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Trying to be kind, hopeful, and courageous while living in the Hunger Games prequel.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I’m trying to check myself here, but I feel like Trump is locked in a downward spiral. Authoritarians really depend upon a culture of fear in which their coalition is cowed into submission.

Once significant cracks appear and there isn’t a sense of inevitability, it’s hard to put back.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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“Grateful beats hateful every time.” @lyndacarter.bsky.social

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#KindnessMatters 🤍
lyndacarter.bsky.social Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · Dec 24
Sharing holiday gratitude… I’m grateful for the love of family, friends and colleagues.
I’m grateful to have known great love in my life—Robert Altman. I miss him.
So, let’s cherish each holiday, my friends! No politics, no drama. Grateful beats hateful every time…😎 trust me.
Love,
Lynda
October 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Wrote about that in The Mother of All Questions.
A certain kind of emotional wholeness is the price men pay for power, and the renunciations begin early. When I questioned a nephew, as neutrally as possible, just before he turned five, about why pink was no longer among his favorite colors, he knew exactly what we were talking about: “I like girls. I just don’t like girl things,” he exclaimed, and he knew what girl things were and that he must not let them define him. In fact, he already despised them and seg- ued into a tirade against My Little Pony. I thought five was early to be bombarded until I shopped for a friend’s unborn son and was reminded that our roles seize us at birth. Girls get being cuddly, pretty, attractive, and maybe passive: warm colors, kittens and flowers and flourishes. Boys get distance: cool colors and active figures, often menacing ones or ones that are removed from intimacy and emotion—sports figures, balls and bats, rocket ships, cold-blooded animals like reptiles, dinosaurs, and sharks, strange choices for helpless mammals who depend on nurture. Masculinity is a great renunciation. The color pink is a small thing, but emotions, expressiveness, receptiveness, a whole array of possibilities get renounced by successful boys and men in ev- eryday life, and often for men who inhabit masculinized realms—sports, the military, the police, all-male workforces in construction or resource extraction—even more must be renounced to belong.
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM