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Cathy Young

@cathyyoung63.bsky.social
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Writer: Bulwark, Newsday, others. Former Soviet Jewish American gal. Otter afficionada. You know the drill.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 24/09/2026
Pres. AOC/Buttigieg/Ossoff should turn this into an actual Office of Remigration that tracks down former immigrants to the US ejected by the Trump administration and offers them visas to return
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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Donate to Keep the Kyiv Independent going, organized by Kyiv Independent
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Check out @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com's Morning Shots. As Trump says, "Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen." www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-not-a-...
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He’s Not a Doctor. But He Did Stay at the White House Last Night.
In retrospect, maybe the era of bleach-injection speculation wasn’t so bad.
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
ICYMI, new from me at @thebulwark.com: the 80th anniversary of #AnimalFarm. Also, the surprising story of its 1947 Ukrainian-language edition.
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Good stuff!
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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
On view at the Marie Antoinette exhibition in London, a famous Vigée Lebrun portrait of the queen.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
'Concert Hall', Queen's Hall, Langham Place (1929) by Sybil Andrews (Glenbow Museum)
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Tomek Jankowski @tomekjankowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It has been deeply heartening to see Ukraine, a nation fighting for its very survival, to turn to art and literature for solace. It has also raised the profile of other Eastern European writers and artists from the 20th century - operating under similar circumstances: platformraam.nl/artikelen/28...
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The life of Ukrainian books and authors in wartime
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian literary scene has seen some dramatic changes. The Ukrainian author Andrei Kurkov reflects on...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
CBS/YouGov poll: – 57% oppose deploying the National Guard to DC – 58% oppose deployments to other cities – Just 36% on independents support deployments Pundits who are imagining a hypothetical voter should stop claiming that voter would support these deployments: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-n...
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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
my colleagues in C18 literary and cultural studies didn't need David Bowie's endorsement to know that they are the coolest, sexiest group of scholars, and I'm sure they're all taking the news that he was planning "18th Century Musical" completely in stride
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David Bowie's final project was a musical set in London
Shortly before his death, the star wrote dozens of notes for a musical set in 18th Century London.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/08/2025
"It’s rare to pack so much culture-war toxicity into one short post over something that matters so little." But Chris Rufo can do it! @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Rufo's anti-woke authoritarianism: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-chris-...
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How Chris Rufo Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Cancel Culture
The anti-woke warrior’s authoritarian roots are showing
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
ICYMI! Very proud of this piece.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/05/2025
How has Trump’s actual record so far measured up to the dark scenarios anticipated by those of us who thought his victory would be a disaster? Let’s go through each of the biggest concerns of anti-Trumpers. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/100-days-o...
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100 Days of Trump: The Fears Were Justified
Bad policies made worse by lawlessness, pettiness, and stupidity.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Oh, calm down, how bad can he be?" @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on exactly how well-founded Trump critics' forebodings turned out to be.
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100 Days of Trump: The Fears Were Justified
Bad policies made worse by lawlessness, pettiness, and stupidity.
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
There should be an elected Democrat on the ground in El Salvador every minute of every day until Abrego Garcia is brought home. D's should do the work the DoJ is refusing to do. They should harass Bukele's govt, demanding answers and sending... www.thebulwark.com/p/bring-him-...
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Bring. Him. Home.
Our cause is here; our time is now.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/04/2025
BRING HIM HOME.* "Trump is in an impossible situation. He cannot allow Abrego Garcia to come home because (a) it would be capitulation to the Supreme Court, and (b) Abrego Garcia cannot be allowed to testify about what he saw and experienced at CECOT. So Democrats must make Trump pay."
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Bring. Him. Home.
Our cause is here; our time is now.
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Who knew I was being held up as an example of rising tech hate
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Dawg it's so over for tech
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/04/2025
"It’s almost as if the Trump administration’s decision to put the screws on the universities isn’t actually about reining in antisemitism on campus at all." @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Trump's war against the universities: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-war-...
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Trump’s War on the Universities
The administration’s power grab is no solution to the real problems on campus.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/04/2025
There's a real point about left-wing illiberalism on college campuses, but Trump's broad power grab over universities proves that the narrower questions of antisemitism or illiberalism on speech are not his real motivation. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-war-...
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Trump’s War on the Universities
The administration’s power grab is no solution to the real problems on campus.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
what a delightfully charming oopsie from the septuagenarian with the nuclear codes 👍👍 www.cbsnews.com/news/h-r-mcm...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10/04/2025
"When history takes note of the damage done by Trump and his henchpeople, let it also reflect that, from the very beginning, his reign of error was opposed by conscientious professionals within the federal government, often at great personal cost." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...
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It Takes Guts to Quit on Principle
In praise of those who stood up to the Trump administration.
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Almost literally gulag porn.
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A little rebellion in MAGA media ranks?
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10/04/2025
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Paderewski—the prime minister and foreign minister of Poland in pivotal 1919—was also for a stretch probably the world's most famous pianist. Here he is in a 1937 recording playing Mozart's Rondo in A minor (K. 511). See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk_t...
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Paderewski plays Mozart Rondo A minor K 511
YouTube video by gullivior
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is bad www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Gabbard’s pick to run a counterterrorism center aided the start of a right-wing paramilitary group
Joe Kent, a promoter of conspiracy theories, has long associated with extremists.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It’s gonna be mordantly funny to see MAGA types read “he privately acknowledged that his trade policy could trigger a recession but said he wanted to be sure it didn’t cause a depression” and declare Trump to be the greatest, most empathetic president ever. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Why Trump Blinked on Tariffs Just Hours After They Went Into Effect
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent helped persuade the president to take some time and negotiate with trading partners in the face of pressure from business leaders.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Drop everything and watch this otter yawn.
