#  @JoyceCarolOates Joyce Carol Oates
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"in its most hideous variant the young rape victim forced to marry her rapist by parents church community. believe it or not that happened not infrequently in the past & in religious communities may be happening even today. @JoyceCarolOates the "i can fix him" trope over and over @JoyceCarolOates the "i can fix him" trope over and over"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022436653974089834) 2026-02-13T22:24Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"what is all this blather why should a woman have to get "a new drivers license & passport" just to vote as she has been voting for an entire adult life while men will be required to do absolutely nothing that they have not already done there has even been a reduction of the passport staff--presumably to put more obstacles in a woman's path. all to help the GOP win another election question is: won't GOP women voters be eliminated too this law to punish Democratic women voters seems misguided. @JoyceCarolOates Please stop with this crap. My wife and I married [--] years ago. It was easy to get"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022688443701027297) 2026-02-14T15:04Z 273.8K followers, 65.5K engagements
"awesome not-yet-in-office new NYC mayor has already begun massive cleanup of longtime insurmountable RAT PROBLEM. watch this space Mamdani will be a tabloid darling. Isnt he a little too old for kid🤣 https://t.co/AN6TMTwBAU Isnt he a little too old for kid🤣 https://t.co/AN6TMTwBAU"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1988255335090409633) 2025-11-11T14:39Z 273.8K followers, 1.5M engagements
"it has become a punch line in the US--"to be Epstein'd" is to be murdered with a complicit medical examiner's determination of "suicide." virtually no one believes this ever happened. being surprised at this late date suggests extreme navet. I know its a weird thing to say but the more we know about the global network of Epsteins tentacles its just really hard to believe that he killed himself. I was in court with him up until he died and there sure werent any desperate vibes from him at all. He was quite I know its a weird thing to say but the more we know about the global network of"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020542453221085406) 2026-02-08T16:57Z 273.8K followers, 56.2K engagements
"Seriouslywhat is a woman who has miscarried supposed to do legally in a red state If she is in the care of a doctor does he report her Does an ER report her The grief & physical distress of a miscarriage in itself is a punishment. But the state wants to punish her more Does this include MAGA women Why do they vote for this Women are being arrested for miscarrying in states with strict abortion bans. They dont charge them with a miscarriage they charge them with abuse of a corpse What are we supposed to do Take the fetal remains to the police station Pregnancy is not safe in these states."
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021999379486245012) 2026-02-12T17:26Z 273.8K followers, 268.8K engagements
"So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022691718320333273) 2026-02-14T15:17Z 273.8K followers, 12.9K engagements
"unwittingly you've met transgender persons whom you have not even noticed. a courteous cashier a friendly waitress a relative of a friend. they are human beings like you. they are not demons villains. you didn't even notice them. really you don't have to protect women & girls from them to the degree that you might need to protect girls & women from random men who commit by far the majority of violent acts against girls & women. if you doubt this look up the statistics regarding rape & rape/murder. who commits those acts when a pregnant woman is killed who is most likely to have killed her"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019203945177010346) 2026-02-05T00:18Z 273.8K followers, 532.9K engagements
"directors should feel free to cast as they wish: classics are always being reinterpreted & tastes or shall we say trends change. "Wuthering Heights" will survive any iteration. what is curious is casting hyper-Brit Edward Linton with a Pakistani actor--this is an audacious challenge of the novel's clearly stated premise of contrasting the foreign-looking Heathcliff with the lily-white neighbor landowner Linton. & dear old garrulous Nelly is -- in the new film-- now of Asian descent Emily Bronte looks down from Classic Author Heaven not only agape but slack-jawed. "Oh Nelly How you have"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022325645166973347) 2026-02-13T15:03Z 273.8K followers, 90.9K engagements
"MTG certainly is courageous. she must be receiving myriad death threats. the Epstein files must be truly horrendous if even his most loyal vociferous supporter has turned against him. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "The biggest miscalculation in Donald Trump's career was calling this a hoax." https://t.co/79VCYvEd0q Marjorie Taylor Greene: "The biggest miscalculation in Donald Trump's career was calling this a hoax." https://t.co/79VCYvEd0q"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022789087820693638) 2026-02-14T21:44Z 273.8K followers, 43.1K engagements
"as I recall from the novel "No Country for Old Men" which may differ from the movie it is stated that things began to go wrong in the US culminating with the senseless serial killings so lovingly detailed in the novel when women began to live independently of men no longer subservient to husband & family; when "feminists" appeared in our midst. when I reached that part of the novel I probably dropped the book in shock then picked it up again & gamely continued to the end. feminists certainly need to have a sense of humor & it's better to laugh than to cry. There is literally a scene at the"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1996067411972313409) 2025-12-03T04:02Z 273.6K followers, 1.5M engagements
"this literary kitty Olympia is perusing a new title just issued by Thornwillow Press: "The Massacre at Mount Pitcairn" (ghost story/novella). (photo: Gary Swafford)"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2008263071387529233) 2026-01-05T19:43Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Oh no will this be helping another Republican to the Presidency Jill Stein & Cornel West were distractions enough. hoping that Jon Stewart reasonable sensible not-egotistical & from New Jersey will see the wisdom of backing away from this. Can we have something with a little more political experience because I'm not fucking voting for Jon Stewart of all people Can we have something with a little more political experience because I'm not fucking voting for Jon Stewart of all people"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2014144529306140672) 2026-01-22T01:14Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"John Frankenheimer's 1960's "paranoid trilogy" is certainly timely today. "The Manchurian Candidate" (our suspicion that the US presidency is directed by a foreign power) "Seven Days in May" (rightwing military leaders conspire to overturn the US government depose the president) "Seconds" (surreal Kakfaesque depiction of a man so desperate to change his life he undergoes a transformational surgery)--each a considerable achievement. outstanding performances in all"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2014230634265194524) 2026-01-22T06:56Z 273.5K followers, 75.7K engagements
"knowing Democrats & their penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory we can assume that every sort of impediment will be put in front of a Newsom nomination. like a 4-year cicada Jill Stein will re-emerge. Cornel West US presidential elections are "rigged" in the sense that a sizable portion will just never vote for a woman however qualified. (unless someday a Margaret Thatcher-type.) if the Democratic candidate is not perfect woe to the Democratic candidate. media will eviscerate. maybe Democrats will boycott--"too centrist"--"too leftist"--"too ambitious"--"genocide." no one"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2014493126396699098) 2026-01-23T00:19Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Washington Irving's brilliantly imagined "Rip van Winkle"--audacious appropriation of an old German legend set in the uncanny Kaatskill mountains by a brash young American writer needing money--is the first prose piece in my Princeton seminar "The American Dream: Visions & Subversions." so much that is timely in a tale of [----] https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016692009906401577 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016692009906401577"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2016692009906401577) 2026-01-29T01:56Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"why does he care so much about making the US a white-Christian-nationalist stronghold an ultra-wealthy person who could live anywhere pursue any life apart from some sort of psychopathology or motiveless malignancy can anyone explain such passion to undo a liberal democracy that had treated him so well financially Elon Musk is using his mega checkbook and mega platform to influence the future of the GOP. His recent footprint includes a $10 million investment in the Kentucky Senate race and an all-out influence campaign targeting Senate Republicans. https://t.co/kApub6SYwu Elon Musk is using"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2016941693791334482) 2026-01-29T18:29Z 273.5K followers, 356.8K engagements
"Texas A&M Ends Womens Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2017639554123972901) 2026-01-31T16:42Z 273.6K followers, 10.5K engagements
""even Epstein didn't want him around". great line. almost of a par with "he never had the makings of a varsity athlete/" the way @JoyceCarolOates was correct about Elon being a reject that devalues any group hes a part of even Epstein didnt want him around. astounding levels of loserdom the way @JoyceCarolOates was correct about Elon being a reject that devalues any group hes a part of even Epstein didnt want him around. astounding levels of loserdom"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2017645665208172860) 2026-01-31T17:06Z 273.5K followers, 190.3K engagements
"so Epstein just got away with running a child-sex trafficking ring more or less in plain sight in a US territory local law enforcement was in collusion this seems to be not generally known. Little St James is part of the United States. We are a US Territory. People living and visiting the USVI are subject to to Federal & Territorial law Little St James is part of the United States. We are a US Territory. People living and visiting the USVI are subject to to Federal & Territorial law"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2017986678611190065) 2026-02-01T15:41Z 273.6K followers, 23.1K engagements
"based on a 19th century novella "Eyes Wide Shut" seems to be looking backward to a Satanic-cult sort of evil an inversion of Catholic church rituals; but no child rape no fetishing of child torture nothing like Epstein but rather "consenting adults" being naughty with one another in a castle-like setting. purely gothic old-timey lurid. @JoyceCarolOates Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut was merely the first chapter. https://t.co/D6imZMbOaV @JoyceCarolOates Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut was merely the first chapter. https://t.co/D6imZMbOaV"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018001622354248114) 2026-02-01T16:40Z 273.6K followers, 541K engagements
"in fact "The Falls" depicts the Love Canal environmental disaster & subsequent litigation at Niagara Falls; it would be an odd recommendation for J. Epstein since there is--literally--not a single sex scene in it that I can recall. the hero is a litigator for Love Canal homeowners. corrupt politicians are low-level. but a sort of happy ending for children of the slain litigator. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018008640553193889 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018008640553193889"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018008640553193889) 2026-02-01T17:08Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
""Hamnet" did not feel exploitative rather more a post-modernist take on Shakespeare--"the great genius"; & the origins of at least some of his genius in the specificity & sorrow of ordinary life. also terrific ending. @JoyceCarolOates Of all the "stressed-out woman struggling in the harsh reality of motherhood" movies this year Hamnet is the only one that really worked for me because it had a strong narrative with a great resolution not just another 2+ hour movie about feelings. @JoyceCarolOates Of all the "stressed-out woman struggling in the harsh reality of motherhood" movies this year"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018047393669710153) 2026-02-01T19:42Z 273.5K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Check out "Joyce Carol Oates discusses DOUBLE TROUBLE at B&N Union Square" @eventbritehelp https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joyce-carol-oates-discusses-double-trouble-at-bn-union-square-tickets-1978674165694aff=estw&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joyce-carol-oates-discusses-double-trouble-at-bn-union-square-tickets-1978674165694aff=estw&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018161275172217125) 2026-02-02T03:15Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"hardly seems worth it. any of it. this is actually more insane to me than their lifespan https://t.co/sIwhSIZPtQ this is actually more insane to me than their lifespan https://t.co/sIwhSIZPtQ"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018405811974701388) 2026-02-02T19:27Z 273.6K followers, 192.7K engagements
"JK Rowling seems always angry gloating or jeering. in the US the controversy surrounding her name is not well-known; sometimes I don't even understand her position. in the US one can be strongly pro-women & also supportive of transgender persons. (surprise: we are all human beings) in the UK there seems to be a bitter divide but please it's OK we don't want to know the bloody details we have ICE to contend with & an embattled democracy. @StrewthQueen @JoyceCarolOates Nobody hates women more than JK Rowling. @StrewthQueen @JoyceCarolOates Nobody hates women more than JK Rowling"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018408296642752558) 2026-02-02T19:36Z 273.6K followers, 312.4K engagements
"O.J. Simpson Claus von Blow & J. Epstein walk into a law office. whose name on the door"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018409644377399682) 2026-02-02T19:42Z 273.6K followers, 27.4K engagements
"@johnpavlovitz So true. Does Garland ever appear in public Is he ever interviewed Why doesnt the media investigate Recall not long ago when the media was excoriating Biden for being old"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018520749133504862) 2026-02-03T03:03Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I am not an expert but common sense would indicate that these cases should be adjudicated individually. no sane person would put "male rapists" in women's prisons --even "male rapists" in men's prisons should certainly not be put in cells with vulnerable men. your rage is so all-consuming you are making wide wild claims for entire communities of individuals who are just as moral decent & aware of the rights of others as you are or think you are. we have far too much hatred in the US. transgender persons are a tiny tiny fraction of the population. why don't you turn your indignation on our"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018555198528991596) 2026-02-03T05:20Z 273.6K followers, 200.7K engagements
"Oh. a woman running an adoption agency is offering to send "fresh muffins" to a multi-millionaire child-sex maniac friend & you think they might be."muffins." there is a bridge in Brooklyn & plenty of discount T***p merchandise for you to purchase @JoyceCarolOates I think this is a reference to literal steaks and muffins. @JoyceCarolOates I think this is a reference to literal steaks and muffins"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018701615092421036) 2026-02-03T15:02Z 273.6K followers, 118.1K engagements
"yes & if so it was the fault of the prison administration. surely you know that wardens have discretion to segregate prisoners for reasons having to do with their vulnerability. a very slight vulnerable male inmate would only be put in a cell with a potential rapist if the warden wanted to punish him. conversely child sex offenders are often segregated/ protected precisely they would be murdered in the general population. prisons are like fiefdoms run by wardens. no doubt transgender women have been put in general population in men's prisons so that they would be repeatedly raped but that is"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018728492511154541) 2026-02-03T16:49Z 273.6K followers, 101.3K engagements
"sorry this is totally wrong. culture war stuff-- very wearying. end of subject for me. wanting to hate seems the predominant motive for culture war nonsense. targets shift scapegoats shift the hatred seems to remain constant. all stupid. @JoyceCarolOates No its the fault of people like you who continue to insist that transwomen are real women and are entitled to real womens spaces despite example after example after example of being proven wrong. You support a sick and evil ideology which inevitably brings harm to real women. @JoyceCarolOates No its the fault of people like you who continue"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018734678908281299) 2026-02-03T17:13Z 273.6K followers, 45.2K engagements
"when a man accuses a girl or a woman of being "hysterical" you can bet that she is stating that a crime has been committed against her in this case likely rape no matter how calmly she speaks or has given a sworn testimony. utterly shameless that Noam Chomsky of all people should be giving counsel to J. Epstein. a hero to generations of linguists scientists philosophers. those no longer living are spared the astonishment of these revelations which would have stunned them. This email from Chomsky giving advice to Epstein in [----] on how to beat the allegations is truly horrifying. This is"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018762514125955092) 2026-02-03T19:04Z 273.6K followers, 108.7K engagements
"just out of curiosity: is RFK Jr. himself autistic this would certainly explain some not all of his aberrant behavior; his persistence in skewing toward the irrational & potentially destructive. a fixed idea in his brain about vaccines about which he knows nothing scientific. "fixed ideas" may not be a symptom of autism but of another sort of neurodivergent consciousness. but RFK Jr. certainly has this symptom. NIH director admits after being grilled by @SenSanders: 1) The best way to stop the measles epidemic is to vaccinate your kids against measles. 2) no single vaccine causes autism. RFK"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018848717911318752) 2026-02-04T00:46Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"yes those are my words. I am not "parroting" anyone. I have always maintained that wardens should protect all their inmates. they frequently segregate inmates from the general population--it is not at all unusual. at San Quentin new arrivals were in their own units for a while. there is a special "death row" unit. transgender persons could easily be housed in their own units. to place a transgender woman in the general population at a men's prison would be to invite rape even murder. this is such a simple clear-cut situation that seems to be hopelessly complicated. Without seeming to realize"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019201916375343300) 2026-02-05T00:10Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"with all respect have you never even heard of Christine Jorgensen just do some research. she was certainly not a "he" after her transition. many others after her never causing any outrage or animosity. these women led exemplary lives. no one harassed them; there were no organized political witch hunts against them. they were not "men pretending to be women". they were transgender women of their era before all this hostility. @JoyceCarolOates Every single man who claims to be a woman is a man pretending to be a woman. There is no such thing as transgender. There is no such thing as children"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019220503316111644) 2026-02-05T01:24Z 273.6K followers, 45.8K engagements
"so cruel of our Secretary of Health RFK Jr. speaking of "herd immunity" as an ideal replacing vaccines; essentially this means that a percentage of (unvaccinated) children will die. (as long as the children aren't his or the children of people whom he knows evidently this isn't important.) Recent reporting indicates some children in the South Carolina measles outbreak have developed encephalitis (brain swelling) and other severe complications like pneumonia. Hospitalizations are confirmed. Recent reporting indicates some children in the South Carolina measles outbreak have developed"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019436550715511164) 2026-02-05T15:42Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"(hoping Clinton has security. he is almost literally positioning himself in the evidently very vulnerable position that J. Epstein was in when he was "Epstein'd.") 💥BREAKING: Bill Clinton reportedly plans to tell Congress everything he knows about Trump and Epstein potentially leading to impeachment. https://t.co/oEFldGalV8 💥BREAKING: Bill Clinton reportedly plans to tell Congress everything he knows about Trump and Epstein potentially leading to impeachment. https://t.co/oEFldGalV8"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019538513000296723) 2026-02-05T22:27Z 273.5K followers, 69K engagements
"bring charges against criminals. do something practical. these postings are all airy vacuous. claims are made but not substantiated. truly I have nothing--absolutely nothing--to do with any of these cases. no idea what they even are. defending individuals who require protection is a duty of law enforcement. just get out & monitor the crimes you think are being committed against girls & women & press charges. @JoyceCarolOates No Joyce we will not wait until AFTER women and girls are harmed to say 'no' to men in our spaces. ALL men need to stay out no matter what they call themselves because"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019761888603582913) 2026-02-06T13:15Z 273.5K followers, 30.2K engagements
"no. whoever said anything so stupid who puts "male criminals in women's spaces"--who is responsible if there is a warden systematically doing this charges should be brought against him. I've said repeatedly that wardens should protect all inmates. (including protection from CO's.) not sure how many times that simple truth can be restated. @JoyceCarolOates So you want these male criminals to have rights to women's spaces Why do you hate women so much @JoyceCarolOates So you want these male criminals to have rights to women's spaces Why do you hate women so much"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019763131489100058) 2026-02-06T13:20Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"is it "shaming" to point out the obvious fact that complaints on social media squabbling on social media if not conjoined with actions is largely a waste of time Twitter is a sort of dumpster of grievances & gripes blaming others blaming entire categories of stereotyped people never blaming oneself never deciding to do anything "real" like working to change laws you dislike--- just more griping. @JoyceCarolOates You have to confront the legalities of what you are trying to achieve. Crafting actual enforceable non-cruel rules is difficult. You have to think through unintended consequences and"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019814596689743881) 2026-02-06T16:45Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"someone told me who'd lived in the South for most of his life that with notable exceptions this is basically true. amazing that Johnson could be so liberal & so aggressive with the sort of zeal & passion we have come to associate manly with the illiberal today. @LePapillonBlu2 @JoyceCarolOates Heres why. https://t.co/S6AbV4o5YT @LePapillonBlu2 @JoyceCarolOates Heres why. https://t.co/S6AbV4o5YT"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019864656790298894) 2026-02-06T20:03Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"For This College Friend Group Midlife Has Entered the Chat https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/books/review/clutch-emily-nemens.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/books/review/clutch-emily-nemens.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019960950166782066) 2026-02-07T02:26Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"prepubescent girl swimmers illustrating a novel about middle-aged women tells us what we need to know of how very young female bodies are fetishized in pop culture to attractive random roving attention"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019960953278984427) 2026-02-07T02:26Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"T***p embodies in his heavy flaccid sagging body & sagging clown-face the dark side of America. it is surprising that anyone was surprised by the racist caricature. his followers are like creatures that have leapt out from beneath rocks gleeful & gloating. even if his policies don't help them in the slightest or indeed hurt them they seem thrilled that his reptile-brain so accurately reflects their own. it is not surprising that an intelligent educated gracious attractive person like Obama is offensive to them. Jack White on Trumps racist post about the Obamas: How is it possible we've given"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020017326842695881) 2026-02-07T06:10Z 273.6K followers, 80.8K engagements
"Why Trumps Calls to Nationalize Voting Have Raised Midterm Fears https://www.nytimes.com/article/trumps-nationalize-voting-elections-midterms-explainer.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/article/trumps-nationalize-voting-elections-midterms-explainer.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020165121163542933) 2026-02-07T15:57Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"very weird notion of democracy when one party "nationalizes" the election. a blatantly rigged election with results that no one will believe but the federal government will sanction is actually worse than just shutting down the election. once there is a false "vote" tabulated it will always remain on record if contested. declaring No More Elections would be more forthright. how did we get to this impasse--pointless to blame Biden/Garland or to blink back tears regarding those millions who didn't even trouble to vote on that fateful voting day in Nov. [----]. what does it matter what their"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020165123382358504) 2026-02-07T15:57Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"only in the 1930's in Germany would such a racist caricature be promulgated. then it was ugly antisemitic caricatures but at least those images were "human"; in T****pDarkLand anyone with a skin hue darker than his--(weirdly "bronzed" skin)--is considered subhuman. Theres no single leader in the Developed World that survives that Obama - Ape post. The UK PM would be gone before noon. France Germany etc. All gone. And the ones whod survive - the likes of Putin & Xi - wouldnt post it. Because they arent stupid. Except Trump. Theres no single leader in the Developed World that survives that"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020165902096826844) 2026-02-07T16:00Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"thank you so much NYC voters NOT to have elected Cuomo (). we in adjacent NJ look with much admiration & hope at NYC a kind of bastion of sanity at the moment. (at least at the moment.) Wow this speech from Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani 👏💯 "They command us not to believe what we see" "They compel us as George Orwell wrote nearly [--] years ago to reject the evidence of our eyes and our ears" "And they would succeed were it not for the many among us who https://t.co/MUQgi16wUa Wow this speech from Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani 👏💯 "They command us not to believe what we see" "They"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020166676285681686) 2026-02-07T16:04Z 273.5K followers, 29.7K engagements
"thank you "Babysitter" is my valentine to Detroit 1970's. just close my eyes & I am driving along Woodward Avenue south into the city or rushing along the John Lodge Expressway or more slowly gazing at the dreamlike storefronts of Livernois Avenue. probably now shuttered vacated. dear deathly Detroit on a steel gurney in a morgue. yet still alive. @JoyceCarolOates This is not the place but your novel Babysitter was incredible and lives in my mind. I had to stop many times and reread sentences because the word choices were so perfect. @JoyceCarolOates This is not the place but your novel"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020175452829028468) 2026-02-07T16:38Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"not Biden's best hour. This is a news article from [----] when Anita Hill was incredibly brave to testify about her abuse by Clarence Thomas. He was confirmed anyway. https://t.co/96DVuZbS6p This is a news article from [----] when Anita Hill was incredibly brave to testify about her abuse by Clarence Thomas. He was confirmed anyway. https://t.co/96DVuZbS6p"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020179711758926155) 2026-02-07T16:55Z 273.6K followers, 10.6K engagements
"who was the one who'd claimed that demons scratched & bit him in the night in his bed--which he shared with several dogs Erika Kirk is challenged to outdo fellow crazies which must not be easy. Why are so many high-profile RWers nuts Why are so many high-profile RWers nuts"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020182717141578110) 2026-02-07T17:07Z 273.5K followers, 12.3K engagements
