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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 · 1d
Find the table where Trump is sitting, and look under it.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 2d
How powerful can the whaling and sealing lobbies possibly be? Or are they just trying make sure that we know that they’re cruel, demented zealots awaiting the apocalypse?
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 3d
Yes, Republicans are fixing health care, as in having it spayed or neutered.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 3d
Spoiler alert: the speaker’s aging wife.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 4d
All y’all, LISTEN TO @timothysnyder.bsky.social!

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When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)
Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 5d
Norway, right. Nobel was originally from Sweden. That may be enough to make them suffer too.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 5d
Get ready for tariffs on Sweden to double tomorrow.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 5d
Only 1,199 more days.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 5d
Though he’s not at all as noble or thoughtful as the poetic character, and with the exception of his shared capacity with the Swede for blowing things up, when it comes to Alfreds, 47 is a lot more Prufrock than Nobel.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 6d
We must find anticipatory joy in the schadenfreude that will follow the downfall of this administration.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 7d
We’ve had mass deflation in this country before. It was called the Great Depression. The Yarvinistas would love to see it happen again, to hasten (they think) the coming of a non-democratic world which they control.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 7d
We’re seeing an incredibly rapid Orbanifiaction of the U.S.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 7d
“then you’ve got potentially San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver all in an emergency situation in a compressed timeframe”
— sounds like Trump’s dream.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 7d
The theatre knows no bounds.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 7d
Maybe he meant plenipotentiary authority (no, that doesn’t quite work either). Ah, got it: penitentiary authority, in whose custody many of these bozos are going to be when this administration ends.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 7d
It’s good that there is some effective training going on.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 7d
Can you imagine being any of these people? We should probably open our hearts to them and have sympathy.
Wait, what, am I nuts?!
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 7d
Qualifications are more than skills, though; they include questions of disposition and for this job, proximity to the executive (per the NYTimes Bondi and Trump have been close for years). Bondi should have been disqualified on both counts.

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The Trump Foundation-Pam Bondi scandal - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
In March 2016, CREW discovered that the Trump Foundation had broken the law by giving an illegal $25,000 contribution to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. This would set...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d
“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 · 8d
Readers who appreciate JM’s posts and re-posts may also appreciate Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson’s substack. Here is a link to one of his recent articles:

jacobsonh.substack.com/p/how-to-mug...
HOW TO MUG THE JEWS AND HIJACK THE HOLOCAUST
After decades of querying the numbers of dead Jews and the manner in which they went to their death, Holocaust sceptics of all stripes have made common cause: not in doubting Holocaust but in denying ...
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 8d
“the Holocaust up in smoke” — I hope that some of you will take the time to read this substack by Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson.

jacobsonh.substack.com/p/how-to-mug...
HOW TO MUG THE JEWS AND HIJACK THE HOLOCAUST
After decades of querying the numbers of dead Jews and the manner in which they went to their death, Holocaust sceptics of all stripes have made common cause: not in doubting Holocaust but in denying ...
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 8d
A factually accurate statement is that Miller is a fascist.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 8d
If there are midterms.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 9d
It amazes me how so many of the tech elite, who have ample amounts of certain kinds of smarts, can be so clueless about Yarvin, think him a real intellectual, and even some sort of savior. A smart psychologist I know says that the smarter someone is, the better able he is to delude himself.
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Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social · 9d
Of course all military targets. No targeting of civilians, certainly no war crimes. Yeesh. When does the rest of Europe realize that it is Europe that’s under attack, and actively join in the defense?
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