Carol Bartold
@cbartoldwrite.bsky.social
Nonfiction writer, choral singer, accountant. I work from both sides of my brain. MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. NYC, former Angeleno
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#amreading The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
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#amreading The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
If only!
Sometimes I open the fridge like it’s a portal to better life choices.
December 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If only!
Thank God for mothers like Sandra Coleman!!!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Thank God for mothers like Sandra Coleman!!!
Reposted by Carol Bartold
For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @RadioFreeTom argues: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
www.theatlantic.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @RadioFreeTom argues: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Neither. It's that nonstop repetitive "Carol of the Bells," which might as well be called "Bolero for Christmas."
I cannot decide which Christmas song is more annoying, "Little Drummer Boy" with its relentless "bump-bump-bump-bum" over and over and over and over again, or "We Need a Little Christmas" with lyrics that sound like a plea from
someone who is calling the suicide prevention hot line.
someone who is calling the suicide prevention hot line.
December 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Neither. It's that nonstop repetitive "Carol of the Bells," which might as well be called "Bolero for Christmas."
If you can find a Crown Vic in decent shape, you'll have the best car of your life! I had a '94 that I drove 'til it was over 30 years old and I couldn't get parts easily. I still miss that tank!
finding myself at that age where I'm really yearning to buy a piece-of-shit Crown Vic (salvage title)
December 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you can find a Crown Vic in decent shape, you'll have the best car of your life! I had a '94 that I drove 'til it was over 30 years old and I couldn't get parts easily. I still miss that tank!
Not to mention the pregnant women #ICE has zip-tied and thrown to the ground, some slammed down on their stomachs and held there with a knee to their back.
Republicans are not “Pro-Life” and they never were.
A chilling account of what stress from ICE raids does to the pregnant body: high blood pressure, disrupted sleep, chest pains, depression. And when immigrants fear going outside, they skip prenatal appts & go untreated. OBs are worried: "These policies are having very deep effects on our patients.”
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not to mention the pregnant women #ICE has zip-tied and thrown to the ground, some slammed down on their stomachs and held there with a knee to their back.
Really? White House staffers feel "demoralized?" Now they know how the rest of have felt for most of 2025.
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Really? White House staffers feel "demoralized?" Now they know how the rest of have felt for most of 2025.
Sounds to me like #Trump wants to provoke a war so he can "end" another one.
He's not going to put boots on the ground.
Venezuela is a big country, Maduro says they are going the gorilla warfare route, which we will lose.
This is another American useless War where many service men and women will die for nothing, and a lot of money will be wasted.🤦🏾♀️
Venezuela is a big country, Maduro says they are going the gorilla warfare route, which we will lose.
This is another American useless War where many service men and women will die for nothing, and a lot of money will be wasted.🤦🏾♀️
December 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Sounds to me like #Trump wants to provoke a war so he can "end" another one.
Reposted by Carol Bartold
"When voices meant to guide us fall silent in the face of cruelty, the Gospel itself seems to whisper rather than proclaim." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
Silent shepherds: Church leaders are ignoring our immigrant neighbors
Ever since the 2024 campaign and election, the silence of Catholic leaders on social issues often mentioned in Scripture has been deafening. I wonder why there is such disinterest.
www.ncronline.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"When voices meant to guide us fall silent in the face of cruelty, the Gospel itself seems to whisper rather than proclaim." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
Wow. Talk about the Age of Mediocrity! Unfortunately, the #FBI has put lives at stake with its incompetence.
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Wow. Talk about the Age of Mediocrity! Unfortunately, the #FBI has put lives at stake with its incompetence.
Well, no. If this is a poll, this woman does NOT want to be with #Trump, figuratively or literally.
Let the groveling begin.
"The finest President in history, unmatched leadership and vision" All women want to be with him, and all men want to be him. www.thedailybeast.com/susie-wiles-...
"The finest President in history, unmatched leadership and vision" All women want to be with him, and all men want to be him. www.thedailybeast.com/susie-wiles-...