"once upon a time it was "demons" that accounted for mental illness. many a helpless victim of mental illness suffered & died as a consequence. when RFK Jr. dies it would be useful for science if an autopsy is done of his brain. neuroscientists & neurologists must be fascinated by him. psychologists whose specialty is psychopathology. most individuals with crank theories are anonymous-- no one cares about them. it is rare that one of them ascends to the office of Secretary of Health & Welfare. Just when you think that it cant get any dumber out here.RFK Jr. comes along claiming that a keto"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020185277466300782) 2026-02-07T17:17Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Extreme cold warning with subzero temps in New York and New Jersey https://pix11.com/weather/extreme-cold-warning-with-subzero-temps-in-new-york-and-new-jersey/ https://pix11.com/weather/extreme-cold-warning-with-subzero-temps-in-new-york-and-new-jersey/"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020198204701127012) 2026-02-07T18:09Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"really a 40-car motorcade for JD Vance what a joke even MAGA cultists must think this is a bit much but (of course) they probably don't know anything about it. JD Vance went to meet Meloni in a [--] car motorcade full of Suburbans through the tiny streets of Milan.and then you can see Meloni casually walking out with just her security detail https://t.co/ee0l9j3v5f JD Vance went to meet Meloni in a [--] car motorcade full of Suburbans through the tiny streets of Milan.and then you can see Meloni casually walking out with just her security detail https://t.co/ee0l9j3v5f"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020204827364708824) 2026-02-07T18:35Z 273.5K followers, 20.5K engagements
"SATURDAY COMPETITION. Bondi Noem & Kelly (Megyn) walk into a bar in Hell & the bartender recognizes them immediately & says: ____ This is what pure fucking evil looks like. https://t.co/t0d9tw29Ev This is what pure fucking evil looks like. https://t.co/t0d9tw29Ev"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020208231399010752) 2026-02-07T18:49Z 273.5K followers, 12.3K engagements
"is this possible detention centers operated by ICE to hold [-----] people at a time in one place how many of these across the US looking like a Gulag to be built with taxpayers' money & how many of those taxpayers fated to wind up in the facilities this apart from all the prisons & jails we already have in the US. next step planning executions. easier than to deport people. all this planned with the acquiescence of GOP-controlled Congress. no way to stop the nightmare from unfolding. I can guarantee few things in life but I can absolutely promise you this: the ICE detention archipelago will be"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020327966564090289) 2026-02-08T02:44Z 273.5K followers, 21K engagements
"magically removed from the context of her marriage to Vance left somewhere on a street in Minneapolis Vance's wife could easily be the target of a warrantless ICE arrest. they wouldn't bother to check the ID she would try to show them wouldn't listen to her protest that she is a US citizen & Yale graduate; they would just handcuff her & send her to Texas to be sorted out. eventually she might be released suffering who knows what physical & psychological damage in the interim. but of course that won't/can't happen to her. but one might wish that she would feel sympathy & want to protect others"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020331682088259862) 2026-02-08T02:59Z 273.6K followers, 273.2K engagements
"post a picture of the feline Arno Kethy please @JoyceCarolOates @JoyceCarolOates Not to say that your work hasn't been influential in my life and teaching career but I do have a cat named Arno Kethy. There has never been a better name. @JoyceCarolOates @JoyceCarolOates Not to say that your work hasn't been influential in my life and teaching career but I do have a cat named Arno Kethy. There has never been a better name"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020332286781300949) 2026-02-08T03:02Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Steve Martin ends friendship with Paul Simon #stevemartin #paulsimon #si. via @YouTube https://youtube.com/shorts/reR76jqpjRwsi=mp0pSVBVck0mb5Iu https://youtube.com/shorts/reR76jqpjRwsi=mp0pSVBVck0mb5Iu"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020505422998949968) 2026-02-08T14:30Z 273.5K followers, 17.2K engagements
"Reaction to Trumps Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/politics/trump-social-post-reaction.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/politics/trump-social-post-reaction.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020530791218885021) 2026-02-08T16:10Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"most interesting about responses to T***p's racist post is that several Republicans spoke publicly against it; yet on other equally disturbing issues or more disturbing issues like the Epstein files involving trafficking of young girls & possible murders virtually all Republicans stand firm protecting T***p. Reaction to Trumps Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics https://t.co/XTDklVe319 Reaction to Trumps Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics https://t.co/XTDklVe319"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020531604687348223) 2026-02-08T16:14Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"ICE punishing children is really the US government punishing children. bizarre that the US has come to this & amid so much backlash & frustration ICE & their supporters hold firm. just one child's death should be enough to shut the entire enterprise down. "Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication. 😡 She was rushed to a childrens hospital in San Antonio where doctors treated her for pneumonia Covid RSV and severe respiratory distress." https://t.co/O9oyKJP524 https://t.co/qZWXm3ZXvO "Toddler hospitalized with respiratory"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020532201905967141) 2026-02-08T16:16Z 273.5K followers, 19.2K engagements
"Best cure for winter bluesa sun nap"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020562316509495408) 2026-02-08T18:16Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"amazing how organizational these sexual predators of children were. even mentioning ages here. nothing spontaneous or unexpected but fully clearly damningly premeditated. & no one is prosecuting them shame. From @MollyJongFast's column in today's @nytimes. Big celebrity graves are dug with little shovels. Here's some of that. https://t.co/TzpBNPLbqe From @MollyJongFast's column in today's @nytimes. Big celebrity graves are dug with little shovels. Here's some of that. https://t.co/TzpBNPLbqe"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020566258958086646) 2026-02-08T18:31Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Epstein Files Reveal Scope of Ghislaine Maxwells Role in Clinton Circle https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/epstein-clintons-maxwell.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/epstein-clintons-maxwell.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020610085714620712) 2026-02-08T21:26Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"everywhere we look Epstein & Maxwell their toxic tentacles virtually everywhere. however liberals/Democrats don't want any censorship. whoever was involved should be revealed & investigated. (that is total exposure of those responsible not just Democrats.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020610088600490389) 2026-02-08T21:26Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"comical that a person whose "sport" is golf at which he notoriously cheats chugging across emerald-green golf courses in a ridiculous little vehicle since he can't manage the slopes & walk should be critical of a genuine athlete. really very comical. BREAKING: Trump just attacked American Olympian Hunter Hess as a loser after Hess said theres obviously a lot going on in America that Im not the biggest fan of and I think a lot of people arent. Hess is capturing the mood of a strong majority of the American public. https://t.co/EP3WXDoIqn BREAKING: Trump just attacked American Olympian Hunter"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020619474643398923) 2026-02-08T22:03Z 273.5K followers, 17.7K engagements
"if you are feeling a need for silliness as a respite from demoralizing thoughts recommend Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety": a sort of inspired comic replica of a Hitchcock film. oddly Mel Brooks doesn't really exude the kind of anxiety/fretfulness that we identify with anxiety rather more an idea of anxiety. not so anarchic as "Blazing Saddles" but with numerous hilarious scenes include one replicating "The Birds" & comically intrusive movie music of the Hitchcock era. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020666305632747545 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020666305632747545"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020666305632747545) 2026-02-09T01:09Z 273.6K followers, 10.1K engagements
"yikes watching a "sport" devised by the marquis de Sade in a whimsical mood: snowboarding. are these Olympic athletes of another species for those (of us) nostalgic for those thrilling days playing on our high school sports teams made to feel now utterly unreal confounded"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020667263225880897) 2026-02-09T01:13Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I hadn't known at the time that Mel Brooks was parodying Frank Sinatra. evidently Sinatra was touched by the homage. also Hitchcock was very pleased with the interludes replicating his most famous scenes. (that does seem to suggest affable comedy rather than wild humor as in "Blazing Saddles." essentially "High Anxiety" is "too nice.") @JoyceCarolOates And Madeline Kahn is once again hilarious. The look on her face when Mel sings High Anxiety at the piano bar is so perfect @JoyceCarolOates And Madeline Kahn is once again hilarious. The look on her face when Mel sings High Anxiety at the piano"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020671291682882038) 2026-02-09T01:29Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"we did not have a snowboarding team though we were in the western NY State "Snow Belt." seems amazing to me. did you not all break your necks or at least your ribs are schools insured against lawsuits if terrible things happen to young athletes snowboarding looks absolutely terrifying as well as non-human. @JoyceCarolOates For those of us who were on the high school snowboarding team many of the other sports are similarly confounding @JoyceCarolOates For those of us who were on the high school snowboarding team many of the other sports are similarly confounding"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020672038747459615) 2026-02-09T01:32Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"person who has publicly defended pedophilia making excuses for J. Epstein & T***p pretends to be indignant over Olympic athletes speaking freely forthrightly & courageously siding with compassion & against the police state. shame. Bullshit. You dont go overseas REPRESENTING America wearing an American uniform in a fierce competition against other countries - some with the worst human rights records on earth - and bash the US. Only leftists are defending this. Despicable. Bullshit. You dont go overseas REPRESENTING America wearing an American uniform in a fierce competition against other"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020731842660360225) 2026-02-09T05:29Z 273.8K followers, 31.5K engagements
"MAGA humiliated by being the very last kid chosen in gym class for a team calls an Olympic skier a loser. @JoyceCarolOates He is a loser @JoyceCarolOates He is a loser"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020738849652015601) 2026-02-09T05:57Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"one of my favorite Hitchcock films is "Spellbound" which "High Anxiety" most closely replicates. it is indeed funny but the original Hitchcock film is far more outlandish (plot character contrivances Salvador Dali surrealism) & inventive than the Mel Brooks parody. the Mel Brooks reprise of this famous scene is very close to the original. recall that Martin Scorsese was influenced by the "Psycho" scene as well. brilliant use of suddenly strident music shrieking violins like fingernails scraped on a blackboard. also comical mimicry in the Mel Brooks reprise of this famous scene is very close"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020858322002313593) 2026-02-09T13:52Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"MAGA avant-garde. "mine eyes/ears dazzle." Kid Rock appears to forget the lyrics to his song while lip syncing at the Turning Point USA halftime show. https://t.co/5MsrI6rOLM Kid Rock appears to forget the lyrics to his song while lip syncing at the Turning Point USA halftime show. https://t.co/5MsrI6rOLM"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020862223988477999) 2026-02-09T14:07Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"the time to combat the police state is BEFORE not AFTER its power has been established. Hitler BEFORE not AFTER the dictator achieves total power. at least half the US is trying to confront this imminent crisis. at least half is dumbly drifting along confusing acquiescence to a growing police state in the service of the ultra-wealthy with "patriotism" or "Christianity." @JoyceCarolOates @emeriticus If we truly lived in a police state Ms. Oates you and your writings would have disappeared from view a long time ago. Thankfully libraries exist to share your misinformation along with other genres"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020872731781173410) 2026-02-09T14:49Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"much much admiration/awe for the Olympic athletes. especially young Americans speaking from the heart. of course one would much rather love one's country than be critical of it; that is understood. critics of the outspoken fail to realize that speaking out requires courage. "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"--yes & the first & easiest refuge. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020882921515618306 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020882921515618306"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020882921515618306) 2026-02-09T15:30Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"no I have said repeatedly that institutions should protect all inmates. not sure how many times I can say ALL INMATES. to relieve stress & danger which prisons do routinely by segregating some inmates from the general population why not just have sections of prisons reserved for individuals who identify as (biological) women & sections reserved for those who identify as (trans)women. this is a managerial issue with simple solutions made hopelessly complicated by persons who should be responsible for safety & well-being. (but transgender women do not belong in men''s prisons--hoping anyone can"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020884966515556682) 2026-02-09T15:38Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"(is this the Kid I had actually never seen him until this photo. why is he "Kid"--serious question.) Some say if you play a Kid Rock record backwards you'll hear Satan. Even worse if you play it forwards you'll hear Kid Rock. https://t.co/9HGvCmq2wD Some say if you play a Kid Rock record backwards you'll hear Satan. Even worse if you play it forwards you'll hear Kid Rock. https://t.co/9HGvCmq2wD"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020893980091658670) 2026-02-09T16:14Z 273.6K followers, 117K engagements
"in all fairness the poll should limit itself to "non-high school-educated voters." surely there T***p's approval rating is high. BREAKING: CNNs Harry Enten unpacks DEVASTATING new polling for Trump showing a TWENTY-THREE PERCENT drop in approval from non-college educated voters. His base of support is falling apart and it is only going to make Trump lash out more. https://t.co/6my0ejkLyf BREAKING: CNNs Harry Enten unpacks DEVASTATING new polling for Trump showing a TWENTY-THREE PERCENT drop in approval from non-college educated voters. His base of support is falling apart and it is only going"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020894341485449544) 2026-02-09T16:15Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"please trigger warning. before again posting this video of a figure cavorting in weird white shorts & fedora in emulation of maybe Leonard Cohen--a genuinely talented uniquely talented musician Hasnt he performed this song quite literally [----] times Hasnt he performed this song quite literally [----] times"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020903201772302387) 2026-02-09T16:50Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"now eugenics & "spreading DNA" are a feature of the Epstein files degenerate men not content with being run-of-the-mill perverts & rapists of young persons now revealed to be also concerned for preserving the master race & "spreading DNA" like spreading caviar on crackers every day a more lurid/ludicrous surprise. 🚨 BREAKING: Federal records show prosecutors never searched Jeffrey Epsteins New Mexico ranch despite evidence he planned to use it to impregnate women and spread his DNA. Let that sink in. A suspected trafficking site. A documented eugenics scheme. Zero federal search."
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020906335328719346) 2026-02-09T17:03Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"person wondering uneasily if the lynch mob & tar-and-feather crowd he'd thought he was directing to lynch a helpless handcuffed person seems to be turning on---- HIM. Just in case NBC is muting the boos heres JD Vance uniting the world in synchronized disapproval. Also that smug prick ought to smile and just have more fun. https://t.co/yf4rxPrGTy Just in case NBC is muting the boos heres JD Vance uniting the world in synchronized disapproval. Also that smug prick ought to smile and just have more fun. https://t.co/yf4rxPrGTy"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020921427248247292) 2026-02-09T18:03Z 273.6K followers, 31K engagements
"it's as legitimate as T***p's racist posting of the Obamas yes or that meme of the dignified Black woman arrested by ICE whose face was darkened & disfigured by White House hacks. @JoyceCarolOates This is ai @JoyceCarolOates This is ai"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020974620556640724) 2026-02-09T21:34Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"poor Jesus always being "found" by the most loathsome specimens & too nice a guy to kick them away. @factpostnews But he claims he's found Jesus. Like Pete -- I believe he says that to be excused for disgusting past behaviors. It doesn't work that way. @factpostnews But he claims he's found Jesus. Like Pete -- I believe he says that to be excused for disgusting past behaviors. It doesn't work that way"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021015136002245084) 2026-02-10T00:15Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"but why would anyone tell that joke especially in his own persona is Kid Rock the father of daughters hard to fathom. @factpostnews there's a lot of stuff to knock him for but I don't think this is one. He said that on SNL so 1) it was written as a joke (a bad/not funny joke) and 2) he didn't write it. @factpostnews there's a lot of stuff to knock him for but I don't think this is one. He said that on SNL so 1) it was written as a joke (a bad/not funny joke) and 2) he didn't write it"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021015605659488457) 2026-02-10T00:17Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"unless I missed it this entire lengthy NYT article on the gleeful "wiping out of U.S. climate regulation" presents the conservative (i.e. anti-environmental) position as if it is unrelated to polluting industries & their profits. these are just altruistic parties volunteering their time to dismantle government regulations. wouldn't a serious journalist look into the connections between the pro-polluter politicians & officials & their probable reasons for wanting regulations rescinded bad enough that the EPA is dismantled but profoundly sad that mainstream media presents the issue so blandly &"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021079889164513391) 2026-02-10T04:32Z 273.6K followers, 26K engagements
"wait. isn't this the woman who screamed on Fox News that Santa Claus is a white man; & that J. Epstein & D. T***p are not pedophiles exactly. now she is screaming about football ("football is ours") At the end of the day this outrage isn't just performative it's really really weird. That level of emotion over arguably the most popular singer in the world performing at a halftime show is just bizarre. It's so hard to believe it's real. At the end of the day this outrage isn't just performative it's really really weird. That level of emotion over arguably the most popular singer in the world"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021080963627864201) 2026-02-10T04:37Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"when Piers Morgan is the embodiment of intelligence & good manners (i.e. not interrupting & ranting) things have become very strange indeed. At the end of the day this outrage isn't just performative it's really really weird. That level of emotion over arguably the most popular singer in the world performing at a halftime show is just bizarre. It's so hard to believe it's real. At the end of the day this outrage isn't just performative it's really really weird. That level of emotion over arguably the most popular singer in the world performing at a halftime show is just bizarre. It's so hard"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021082167669854222) 2026-02-10T04:41Z 273.6K followers, 13.9K engagements
""never heard of him"-- how can you have escaped hearing of Bad Bunny it has been years even the hearing impaired have heard; even people who know or care literally nothing about music have heard of Bad Bunny. @DavidAFrench Why do people keep insisting he's the most "popular singer in the world" I'm latina and have never heard of him neither has my teen daughter or her friends. I speak spanish and heard what he sang and the lyrics are FILTHY We're sick of this shit forced on us @DavidAFrench Why do people keep insisting he's the most "popular singer in the world" I'm latina and have never"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021083539601547283) 2026-02-10T04:47Z 273.6K followers, 33K engagements
"A. Dershowitz has very odd ideas about adult men & underaged girls for a person who has at least one daughter. (whom I met once on Martha's Vineyard an excellent actress.) how can a person with children have such degenerate views let alone publicly express them--hard to understand. Alan Dershowitz wants the names of the victims in the Epstein files released because he thinks hes the real victim. Dershowitz is a longtime advocate of lowering the age of consent so more adults can legally have sex with kids and not be labeled as pedophiles and rapists. Alan Dershowitz wants the names of the"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021104737005797388) 2026-02-10T06:11Z 273.6K followers, 31.9K engagements
"Amalfi coast What is the most beautiful countryon Earth https://t.co/AiolU0IXJc What is the most beautiful countryon Earth https://t.co/AiolU0IXJc"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021106977695310271) 2026-02-10T06:20Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"hmm. would Dershowitz allow Dershowitz on the witness stand in Dershowitz trial on charges of rape of underaged children--or would canny lawyer Dershowitz keep blabbermouth guilty client Dershowitz from testifying on behalf of Dershowitz non-billable replies from reputable lawyers only. @CattardSlim When your wall has no wall left youre a serial killer. https://t.co/zVLfg7StRL @CattardSlim When your wall has no wall left youre a serial killer. https://t.co/zVLfg7StRL"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021221696099745972) 2026-02-10T13:56Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
""male homosexual in female guise" does not seem an improbable self-identifying in Iris Murdoch when you think of it. (never saw this quote before.) but given the characteristic tone of Murdoch's fiction which inclines toward the self-consciously arch & ironic seeing life as essentially as farcical one might object that Murdoch is projecting her fantasy of 'male homosexual'; her characters are likely to be fatuous pompous egomaniacs or hapless victims puppets in a stage comedy. everyone is silly but forgivably silly. @JoyceCarolOates re Iris Murdoch: https://t.co/bAcANO4D13 @JoyceCarolOates re"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021224917904003541) 2026-02-10T14:09Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"if Canada would just present T***p with its highest national award Honorary Membership in Canadian Mounted Police (bright-red uniform boots horse) he would shift from being hurt/miffed/vindictive to being Canada's best friend. BREAKING: Trumps Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says that Trump has valid concerns over the bridge connecting Canada to Michigan after Trump threw a tantrum last night on Truth Social. This is a desperate attempt at sane washing insanity. https://t.co/z8Yt6qIlGM BREAKING: Trumps Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says that Trump has valid concerns over the bridge"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021230332603687003) 2026-02-10T14:30Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"so why then don't they just deport him to Ireland not the worst fate in the world to be deported from the US to Ireland Seamus Culleton an Irishman with a valid US work permit has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it a modern day concentration camp (Video: @RTERadio1) https://t.co/p4nJJwuoXL Seamus Culleton an Irishman with a valid US work permit has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it a modern day concentration camp (Video: @RTERadio1) https://t.co/p4nJJwuoXL"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021230888944570622) 2026-02-10T14:32Z 273.6K followers, 28.5K engagements
"who would want to attend an event at the White House & have to listen to T***p speak Mikie Sherrill will not miss anything except possibly the opportunity to be insulted or chided for "not smiling enough" by shameless male chauvinist president. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill says she won't attend the National Governors Association dinner if her fellow Democrats Wes Moore and Jared Polis aren't invited by the White House. "No I will not be going. This is ridiculous." https://t.co/U9hRnSVEk1 New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill says she won't attend the National Governors Association dinner if her"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021241700643901456) 2026-02-10T15:15Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Anthony Bourdain loved & appreciated good food anywhere he found it & celebrated it; especially celebrated fellow chefs. in restaurants in the US where (in fact) I was among guests of his Anthony Bourdain never failed to thank wait persons & to ask if chefs & kitchen workers would come out to be congratulated on a good meal. they were thrilled to meet him. but he was thrilled to meet them. the essence of Tony Bourdain was kindliness modesty & (yes) shyness. if the US is a "first world" nation how very degraded "first world" is. @LindyTasteful I blame Anthony Bourdain for glamorizing the 3rd"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021262424607781156) 2026-02-10T16:38Z 273.6K followers, 34.8K engagements
"really I'd always read Murdoch in the tradition of "comedy of manners"--"social satire." a more brainy Evelyn Waugh. her characters all seem like (garrulous) puppets except for the very quiet ones. @JoyceCarolOates I can't agree with your description of Murdoch's fiction in which sexual ambiguity abounds. I've never found her characters "silly". Much of her work belongs in the tradition of the Gothic novel so should appeal to readers today. @JoyceCarolOates I can't agree with your description of Murdoch's fiction in which sexual ambiguity abounds. I've never found her characters "silly". Much"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021270211786092968) 2026-02-10T17:09Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Not considering that many women just dont want the life of marriage & family. I know women who can love family & other peoples children but just dont want the intense intimacy of others in their lives. They are sometimes most lonely when crowded by others. Cats are usually quiet companions though not always. In the 1930s the term "cat lady" referred to older women who lived alone and kept multiple cats as companions. In an era when societal expectations often placed pressure on women to marry and maintain a traditional family structure those who chose to live independently with"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021313690100957314) 2026-02-10T20:01Z 273.6K followers, 25.6K engagements
"If you wonder what a cult is. What cant he do https://t.co/wtjcfpq6qJ What cant he do https://t.co/wtjcfpq6qJ"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021339287405593008) 2026-02-10T21:43Z 273.6K followers, 23.3K engagements
"A Desperate Father a Troubled Son and Death in a 5-Star Hotel https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/nyregion/henry-mcgowan-ireland-murder.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/nyregion/henry-mcgowan-ireland-murder.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021359003977363918) 2026-02-10T23:01Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"FBI is this the same Federal Bureau of Investigations that spent years spying on Black persons (Joe Louis Martin Luther King whom J. Edgar Hoover hoped to bully into committing suicide black Panthers committed to protecting their neighborhoods) spending millions of taxpayers' dollars with absolutely zero returns of any value to anyone we should listen to & respect that Bureau @Megatron_ron Former FBI agent dropping "Pandoras Box" bombs like its some noble warning Please. Those files have been sitting there for decades while the elite partied on now suddenly its a national security threat when"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021450511321317859) 2026-02-11T05:05Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
