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Valerie Wayne

@valeriewayne.bsky.social
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Professor Emerita, U of Hawaii. Early modern literature and book history. Editor, Cymbeline for Arden and Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Also a grandma who sings.

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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Sarah’s back directing another episode of Sheriff Country, the popular spin-off of the CBS hit Fire Country. Go get ‘em, daughter! www.facebook.com/share/1cKHhK...
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
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Cate Blanchett launches free tool to protect identity from AI
The acclaimed Australian actor presented her Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament. The tool allows people to protect their likeness from being used by AI.
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I invite you to join me in signing this Declaration of Interdependence for the next 250 years in the U.S. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ne...
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Next250 - Sign the Declaration of Interdependence
As the United States reaches its 250th birthday, the nation stands at a crossroads of great or dangerous change. We, the people, have the power to build a promising future for everyone. A future that ...
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
cheknews.ca/the-walking-...
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'The Walking Dead' star throws support behind movement to 'Save Cable Bay'
A Vancouver Island environmental campaign is drawing high-profile support as an actress is speaking out against a proposed industrial rezoning near Nanaimo's coast.
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New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Our Board member Prof. Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social has written an introduction to the ODNB’s new set of entries on female stationers:
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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...
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Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Guest, Host, Ghost open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Guest, Host, Ghost
A Dinner Party in Kyiv
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Concentration Camp Labor open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
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Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain
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Antifa_Ultras @antifa-ultras.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
VIDEO | In Hungary, the fascist Orban government tried to ban the Pride Parade🏳️‍🌈and threatened to punish those who joined. The response was clear: a massive march with hundreds of thousands of people.
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Protest in Honolulu estimated at 7-10 thousand—which is really big for us!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here. medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
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Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children
The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding,
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
See you there for this important demonstration!
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Last Year's Move to Toronto open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Last Year's Move to Toronto
And This Year's Politics (video and commentary)
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Steven Pinker’s nuanced take on Harvard and its contributions. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
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Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
‘An autoimmune disorder’: how Trump is turning American democracy against itself
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Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If you missed my sniffly @nvshakespeare.bsky.social talk on author attribution in early English playbooks—both print and manuscript!—last month, a recording is available online: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/ You can find it by scrolling down to the April 2, 2025 news item about my visit.
Screenshot from a Zoom presentation that shows a PowerPoint slide introducing a talk, "Selling Your Plan in Jacobean England," by Aaron T. Pratt of the Harry Ransom Center. In a camera feed located in the upper-right corner, Pratt begins his talk.
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it: www.mla.org/content/down...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
In the short run, loss of America’s appeal to scientists around the world. In the medium term, economic depression. In the long term, the US reverses its development. www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t...
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NIH grant terminations under Trump have totaled at least $1.8 billion, analysis finds
Researchers calculated that $1.8 billion in National Institutes of Health grants were terminated in just over one month
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Terrific news. “…the court ordered the administration to immediately take steps to restore the agency’s employees and grant funding activities.” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/13/r...
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Report: “In a Major Win for Libraries, Federal Judge Orders IMLS to Be Restored”
From Words and Money: Finally, some good news for the library community. On May 13, federal judge John G. McConnell in Rhode Island issued a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking Trump administrati...
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
NEW: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress after a brief standoff with DOJ officials this morning. w/ @ktullymcmanus @jordainc t.co/BJ79oZAj9C
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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/12/congress/donald-trump-library-of-congress-fight-00342326
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Republicans are deploying every trick in the book to gut Medicaid while claiming they’re not cutting it. The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid. Why? To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.
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Dr Buki Fatona @bukifatona.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
‘The Library’ 1960, Jacob Lawrence
“This colorful view of a crowded reading room may show the 135th Street Library---now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture---where the country's  first significant collection of African American literature, history, and prints opened in 1925. Everybody appears absorbed in their books, and the standing figure in the front looking at African art may represent the artist as a young man, delving deeper into his heritage.” Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
So if I am getting this right: Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired. Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal. Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.
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Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This German broadside from 1605—by Heinrich Ulrich— illustrates the papal conclave that elected Camillo Borghese that May. He became Pope Paul V. (@ransomcenter.bsky.social Popular Imagery Collection 285)
Photograph of a printed broadside from 1605 that depicts and describes (in German) the people and places involved in the papal conclave that May.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/04/2025
BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
To be reckoned with from now on, for sure!
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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
metro.co.uk/2024/11/25/i... Between 2018 and 2023, there was a 37% increase in crimes related to violence against women and girls.
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Introducing This Is Not Right: Metro's year-long violence against women campaign
The epidemic of violence against women was called a national emergency earlier this year by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... Congratulations on this stunning discovery, @matthewsteggle.bsky.social !
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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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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
More than 190 leaders of colleges and universities have signed this statement opposing government overreach in US higher ed. Thank you! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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jameschadwick.bsky.social @jameschadwick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Even staunch Republicans are castigating Trump, as Robert Reich reports.
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The view from the right
Conservative condemnation of the Trump regime is almost as vehement as is progressive condemnation. Will they give cover to business leaders who have so far remained silent?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
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UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in
AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard today stood up to Trump, with board chair Penny Pritzker leading the way Her brother, Illinois gov J.B. Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov , has been firmer than any figure this side of Bernie in standing up to Trump. Thank you to the people who raised these people.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...
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Fomenting Antisemitism
Not Combating It
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Great turnout at the Hands Off rally in Honolulu today! This is just a glimpse of the crowd.
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sarahwaynecallies.bsky.social @sarahwaynecallies.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
happy trans day of visibility!
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is a great conversation. Give a listen.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
this is like an out take from The Office
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is so good. Long, but helpful, with useful links. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/coming-unglu...
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Coming Unglued: Week Eight of the Stupid Coup (and the Stalwart Resistance)
Spring is here and so is authoritarianism, and I recommend your serious attention to both. We may be at this resistance business for a while, so take care of yourself so you can keep taking care of hu...
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