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Vicki Madden

@vlmadden.bsky.social

1.1K followers 1.6K following 3.3K posts

Teacher, very slow writer, lover of libraries & trains. Words in A Public Space and The New York Times. Rewilding my 1/3 acre garden, mending and darning socks and my little corner of the world Also I help school leaders. truenorthbk.org vickimadden.net

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 4m

I can't figure out how to message you to give you my email. I don't see it as an option. Do you have to follow me back first? Help! I'd like one.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 7h

It can’t be said too many times:

Zohran is running for people who actually live here, who like it here, who want to make it better and believe it can be better

Cuomo is running for suburbanites, billionaires, and reactionaries

It’s not a complicated decision!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

#4 👍

Zohran sitting in the corner seat on a subway.

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking about my sign. Maybe:
Dignity & Due Process for Us All

Last time:

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 6h

One of my favorite movies

Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 6h

Okay sure, after calling a press conference just to announce
That Cuomo is a liar and a snake….

Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 6h

One of the only true statements ever made by Eric Adams at a press conference: Andrew Cuomo is a liar and a snake.

Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

Later I received a 4th.

Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely not!

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve gotten 3 texts from Janet today asking for money from 3 different numbers. I replied stop to each.

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly what is wrong with Dems. We are in a new age and need new forms to be born, as Jungians might say. GOP let MAGA be born and it carries new energy (doesn’t mean I like it). But Dems keep fighting new energy because it’s not old and conventional. Anyway, go Zohran

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

This is a very good testimony
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DR79...

The State of the United States: A Conversation with Jack Smith

YouTube video by UCL Laws

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

The value of civil servants is very clearly laid out in the second half. Civic Virtue’s Muscular Rear End
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DR79...

The State of the United States: A Conversation with Jack Smith

YouTube video by UCL Laws

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve gone round trip NYC to Seattle 7 times, both summer and winter. I’m doing it again in December. My kids loved these trips, 1st time they were 1 and 9. Most recent 21 and 30.

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

I spent 24 hours in Minot a few years ago in an Amtrak sleeper car because it was 25 below zero and the tracks froze. That’s all I know about Minot.

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

Chinatown

Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 1d

@amtrak.com you know I’m devoted but why do you abuse us? Getting on the 284 in Syracuse and they’ve packed all NYC riders into 2 cars which are already packed with 5 hours and many stops still to go. #rollingtenement

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NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 2d

Make sure you’re registered to vote before the Oct 25 deadline. You don’t even have to go outside.

Go to e-register.vote.nyc to get yourself #VoteReady.

#NYCLaborVotes

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

All jokes aside, this is an incredible piece of analysis & the way it concludes by motioning to the growing phenomenon of RW billionaires buying & destroying anything that challenges their regime of unchecked profit & power should serve as a wake-up call to those of us still missing the thread.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s the trailer for the film:

youtu.be/MOWlPV26yCk?...

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink – Official Trailer

YouTube video by Stripped for Parts

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 4d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile Did you see this www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/b...

How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains

www.nytimes.com

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