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Education, education, education. Part of the LGBTQ family. Education, Music, books, movies, theater and baseball are my passion. They/them🏳️‍⚧️
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The next No Kings march should be on a workday. Shut the economy down to get the attention.
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I’m dumbstruck by news of the death of Tom Stoppard—maybe because he hoarded all the words and knew how to use them better than just about anyone. I hope we savor his spectacular wit and erudition and argue about the politics of his plays forever. He was monumental, and also a kind and curious man.
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Oscar-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88.

The Czech-born British playwright wrote the screenplay for 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, for which he won an Academy Award jrnl.ie/6889303
Oscar-winning UK playwright Tom Stoppard dies aged 88
The Czech-born British playwright wrote the screenplay for 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, for which he won an Academy Award.
jrnl.ie
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Listening to the infinite regress of Stoppard on Desert Island Discs, an episode that followed the one staged in The Real Thing www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Desert Island Discs - Tom Stoppard - BBC Sounds
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Tom Stoppard
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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When I was young, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern was my master class in playwriting - wordplay, wit, structure. I saw Arcadia three times in a row, just trying to figure out HOW he did that. He was utterly singular, RIP Tom Stoppard, there will never be another www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of electric verve, dies at 88
His intellectually challenging and verbally dazzling works, including “Arcadia” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” were among the most acclaimed and oft-performed plays of the last half-cen...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Kinda crazy that murdering criminal Pete Hagueseth, who admits proudly to his crimes, isn't currently in custody, awaiting trial.

Seems like the sort of thing the Law and Order folks would be all over, but what do I know?
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I played Valentine in a production of Arcadia in college and I still think about lines from that play all the time. RIP.
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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JUST IN: Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
The Czech-born British playwright is known for Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia. Stoppard also wrote screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Not the obituary I wanted to read today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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For me and others kids of the 70s, Randy Newman, who turns 82 today, has been part of the soundtrack of our lives.
Songwriter, performer, film composer.
From "Short People," "I Love LA," to THE NATURAL and TOY STORY and many more iconic songs and film scores.
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#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky #BOTD
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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World AIDS Day was cofounded by an American journalist--James Bunn, a San Francisco reporter who was the first person at a local TV station to make the AIDS crisis his beat, in 1983. An administration that did not loathe the press, history, and knowledge itself might have considered honoring that.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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breaking news from Passan: The New York Mets and Texas Rangers are finalizing a trade that would send second baseman Marcus Semien to the Mets and outfielder Brandon Nimmo to the Rangers
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hell yes. The Red Clay Strays win.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president

The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Nicole Kidman didn't want to be MAGA any longer.
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
College football is about exploiting athletes. The college football selection committee is as authentic as a WWE match.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Disabled people are treated like we are an absolute waste of space and resources. It’s exhausting and infuriating and dehumanizing.
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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I refuse to believe politicians are forgetting how rancid MTG is. Sure we can have a big tent but we do not need to welcome someone like her. Please everyone get a fucking hold of yourselves.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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There’s a lot of crosstalk, so I can imagine some of them not hearing it. But yeah, how is it possible that not one person responds “what the fuck did you just say, you dumb piece of shit?”
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
Merriam-Webster goes old school with first new hardcover Collegiate dictionary in 22 years
Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated Collegiate edition with 5,000 new entries.
www.wbur.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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I'm a half-hour in on the first episode.

There have already been multiple events discussed that apply to today. The strength of the colonists who fought for this country should give us strength today to do the same.

Everyone should watch.

It's on PBS tonight through Friday and on PBS.org.
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”

He will continue teaching.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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This is the holiday gift of the season
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Print dictionaries: the original large language models
11/18/25
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM