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Jstheater

@jstheater.bsky.social
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Author of some books & more, professor, translator, artist+ 🏳️‍🌈 🖤💚❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️ (Avatar: c/o I.D. Mag/photo © Mario Sorrenti)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026
Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows that Prince had a period in the late 80s when he was quite enamored with Chicago house music, and he created (at least) a gospel-tinged house album, for which he tried to enlist Mark Moore of S’express, Patti Labelle for vocals, and maybe William Orbit.
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The New Negroni @omweekes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have a chapter coming out about Black autofiction that could have just been about Zami but thinks about the genre through @jstheater.bsky.social’s Annotations and Alison Millls Newman’s Francisco. There’s so much to talk about beyond Heti and Cusk.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
REGISTER. COME. Gathering toward another way of being in relation. JOIN US.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is good news because China accounts for one-fifth of humankind.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 31/08/2026
Did you know there were people of African descent in Anglo-Saxon England? DNA analysis at two 7th century AD cemeteries found two individuals had a grandparent from sub-Saharan West Africa. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #InternationalDayforPeopleofAfricanDescent 🏺 #Archaeology 📷 Lilian Ladle
Several archaeologists wearing high-vis vests excavating graves. In the background an excavator stands amongst piles of earth.
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
just preordered this: rednuncollective.org/store/p/shri...
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Shrine: A Little Book About Paul Thek — RED NUN COLLECTIVE
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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 15/08/2026
"There's nothing ethically wrong with what I'm doing, but for some uh, other reason, I cannot allow anyone to know I'm doing it"
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/08/2026
We told you this would happen. ♥️🕊️👍🏿
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Terrific piece.
For the professional contrarian, the man who is simply Asking Questions even though those questions aways – without fail – are in service of right-wing interested, mom and dad usually take the form of normie liberals and their favored media outlets. Anything these folks profess to believe – including easily provable reality – is not just wrong, according to the contrarian, but dangerous and censorious. Mom and dad say this or that political development is bad, so it must actually be good. 
Mom and dad, you see, are not cool. The political movement that permits you to be your worst self is quite cool. For the teenage-brained contrarian, the choice is easy.
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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A question for readers & writers here on Bsky: what are some works you'd consider *contemporary* notable examples of what would be labeled "the poet's novel." I'm thinking not simply of novels *by* poets, but of novels that defy usual fictional expectations & unfold on highly poetic/lyrical axes.
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Bill Atkinson @atkinsopht.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Another round of intense heat is expected to sweep across large swaths of Europe this week. Forecasters warned that rapidly rising temperatures, combined with persistently bone-dry conditions, could worsen a severe threat of wildfires." @climatecasino.net www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/w...
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Europe Braces for Another Heat Wave. Here’s What to Know.
High temperature warnings were in place across western, central and southern Europe on Sunday as a heat dome intensifies across the continent.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Might keep a copy of this in my wallet.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026
Nobody is less interested in what *actual* rural people & interest groups *actually* say & want than the rural romanticizers always lecturing Dems to reach out more.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Studio photo of a Black African women wearing a beautiful dress in a printed fabric.

Caption:
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, Johns Hopkins public health
researcher, was detained by immigration agents while
boarding a domestic flight this week. (Johns Hopkins
University)
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Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 28/07/2026
NEW: Do Democrats funded by AIPAC pay an electoral penalty in a general election? We find that a Democrat funded by AIPAC performs significantly worse against a Republican than a Democrat who “rejects all outside financial support from industry groups and PACs.”
 "In a Matchup Against a Republican, a Democrat Funded by AIPAC Underperforms a Democrat Who Rejects Outside PAC Money."

In this experiment, respondents were shown hypothetical general election matchups between a Republican and a Democratic candidate, both with a randomized source of outside funding. The chart shows how each funding source affects a Democratic candidate's average performance relative to a Democratic candidate who "rejects all financial support from outside industry groups and PACs."

