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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Stephen Greenblatt, writing in his superb book “Tyrant,” on Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”:

jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump tries to justify his autocratic desires by telling Americans, “Better it is to die, better to starve, than crave the hire which first we do deserve.” “Coriolanus”

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think Senator Foghorn Leghorn purchased a defective Acme product in Schmitt.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“I’ve seen many bad people here, people who are greedy, dishonest, capable even of betrayal. We’ve got one terrible man, Epstein, who came here from some little town…” (You thought this was a description of Trump and his complicit party and MAGA base, didn’t you?)

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“On the death of Stalin and the sudden examination of conscience and sense of guilt over their moral weakness by so many who had bowed down to him.” Republicans: Take note of the moribund Trump.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Forty-eight years ago today I wrote the fall theater preview in New York magazine, including this about Elizabeth Swados: “Curiouser and curiouser it is, with her transformation of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ into a musical romp, featuring the soon-to-be-ubiquitous Meryl Streep singing the title role.”

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More credible but less absurdly cartoonish than Trump’s favorite propaganda outlet

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Twenty-five years ago, it was sports that helped bring the country back together after the devastating terror attack.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some insights into children’s books. What’s missing is the thrill children get when they come across an iconoclast: a character with a healthy skepticism for what he is being told, who questions bromides and authority, who concludes that great minds do not necessarily think alike. See Roald Dahl.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

On this day: The anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485), wherein the vanquished Richard III was immortalized by Shakespeare ("The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead"). Also, the birthday (1862) of Claude Debussy.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“That was the mystery and tragedy of war: that one man should have the right to send another to his death.”

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Happy birthday, George Orwell (born in 1903), here foretelling Trump’s MAGA cult:

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Tyrant,” by Stephen Greenblatt, on Coriolanus

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“The old popes were keen on music, on art and statues and pictures of all kinds... Healthy too chanting, regular hours, then brew liqueurs. Benedictine. Green Chartreuse. Still, having eunuchs in their choir that was coming it a bit thick.” Happy Bloomsday!

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“One of the most astonishing human traits that came to light at this time [Holocaust] was obedience…The extreme violence of totalitarian social systems proved able to paralyze the human spirit…”

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Thank you, antifa, the Greatest Generation, including those courageous soldiers who died on this day in 1944. You know, the heroes Trump called “suckers” and “losers.”

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Toady Blanche with Trump in the Oval Office. “See, he’s not sleeping. His eyes are open.”

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Happy anniversary to the 34-count Trump felony convictions.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Empire State Building lit up in Columbia blue for today’s commencement. It’s called commencement because it marks the beginning of one’s education.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social Hard to tell the real headlines from the satirical headlines

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The subversion of the once-staunch Department of Justice by Trump and the craven, unprincipled sycophants in his party

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee calls back the lovely April of her prime.”

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day! "I am a mother and my strength cannot be increased; I am a mother and my love cannot be added to." “The Crock of Gold," by James Stephens

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks...” “O wonderful son, that can so ‘stonish a mother!” Happy Mother’s Day!

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Complements the sign that indicates Slow Men Working

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is a parody, right? Trump toady celebrating Trump as first amendment championsl. It doesn’t take a mentalist to read the room: Ho hum. Another fake assassination attempt to portray Trump as victim.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, and where care lodges, sleep will never lie; but where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.” “Romeo and Juliet” Happy birthday, Shakespeare.

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🎼 “Golden slumbers fill your eyes. Trial awaits you when you rise…”

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

There is not one noble, courageous Hector in the entire GOP to say “No” to Trump

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

As France fears bankruptcy after Louis XIV’s disastrous wars, a revolutionary fervor grips the country. A plot is hatched wherein the king will be snatched, whisked away to prison, and secretly switch places with the titular figure in the novel. Has anyone in our state department suggested this?

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

During the course of an interview years ago, I asked the journalist David Halberstam if he had a pet peeve. He said this:

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Question for the sanctimonious, photo-op-loving hypocrite Mike Lawler: Any comment on your beloved Trump’s vile reaction to the death of Robert Mueller?

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Dublin

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

“Young people,” said the Philosopher, “do not know what age is, and old people forget what youth was. When you begin to grow old always think deeply of your youth, for an old man without memories is a wasted life, and nothing is worth remembering but our childhood.” Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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jkavanagh.bsky.social @jkavanagh.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The great satirist Jonathan Swift was also Dean of the Anglican St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. He had wheels installed on his pulpit in order to be moved directly over any parishioner who fell asleep during one of Swift’s hours-long sermons.

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