Mona Molarsky
@mmolarsky.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, flamenco aficionada. Completing a family memoir about my grandparents, Impressionist painters who met in Paris in 1905, and their sons, who ran a traveling marionette show throughout New England in the 1930s. No DMs.
Beautiful and true essay by Paco Cerda. As long ago as the 1990s, I was astonished meet many young people in Spain who said they preferred not to think about or discuss the Guerra Civil, the Spanish Civil War. Never forget. (Free article)
Opinion | It Is Time to Bury Franco’s Ghost
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Beautiful and true essay by Paco Cerda. As long ago as the 1990s, I was astonished meet many young people in Spain who said they preferred not to think about or discuss the Guerra Civil, the Spanish Civil War. Never forget. (Free article)
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
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Most Americans who voted for Trump did not understand he would do this.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Most Americans who voted for Trump did not understand he would do this.
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They’ve got a centrist saying this now? 🍿
““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …
New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
They’ve got a centrist saying this now? 🍿
Columbia, my alma mater, seems to sink lower every day.
Columbia denies Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, campus access for planned events, citing security reasons
<i>Updated Nov. 20 at 4:16 p.m.</i>
www.columbiaspectator.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Columbia, my alma mater, seems to sink lower every day.
"La Guerra Civil / The Spanish Civil War," 1937. By Wifredo Lam. "I am drawing a painting of big proportions ... an anti-fascist subject," wrote Lam of this painting, originally commissioned for the 1937 Spanish Pavilion at the Exposition Internationale in Paris. Currently on view at MoMA.
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"La Guerra Civil / The Spanish Civil War," 1937. By Wifredo Lam. "I am drawing a painting of big proportions ... an anti-fascist subject," wrote Lam of this painting, originally commissioned for the 1937 Spanish Pavilion at the Exposition Internationale in Paris. Currently on view at MoMA.
"The Jungle" by Wifredo Lam (1902-1982), in "When I Don't Sleep, I Dream," his fabulous survey at MoMA.
November 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"The Jungle" by Wifredo Lam (1902-1982), in "When I Don't Sleep, I Dream," his fabulous survey at MoMA.
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Charlotte immigration crackdown goes on, Homeland Security says, despite sheriff saying it ended
Charlotte immigration crackdown goes on, Homeland Security says, despite sheriff saying it ended
Charlotte immigration crackdown goes on, Homeland Security says, despite sheriff saying it ended
Law enforcement leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, say a federal immigration crackdown centered around the city appears to be tapering off Thursday.
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Charlotte immigration crackdown goes on, Homeland Security says, despite sheriff saying it ended
Charlotte immigration crackdown goes on, Homeland Security says, despite sheriff saying it ended
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From Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, Rep. @velazquez.house.gov has always been a champion and tireless advocate for immigrants, small businesses and working families. Your grace and fight showed us what real leadership looks like. From the bottom of my heart, thank you La Luchadora.
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
From Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, Rep. @velazquez.house.gov has always been a champion and tireless advocate for immigrants, small businesses and working families. Your grace and fight showed us what real leadership looks like. From the bottom of my heart, thank you La Luchadora.
White Cyclamen by Anne Estelle Rice (1887-1959). Rice was a Philadelphia artist who ended up in Paris with my grandmother Sarah Shreve, in 1905. She went on to have a distinguished career as a fauvist and beyond in Paris and London. This oil and watercolor on paper is for auction: Bonhams, London.
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
White Cyclamen by Anne Estelle Rice (1887-1959). Rice was a Philadelphia artist who ended up in Paris with my grandmother Sarah Shreve, in 1905. She went on to have a distinguished career as a fauvist and beyond in Paris and London. This oil and watercolor on paper is for auction: Bonhams, London.
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Page One in Iowa.
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Page One in Iowa.
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Cuando la mirada dice todo.
📹 An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco (1988) (@bcc) Available on YouTube
Rosario Montoya Manzano takes her name "La Farruca" from her father, Antonio Montoya Flores "Farruco." Sister of La Faraona, aunt of El Barullo & mother of Farruquito, Farru & El Carpeta.
📹 An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco (1988) (@bcc) Available on YouTube
Rosario Montoya Manzano takes her name "La Farruca" from her father, Antonio Montoya Flores "Farruco." Sister of La Faraona, aunt of El Barullo & mother of Farruquito, Farru & El Carpeta.
