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Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · 10d

The subject of loss affects us all in 2025.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 10d

“Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America,” Andreas Reckwitz writes. “It shapes the collective horizon more insistently than at any time since 1945, spilling into the mainstream of political, intellectual and everyday life.”

Opinion | The West Is Defined by Loss

Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America.

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Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · 10d

I’m reading Stacy Schiff’s book about Samuel Adams prepping for Ken Burns doc re: our Revolution.

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
― Samuel Adams

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · 27d

"The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling."
― Czesław Miłosz, The Captive Mind

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Sep 6

"The public is lied to every day by the President, by his spokespeople, by his officers.”
― Daniel Ellsberg

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish."
-- Anne Bradstreet [1622-1672] "Thirty-three Meditations"

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 27

“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism. Nothing else.”
― Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 26

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 25

The destructiveness of this stupid administration is a bottomless hell of ignorance.

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 25

Twenty years since Katrina…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyj7...

Terence Blanchard- Levees

YouTube video by abanks47

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Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 25

"Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 24

"There's a strong message of divine righteousness in dictatorships. Every megalomaniac has to believe his actions are sanctioned by God.”
― Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 24

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
― Émile Zola

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 24

"Where are now the glorious hours
Of a nation's gather'd powers?
Like the setting of a star,
In the fathomless afar;
Time's eternal wing
Hath around those ruins cast
The dark presense of the past.”
― Letitia E. Landon [1802-1838]

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 22

"The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Few Germans in 1933 imagined Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings of Babi Yar or death marches… last months of WW2.
It’s hard to blame them for not foreseeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence failed them…”
― Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 21

Is FLABBY TRUMP afraid of all the names of the JOHNS in the SEXTRAFICKING FILES who were members at MAR-A-LARDO?
Enquiring minds ask on behalf of the Epstein victims, on behalf of the American people, and curious how #HANDSOMEGAVIN2028 will meme the fuck out of it all?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · Aug 21

I absolutely love this painting.
It breathes with calmness.

Yes, it is Ukrainian art.
Ivan Pylypenko,
The River of Time, 2020

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Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do the GOP conservatives on the Court hate their grandchildren? Why else would they block scientific discovery if not for paranoia about what could be discovered?
Such stagnant thinking.

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Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 21

The test of time is as important as dreams for the future. What lasts resonates.

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 21

“Exile’s around, my love
A journey in a circle’s ring,
Your weary feet heels down, my love,
the jet is close to landing….”

Years ago, w/a collaborator who died in Greece, we wrote a song in NY about exiles.

Resonates in my memory for today’s world of exiles.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIYw...

Exiles

YouTube video by Eve Unbound - Topic

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Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 21

Gavin is SO HANDSOME!!! Gavin is SEXY, SMART, VIRILE and COOL!!! Compared to TINY HANDS TRUMP, always in the same DRAB blue suit to cover his FLAB, OUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR GAVIN is MODERN, VERY STRONG (no COVFEFE) and a GENIUS (HIGH IQ)!!!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Aug 21

Who is fighting harder to protect America: Gavin Newsom or Trump?

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 21

“Life is short, and we have but a brief time in which to explore, to learn, to experience, and to create. Let us make the most of that time, and let us burn brightly, like meteors across the night sky, leaving behind us a trail of light and inspiration for those who come after us.
~Jack London

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Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 16

"His life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Luisa Inez Newton @luisainez.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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