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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/08/2026

An early look at next week’s cover, “Pure Gold,” by Nicole Rifkin. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/GP5v-R

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It really is a machine for people who cannot think.

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Burnside Gooch @burnsidegooch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Angela Lansbury’s Positive Moves

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God @thegodshow.com · 21/07/2026

Seen in Philadelphia.

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 11/06/2026

Laurie Metcalf as Barbara in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026

I love how people can breezily be like “so much that divides people” like it’s a brunch menu when the division is over whether people should be dead or not

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The New School AAUP @newschoolaaup.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 29/05/2026

This letter is one of my favorite archival finds: Harold Prince explaining that EVITA is not Brechtian (one of the most over-used and least understood adjectives)

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

not a day goes by that i don't feel insecure about my inability to fix pipes with my wrench that is also a pipe smdh we used to be a country

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Always worth remembering that Insider Higher Ed is owned by Times Higher Education, a one-time industry publication which has been remade as a data-analytic consultancy AND which is itself owned by Inflexion Private Equity.

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 07/05/2026

Another among the many, many reasons why we should push back against big tech’s stranglehold on our pedagogical toolkit:

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/04/2026

Not to get all gay or anything, but today's the 65th anniversary of Judy's Carnegie Hall concert.

Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall, making physical contact with her audience. One can't help but notice that nearly everyone at the front of the house is male.

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 13/04/2026

Anyone else notice that a few recent New Yorker profiles border on hagiography?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 Alumni Awards Winners! Learn more about the impact of Sophie Maríñez, Gaffar Gailani, Avishan Bodjnoud, Philip Kreniske, Ryan Donovan, Mary Sano, and Frank J. Fabozzi www.gc.cuny.edu/news/announc... @smarinez.bsky.social @ryandonovan.bsky.social @kreniske.bsky.social

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Announcing the 2026 Alumni Awards Winners

The Graduate Center will celebrate seven highly accomplished alumni at its Alumni Awards ceremony on April 30.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Pege Hegseth's chief of staff tried to block the promotion of a black female combat veteran because, as the article notes, "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" in Washington DC

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Sean Duffy should be impeached and removed from his cabinet post.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Eating at PF Chang’s in Manhattan should be a crime.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

can it be closed down sooner

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/03/2026

A week after American and Israeli forces began their assault on Iran, Pentagon officials told lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that the cost of the war had already exceeded $11.3bn in its first six days. But that figure is only part of the story 🧵

The first six days of the US war in Iran cost $12.7 billion

The same cost as one year of:

- Paying 9% of the US's elementary school teachers
- Paying 47% of the US's firefighters
- Medical care for 693,000 veterans
- 1.5 million public housing units
- Medicaid for 3.6 million children

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The cost of fresh vegetables is up a stunning FORTY EIGHT PERCENT from February 2025: www.bls.gov/news.release...

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 03/03/2026

New York! I'm giving a talk on my new book-in-progress at The New School on March 23 at 5pm. Come hear about how Broadway turned backbreaking. event.newschool.edu/broadwaybodi...

event.newschool.edu

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2026

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

the Washington Post effectively blew up its arts section today, dismissing its books, TV, music, and theater critics, features writers, and several editors. (I'm also guessing the vacant film critic position will stay that way.) Just an insane loss of talent and a huge self-inflicted wound.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton. All former cabinet secretaries. All need to speak up. Why are they silent at this moment? Why is up to ordinary Americans to lead in this crisis?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

American survived without ICE from 1776 to 2003

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 19/12/2025

As an alum and former part-time faculty member, it is heartbreaking to see this happen. Not mentioned here is that the institution has upwards of 80% part-time faculty, which is depressing enough--and a sign that the university has been in bad fiscal health for decades.

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Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival

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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

And btw Whipple burns every bridge when he walks away unlike access journalists in DC who can never tell the whole story. He then has to start all over again for his next story

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?
I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

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Manohla Darkness @manohladargis.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Happy 100th Birthday Dick Van Dyke, and thank you for the joy!

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Saddest thing is that Neeson’s late wife Natasha Richardson was a AIDS advocate and AmFAR spokesperson and now he’s palling around w anti-vaxxers and AIDS denialists.

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 06/12/2025

Anyone have favorite or iconic backstage photographs from 1960s/1970s Broadway musicals? Maybe a snapshot from the wings or a dressing room

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Streisand's voice is her instrument; Midler's audience is her instrument. She plays on us and we bring her to life, or at least she makes us feel that we do. (1980)

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 05/12/2025

Before the 1919 formation of Chorus Equity Association, "chorus girls" normally rehearsed weeks on end without pay. The union aimed to reduce this to 4 weeks without pay.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Giving the world Dinesh D'Souza and Laura Ingraham is no longer the worst thing Dartmouth has ever done.

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 04/12/2025

The final callbacks for EVITA are chock full of intriguing What Ifs?

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 01/12/2025

Came across this gem today. Must've been so frustrating to lose so many parts to Lansbury. And to not get out of your own way...

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Love Elaine Stritch? Thank the Parts She Didn’t Get (Published 2019)

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 23/11/2025

Dance Magazine October 1971

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

TRUMP they still have that Phantom of the Opera musical on Broadway MAMDANI it's an immersive theatrical experience now. it's called Masquerade TRUMP that Phantom's a jerk, isn't he

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

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Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com · 06/11/2025

Did Roger Sterling write this? It's like a parody of MAD MEN

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