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Performance scholar & Theatre artist, author of Performing for the Don, continuing the investigation at performingforthedon.substack.com
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Hey #AcademicSky! Sending out this CfP for Ecumeinca's special issue on Religion and the Right. Where the #performance #scholars at?

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There's no denying that one of the core projects of MAGA is to redefine who an American is. performingforthedon.substack.com/p/what-is-an...

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I wrote to my rep re: Elon Musk and got this in reply: "TPresident Trump has designated Elon Musk as a ‘Special Government Employee’, [...] someone who works for the government for 130 days or less in a 365-day period, and who may or may not be compensated." So, this will be over by May 31?

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I think about this quote a lot: "Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals." –New York Times, Dec. 9, 2017

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The extension of executive power from the Trump administration speaks to a deep change in how we’re perceived. No longer as a “people” from which sovereignty is drawn, we’re now an audience. There might be power in that. performingforthedon.substack.com/p/we-the-aud...

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America is two continents, not one country. And the Gulf of Mexico has been called that since before there was that one country, the United States of America, and before the West Coast was even mapped-- note the Island of California in map #2).

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Back from a mid-winter nap! I couldn’t stomach another inauguration “take,” so here’s something that tries to look a bit forward at how the Left might be able to learn from the Right as we try to turn back the tide of populism. #SubstackSky performingforthedon.substack.com/p/reviving-t...

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This deftly captures the bleak state of America at the start of 2025.

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“There may be benefits to Mr. Trump’s skepticism about major military commitments abroad,” Phil Klay writes. But a military that lacks moral purpose and a commitment to moral conduct ”fights without honor.”

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a truly scandalous story. for 5 years, a public figure used half a mil in taxpayer money for draftkings bets, a trip to gatorland, and other wild purchases www.spotlightpa.org/statecollege...

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There's a deeper conversation that needs to happen about what we value and why we value it. This is a seminal part of the role of the arts in a healthy society: to make these inquiries that might upturn our sense of reality and freedom. #Substacksky performingforthedon.substack.com/p/a-distorte...

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Even though we associate language death with modern times, languages have been dying out in Late Antiquity too. Sometimes (well, most of the time) we learn about how it happened in quite unusual ways. A little thread 🧵 1/ Isidore, Etymologies, bk. IX.1 On languages St. Gallen, Cod. Sang. 231

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

For parents #Spotify #wrapped is a reminder that no algorithm can be pure so long as your kid demands Moana multiple times a day.

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Cosa nunstra www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

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Know what I really want from Apple AI? For them not to autocorrect “fuck” to “duck.”

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Let Donald Trump in a bathrobe remind you that the outrage and pile-ons can obscure the material consequences of what's underneath. #Substacksky performingforthedon.substack.com/p/consider-t...

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Wait…he may not have been telling the truth?! Land sakes. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

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Listening to my son tell us “the story of the first Thanksgiving,” all we can think is: we’ve got a lot of teaching to do.

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#AcademicSky got any recs for note taking apps or systems?Thinking esp for reading research that you may not use at the moment, but come in handy later.

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Came across this Eisenhower-era monument in “One Nation Under God” by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and couldn’t help but notice there’s nothing about guns or the right to bear arms on the Bill of Rights section.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Really potent comment from Martin Dolan at @thepointmag.bsky.social: "Meanwhile, the sort of subversive political thinking that would’ve once appealed to young people has become almost exclusively the domain of the right." thepointmag.com/forms-of-lif...

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Back up and running trying to begin to make sense of the post-election reality with a little help from Rod Dreher (!) and MLK Jr #SubstackSky performingforthedon.substack.com/p/where-do-w...

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Can't tell if this is the state that we're in or I've become too disenchanted already, but I saw the Linda McMahon headline and thought it was a win.

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