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My latest review! What a great theatre.. I’m so lucky!

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

Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

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Opinion | Obfuscating on Obliterating

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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.

UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway newrepublic.com/article/1973... via @newrepublic.com

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

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!
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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.

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.

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.

On this date… a minute and a lifetime 💔

It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch.

U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days

“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him..."

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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

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.

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...

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”.

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 ...

Hundreds of flights were canceled or rerouted after a power outage at London’s Heathrow Airport, causing travel havoc worldwide.

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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.

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...

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.

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"

Review: The Mosinee Project at New Diorama Theatre

"A brilliant, multi-layered, and intrinsically meta-theatrical project"

'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.

"The White House ordered a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive..."

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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.

University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.

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.

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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‘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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Opinion | The Right’s Trump Derangement Syndrome They keep pretending the president is someone he’s not.

“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.”

“Purge of journalists” underway at Voice of America, I’m told. Ukrainian correspondent Ostap Yarysh already impacted.

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