Susie Wiles Fights for Job After Spilling Every Trump Secret
The White House chief of staff described the jaw-dropping Vanity Fair articles as disingenuous.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Well, no. If this is a poll, this woman does NOT want to be with #Trump, figuratively or literally.
This isn't even intelligent enough to be #gaslighting.
Trump officials posted inaccurate info in wake of recent tragedies
Senior admin officials released confusing, incorrect or misleading information after the Brown University shooting, Charlie Kirk's assassination and the National Guard members shooting.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Senior admin officials released confusing, incorrect or misleading information after the Brown University shooting, Charlie Kirk's assassination and the National Guard members shooting.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump officials have posted inaccurate info in wake of recent tragedies
Senior administration officials released confusing, incorrect or misleading information after the Brown University shooting, Charlie Kirk's assassination and the National Guard members shooting.
www.nbcnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This isn't even intelligent enough to be #gaslighting.
They all deserve each other and every bit of their stupidity.
Apparently the WH Chief of Staff has been the victim of having her own words printed in a story.
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
They all deserve each other and every bit of their stupidity.
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Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Speaking ill of the dead is controversial, particularly when it was a violent death. It’s edgy; it’s sensitive; best avoided in most cases, etc.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
Baselessly making another person’s murder *about yourself,* and then approving of it, is a different thing. That is delusional, narcissistic, sociopathic.
I can only hope that everyone on the JetBlue plane was dressed appropriately, according to #SeanDuffy standards!
“The air traffic controller said he couldn’t see the tanker on his radar screen either, but suggested the unknown military aircraft was part of a trend. ‘They’ve been outrageous with the unidentified aircraft within our airspace,’ the controller told the pilot.”
Oh great.
Oh great.
U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I can only hope that everyone on the JetBlue plane was dressed appropriately, according to #SeanDuffy standards!
Look at it this way, the people who have just lost the Calibri font, the people who truly need it to read, still have their Second Amendment rights. That says all we need to know about priorities.
🔫 vs 📚📖
🔫 vs 📚📖
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Look at it this way, the people who have just lost the Calibri font, the people who truly need it to read, still have their Second Amendment rights. That says all we need to know about priorities.
🔫 vs 📚📖
🔫 vs 📚📖
$1500 might buy a couple of weeks worth of groceries.
Our premiums are going up $1,500 per month.
There is no real Republican plan on health care.
Giving folks a one-time payment of $1,500 isn’t enough – it’ll only cover a fraction of the skyrocketing premiums Republicans are unleashing on Americans.
Giving folks a one-time payment of $1,500 isn’t enough – it’ll only cover a fraction of the skyrocketing premiums Republicans are unleashing on Americans.
December 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
$1500 might buy a couple of weeks worth of groceries.
Greg Bovino is more than a little full of himself and, unfortunately, has the backing of the US government which continues to grant him these abusive and illegal powers.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Greg Bovino is more than a little full of himself and, unfortunately, has the backing of the US government which continues to grant him these abusive and illegal powers.
Is she getting word salad coaching from Meghan Markle?
CBS News has now made 13 posts about Erika Kirk in the last 2 days, dominating their news page over all other stories.
December 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Is she getting word salad coaching from Meghan Markle?
I have a better idea to "preserve the magic of reading." Just read the book then think about what you have read and go back to reread and savor passages that resonate. The magic is the reader's mind, not #AI
This infuriates me.
They're embedding an AI in Kindles that is empowered to analyze our books without our permission and tell the reader about them....likely inaccurately.
We have no recourse.
writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...
They're embedding an AI in Kindles that is empowered to analyze our books without our permission and tell the reader about them....likely inaccurately.
We have no recourse.
writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I have a better idea to "preserve the magic of reading." Just read the book then think about what you have read and go back to reread and savor passages that resonate. The magic is the reader's mind, not #AI
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I feel like Indiana abandoning Trump is a tipping point. And it’s not because they didn’t want a new map. It’s because he shook them down.
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I feel like Indiana abandoning Trump is a tipping point. And it’s not because they didn’t want a new map. It’s because he shook them down.