Carole V. Bell

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🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell

Sign in a Harvard dorm window reads: Veritas requires backbone.
broad backlash this week when he posted a transcript from a right-wing podcast in which the host referred to China and India as “hellhole” places and said recent immigrants from those countries had not “integrated” into America as “European Americans” had. The transcript, which Mr. Trump posted on his Truth Social account on Wednesday night, came from a recent episode of “The Savage Nation,” hosted by Michael Savage, a popular conservative talk radio host. Mr. Trump also posted the original video clip of Mr. Savage’s podcast.
An ai image posted on truth social by Donald Trump shows him in the heavens touching a man’s glowing forehead. An American flag in the background. Cloaked in robes with light surrounding him and a glow in his hand, Trump looks like a holy man or deity.
Two puppies, a golden retriever and a frenchy, recording a podcast.
Bar chart compares total revenue by year for Amazon and Walmart from 2013 to 2025. In 2013 Walmarts revenue dwarfed Amazon but Amazon’s share rose rapidly over time at a faster rate finally surpassing Walmart in 2025.
The first half of a Barrons Chart of stock market performance by presidential term runs from Eisenhower 1953 to 1957 to George HW Bush in 1989-1993. Nixon is lowest. Eisenhower is strongest.
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi from the new movie version of Wuthering Heights are pictured as Cathy embraced by Heathcliff against stormy skyline on the special movie edition cover of Wuthering Heights.
Below a New York Times headline that read “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk” there are two images side by side: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton pictured facing opposite directions. Byline: is Maureen Dowd April 40 2016.
“My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.” “You are mistaken,” said he gently, “that is not good company, that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice.
Glowing shots of the two young handsome male stars of tv show Heated Rivalry on HBO Max.
Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying the agency is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country and is sending messages that feel exclusionary. Pictures are six posters featuring stylized ai-generated images of white male worker in the style of the 1950s and resembling WWII propaganda posters.
Solar panels remain beyond the reach of many Jamaicans, but prices are falling rapidly as Chinese gear floods into the market. In recent years the Jamaican government has also started providing a solar income-tax credit, and banks have begun to offer more financing. Jamaica’s electric utility also now compensates solar households for excess electricity they put back into the grid. That’s helping Jamaica make progress toward its goal of generating 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
Regardless of which names appear on the ballot, Wu is in an exceedingly strong position to win reelection this fall. She took a staggering 72 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election, and won 264 of 275 city precincts
Epstein’s Inbox article headline and graphic showing Jefffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s faces in profile.
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign.
Bernice King posted a screen shot of a post by Charlie Kirk that reads: It's time to ban third world immigration, legal or illegal. We've reached our limit and we have a huge cultural, educational, housing, financial, and essential services problem to fix now because of it. We need a net-zero immigration moratorium with a ban on all third worlders.
A loud cheer erupted in the hallway of the JW Marriott in Buckhead where hundreds of women lined up for entry into the Phoenix Ballroom. I couldn’t see through the throngs of people, but I would later learn that the high-pitched screams, the kind which are generally reserved for musicians or movie stars, were instead offered to a writer of women’s fiction.
Artist Janelle Mona’s wears a two tone red and black divided suit with a top hat and carries an alligator print bag on the starry blue carpet at the Met Gala.
Liu Wen wears a crushed maroon velvet suit with a snatched waist in the met gala blue carpet.
Pope Francis greets the faithful on the streets of a favela in Rio De Janeiro. 2013. Photo by Lulu Garcia Navarro.
Nearly 400,000 people who left Venezuela now live in Florida. Adelys Ferro, the director of the Venezuelan American Caucus, says, "We are human beings who work here, who are small business owners." Ferro says Venezuelans exiled here "actually believe that the TPS was the right way to get legal in the United States, to have our work permits, to have a social security number, to be able to buy a house."
Text reads Annabel Monaghan in conversation with Jane Costello above a photo of the two women and the book cover for It’s Getting Hot In Here, Jane’s new book. Thursday Feb 6 2025 at 7 pm Tampa. Steamy Lit book store logo.
Alligator on the bank of a neighborhood pond.
Mossy greenery and palms in a fields in a Central Florida nature park. Flatwoods park Hillsborough County Fl.
Jason Segal as over zealous therapist Jimmy in the TV show Shrinking says “I’m a psychological vigilante.”
In autocratic countries with “extractive” institutions – countries that lack fair elections, independent media, and impartial application of the rule of law – directly entering politics offers the superrich more reliable ways to protect their wealth…
The colorful and artistic Book cover of This Motherless Land features the overlapping profiles of two women. Against a purple background one face is rendered in yellow and the other in deep orange. A palm tree sprouts in the hair of the darker skinned. A double strand of white pearls creates a ring around their both necks.
The book cover art for the novel This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour features a rainbow colored sunset over a mountain.
Book cover Anita de Monte Laughs Last, a Reese's book club pick is rendered in pink and orange with a young woman's face framed by an ivy covered arch.
The book cover of Guide Me Home by Attica Locke shows a sunsetting in the distance over a rural dirt road with a large white star superimposed over that as a frame around the book title.
Mateo Askaripour and Stuart Turton in conversation at Miami Book Fair.
A small pond and two buildings at Orlando Airport and train hub.
In a screen shot from The Talented Mr Ripley, against a perfect blue sky, a tall imperious Jude Law is standing, peering down at an intimidated Matt Damon while they're on a small boat out in the Mediterranean sea.
Vanity fair magazine digital cover is a photo close up on Donald Trump who’s scowling. The Text down the side reads: 34 Felony Convictions 1 conviction 2 Cases Pending 2 Impeachments 6 bankruptcies 4 more years The 47th American president
Color graphic. A wad of American dollars shooting into the sky like a rocket.
A group screenshot of a Zoom call with Black Widow/ Scarlett Johansson, the Hulk /Mark Ruffalo, Ironman /Robert Downey Jr, Stark bestie James Rhodes /Don Cheadle, JARVIS/Paul Bettany, General Okoye/Danai Gurira, and Captain America Chris Evans.
This newspaper sees that argument as recklessly complacent. America may well breeze through four more years of Mr Trump, as it has the presidencies of other flawed men from both parties. The country may even thrive. But voters claiming to be hard-headed are overlooking the tail risk of a Trump presidency. By making Mr Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace.
A screenshot of a formal wedding scene from the 1984 political campaign ad for Ronald Reagan. The groom is a young white man in a tuxedo and the bride is a young white woman in a white lace wedding gown.
1980 to 2024 12 Month Projected Change. CPI
THE MAJOR ECONOMIC ISSUES
Photo of Kamala Harris standing in front of several USA flags. Caption: Vice President Harris: I've been hearing reports that Trump’s team is saying he's suffering from exhaustion. That's apparently the excuse for why he's not doing interviews. Being President is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world. We really do need to ask, if he's exhausted being on the campaign trail, is he fit to do the job?
Screenshot of post from Kamala Harris HQ Text: Vice President Harris to Fox: I'm offering a plan to deal with affordable housing, strengthen small businesses, and give young parents the help they need. 16 Nobel laureates, Goldman Sachs, Moody’s, and the Wall Street Journal have all studied our plans and have indicated my plans would strengthen our economy while Trump’s would ignite inflation and invite a recession.
This week alone she interviews with… -The Shade Room -Charlamagne -Fox News I love how undeniably fearless she is. 🔥
New York Times alert. Times logo on left. Text reads: V.P. Debate Highlights A smooth JD Vance tried to rewrite the history of the Trump presidency. Tim Walz had a rocky start but found his voice on abortion and Jan 6.