Laurie Winer
@lauriewiner.bsky.social
Bookish female who re-located to France, author of Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical and working on a new one about Adolf Hitler I.
Apparently we've done something wrong and now we can't have comedy. #jimmykimmellive.bsk.social
September 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Apparently we've done something wrong and now we can't have comedy. #jimmykimmellive.bsk.social
“Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct." Hegseth said it, but it definitely has the rhetorical ring of Stephen Miller, and his hero Joseph Goebbels.
September 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct." Hegseth said it, but it definitely has the rhetorical ring of Stephen Miller, and his hero Joseph Goebbels.
Of course Putin knows exactly where his profound ignorance meets his insane megalomania.
August 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Of course Putin knows exactly where his profound ignorance meets his insane megalomania.
And so civil war will begin
August 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
And so civil war will begin
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Relevant much?
”The book illustrates, profoundly, how people gird themselves, consciously and unconsciously, for the great moral tests they know are coming, even as they absorb and interpret the shocking curtailments of freedom to their daily lives."
@princetonupress.bsky.social
”The book illustrates, profoundly, how people gird themselves, consciously and unconsciously, for the great moral tests they know are coming, even as they absorb and interpret the shocking curtailments of freedom to their daily lives."
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Things Still to Be Salvaged | Los Angeles Review of Books
Laurie Winer assesses Damion Searls’s new translation of “The Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation” by Charlotte Beradt.
lareviewofbooks.org
July 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Relevant much?
”The book illustrates, profoundly, how people gird themselves, consciously and unconsciously, for the great moral tests they know are coming, even as they absorb and interpret the shocking curtailments of freedom to their daily lives."
@princetonupress.bsky.social
”The book illustrates, profoundly, how people gird themselves, consciously and unconsciously, for the great moral tests they know are coming, even as they absorb and interpret the shocking curtailments of freedom to their daily lives."
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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"Since its creation under the first President George Bush in 1992, Energy Star has ... prevented four billion metric tons of greenhouse gases from being released into the atmosphere." #climatechange #eneregy #water #EPA
If Trump is so upset about shower heads, he can buy his own wasteful appliances. I don't see why he should deny us the information we need to make our own choices, just as he wants to do.
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"Since its creation under the first President George Bush in 1992, Energy Star has ... prevented four billion metric tons of greenhouse gases from being released into the atmosphere." #climatechange #eneregy #water #EPA
In which I discuss Hitler and orange hitler with two amiable and like-minded psychologists: shorturl.at/NNheZ
SMACKDOWN FROM THE COURTS! | Shrinking Trump
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April 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
In which I discuss Hitler and orange hitler with two amiable and like-minded psychologists: shorturl.at/NNheZ
Reposted by Laurie Winer
#westwater
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the stuff the federal government does in water management in the United States that we used to be able to take for granted, like, for example safely operate the dams.
www.inkstain.net/2025/02/what...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the stuff the federal government does in water management in the United States that we used to be able to take for granted, like, for example safely operate the dams.
www.inkstain.net/2025/02/what...
February 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
#westwater
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the stuff the federal government does in water management in the United States that we used to be able to take for granted, like, for example safely operate the dams.
www.inkstain.net/2025/02/what...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the stuff the federal government does in water management in the United States that we used to be able to take for granted, like, for example safely operate the dams.
www.inkstain.net/2025/02/what...
Sebastian Haffner: “Then as now, one’s only hope was Hitler’s own unreasonableness. Would it not sooner or later exhaust the patience of his opponents? Then as now, it became apparent that their patience knew no bounds.
February 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Sebastian Haffner: “Then as now, one’s only hope was Hitler’s own unreasonableness. Would it not sooner or later exhaust the patience of his opponents? Then as now, it became apparent that their patience knew no bounds.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” starts with a woman going to a bank machine and finding out there is no money in her account: rb.gy/nt3buk
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
rb.gy
February 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
“The Handmaid’s Tale” starts with a woman going to a bank machine and finding out there is no money in her account: rb.gy/nt3buk
Ok, it’s really really bad. But maybe it’s not as bad we imagi…
January 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Ok, it’s really really bad. But maybe it’s not as bad we imagi…
If you’d like to hear me talk about my favorite subject beyond American musicals—orange hitler 2.0—listen to this episode of “Shrinking Trump,” which is a great podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyp3...
This Terrible Moment Before Trump Takes Power | Shrinking Trump
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January 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you’d like to hear me talk about my favorite subject beyond American musicals—orange hitler 2.0—listen to this episode of “Shrinking Trump,” which is a great podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyp3...
If you'd like to hear me talk about this genius at New York's Lambs Club on December 5, dm me. You'll learn about how the American musical is forever stamped with Oscar Hammerstein II's innovations as well as his ethics and his vision for the country.
November 24, 2024 at 3:41 PM
If you'd like to hear me talk about this genius at New York's Lambs Club on December 5, dm me. You'll learn about how the American musical is forever stamped with Oscar Hammerstein II's innovations as well as his ethics and his vision for the country.