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Cuando la mirada dice todo.
📹 An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco (1988) (@bcc) Available on YouTube
Rosario Montoya Manzano takes her name "La Farruca" from her father, Antonio Montoya Flores "Farruco." Sister of La Faraona, aunt of El Barullo & mother of Farruquito, Farru & El Carpeta.
📹 An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco (1988) (@bcc) Available on YouTube
Rosario Montoya Manzano takes her name "La Farruca" from her father, Antonio Montoya Flores "Farruco." Sister of La Faraona, aunt of El Barullo & mother of Farruquito, Farru & El Carpeta.
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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Trump and Stephen Miller want to paint protests against their mass deportations as violent and unruly — this was nothing of the sort. youtu.be/_M6MpFyDhus?...
Hundreds show up for training to resist ICE, protect their neighbors
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Trump and Stephen Miller want to paint protests against their mass deportations as violent and unruly — this was nothing of the sort. youtu.be/_M6MpFyDhus?...
Shame!
Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:
"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."
A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."
A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Shame!
The many good reasons that Columbia University students and affiliates should form a tenants' union.
The case for a Columbia tenants’ union
It has arguably never been harder to be a tenant in New York City. Rents are at historic highs<a href="https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/ny-rent-cost-apartments-boroughs-mamdani-9mwrcxb6d...
www.columbiaspectator.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The many good reasons that Columbia University students and affiliates should form a tenants' union.
When it comes to universities, I sometimes feel I've seen it all. But the situation at U. Chicago shocks even me.
Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?
The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
When it comes to universities, I sometimes feel I've seen it all. But the situation at U. Chicago shocks even me.
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We witness new horrors daily. But this is one of those that should bring all of this to an end on its own.
It won't, of course. Because we're in hell. But it should.
It won't, of course. Because we're in hell. But it should.
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
We witness new horrors daily. But this is one of those that should bring all of this to an end on its own.
It won't, of course. Because we're in hell. But it should.
It won't, of course. Because we're in hell. But it should.
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To illustrate, Cuomo wins the brown areas of Manhattan including the Upper East Side, which are the wealthiest parts while Mamdani wins the rest.
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
To illustrate, Cuomo wins the brown areas of Manhattan including the Upper East Side, which are the wealthiest parts while Mamdani wins the rest.
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Instead of folding like cheap chairs, Democrats should have forced the GOP to end the shutdown by killing the filibuster. Holding onto the archaic, antidemocratic tradition doesn't help them stop fascism, it makes them complicit to it.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Democrats Should Have Let Republicans Kill the Filibuster
Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic.
www.thenation.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Instead of folding like cheap chairs, Democrats should have forced the GOP to end the shutdown by killing the filibuster. Holding onto the archaic, antidemocratic tradition doesn't help them stop fascism, it makes them complicit to it.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Never forget the sleazy campaign that Cuomo ran, backed by Michael Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, and many other billionaires who were wiling to say anything and do anything to keep income inequality intact.
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Never forget the sleazy campaign that Cuomo ran, backed by Michael Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, and many other billionaires who were wiling to say anything and do anything to keep income inequality intact.
Here's how New York City voted, Mamdani vs. Cuomo vs. Sliwa, precinct by precinct. Thanks to the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Most Detailed Map of the N.Y.C. Mayoral Election (Gift Article)
See how New Yorkers are voting, precinct by precinct
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Here's how New York City voted, Mamdani vs. Cuomo vs. Sliwa, precinct by precinct. Thanks to the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
It's Mamdani for New York!
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's Mamdani for New York!
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“Historically, the races in Virginia and New Jersey in the year following a presidential election have been closely watched on a national level as a barometer of how voters are feeling about the party holding the White House.”
NEW: Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer who served three terms in the U.S. House, will become Virginia's next governor, The Associated Press reports.
Spanberger will be the state's first female governor. https://to.pbs.org/4hCyiWm
Spanberger will be the state's first female governor. https://to.pbs.org/4hCyiWm
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
“Historically, the races in Virginia and New Jersey in the year following a presidential election have been closely watched on a national level as a barometer of how voters are feeling about the party holding the White House.”