""national security"--threatened by an exposure of criminal sex offenders on the contrary national security is threatened by corrupt & conscienceless persons remaining in control. US citizens are supposed to trust such leaders meekly paying income tax to criminals because otherwise things will be shaken up this time as M. Garland failed to do begin at the top investigating the US president & allow the public to know exactly the extent of his crimes then work their way downward. NEW: A former FBI Special Agent warns these Epstein files will unleash a Pandoras Box of national security threats"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021452021602120165) 2026-02-11T05:11Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"excellent interviews the other evening on CBS Sixty Minutes with Margaret Atwood & Salman Rushdie. in a way it's sad that literary writers are reduced to talking about politics & public events in their lives rather than the artistry of their books but at least this is better than nothing. not even a mention of Atwood's poetry or other novels--just Handmaid's Tale for its timeliness. & Salman most focus on the horrific attack against him & Salman's response to it. interesting: Margaret Atwood has been attacked "more by the left than the right-wingers." Salman wrote a memoir titled "Knife" in"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021455673138016750) 2026-02-11T05:26Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"but we know from numerous articles on the president that he is not the person writing the executive orders--he is the person signing them. he is not the person overseeing ICE operations--that is Stephen Miller. though very visibly present & continuing to be divisive T***p is probably most valuable to the rightwing as a figurehead. he can continue propped up for a long time as some religions continue to wield power long after anyone has believed in them. He says he does cognitive physicals there is no such thing What hes taking is a dementia test. Neurologists require their patients to"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021596434588398022) 2026-02-11T14:45Z 273.6K followers, 12.5K engagements
"great insight yes Wyeth. one of our most underrated American artists. (I have never understood American art critics' dislike of Wyeth even as they extoll Hopper. surely each is an American original) @JoyceCarolOates That Goya painting always reminds me of This Wyeth one https://t.co/6nXyplwaXP @JoyceCarolOates That Goya painting always reminds me of This Wyeth one https://t.co/6nXyplwaXP"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021612082580316354) 2026-02-11T15:47Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"what a mean if ludicrous little racist thrill in this MAGA concoction that the grossly overweight flabby-bodied & -minded T***p could outplay a Black athlete in any way shape or form. what a joke idiot is even on a basketball court in dress shoes off-the-wrack signature suit & red-clown necktie. What cant he do https://t.co/wtjcfpq6qJ What cant he do https://t.co/wtjcfpq6qJ"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021614246400778528) 2026-02-11T15:56Z 273.6K followers, 14.9K engagements
"yes they never seem to mention "mediocre white man" DEI which has always meant that if you are not white no matter your qualifications you will not even be interviewed. most of T***p's cabinet is "white DEI" & those not-white & not-male would never have cabinet positions in any other administration. Republicans are evil for turning DEI into a racist concept. https://t.co/qMhIyM0uXL Republicans are evil for turning DEI into a racist concept. https://t.co/qMhIyM0uXL"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021617385858351242) 2026-02-11T16:08Z 273.7K followers, 57K engagements
"have seen Mel Brooks documentary--"Ninety-Nine-Year-Old Man"--twice; & highly recommend again. absolutely thrilling uplifting. for one who'd seen only two Mel Brooks films & knew little of his life/talent this was a revelation. so very touching that his wife Ann Bancroft adored him & always believed in him; & Mel Brooks adored her. such seeming opposites this documentary might have been almost too sad except it is quite the reverse: inspiring. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021618475660132368 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021618475660132368"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021618475660132368) 2026-02-11T16:12Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"if you recall Tim O'Brien's tour de force of a group portrait of an American 17-man platoon fighting in the Vietnam War --"The Things They Carried"--as a very moving work of fiction go back & reread: absolutely brilliant prose poem perfect technique perfectly executed like one of those old-time card tricks where the magician shuffles the cards all in the air & they fold back together like a waterfall without a single card dropped. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021620484480077892 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021620484480077892"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021620484480077892) 2026-02-11T16:20Z 273.6K followers, 27.6K engagements
""Made in China AI Slop for US MAGA" @JoyceCarolOates Its from China. @JoyceCarolOates Its from China"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021628289526477062) 2026-02-11T16:51Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"recalling that in [----] H. Clinton won the popular vote by a considerable margin but lost the electoral college; so polls don't suggest the waywardness of "popularity" or "approval." alternate universe in which Clinton did win in 2016--tempting to wonder what state the US would be in exactly now. serious replies only. not sure what polls mean. entire lives are lived out without being queried even once in a political opinion poll. are these queries by phone who even answers a phone if the caller isn't someone you know or--even has a landline phone not sure what polls mean. entire lives are"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021634657641431232) 2026-02-11T17:17Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Texas grand jury sided with the father Amazing they refused to even indict the murderer presumably for political reasons. This poor girl. Trump's body count continues to rise. https://t.co/7WMp7osHAc This poor girl. Trump's body count continues to rise. https://t.co/7WMp7osHAc"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021646221199450119) 2026-02-11T18:03Z 273.6K followers, 40.3K engagements
"sounds like a personal-injury lawyer. the kind who advertises on billboards on the expressway. will say anything everything at trial to defend a client no matter how preposterous in this case a criminal US president. Bondi: "You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it." https://t.co/ucmrjhhFuq Bondi: "You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it." https://t.co/ucmrjhhFuq"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021732440096579805) 2026-02-11T23:45Z 273.6K followers, 16.2K engagements
"is this the darkest line in all of Whitman-- ".sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in." "Song of Myself""
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021733906181967926) 2026-02-11T23:51Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"person who would've been thrilled to see a sea of red MAGA hats is miffed that they didn't materialize & instead came waves of boos. Vance whines about US Olympic athletes speaking out against the Trump administration: "When you're representing the country you're representing Democrats and Republicans. You're there to play a sport.You're not there to pop off about politics" https://t.co/J5idoic2tw Vance whines about US Olympic athletes speaking out against the Trump administration: "When you're representing the country you're representing Democrats and Republicans. You're there to play a"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021739876866306379) 2026-02-12T00:15Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"actually that is a sign of a conscience however compromised. T***p would just look out at the Epstein survivors brazenly & ask sneeringly why aren't they smiling Bondi is (perhaps) well aware of her cruelty & moral corruption. T***p a true narcissist is incapable of knowing or caring about anyone beyond himself. An image we won't soon forget. Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to look at Epstein survivors pictured behind her on the Hill today. https://t.co/KYCBQCXz3Y An image we won't soon forget. Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to look at Epstein survivors pictured behind her on the Hill"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021749666111508860) 2026-02-12T00:54Z 273.6K followers, 15.2K engagements
"ironies of history: M. Garland preceding AG failed to prosecute the inciter of the Jan. [--] insurrection; P. Bondi successor fails to investigate let alone prosecute individuals named in the Epstein files which just happen to include the individual whom M. Garland protected by not prosecuting. is that one lucky fella with two AG's protecting him @ProjectLincoln https://t.co/AkyxdwnrIV @ProjectLincoln https://t.co/AkyxdwnrIV"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021750628632924459) 2026-02-12T00:58Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"it turned out to be true as some observers had said: T***p really had to be re-elected president to remain out of jail. if someone else were president even another Republican T***p would have been investigated & exposed by now for numerous crimes including his involvement with Epstein sex trafficking of minors. what a massive cover-up GOP must be exhausted there is so much corruption continual lies graft crimes which they are too cowardly to acknowledge. @JoyceCarolOates A US AG who represents a single person instead of the peoples of the country that she was appointed to represent. No wonder"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2021751804199842215) 2026-02-12T01:02Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"beginning to sound like a joke but not a very funny joke: someone has seen the "unredacted Epstein files" & shudders delightedly promising the names will "shock the entire world." end of pronouncement. 🚨BREAKING Rep. Nancy Mace says she has seen the unredacted Epstein files and warns that the names in them will shck the entire world "You'd be shcked by some of the names I've seen in the files" https://t.co/N1yzjpgU07 🚨BREAKING Rep. Nancy Mace says she has seen the unredacted Epstein files and warns that the names in them will shck the entire world "You'd be shcked by some of the names I've"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022005054199476499) 2026-02-12T17:49Z 273.6K followers, 22.1K engagements
"finally saw the movie "The Music Man" which tells a zestful tall tale of an affable con-man who cons an entire Iowa town into believing some nonsense about their need for a boys' marching band; the concept is worthwhile but the execution is so hokey silly dated it is a chore to watch"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022006770705535391) 2026-02-12T17:55Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"unlike Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" which explores a similar gullibility in mass audiences but much more skillfully memorably. we wince to see how phony populist "Lonesome Rhodes" wins over audiences painfully akin to what has happened in the US since 2016"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022006773457334554) 2026-02-12T17:55Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"these look homemade handmade. very touching; & given Lincoln's height somewhat small. Abraham Lincoln's actual slippers. Any thoughts https://t.co/nImWwqyorz Abraham Lincoln's actual slippers. Any thoughts https://t.co/nImWwqyorz"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022045903193063733) 2026-02-12T20:31Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"during COVID several of my friends cut their own hair. sometimes not even looking using two mirrors. just--snipped away where they couldn't see cheerfully. well yes-- they did look better than this hefty fella. He paid for that haircut https://t.co/tJCDj1XvVO He paid for that haircut https://t.co/tJCDj1XvVO"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022047496193945781) 2026-02-12T20:37Z 273.6K followers, 11.8K engagements
"the only two men who looked good with this haircut were Tommy Shelby & his brother--was the name Arthur especially Arthur the rapturous-mad stone cold killer. He paid for that haircut https://t.co/tJCDj1XvVO He paid for that haircut https://t.co/tJCDj1XvVO"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022048695085326391) 2026-02-12T20:42Z 273.6K followers, 15.3K engagements
"actually my question was serious. this was never an issue before MAGA-rule. of course a woman hemorrhaging cannot control what is happening to her. a miscarriage is said to be naturally "correcting" something wrong in the fetus; it is purely involuntary yet MAGA-rule treats it as a self-willed abortion (I guess). punishing women on what must be for some the worst day of their lives. that is why some of us are bewildered: do MAGA women really want this for themselves & their daughters @JoyceCarolOates When I miscarried most of the tissue went down the toilet. I had to have a DNC later to get"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022050098797219883) 2026-02-12T20:48Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"yes but Republican women vote for these draconian laws. they profess to hate liberals who want to strengthen women's healthcare. they must feel that such awful things would never happen to them. maybe God will protect them because they are special @JoyceCarolOates Republicans are doubling down on their war on females. Womens healthcare ✔ Voting rights ✔ Rape✔ Torture ✔ Murder✔ Quiet Piggy https://t.co/yYGl0eKh4t @JoyceCarolOates Republicans are doubling down on their war on females. Womens healthcare ✔ Voting rights ✔ Rape✔ Torture ✔ Murder✔ Quiet Piggy https://t.co/yYGl0eKh4t"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022050513936863633) 2026-02-12T20:49Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"obviously yes. it's very famous. that's why I was eager to see it. maybe if Mel Brooks had directed "The Music Man" it might have worked as truly imaginative musical comedy not a sequence of cheery kindergarten skits. (Mel Brooks: Jewish con-man conning all those corny Iowa-yan goys. or Black Bart returns on his horse. something is needed to make this palatable in [----] as it must have been decades ago.) @JoyceCarolOates It was designed as a play and I assure you it works on the stage. @JoyceCarolOates It was designed as a play and I assure you it works on the stage"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022054524278419782) 2026-02-12T21:05Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"terrific all of Peaky Blinders was insane but Alfie Solomon was meta-. most fun since playing both (crazy) Kray brothers simultaneously. @JoyceCarolOates Alfie Solomons same. @JoyceCarolOates Alfie Solomons same"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022059940735762716) 2026-02-12T21:27Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"such a great film like "A Face in the Crowd." movies of that era--"Sweet Smell of Success" "The Defiant Ones"--"On the Waterfront"--- so powerful. great actors like Lancaster Poitier Brando yes & also underrated Tony Curtis. @JoyceCarolOates Funny that [--] yrs earlier she won the Academy Award for playing the deeper real version in Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster. @JoyceCarolOates Funny that [--] yrs earlier she won the Academy Award for playing the deeper real version in Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022061421039951986) 2026-02-12T21:33Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I don't have any trouble with "silly" films like a typical Mel Brooks comedy. it's the wholesome-Hollywood aw-shucks white folks Americana vibe (sic) that seems intolerable. @JoyceCarolOates Do you think if you had watched it when it came out you'd have any different thoughts @JoyceCarolOates Do you think if you had watched it when it came out you'd have any different thoughts"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022063293343707196) 2026-02-12T21:40Z 273.7K followers, 21.3K engagements
"yes definitely Threepenny Opera. Carousel has to be performed differently today I would think. my sense is that audiences today just don't like or "get" musicals. those Hollywood dance sequences fantastical long scenes maybe tolerable in something like Coen brothers " Big Lebowski" bowling fantasy but forced elsewhere. @JerryColen @JoyceCarolOates that's lovely. It is up there with Hello Dolly as one of least favorite musicals. Favorites - Carousel Sunday in the Park with George She Loves Me Showboat Oklahoma. Oh and Assassins Sweeney Todd maybe all Sondheim. AND [--] Penny Opera. Not that you"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022064228954517654) 2026-02-12T21:44Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"mixed feelings about films made of superb TV series. does anyone recall the Sopranos feature film frankly it is hard to imagine a film coming close to the brilliance of Peaky Blinders; the very audacity of the narrative operatic histrionic inspired music the unexpected in most episodes. what we have seen traced the rise of Tommy Shelby & the Peaky Blinders--initially a street gang eventually its head is a member of parliament. that arc seemed complete & quite an achievement. but keeping fingers & paws crossed for the best. @JoyceCarolOates Speaking of which . https://t.co/G7ZwuALcpK"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022099757993214053) 2026-02-13T00:05Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"depends upon whom you know where you live. if there is a collective malaise it is a consequence of the endless toxic political climate not because people or some people have "joyless amusements." mixing cause & effect. I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression is rampant because weve abandoned books & hobbies in favor of joyless amusements. The single most attractive thing a person can do is read often & delight in learning. I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022100354893263030) 2026-02-13T00:07Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"a literary acquaintance was finally divorced after a most bitter acrimonious bout of litigation; that was at least [--] years ago & one spouse is still suing the other repeatedly out of spite fury bringing frivolous lawsuits which nonetheless have to be dealt with by hiring more always more attorneys. probably $1 million has been frittered away paid to attorneys. literally it is a fight to the death--one spouse is hounding the other to death. at the start of their marriage a beautiful couple---envied by many. never would they have imagined such an end to their early original/genuine love 40-plus"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022110552802422886) 2026-02-13T00:48Z 273.6K followers, 15.8K engagements
"hard to figure why GOP would want this law since surely many of their women voters are married & would have to deal with impediments related to their surname (if their husband's name likely to be common with GOP conservative women) & the name on their birth certificate. pushing this law would only make sense if it hurt Democratic women; in fact it would hurt a sizable portion of all women regardless of political preferences. @politvidchannel The Senate appears ready to block Trumps election bill which critics say would restrict access to voting for many eligible Americans in [----]. This shows"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022112731101356460) 2026-02-13T00:56Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"2 to [--] Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if Its Decaf. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/coffee-tea-dementia-risk.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/coffee-tea-dementia-risk.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022178933077385464) 2026-02-13T05:20Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"how would you know with such a vast experiment whether myriad other factors are as important as or more important than caffeine maybe something no one would think of like lying on one's side to sleep vs. one's back or playing a wind instrument vs. a percussive instrument. anyway would think that genetics count most. also how would you know whether people who opt to drink caffeinated drinks are those who are also less likely to develop Alzheimer's--just as people intellectually curious enough to read a good deal are less likely to develop Alzheimer's rather than that the reading has a"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022178936583565568) 2026-02-13T05:20Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"being unable to stay awake in a public place can be a symptom of not enough oxygen flowing to the brain; arterial hardening. narcolepsy. at Princeton there was one prominent faculty member who always sat in the front row at public lectures & promptly fell asleep as soon as the lecture began; but just as it ended he was awake clapping vigorously & one of the first to ask excellent questions. he went on to an even more distinguished career after Princeton--president of a major university. sorry far afield from T***p. but a curious story. Is the Adderall wearing off or is it another stroke"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022181033714635053) 2026-02-13T05:28Z 273.6K followers, 31K engagements
"neurogenesis. (my late husband Charlie Gross neuroscience experimented in this field.) however I don't think it was Alzheimer's per se that was the subject just natural aging of the brain. impossible to suggest the findings in a small space but he & colleagues believed that exercise--which could be vigorous walking--& enough sleep were paramount. plus the heavy hand of genetics. & indeed genetic determinism is a very heavy hand. you can run hither & yon but genetic determinism is the cloud that always follows. @JoyceCarolOates There's work that shows microtubule regrowth in brains repairs the"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022318287028175259) 2026-02-13T14:33Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"you can run hither & yon but genetic determinism is the cloud that always follows. @JoyceCarolOates That recent study made it seem like most Alzheimers is from APOE so yes genes load the gun. @JoyceCarolOates That recent study made it seem like most Alzheimers is from APOE so yes genes load the gun"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022318534487875589) 2026-02-13T14:34Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"for years we read studies that "seemed to show" that drinking one glass of red wine was beneficial; people lived longer etc. then one day we learned that no guess not new studies "seemed to show" that one glass of red wine was NOT a great idea. so too with caffeine. or high protein. or low protein. or standing on one's head. or reading the N Y Times for science wisdom. @JoyceCarolOates Thats why youd have to read the study and not just The NY Times article about the study. @JoyceCarolOates Thats why youd have to read the study and not just The NY Times article about the study"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022327653454303728) 2026-02-13T15:11Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"quite apart from the "despoiled environment" theme the film ("Safe") seems to be a horror story of ordinary domestic life--upper middle class homes filled with luxury items well-to-do housewives & mothers chattering away like hens driving on the Freeway hellish life itself reduced to babble. & the ghastly ending in which the protagonist is finally "safe." @JoyceCarolOates Its in my top [--] of all time and definitely the greatest film of the 90s endlessly rewatchable @JoyceCarolOates Its in my top [--] of all time and definitely the greatest film of the 90s endlessly rewatchable"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022329053932396575) 2026-02-13T15:16Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd. @JoyceCarolOates My favorite musicals - Jesus Christ Superstar Sweeney Todd Ragtime Hedwig & the Angry Itch - break all the stereotypes. And they don't resemble each other. My son Jacob and I saw Sweeney Todd in Rockford IL - as dinner theater @JoyceCarolOates My favorite musicals - Jesus Christ Superstar Sweeney Todd Ragtime Hedwig & the Angry Itch - break all the stereotypes. And they don't resemble each other. My son Jacob and I saw Sweeney Todd in Rockford IL - as dinner theater"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022330340019429696) 2026-02-13T15:21Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"What It Means to Be a White Race Traitor https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/magazine/minneapolis-good-pretti-race-traitors.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/magazine/minneapolis-good-pretti-race-traitors.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022337945215311907) 2026-02-13T15:51Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"excellent article. tragically rightwing propaganda has brainwashed many Americans into thinking that an entire political party or political philosophy (liberalism) have come to constitute "race traitors." Republicans: party defending the "white race." Democrats liberals: "race traitors." no wonder the US is so polarized. hoping for some sane resolution in the future"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022343089239519567) 2026-02-13T16:12Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"this is the true era of the Ugly American. the entire T***pDarkAge is a time of crudeness vulgarity. corrupt politicians like L. Graham giving their ignorant opinions on international issues. once the US had had career diplomats something like diplomacy. now it's T***p cultists like Graham & Vance alienating Europe with sound-bites intended for T***p to hear & be impressed by. BREAKING: Trump apologist Lindsey Graham asks who gives a shit who owns Greenland during the Munich Security Conference in a pathetic attempt to justify Trumps threats. Heres the answer Lindsey: the people of Greenland"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022362995297304711) 2026-02-13T17:31Z 273.7K followers, 14.3K engagements
"(hoping that I am not violating a hyper-sensitive kitty's confidence but: Zanche has to lower her standards of etiquette considerably when trapped indoors since she is obliged to use a (littler box). by nature Zanche prefers ultra-privacy outdoors behind a bush or who knows where; it is humbling to her to be forced to use an indoor toilet still worse to (share) it with a second kitty. such a private fastidious kitty this has been a hard time for her.) At last Zanche has ventured out into her catio after a week or more of hibernation Still cold but not frigid. https://t.co/yWxOauqjln At last"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022364899939430638) 2026-02-13T17:39Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"imagine the audacity how un-American to demand that heavily weaponed masked "federal officers" actually need to have legal warrants for arrests--shocking. nothing like this ever. even worse these masked "officers" should be accountable for their behavior--can't just shoot civilians in the face or fire multiple shots into helpless persons lying on the ground because they're miffed. nothing like this ever in the US. scandal. 🚨 BREAKING: The Senate just rejected a deal to keep the government open [----] after Democrats refused to rubber-stamp DHS and ICE without accountability. Several"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022367676052480507) 2026-02-13T17:50Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"ingenious but poor hogs they did not agree to being barbarously treated in hideous factory farms & then crudely slaughtered; of all animals hogs/pigs can sense death coming & register terror. @JoyceCarolOates "In Iowa the corn is ripe but I gotta say that ain't my gripe. The piggies here have such a stench my nose I'm holding with a wrench." - Composed by a friend and I during a long boring drive through Iowa many years ago . 😇 @JoyceCarolOates "In Iowa the corn is ripe but I gotta say that ain't my gripe. The piggies here have such a stench my nose I'm holding with a wrench." - Composed by"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022371329521963327) 2026-02-13T18:04Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"yes but I worry she is "putting on weight"--as it's said. we tried a diet last year. not a success. when "food is love." how can you say no I mean you can say no but--will "no" be understood @JoyceCarolOates My Lilith is sensitive and sleepy. A kindred spirit @JoyceCarolOates My Lilith is sensitive and sleepy. A kindred spirit"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022410357298598163) 2026-02-13T20:39Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"sorry to be pedantic but it was both of Evander Holyfield's ears that Tyson bit not just one. he did not "bite off" an ear. why the referee let the fight continue after the first egregious foul --(a foul that should have ended the fight)--is a mystery. folks who saw this debacle live on TV were incredulous. such shameful behavior by Cus D'Amato-trained Mike Tyson was utterly shocking. though after the equally shameful Buster Douglas fight anything was possible. @TheRealThelmaJ1 We all remember the ear not so many remember that Tyson is a convicted r*pist (1992) who was unsuccessfully"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022424404668428557) 2026-02-13T21:35Z 273.7K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Cus D'Amato had trained Mike Tyson to revere the great champions to emulate their bravery & heart; that Tyson would resort to a cheap brazen deliberate foul undid everything D'Amato had taught him. in his memoir Tyson blames cocaine-- he'd become an addict. convicted of rape & never repented indeed continues to insist he was innocent. or misunderstood. as one who admires Tyson's early career & wrote a good deal about it ("On Boxing) I felt how sad it was how pathetic that the afterlife of a champion became so tawdry. sorry to be pedantic but it was both of Evander Holyfield's ears that Tyson"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022426011711754403) 2026-02-13T21:41Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"no. I understand-- there is the "afterlife of the champion"--(about which I wrote in a sympathetic essay)--it can't be easy. not really judging. I would guess Tyson judges himself fairly objectively & recalls very often the days/years of Cus D'Amato as he was being trained to become the youngest heavyweight boxer in history. a sleek lethal arrow shot from Cus's bow. into the heart of boxing history. @JoyceCarolOates Have you ever watched Mike Tyson Mysteries on Adult Swim @JoyceCarolOates Have you ever watched Mike Tyson Mysteries on Adult Swim"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022433322383651098) 2026-02-13T22:10Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"yes the first time I saw "The Producers" -- "Springtime for Hitler"-- I really did not get the joke.jokes. we have lost all that context. we stare at the absurdity without knowing how to decode it. @JoyceCarolOates The Warner Bros. musicals of the early to mid 1930s featuring Busby Berkeleys choreography and Ruby Keeler & Dick Powell are great due to being so surreal & absurd. https://t.co/6RgNHijd3u @JoyceCarolOates The Warner Bros. musicals of the early to mid 1930s featuring Busby Berkeleys choreography and Ruby Keeler & Dick Powell are great due to being so surreal & absurd."
