViuk3ROMvI?si=9be5q0iZsbgPHX6K

BACK FROM WYOMING. Walking to my coffee place there the other morning. Liked the look of this place. The mountain in the one picture is just an in-town slope. The Tetons are not right in town. It’s become very expensive there. Natural beauty has much to do with it. But you can’t build on 97% of the county. Vast public land. Beautiful there.

 

Climate Journalist on EPA’s Actions Under Trump and Their Impact | Amanpour and Company

https://youtu.be/nMMywao3o6o?si=9PPOzUqMP7cAaP5F

 

THEY ONCE picked America’s fruit. NOW they’re afraid to go outside. (CNN)

https://youtu.be/UqqGfpC9zfI?si=gfXqSuy8xf4ZFstB

 

 I WAS TAKEN WITH THE LOOK ON THE 6 TRAIN YESTERDAY.

 

My Life in Protest

 

I ran from tear gas and was arrested at People’s Park, occupied Wall Street, and wore a pussy hat. At 77, I’m not stopping.

(New York Magazine)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/still-protesting-boomer-protest-resistance-trump-vietnam-occupy.html

I’D HAVE TO SAY MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE ALBUM.

  

Pete Buttigieg says Democrats can’t go back to status quo after Trump (NPR)

https://youtu.be/HaIP0BvF1TU?si=nPNdlZOgqAOwIHNM

 

ROBERT REICH: How Bullies Drive Economic Inequality | The Interview

https://youtu.be/xJtCm8nBw_g?si=aJ6_evgeatoDRaxl

 

 RALLY FOR PALESTINE on Union Square this afternoon.

JUST GOT THIS AT THE LIBRARY TWO BLOCKS AWAY. 500+ pages. Yikes.

 

 

Ken Burns calls public media funding cuts ‘short-sighted’ but vows ‘we will continue’

https://youtu.be/RljpL4W2mRM?si=bz6mi2i-2xNzXim9

 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Blinken on Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine | Christiane Amanpour

https://youtu.be/NA12M3O93cY?si=GCrUWBSV0mqz-uHD

 

NYC’S MAYORAL CANDIDATE ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S DINNER PARTY INTERVIEW

https://youtu.be/MUGGtOFh3Qo?si=gHqwC2kLiFqUhomS

 JUST GOT THIS AT THREE LIVES BOOKSTORE, my favorite bookstore. 

 

NOW THEY TELL US (Beinart Notebook)

https://youtu.be/Ypr0TdTOik0?si=24__fxmgAoKHiR1K 

 

OCEAN VUONG—-The Emperor of Gladness (politics and prose)

https://youtu.be/VtWJfblJiX8?si=6aOxmpBSt8UtI9Mj

 

BERNIE SANDERS on what ZOHRAN MAMDANI understands about politics

https://youtu.be/GTk7vuTW24w?si=Eqd1QPWLShJQ2XYn

 

Full interview:  Ken Burns on ‘Face the Nation’

https://youtu.be/-t44vlkV65M?si=3RgxGev0eUAAoyUb

from New York Magazine: people at Mamdani’s election night party.

Thinking about the NYC election for mayor: Almost NOTHING good in my 78 years was done in America that wasn’t somehow a Jewish effort. That will continue no matter who is mayor. Why would it stop? 

 

‘His blood is in the soil’: the Kentucky group honoring victims of lynchings

Since 2021, the Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project have planted markers memorializing Black residents killed by racist violence (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/eastern-kentucky-remembrance-project

 

Inside the Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis / Amanpour and Company

https://youtu.be/MOAEdDTVjSw?si=ar-U6uJHsbP798pj

 I VOTED FOR BRAD LANDER.

Enslaved Black Children Were Educated Here. Now the Public Can Learn the History.

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/bray-school-virginia-juneteenth.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

MICHELLE GOLDBERG

Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/trump-has-reawakened-the-resistance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Hitting the Streets With ‘No Kings Day’ Protesters

New Yorkers gathered in the rain to march, dance, and let Trump know ‘nobody likes him.’ (New York Magazine)

https://www.thecut.com/article/photos-no-kings-day-protest-new-york-city.html

 

Gov. Josh Shapiro on antisemitism and Trump’s ‘sanctimonious B.S.’ (Washington Post) 

https://youtu.be/7hR7FJj0vZw?si=9jIXHIgiOp62_s6C

Twelve of Brian Wilson’s greatest songs – from surf to psychedelia and beyond

Elaborating classic pop and doo-wop into divinely beautiful and inimitable hitmaking, these are some of the late musician’s most unmistakable masterpieces

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/11/brian-wilson-greatest-songs

 

‘It’s so important to read widely’ | 8 writers share their advice

https://youtu.be/wkeXR-IIPpw?si=3TqxNadUgXGxc4o_

 EVERY MORNING 7:00-10:00. C-SPAN.