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Terri Bourus

@terribourus.bsky.social
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Bereaved mom, Professor FSU Shakespeare, Performance, Book, and Theatre History, Irish Drama. Musical Theatre. General Editor: New Oxford Shakespeare. Author. Dramaturg. Amateur Astronomer. Private pilot.

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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Another review in SB! bsky.app/profile/benb...
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Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.1 is now published! Now fully open access, this issue features a cluster of essays edited by Louise Geddes and Nora J. Williams reflecting on casting, race, community, and tragedy in productions performed on and off Broadway. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
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Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Obfuscating on Obliterating www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...
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Opinion | Obfuscating on Obliterating
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway newrepublic.com/article/1973... via @newrepublic.com
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UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway
Ryan had not fought Trump on DEI and other matters. His forced ouster proves that no capitulation is enough.
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Steve Purcell @stevetpurcell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Republican Senator Thom Tillis just said he’s not comfortable voting for Trump’s nominee for US Attorney Ed Martin after it was revealed he went on a white nationalist podcast.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2025
A Chinese-born American businessman was sentenced last week to five years in prison in China, on charges related to a criminal case nearly 25 years ago, despite having frequently made routine trips in and out of the country after the fact.
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A U.S. Businessman Is Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison in China
The charges stemmed from a criminal case more than 20 years ago. In the interim, the businessman, David Lee, had repeatedly visited China without issue.
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
On this date… a minute and a lifetime 💔 It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him..." www.azpm.org/p/headlines/...
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U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The defense secretary is accused of dangerous incompetence by insiders. The homeland security secretary has her purse and $3000 nicked. The FBI director flies gov't air to visit an NHL game and his country-singing girlfriend. The supposed pretext for a security state is that it makes you safer
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/b...
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This Book on World War I Changed How I Think of Nonfiction (Gift Article)
Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We know whenever completely unqualified hucksters are hired for mature educated trained expertise type jobs, it’s inevitable that they will screw up. Ringmaster Dump and his circus monkeys. “I don’t know anything about it.” Says the “boss”.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/03/2025
Hundreds of flights were canceled or rerouted after a power outage at London’s Heathrow Airport, causing travel havoc worldwide. Follow live updates.
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London's Heathrow Airport Closed After Fire Causes Major Power Outage: Live Updates
A giant fire near one of the world’s busiest airports knocked out power, and the cause was under investigation. Hundreds of flights were canceled or rerouted, and analysts said disruptions could last ...
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem. Meta pirated millions of books to train its #AI. Search through them here. (Alex Reisner) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
1. The astronauts were not “rescued.” They were never “stranded.” 2. USAID never spent $50million on condoms for Gaza. 3. Haitian migrants were never eating peoples’ cats & dogs. 4. Trump did not win the 2020 election. Trump’s greatest legacy is the destruction of truth.
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Theatre Weekly @theatreweekly.com · 15/03/2025
Review: The Mosinee Project at New Diorama Theatre "A brilliant, multi-layered, and intrinsically meta-theatrical project"
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Review: The Mosinee Project at New Diorama Theatre
Review: The Mosinee Project at New Diorama Theatre "A brilliant, multi-layered, and intrinsically meta-theatrical project"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"The White House ordered a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive..." abcnews.go.com/Politics/sto...
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'Highly unusual': White House halts FBI background checks for senior staff, shifts them to Pentagon: Sources
The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources say.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 15/03/2025
University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.
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Opinion | Colleges Are Under Attack. They Can Fight Back.
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
On the one hand, it’s bad to turn the White House into a used car lot. But on the other hand, let’s not talk about how we are becoming a kleptocracy.
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee
Ernst, an Iowa Republican, is one of the most influential voices in Congress on military topics. Ethics and military experts say her relationships with top Air Force and Navy officials created potenti...
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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‘What the hell’s happening to your country?’ Traveling as an American under Trump 2.0 | Shanti Nelson
My American accent inspired pity, empathy and utter confusion. I feel the same: it’s as though we’ve entered hospice care
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 07/03/2025
“The right invented the term Trump Derangement Syndrome to dismiss analysis of Trump’s autocratic tendencies,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “But the real derangement lies in either the refusal or the inability to see Trump clearly.”