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Trump's Russia/Ukraine "peace effort," R.I.P. My latest at @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-ru...
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Trump’s ‘Peace’ Effort Is Dead. Putin Killed It.
Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities are up more than 50 percent since the Trump talks started.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"The Trump administration may be in for more of a backlash than it expects. The breadth and depth of support for South Sudanese across red and blue states – and especially the longstanding commitment of the U.S. evangelical community ... could generate enough pressure to force Rubio to withdraw..."
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Visa Revocations Disregard South Sudan War Risks, Overlook U.S. Communities' Embrace of Refugees
The breadth and depth of support for South Sudanese across red and blue states has origins in evangelical backing for the young country.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Important by @stevevladeck.bsky.social: Following Monday's Supreme Court ruling, detainees held in El Salvador may still bring habeas in DC circuit: "There is good case law to the effect that venue for a habeas petition filed by someone outside the United States is proper in the DC district court"
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140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.
In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case. But these aren't normal times.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/03/2025
Trump and his allies know that, as they work to build a future that is smaller and crueller, more paranoid and more violent, human nature is on their side. Can we resist our tendency to normalize? Today's Morning Shots, from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:
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‘We Won’t Know It’s a Different Country’
Trump is causing incredible harm. Whether we learn to live with it matters.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/03/2025
Plenty of Republicans understand if these agencies and broadcasting services are shuttered or gutted, authoritarian and totalitarian powers will readily fill the vacuum. Time to hear from them. @cathyyoung63.bsky.social from the recent archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/are-voice-...
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Are Voice of America and RFE/RL Next on the DOGE Chopping Block?
Trumpworld hates democracy promotion.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Tragically, Trump will aid Putin and tilt any peace agreement to favor him…
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Markian Kuzmowycz @markiank.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I mean - half of Kramatorsk &. Donetsk lost power within an hour of the ‘ceasefire agreement’ from RU
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 19/03/2025
Based on the Kremlin's readout and Trump's "truth," they both understand the ceasefire differently. Moscow refers to a pause on energy infrastructure targeting, while Trump says it's all infrastructure. Doomed.
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My latest at @thebulwark.bsky.social on Trump, Putin, Ukraine and the "peace" process. www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-phan...
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Putin’s Phantom Peace
Will Trump help him bully Ukraine into surrender?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/03/2025
One of Vladimir Putin's reservations about the peace deal under discussion is that he wants guarantees against Ukrainian aggression. @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Putin and peace (two things that don't go together): www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-phan...
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Putin’s Phantom Peace
Will Trump help him bully Ukraine into surrender?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
👉 What are you going to do if—more likely, *when*—he orders his administration to stop obeying court orders, just he’s now ordering it to stop obeying various statutes and constitutional provisions? Will you be proud of having represented the man who will have thus shredded the rule of law? (2/2)
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/03/2025
The Heritage Foundation is now planning to destroy the EU - with the help of Polish and Hungarian partners vsquare.org/heritage-fou...
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Renaming the EU, Dismantling the Commission: For What Polish and Hungarian Illiberals Seek U.S. Backing - VSquare.org
The Trump administration's most influential think tank, The Heritage Foundation, is receiving proposals from illiberal forces in Poland and Hungary on how to shape the future of the European Union. Th...
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
New from me at @thebulwark.bsky.social: Between the racist, antisemitic Pentagon PR person and the palling around with Andrew Tate, the Trump administration gets cozy with antisemitism. (Oh, and check out Joe Rogan's latest guests.) www.thebulwark.com/p/shes-just-...
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She’s Just the Tip of the Trump Administration’s Racist Iceberg
Pentagon flack Kingsley Wilson isn’t alone in her antisemitic and racist conspiracism.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 01/03/2025
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new book—her first novel since 'Americanah' a dozen years ago—is really more like four interwoven novellas. "'Americanah' was often at its best when it was operating in a satirical mode, and 'Dream Count' is resplendent with Adichie’s wry wit."
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All the Lonely People
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel in over a decade asks, ‘Only connect? How?’
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 01/03/2025
Our two experts in American statecraft, with decades of experience between them, dissect what went down in the Oval Office yesterday. "I can't remember a moment lower than this, can you think of one?" "It is a terrible feeling to feel deeply ashamed of one's country, which is where I am now."
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Emergency Podcast: An Oval Office Ambush
Eric and Eliot bemoan the shameful meltdown in the Oval Office between VP Vance, President Trump and President Zelensky.
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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
New from me at @thebulwark.bsky.social on the Oval Office fiasco
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Terri Franzwa @terrifranzwa.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"Friday’s photo op was testy from the outset, with a typical Trumpian admixture of bragging, babbling, lying, and stupidity (he repeatedly referred to “raw” earth)." writes @cathyyoung63.bsky.social
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Trump and Musk are for they/them. They're not for you.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“Speaker Mike Johnson revealed on Monday why Representative Elise Stefanik of New York has yet to have her confirmation vote to serve as ambassador to the United Nations: He cannot afford to lose another Republican vote in the House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...
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Stefanik’s Confirmation Is on Ice as Republicans Guard Their Scant Majority
The congresswoman from New York is in line to be confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. But first, her colleagues need her vote to pass their embattled budget plan.
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