Reposted by Michael CassaraNational Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) @namt.org · 30/06/2025🎭✨ BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨🎭 Meet the writers behind this year's 8 new shows selected for NAMT’s 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals! 📅 July 10 | 🕔 5 PM ET | 🖥️ Zoom (no reg. needed!) Join us to meet the next wave of musical theatre talent & raise a toast to the future of the art form 🍾🎶 052
Reposted by Michael CassaraSarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 01/04/2025If you were a halfway decent human being and you knew an innocent man was rotting in foreign prison—likely suffering nightmarish conditions—because your administration screwed up and send him there, you’d do something about it immediately instead of shitposting lies all day. 642193184474
Reposted by Michael CassaraThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/04/2025Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent.nytimes.comSusan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Despite Elon Musk’s MillionsSusan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court. 1805043725
Reposted by Michael CassaraDr. Maya Cantu @mayamcantu.bsky.social · 22/03/20252) On the myth of a Broadway ‘Golden Age.’ He said, ‘The Golden Age of musicals is always the one before…the one that you missed.’ 191
Reposted by Michael CassaraSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful. 499147503088
Reposted by Michael CassaraJay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 21/02/2025A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7... 1220039
Reposted by Michael CassaraDaniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 20/02/2025Hey, #Genealogy community, assuming I am competent enough to have done this right. (😅) with #RootsTech2025 not too long away, any post relating to RootsTech [which will pick up various hashtags], that'll be the one-stop feed to pin to keep up with it all! bsky.app/profile/dani... Please RT! 02819
Reposted by Michael CassaraPast To Present Genealogy @janeroberts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Rabbit hole alert. Newspapers.com free access weekend. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudynewspapers.comHistorical Newspapers from the 1700's-2000sThe largest online newspaper archive. Used by millions every month for historical research, family history, crime investigations, journalism, and more. 1118
Reposted by Michael CassaraPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender. 365911625521072
Reposted by Michael CassaraPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here. 1765816992212786
Reposted by Michael CassaraJudy G. Russell @legalgen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Records access in New York is under threat!! Speak out NOW to keep access to vital records for genealogists! #Genealogy @FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...legalgenealogist.comCall to action: New York!Speak out on records access It's starting again. Every so often, records access -- particularly access to vital records -- goes on the chopping block. And access to these critical records for family h... 13827
Reposted by Michael CassaraDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I don’t want there to be six more weeks of anything 211311129
Michael Cassara @michaelcassara.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I recently had a young person submit on a project, stating that "olden age musical theatre" was their passion. You know what, young person - I'm with you. #old #olden #musicaltheatre 0170
Reposted by Michael CassaraRev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ. 193131113964
Michael Cassara @michaelcassara.bsky.social · 18/01/2025It's like Krispy Kremes are engineered to be worn. 020
Reposted by Michael CassaraBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 14/01/2025Here's a thing I've just learned, though I don't recall from whomst I learned it: If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results. 2428490
Michael Cassara @michaelcassara.bsky.social · 06/01/2025...that's the sound of schedule-sent e-mails, landing throughout the land, to e-mail auto-responders that haven't quite been turned off yet... 010
Reposted by Michael CassaraMark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 03/01/2025With Covid cases on the rise in NYC as part of expected winter surge… Reminder that every household can order 4 free home covid tests from the federal gov't. You will receive the test kits via USPS in a few days. Just go to covidtests.gov or call 800-232-0233. 18246135
Reposted by Michael CassaraLara Diamond @laradiamond.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I was a beta tester for @reclaimtherecords.org’s awesome new BIRLS service. If you have relatives who served in the US #military & lived in the 20th century, check it out! Here's some of what I got so far. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/12/us-m...larasgenealogy.blogspot.comUS Military Records via BIRLS - My Beta User ExperienceGenealogy tips & stories tracing family with microfilmed records, records in Ukrainian archives, and (sometimes) online records. Jewish genealogy blog 3297
Reposted by Michael CassaraReclaim The Records @reclaimtherecords.org · 25/12/2024~*~ FREE FILES FOR FESTIVUS! ~*~ We can finally announce that we sued the VA and WE WON! And it's probably the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans! And now it's online and free and downloadable and searchable AND FOIA-ABLE!!! mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...mailchi.mpReclaim The RecordsWe’re Reclaim The Records, a new not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates. We identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be... 39033
Michael Cassara @michaelcassara.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Anyone with even a passing interest in #genealogy will be extremely well-served by checking out the new database over at @reclaimtherecords.org - they have made it exceptionally easy for *anyone* to *very easily* FOIA certain US Veteran records from the VA. 1168
Reposted by Michael CassaraMetropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 03/12/2024Congestion Relief Zone tolling will begin on January 5, 2025. Toll amounts vary by type of vehicle, time of day, if any credits or discounts apply, and whether or not you’re paying with an E-ZPass. For most vehicles, the toll rate is $9 in the peak period and $2.25 overnight. 411216
Michael Cassara @michaelcassara.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I finally joined @letterboxd.social and am looking forward to finding some great movie recommendations, particularly documentaries and classics I've never seen. Anyone else on there? Would love to connect - letterboxd.com/michaelcassaraletterboxd.comMichael Cassara’s profileMichael uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 41 films watched. Favorites: The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). 160
Reposted by Michael CassaraChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024A thing everyone has forgotten is that Donald Trump basically sprang Roger Stone from prison so he could help with the coup and it was maybe a one day story. 537201534286
Reposted by Michael CassaraNPR @npr.org · 18/11/2024If you've got a fever, cough, aches and pains, and you're wondering, 'what virus got me this time?" Now you can find out, without taking a trip to the doctor.npr.orgIs it the flu or is it COVID? One at-home test can tell youIf you've got a fever, cough, aches and pains, and you're wondering, 'what virus got me this time?" Now you can find out, without taking a trip to the doctor. 772454430
Michael Cassara @michaelcassara.bsky.social · 17/11/2024See, in The Fantasticks, the old men build a wall fully aware of its futility. 0210
Reposted by Michael Cassaralizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 16/11/2024this is so wild, idk if people elsewhere have seen this, right now dems are winning a brand new supermajority in the oregon state house by a grand total of 34 votes 562389369
Reposted by Michael CassaraAlex Calzareth @alcalz.bsky.social · 09/11/2024First post here. Sharing some instructions that I put together. See sites.google.com/view/acgenti... for how to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain: 1) Alien Files for US immigrants who arrived after May 1, 1951 2)US passports issued after March 1925 3)Veterans' Claims Files 5125