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Dr Amy Zigler

@dramyzigler.bsky.social
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Ethel Smyth scholar, new music pianist; Asst Professor of Musicology, UNC Greensboro; she/her; my views are my own and mostly have to do with women composers

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"One 2025 study out of M.I.T. found that people who used chatbots as writing assistants struggled to remember what they had written only minutes after finishing their essay." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
UNCG School of Music is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting!! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/350...
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting
The School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting to start August 1, 2026. We seek an artist/teacher wi...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/05/2026
Writing advice works the best when it’s a little weird. A new book of daily prompts helps writers think expansively. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
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Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest
Writers are fed a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—which provide the security that there are rules, but little else. A new book by Lucy Ives offers a more expansive view of writing advice.
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Erica Sipes @ericaannsipes.com · 17/05/2026
A very thought-provoking article about composer Ethel Smyth and the double-edged sword of being a bad-ass composer while being a woman. (My words, not the author, Leah Broad’s.) The problem of being Ethel Smyth open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...
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The problem of being Ethel Smyth
I've got a new chapter out on the reception of British "women" composers
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/05/2026
"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...
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Reviewing Course Evaluations: The Drinking Game
“If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lo...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12/05/2026
Some adults are turning to music camps as an antidote to a world of increased isolation as they decide on their summer plans.
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Adults relive the musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps reprised for grown-ups
Some adults are turning to music camps as an antidote to a world of increased isolation as they decide on their summer plans.
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 11/05/2026
Misogyny jump starting the next pandemic
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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The Washington Post has only a single arts critic left - everyone else got fired today, along with all three arts editors. (There are still a couple of excellent arts reporters.) I was so upset I dusted off my blog to have my say: annemidgette.com/blog/f/a-req...
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A requiem for arts coverage
I used to say I wished that newspapers would treat their arts sections the way they treated their sports sections. What I meant was that sports sections offered a balanced mix of news stories, feature...
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Andrew Jackson Lynch @whatsforlynch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I wrote about the movie here, if anyone is curious. (I talk about the "Gimme Shelter" stuff in a separate, smaller post, because I couldn't get it to fit in the finished piece.) www.andrewjacksonlynch.com/the-cost-of-...
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Melania — Andrew Jackson Lynch
For a minute there, I thought I was going to a private screening. When I bought my ticket for the 3:00 pm showing of Melania only forty minutes before showtime, every seat in the house was available...
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Livestream at 8pm central time theviolinchannel.com/vc-live-minn...
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VC LIVE | Minnesota Orchestra Dedicates Concert to Alex Pretti and Renée Good
World's Leading Classical Music Platform
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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 29/01/2026
"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.
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Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI'
The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Timothy Messer-Kruse @profmk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
They say to understand politics follow the money. This excellent article does that for the expanding 'civic institute' scam. Tracing the money trail leads back to a shadowy network of right-wing billionaires like the Koch family. prismreports.org/2026/01/27/c...
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Right-wing plot to set up ‘intellectual freedom centers’ at public universities
UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Florida are part of the effort to push conservative ideology on college students in the guise of civics education
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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Royal Philharmonic Society @royalphilsoc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Applications are open until Tuesday 31 March for the RPS Ambache Fund, offering grants of up to £5,000 to support performers, ensembles, venues and festivals putting music by historic women composers at the heart of their programming. Find out more: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/performers/r...
Just some of the many women composers through history whose music should be better known today: Germaine Tailleferre, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Elizabeth Maconchy, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Ruth Gipps / Florence Price, Louise Talma, Augusta Holmès, Madeleine Dring, Grace Williams, Cacilda Borges Barbosa / Ina Boyle, Leonora Duarte, Grażyna Bacewicz, Morfydd Owen, Margaret Bonds, Ingebord Bronsart.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
friends and colleagues, a new AMS update: if you signed the petition, you should've received an email outlining what has happened in the last month, communications w Council and the Board, & new info. for everyone, there's new info regarding JAMS & its editorial independence
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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Re AMS: In case you think you'd heard it all, there's a new memo from the editors of JAMS, the flagship journal. It is striking imo that the AMS didn't provide any financial data to support their perceived threat to close it down. amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co?fbclid=IwY2x...
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AMS Accountability Archive
Grassroots membership response to a professional society in crisis
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times. Jason Isbell Frank Turner Ben Folds Smyth - The Wreckers Daughters of the Revolution
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Excited to present my research on #ethelsmyth 's Der Wald today!
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
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AMS Accountability Archive
Grassroots membership response to a professional society in crisis
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Looking forward to presenting my paper, 'Love has the Victory!': Musical Representations of Female Power in Ethel Smyth's Der Wald at the AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting! #AMSMT25
Der Wald. The Forest. E.M. Smyth. 1902. Musical score cover painting of two people collapsed in front of a bonfire while others dance.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/10/2025
A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three months without being charged or having access to legal counsel under the Trump administration’s third-country program.