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022435201486356740) 2026-02-13T22:18Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"probably yes with my friend Stephen Pinker. who would have known there are many very many receptions dinners symposia academic conferences sponsored by who knows--those who attend have not the slightest awareness like patrons of the Met Art museum not knowing who the Koch brothers are or were; or who awful Mr. Frick was founder of exquisite Frick Museum. @JoyceCarolOates What if hed read them and become a huge fan If you didnt know you might have been flattered to attend a Salon with other luminaries. @JoyceCarolOates What if hed read them and become a huge fan If you didnt know you might"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022435915239485726) 2026-02-13T22:21Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"who knows. the alacrity with which Democrats conceded the (surely somewhat suspicious) [----] election was certainly odd. @JoyceCarolOates Sarah Kendzior always said that Biden's presidency was meant to be a "placeholder" between two Tr**p terms. I didn't believe it.until it happened. Now I tend to think that they're basically on the same side and it's all choreographed. @JoyceCarolOates Sarah Kendzior always said that Biden's presidency was meant to be a "placeholder" between two Tr**p terms. I didn't believe it.until it happened. Now I tend to think that they're basically on the same side and"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022440107244957909) 2026-02-13T22:37Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
""I am not a crook"-- Richard Nixon. @JoyceCarolOates Nixon had five o'clock shadow for that debate and facial sweat. He looked like a crook. Kennedy did not. @JoyceCarolOates Nixon had five o'clock shadow for that debate and facial sweat. He looked like a crook. Kennedy did not"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022546617396604970) 2026-02-14T05:41Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@JoyceCarolOates Well Lilith from THIS males gaze you look fantastic @JoyceCarolOates Well Lilith from THIS males gaze you look fantastic"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022549234604519725) 2026-02-14T05:51Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"really $55 million to send JDVance to Italy to be roundly boo'd recall harsh criticism of Joe Biden who'd dared to travel to the Maryland coast for a weekend "vacation" spent working. Well we just Funded a $55 million dollar vacation for J.D Vance his family & a [---] of his closest friends to travel & enjoy all the perks of him being the VP. We even paid for a cargo plane full of the food he likes to travel to the Olympics Wait till you hear everything else🤬 https://t.co/QQTI0CpTIr Well we just Funded a $55 million dollar vacation for J.D Vance his family & a [---] of his closest friends to"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022556520873971875) 2026-02-14T06:20Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Brit billionairess disses US proletarian authoress charging "well-off" This is where a ton of well-off leftist intellectuals are stuck. Insulated from and often ignorant of the real world consequences of the position they've taken they conclude the masses have been manipulated by influences to which they are too clever and righteous to fall prey. This is where a ton of well-off leftist intellectuals are stuck. Insulated from and often ignorant of the real world consequences of the position they've taken they conclude the masses have been manipulated by influences to which they are too clever"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1854939961901945038) 2024-11-08T17:32Z 273.8K followers, 589.6K engagements
"Lilith's has not (yet) received a single valentine"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1890475826551926948) 2025-02-14T18:58Z 273.8K followers, 82.8K engagements
"tremendously proud of our courageous outspoken Olympic athletes. what a showcase to the world that like citizens of Minneapolis Americans are standing up publicly to the T***p police state. 🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media calling him a real loser for expressing concern about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE. RETWEET if you stand with Hess against Trump https://t.co/C57O5jTOnL 🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media calling him a real loser for expressing concern about the murders of Alex"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2020618315849445855) 2026-02-08T21:58Z 273.8K followers, 75.7K engagements
"desperate not to be impeached convicted & removed from office therefore vulnerable to be charged in a criminal court in one of the states for his various crimes including pedophilia & child rape. what has he to lose by lashing out recklessly threatening to imprison his enemies frantic to rig the election--like a cornered rat. most dangerous if the rat is also rabid pure instinct lacking a brain. Trump threatens to take over elections from the states by executive order https://t.co/GBxUff2UdS Trump threatens to take over elections from the states by executive order https://t.co/GBxUff2UdS"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022695907368612187) 2026-02-14T15:34Z 273.8K followers, 27.3K engagements
"Mr. White Core if only your self-confidence were matched with substance. @JoyceCarolOates The ugly sicko Epstein muck has everything to do with the Israel First Mob. Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz attacked Walt and Mearsheimer on behalf of the Israel First Mob but Joyce Carol Oates doesn't care because Walt and Mearsheimer are men. Israel First Mob Sickos @JoyceCarolOates The ugly sicko Epstein muck has everything to do with the Israel First Mob. Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz attacked Walt and Mearsheimer on behalf of the Israel First Mob but Joyce Carol Oates doesn't care because"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2023245273133178890) 2026-02-16T03:57Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Sinclair Lewis was a savage often heavy-handed satirist of American idiocy the first American to be awarded a Nobel Prize. But confronted with this laughable monstrosity a gigantic gilt-gold statue of T***p Lewis would stare slack-jawed. "This.in [----] I'd thought the idiocy was 1926." @glenn_tunes Covered in fools gold the most obnoxious president the USA has ever had @glenn_tunes Covered in fools gold the most obnoxious president the USA has ever had"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2023442732375564516) 2026-02-16T17:01Z 273.8K followers, 10.1K engagements
"the thoughtfulness & delicate maneuvering of this kitty is typical of cats. by contrast a d*g would overturn the entire platter & run off with a dozen slices of sausage in its jaws. HE DID THE MATH - THERE'S ONE TOO MANY https://t.co/Ch5Hmpb3Zk HE DID THE MATH - THERE'S ONE TOO MANY https://t.co/Ch5Hmpb3Zk"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1951978365201654057) 2025-08-03T12:08Z 273.8K followers, 462.9K engagements
"taken out of context probably he said much more; Susan Sontag said essentially the same thing in reference to US foreign policy bringing devastation & ruin to Vietnam Cambodia & Middle East over the decades provoking eventual retaliation/ revenge. @JoyceCarolOates No. This is why. https://t.co/AZKQnRwMDc @JoyceCarolOates No. This is why. https://t.co/AZKQnRwMDc"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1986649259564007469) 2025-11-07T04:17Z 273.8K followers, 640.4K engagements
"who was the assassin a young man from a gun-loving conservative Mormon background his name seems to have dropped out of headlines & the effort to cast him as a "leftist" seems to have faded for what reason can't imagine. @Savsays https://t.co/RAUhbHIzcB @Savsays https://t.co/RAUhbHIzcB"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1988114207351423317) 2025-11-11T05:18Z 273.8K followers, 378.3K engagements
"poor Biden we wonder if seeing what has followed him he would have behaved with more alacrity & practicality listened to his advisors giving sound advice about the border replaced M. Garland with a real prosecutor. dealt firmly with Netanyahu. it seems wrong to blame a well-intentioned old-style bipartisan politician for being (perhaps) in over his head confronting the T***p juggernaut so well-funded especially in retrospect but--how different the US could be if Biden had made a few different decisions. agree disagree @mmpadellan If we were gonna end up with an old white guy president anyway"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022106716649714108) 2026-02-13T00:33Z 273.7K followers, 36.9K engagements
"but no not really. the old cliche that a good woman can convert a not-so-good man or should: alcoholic redeemed by loving wife or gambler or borderline personality or outright criminal or insipid con-man. flash-forward to "good woman" trapped in a miserable marriage to a narcissist & never ever can she divorce. @JoyceCarolOates But he learns to love her so much that he changes his ways and almost magically becomes a real band leader. I think it's charming. @JoyceCarolOates But he learns to love her so much that he changes his ways and almost magically becomes a real band leader. I think it's"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022332225837023336) 2026-02-13T15:29Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"recently on Twitter there was a discussion of marriage & consequences of entering into a legally binding contract with another person. my feeling is that many/most people don't quite grasp that there are two dimensions of marriage: the outward/social/"romantic" bond of two persons often celebrated in a festive setting i.e. a wedding--bride bridal gown family & friends; & the contractual bond which is meant to protect children perhaps by legally binding two people together & assuring some sort of financial responsibility over all. it's this second dimension that can become a noose in time &"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022351387770691901) 2026-02-13T16:45Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Biden probably lost the presidency with this single appearance on TV. such amateur-ism following this demands for him to step aside hurriedly choosing his vice-president to run for the presidency not allowing for other candidates to be considered. it is hard to comprehend these missteps which yes were recognized as missteps at the time not just in retrospect. so we have a near-police state now with ICE spending many billions on building detention centers. & a president openly/brazenly hoping to rig or even cancel elections. @JoyceCarolOates It is my understanding he had been sick and was also"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022438990238916867) 2026-02-13T22:33Z 273.8K followers, 13.1K engagements
"essential they're tracking & harassing US citizens who didn't vote for T***p. we are all much safer without "homeland security" threatening non-MAGA citizens. @BNONews Maybe it's a wrong time to see this happening. Regardless of political differences keeping essential agencies funded and operational should be a priority. I hope leaders come together quickly to resolve this and ensure stability and security for the country. @BNONews Maybe it's a wrong time to see this happening. Regardless of political differences keeping essential agencies funded and operational should be a priority. I hope"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022552212111761459) 2026-02-14T06:03Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"who writes Melania's talks string of vacuous words resembled AI-speech. @JoyceCarolOates https://t.co/WJZJhSIIBx @JoyceCarolOates https://t.co/WJZJhSIIBx"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022713594249359697) 2026-02-14T16:44Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"is it clear from the article what the posting was that resulted in this person's arrest what is mentioned seems very mild & not even directly involving C. Kirk"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022788383580336619) 2026-02-14T21:41Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Thrilled to get royalties from my onetime appearance (sic) on the Simpsons"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1986176029979750422) 2025-11-05T20:57Z 273.8K followers, 482.7K engagements
"in virtually every advice column the panacea is: "see a therapist." yet in real life many therapists with whom we are acquainted are not particularly intelligent or original-thinking persons; they may be good-hearted sympathetic but inevitably veer toward a conformist notion of How to Behave. they only know what they've been taught. in one case a psychoanalyst acquaintance male behaved horribly toward his own wife disinclined to drive her for medical appointments so that she had to appeal to friends. (who stepped forward.) surely ChatGPT would at least say a few cheering-up words to the"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1997699047138726319) 2025-12-07T16:05Z 273.8K followers, 889.2K engagements
""The move to cancel gender studies is explicitly justified as a way to comply with Donald Trumps executive order of last year titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. That document makes the biological reality of sex a matter not of science but of law." (Guardian) what a surreal world we are living in we (women) had never realized that we required being Defended from Gender Ideology Extremism by the Chief Executive from whom it has been charged numerous girls & women have required defending."
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022677835463131472) 2026-02-14T14:22Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A Facebook Warrior Retreats After a Charlie Kirk Post Got Him Jailed https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/larry-bushart-facebook-charlie-kirk.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/larry-bushart-facebook-charlie-kirk.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2022788381990690935) 2026-02-14T21:41Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"it has always been evident that the Epstein scandal has nothing to do with political parties--Republican Democrat. those who participated belong to one single historically "immune-from-blame" party: rich men/ men with influence/ men who hold most women in contempt/ men who have been entitled/ men smug about committing crimes that others with less wealth & influence would be arrested & incarcerated for. there have always been Epsteins & there have always been these men. maybe [----] will put a temporary end to some of them. @RpsAgainstTrump https://t.co/6IVZTvMpf1 @RpsAgainstTrump"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2023176234155352125) 2026-02-15T23:22Z 273.8K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Epsteins Ties With Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fund-Raising https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/us/epstein-files-academic-funding-colleges.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/us/epstein-files-academic-funding-colleges.htmlsmid=tw-share"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2023394810002886875) 2026-02-16T13:51Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"fun to have this delivered to the lawn of a friend as a practical joke. must weigh tons & no one could haul it away. THIS IS FUCKING EMBARRASSING 🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣 WHAT THE FUCK🤡 WOW🤡🙄🤦 https://t.co/0Ad1QhYcHn THIS IS FUCKING EMBARRASSING 🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣 WHAT THE FUCK🤡 WOW🤡🙄🤦 https://t.co/0Ad1QhYcHn"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2023443970458865964) 2026-02-16T17:06Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"actually they do at least in some areas of NJ. literally you cannot leave after a procedure unless it is determined that you are picked up by a relative or a friend--no commercial arrangements. they check by calling cell phones & greeting the driver at the door. maybe it is less restrictive elsewhere-- you are lucky. @JoyceCarolOates Yeah thats what they say. My friend got into a car accident and she texted me saying she couldnt make it. I told them my ride was running late and I called an uber. They didnt even know I left. They are not going to hold you hostage @JoyceCarolOates Yeah thats"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2023474684856029454) 2026-02-16T19:08Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"really don't residents of Alberta have a vote in this Canadians eager to give up their health care for US insane medical/insurance costs & a promise of ICE terrorizing their schools & churches must be very naive or deprived of news. good luck 🚨 UPDATE: In a bombshell revelation that's sending shockwaves through Canada Alberta separatist lawyer Jeff Rath CONFIRMS he has been meeting with high-level officials in the Trump administration. He claims U.S President Donald Trump will recognize Alberta as a sovereign state. https://t.co/jmi1UfXGjI 🚨 UPDATE: In a bombshell revelation that's sending"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2023522478644203570) 2026-02-16T22:18Z 273.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"poets too are "strippers"--paring back skin to reveal what's beneath. I bought a new phone today and sadly said goodbye to my blackberry. The woman beside me paid in cash--700 dollar bills she'd earned as a stripper. https://t.co/4mLlZQlgET I bought a new phone today and sadly said goodbye to my blackberry. The woman beside me paid in cash--700 dollar bills she'd earned as a stripper. https://t.co/4mLlZQlgET"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1836271070401192285) 2024-09-18T05:08Z 273.8K followers, 799.3K engagements
"no never. I don't even know what that means. this is an Avedon photo for the New Yorker to accompany a memoir. .@JoyceCarolOates did you actually say this https://t.co/54yqCmcdka .@JoyceCarolOates did you actually say this https://t.co/54yqCmcdka"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1904330858653245512) 2025-03-25T00:33Z 273.8K followers, 1.7M engagements
"let's consider this seriously. possibly [----] times in my life I have been asked "What is the book that changed your life"--or-- "What is the film that changed your life" are these serious questions exactly how does a film change one's life if your life is so insubstantial so fragile & haphazard that a movie can change it then another movie seen next week will change it again. @JoyceCarolOates Strange concept for an artist to scoff at Joyce @JoyceCarolOates Strange concept for an artist to scoff at Joyce"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1983871713252159764) 2025-10-30T12:20Z 273.8K followers, 989.6K engagements
"So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates scenes from nature pet dog or cat praise for a movie music a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friends or relatives accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the most wealthy person in the world. hello i would like to report a"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1987269465013428557) 2025-11-08T21:22Z 273.8K followers, 5.8M engagements
"It is particularly strange to argue against empathy since empathy is generated by a normal human brain registering a mirror likeness in another person: an involuntary/instinctive recognition that the other person is in an essential way identical with you. notoriously psychopaths dont register this kinship & can even murder blood relatives without emotion. Hardly an ideal for humankind. @JoyceCarolOates it is strange the billionaires usually become far rightwing politically. Power corrupts as Lord Acton wrote. They lose all empathy. @JoyceCarolOates it is strange the billionaires usually"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1987922287379837163) 2025-11-10T16:36Z 273.8K followers, 508.5K engagements
""wherever he goes he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. @JoyceCarolOates Wherever he goes he wants to leave: SA Canada ultimately the U.S. in the long run based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd to say the least. He seems to have no capacity for a normal level of appreciation. @JoyceCarolOates Wherever he goes he wants to leave: SA Canada ultimately the U.S. in the long run based on his behavior. This also includes"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1988061482010259620) 2025-11-11T01:49Z 273.8K followers, 6.6M engagements
"why not language is an instrument & some utilize its myriad features; others it seems do not. if semicolons baffle or offend you colons must be terrifying: just clap your hands over your eyes & toddle away. @JoyceCarolOates You really do use a lot of semicolons though @JoyceCarolOates You really do use a lot of semicolons though"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1989279251900793115) 2025-11-14T10:28Z 273.8K followers, 235.5K engagements
"SAD--seasonal affect disorder"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1998544744884900132) 2025-12-10T00:06Z 273.8K followers, 366.7K engagements
"Bluesky is too good for me; Twitter is more the "scrimmage of life" of which DH Lawrence spoke the realm of being that the novel inhabits. Everybody on Bluesky is missing out on Joyce Everybody on Bluesky is missing out on Joyce"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018046826507628645) 2026-02-01T19:40Z 273.8K followers, 305.8K engagements
"it must be known by now whose name occurs in the Epstein files the most quite a competition would guess that T***p is in the lead with [-----] references; does anyone else come close "I have the biggliest numbers no one has ever seen such numbers people come up to me & say "Sir You have the biggliest number of references in the Epstein files ever" NEW/WOW: New York Times identified more than [----] files containing more than [-----] references to Donald Trump in latest Epstein files. Interesting Of DOJ's release ONLY a Few of files date back to when the two men were friends. This is the cover up"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018401908788977709) 2026-02-02T19:11Z 273.8K followers, 24.5K engagements
"somehow this so-casual cutesy references to "fresh muffins" & "steaks" is among the most obscene emails in what we have seen of the Epstein files. to learn that the emailer is a woman named Susan Hamblin who'd founded an adoption charity is overwhelmingly disgusting. Heres the founder of an adoption charity asking Epstein if he needed any new steaks for his island because he only had two left https://t.co/x1ig35Rvcu Heres the founder of an adoption charity asking Epstein if he needed any new steaks for his island because he only had two left https://t.co/x1ig35Rvcu"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018566060086079838) 2026-02-03T06:03Z 273.8K followers, 945.2K engagements
"in these discussions no one ever seems to show concern for transgender women who if imprisoned with men would be repeatedly brutalized; as if a transgender woman should not expect to have rights like anyone else. we should protect everyone--of course. prisons are notorious for not adequately protecting inmates--any all inmates. (but most inmates are vulnerable to guards not other prisoners. of all groups of persons transgender women are most vulnerable to rape murder. ironic to cast them as victimizers & not more often victims.) yes & if so it was the fault of the prison administration."
