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Linda A Charnes

@proflac.bsky.social
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Professor, IUBloomington. Shakespearean, Dog mom, private pilot, landlocked surfer. Author of Notorious Identity (Harvard UP); Hamlet’s Heirs (Routledge); assorted products in the Divine Right to Democracy aisle. Political Psychology at eye-level.

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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
He didn’t want the actual job of being president. He wanted one thing: to stay out of prison. Secondary—getting pending cases dropped; taking revenge on anyone who prosecuted or investigated him; capitalizing on the emoluments of the office. He got all that. And handed Musk the rest of the job.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Still and forever
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This goes out to the 34% of eligible voters who sat it out last November.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Ubermensch, jah.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
He’s gotta keep that newly-regenerated miracle ear warm that’s why.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This is SO sick. This is them. Guardians of our Republic.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Someone needs to ask Hegseth if he’s had a drink today. He’s way too wratched up.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hegseth is not a patriot, he is a zealot for Trump. He talks like a rapist, pushing pushing against others, beating them over the head with his rhetorical holyrollerdom.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hegseth is effing terrifying.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Mr Trump’s criminality is patent, extreme, treasonous, and anti-American. He is befouled by his own irredeemable corruption. It’s plain as day. We’ve become a nation half of whom simply don’t care.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Well this isn’t good. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Court strikes down US net neutrality rules
The ruling marks a significant moment in the long running battle over how to regulate internet providers.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I remember all of them, and some took years to recover from. A good NY🥳’s resolution to think twice.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Bury him in his own words. OD:
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
And a total racket it is, too. It’s not even as moral as garden -variety extortion, where at least you get something in return for your enforced payment. apple.news/ATBKvNV0oRNO...
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Americans are sick of the health insurance grinches who steal our money and our lives — Raw Story
In the past few weeks, one thing has become crystal clear in America: The public outrage after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson exposed a seething fury over the health insuranc...
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
💀💀💀
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
He is a plague, to be sure, and we have to survive his corrosive recrudescence and make sure that something like him—and his enablers— are never again able to mortally sicken our body politic. So say we all.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Think. Think harder.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The facts. No travesty of SCOTUS hocus pocus or willful irrationality by 47% of low-information/brainwashed voters will or can change those facts. Shakespeare wrote “Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning,” and he was right.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Remember when Dump wanted a military parade, like those in Russia and North Korea? I’m predicting that he’ll have one—the first in US history— parading IBMs, armored tanks, goose stepping soldiers, and heavy weapons—within his first year.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
British aristocrat SIR Andrew Witty, new CEO of United Healthcare Corporation, given editorial space to tell his lies in the NYT. I haven’t read anything quite so snooty and condescending since, well, David Brooks’s last column.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Americans—We deserve this. We pay for a service we don’t receive. Enough is enough. This should be the top goal for the Democratic and Independent parties. Demand it and don’t stop until all voters understand that it will protect ALL of us from needless death, despair, misery, and bankruptcy.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Simply superb. We need universal healthcare and we’re need it now. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/americas-h...
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America's healthcare system DOES NOT work
With UnitedHealth Group CEO “Sir” Andrew Witty finally speaking out on the assassination of Brian Thompson, the business of healthcare in America is fully under the microscope.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Happy New Year. Enjoy the Polio, courtesy of the Roadkill Eater.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
No exoneration. Not once. www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-let-t...
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Don’t Let Trump Fool You, He Was Never Exonerated
His re-election doesn’t change the damning evidence of his crimes.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
How hard could it be?
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Guaranteed by our 14th Amendment. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
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Countries with Birthright Citizenship 2024
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Once upon a time there was this flying Shakespearean in the Midwest, giving aerial tours to friends and colleagues.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Mood
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Professor Furious @professorfurious.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
From 4 years ago: "The US healthcare system is helping to kill people in staggering numbers. And when it isn’t driving Americans to an early grave, the medical industry is bleeding the rest of the country of resources..." www.theguardian.com/society/2020...
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Deaths of despair: why America’s medical industry explains working-class suicides
A system based on the corporate pursuit of profit sets the US apart from other countries, fleecing the poor to give to the rich
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Nothing will change this fact. Nothing.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Feelings? How about facts. The Medical-Insurance industry is evil, parasitical, and should be dismantled. Single-payer medicare for all citizens is the ONLY way to cure this cancer destroying lives, and standards of living, ESPECIALLY for what’s left of the middle-class. apple.news/ASy_o_WGXRI6...
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After a shocking shooting, Americans vent feelings about health insurance — NPR
The death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson triggered a deluge of painful stories about health care denials on social media.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
An awful lot of emo around this. Time for universal healthcare. www.thedailybeast.com/leading-medi...
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Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO
“When other’s human lives are deemed worthless, it is not surprising to have others view your life of no value as well,” wrote one medical doctor, whose identity the Daily Beast confirmed.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
My bluesky “roast”—not bad
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Surgeon wakes up patient in the middle of surgery to ask “how do you want to pay for the remaining anesthesia? Cash or credit card?”
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Mine from 2023. On Trump’s body self-consciousness during his town hall with CNN. washingtonmonthly.com/2023/05/16/t...
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The Lessons of Watching Donald Trump With the Sound Off | Washington Monthly
A Shakespearean scholar’s insightful take on watching the former president’s CNN town hall on mute. What comes through loudly is his insecurity, body contortions, and fear.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The body language/facial expression is unmistakable. Dump is so insecure and physically self-conscious around Trudeau. Won’t make eye contact. The usual shoulder hunch to keep his jacket and tie in front of his midsection. And he’s holding his thumb! Ungainly and awkward.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
And proud of it.
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Stolen from Ron Burch’s FB page #alwayscredityourmarks🥸
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Senior advisor to 45, Middle East Envoy, put in charge also of Covid team: Jared Kushner. Senior WH Advisor: Ivanka. Tell us more about this nepotism of which you speak.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦I Just Don't Care About Being Nice Anymore @purelyrick.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Dear @cnn.com, You know why your viewership has dropped 50% in 27 days? Because you cover stuff like Biden pardoning Hunter with (at least) 13 stories & the fact that Trump nominated Charles Kushner, a convicted felon whom he pardoned, With 1. WTAF? Sincerely, Sane people 🖕
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Linda A Charnes @proflac.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Pundits! Squawk less about Hunter Biden’s pardon, and MORE about Pete Hegseth’s disgusting behavior revealed today in Jane Mayer’s New Yorker piece of definitive reporting. That should be much bigger news. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
newyorker.com
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...
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