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Don Weingust

@weingust.bsky.social
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Shakespeare and theatre scholar; proud papa of USC entrepreneur and Hostelpass.co CEO; old actor/musician; former Ensemble member at Glide SF; ally; happy Californian.

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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Cartoons aren’t real. There. We hate to be the ones to break it to you. But it’s important to establish that rabbits aren’t wisecracking smart-alecks from Flatbush . . . and dogs don’t talk (no, not even to say ‘ruh-roh’).” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
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Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie (Gift Article)
Here’s some bad news: Sometimes the coyote does win.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Hippocratic Oath-taker who brought us HHS Sec. RFK, Jr. describes Overton’s remarks as “almost disqualifying” (note the caveat). I thought lame ducks were vertebrates. My bad. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/u...
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Senate Health Panel Chairman Voices Strong Reservations About F.D.A. Nominee
Senator Bill Cassidy said Dr. Heidi Overton’s role in President Trump’s executive order on vaccines last week was “almost disqualifying.”
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
J. Edgar Hoover would be proud. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US government extensively spied on anti-ICE protesters and leftwing groups, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings, infiltrated chats and obtained financial records in vast operation into groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Love thy neighbor as thyself”? What makes Kansas legislators and similarly minded Americans choose to be so cruel to their neighbors? A past-the-paywall link to an important article from M. Gessen. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th. Only 930 more days.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Heritage Foundation believes that upholding the Constitution’s 14th Amendment explicit guarantee of birthright citizenship is “a tremendous betrayal of the republic.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Scott Pelley with @lulugn.bsky.social on being told the President had commented on his firing. (I’m not crying, you’re crying etc)
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A very helpful episode of Call Me Back, with expert guest @mattlevitt.bsky.social explaining what’s happening between Israel and Lebanon, and offering a potentially productive way forward. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Israel’s Northern Exposure - with Matt Levitt
Podcast Episode · Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · April 27 · 44m
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The young Pop Leo. Maybe Jake and Elwood really were on a mission from God.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 24/02/2026
He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In the wake of the new WaPo layoffs, my partner inquired as to whether they were still alive. I said they were, but wondered what they were going to be able to cover. Her reply: “Trump’s ass.”
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The most recent newsletter from @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social of @theatlantic.com, a reminder well worth the read (past-the-paywall link): www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA’s Foundational Lie
The movement claims to stand with the police. Trump’s decision to pardon the cop-beaters of January 6 exposed his movement for what it is.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
@malcolmnance.bsky.social and @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social asking important, overlapping questions (past-the-paywall link): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
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Opinion | To Trump, on Venezuela: You Break It, You Own It
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The latest from Howard Jacobson: jacobsonh.substack.com/p/timothee-c...
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TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET STOLE MY LIFE
Quite out of the blue, against the spirit of the times, and in defiance of every objection from the sporting gods, table tennis is all the rage.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
@drsabinemetzger.bsky.social A Sci-Fri thread/pod segment for you #batfolk. bsky.app/profile/scif...
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Giving thanks today for Andy Borowitz (@borowitzreport.bsky.social) and his tips for all who may be sharing a Thanksgiving table with MAGA relatives. www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-to-gas...
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How to Gaslight Your MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving
Helpful tips!
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Peace plan? What a joke. Why is Trump so keen on appeasing Putin? It can’t be that Trump is in Putin’s pocket, and compromised by kompromat. That would be too simple and obvious. From @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@harrylitman.bsky.social describes out-of-her-depth prosecutor Lindsey Halligan admitting that the full Comey grand jury never saw the actual indictment: “Halligan already had egg on her face for a series of blunders. This was more like an entire omelette.” substack.com/home/post/p-...
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“There is no indictment”
Lindsey Halligan — and the Comey Prosecution — Enter Free Fall
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
#Shakespeare folk: don’t miss today’s New York Times Sunday crossword.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/11/2025
Trump has about as much respect for The People's House as he does for the people.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
From The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Seeing the World Up Close
Short-listed images from the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year, celebrating “close-up, macro, and micro photography”
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I’m writing to explain to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social that one of her most popular books is on sale at Amazon right now for only $1.99. Treat yourself, dear reader! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I...
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Men Explain Things to Me
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things an...
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Part of being a grown-ass person is learning to tell the difference between what we may want to be true, and what really is. #autism #vaccines #RFKJr #POTUS Past-the-paywall (gift) link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
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JM 📎🟦🪬🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
White House Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, Stephen Miller, says early morning Bay Area earthquake part of administration’s seismic retribution plan against libtards. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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4.3 magnitude earthquake jolts the San Francisco Bay Area
People reported feeling their homes shaking and receiving phone alerts.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Hey @jimmykimmel.com, here’s an expression of how much you mean to so many. And it’s just the beginning.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Slightly diminish a book The Merchant of Venison
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
This analysis by @asharangappa.bsky.social is spot on. The only bone to pick: referring to Curtis Yarvin as an “intellectual” (though she qualifies tech-bro intellectualism a little later on). asharangappa.substack.com/p/making-sen...
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Making Sense of MAGA
An ideological roadmap to help you understand the madness.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The psychology of tennis explained, by one who knows the game from the inside, the delightful Howard Jacobson: jacobsonh.substack.com/p/lawn-tenni...
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LAWN TENNIS, OR THE FINE ART OF SELF-ABUSE
Decency laws prevent my showing the victim of Daniil Medvedev’s furious assault at the US Open the other day.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“[A] good man is not faster to take, he is slower.” It’s a wonderful, if not always easy, world. And it’s a little more wonderful for the writing of Howard Jacobson. His latest Substack: jacobsonh.substack.com/p/it-isnt-th...
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IT ISN'T THE POOR WHO ENVY THE RICH, IT'S THE RICH WHO ENVY EVERYBODY
Here’s the saddest story.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“[R]esistance is patriotic,” says an insightful and affirming #LaborDay Substack from @timothysnyder.bsky.social. “And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. snyder.substack.com/p/look-on-my...
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Look on my works, ye Mighty
Labors of Destruction and Creation
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Amidst the turmoil, the world spins. Enjoy these small views of it, via The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 Finalists
The finalist selections in this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition were just revealed by contest organizers at Oceanographic Magazine, and feature some of the best coastal, drone, and u...
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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