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Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ hcommons.org/members/clalfar 🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈‍⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
Big football game today between Ohio State and Iowa, which should bring up a whole lot of emotions for the Big Time Sports Knower, Senator Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt trying to dunk on Michigan alum El-Sayed for saying "Beat Ohio" Eric Schmitt trying to dunk on Hawkeyes fan Jack Smith, mistaking the team for the Atlanta Hawks
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
Hear me out -- Drunk History: Live
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16h
Once, I was filming an ICE flight load from a public parking lot when agents saw me, sent over a guy in a hoodie & Punisher balaclava. I walked away behind an F150. He filmed an old couple who by coincidence were taking suitcases out near where I’d been. Guess they’re in the Palantir database now!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16h
Ich sing as it doth rayne, Ich sing as it doth rayne - What a merveilous feelinge! Ich am mirthful agayne. Ich laughe loude at cloudes That glowere above, The sonne yn myne herte Ich am redy for love.
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 19h
"A National Guard member deployed to Washington, DC, is arrested on firearms charge"
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A National Guard member deployed to Washington, DC, is arrested on firearms charge
A member of the Oklahoma National Guard has been arrested for carrying an unauthorized firearm in Washington, D.C. Spec. Jakob Noonan, 22, was stopped by U.S.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h
If your favorite Greek foods are the lively vegetable dishes, this stew is for you. A simple mix of lemon, garlic and lots of herbs enliven the potatoes and spinach and using ground meat ensures a lot of flavor in very little time. nyti.ms/4hwijep
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Lemony Greek Chicken, Spinach and Potato Stew Recipe • 5★
If your favorite Greek foods are the lively vegetable dishes, this meal-in-a-bowl stew is for you. A simple mix of lemon, garlic and lots of herbs enliven the potatoes and spinach and using ground meat ensures a lot of flavor in very little time.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 14h
Me? With my claws and teeth I will will defend art and artists as essential to any version of a beautiful livable world. a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...
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"They try to kill the poets": Meredith Whittaker on art in the age of AI - A Rabbit's Foot
Chiara Towne in conversation with Meredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5h
Prepping to chat about End Times Fascism. I would like to stress that a bookclub can have two people or two hundred. The only imperative is that you do the reading & talk about it. In the 90s, Purdue’s Books & Coffee club had hundreds of members. Yesterday it was just me & one brilliant friend.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UPDATE: Despite being ordered by Judge Sullivan to produce a certified list of the contents of the Administrative Record by Oct. 1st, Todd Blanche once again has decided he doesn't want to comply. I explain why Blanche would want to avoid producing this court-ordered info: youtu.be/junhrisxRlg?...
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🚨AG Blanche IGNORES JUDGE'S ORDERS And TRIES To DELAY MY Epstein LAWSUIT!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h
It’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig
The Kiltinane churchSheela Na Gig – a strange, naked, stone female figure, with one hand raised, and the other holding open her vulva
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h
Trump fell asleep - for a full four minutes - on camera - during tonight’s White House media session. The monkeys around him had to keep jabbering to fill the embarrassing silence.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 20h
In his new book 'Profiles in Cowardice,' Jacob Weisberg devotes his final chapter to John Roberts. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b... -Preening to be seen as another John Marshall. -Destined to be known forever as this era's Roger Taney.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 20h
As I was saying...Mamdani is just epically good at this.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22h
Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h
Christa Pike remains unconscious and on ventilator after failed execution in Tennessee
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Christa Pike remains unconscious and on ventilator after failed execution in Tennessee
Attorneys say hospital staff are working to clear pentobarbital she was administered from her system
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22h
Mayor Zohran Mamdani held hands Curtis Sliwa as they got their flu shots 😂
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh, hell. I should put on a shirt
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Iranian regime has sentenced Ardabil; Sahar Mami-zadeh to 25 months in prison and 50 lashes for a social media post that “insulted the leadership”.
A young woman with brown hair and a blue shirt
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PSA: Don’t ridicule your students on social media. Even anonymously. Even if you think their behavior is ridiculous. It’s at best unseemly, and at worse, downright unethical.
