Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/04/2025Trump’s appointees often seem to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social writes. They “perform near-daily tone poems to a certain type of MAGA masculinity, publicly pantomiming their professional responsibilities.”bit.lyTrump’s Cosplay CabinetThe president’s appointees often appear to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs rather than actually doing them. 2440683
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/04/2025JD Vance keeps saying "the left" won't engage his arguments on Abrego Garcia. Here is a piece that attempts to directly and systematically challenge one of Vance's core assertions: That Abrego Garcia already got due process and was deemed eligible for deportation: newrepublic.com/article/1941...newrepublic.comJD Vance Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Vile Scam on Abrego Garcia CaseImplicit in the vice president's latest malevolent tweets is an admission that President Trump and his administration have so far refused to make. 25398105
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/04/2025www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/p...cnn.comWhite House advisers have kept Laura Loomer at bay for months. Then, Trump invited her in | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump arranged for far-right activist Laura Loomer to join him in the Oval Office this week for an extraordinary meeting that preceded a shake-up of his national security leadership, ... 3101624292
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi Shutikaamandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025It is good knowing I have made a positive contribution to the field 132
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi Shutikaamandayoungfolk.bsky.social @amandayoungfolk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Conspiracy theories are folklore! Like myths, they offer explanations for why the world is a certain way. Did ancient people genuinely believe myths? If people can believe in pizza gate, the idea that Zeus became a shower of gold to impregnate Danae doesn't seem so farfetched a belief. 032
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2025what could possibly go wrong 1281536403
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Trump has declared economic war on Europe. To our democratic allies respond in the Canadian way - cancel trips, boycott bourbon and any American product. Let your purchases send a message to the oligarchs. 1082106588
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaDr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran @csmaccath.com · 27/02/2025This video concludes my three-part discussion on the folkloristics of superstition by encouraging storytellers to view writing superstition-based conflict in three ways. #folklore #folkloristics #superstitionyoutu.beWriting Superstitions Part IIIYouTube video by Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran 0102
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaDr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran @csmaccath.com · 03/03/2025The new Folklore & Fiction website is live! You'll find it at the link below, and I hope you'll sign up for the archive and monthly newsletter. Many thanks to my husband and in-house web developer for doing such beautiful work. #FolkloreAndFiction #Folkbyte #Folkloristics #Folklorecsmaccath.comHome | Folklore & Fiction 0274
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaDr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran @csmaccath.com · 02/01/2025ICYMI: I've set up a feed to capture #folklore scholarship. You can contribute by using the hashtags #folkloristics, #folklorist, #folklorescholar, or #folklorescholarship. You need not be a Folklore PhD, but posts should be topical. Also, please share the feed so others can find it. TY! 0125
Debra Lattanzi Shutika @debralattanzi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025From my folklore history and theory class this week 0102
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAndy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 28/02/2025MORE REPORTING: Two of the senior D.C. attorneys demoted today were the Chief and Deputy Chief of the Federal Major Crimes section. These attorneys oversaw prosecutions involving "illegal firearms, narcotics, kidnappings, robberies, frauds, threats, child exploitation, human trafficking." 4/ 29972310
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details—Even Domestic Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ga...talkingpointsmemo.comDOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details—Even Domestic ViolenceThis article first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative... 1241607793
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Remember: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mean… 591968456
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaColin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/02/2025"Chez Fifi" is the name of a non-existent place that Seinfeld would build a whole episode around. One of Jennifer Aniston's dates on Friends would offer to take her to a place called "Chez Fifi." But no actual place with a name like this has or does or will ever exist. 5262
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaThe Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Folklore and the Digital online conference: following our ‘Digital Folklore’ conference in June 2024, we're holding a one-day online conference on ‘Folklore and the Digital’ on Saturday 29 March, 09:30-17:30 GMT. Tickets £30 (£20 for FLS members with Promo Code) folklore-society.com/event/folklo...folklore-society.comFolklore and the Digital: One-day Online Conference - The Folklore SocietyOn the digitisation of folklore collections, large language models, computational analysis, digital folklore communities, creativity with digitised folklore, and the pros and cons of digitisation 14617
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaNational Folklore Survey for England @nfsengland.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Our new website is live! Please visit and learn all about the project, the team and what we hope to achieve: www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uknationalfolkloresurvey.co.ukNational Folklore Survey for England 02310
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaOwen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 24/02/2025English National Folklore Survey! Great to see our project website up and running for this AHRC project led by David Clarke. With @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social, Sophie Parkes-Nield, Chris Bader & Diane Rodgers. More anon! www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk 25120