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2018733135903719851) 2026-02-03T17:07Z 273.8K followers, 220.3K engagements
"it has been a brainwashing campaign. once a portion of the country could be counted upon to be ablaze with fury & disgust over "mixed marriages"--absolutely taboo then over time outrage shifted to "same-sex marriages"--initially abhorred then by degrees assimilated into ordinary life. now to deflect attention away from oligarchs sex trafficking of children anything involving T***p & high-rank GOP shift scapegoating to a tiny fraction of the population: transgender persons. it does suggest the power of brainwashing. propaganda media has to work hard to rouse up passion fury over individuals"
[X Link](https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/2019431684299505864) 2026-02-05T15:23Z 273.8K followers, 226K engagements
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"in its most hideous variant the young rape victim forced to marry her rapist by parents church community. believe it or not that happened not infrequently in the past & in religious communities may be happening even today. @JoyceCarolOates the "i can fix him" trope over and over @JoyceCarolOates the "i can fix him" trope over and over"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:24Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"what is all this blather why should a woman have to get "a new drivers license & passport" just to vote as she has been voting for an entire adult life while men will be required to do absolutely nothing that they have not already done there has even been a reduction of the passport staff--presumably to put more obstacles in a woman's path. all to help the GOP win another election question is: won't GOP women voters be eliminated too this law to punish Democratic women voters seems misguided. @JoyceCarolOates Please stop with this crap. My wife and I married [--] years ago. It was easy to get"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:04Z 273.8K followers, 65.5K engagements
"awesome not-yet-in-office new NYC mayor has already begun massive cleanup of longtime insurmountable RAT PROBLEM. watch this space Mamdani will be a tabloid darling. Isnt he a little too old for kid🤣 https://t.co/AN6TMTwBAU Isnt he a little too old for kid🤣 https://t.co/AN6TMTwBAU"
X Link 2025-11-11T14:39Z 273.8K followers, 1.5M engagements
"it has become a punch line in the US--"to be Epstein'd" is to be murdered with a complicit medical examiner's determination of "suicide." virtually no one believes this ever happened. being surprised at this late date suggests extreme navet. I know its a weird thing to say but the more we know about the global network of Epsteins tentacles its just really hard to believe that he killed himself. I was in court with him up until he died and there sure werent any desperate vibes from him at all. He was quite I know its a weird thing to say but the more we know about the global network of"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:57Z 273.8K followers, 56.2K engagements
"Seriouslywhat is a woman who has miscarried supposed to do legally in a red state If she is in the care of a doctor does he report her Does an ER report her The grief & physical distress of a miscarriage in itself is a punishment. But the state wants to punish her more Does this include MAGA women Why do they vote for this Women are being arrested for miscarrying in states with strict abortion bans. They dont charge them with a miscarriage they charge them with abuse of a corpse What are we supposed to do Take the fetal remains to the police station Pregnancy is not safe in these states."
X Link 2026-02-12T17:26Z 273.8K followers, 268.8K engagements
"So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:17Z 273.8K followers, 12.9K engagements
"unwittingly you've met transgender persons whom you have not even noticed. a courteous cashier a friendly waitress a relative of a friend. they are human beings like you. they are not demons villains. you didn't even notice them. really you don't have to protect women & girls from them to the degree that you might need to protect girls & women from random men who commit by far the majority of violent acts against girls & women. if you doubt this look up the statistics regarding rape & rape/murder. who commits those acts when a pregnant woman is killed who is most likely to have killed her"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:18Z 273.8K followers, 532.9K engagements
"directors should feel free to cast as they wish: classics are always being reinterpreted & tastes or shall we say trends change. "Wuthering Heights" will survive any iteration. what is curious is casting hyper-Brit Edward Linton with a Pakistani actor--this is an audacious challenge of the novel's clearly stated premise of contrasting the foreign-looking Heathcliff with the lily-white neighbor landowner Linton. & dear old garrulous Nelly is -- in the new film-- now of Asian descent Emily Bronte looks down from Classic Author Heaven not only agape but slack-jawed. "Oh Nelly How you have"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:03Z 273.8K followers, 90.9K engagements
"MTG certainly is courageous. she must be receiving myriad death threats. the Epstein files must be truly horrendous if even his most loyal vociferous supporter has turned against him. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "The biggest miscalculation in Donald Trump's career was calling this a hoax." https://t.co/79VCYvEd0q Marjorie Taylor Greene: "The biggest miscalculation in Donald Trump's career was calling this a hoax." https://t.co/79VCYvEd0q"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:44Z 273.8K followers, 43.1K engagements
"as I recall from the novel "No Country for Old Men" which may differ from the movie it is stated that things began to go wrong in the US culminating with the senseless serial killings so lovingly detailed in the novel when women began to live independently of men no longer subservient to husband & family; when "feminists" appeared in our midst. when I reached that part of the novel I probably dropped the book in shock then picked it up again & gamely continued to the end. feminists certainly need to have a sense of humor & it's better to laugh than to cry. There is literally a scene at the"
X Link 2025-12-03T04:02Z 273.6K followers, 1.5M engagements
"this literary kitty Olympia is perusing a new title just issued by Thornwillow Press: "The Massacre at Mount Pitcairn" (ghost story/novella). (photo: Gary Swafford)"
X Link 2026-01-05T19:43Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Oh no will this be helping another Republican to the Presidency Jill Stein & Cornel West were distractions enough. hoping that Jon Stewart reasonable sensible not-egotistical & from New Jersey will see the wisdom of backing away from this. Can we have something with a little more political experience because I'm not fucking voting for Jon Stewart of all people Can we have something with a little more political experience because I'm not fucking voting for Jon Stewart of all people"
X Link 2026-01-22T01:14Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"John Frankenheimer's 1960's "paranoid trilogy" is certainly timely today. "The Manchurian Candidate" (our suspicion that the US presidency is directed by a foreign power) "Seven Days in May" (rightwing military leaders conspire to overturn the US government depose the president) "Seconds" (surreal Kakfaesque depiction of a man so desperate to change his life he undergoes a transformational surgery)--each a considerable achievement. outstanding performances in all"
X Link 2026-01-22T06:56Z 273.5K followers, 75.7K engagements
"knowing Democrats & their penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory we can assume that every sort of impediment will be put in front of a Newsom nomination. like a 4-year cicada Jill Stein will re-emerge. Cornel West US presidential elections are "rigged" in the sense that a sizable portion will just never vote for a woman however qualified. (unless someday a Margaret Thatcher-type.) if the Democratic candidate is not perfect woe to the Democratic candidate. media will eviscerate. maybe Democrats will boycott--"too centrist"--"too leftist"--"too ambitious"--"genocide." no one"
X Link 2026-01-23T00:19Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Washington Irving's brilliantly imagined "Rip van Winkle"--audacious appropriation of an old German legend set in the uncanny Kaatskill mountains by a brash young American writer needing money--is the first prose piece in my Princeton seminar "The American Dream: Visions & Subversions." so much that is timely in a tale of [----] https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016692009906401577 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016692009906401577"
X Link 2026-01-29T01:56Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"why does he care so much about making the US a white-Christian-nationalist stronghold an ultra-wealthy person who could live anywhere pursue any life apart from some sort of psychopathology or motiveless malignancy can anyone explain such passion to undo a liberal democracy that had treated him so well financially Elon Musk is using his mega checkbook and mega platform to influence the future of the GOP. His recent footprint includes a $10 million investment in the Kentucky Senate race and an all-out influence campaign targeting Senate Republicans. https://t.co/kApub6SYwu Elon Musk is using"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:29Z 273.5K followers, 356.8K engagements
"Texas A&M Ends Womens Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:42Z 273.6K followers, 10.5K engagements
""even Epstein didn't want him around". great line. almost of a par with "he never had the makings of a varsity athlete/" the way @JoyceCarolOates was correct about Elon being a reject that devalues any group hes a part of even Epstein didnt want him around. astounding levels of loserdom the way @JoyceCarolOates was correct about Elon being a reject that devalues any group hes a part of even Epstein didnt want him around. astounding levels of loserdom"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:06Z 273.5K followers, 190.3K engagements
"so Epstein just got away with running a child-sex trafficking ring more or less in plain sight in a US territory local law enforcement was in collusion this seems to be not generally known. Little St James is part of the United States. We are a US Territory. People living and visiting the USVI are subject to to Federal & Territorial law Little St James is part of the United States. We are a US Territory. People living and visiting the USVI are subject to to Federal & Territorial law"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:41Z 273.6K followers, 23.1K engagements
"based on a 19th century novella "Eyes Wide Shut" seems to be looking backward to a Satanic-cult sort of evil an inversion of Catholic church rituals; but no child rape no fetishing of child torture nothing like Epstein but rather "consenting adults" being naughty with one another in a castle-like setting. purely gothic old-timey lurid. @JoyceCarolOates Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut was merely the first chapter. https://t.co/D6imZMbOaV @JoyceCarolOates Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut was merely the first chapter. https://t.co/D6imZMbOaV"
X Link 2026-02-01T16:40Z 273.6K followers, 541K engagements
"in fact "The Falls" depicts the Love Canal environmental disaster & subsequent litigation at Niagara Falls; it would be an odd recommendation for J. Epstein since there is--literally--not a single sex scene in it that I can recall. the hero is a litigator for Love Canal homeowners. corrupt politicians are low-level. but a sort of happy ending for children of the slain litigator. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018008640553193889 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018008640553193889"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:08Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
""Hamnet" did not feel exploitative rather more a post-modernist take on Shakespeare--"the great genius"; & the origins of at least some of his genius in the specificity & sorrow of ordinary life. also terrific ending. @JoyceCarolOates Of all the "stressed-out woman struggling in the harsh reality of motherhood" movies this year Hamnet is the only one that really worked for me because it had a strong narrative with a great resolution not just another 2+ hour movie about feelings. @JoyceCarolOates Of all the "stressed-out woman struggling in the harsh reality of motherhood" movies this year"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:42Z 273.5K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Check out "Joyce Carol Oates discusses DOUBLE TROUBLE at B&N Union Square" @eventbritehelp https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joyce-carol-oates-discusses-double-trouble-at-bn-union-square-tickets-1978674165694aff=estw&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joyce-carol-oates-discusses-double-trouble-at-bn-union-square-tickets-1978674165694aff=estw&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing"
X Link 2026-02-02T03:15Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"hardly seems worth it. any of it. this is actually more insane to me than their lifespan https://t.co/sIwhSIZPtQ this is actually more insane to me than their lifespan https://t.co/sIwhSIZPtQ"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:27Z 273.6K followers, 192.7K engagements
"JK Rowling seems always angry gloating or jeering. in the US the controversy surrounding her name is not well-known; sometimes I don't even understand her position. in the US one can be strongly pro-women & also supportive of transgender persons. (surprise: we are all human beings) in the UK there seems to be a bitter divide but please it's OK we don't want to know the bloody details we have ICE to contend with & an embattled democracy. @StrewthQueen @JoyceCarolOates Nobody hates women more than JK Rowling. @StrewthQueen @JoyceCarolOates Nobody hates women more than JK Rowling"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:36Z 273.6K followers, 312.4K engagements
"O.J. Simpson Claus von Blow & J. Epstein walk into a law office. whose name on the door"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:42Z 273.6K followers, 27.4K engagements
"@johnpavlovitz So true. Does Garland ever appear in public Is he ever interviewed Why doesnt the media investigate Recall not long ago when the media was excoriating Biden for being old"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:03Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I am not an expert but common sense would indicate that these cases should be adjudicated individually. no sane person would put "male rapists" in women's prisons --even "male rapists" in men's prisons should certainly not be put in cells with vulnerable men. your rage is so all-consuming you are making wide wild claims for entire communities of individuals who are just as moral decent & aware of the rights of others as you are or think you are. we have far too much hatred in the US. transgender persons are a tiny tiny fraction of the population. why don't you turn your indignation on our"
X Link 2026-02-03T05:20Z 273.6K followers, 200.7K engagements
"Oh. a woman running an adoption agency is offering to send "fresh muffins" to a multi-millionaire child-sex maniac friend & you think they might be."muffins." there is a bridge in Brooklyn & plenty of discount T***p merchandise for you to purchase @JoyceCarolOates I think this is a reference to literal steaks and muffins. @JoyceCarolOates I think this is a reference to literal steaks and muffins"
X Link 2026-02-03T15:02Z 273.6K followers, 118.1K engagements
"yes & if so it was the fault of the prison administration. surely you know that wardens have discretion to segregate prisoners for reasons having to do with their vulnerability. a very slight vulnerable male inmate would only be put in a cell with a potential rapist if the warden wanted to punish him. conversely child sex offenders are often segregated/ protected precisely they would be murdered in the general population. prisons are like fiefdoms run by wardens. no doubt transgender women have been put in general population in men's prisons so that they would be repeatedly raped but that is"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:49Z 273.6K followers, 101.3K engagements
"sorry this is totally wrong. culture war stuff-- very wearying. end of subject for me. wanting to hate seems the predominant motive for culture war nonsense. targets shift scapegoats shift the hatred seems to remain constant. all stupid. @JoyceCarolOates No its the fault of people like you who continue to insist that transwomen are real women and are entitled to real womens spaces despite example after example after example of being proven wrong. You support a sick and evil ideology which inevitably brings harm to real women. @JoyceCarolOates No its the fault of people like you who continue"
X Link 2026-02-03T17:13Z 273.6K followers, 45.2K engagements
"when a man accuses a girl or a woman of being "hysterical" you can bet that she is stating that a crime has been committed against her in this case likely rape no matter how calmly she speaks or has given a sworn testimony. utterly shameless that Noam Chomsky of all people should be giving counsel to J. Epstein. a hero to generations of linguists scientists philosophers. those no longer living are spared the astonishment of these revelations which would have stunned them. This email from Chomsky giving advice to Epstein in [----] on how to beat the allegations is truly horrifying. This is"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:04Z 273.6K followers, 108.7K engagements
"just out of curiosity: is RFK Jr. himself autistic this would certainly explain some not all of his aberrant behavior; his persistence in skewing toward the irrational & potentially destructive. a fixed idea in his brain about vaccines about which he knows nothing scientific. "fixed ideas" may not be a symptom of autism but of another sort of neurodivergent consciousness. but RFK Jr. certainly has this symptom. NIH director admits after being grilled by @SenSanders: 1) The best way to stop the measles epidemic is to vaccinate your kids against measles. 2) no single vaccine causes autism. RFK"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:46Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"yes those are my words. I am not "parroting" anyone. I have always maintained that wardens should protect all their inmates. they frequently segregate inmates from the general population--it is not at all unusual. at San Quentin new arrivals were in their own units for a while. there is a special "death row" unit. transgender persons could easily be housed in their own units. to place a transgender woman in the general population at a men's prison would be to invite rape even murder. this is such a simple clear-cut situation that seems to be hopelessly complicated. Without seeming to realize"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:10Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"with all respect have you never even heard of Christine Jorgensen just do some research. she was certainly not a "he" after her transition. many others after her never causing any outrage or animosity. these women led exemplary lives. no one harassed them; there were no organized political witch hunts against them. they were not "men pretending to be women". they were transgender women of their era before all this hostility. @JoyceCarolOates Every single man who claims to be a woman is a man pretending to be a woman. There is no such thing as transgender. There is no such thing as children"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:24Z 273.6K followers, 45.8K engagements
"so cruel of our Secretary of Health RFK Jr. speaking of "herd immunity" as an ideal replacing vaccines; essentially this means that a percentage of (unvaccinated) children will die. (as long as the children aren't his or the children of people whom he knows evidently this isn't important.) Recent reporting indicates some children in the South Carolina measles outbreak have developed encephalitis (brain swelling) and other severe complications like pneumonia. Hospitalizations are confirmed. Recent reporting indicates some children in the South Carolina measles outbreak have developed"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:42Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"(hoping Clinton has security. he is almost literally positioning himself in the evidently very vulnerable position that J. Epstein was in when he was "Epstein'd.") 💥BREAKING: Bill Clinton reportedly plans to tell Congress everything he knows about Trump and Epstein potentially leading to impeachment. https://t.co/oEFldGalV8 💥BREAKING: Bill Clinton reportedly plans to tell Congress everything he knows about Trump and Epstein potentially leading to impeachment. https://t.co/oEFldGalV8"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:27Z 273.5K followers, 69K engagements
"bring charges against criminals. do something practical. these postings are all airy vacuous. claims are made but not substantiated. truly I have nothing--absolutely nothing--to do with any of these cases. no idea what they even are. defending individuals who require protection is a duty of law enforcement. just get out & monitor the crimes you think are being committed against girls & women & press charges. @JoyceCarolOates No Joyce we will not wait until AFTER women and girls are harmed to say 'no' to men in our spaces. ALL men need to stay out no matter what they call themselves because"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:15Z 273.5K followers, 30.2K engagements