Planned Parenthood funding is associated with a +1.8pp effect. Nurses unions: -0.8pp. Police unions: -2.0pp. Real estate development industry: -2.7pp. Oil and gas industry: -3.1pp. National Rifle Association (NRA): -4.2pp. Pharmaceutical industry: -4.9pp. Cryptocurrency industry: -4.9pp. Artificial Intelligence industry: -5.3pp. American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC): -6.2pp.

July 17–19, 2026 survey of 1,207 U.S. likely voters. From Data for Progress.
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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I know Fauci rightly has been advised to plead the 5th since this is a set up but in another universe he might remind Moreno that DJT was president when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the economy collapsed & over 100,000+ Americans died of Covid-19. Too many forget that.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"What is Fascism?" The third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin today" A guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...
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What is Fascism?
The third lecture in my new course, "Hitler and Stalin today."
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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wackiest AI scam email I've received yet--I'm invited, under an incorrect name, to participate in a Boozy Book Lovers' (!) chat in DC for a book I've never written about a state I've never visited. The actual author appears to be an AI creation too. Good times, good times 🤡!
Wacky scam email from fake book promo program.
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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Let's try this again, w/out typos: First there were the rando promo (scam) emails. Recently, new ones have been coming from ClaimsHero about AI claims, etc. No thanks for me. But don't just take my word for it: writerbeware.blog/2025/11/07/p...
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Predatory Opt-Outs: The Speculators Come for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement - Writer Beware
The enormous, $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright class action settlement is reputedly the biggest copyright infringement recovery in history. With such a high-profile case, it’s inevitable that eligible...
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karima @nightshade.blacksky.app · 28/07/2026
Her oeuvre will continue resonating with folks struggling against misogynoir, other forms of anti-Black racism, and white supremacy. May she now rest in celestial peace.
Liberation of Aunt Jemima: Cocktail (1973), my favorite piece by Betye Saar, is described as "a glass bottle featuring the visage of a smiling mammy, which she transformed into a Molotov cocktail" (https://archive.is/20260727213835/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-07-27/betye-saar-dead-artist-assemblage-aunt-jemima-99).
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Betye Saar by Kayla James, 2024 #RIP "Saar says that it’s about keeping everything clean, keeping politics clean, keeping your life clean, your actions clean. She wants America to clean up its act and a lot of her art has to do with this idea that we haven’t cleaned up our act." - Wendy NE Ikemoto
Colour portrait of Saar, smiling & wearing a denim jacket.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Betye Saar in her studio, with Black Girl’s Window 📷 Bob Nakamura, 1970 #RIP "The piece represents a cross section of Ms. Saar’s interests, & signaled the turn her practice would take toward found objects & more overtly political content." - Jillian Steinhauer www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/a...
Black & white photo of Saar in her studio, holding one assemblage piece. Another is on the wall behind her.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#RIP Betye Saar Black Girl’s Window, 1969 Museum of Modern Art Saar was inspired by Joseph Cornell's shadow boxes. "They were beautiful and funny and fascinating. I saw his work and realized that it was OK to make art out of anything."
Assemblage box with a black girl looking out a window. Above her, moons, stars, a skeleton, a lion, an eagle.
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#RIP Betye Saar 📷 Mimi Jacobs, 1979 "I’ve always felt that old objects hold a power. They’ve survived, and they have a sense of the previous owner. They have a spirit."
Black & white head & shoulders shot of the artist
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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The incomparable, groundbreaking artist #BetyeSaar has passed, at 99: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/a...
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Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99
Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.
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BLACKCATFOXRABBIT 🇨🇴🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🐾 @blackcatfoxrabbit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Coastal elites" are the ones literally paying people to shill for her online.
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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Apropos of the *Odyssey* conversations, I haven't seen anyone mention the great African American classisict Frank M. Snowden, Jr. (AB, PhD Harvard, taught for most of his career at Howard), who wrote 2 foundational books about Black people in antiquity.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“The AAUP stands in solidarity with Steven Thrasher, the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, who last week filed a lawsuit against Northwestern and against partisan government actors” www.aaup.org/news/northwe...
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Northwestern University’s Campaign against Free Expression
The AAUP stands in solidarity with Steven Thrasher, the inaugural Daniel H.
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Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Those divas! The movie and play have stuck with me since I was a teen. Last summer, I saw it on the big screen at IFC, and what a blast to see it in a crowd. Lately, I've obsessed over the Venable's home and how the set design encodes the queerness that censorship tried to repress.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Denise Oliver-Velez
b-w portrait of Young Lords standing in the street mostly with arms crossed. Denise Oliver-Velez has a free-standing P.A. propped on top of head/Afro. She is bracing it with one hand. Her posture is straight. But her eyes look to the side.