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi Shutikaabel @abelwithatable.bsky.social · 23/02/2025BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽 550278216217
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Friedrich Merz, Germany's new chancellor, pledged support for Ukraine will be a top priority for his government and that it must "win the war". "Victory means restoring territorial integrity" and "we are not neutral, we are not standing aside. We are on the side of Ukraine.” #GermanElection #CDU 218111182266
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaDoug @hallospaceboy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Happy Twin Peaks Day! #davidlynch #twinpeaks 1134
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/02/2025DOGE lists 1,125 canceled contracts, claiming $7.2 billion in savings—but many were already completed, meaning no money was actually saved. In fact, 417 contracts saved $0, and another 51 added up to less than $1 million. Misinformation spreads fast—sharing to set the record straight. 243292809
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Helpful explanations here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up ToWhat will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans? 701445500
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025one thing that's worth pointing out about the current wave of constituent fury at Republican town halls: the reason you're primarily seeing those viral moments in ruby red districts is because every Republican whose district is even remotely competitive is actively hiding from their constituents 663055635
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/02/2025> @ironstache.bsky.social 33063141043
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Sun rising above the football pitch this morning at ATU Mayo. @atumayo.bsky.social #speirgorm 1132
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The clock tower at ATU Mayo by the light of the silvery moon. 🌙 #acrylic #painting #speirgorm 081
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 02/02/2025A day late but made these this morning. Hopefully St Brigid’s feast has ushered in improved weather. #speirgorm #stbrigid #lafheilebride 031
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/02/2025It’s a coup. Musk and his gang are breaking laws. They should be arrested. This is not complicated. 2013702986
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/02/2025The world’s richest person, without any actual authority, is infiltrating entire govt agencies and gaining access to sensitive info. And it's being done in an effort to slash federal spending in the name of "efficiency" so America’s wealthy can get another huge tax cut. 1223542758
Debra Lattanzi Shutika @debralattanzi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decriesAt a news conference, Trump read a list of conditions he called disqualifying, but his administration started such hiring in 2019. 010
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaJerry Mayer @jeremydmayer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025We are witnessing a fundamental alteration of our federalism. Trump is linking federal funding to unrelated state political outcomes. Demanding California alter its voting laws to match GOP preferences would be like Biden telling South Carolina to legalize abortion or no hurricane relief funds. 031
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaInternet Archive @archive.org · 13/01/2025Welcome to the public domain, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical debut novel captures life, love & longing in a small Southern town. 📚✍️ Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome… #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #InternetArchive 454155
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Beautiful day for a visit to north Mayo with @debralattanzi.bsky.social and her students but don’t be fooled, the hailstones took a layer of skin with them! 051
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Had a lovely time with @debralattanzi.bsky.social & her George Mason University students visiting a range of Heritage sites in Co. Mayo plus St Brigid’s cross making in ATU Mayo @georgemasonu.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @atumayo.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social 0125
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaAoibheann Ní D @aoibheannnid.bsky.social · 11/01/2025After ice and a dusting of snow, it’s a foggy day in Mayo today. #speirgorm 051
Debra Lattanzi Shutika @debralattanzi.bsky.social · 20/12/2024‘Co-president’ Elon Musk? Trump ally tests influence in spending fight So, is this an instance of a much too-old president-elect ceding power because he’s not up to the task? 010
Debra Lattanzi Shutika @debralattanzi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Luigi Mangione and the Making of a Modern Antihero based on folklore www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comLuigi Mangione and the Making of a Modern AntiheroThe support for the alleged shooter is rooted in an American tradition of exalting the outlaw. 020
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/12/2024Pepperdine University urged students and employees to remain in place on Monday night rather than navigate the roads in Malibu, California, as firefighters battled the Franklin fire. About 3,000 people were sheltered on campus, watching through the windows as flames roared outside.nytimes.comPepperdine Students Sheltered in Place as Malibu Wildfire Raged OutsideAbout 3,000 people sheltered on the university’s campus in Malibu, Calif., overnight on Monday. Some of them watched the flames through the windows of a library. 920037
Debra Lattanzi Shutika @debralattanzi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024This is such a great movie. Highly recommend. 010
Debra Lattanzi Shutika @debralattanzi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Interesting Read: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...theatlantic.comThe Right Has a Bluesky ProblemThe X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses. 040
Debra Lattanzi Shutika @debralattanzi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I think I'm going to visit the Capitol and pee in all the men's bathrooms. Anyone with me?washingtonpost.comSpeaker Johnson restricts use of Capitol bathrooms by transgender peopleThe rule change is announced about two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly transgender individual elected to Congress. 150
Debra Lattanzi Shutika @debralattanzi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024The Onion bought InfoWars (Alex Jones website and all studio equipment). Can’t wait to see what happens next. 180
Reposted by Debra Lattanzi Shutika@profcleave @profcleave.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Hi everyone. Here’s my book on asylum and women from Latin America. #nonfiction #books #reading 1132
