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ACLU @aclu.org · 16h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 6d

some TBR - we live in hope

A pile of books by Virginia Woolf, Henry Gould, Stefan Zwieg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Tove Jansson, John Keene, Joanna Pocock, and others.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo turned to and quoted extensively from Hannah Arendt in his remarks, endorsing her detailed analysis of the factors that give rise to authoritarianism and totalitarian rule. He made clear that this analysis is again appropriate to developments found around the world, and notably in the US

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 1d

Very true. But I did want to note how researchers from a range of fields are finding immense value in her work.

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 4d

“Sátántangó” was also the first novel published by Tuskar Rock, a wonderful imprint by Colm Toíbín and Peter Straus, initially published through Atlantic Books, and subsequently Serpents Tail

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

So scrap that earlier post, bc as Kári Tulinius pointed out, the great José Saramago (Portugal) did receive the Nobel Prize. No Brazilian or Lusophone African writer has ever won it, though a number of the former have been nominated. Some very good ones writing today too!

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

Ah yes! They did honor him. How could I have forgotten?

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

Heading in the correct direction: After success of pilot, Ireland expands basic support payments for artists, making them permanent: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

It just struck me that no Lusophone writer has ever received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Is this correct? There are many great contemporary writers across the Lusophone world, so some should be in the mix over the next few years.

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

More from the Nobel passed-over list: Kraus, Huch, George, E.A. Robinson, Croce, Wilder, Dreiser, E.L. Masters, Valéry, Feuchtwanger, Jammes, Remarque, Čapek, Upton Sinclair, Beerbohm, Ortega y Gasset, Chesterton, Unamuno, Masefield, Freud, Giono, Huxley, Sandburg, Silone, etc.

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

More Nobeliana: Fascinating to see the list of Nobel nominees, including numerous major authors who were passed over (Zola, Tolstoy, Meredith, Swinburne, Twain, Howells, Loti, Strindberg, James, Pérez Galdos, Hofmannsthal, HG Wells, Huidobro, Claudel, Wharton, etc.): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats to this year's MacArthur Foundation Fellows, incl Harvard math prof Lauren Williams, whose mathematical work has applications for an array of phenomena (tsunamis, protein synthesis, etc): news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellows: www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

Lauren Williams awarded MacArthur ‘genius grant’ — Harvard Gazette

Math professor honored for theoretical breakthroughs with sometimes surprising applications across phenomena such as tsunamis, traffic.

news.harvard.edu

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

😆
PS: I will say that I met him a few years ago at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn & he was very nice. We talked briefly about how Gerald Murnane had learned Hungarian to read works in the original in that language!

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

This account of the series of discoveries by this year's Nobel Prize laureates in #chemistry, honored for creating a tool with immense storage & potential, akin to Hermione's magical handbag in the Harry Potter novels, is enthralling (takeaway: don't give up): www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

www.nobelprize.org

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 4d

Reposting some things I posted on the devil's site: Congrats to László Krasnahorkai & all of his translators & publishers, including New Directions Publishing Corp. You can find quite a catalogue of his work in English translation here: www.ndbooks.com/author/laszl...

László Krasznahorkai

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

www.ndbooks.com

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Pedro Yokes @pedroyokes.bsky.social · 11d

They rapelled down from Blackhawk helicopters in this raid.

I promise you this raid was done for a cinematic 4K promo video that will be released shortly. This stuff doesn’t just happen. It’s almost always for digital content.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 11d

As president of @aaup.org I stand with Governor Newsom. Every single democratic governor should follow suit

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 11d

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

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Mitch Wagner #DEI @mitchw.blog · Aug 2

the show, is apparently directing this episode, so he's walking around in 21st-century clothes and hairstyle, but talking in Leonard's voice, which is particularly striking. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/clips/grantchester-s10-a-day-on-set-with-rishi-nair/# [2/2]

Grantchester, Season 10: A Day on Set with Rishi Nair

Have you ever wondered what a day on the set of Grantchester is like? Rishi Nair gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a day of filming. #GrantchesterPBS

www.pbs.org

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Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social · Oct 8

"I map the innovative ways black thinkers and artists have created possibilities for black being and belonging, and I argue that the intimate, especially the sexual, is central to how these figures imagined and theorized black being and belonging."

Excerpt from FROTTAGE, by Keguro Macharia

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 11d

Yes! How could I forget? 😀

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Acidio Menophen @techteddy.bsky.social · 11d

I mean, he's invited to the camp for the weekend too🤷🏾😜

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 11d

It's all about Varley, but....

Acidio Menophen @techteddy.bsky.social · 11d

Roy from #BeautyinBlack could be my Broke Back Mountain fantasy 😈

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