Caption: Ms. Oliver-Velez, center, participating in a rally in Newark in 1970 with other members of the Young Lords. She was outspoken regarding her struggles with the group's male-dominated leadership. David Fenton/Getty images
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
matthew always brings the receipts
• A law called the "Food Traceability Rule," designed to make tracing contaminated food easier, was supposed to go into effect on January 20, 2026.
• Taylor Foods started paying Sidley Austin to lobby. on "regulation of food safety" in January of 2025.
• On March 20, 2025, FDA announced they were pushing back the implementation of the "Food Traceability Rule" by 30 months.
• On March 26, 2025, Taylor Fresh Foods Inc contributed $1,000,000 to MAGA Inc, a Trump-aligned super PAC.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A quick update on the Cyclospora outbreak.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Andrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps
Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Boards! Accreditation! All the sexiest higher ed topics.
Screenshot of article which reads: At this moment, power within U.S. higher education is overwhelmingly concentrated within governing boards and governments, particularly federal and state. To better protect higher education from political attacks intended to restrict or distort its work, that power needs to be spread out to two groups with deeper practical expertise and less uniform alignment with particular ideologies: actual workers on college campuses and accreditors.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 21/07/2026
Niche post but if you want to write a story about a queer person in Europe c. 500-1000 CE your best bet is researching transmasc monks because there are surprisingly a lot of them.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So, so, so many. It's exhausting.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
yeah, ive had 50+ so far,
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Yes! It's so weird and gross.
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Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
just delete and the whole shitshow will dwindle.
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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Yeah, it’s everywhere, they’re even being sent to Icelandic authors in (not very idiomatic) Icelandic. I got ones discussing me and my books, but also for the author closest to me alphabetically on the Icelandic writer’s union‘s members’ directory.
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Yes!! And like the summaries are convincing 😩
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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Yup. Beyond annoying. Instant delete.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/07/2026
After 22 years at the helm of the United Negro College Fund, Michael L. Lomax will step down as president and chief executive of the leading advocacy organization for historically Black colleges and universities.
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Retiring United Negro College Fund leader reflects on legacy, $4 billion raised
Michael L. Lomax will step down as president in June 2027. In an interview, he discusses his tenure and the challenges ahead for historically Black institutions.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
State Department explicitly mentions "blacklists" and "McCarthy-era investigations" as effective tools at destroying the radical left. Full story: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 20/07/2026
The Guardian gets with the programme www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed
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obnoxiously pitt girl @opg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
a) college is not trade school. the point is not only to get a high paying job b) this will destroy fields like social work and librarianship, which are super important but wildly underpaid even though they often require advanced degrees in part because they’re “care” jobs primarily held by women
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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Serious q: has anyone else started receiving random AI-drafted emails from ppl linked to "book clubs" or "festivals" or Goodreads, etc., offering to promote specific books you've written? All of a sudden these emails are proliferating like kudzu. It's very recent & bizarre.
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FOX 12 Oregon @fox12oregon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Mbappé becomes first two-time Golden Boot winner and Spain wins player awards after World Cup title >> www.kptv.com/2026/07/19/mbapp-becom…
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