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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 · 05/10/2026
Should prove helpful to Peltola.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quote of the night from Cris Collinsworth: “That was a disaster. That last possession by the Detroit Lions was a disaster.”
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nicely witty, and . . . entertain conjecture of a time when joining a conversation might not be explaining (I expect you know more about Gentileschi than I); this dad (who in part solo-raised a daughter) found it interesting that Artemisia and her dad (who solo-raised her) both explored that theme.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Her prequel, Judith Beheading Holofernes. Her father had taken up the subject some years earlier, then again after she did.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Clearly he didn’t have any more favorable of an opinion on A.I. than he had on crypto, until he was paid to have favorable opinions on them.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My woman looks like she’s not gonna make it to curtain call of Beetlejuice.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Didn’t Shakespeare write a play on that theme?
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My man looks like he was a DEI bestiality hire.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They’re like mad-libs scripts for his [fill-in-the-blank] complaints.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Looks like the right side of the aisle in the House come January.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Didn’t see the original post, but my man looks like he’s a mensch.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can you say “Caligula” boys and girls?
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s the matter with Kansas?
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes, it’s not about protecting “their” women, it’s about protecting what they see as the _purity_ of “their” women (to protect their fragile, racist selves).
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just maybe not in ways Stormy Daniels could see.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bodies are amazing. Yours kept you going while still under stress, and only paused to heal once you were in a place to relax.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thanks for your service then, and all the important work since.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some did choose to leave (if often out of fear), but many were indeed forcibly displaced, as even mainstream Israeli and Israel-supporting historians have made clear. It’s a complicated and difficult chapter (as elsewhere, e.g., India-Pakistan), defying simple or easy resolution.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hey Jonathan, I appreciate that you’re seeking to educate folks w/this post, and civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios are crucial in contextualizing the question you address. There may be some problems with the numbers in your graphic though, which I’d be happy to discuss if you’d like to DM me.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oh Harry, there you go again, as if the Constitution mattered. You saw how he took the oath of office.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Only 867 more days.
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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 · 05/09/2026
My man looks like he wouldn’t know where to stick the gas nozzle.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
HHS has the credibility of Bari Weiss’s CBS News. It’s going to take a long time to repair the damage.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Sean Spicer told me that was the photo from Trump’s first inauguration.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Recall his attempts to oust Nancy Pelosi from leadership.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When will we be treated to Dreyer’s Yiddish?
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh and well deserved — even just for his flawless strategery in managing the war with Iran.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In sharpie.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So now we wait for their formal ruling on the merits? How does the lifting of this stay play out?
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It’s makes sense for Ossof to be held to a higher standard, because he is, you know, actually human.
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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 · 20/08/2026
I’d buy that it’s a tank, but if it’s Trump aligned, there ain’t much think.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Whoa boys, take me back . . .
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The malignant narcissist’s dream.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com
Is there a Final Solution to the Jewish question? - with Dara Horn
Podcast Episode · Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · August 13 · 1h
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
But how does one get through to these folks, too far removed from awareness of the Holocaust? Two great podcasts in the past week have some useful thoughts, about exposing the lies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
podcasts.apple.com
The mediaeval image of the Jew - and why it’s lasted. With Miri Rubin
Podcast Episode · Unholy: Two Jews on the News · August 11 · 36m
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Let’s get real: the goal of BDS is the destruction of the state of Israel (the effect of “right of return”), an overturning of the UN-sanctioned creation of a homeland for the Jewish people. Colonialism? As Tom Friedman asks, if Israel is the Jew’s Belgian Congo, where is the Jew’s Belgium?
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Almost none in California. Lots in AZ.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You can call him Bob . . .
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Make disbarment great again.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thanks for reposting the link to that podcast episode. Here’s another from this week that may be even more important for unraveling contemporary antisemitism. Together, they offer crucial context. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Is there a Final Solution to the Jewish question? - with Dara Horn
Podcast Episode · Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · August 13 · 1h
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If you can’t find your spine even after being primaried, you probably never had one.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Like nobody’s ever seen. So tired of winning.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Lest anyone doubt that ICE are Trump’s Brownshirts.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A related podcast from this week: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
podcasts.apple.com
The mediaeval image of the Jew - and why it’s lasted. With Miri Rubin
Podcast Episode · Unholy: Two Jews on the News · August 11 · 36m
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
To paraphrase the earlier Donald: You go into the midterms with the administration you have.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sorkin is our Shakespeare.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
J. Edgar Hoover would have loved this stuff. Here’s the version from The Guardian. 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
J. Edgar Hoover would be proud. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
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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