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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm just relieved that they cited, "the Oxfordian, a journal of Shakespearean authorship studies." I mean that clinches the deal right there!

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

You are going to be the best of chums, I know it!

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thank you so much for taking this on! You are a wonder!

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Huh--it's like Project 2025 is actually a thing. Who would thunk that Trump and his minions were lying about that? So out of character!

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

She is a hero, & we ALL need to hear this message and to see how to speak truth to power. It will almost certainly have no effect on its target audience, who has a blackened mass of dead worms where his heart should be, and it sickens me we have to plead for decency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwa...

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1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde

YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Yes, we should point to the outrage of pardoning rioters who did grievous harm to police officers. But let's please not lose sight of the fact that even if no police officers had been injured, Trump just pardoned more than a thousand people seeking to overturn a fair democratic election.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

And that's just for starters. . .

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Our democratic republic is in grave danger. We need to figure out how to preserve it and to protect the most vulnerable among this. My hate for this woeful failure of a human being is just one smidgen less than my love for my country--I hate him in part BECAUSE I love my country.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

That interview with Douthat--chief water-carrier--was vomitous.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Not listening to The Great Bloviator. Saving my energy for the fight ahead.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Sen. Reed is doing a fine job laying out why it should be IMPOSSIBLE for Pete Hegseth to be confirmed as SecDef. If only I were more confident that the truth of his awful record on so many fronts were sufficient to lead to his rejection by the Senate.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Yes--as a union guy, of course I want everyone to join the union. They SHOULD feel obligated to do so. But even if they don't l, it is as you say. Some would argue that a union will be more zealous in repping you if you're a dues-payer but that's not what I have seen at my local.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I would not mind it one bit if, say, Trump or Stephen Miller had an encounter with Iorek--just enough to scare them into being human.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Are too! You absolutely belong in a 17th c. harem as a guard or as an understudy to Farinelli.

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The recording of our latest webinar, 'Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’', is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel! Talks by Kate Hill, @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, Craig Lamont, Nigel Leask and @pomuirch.bsky.social; facilitated by @stevenewman.bsky.social. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌐

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Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If YOU had any balls, cognitively speaking, you'd actually defend your position. But you're incapable--an intellectual eunuch.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Your advice: A shrug, tired rhetoric about "snowflakes," and "grow a pair." This is a morally and intellectually stunted response. Given your other posts, I don't have much hope that you'll do better. But still: Do better, you smug asshole. /x

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

to allow ugly attacks on trans people. The trans people I know are pretty damned tough--most of them tougher than you, I'd wager--but still, being so frequently the target of demeaning and dehumanizing abuse, along with actual physical violence, is difficult for even the toughest person. /4

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

about the legitimation of such attacks on fb. FB is not the public square; speech there is not protected by the First Amendment, which is about government control of speech in any case. It's a private, enormously profitable company that is deciding to alter its terms of service./3

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

And, Mr. Nelson, can I ask if you have ever been dehumanized in a way that denies your very identity? And in a way that is very often the precursor to physical violence, even murder? Because that is what the trans community deals with all the time and why they and their allies are worried/2

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

@coachkatjack.bsky.social, good question, and Mr. Nelson's response is not a serious one. The fact that one _can_ do a thing has no bearing on its moral or ethical value, which is what this whole debate is about, except insofar as ethical behavior is predicated on the chance to choose otherwise./1

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

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Wildfire climate connection

Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Unfortunately, stupid people and willfully ignorant and avaricious people will continue to deny this.

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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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Kellie Steinberg @kelliesteinberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We can't get bogged down in every little thing he does and says. He's trying to burn us out and make us give up.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Understood. Thx for clarifying.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I was kidding--would never pursue that possibility even if I weren't married. I wouldn't cut off a friend for doing porn; but to each his or her own, I guess.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

So you have your pick then! Lucky dog! Yeah, I am plagued with the same nonsense.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Wait...you mean she's not attracted only to me??? I'm crushed.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Excellent--if you could get Jennifer Aniston to STOP BOTHERING ME, that would be awesome. Great actress, lovely woman and all, but I am happily married.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I am NOT apologizing to the rest of the world for this grasping, corrupt, xenophobic, misogynistic, racist, and otherwise-bigoted lunatic. ALONG WITH SO MANY OF YOU, I WORKED MY BUTT OFF TO STOP HIM FROM GETTING BACK IN POWER. But those who voted for him should. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

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Trump Suggests Taking Greenland and Panama Canal by Force: Live Updates

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I see Brave Sir "Dr." Robbin has deleted his post and blocked me. Oh, Brave Sir Robin! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwu...

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Brave Sir Robin

YouTube video by qwertt14

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Edit: not "to stigmatize"; "that we all stigmatize"

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

p. s. Do please try not to refer to the Scriptures of my people as "The Old Testament." We prefer "The Hebrew Scriptures" or "The Hebrew Bible" or "The Tankah" or "The Torah." Thanks!

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

you better have impeccable credentials--since you have brought that criterion into the argument--and unassailable reasons to support it. Otherwise, consider reflecting on why you are so committed to bigotry, not only against trans people, but against the LGBT+ community as a whole.

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

you are most certainly in the minority of those in your profession. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the AMA, and the APA have ALL come out in favor of providing evidence-based care for transgender folks. So, given the suffering that would be caused by adopting your position,/4

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

So the stakes are high here. If you want the authority you are claiming in this argument as a medical professional, provide the proof or stuff it. And I'd add that, as Rozaliya says, even if you are a doctor--and one in a field directly relevant to the question under dispute--/3

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

just trying to live their lives, a stigmatizing that has contributed to all sorts of self-harm among trans folks, including suicide and substance abuse. This is not only, as you put it, a matter of our seeking to be a more accepting society, though the scorn clear in your tone is revealing. /2

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Precisely as Rozaliya says: If you are indeed a doctor, which I rather doubt, then it should not be difficult to back up your claim by providing proof. You are demanding, based on your putative credentials as a medical professional, to stigmatize and cause terrible pain to a group of people/1

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Steve Newman @stevenewman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

You do not even seem to grasp that The Onion is a satirical site. Priceless. 😂😂😂

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