Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 14hOn today’s date in 2009 President Barack Obama won the Nobel peace prize  010
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 17hToday’s unasked for advice: if his hair is slicked back off or up from his forehead to not vote for him. 010
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#booksky It’s banned book month. Please read one. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” —Vera Nazarian 040
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#booksky debbibrody.substack.com/p/defense-me... A 250 word essaydebbibrody.substack.comDefense MechanismsA hawk, finger feathers ratty, flies overhead. 020
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 05/10/2026debbibrody.substack.com/p/defense-me...debbibrody.substack.comDefense MechanismsA hawk, finger feathers ratty, flies overhead. 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 05/10/2026substack.com/profile/1205...substack.comJacob Redman (@everythingbriefing)President Calvin Coolidge once wrote, “It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country for him to know that he is not a great man.” He added: “When a man begins to... 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 05/10/2026October 3 1965 President Johnson signed the Immigration Act into law, ending the discriminatory national-origin quotas from the 1920s that favored migrants from Western Europe while restricting Southern/Eastern Europeans, Asians, and non-white immigrants. Everythingbriefing@substack.com 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Washington Post (gift link): Those campaign-style TV ads the Trump administration’s been running are being paid for with money Congress approved for border security, drug enforcement and memorials for officers killed in the line of duty. publicsquare.compublicsquare.comCredova | Financing That Works For The Way You LiveCredova makes it easy to finance what matters and pay over time. Fast, flexible, and built for real people and real businesses. 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Emily Dickinson: We introduce / ourselves / To planets and / to flowers / But with / ourselves / Have etiquettes / Embarrassments / and awes 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026debbibrody.substack.com/p/as-i-agedebbibrody.substack.comAs I AgeBlessings 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Stop the Presses proprietor Mark Jacob: “The cost of sucking up to a dictator is that hardly anyone feels sorry for you when the dictator turns on you. The mainstream media are learning that right now.” 001
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026debbibrody.substack.com/p/mundane-ma...debbibrody.substack.comMundane MagicYou ask me to explain how I am magic and how I am mundane but they are the same thing. 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Chicago’s Catholic leaders have established a memorial honoring people who’ve died in immigration custody or during immigration operations since 2020. 100
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“-this, perhaps, is how lives are measured, a series of abandonments that we hope beyond reason will eventually be reconciled.” Anthony Doerr, from his novel, About Grace #booksky 040
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.cnn.com/2026/09/22/p...cnn.comFact check: Trump’s false claims to the United Nations | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump made multiple false claims in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, though he largely stuck to a prepared text. 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In his remarks to the body opening the session, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said, “The greatest power is not the power to dominate. It is the power to build a future that works for everyone.”- everythingbriefing.com 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Popular Information: Musk “is blanketing the internet with digital ads falsely accusing Democratic Senate candidates of supporting ‘taxpayer-funded sex changes for kids.’” 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We could use Theodore “Roosevelt, 42, became the youngest man to ever hold the position and would go on to be one of the country’s most consequential presidents, protecting public lands, regulating big business, and strengthening America’s role in the world,” about now. Everythingbreifing.com 010
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A landmark study by the bipartisan group More in Common found that Democrats and Republicans each picture nearly twice as many of their opponents holding extreme views as they actually do. - buildersmovement.org 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Agreed. Writers on the left and right are both skeptical of Trump’s promise, with most viewing it as economically flawed and implausible. Tangle.comtangle.comTangle 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”– Pablo Picasso 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 11/09/2026On today’s date, in “1963, 20 Black students entered Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Alabama Governor George C. Wallace.”-AP 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 05/09/2026#booksky There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you. - Beatrix Potter 130
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 04/09/2026substack.com/profile/1205... The opposite of our current not my potussubstack.comJacob Redman (@everythingbriefing)John F. Kennedy, born into one of America’s wealthiest families, donated his government salary during his time in Congress and the White House to various charitable organizations, often saying, “To wh... 010
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A great writer and human being. RIP As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. Wendell Berry #booksky 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 01/09/2026debbibrody.substack.com/p/love-and-wardebbibrody.substack.comLove and WarA prose poem 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.” —Dolly Parton #booksky 06318
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 01/09/2026On this date in 1939, Germany invaded Poland, beginning World War II. 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Iran War- the rich get richer aka war profiteers, in particular the trump cadre, while the rest of us; “Main Street may be paying more for fuel, food and travel. But Wall Street, so far, is shrugging it off. “ AP 010
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 23/08/2026debbibrody.substack.com/p/late-summe...debbibrody.substack.comLate Summer Splitler WoodsEyes follow deer path, 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive. - Ray Bradberry. #booksky 020
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance - Laurie Halse Anderson  000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Any book worth banning is worth reading. -Asimov #booksky 040
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 21/08/2026debbibrody.substack.com/p/vulcandebbibrody.substack.comVulcanThe core of the world, 001
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We must sit on the edge of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience. --Pablo Neruda 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 20/08/2026dearlstephens.substack.com/p/stump-of-a...dearlstephens.substack.comSTUMP OF APPROVALThe demented Trump might be the least popular violent dictator in world history 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 20/08/2026On this date in 1619, the first enslaved African people arrived in what would become the USA. 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. -Maya Angelou 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We all know the real reason, don’t we? the Trump administration continues on its path to dismantle the institution( International Criminal Court), which it regards as a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court.” Everythingbriefing@substack.com 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 18/08/2026www.upworthy.com/other-cultur... #bookskyupworthy.comOther cultures have their own way of saying 'once upon a time,' and some are really freaking coolThere are many different ways to tell a tale. 010
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. -Maya Angelou 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“They can try all the suppression tactics they want, but we’re still going to vote. Our lives depend on it.” – Deborah Maxwell, president of the NC NAACP, on voters still turning out despite the removal of Sundays from early voting schedules. Rightsandinsights@substack.com 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Best book cover ever. a.co/d/0evYHBZqa.coAmazon.com 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 15/08/2026seansinger.substack.com/p/interview-...seansinger.substack.comInterview: Laurie SheckLaurie Sheck is the author of three hybrid novels and five books of poems including The Willow Grove which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 14/08/2026rattle.com/ars-poetica-... The final two sentences on the bottom two lines, slayed me in rhis demi-sonnet.rattle.comArs Poetica by Erin Murphy - Rattle: PoetryPost-social distancing, we were easily taxed by too much talking yet talked even more, our tongues unleashing oceans of words, […] 000
Debbi Brody @debbibrody.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Why is he attacking children: vaccines, birthright citizenship, headstart hollowing. 000