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Frida Kahlo @frida-kahlo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Self Portrait, 1922 botfrens.com/collections/127/conten…
Self Portrait
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 02/10/2026
When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% ahead of the November midterms.
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US adds disappointing 29,000 jobs and unemployment ticks up to 4.2% in September
U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a time of discontent over the high cost of living and the state of the economy.
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KrysMc @krismcd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The more bizarre the President's ramblings get, the more obvious it is that Miller/Vought are actually running the government and spending the taxpayer's money on Christo-Fascist projects like diverting funds earmarked for European defense to right-wing C/S American rulers.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Republicans want to destroy public education; Democrats, even in the bluest states, believe that public education exists only for job training; this is a profound failure of political imagination
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is no meme, but from Get Shorty, "You don't know me. You just think you do." Spoken by Delroy Lindo, whose character's name escapes me at the mo.
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
slate.com/news-and-pol... @maryrziegler.bsky.social @slate.com on murderous antiabortion laws
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Tierra Walker Died From Texas’ Abortion Ban. Will Anyone Pay a Price?
All the defendants will also likely blame Walker for her own condition, given that she suffered from a constellation of issues before becoming pregnant.
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Holly Crocker @dr-mid-evil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Separate from the legal minefield of Jane Doe’s allegations...we feel acutely that basic rules of conduct have been impugned. What does it mean for college boys to cut down an incapacitated woman to a disembodied part?" apple.news/AjpI8PAjSREO...
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The Post–Me Too Generation Gets Its Me Too Moment — New York Magazine
The “Cornell Seven” case is changing what my generation thought we knew.
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"A Delco nurse has lived legally in the U.S. since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her 3-year-old son to Disneyland. Monica Ryadi was brought to the U.S at age 9 by parents fleeing religious persecution in Indonesia."
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A Delco nurse has lived legally in the U.S. since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her 3-year-old son to Disneyland.
Monica Ryadi was brought to the U.S at age 9 by parents fleeing religious persecution in Indonesia.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
Willem Dafoe reflects on his favorite chore on his farm in Italy. In this week’s Wild Card, he talks about his Midwestern roots and how he feels about growing older. Watch his whole conversation with NPR's Rachel Martin here: n.pr/4rEWg8s
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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Clocking at 645 pages, American Hagwon is a masterful realist global knowledge that weaves a tapestry of lives tied to a number of educational systems, migrations and financial catastrophes over a few decades. It shines particularly in character development.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Help democracy by staying informed. Become a Democracy Docket subscriber today. If you can afford it, become a premium member. Either way, sign up now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
broke my podcasting drought (otherwise known as maternity leave) to talk about the university omnicrisis
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meta is lying to the IRS in order to claim billions in tax breaks. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mourning dress botfrens.com/collections/223/conten…
Gift of Mrs. R. Thornton Wilson (deceased) through her husband (offered in accordance with the wishes of the donor), 1943
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth just declared victory in the wrong war… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Pete Hegseth Just Declared Victory in the Wrong War
The combative culture warrior in the Pentagon may soon be Congress’s top target.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Then Toad felt very tired and he fell asleep.
Toad naps near his garden, his Stradivarius at his side.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Maggie Mertens @maggiemertens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Given all of the news and all of the reporting I've been doing lately, I had a lot of thoughts about what we mean when we say "protect" women and women's sports and what Title IX is really for. maggiemertens.substack.com/p/do-womens-...
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Do Women’s Sports Need “Protecting”?
And who is really being protected by our current status quo?
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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This was an important and fascinating segment. Listen where you get your podcasts.
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Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are currently experiencing a widespread outage that is affecting certain areas of hcommons.org, including login to groups and WP sites. KCWorks and profiles.hcommons.org are still working. We apologize for the inconvenience and are hard at work getting login up and running again.
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Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FFS: "Cornell Police Report Omitted Student’s Claim She Was Raped: Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges."
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article)
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
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ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This ICE flight has landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Immigrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 18 hours.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Accra
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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