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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

#TCMParty I’m not on here much because of illness + my vision varies from poor to absent these days, although occasionally I can see ok in my right eye. Gotta reserve “seeing time” for survival needs as much as possible. Wish I could post all my great finds like this ⤵️ but I just can’t. Miss y’all!

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

SAGAFTRA Foundation posted a 35-minute 1997 interview with Sylvia Sidney on YouTube a couple of days ago, and it’s pure gold from beginning to end!She’s one of my all-time favorite classic film actresses, and I adore her as a person too. So blunt, charming, and vivacious! youtu.be/-GVLrtywfo0?...

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Sylvia Sidney Career Retrospective | Legacy Collection | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation

YouTube video by SAG-AFTRA Foundation

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is still ongoing. Reposting because I’m too fatigued to do an update but I don’t want my account to be inactive for so long!

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Yesterday was the 86th anniversary of singer and actress #EthelWaters’ variety TV special, “The Ethel Waters Show.” She was the first Black American to host a TV show! She was closeted by then, but she’d lived openly as a lesbian in Harlem before gaining wider fame. #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈

Black and white photo of Ethel Waters looking fabulous in menswear in the 1920s. She wearing a suit, including a vest and tie. Her hat is ar a jaunty angle, and she has a flower in her lapel. She is looking into the camera and smiling.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

🇲🇽🇺🇸 Walls & Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, & the Politics of Ethnicity by David G. Gutiérrez, 1995 Read this when it came out. One of the best history books I’ve ever read. I’d learned maybe 1% in high school, including in Texas history classes. I’m excited that I found it on Kindle!

Cover of the book
WALLS and MIRRORS
Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity
by DAVID G. GUTIERREZ
Cover is red with letters in black and white

here is most of the text from the back cover, not including some of the recommendation quotes:

Covering more than a century of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico transformed-and continues to shape-the political, social, and cultural life of the American Southwest. Taking a fresh approach to one of the most divisive political issues of our time, David Gutiérrez explores the ways that the constant influx of Mexican immigrants influenced Mexican Americans' sense of social and cultural identity and thus shaped their politics and the trajectory of the Mexican American civil rights movement.
Gutiérrez draws on an extensive body of primary and secondary sources to challenge some of the most cherished myths about U.S. immigration and labor policies, the adaptation and incorporation of immigrants into society, and the nature of the ethnic Mexican experience in the Southwest.

"An outstanding contribution to Chicano studies and American history in general. ... With balanced, nuanced writing and superior scholarship, the author has provided a first-rate interpretive framework for understanding the political and cultural dilemma faced by Mexican Americans in American society."
-George Sanchez, University of Michigan

DAVID G. GUTIERREZ is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20219-1
ISBN- 10: 0-520-20219-8
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The Audible sale going on right now is incredible. I’m getting books for like $2 or $3 that I’ve been wanting for ages! #Audiobooks

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“I lived in the midst of an abundance of natural life which manifested itself every hour of the day, and from being thus surrounded, thus enclosed within a great whirl of what one may call the life force, I felt that I drew a secret and sustaining energy.” — Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Happy Rosalind Russell’s Birthday!! I will have to do her justice belatedly. I hope she will forgive me! 👑❤️

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Happy @tcmtv.bsky.social #GaryCooper Month!! Some of my faves aren’t showing, but it’ll be spectacular anyway! My Top 5 Missing, so folks can seek if interested: City Streets (1931) Casanova Brown (1944) Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938) Peter Ibbetson (1935) Ten North Frederick (1958) #TCMParty #SOTM

Young Gary Cooper looking at disheveled in a tuxedo

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 16/05/2025

I’d appreciate folks reposting.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Also would appreciate recommendations on the best Braille label maker, especially one that will work for pill bottles. Thanks!