"no. whoever said anything so stupid who puts "male criminals in women's spaces"--who is responsible if there is a warden systematically doing this charges should be brought against him. I've said repeatedly that wardens should protect all inmates. (including protection from CO's.) not sure how many times that simple truth can be restated. @JoyceCarolOates So you want these male criminals to have rights to women's spaces Why do you hate women so much @JoyceCarolOates So you want these male criminals to have rights to women's spaces Why do you hate women so much"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:20Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"is it "shaming" to point out the obvious fact that complaints on social media squabbling on social media if not conjoined with actions is largely a waste of time Twitter is a sort of dumpster of grievances & gripes blaming others blaming entire categories of stereotyped people never blaming oneself never deciding to do anything "real" like working to change laws you dislike--- just more griping. @JoyceCarolOates You have to confront the legalities of what you are trying to achieve. Crafting actual enforceable non-cruel rules is difficult. You have to think through unintended consequences and"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:45Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"someone told me who'd lived in the South for most of his life that with notable exceptions this is basically true. amazing that Johnson could be so liberal & so aggressive with the sort of zeal & passion we have come to associate manly with the illiberal today. @LePapillonBlu2 @JoyceCarolOates Heres why. https://t.co/S6AbV4o5YT @LePapillonBlu2 @JoyceCarolOates Heres why. https://t.co/S6AbV4o5YT"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:03Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"For This College Friend Group Midlife Has Entered the Chat https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/books/review/clutch-emily-nemens.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/books/review/clutch-emily-nemens.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:26Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"prepubescent girl swimmers illustrating a novel about middle-aged women tells us what we need to know of how very young female bodies are fetishized in pop culture to attractive random roving attention"
X Link 2026-02-07T02:26Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"T***p embodies in his heavy flaccid sagging body & sagging clown-face the dark side of America. it is surprising that anyone was surprised by the racist caricature. his followers are like creatures that have leapt out from beneath rocks gleeful & gloating. even if his policies don't help them in the slightest or indeed hurt them they seem thrilled that his reptile-brain so accurately reflects their own. it is not surprising that an intelligent educated gracious attractive person like Obama is offensive to them. Jack White on Trumps racist post about the Obamas: How is it possible we've given"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:10Z 273.6K followers, 80.8K engagements
"Why Trumps Calls to Nationalize Voting Have Raised Midterm Fears https://www.nytimes.com/article/trumps-nationalize-voting-elections-midterms-explainer.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/article/trumps-nationalize-voting-elections-midterms-explainer.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:57Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"very weird notion of democracy when one party "nationalizes" the election. a blatantly rigged election with results that no one will believe but the federal government will sanction is actually worse than just shutting down the election. once there is a false "vote" tabulated it will always remain on record if contested. declaring No More Elections would be more forthright. how did we get to this impasse--pointless to blame Biden/Garland or to blink back tears regarding those millions who didn't even trouble to vote on that fateful voting day in Nov. [----]. what does it matter what their"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:57Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"only in the 1930's in Germany would such a racist caricature be promulgated. then it was ugly antisemitic caricatures but at least those images were "human"; in T****pDarkLand anyone with a skin hue darker than his--(weirdly "bronzed" skin)--is considered subhuman. Theres no single leader in the Developed World that survives that Obama - Ape post. The UK PM would be gone before noon. France Germany etc. All gone. And the ones whod survive - the likes of Putin & Xi - wouldnt post it. Because they arent stupid. Except Trump. Theres no single leader in the Developed World that survives that"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:00Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"thank you so much NYC voters NOT to have elected Cuomo (). we in adjacent NJ look with much admiration & hope at NYC a kind of bastion of sanity at the moment. (at least at the moment.) Wow this speech from Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani 👏💯 "They command us not to believe what we see" "They compel us as George Orwell wrote nearly [--] years ago to reject the evidence of our eyes and our ears" "And they would succeed were it not for the many among us who https://t.co/MUQgi16wUa Wow this speech from Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani 👏💯 "They command us not to believe what we see" "They"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:04Z 273.5K followers, 29.7K engagements
"thank you "Babysitter" is my valentine to Detroit 1970's. just close my eyes & I am driving along Woodward Avenue south into the city or rushing along the John Lodge Expressway or more slowly gazing at the dreamlike storefronts of Livernois Avenue. probably now shuttered vacated. dear deathly Detroit on a steel gurney in a morgue. yet still alive. @JoyceCarolOates This is not the place but your novel Babysitter was incredible and lives in my mind. I had to stop many times and reread sentences because the word choices were so perfect. @JoyceCarolOates This is not the place but your novel"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:38Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"not Biden's best hour. This is a news article from [----] when Anita Hill was incredibly brave to testify about her abuse by Clarence Thomas. He was confirmed anyway. https://t.co/96DVuZbS6p This is a news article from [----] when Anita Hill was incredibly brave to testify about her abuse by Clarence Thomas. He was confirmed anyway. https://t.co/96DVuZbS6p"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:55Z 273.6K followers, 10.6K engagements
"who was the one who'd claimed that demons scratched & bit him in the night in his bed--which he shared with several dogs Erika Kirk is challenged to outdo fellow crazies which must not be easy. Why are so many high-profile RWers nuts Why are so many high-profile RWers nuts"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:07Z 273.5K followers, 12.3K engagements
"once upon a time it was "demons" that accounted for mental illness. many a helpless victim of mental illness suffered & died as a consequence. when RFK Jr. dies it would be useful for science if an autopsy is done of his brain. neuroscientists & neurologists must be fascinated by him. psychologists whose specialty is psychopathology. most individuals with crank theories are anonymous-- no one cares about them. it is rare that one of them ascends to the office of Secretary of Health & Welfare. Just when you think that it cant get any dumber out here.RFK Jr. comes along claiming that a keto"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:17Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Extreme cold warning with subzero temps in New York and New Jersey https://pix11.com/weather/extreme-cold-warning-with-subzero-temps-in-new-york-and-new-jersey/ https://pix11.com/weather/extreme-cold-warning-with-subzero-temps-in-new-york-and-new-jersey/"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:09Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"really a 40-car motorcade for JD Vance what a joke even MAGA cultists must think this is a bit much but (of course) they probably don't know anything about it. JD Vance went to meet Meloni in a [--] car motorcade full of Suburbans through the tiny streets of Milan.and then you can see Meloni casually walking out with just her security detail https://t.co/ee0l9j3v5f JD Vance went to meet Meloni in a [--] car motorcade full of Suburbans through the tiny streets of Milan.and then you can see Meloni casually walking out with just her security detail https://t.co/ee0l9j3v5f"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:35Z 273.5K followers, 20.5K engagements
"SATURDAY COMPETITION. Bondi Noem & Kelly (Megyn) walk into a bar in Hell & the bartender recognizes them immediately & says: ____ This is what pure fucking evil looks like. https://t.co/t0d9tw29Ev This is what pure fucking evil looks like. https://t.co/t0d9tw29Ev"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:49Z 273.5K followers, 12.3K engagements
"is this possible detention centers operated by ICE to hold [-----] people at a time in one place how many of these across the US looking like a Gulag to be built with taxpayers' money & how many of those taxpayers fated to wind up in the facilities this apart from all the prisons & jails we already have in the US. next step planning executions. easier than to deport people. all this planned with the acquiescence of GOP-controlled Congress. no way to stop the nightmare from unfolding. I can guarantee few things in life but I can absolutely promise you this: the ICE detention archipelago will be"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:44Z 273.5K followers, 21K engagements
"magically removed from the context of her marriage to Vance left somewhere on a street in Minneapolis Vance's wife could easily be the target of a warrantless ICE arrest. they wouldn't bother to check the ID she would try to show them wouldn't listen to her protest that she is a US citizen & Yale graduate; they would just handcuff her & send her to Texas to be sorted out. eventually she might be released suffering who knows what physical & psychological damage in the interim. but of course that won't/can't happen to her. but one might wish that she would feel sympathy & want to protect others"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:59Z 273.6K followers, 273.2K engagements
"post a picture of the feline Arno Kethy please @JoyceCarolOates @JoyceCarolOates Not to say that your work hasn't been influential in my life and teaching career but I do have a cat named Arno Kethy. There has never been a better name. @JoyceCarolOates @JoyceCarolOates Not to say that your work hasn't been influential in my life and teaching career but I do have a cat named Arno Kethy. There has never been a better name"
X Link 2026-02-08T03:02Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Steve Martin ends friendship with Paul Simon #stevemartin #paulsimon #si. via @YouTube https://youtube.com/shorts/reR76jqpjRwsi=mp0pSVBVck0mb5Iu https://youtube.com/shorts/reR76jqpjRwsi=mp0pSVBVck0mb5Iu"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:30Z 273.5K followers, 17.2K engagements
"Reaction to Trumps Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/politics/trump-social-post-reaction.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/politics/trump-social-post-reaction.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:10Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"most interesting about responses to Tp's racist post is that several Republicans spoke publicly against it; yet on other equally disturbing issues or more disturbing issues like the Epstein files involving trafficking of young girls & possible murders virtually all Republicans stand firm protecting Tp. Reaction to Trumps Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics https://t.co/XTDklVe319 Reaction to Trumps Racist Post Shows He Is Not Always Immune to Politics https://t.co/XTDklVe319"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:14Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"ICE punishing children is really the US government punishing children. bizarre that the US has come to this & amid so much backlash & frustration ICE & their supporters hold firm. just one child's death should be enough to shut the entire enterprise down. "Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication. 😡 She was rushed to a childrens hospital in San Antonio where doctors treated her for pneumonia Covid RSV and severe respiratory distress." https://t.co/O9oyKJP524 https://t.co/qZWXm3ZXvO "Toddler hospitalized with respiratory"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:16Z 273.5K followers, 19.2K engagements
"Best cure for winter bluesa sun nap"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:16Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"amazing how organizational these sexual predators of children were. even mentioning ages here. nothing spontaneous or unexpected but fully clearly damningly premeditated. & no one is prosecuting them shame. From @MollyJongFast's column in today's @nytimes. Big celebrity graves are dug with little shovels. Here's some of that. https://t.co/TzpBNPLbqe From @MollyJongFast's column in today's @nytimes. Big celebrity graves are dug with little shovels. Here's some of that. https://t.co/TzpBNPLbqe"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:31Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Epstein Files Reveal Scope of Ghislaine Maxwells Role in Clinton Circle https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/epstein-clintons-maxwell.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/epstein-clintons-maxwell.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:26Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"everywhere we look Epstein & Maxwell their toxic tentacles virtually everywhere. however liberals/Democrats don't want any censorship. whoever was involved should be revealed & investigated. (that is total exposure of those responsible not just Democrats.)"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:26Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"comical that a person whose "sport" is golf at which he notoriously cheats chugging across emerald-green golf courses in a ridiculous little vehicle since he can't manage the slopes & walk should be critical of a genuine athlete. really very comical. BREAKING: Trump just attacked American Olympian Hunter Hess as a loser after Hess said theres obviously a lot going on in America that Im not the biggest fan of and I think a lot of people arent. Hess is capturing the mood of a strong majority of the American public. https://t.co/EP3WXDoIqn BREAKING: Trump just attacked American Olympian Hunter"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:03Z 273.5K followers, 17.7K engagements
"if you are feeling a need for silliness as a respite from demoralizing thoughts recommend Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety": a sort of inspired comic replica of a Hitchcock film. oddly Mel Brooks doesn't really exude the kind of anxiety/fretfulness that we identify with anxiety rather more an idea of anxiety. not so anarchic as "Blazing Saddles" but with numerous hilarious scenes include one replicating "The Birds" & comically intrusive movie music of the Hitchcock era. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020666305632747545 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020666305632747545"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:09Z 273.6K followers, 10.1K engagements
"yikes watching a "sport" devised by the marquis de Sade in a whimsical mood: snowboarding. are these Olympic athletes of another species for those (of us) nostalgic for those thrilling days playing on our high school sports teams made to feel now utterly unreal confounded"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:13Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"I hadn't known at the time that Mel Brooks was parodying Frank Sinatra. evidently Sinatra was touched by the homage. also Hitchcock was very pleased with the interludes replicating his most famous scenes. (that does seem to suggest affable comedy rather than wild humor as in "Blazing Saddles." essentially "High Anxiety" is "too nice.") @JoyceCarolOates And Madeline Kahn is once again hilarious. The look on her face when Mel sings High Anxiety at the piano bar is so perfect @JoyceCarolOates And Madeline Kahn is once again hilarious. The look on her face when Mel sings High Anxiety at the piano"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:29Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"we did not have a snowboarding team though we were in the western NY State "Snow Belt." seems amazing to me. did you not all break your necks or at least your ribs are schools insured against lawsuits if terrible things happen to young athletes snowboarding looks absolutely terrifying as well as non-human. @JoyceCarolOates For those of us who were on the high school snowboarding team many of the other sports are similarly confounding @JoyceCarolOates For those of us who were on the high school snowboarding team many of the other sports are similarly confounding"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:32Z 273.5K followers, [----] engagements
"person who has publicly defended pedophilia making excuses for J. Epstein & T***p pretends to be indignant over Olympic athletes speaking freely forthrightly & courageously siding with compassion & against the police state. shame. Bullshit. You dont go overseas REPRESENTING America wearing an American uniform in a fierce competition against other countries - some with the worst human rights records on earth - and bash the US. Only leftists are defending this. Despicable. Bullshit. You dont go overseas REPRESENTING America wearing an American uniform in a fierce competition against other"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:29Z 273.8K followers, 31.5K engagements
"MAGA humiliated by being the very last kid chosen in gym class for a team calls an Olympic skier a loser. @JoyceCarolOates He is a loser @JoyceCarolOates He is a loser"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:57Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"one of my favorite Hitchcock films is "Spellbound" which "High Anxiety" most closely replicates. it is indeed funny but the original Hitchcock film is far more outlandish (plot character contrivances Salvador Dali surrealism) & inventive than the Mel Brooks parody. the Mel Brooks reprise of this famous scene is very close to the original. recall that Martin Scorsese was influenced by the "Psycho" scene as well. brilliant use of suddenly strident music shrieking violins like fingernails scraped on a blackboard. also comical mimicry in the Mel Brooks reprise of this famous scene is very close"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:52Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"MAGA avant-garde. "mine eyes/ears dazzle." Kid Rock appears to forget the lyrics to his song while lip syncing at the Turning Point USA halftime show. https://t.co/5MsrI6rOLM Kid Rock appears to forget the lyrics to his song while lip syncing at the Turning Point USA halftime show. https://t.co/5MsrI6rOLM"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:07Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"the time to combat the police state is BEFORE not AFTER its power has been established. Hitler BEFORE not AFTER the dictator achieves total power. at least half the US is trying to confront this imminent crisis. at least half is dumbly drifting along confusing acquiescence to a growing police state in the service of the ultra-wealthy with "patriotism" or "Christianity." @JoyceCarolOates @emeriticus If we truly lived in a police state Ms. Oates you and your writings would have disappeared from view a long time ago. Thankfully libraries exist to share your misinformation along with other genres"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:49Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"much much admiration/awe for the Olympic athletes. especially young Americans speaking from the heart. of course one would much rather love one's country than be critical of it; that is understood. critics of the outspoken fail to realize that speaking out requires courage. "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"--yes & the first & easiest refuge. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020882921515618306 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020882921515618306"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:30Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"no I have said repeatedly that institutions should protect all inmates. not sure how many times I can say ALL INMATES. to relieve stress & danger which prisons do routinely by segregating some inmates from the general population why not just have sections of prisons reserved for individuals who identify as (biological) women & sections reserved for those who identify as (trans)women. this is a managerial issue with simple solutions made hopelessly complicated by persons who should be responsible for safety & well-being. (but transgender women do not belong in men''s prisons--hoping anyone can"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:38Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"(is this the Kid I had actually never seen him until this photo. why is he "Kid"--serious question.) Some say if you play a Kid Rock record backwards you'll hear Satan. Even worse if you play it forwards you'll hear Kid Rock. https://t.co/9HGvCmq2wD Some say if you play a Kid Rock record backwards you'll hear Satan. Even worse if you play it forwards you'll hear Kid Rock. https://t.co/9HGvCmq2wD"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:14Z 273.6K followers, 117K engagements
"in all fairness the poll should limit itself to "non-high school-educated voters." surely there T***p's approval rating is high. BREAKING: CNNs Harry Enten unpacks DEVASTATING new polling for Trump showing a TWENTY-THREE PERCENT drop in approval from non-college educated voters. His base of support is falling apart and it is only going to make Trump lash out more. https://t.co/6my0ejkLyf BREAKING: CNNs Harry Enten unpacks DEVASTATING new polling for Trump showing a TWENTY-THREE PERCENT drop in approval from non-college educated voters. His base of support is falling apart and it is only going"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:15Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"please trigger warning. before again posting this video of a figure cavorting in weird white shorts & fedora in emulation of maybe Leonard Cohen--a genuinely talented uniquely talented musician Hasnt he performed this song quite literally [----] times Hasnt he performed this song quite literally [----] times"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:50Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"now eugenics & "spreading DNA" are a feature of the Epstein files degenerate men not content with being run-of-the-mill perverts & rapists of young persons now revealed to be also concerned for preserving the master race & "spreading DNA" like spreading caviar on crackers every day a more lurid/ludicrous surprise. 🚨 BREAKING: Federal records show prosecutors never searched Jeffrey Epsteins New Mexico ranch despite evidence he planned to use it to impregnate women and spread his DNA. Let that sink in. A suspected trafficking site. A documented eugenics scheme. Zero federal search."