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A Cuban man deported by the US to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says
A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
FYI - Samantha Ege and I have a new article on Julia Perry arriving online in the latest issue of @oxfordamerican.bsky.social next Tuesday! I'm so excited for this piece to be published, I think it is one of the best writing projects I've ever been a part of
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 02/08/2025
35 years ago today, Deee-Lite released “Groove Is in the Heart,” a kaleidoscopic dance-floor explosion blending Herbie Hancock samples, Bootsy Collins funk, and a Q-Tip verse. With its trippy video and infectious beat, it became an instant club classic.
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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Genuinely, if any SE Michigander wants a tuba for this purpose, my brother bought a tuba exactly for this reason (I am not joking) and then realized he's not great at playing it. So if you want a tuba, DMs open. (A reasonable offer would be appreciated, probably.)
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
we all know how hard i support the democracy tuba movement
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Just finished my first year teaching at UNCG School of Music! Huge congrats to all the students, including MM composition grads Kevin Leroy Grant Jr and Westly Heflin. And many kudos to my first-year mentor, Joan Titus! One year down, many more to go!
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Megan Lavengood @meganlavengood.com · 29/04/2025
I wrote a letter to the editor of Music Analysis about a 39-page review of Phil Ewell's book that they published. I think it could have used some … editing. It's open access for now while it's pre-print so enjoy while you can. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I wonder in what other contexts we might see such a review published in a journal as prestigious as Music Analysis. Would Music Analysis publish a review of a book on Mozart that did not make connexions to existing Mozart literature? Would such sarcasm and misreading survive the editing process in a review of a book by Joseph Straus or David Huron? Would a graduate student representative of Project Spectrum be given the latitude to write a 39-page review (including two and a half pages discussing the reviewer's own work despite its dubious relevance, four pages of ‘vignettes’, three pages on the recent actions of the Jazz Interest Group, more than 1500 words of block quotes from the book in question and 1200 more in block quotes from other sources)? I urge the editors to take care and reflect on who gets to publish such things, who doesn't and the effects of such a publication.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Music folks (not just AMS): We have to be in this together. “There is no government agency or large foundation coming to save us. If the ecosystem of music scholars, teachers, performers, and organizations is to survive, we will have to save ourselves.” www.amsmusicology.org/coalition-of...
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Coalition of Music Organizations to Help Address Lost Grant Access
The AMS launches a voluntary association of music organizations designed to strengthen the music and education sector.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Cannot even imagine being this poor kid, one minute you're dicking around with your friends in NYC and the next you're brought to a prison in a foreign country despite having no previous run-ins with the law or anything. www.newsweek.com/merwil-gutie...
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ICE agents realize they arrested wrong teen, say 'take him anyway'
Merwil Gutiérrez, was deported to El Salvador's notorious super prison, despite his family's insistence that he has no gang ties or criminal history.
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”
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Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
60,000 North Carolina voters now have 15 days to cure their ballots. Not to be crazz but: are there 1000 volunteers on this site willing to track down 60 voters each & help them do it? I kind of think there are? Literally, here's the .xls file (& explanation): www.ncsbe.gov/information-...
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Information for Voters Challenged in Election Protest | NCSBE
The State Board of Elections is providing the following information, in response to messages received from voters asking about a mailing they received concerning an election protest.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/04/2025
Breaking News: Thousands of voters must verify their eligibility or have their ballots in the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court race thrown out, a court ruled, a win for the Republican candidate who narrowly lost the election in November and challenged the result.
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Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election
The ruling was a win for the Republican who narrowly lost a State Supreme Court race in November. The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation.
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Generally how I'm feeling these days.
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My new music ensemble Winnfield Quartet performs one week from today! #newmusic
Orange poster with 2 men and 2 women advertising a concert on 11 April by Winnfield Quartet in Greensboro, NC.
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Reported in the German press....
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RadioFreeBronx | MD ANT 🥇 @radiofreebronx.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
UK Subs detained
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Shout out to violinist Sofia Yatsyuk for her article on #EthelSmyth and #RebeccaClarke in The Strad magazine AND the release of her debut album! www.thestrad.com/playing-hub/...
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What Dame Ethel Smyth and Rebecca Clarke can teach us this International Women’s Day
Violinist Sofia Yatsyuk examines the extraordinary achievements of the two composers ahead of an album release of violin and piano works, coinciding with International Women's Day
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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I found the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth's Mass in D safely held in the Special Collections & Archives of the University of Liverpool. Thanks to @livunilibrary.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social @hannahmillington.bsky.social & @dramyzigler.bsky.social! www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/news/s...
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Original Manuscript score of Dame Ethel Smyth’s 'Mass in D' discovered by Department of Music staff | Stories | Department of Music | University of Liverpool facebooklinkedininstagramThe Origina...
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is such an exciting find for #EthelSmyth research! The presumed lost complete manuscript of the Mass in D has been found!! Congrats on this find, @lisacolton.bsky.social and the archivists @livunilibrary.bsky.social !
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Faber Music @fabermusic.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Out today: The Faber Music Women Composers Piano Anthology 🎹Suitable for intermediate pianists 💐Over 50 pieces from women spanning several centuries 🎼Many pieces in print for the first time 🖼️Featuring 'A Conversation' by Vanessa Bell on the cover #IWD2025
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I stand with Ukraine and President Zelensky.
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Dr Amy Zigler @dramyzigler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Called my representative. Felt ineffectual and powerful at the same time.
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