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Blind and low-vision folks — have any of you used a Hable One Braille Keyboard for iPhone? How was it? I can barely see anymore, don’t know yet if it’s permanent or maybe even getting worse, and my iPhone accessibility features are not enough for me. Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

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🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🎉 Happy Richard Carlson Day 🎊 to my friend @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social / @richardcarlson.bsky.social and to all who celebrate! 🎈 #BOTD

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

😩 Haven’t been on here much because I’m so extremely ill, and also I have new macular edema and vitreous detachments to go along with the choreoretinal, corneal, and vitreous problems I already had. So basically, I can barely see, and trying to see gives me terrible headaches. 👁️🤞 #MECFS #MCAS #hEDS

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 23/04/2025

Pete Buttigieg calls out the GOP’s plan to slash Medicaid and gut the VA: “They don’t have an answer. Their answer is: burn it all down.” Yes, there are problems. But cutting care for poor people and Veterans isn’t a fix—it’s a failure. “We can do better than that.”

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I missed Charles Mingus’ Birthday. IMO he was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Easily my favorite bassist of all time, from any genre. I love bass, so he’s at the top of a long list. He was a talented pianist too. A genius who died too young because of f*cking #ALS. 👑 #Mingus #Jazz

black and white screenshot of Charles Mingus playing bass in the 1962 movie All Night Long

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Celebrating the late Jean-Paul Belmondo on his birthday! 🎉 There’s no one better. Phenomenal range: romantic hero; free-thinking priest; buffoon; gangster; tough cop; nerdy anti-fascist; millionaire con artist; broken-hearted peasant; swashbuckler; daredevil extraordinaire — always perfect! 💘 #BOTD

Jean-Paul Belmondo smiling and wearing a pin-stripe suit with a red flower in his lapel. From the movie Stavisky (1974).

Black and white closeup of Jean-Paul Belmondo lying in a prison bed, looking into the camera. From Un nommé la rocca (1961).

Jean-Paul Belmondo water-skiing as he talks on a red telephone, wearing a straw hat. From Le Magnifique (1973).

Color closeup of Jean-Paul Belmondo with a salt-and-pepper beard, wearing a brown hat, sitting outdoors. From Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté AKA Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988).

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Finlay hopes his adorable face will make you feel better today. 🐾 #DogsOfBlueSky

Adorable little white dog facing the camera with his ears perked up and just the tip of his tongue sticking out

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🏆 American hero Senator Cory Booker is now giving the longest speech in US Senate history! Racist Strom Thurmond previously held the record with his shameful 24-hour, 18-minute filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. New Jersey’s first Black senator burned Thurmond’s record to the ground! 👏👏👏

Closeup color photo of Senator Cory Booker smiling as he looks up and to the right. He is outdoors and is wearing a blue blazer and white shirt. The background is blurry but there appears to be a US flag waving in the distance behind him.

Black and white closeup photo of Senator Strom Thurmond, with a large red X over his face.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I’ve been watching American hero Senator Cory Booker for several hours now. I’ve made several clips, but they’re too long for Bluesky. I haven’t been able to edit them down yet. He’s about to hit the 19 hour mark & has made me cry several times! Thank you for fighting tyranny, @booker.senate.gov! 🙏

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Up next on TCM @tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

PRESENTING LILY MARS (1943) — 4:30 pm ET — 1h 44m (TCM Daytime: Spring Fever / Flower Power) Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter; directed by Norman Taurog A small-town girl fights for her big chance on Broadway. #TCM #TCMParty

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Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Ümit Bektaş is one of Turkey’s most talented photographers. His photos here are going viral. You’re not looking at AI: these are real photos from Turkey’s current pro-democracy protests. Despite mounting police repression, the demonstrations are expanding. Erdogan hopes protesters will tire out.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The lives of American troops - and every American life - depends on the people in charge of our government taking their responsibilities seriously. But again and again, including with the incompetence that came to light today, they are demonstrating the opposite. My full interview here:

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Pete Responds Live to Trump Admin’s Major Security Failure

YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Thrilled to see that @petebuttigieg.bsky.social has posted his first YouTube video in almost 4 and a half years! We need his leadership so badly. There’s no one I trust more to guide us through, and eventually out of, the ruinous Trump/Musk era. Thank you, Pete! [Link in next post.] #TeamPete

Screenshot of Pete Buttigieg’s YouTube channel’s Latest Videos page, showing a new video titled “Pete Responds Live :
to Trump Admin's Major Security Failure…” and the most recent previous video, “The Deciding Decade Podcast #13 with John Legend” [although Legend’s name is cut off in this shot so only the first letter J appears]. Under that video, it says “4 years ago.”