X Link 2026-02-09T17:03Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"person wondering uneasily if the lynch mob & tar-and-feather crowd he'd thought he was directing to lynch a helpless handcuffed person seems to be turning on---- HIM. Just in case NBC is muting the boos heres JD Vance uniting the world in synchronized disapproval. Also that smug prick ought to smile and just have more fun. https://t.co/yf4rxPrGTy Just in case NBC is muting the boos heres JD Vance uniting the world in synchronized disapproval. Also that smug prick ought to smile and just have more fun. https://t.co/yf4rxPrGTy"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:03Z 273.6K followers, 31K engagements
"it's as legitimate as T***p's racist posting of the Obamas yes or that meme of the dignified Black woman arrested by ICE whose face was darkened & disfigured by White House hacks. @JoyceCarolOates This is ai @JoyceCarolOates This is ai"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:34Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"poor Jesus always being "found" by the most loathsome specimens & too nice a guy to kick them away. @factpostnews But he claims he's found Jesus. Like Pete -- I believe he says that to be excused for disgusting past behaviors. It doesn't work that way. @factpostnews But he claims he's found Jesus. Like Pete -- I believe he says that to be excused for disgusting past behaviors. It doesn't work that way"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:15Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"but why would anyone tell that joke especially in his own persona is Kid Rock the father of daughters hard to fathom. @factpostnews there's a lot of stuff to knock him for but I don't think this is one. He said that on SNL so 1) it was written as a joke (a bad/not funny joke) and 2) he didn't write it. @factpostnews there's a lot of stuff to knock him for but I don't think this is one. He said that on SNL so 1) it was written as a joke (a bad/not funny joke) and 2) he didn't write it"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:17Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"unless I missed it this entire lengthy NYT article on the gleeful "wiping out of U.S. climate regulation" presents the conservative (i.e. anti-environmental) position as if it is unrelated to polluting industries & their profits. these are just altruistic parties volunteering their time to dismantle government regulations. wouldn't a serious journalist look into the connections between the pro-polluter politicians & officials & their probable reasons for wanting regulations rescinded bad enough that the EPA is dismantled but profoundly sad that mainstream media presents the issue so blandly &"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:32Z 273.6K followers, 26K engagements
"wait. isn't this the woman who screamed on Fox News that Santa Claus is a white man; & that J. Epstein & D. T***p are not pedophiles exactly. now she is screaming about football ("football is ours") At the end of the day this outrage isn't just performative it's really really weird. That level of emotion over arguably the most popular singer in the world performing at a halftime show is just bizarre. It's so hard to believe it's real. At the end of the day this outrage isn't just performative it's really really weird. That level of emotion over arguably the most popular singer in the world"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:37Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"when Piers Morgan is the embodiment of intelligence & good manners (i.e. not interrupting & ranting) things have become very strange indeed. At the end of the day this outrage isn't just performative it's really really weird. That level of emotion over arguably the most popular singer in the world performing at a halftime show is just bizarre. It's so hard to believe it's real. At the end of the day this outrage isn't just performative it's really really weird. That level of emotion over arguably the most popular singer in the world performing at a halftime show is just bizarre. It's so hard"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:41Z 273.6K followers, 13.9K engagements
""never heard of him"-- how can you have escaped hearing of Bad Bunny it has been years even the hearing impaired have heard; even people who know or care literally nothing about music have heard of Bad Bunny. @DavidAFrench Why do people keep insisting he's the most "popular singer in the world" I'm latina and have never heard of him neither has my teen daughter or her friends. I speak spanish and heard what he sang and the lyrics are FILTHY We're sick of this shit forced on us @DavidAFrench Why do people keep insisting he's the most "popular singer in the world" I'm latina and have never"
X Link 2026-02-10T04:47Z 273.6K followers, 33K engagements
"A. Dershowitz has very odd ideas about adult men & underaged girls for a person who has at least one daughter. (whom I met once on Martha's Vineyard an excellent actress.) how can a person with children have such degenerate views let alone publicly express them--hard to understand. Alan Dershowitz wants the names of the victims in the Epstein files released because he thinks hes the real victim. Dershowitz is a longtime advocate of lowering the age of consent so more adults can legally have sex with kids and not be labeled as pedophiles and rapists. Alan Dershowitz wants the names of the"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:11Z 273.6K followers, 31.9K engagements
"Amalfi coast What is the most beautiful countryon Earth https://t.co/AiolU0IXJc What is the most beautiful countryon Earth https://t.co/AiolU0IXJc"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:20Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"hmm. would Dershowitz allow Dershowitz on the witness stand in Dershowitz trial on charges of rape of underaged children--or would canny lawyer Dershowitz keep blabbermouth guilty client Dershowitz from testifying on behalf of Dershowitz non-billable replies from reputable lawyers only. @CattardSlim When your wall has no wall left youre a serial killer. https://t.co/zVLfg7StRL @CattardSlim When your wall has no wall left youre a serial killer. https://t.co/zVLfg7StRL"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:56Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
""male homosexual in female guise" does not seem an improbable self-identifying in Iris Murdoch when you think of it. (never saw this quote before.) but given the characteristic tone of Murdoch's fiction which inclines toward the self-consciously arch & ironic seeing life as essentially as farcical one might object that Murdoch is projecting her fantasy of 'male homosexual'; her characters are likely to be fatuous pompous egomaniacs or hapless victims puppets in a stage comedy. everyone is silly but forgivably silly. @JoyceCarolOates re Iris Murdoch: https://t.co/bAcANO4D13 @JoyceCarolOates re"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:09Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"if Canada would just present T***p with its highest national award Honorary Membership in Canadian Mounted Police (bright-red uniform boots horse) he would shift from being hurt/miffed/vindictive to being Canada's best friend. BREAKING: Trumps Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says that Trump has valid concerns over the bridge connecting Canada to Michigan after Trump threw a tantrum last night on Truth Social. This is a desperate attempt at sane washing insanity. https://t.co/z8Yt6qIlGM BREAKING: Trumps Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says that Trump has valid concerns over the bridge"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:30Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"so why then don't they just deport him to Ireland not the worst fate in the world to be deported from the US to Ireland Seamus Culleton an Irishman with a valid US work permit has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it a modern day concentration camp (Video: @RTERadio1) https://t.co/p4nJJwuoXL Seamus Culleton an Irishman with a valid US work permit has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it a modern day concentration camp (Video: @RTERadio1) https://t.co/p4nJJwuoXL"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:32Z 273.6K followers, 28.5K engagements
"who would want to attend an event at the White House & have to listen to T***p speak Mikie Sherrill will not miss anything except possibly the opportunity to be insulted or chided for "not smiling enough" by shameless male chauvinist president. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill says she won't attend the National Governors Association dinner if her fellow Democrats Wes Moore and Jared Polis aren't invited by the White House. "No I will not be going. This is ridiculous." https://t.co/U9hRnSVEk1 New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill says she won't attend the National Governors Association dinner if her"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:15Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Anthony Bourdain loved & appreciated good food anywhere he found it & celebrated it; especially celebrated fellow chefs. in restaurants in the US where (in fact) I was among guests of his Anthony Bourdain never failed to thank wait persons & to ask if chefs & kitchen workers would come out to be congratulated on a good meal. they were thrilled to meet him. but he was thrilled to meet them. the essence of Tony Bourdain was kindliness modesty & (yes) shyness. if the US is a "first world" nation how very degraded "first world" is. @LindyTasteful I blame Anthony Bourdain for glamorizing the 3rd"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:38Z 273.6K followers, 34.8K engagements
"really I'd always read Murdoch in the tradition of "comedy of manners"--"social satire." a more brainy Evelyn Waugh. her characters all seem like (garrulous) puppets except for the very quiet ones. @JoyceCarolOates I can't agree with your description of Murdoch's fiction in which sexual ambiguity abounds. I've never found her characters "silly". Much of her work belongs in the tradition of the Gothic novel so should appeal to readers today. @JoyceCarolOates I can't agree with your description of Murdoch's fiction in which sexual ambiguity abounds. I've never found her characters "silly". Much"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:09Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Not considering that many women just dont want the life of marriage & family. I know women who can love family & other peoples children but just dont want the intense intimacy of others in their lives. They are sometimes most lonely when crowded by others. Cats are usually quiet companions though not always. In the 1930s the term "cat lady" referred to older women who lived alone and kept multiple cats as companions. In an era when societal expectations often placed pressure on women to marry and maintain a traditional family structure those who chose to live independently with"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:01Z 273.6K followers, 25.6K engagements
"If you wonder what a cult is. What cant he do https://t.co/wtjcfpq6qJ What cant he do https://t.co/wtjcfpq6qJ"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:43Z 273.6K followers, 23.3K engagements
"A Desperate Father a Troubled Son and Death in a 5-Star Hotel https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/nyregion/henry-mcgowan-ireland-murder.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/nyregion/henry-mcgowan-ireland-murder.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-10T23:01Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"FBI is this the same Federal Bureau of Investigations that spent years spying on Black persons (Joe Louis Martin Luther King whom J. Edgar Hoover hoped to bully into committing suicide black Panthers committed to protecting their neighborhoods) spending millions of taxpayers' dollars with absolutely zero returns of any value to anyone we should listen to & respect that Bureau @Megatron_ron Former FBI agent dropping "Pandoras Box" bombs like its some noble warning Please. Those files have been sitting there for decades while the elite partied on now suddenly its a national security threat when"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:05Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
""national security"--threatened by an exposure of criminal sex offenders on the contrary national security is threatened by corrupt & conscienceless persons remaining in control. US citizens are supposed to trust such leaders meekly paying income tax to criminals because otherwise things will be shaken up this time as M. Garland failed to do begin at the top investigating the US president & allow the public to know exactly the extent of his crimes then work their way downward. NEW: A former FBI Special Agent warns these Epstein files will unleash a Pandoras Box of national security threats"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:11Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"excellent interviews the other evening on CBS Sixty Minutes with Margaret Atwood & Salman Rushdie. in a way it's sad that literary writers are reduced to talking about politics & public events in their lives rather than the artistry of their books but at least this is better than nothing. not even a mention of Atwood's poetry or other novels--just Handmaid's Tale for its timeliness. & Salman most focus on the horrific attack against him & Salman's response to it. interesting: Margaret Atwood has been attacked "more by the left than the right-wingers." Salman wrote a memoir titled "Knife" in"
X Link 2026-02-11T05:26Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"but we know from numerous articles on the president that he is not the person writing the executive orders--he is the person signing them. he is not the person overseeing ICE operations--that is Stephen Miller. though very visibly present & continuing to be divisive T***p is probably most valuable to the rightwing as a figurehead. he can continue propped up for a long time as some religions continue to wield power long after anyone has believed in them. He says he does cognitive physicals there is no such thing What hes taking is a dementia test. Neurologists require their patients to"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:45Z 273.6K followers, 12.5K engagements
"great insight yes Wyeth. one of our most underrated American artists. (I have never understood American art critics' dislike of Wyeth even as they extoll Hopper. surely each is an American original) @JoyceCarolOates That Goya painting always reminds me of This Wyeth one https://t.co/6nXyplwaXP @JoyceCarolOates That Goya painting always reminds me of This Wyeth one https://t.co/6nXyplwaXP"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:47Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"what a mean if ludicrous little racist thrill in this MAGA concoction that the grossly overweight flabby-bodied & -minded T***p could outplay a Black athlete in any way shape or form. what a joke idiot is even on a basketball court in dress shoes off-the-wrack signature suit & red-clown necktie. What cant he do https://t.co/wtjcfpq6qJ What cant he do https://t.co/wtjcfpq6qJ"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:56Z 273.6K followers, 14.9K engagements
"yes they never seem to mention "mediocre white man" DEI which has always meant that if you are not white no matter your qualifications you will not even be interviewed. most of T***p's cabinet is "white DEI" & those not-white & not-male would never have cabinet positions in any other administration. Republicans are evil for turning DEI into a racist concept. https://t.co/qMhIyM0uXL Republicans are evil for turning DEI into a racist concept. https://t.co/qMhIyM0uXL"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:08Z 273.7K followers, 57K engagements
"have seen Mel Brooks documentary--"Ninety-Nine-Year-Old Man"--twice; & highly recommend again. absolutely thrilling uplifting. for one who'd seen only two Mel Brooks films & knew little of his life/talent this was a revelation. so very touching that his wife Ann Bancroft adored him & always believed in him; & Mel Brooks adored her. such seeming opposites this documentary might have been almost too sad except it is quite the reverse: inspiring. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021618475660132368 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021618475660132368"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:12Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"if you recall Tim O'Brien's tour de force of a group portrait of an American 17-man platoon fighting in the Vietnam War --"The Things They Carried"--as a very moving work of fiction go back & reread: absolutely brilliant prose poem perfect technique perfectly executed like one of those old-time card tricks where the magician shuffles the cards all in the air & they fold back together like a waterfall without a single card dropped. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021620484480077892 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021620484480077892"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:20Z 273.6K followers, 27.6K engagements
""Made in China AI Slop for US MAGA" @JoyceCarolOates Its from China. @JoyceCarolOates Its from China"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:51Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"recalling that in [----] H. Clinton won the popular vote by a considerable margin but lost the electoral college; so polls don't suggest the waywardness of "popularity" or "approval." alternate universe in which Clinton did win in 2016--tempting to wonder what state the US would be in exactly now. serious replies only. not sure what polls mean. entire lives are lived out without being queried even once in a political opinion poll. are these queries by phone who even answers a phone if the caller isn't someone you know or--even has a landline phone not sure what polls mean. entire lives are"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:17Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Texas grand jury sided with the father Amazing they refused to even indict the murderer presumably for political reasons. This poor girl. Trump's body count continues to rise. https://t.co/7WMp7osHAc This poor girl. Trump's body count continues to rise. https://t.co/7WMp7osHAc"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:03Z 273.6K followers, 40.3K engagements
"sounds like a personal-injury lawyer. the kind who advertises on billboards on the expressway. will say anything everything at trial to defend a client no matter how preposterous in this case a criminal US president. Bondi: "You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it." https://t.co/ucmrjhhFuq Bondi: "You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it." https://t.co/ucmrjhhFuq"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:45Z 273.6K followers, 16.2K engagements
"is this the darkest line in all of Whitman-- ".sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in." "Song of Myself""
X Link 2026-02-11T23:51Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"person who would've been thrilled to see a sea of red MAGA hats is miffed that they didn't materialize & instead came waves of boos. Vance whines about US Olympic athletes speaking out against the Trump administration: "When you're representing the country you're representing Democrats and Republicans. You're there to play a sport.You're not there to pop off about politics" https://t.co/J5idoic2tw Vance whines about US Olympic athletes speaking out against the Trump administration: "When you're representing the country you're representing Democrats and Republicans. You're there to play a"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:15Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"actually that is a sign of a conscience however compromised. Tp would just look out at the Epstein survivors brazenly & ask sneeringly why aren't they smiling Bondi is (perhaps) well aware of her cruelty & moral corruption. Tp a true narcissist is incapable of knowing or caring about anyone beyond himself. An image we won't soon forget. Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to look at Epstein survivors pictured behind her on the Hill today. https://t.co/KYCBQCXz3Y An image we won't soon forget. Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to look at Epstein survivors pictured behind her on the Hill"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:54Z 273.6K followers, 15.2K engagements
"ironies of history: M. Garland preceding AG failed to prosecute the inciter of the Jan. [--] insurrection; P. Bondi successor fails to investigate let alone prosecute individuals named in the Epstein files which just happen to include the individual whom M. Garland protected by not prosecuting. is that one lucky fella with two AG's protecting him @ProjectLincoln https://t.co/AkyxdwnrIV @ProjectLincoln https://t.co/AkyxdwnrIV"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:58Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"it turned out to be true as some observers had said: Tp really had to be re-elected president to remain out of jail. if someone else were president even another Republican Tp would have been investigated & exposed by now for numerous crimes including his involvement with Epstein sex trafficking of minors. what a massive cover-up GOP must be exhausted there is so much corruption continual lies graft crimes which they are too cowardly to acknowledge. @JoyceCarolOates A US AG who represents a single person instead of the peoples of the country that she was appointed to represent. No wonder"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:02Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"beginning to sound like a joke but not a very funny joke: someone has seen the "unredacted Epstein files" & shudders delightedly promising the names will "shock the entire world." end of pronouncement. 🚨BREAKING Rep. Nancy Mace says she has seen the unredacted Epstein files and warns that the names in them will shck the entire world "You'd be shcked by some of the names I've seen in the files" https://t.co/N1yzjpgU07 🚨BREAKING Rep. Nancy Mace says she has seen the unredacted Epstein files and warns that the names in them will shck the entire world "You'd be shcked by some of the names I've"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:49Z 273.6K followers, 22.1K engagements
"finally saw the movie "The Music Man" which tells a zestful tall tale of an affable con-man who cons an entire Iowa town into believing some nonsense about their need for a boys' marching band; the concept is worthwhile but the execution is so hokey silly dated it is a chore to watch"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:55Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"unlike Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" which explores a similar gullibility in mass audiences but much more skillfully memorably. we wince to see how phony populist "Lonesome Rhodes" wins over audiences painfully akin to what has happened in the US since 2016"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:55Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"these look homemade handmade. very touching; & given Lincoln's height somewhat small. Abraham Lincoln's actual slippers. Any thoughts https://t.co/nImWwqyorz Abraham Lincoln's actual slippers. Any thoughts https://t.co/nImWwqyorz"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:31Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"during COVID several of my friends cut their own hair. sometimes not even looking using two mirrors. just--snipped away where they couldn't see cheerfully. well yes-- they did look better than this hefty fella. He paid for that haircut https://t.co/tJCDj1XvVO He paid for that haircut https://t.co/tJCDj1XvVO"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:37Z 273.6K followers, 11.8K engagements
"the only two men who looked good with this haircut were Tommy Shelby & his brother--was the name Arthur especially Arthur the rapturous-mad stone cold killer. He paid for that haircut https://t.co/tJCDj1XvVO He paid for that haircut https://t.co/tJCDj1XvVO"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:42Z 273.6K followers, 15.3K engagements
"actually my question was serious. this was never an issue before MAGA-rule. of course a woman hemorrhaging cannot control what is happening to her. a miscarriage is said to be naturally "correcting" something wrong in the fetus; it is purely involuntary yet MAGA-rule treats it as a self-willed abortion (I guess). punishing women on what must be for some the worst day of their lives. that is why some of us are bewildered: do MAGA women really want this for themselves & their daughters @JoyceCarolOates When I miscarried most of the tissue went down the toilet. I had to have a DNC later to get"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:48Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"yes but Republican women vote for these draconian laws. they profess to hate liberals who want to strengthen women's healthcare. they must feel that such awful things would never happen to them. maybe God will protect them because they are special @JoyceCarolOates Republicans are doubling down on their war on females. Womens healthcare ✔ Voting rights ✔ Rape✔ Torture ✔ Murder✔ Quiet Piggy https://t.co/yYGl0eKh4t @JoyceCarolOates Republicans are doubling down on their war on females. Womens healthcare ✔ Voting rights ✔ Rape✔ Torture ✔ Murder✔ Quiet Piggy https://t.co/yYGl0eKh4t"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:49Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"obviously yes. it's very famous. that's why I was eager to see it. maybe if Mel Brooks had directed "The Music Man" it might have worked as truly imaginative musical comedy not a sequence of cheery kindergarten skits. (Mel Brooks: Jewish con-man conning all those corny Iowa-yan goys. or Black Bart returns on his horse. something is needed to make this palatable in [----] as it must have been decades ago.) @JoyceCarolOates It was designed as a play and I assure you it works on the stage. @JoyceCarolOates It was designed as a play and I assure you it works on the stage"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:05Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"terrific all of Peaky Blinders was insane but Alfie Solomon was meta-. most fun since playing both (crazy) Kray brothers simultaneously. @JoyceCarolOates Alfie Solomons same. @JoyceCarolOates Alfie Solomons same"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:27Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"such a great film like "A Face in the Crowd." movies of that era--"Sweet Smell of Success" "The Defiant Ones"--"On the Waterfront"--- so powerful. great actors like Lancaster Poitier Brando yes & also underrated Tony Curtis. @JoyceCarolOates Funny that [--] yrs earlier she won the Academy Award for playing the deeper real version in Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster. @JoyceCarolOates Funny that [--] yrs earlier she won the Academy Award for playing the deeper real version in Elmer Gantry with Burt Lancaster"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:33Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I don't have any trouble with "silly" films like a typical Mel Brooks comedy. it's the wholesome-Hollywood aw-shucks white folks Americana vibe (sic) that seems intolerable. @JoyceCarolOates Do you think if you had watched it when it came out you'd have any different thoughts @JoyceCarolOates Do you think if you had watched it when it came out you'd have any different thoughts"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:40Z 273.7K followers, 21.3K engagements
"yes definitely Threepenny Opera. Carousel has to be performed differently today I would think. my sense is that audiences today just don't like or "get" musicals. those Hollywood dance sequences fantastical long scenes maybe tolerable in something like Coen brothers " Big Lebowski" bowling fantasy but forced elsewhere. @JerryColen @JoyceCarolOates that's lovely. It is up there with Hello Dolly as one of least favorite musicals. Favorites - Carousel Sunday in the Park with George She Loves Me Showboat Oklahoma. Oh and Assassins Sweeney Todd maybe all Sondheim. AND [--] Penny Opera. Not that you"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:44Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"mixed feelings about films made of superb TV series. does anyone recall the Sopranos feature film frankly it is hard to imagine a film coming close to the brilliance of Peaky Blinders; the very audacity of the narrative operatic histrionic inspired music the unexpected in most episodes. what we have seen traced the rise of Tommy Shelby & the Peaky Blinders--initially a street gang eventually its head is a member of parliament. that arc seemed complete & quite an achievement. but keeping fingers & paws crossed for the best. @JoyceCarolOates Speaking of which . https://t.co/G7ZwuALcpK"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:05Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"depends upon whom you know where you live. if there is a collective malaise it is a consequence of the endless toxic political climate not because people or some people have "joyless amusements." mixing cause & effect. I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression is rampant because weve abandoned books & hobbies in favor of joyless amusements. The single most attractive thing a person can do is read often & delight in learning. I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:07Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"a literary acquaintance was finally divorced after a most bitter acrimonious bout of litigation; that was at least [--] years ago & one spouse is still suing the other repeatedly out of spite fury bringing frivolous lawsuits which nonetheless have to be dealt with by hiring more always more attorneys. probably $1 million has been frittered away paid to attorneys. literally it is a fight to the death--one spouse is hounding the other to death. at the start of their marriage a beautiful couple---envied by many. never would they have imagined such an end to their early original/genuine love 40-plus"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:48Z 273.6K followers, 15.8K engagements
"hard to figure why GOP would want this law since surely many of their women voters are married & would have to deal with impediments related to their surname (if their husband's name likely to be common with GOP conservative women) & the name on their birth certificate. pushing this law would only make sense if it hurt Democratic women; in fact it would hurt a sizable portion of all women regardless of political preferences. @politvidchannel The Senate appears ready to block Trumps election bill which critics say would restrict access to voting for many eligible Americans in [----]. This shows"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:56Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"2 to [--] Cups of Coffee a Day May Reduce Dementia Risk. But Not if Its Decaf. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/coffee-tea-dementia-risk.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/coffee-tea-dementia-risk.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:20Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"how would you know with such a vast experiment whether myriad other factors are as important as or more important than caffeine maybe something no one would think of like lying on one's side to sleep vs. one's back or playing a wind instrument vs. a percussive instrument. anyway would think that genetics count most. also how would you know whether people who opt to drink caffeinated drinks are those who are also less likely to develop Alzheimer's--just as people intellectually curious enough to read a good deal are less likely to develop Alzheimer's rather than that the reading has a"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:20Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"being unable to stay awake in a public place can be a symptom of not enough oxygen flowing to the brain; arterial hardening. narcolepsy. at Princeton there was one prominent faculty member who always sat in the front row at public lectures & promptly fell asleep as soon as the lecture began; but just as it ended he was awake clapping vigorously & one of the first to ask excellent questions. he went on to an even more distinguished career after Princeton--president of a major university. sorry far afield from T***p. but a curious story. Is the Adderall wearing off or is it another stroke"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:28Z 273.6K followers, 31K engagements
"neurogenesis. (my late husband Charlie Gross neuroscience experimented in this field.) however I don't think it was Alzheimer's per se that was the subject just natural aging of the brain. impossible to suggest the findings in a small space but he & colleagues believed that exercise--which could be vigorous walking--& enough sleep were paramount. plus the heavy hand of genetics. & indeed genetic determinism is a very heavy hand. you can run hither & yon but genetic determinism is the cloud that always follows. @JoyceCarolOates There's work that shows microtubule regrowth in brains repairs the"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:33Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"you can run hither & yon but genetic determinism is the cloud that always follows. @JoyceCarolOates That recent study made it seem like most Alzheimers is from APOE so yes genes load the gun. @JoyceCarolOates That recent study made it seem like most Alzheimers is from APOE so yes genes load the gun"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:34Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"for years we read studies that "seemed to show" that drinking one glass of red wine was beneficial; people lived longer etc. then one day we learned that no guess not new studies "seemed to show" that one glass of red wine was NOT a great idea. so too with caffeine. or high protein. or low protein. or standing on one's head. or reading the N Y Times for science wisdom. @JoyceCarolOates Thats why youd have to read the study and not just The NY Times article about the study. @JoyceCarolOates Thats why youd have to read the study and not just The NY Times article about the study"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:11Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"quite apart from the "despoiled environment" theme the film ("Safe") seems to be a horror story of ordinary domestic life--upper middle class homes filled with luxury items well-to-do housewives & mothers chattering away like hens driving on the Freeway hellish life itself reduced to babble. & the ghastly ending in which the protagonist is finally "safe." @JoyceCarolOates Its in my top [--] of all time and definitely the greatest film of the 90s endlessly rewatchable @JoyceCarolOates Its in my top [--] of all time and definitely the greatest film of the 90s endlessly rewatchable"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:16Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd. @JoyceCarolOates My favorite musicals - Jesus Christ Superstar Sweeney Todd Ragtime Hedwig & the Angry Itch - break all the stereotypes. And they don't resemble each other. My son Jacob and I saw Sweeney Todd in Rockford IL - as dinner theater @JoyceCarolOates My favorite musicals - Jesus Christ Superstar Sweeney Todd Ragtime Hedwig & the Angry Itch - break all the stereotypes. And they don't resemble each other. My son Jacob and I saw Sweeney Todd in Rockford IL - as dinner theater"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:21Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"What It Means to Be a White Race Traitor https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/magazine/minneapolis-good-pretti-race-traitors.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/magazine/minneapolis-good-pretti-race-traitors.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:51Z 273.6K followers, [----] engagements
"excellent article. tragically rightwing propaganda has brainwashed many Americans into thinking that an entire political party or political philosophy (liberalism) have come to constitute "race traitors." Republicans: party defending the "white race." Democrats liberals: "race traitors." no wonder the US is so polarized. hoping for some sane resolution in the future"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:12Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"this is the true era of the Ugly American. the entire TpDarkAge is a time of crudeness vulgarity. corrupt politicians like L. Graham giving their ignorant opinions on international issues. once the US had had career diplomats something like diplomacy. now it's Tp cultists like Graham & Vance alienating Europe with sound-bites intended for T***p to hear & be impressed by. BREAKING: Trump apologist Lindsey Graham asks who gives a shit who owns Greenland during the Munich Security Conference in a pathetic attempt to justify Trumps threats. Heres the answer Lindsey: the people of Greenland"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:31Z 273.7K followers, 14.3K engagements
"(hoping that I am not violating a hyper-sensitive kitty's confidence but: Zanche has to lower her standards of etiquette considerably when trapped indoors since she is obliged to use a (littler box). by nature Zanche prefers ultra-privacy outdoors behind a bush or who knows where; it is humbling to her to be forced to use an indoor toilet still worse to (share) it with a second kitty. such a private fastidious kitty this has been a hard time for her.) At last Zanche has ventured out into her catio after a week or more of hibernation Still cold but not frigid. https://t.co/yWxOauqjln At last"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:39Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"imagine the audacity how un-American to demand that heavily weaponed masked "federal officers" actually need to have legal warrants for arrests--shocking. nothing like this ever. even worse these masked "officers" should be accountable for their behavior--can't just shoot civilians in the face or fire multiple shots into helpless persons lying on the ground because they're miffed. nothing like this ever in the US. scandal. 🚨 BREAKING: The Senate just rejected a deal to keep the government open [----] after Democrats refused to rubber-stamp DHS and ICE without accountability. Several"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:50Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"ingenious but poor hogs they did not agree to being barbarously treated in hideous factory farms & then crudely slaughtered; of all animals hogs/pigs can sense death coming & register terror. @JoyceCarolOates "In Iowa the corn is ripe but I gotta say that ain't my gripe. The piggies here have such a stench my nose I'm holding with a wrench." - Composed by a friend and I during a long boring drive through Iowa many years ago . 😇 @JoyceCarolOates "In Iowa the corn is ripe but I gotta say that ain't my gripe. The piggies here have such a stench my nose I'm holding with a wrench." - Composed by"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:04Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"yes but I worry she is "putting on weight"--as it's said. we tried a diet last year. not a success. when "food is love." how can you say no I mean you can say no but--will "no" be understood @JoyceCarolOates My Lilith is sensitive and sleepy. A kindred spirit @JoyceCarolOates My Lilith is sensitive and sleepy. A kindred spirit"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:39Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"sorry to be pedantic but it was both of Evander Holyfield's ears that Tyson bit not just one. he did not "bite off" an ear. why the referee let the fight continue after the first egregious foul --(a foul that should have ended the fight)--is a mystery. folks who saw this debacle live on TV were incredulous. such shameful behavior by Cus D'Amato-trained Mike Tyson was utterly shocking. though after the equally shameful Buster Douglas fight anything was possible. @TheRealThelmaJ1 We all remember the ear not so many remember that Tyson is a convicted r*pist (1992) who was unsuccessfully"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:35Z 273.7K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Cus D'Amato had trained Mike Tyson to revere the great champions to emulate their bravery & heart; that Tyson would resort to a cheap brazen deliberate foul undid everything D'Amato had taught him. in his memoir Tyson blames cocaine-- he'd become an addict. convicted of rape & never repented indeed continues to insist he was innocent. or misunderstood. as one who admires Tyson's early career & wrote a good deal about it ("On Boxing) I felt how sad it was how pathetic that the afterlife of a champion became so tawdry. sorry to be pedantic but it was both of Evander Holyfield's ears that Tyson"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:41Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"no. I understand-- there is the "afterlife of the champion"--(about which I wrote in a sympathetic essay)--it can't be easy. not really judging. I would guess Tyson judges himself fairly objectively & recalls very often the days/years of Cus D'Amato as he was being trained to become the youngest heavyweight boxer in history. a sleek lethal arrow shot from Cus's bow. into the heart of boxing history. @JoyceCarolOates Have you ever watched Mike Tyson Mysteries on Adult Swim @JoyceCarolOates Have you ever watched Mike Tyson Mysteries on Adult Swim"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:10Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"yes the first time I saw "The Producers" -- "Springtime for Hitler"-- I really did not get the joke.jokes. we have lost all that context. we stare at the absurdity without knowing how to decode it. @JoyceCarolOates The Warner Bros. musicals of the early to mid 1930s featuring Busby Berkeleys choreography and Ruby Keeler & Dick Powell are great due to being so surreal & absurd. https://t.co/6RgNHijd3u @JoyceCarolOates The Warner Bros. musicals of the early to mid 1930s featuring Busby Berkeleys choreography and Ruby Keeler & Dick Powell are great due to being so surreal & absurd."
