While traveling across the US after 40 years abroad, Alison Langley @langleyshields.bsky.social meditates on myth & reality, listening to ordinary Americans at a Kansas brewery share conspiracy theories and fears for their loved ones' safety: compass.icwa.org/p/postcard-f...
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Since Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t, I wrote his monologue for him. … let me know what you think
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Chuffed to be highlighted in this issue
Humble brag
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So glad you liked it!
I’m blushing. Thank you for the kind words
Let’s see. He’s young, social media savvy, talks about affordable housing and other issues people actually care about. And democrats are worried???
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
To anyone cheering the Trump policies on trying to entice women to have more babies: they are the same as Hungarian policies and the birth rate there hit a negative record in 2024.
If you want more babies, make child care and housing affordable and increase incomes.
July 9!
Excited for the US launch of my book Budapest Noir: Ilona Gets A Phone at Parkside Bookshop in Boston!
I’ll be in conversation with @grubwriters Michelle Hoover who is also starting the next season of her @7amNovelist podcast. See you there!
So excited for the US launch of my book!
Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid. (Source Guardian).
Tell me why this is okay. Govts must stop this cruelty now.
This week, CPAC, the conservative political action group, meets in #Hungary to learn how to create a government like that in Budapest.
Read about the economic conditions that helped Viktor Orbán gain control in my novel.
#CPAC #Hungary #books
14,000 children are at risk of dying of starvation in Gaza.
How can anyone whose people themselves were once a target of genocide allow this to happen?
This book changed my life. Thank you Susan Brownmiller. RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...
Fun fact: the word ‘overmorrow’ is the Middle English term meaning ’day after tomorrow’. Its etymology is a direct translation of the German übermorgen.
I, for one, believe we should bring it back to life, along with ‘ye’, the plural form of ‘you’.
First it’s 20% but lowers to 10% until July so both sides could talk. Now he says 25% starting next week. Can’t take this guy at his word. He makes things up as his mood suits.
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Republicans cannot couple work to food stamps without providing day care.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
This is correct. The Pope leads a worldwide church of 1.3 billion catholics. He is everyone’s leader. Who has asked for peace and unity around the world.
Nuclear exchange? Who cares? Noted.
US VP Vance says war between India and Pakistan will be 'none of our business' - www.reuters.com/world/us-vp-...
Sorry @nyt three is a trend. Two is a coincidence. Romania voted far right….
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
The US is the only country within the OECD that does not have a data protection agency. Doge can go rogue and spy on US citizens and the only remedy is a judge asking nicely to stop.
An important read, as Russia celebrates May 8…
www.perspectives-budapest.com/post/the-pil...
It astonishes me how the president has no knowledge of history
Am I the only person not sad that US can’t order cheap stuff from China anymore? We’re talking sweatshops right?