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I’m watching! Looking forward to hearing what Pete has to say about this epic national security scandal.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I’ve been appreciating Joseph Walker’s spectacular work too! I regret that he really wasn’t on my cinematography radar before, even though these films aren’t new to me. I guess having a bigger/better TV since the last time I saw most of them has made quite a difference, with my bad vision! #TCMParty

Black and white screenshot of lovely Barbara Stanwyck in Ladies of Leisure (1930). She is outside at night, looking up at the the pitch black sky dotted with stars. The sky is the only background.

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East Coast Hippie @maureen2024.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

That’s the first creative idea I’ve seen in a long time! Paws Save America 🐾🇺🇸🐾🇺🇸

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This article by Canadian Jasmine Mooney is an absolute nightmare from beginning to end. What are we doing to help the other women she met (& those she didn’t) who are still being detained & lack the connections she has? @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US immigration
I'm the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
Jasmine Mooney
Wed 19 Mar 2025 05.00 EDT

There was no explanation, no warning. One minute, I was in an immigration office talking to an officer about my work visa, which
had been approved months before and allowed me, a Canadian, to work in the US.
The next, I was told to put my hands against the wall, and patted down like a criminal before being sent to an Ice detention center without the chance to talk to a lawyer.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

An excellent Joan Fontaine movie that not enough people have seen: Ivy (1947)! She’s so good as a scheming evil beauty! #TCMParty

full-page magazine ad for Ivy (1947) with a large illustration of Joan Fontaine’s face and one of her standing in a black dress and small ones of her with 3 different men.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Slept in my Siouxsie and the Banshees shirt and woke up Spellbound.

Closeup of Siouxsie Sioux singing, with a blurred background with trees. Caption says “Spellbound, spellbound” with musical notes. From the early 1980s video for Spellbound.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🌼 Looking forward to a much-needed dose of Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall tonight (Friday) on @tcmtv.bsky.social! 5 pm PST/ 8 pm EST #SendMeNoFlowers #TCMParty

Poster for Send Me No Flowers, with illustrations of Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall. White background.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I care deeply about who Michigan will elect as Governor and send to the U.S. Senate next year, but I have decided against competing in either race. I wrote more here about my decision and how I view the work required of us all in this moment:

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I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work

We all have work to do in delivering a better kind of politics for America.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Teachers: We can’t get our students to pay attention! Me: But have you simply tried this?

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Lightnin’ Hopkins: Hopkins’ Sky Hop My grandpa Bill Holford engineered this recording in 1954 at his ACA Recording Studios in Houston. My dad rode along when Grandpa picked up Lightnin’ for this session! This track inspired Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Rude Mood. #Blues #TexasBlues youtu.be/CCI4dFciWiE?...

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Lightnin' Hopkins - Hopkin's Sky Hop - (THE ORIGINAL RUDE MOOD)

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This thread about Gene Hackman got me crying about him all over again. 💔

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Don't give up on the value of putting pressure on elected representatives. Congress may not have to answer to the people in an election for another 19 months, but the response so far has clearly impacted GOP members, and they need to continue hearing from the people.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Also, look at the town halls - GOP House and Senate members walking out on their own events rather than face constituents. Clearly the response is having an effect.

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Nicole on Wheels ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @holyspacemonkey.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

RIP Roberta Flack 💔 ALS is so cruel. 😭 I spoke to Roberta on the phone once in 1997 because of my job. We chatted briefly & she was such a delight! Here’s one of my favorites of her songs, a gorgeous cover of the Bee Gees’ “To Love Somebody,” from her 3rd album Quiet Fire. 🎧 youtu.be/zyg4lA7lUcI?...

Cover of the Roberta Flack album Quiet Fire. Closeup photo of her smiling, with magnificent natural hair

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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🎞️🎥✨celluloidsoul @celluloidsoul.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

🎉 Happy Chester Morris Day!!! 🎊 It's his birthday (b.1901, NYC) and I adore him so, that I can't help but celebrate. 🎂 As I type he's delivering lines wryly in the background as Boston Blackie. Consider watching one of his movies today! The hand-signed portrait below is from my collection.♥️

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