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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛

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Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/ 🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈‍⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · Jun 19

Just a reminder to authors working on #EarlyModern English drama that I edit a book series, "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Histories and Theories. I would love to read your proposal! #Drama #16thC #17thC 🗃️ wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11h

Trump was POTUS on J6.

It was Trump’s FBI.

Biden’s win had not even been certified yet.

Trump’s lies are beyond insane.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 10h

“This is setting us up for the Insurrection Act,” Dr. Jason Stanley warns of Trump's authoritarian tactics in cities across America. “I think we are facing the moment in which a coup is happening. This is the moment.” What’s needed now, he adds, is full-scale nonviolent resistance. #Velshi

‘A coup is happening’: A new warning against Trump’s authoritarian slide

In a stark warning, Dr. Jason Stanley says America is entering a dangerous period with President Trump’s growing rhetoric against the so-called “radical left” and “domestic terrorists.” “I think we are facing the moment in which a coup is happening,” Stanley warns. “This is the moment,” he says, and adds that what’s needed now is full-scale, nonviolent resistance.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 17h

There wasn't even a moment's hesitation about my Halloween costume.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Only a government run by billionaires would berate its employees for not wanting to work without pay.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

Vought is a key figure in the world of Trumpism, with a rare – and dangerous – combination of ideological zeal and operative competence, a fully committed extremist causing massive harm to millions of people.

But if you only listened to The Daily, you wouldn’t get any of that.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 1d

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 1d

History does not unfold in discrete large moments, but in many small ones over the course of a continuous, chaotic timeline. All of us have a part to play in making change and fighting for democracy, but we must do so before the current timeline is in the rearview mirror. #Velshi

Velshi: We are all the authors of democracy – and must act in time to save it

In his novel “War and Peace,” the author Leo Tolstoy tells us that history does not unfold in discrete moments, but rather as a collection of small things that happen in a continuous, chaotic timeline. Ali Velshi explains the importance of taking in the chaotic timeline we are in, right now, before it passes us by. The survival of democracy relies on all of our collective stewardship and our recognizing the gravity of our current moment.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and calls for change. n.pr/3KNNNhW

Africa's oldest leader isn't ready to retire - and he's not the only one defying age

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 1d

A new tote is always needed!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

US beef prices have now reached a record high.

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Garn LeBaron @glebaron.bsky.social · Jul 11

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's really hard to run a business when raw materials costs and supply chain stability are so uncertain.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 1d

Pres. Trump calls Chicago a war zone and threatens to send federal troops to the Windy City: @mayorofchicago.bsky.social joins me at 11a ET + @ilattygeneral.bsky.social joins me at 12p ET on the "un-American" event that prompted him to sue Trump. #Velshi

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Ignacio GHOULup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 1d

Morning reading: Eric Anderson & Carrie Cornelius, "Living Maps: How Native North Americans Envisioned their World," Imago Mundi, 77 (2025): 5-22.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

Thanks to Republicans in Congress, some Americans will have to pay more than $22,000 every year to keep their health insurance coverage.

$22,000.

That could be a matter of keeping health care coverage or just giving up—and for some people, life and death.

Thanks to Republicans, some Americans will pay $22,000/year to keep their health insurance.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social · 12d

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

It’s unnerving but I’m starting to like it

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Democrats @democrats.org · 2d

House Republicans just adjourned another pro forma session.

This marks the SIXTH time they’ve refused to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva, who would be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Another of the Trump puppetmasters Russell Vought has been busy seizing the chaos of the government shutdown to advance the Project 2025 agenda.

The sacking of federal workers now has its own acronym - RIF. Reductions in Force.

Trump official says federal layoffs 'have begun' amid government shutdown

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PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 2d

Join us and partners from across New York TONIGHT at 5:30pm in Foley Square to stand with AG James and resist Trump's dangerous manipulation of our legal system: www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event... (3/3)

Hands OFF Tish James Rally · New York Working Families Party

## **CALL TO ACTION** **FRIDAY 10/10 at FOLEY SQUARE** ### On the evening of October 9th, Attorney General Tish James was indicted by a prosecutor handpicked by Trump. Attorney General James has lon...

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PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 2d

The PSC stands in solidarity with Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social, NY State's powerhouse attorney general, outspoken @cuny.edu advocate & Lehman College alum. We reject Donald Trump's shameless weaponization of the Department of Justice (1/3)

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