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Opinion | The Right’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
They keep pretending the president is someone he’s not.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“Purge of journalists” underway at Voice of America, I’m told. Ukrainian correspondent Ostap Yarysh already impacted.
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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I was expecting al green to be thrown out, sure, and then other people to have stood up with him, and one by one they all get thrown out like Spartacus. They make them be removed. I was expecting that because movies have made me expect courage, solidarity, and honor
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I am looking at a chamber filled with hundreds and hundreds of people, and if you asked me to seriously estimate what percentage of them understand how deep in the s*** we are right now, I mean really truly understand how close America is to full collapse, I would put the number at between 10 and 20
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Find out more about Henry IV, Part 1 in our next #Shakespeare webinar! 🗓️3 March at 6-7.15pm 💻Online via Zoom Emma Smith will be discussing the new Oxford World's Classics edition of Henry IV, Part 1 with Indira Ghose. FREE and all welcome! #HenryIV #EnglishLit
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English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: Henry IV, Part 1
In this free webinar, Shakespeare expert Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Henry IV from Oxford World's Classics.
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
February 28, 2025 A day that will live in infamy.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I stand with President Zelenskyy against King Trump and Autocrat Putin! Do you ? Long live Ukraine !
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/02/2025
Trump cuts short Zelenskyy meeting after fiery White House clash www.ft.com/content/2108807d-2f06-4c…
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Trump cuts short Zelenskyy meeting after fiery White House clash
US president says Ukrainian leader is ‘gambling with world war three’
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Eric @edpch38.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I want everyone to know that screaming match in the Oval Was all for Russia TV that was there
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Skies over NYC. Sail on sail on sailor!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/02/2025
The mother of a jailed British Egyptian activist has been hospitalized and is at risk of sudden death, a doctor has said, as her hunger strike to demand her son’s release reached 151 days.
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Mother on Hunger Strike to Free Alaa Abd El Fattah From Egyptian Jail at ‘Risk to Life’
Laila Soueif, the mother of Alaa Abd El Fattah, one of Egypt’s most prominent political prisoners, has fasted for 151 days as she seeks his release.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...
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New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out
Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.
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Harry Shearer @harryshearer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This week’s #leshow reveals Elon’s cheating at video games (he’s 53), and corrections to the geyser of hagiography coming out of NYC last week. First hearing: 10a PT/ 1 p ET wamc.org, wcbe.org, kalw.org, and public radio stations through the day. & podcast!
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Opinion | Trump’s border czar picked the wrong congresswoman to bully - MSNBC
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Joyce Vance on Substack
If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Remembering Navalny. Murdered by Putin one year ago.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/02/2025
Breaking News: Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney resigned after she was ordered by the Justice Department to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams that she had championed.
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Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped
Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
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Theatre Weekly @theatreweekly.com · 14/02/2025
London Theatre Company have today released production photos of Richard II, starring Jonathan Bailey and directed by Nicholas Hytner, this fresh take on Shakespeare’s subtle, caustic and powerful play is currently playing the Bridge Theatre
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First Look: Richard II at Bridge Theatre
London Theatre Company have today released production photos of Richard II, starring Jonathan Bailey and directed by Nicholas Hytner, this fresh take on Shakespeare’s subtle, caustic and powerful play is currently playing the Bridge Theatre
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/02/2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia’s military struck the site of the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, causing “significant” damage to a structure that prevents radiation from leaking from a damaged reactor. Follow live updates.
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Ukraine Says Russia Has Struck Chernobyl With a Drone: Live Updates
President Volodymyr Zelensky said there was “significant” damage that prevents radiation leaks at the nuclear site. The U.N. confirmed an explosion, which comes as top diplomats meet in Munich to disc...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend: *Centralise functions *Cut small courses *Reduce student options *Abolish loads of joint awards *Chop staff headcount This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)
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Greg Andree @gregandree71.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.
Book covers for: Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.
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Hegseth’s rough start: Pentagon chief faces protest at U.S. base abroad
The question isn’t why the defense secretary faced pushback at U.S. European Command headquarters; the question is whether he’ll see more protests soon.
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