X Link 2026-02-13T22:18Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"probably yes with my friend Stephen Pinker. who would have known there are many very many receptions dinners symposia academic conferences sponsored by who knows--those who attend have not the slightest awareness like patrons of the Met Art museum not knowing who the Koch brothers are or were; or who awful Mr. Frick was founder of exquisite Frick Museum. @JoyceCarolOates What if hed read them and become a huge fan If you didnt know you might have been flattered to attend a Salon with other luminaries. @JoyceCarolOates What if hed read them and become a huge fan If you didnt know you might"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:21Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"who knows. the alacrity with which Democrats conceded the (surely somewhat suspicious) [----] election was certainly odd. @JoyceCarolOates Sarah Kendzior always said that Biden's presidency was meant to be a "placeholder" between two Trp terms. I didn't believe it.until it happened. Now I tend to think that they're basically on the same side and it's all choreographed. @JoyceCarolOates Sarah Kendzior always said that Biden's presidency was meant to be a "placeholder" between two Trp terms. I didn't believe it.until it happened. Now I tend to think that they're basically on the same side and"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:37Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
""I am not a crook"-- Richard Nixon. @JoyceCarolOates Nixon had five o'clock shadow for that debate and facial sweat. He looked like a crook. Kennedy did not. @JoyceCarolOates Nixon had five o'clock shadow for that debate and facial sweat. He looked like a crook. Kennedy did not"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:41Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@JoyceCarolOates Well Lilith from THIS males gaze you look fantastic @JoyceCarolOates Well Lilith from THIS males gaze you look fantastic"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:51Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"really $55 million to send JDVance to Italy to be roundly boo'd recall harsh criticism of Joe Biden who'd dared to travel to the Maryland coast for a weekend "vacation" spent working. Well we just Funded a $55 million dollar vacation for J.D Vance his family & a [---] of his closest friends to travel & enjoy all the perks of him being the VP. We even paid for a cargo plane full of the food he likes to travel to the Olympics Wait till you hear everything else🤬 https://t.co/QQTI0CpTIr Well we just Funded a $55 million dollar vacation for J.D Vance his family & a [---] of his closest friends to"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:20Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Brit billionairess disses US proletarian authoress charging "well-off" This is where a ton of well-off leftist intellectuals are stuck. Insulated from and often ignorant of the real world consequences of the position they've taken they conclude the masses have been manipulated by influences to which they are too clever and righteous to fall prey. This is where a ton of well-off leftist intellectuals are stuck. Insulated from and often ignorant of the real world consequences of the position they've taken they conclude the masses have been manipulated by influences to which they are too clever"
X Link 2024-11-08T17:32Z 273.8K followers, 589.6K engagements
"Lilith's has not (yet) received a single valentine"
X Link 2025-02-14T18:58Z 273.8K followers, 82.8K engagements
"tremendously proud of our courageous outspoken Olympic athletes. what a showcase to the world that like citizens of Minneapolis Americans are standing up publicly to the T***p police state. 🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media calling him a real loser for expressing concern about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE. RETWEET if you stand with Hess against Trump https://t.co/C57O5jTOnL 🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media calling him a real loser for expressing concern about the murders of Alex"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:58Z 273.8K followers, 75.7K engagements
"desperate not to be impeached convicted & removed from office therefore vulnerable to be charged in a criminal court in one of the states for his various crimes including pedophilia & child rape. what has he to lose by lashing out recklessly threatening to imprison his enemies frantic to rig the election--like a cornered rat. most dangerous if the rat is also rabid pure instinct lacking a brain. Trump threatens to take over elections from the states by executive order https://t.co/GBxUff2UdS Trump threatens to take over elections from the states by executive order https://t.co/GBxUff2UdS"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:34Z 273.8K followers, 27.3K engagements
"Mr. White Core if only your self-confidence were matched with substance. @JoyceCarolOates The ugly sicko Epstein muck has everything to do with the Israel First Mob. Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz attacked Walt and Mearsheimer on behalf of the Israel First Mob but Joyce Carol Oates doesn't care because Walt and Mearsheimer are men. Israel First Mob Sickos @JoyceCarolOates The ugly sicko Epstein muck has everything to do with the Israel First Mob. Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz attacked Walt and Mearsheimer on behalf of the Israel First Mob but Joyce Carol Oates doesn't care because"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:57Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Sinclair Lewis was a savage often heavy-handed satirist of American idiocy the first American to be awarded a Nobel Prize. But confronted with this laughable monstrosity a gigantic gilt-gold statue of T***p Lewis would stare slack-jawed. "This.in [----] I'd thought the idiocy was 1926." @glenn_tunes Covered in fools gold the most obnoxious president the USA has ever had @glenn_tunes Covered in fools gold the most obnoxious president the USA has ever had"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:01Z 273.8K followers, 10.1K engagements
"the thoughtfulness & delicate maneuvering of this kitty is typical of cats. by contrast a d*g would overturn the entire platter & run off with a dozen slices of sausage in its jaws. HE DID THE MATH - THERE'S ONE TOO MANY https://t.co/Ch5Hmpb3Zk HE DID THE MATH - THERE'S ONE TOO MANY https://t.co/Ch5Hmpb3Zk"
X Link 2025-08-03T12:08Z 273.8K followers, 462.9K engagements
"taken out of context probably he said much more; Susan Sontag said essentially the same thing in reference to US foreign policy bringing devastation & ruin to Vietnam Cambodia & Middle East over the decades provoking eventual retaliation/ revenge. @JoyceCarolOates No. This is why. https://t.co/AZKQnRwMDc @JoyceCarolOates No. This is why. https://t.co/AZKQnRwMDc"
X Link 2025-11-07T04:17Z 273.8K followers, 640.4K engagements
"who was the assassin a young man from a gun-loving conservative Mormon background his name seems to have dropped out of headlines & the effort to cast him as a "leftist" seems to have faded for what reason can't imagine. @Savsays https://t.co/RAUhbHIzcB @Savsays https://t.co/RAUhbHIzcB"
X Link 2025-11-11T05:18Z 273.8K followers, 378.3K engagements
"poor Biden we wonder if seeing what has followed him he would have behaved with more alacrity & practicality listened to his advisors giving sound advice about the border replaced M. Garland with a real prosecutor. dealt firmly with Netanyahu. it seems wrong to blame a well-intentioned old-style bipartisan politician for being (perhaps) in over his head confronting the T***p juggernaut so well-funded especially in retrospect but--how different the US could be if Biden had made a few different decisions. agree disagree @mmpadellan If we were gonna end up with an old white guy president anyway"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:33Z 273.7K followers, 36.9K engagements
"but no not really. the old cliche that a good woman can convert a not-so-good man or should: alcoholic redeemed by loving wife or gambler or borderline personality or outright criminal or insipid con-man. flash-forward to "good woman" trapped in a miserable marriage to a narcissist & never ever can she divorce. @JoyceCarolOates But he learns to love her so much that he changes his ways and almost magically becomes a real band leader. I think it's charming. @JoyceCarolOates But he learns to love her so much that he changes his ways and almost magically becomes a real band leader. I think it's"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:29Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"recently on Twitter there was a discussion of marriage & consequences of entering into a legally binding contract with another person. my feeling is that many/most people don't quite grasp that there are two dimensions of marriage: the outward/social/"romantic" bond of two persons often celebrated in a festive setting i.e. a wedding--bride bridal gown family & friends; & the contractual bond which is meant to protect children perhaps by legally binding two people together & assuring some sort of financial responsibility over all. it's this second dimension that can become a noose in time &"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:45Z 273.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Biden probably lost the presidency with this single appearance on TV. such amateur-ism following this demands for him to step aside hurriedly choosing his vice-president to run for the presidency not allowing for other candidates to be considered. it is hard to comprehend these missteps which yes were recognized as missteps at the time not just in retrospect. so we have a near-police state now with ICE spending many billions on building detention centers. & a president openly/brazenly hoping to rig or even cancel elections. @JoyceCarolOates It is my understanding he had been sick and was also"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:33Z 273.8K followers, 13.1K engagements
"essential they're tracking & harassing US citizens who didn't vote for T***p. we are all much safer without "homeland security" threatening non-MAGA citizens. @BNONews Maybe it's a wrong time to see this happening. Regardless of political differences keeping essential agencies funded and operational should be a priority. I hope leaders come together quickly to resolve this and ensure stability and security for the country. @BNONews Maybe it's a wrong time to see this happening. Regardless of political differences keeping essential agencies funded and operational should be a priority. I hope"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:03Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"who writes Melania's talks string of vacuous words resembled AI-speech. @JoyceCarolOates https://t.co/WJZJhSIIBx @JoyceCarolOates https://t.co/WJZJhSIIBx"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:44Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"is it clear from the article what the posting was that resulted in this person's arrest what is mentioned seems very mild & not even directly involving C. Kirk"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:41Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Thrilled to get royalties from my onetime appearance (sic) on the Simpsons"
X Link 2025-11-05T20:57Z 273.8K followers, 482.7K engagements
"in virtually every advice column the panacea is: "see a therapist." yet in real life many therapists with whom we are acquainted are not particularly intelligent or original-thinking persons; they may be good-hearted sympathetic but inevitably veer toward a conformist notion of How to Behave. they only know what they've been taught. in one case a psychoanalyst acquaintance male behaved horribly toward his own wife disinclined to drive her for medical appointments so that she had to appeal to friends. (who stepped forward.) surely ChatGPT would at least say a few cheering-up words to the"
X Link 2025-12-07T16:05Z 273.8K followers, 889.2K engagements
""The move to cancel gender studies is explicitly justified as a way to comply with Donald Trumps executive order of last year titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. That document makes the biological reality of sex a matter not of science but of law." (Guardian) what a surreal world we are living in we (women) had never realized that we required being Defended from Gender Ideology Extremism by the Chief Executive from whom it has been charged numerous girls & women have required defending."
X Link 2026-02-14T14:22Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A Facebook Warrior Retreats After a Charlie Kirk Post Got Him Jailed https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/larry-bushart-facebook-charlie-kirk.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/larry-bushart-facebook-charlie-kirk.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:41Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"it has always been evident that the Epstein scandal has nothing to do with political parties--Republican Democrat. those who participated belong to one single historically "immune-from-blame" party: rich men/ men with influence/ men who hold most women in contempt/ men who have been entitled/ men smug about committing crimes that others with less wealth & influence would be arrested & incarcerated for. there have always been Epsteins & there have always been these men. maybe [----] will put a temporary end to some of them. @RpsAgainstTrump https://t.co/6IVZTvMpf1 @RpsAgainstTrump"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:22Z 273.8K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Epsteins Ties With Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fund-Raising https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/us/epstein-files-academic-funding-colleges.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/us/epstein-files-academic-funding-colleges.htmlsmid=tw-share"
X Link 2026-02-16T13:51Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"fun to have this delivered to the lawn of a friend as a practical joke. must weigh tons & no one could haul it away. THIS IS FUCKING EMBARRASSING 🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣 WHAT THE FUCK🤡 WOW🤡🙄🤦 https://t.co/0Ad1QhYcHn THIS IS FUCKING EMBARRASSING 🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣🤡🤣 WHAT THE FUCK🤡 WOW🤡🙄🤦 https://t.co/0Ad1QhYcHn"
X Link 2026-02-16T17:06Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"actually they do at least in some areas of NJ. literally you cannot leave after a procedure unless it is determined that you are picked up by a relative or a friend--no commercial arrangements. they check by calling cell phones & greeting the driver at the door. maybe it is less restrictive elsewhere-- you are lucky. @JoyceCarolOates Yeah thats what they say. My friend got into a car accident and she texted me saying she couldnt make it. I told them my ride was running late and I called an uber. They didnt even know I left. They are not going to hold you hostage @JoyceCarolOates Yeah thats"
X Link 2026-02-16T19:08Z 273.8K followers, [----] engagements
"really don't residents of Alberta have a vote in this Canadians eager to give up their health care for US insane medical/insurance costs & a promise of ICE terrorizing their schools & churches must be very naive or deprived of news. good luck 🚨 UPDATE: In a bombshell revelation that's sending shockwaves through Canada Alberta separatist lawyer Jeff Rath CONFIRMS he has been meeting with high-level officials in the Trump administration. He claims U.S President Donald Trump will recognize Alberta as a sovereign state. https://t.co/jmi1UfXGjI 🚨 UPDATE: In a bombshell revelation that's sending"
X Link 2026-02-16T22:18Z 273.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"poets too are "strippers"--paring back skin to reveal what's beneath. I bought a new phone today and sadly said goodbye to my blackberry. The woman beside me paid in cash--700 dollar bills she'd earned as a stripper. https://t.co/4mLlZQlgET I bought a new phone today and sadly said goodbye to my blackberry. The woman beside me paid in cash--700 dollar bills she'd earned as a stripper. https://t.co/4mLlZQlgET"
X Link 2024-09-18T05:08Z 273.8K followers, 799.3K engagements
"no never. I don't even know what that means. this is an Avedon photo for the New Yorker to accompany a memoir. .@JoyceCarolOates did you actually say this https://t.co/54yqCmcdka .@JoyceCarolOates did you actually say this https://t.co/54yqCmcdka"
X Link 2025-03-25T00:33Z 273.8K followers, 1.7M engagements
"let's consider this seriously. possibly [----] times in my life I have been asked "What is the book that changed your life"--or-- "What is the film that changed your life" are these serious questions exactly how does a film change one's life if your life is so insubstantial so fragile & haphazard that a movie can change it then another movie seen next week will change it again. @JoyceCarolOates Strange concept for an artist to scoff at Joyce @JoyceCarolOates Strange concept for an artist to scoff at Joyce"
X Link 2025-10-30T12:20Z 273.8K followers, 989.6K engagements
"So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates scenes from nature pet dog or cat praise for a movie music a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friends or relatives accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the most wealthy person in the world. hello i would like to report a"
X Link 2025-11-08T21:22Z 273.8K followers, 5.8M engagements
"It is particularly strange to argue against empathy since empathy is generated by a normal human brain registering a mirror likeness in another person: an involuntary/instinctive recognition that the other person is in an essential way identical with you. notoriously psychopaths dont register this kinship & can even murder blood relatives without emotion. Hardly an ideal for humankind. @JoyceCarolOates it is strange the billionaires usually become far rightwing politically. Power corrupts as Lord Acton wrote. They lose all empathy. @JoyceCarolOates it is strange the billionaires usually"
X Link 2025-11-10T16:36Z 273.8K followers, 508.5K engagements
""wherever he goes he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. @JoyceCarolOates Wherever he goes he wants to leave: SA Canada ultimately the U.S. in the long run based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd to say the least. He seems to have no capacity for a normal level of appreciation. @JoyceCarolOates Wherever he goes he wants to leave: SA Canada ultimately the U.S. in the long run based on his behavior. This also includes"
X Link 2025-11-11T01:49Z 273.8K followers, 6.6M engagements
"why not language is an instrument & some utilize its myriad features; others it seems do not. if semicolons baffle or offend you colons must be terrifying: just clap your hands over your eyes & toddle away. @JoyceCarolOates You really do use a lot of semicolons though @JoyceCarolOates You really do use a lot of semicolons though"
X Link 2025-11-14T10:28Z 273.8K followers, 235.5K engagements
"SAD--seasonal affect disorder"
X Link 2025-12-10T00:06Z 273.8K followers, 366.7K engagements
"Bluesky is too good for me; Twitter is more the "scrimmage of life" of which DH Lawrence spoke the realm of being that the novel inhabits. Everybody on Bluesky is missing out on Joyce Everybody on Bluesky is missing out on Joyce"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:40Z 273.8K followers, 305.8K engagements
"it must be known by now whose name occurs in the Epstein files the most quite a competition would guess that T***p is in the lead with [-----] references; does anyone else come close "I have the biggliest numbers no one has ever seen such numbers people come up to me & say "Sir You have the biggliest number of references in the Epstein files ever" NEW/WOW: New York Times identified more than [----] files containing more than [-----] references to Donald Trump in latest Epstein files. Interesting Of DOJ's release ONLY a Few of files date back to when the two men were friends. This is the cover up"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:11Z 273.8K followers, 24.5K engagements
"somehow this so-casual cutesy references to "fresh muffins" & "steaks" is among the most obscene emails in what we have seen of the Epstein files. to learn that the emailer is a woman named Susan Hamblin who'd founded an adoption charity is overwhelmingly disgusting. Heres the founder of an adoption charity asking Epstein if he needed any new steaks for his island because he only had two left https://t.co/x1ig35Rvcu Heres the founder of an adoption charity asking Epstein if he needed any new steaks for his island because he only had two left https://t.co/x1ig35Rvcu"
X Link 2026-02-03T06:03Z 273.8K followers, 945.2K engagements
"in these discussions no one ever seems to show concern for transgender women who if imprisoned with men would be repeatedly brutalized; as if a transgender woman should not expect to have rights like anyone else. we should protect everyone--of course. prisons are notorious for not adequately protecting inmates--any all inmates. (but most inmates are vulnerable to guards not other prisoners. of all groups of persons transgender women are most vulnerable to rape murder. ironic to cast them as victimizers & not more often victims.) yes & if so it was the fault of the prison administration."
X Link 2026-02-03T17:07Z 273.8K followers, 220.3K engagements
"it has been a brainwashing campaign. once a portion of the country could be counted upon to be ablaze with fury & disgust over "mixed marriages"--absolutely taboo then over time outrage shifted to "same-sex marriages"--initially abhorred then by degrees assimilated into ordinary life. now to deflect attention away from oligarchs sex trafficking of children anything involving T***p & high-rank GOP shift scapegoating to a tiny fraction of the population: transgender persons. it does suggest the power of brainwashing. propaganda media has to work hard to rouse up passion fury over individuals"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:23Z 273.8K followers, 226K engagements
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