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Kevin Troy

@kevintroy.bsky.social
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Virginia native, long time New Yorker. I’d rather be reading Tolstoy.

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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Apropos ad placement in @jamellebouie.net’s column today: Clinton/Bush era Democrats’ arguments for avoiding impeachment inquiries followed immediately by a “dementia test”
Screenshot from the New York Times: Rahm Emanuel and Tammy Duckeorth quoted with arguments for avoiding impeaching Trump a third time, followed by an ad for a Dementia Test
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
This, then is the Forest of Arden: the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit is set up in Travers Park
Small, portable stage set up for a Shakespeare in the Park performance of “As You Like It”
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Julie needs our help to finish it!
Still from “Three Colors: Blue” in which a tired, bruised Julie (Juliette Binoche) is asked by an off-screen journalist about the status of her late husband’s planned “Concert for the Unification of Europe”
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Interesting choice, dressing the Virgin in pink
Peter Candid’s “Annunciation,” circa 1585, oil on wood, on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Travers Park, Jackson Heights, Queens
Travers Park after 18-ish inches of snow, with lots of people enjoying the snow, and several snowmen already built.
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
General Sherman and Nike pointing the way down Fifth Avenue as tens of thousands gathered to march today. Also, my favorite sign of the day: “Sorry J.D., I know what I saw.” #ICEout
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year!
Still from “When Harry Met Sally…”: Harry (Billy Crystal) asks, of “Auld Lang Syne,” “What does this song mean?”
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Our Lady of Sorrows, Corona, Queens #FelizNavidad
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I greatly enjoyed @drkatemarvel.bsky.social’s book “Human Nature” and plan to give it as a gift. But lol, the scientists in “E.T.” were trying to resuscitate him, not kill him! It scared me as a child too, but I watched it with my kids recently and gained new respect for Peter Coyote’s character
Paragraph from page 124 of Kate Marvel’s “Human Nature,” in which she attributes her childhood hatred of science to “E.T.: The Extra-terrestrial” and its depiction of scientists as “heavy-breathing men in hazmat suits intent on vivisecting a cute and helpless alien.“
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Machiavelli to Lorenzo di’Medici: don’t let that strumpet, Fortune, ruin your workplace (George Bull trans.)
Final paragraph of chapter XXV of Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” in which he claims that it is “necessary to beat and coerce” Fortune, and that she favors the bold.
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Got my sign ready for tomorrow! #NoKings
Handmade protest sign that says, “It’s me. I’m the antifa”
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“Eagle” Ed Martin, the DOJ hatchet man who couldn’t get confirmed as U.S. Attorney for DC — even by this most craven of senates — keeps using this line for tweets. Of course the implied second line is “Don’t ‘cha know me, I am your native son.” Thus using an antiracist song as a nativist dog whistle
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
In an attempt to get away from the world and put current events out of mind, I went to Forest Park in Queens today… only to be greeted by this statue of Job, which commemorates the founding of Israel, and was sculpted by the artist who made the Warsaw Ghetto memorial (Natan J. Rapoport).
Statue of Job looking to the heavens with hands in a prayer position. The statue is bronze, life-sized, and sited on a lawn, with trees in the background.
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Got my sign ready for today! (Back side sez “America, you’ve been had!”) #NoKings
Handwritten poster board sign which says, in bold, friendly letters, “No way, not here, nuh-uh”
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Great turnout at the NYC #handsoff
Sign at the NYC #handsoff rally: “Does this ass make my country look small?”Crowd at the NYC #handsoff rallyCrowd at the NYC #handsoff rally
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
From the NYT “why is Trump popular with conservatives” round table. One thing I can’t help but notice is that Cruz, Hawley, Cotton, and Stefanik are, in addition to being conservatives, all assholes. It may be that they resent universities because they were treated as such at freshman orientation
Snippet from NY Times: Bret Stephens points out that today’s MAGA politicians were “ideological minorities at elite colleges”
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
When I was a kid, I used to complain about how the CDU and SPD were like Coke vs. Pepsi. I miss those days.
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
DOGE could save a lot of time and effort by using this
A “jump to conclusions” mat similar to the one in the movie “Office Space,” but with outlandish conclusions that might be reached by DOGE, such as “building a submarine will help” or “cause of failure: DEI.”
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Kevin Troy @kevintroy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Wherever David Lynch is, I’m sure he’s been there before
In the woods near Twin Peaks, Agent Dale Cooper indicates Tibet on a map
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