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Tiffany Lin
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So much nuance in her writing and the pictures in here are so important to look at
— Oct 04, 2026 11:56AM
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Carol
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But I believe the physics of resisting power is as old as the physics of accumulating power. That’s what keeps the balance in the universe . . . the refusal to obey. I mean what’s a country? It’s just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bombs? I can’t bow down to a municipality.
— Sep 15, 2026 03:52PM
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Carol
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John Cusack: “It was a classic human rights evening, to be sure: gourmet food and good intentions, a choir singing beautiful noels. I enjoyed watching the almost pathologically anti-gala Roy trying to mask her blind panic.”
— Sep 12, 2026 03:08PM
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Carol
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On our first night, there was a dinner at a nautical museum with the complete salvaged wreckage of a huge 17th-century wooden warship…. The Vasa, considered the Titanic of Swedish disasters, was built on the orders of yet another power-hungry king who wanted control of seas and the future. It was so overloaded with weapons and top-heavy, it capsized and sank before it even left the harbor.
— Sep 12, 2026 03:04PM
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Carol
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“I seem to be goading the Gandhians to violence,” she laughed, “but I was disappointed with the quality of the effigy.”
— Sep 12, 2026 03:02PM
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