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Author | BROADWAY BODIES and QUEER APPROACHES IN MUSICAL THEATRE Assistant Professor of Theater Studies | Duke University ryan-donovan.com
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms theonion.com/trump-u...

Audition sheets for EVITA. Look who got an A+

How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

At my favorite archive today

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

Call for proposals! 📢 Submissions for the Theatre And series are now open. Submit your proposal for a 25,000-word book on a topic of your choosing. More info 👉 bit.ly/4jIU5MY Download a proposal form 🗒️ bit.ly/4jKP7z5 Submissions close 30 March!

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

(1) this is not how university finances work (2) without humanities, you don’t have a university, you have a glorified trade school.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

What a dream to see the understudies and alternates in the original cast of PIPPIN

You can’t spell Stonewall without the T

Sharing apropos of nothing

How the sudden and severe cuts to NIH funding will devastate the US biomedical industry — especially red state institutions. Also Elon Musk’s claims about “overhead” numbers were off by about a factor of two. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

The shock and awe Musk, Vought, Bannon and Trump — are bringing will backfire if we’re smart about it. Make clear that DOGE is the Dept of Govt Extermination, not Efficiency. Let people see that their taxes are no longer paying for vital public services but to fatten the richest people on earth.

Planning on applying for an NEH grant this cycle but honestly wondering whether it will still exist by the time applications are due. 🫠

What a life she led onstage!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Oh, I didn't know they made concept recordings in the 1920s 🫠

Did anyone vote for Elon

What a thrill to be in such good company on the shelves of the New York Public Library! @jfoulkes.bsky.social @jackviertel.bsky.social

Just because it is in plain sight does not mean it is not what it is: A hostile takeover of the U.S. government by an unelected and unfettered power monger. Believe what you see, do not see what you believe.

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.

America fully wore me out today. MY WORD. I am tiredt.

Update: It's day 12 of the Golden Age, and the war in Ukraine is still raging and a dozen brown eggs at the Giant cost more than $9.

So meta

Once again, a fundamental reason why so many academics despise Trump, Vance, Musk & company is that we’ve all had our share of The Guy Who Didn’t Do The Reading But Demands to Be Heard

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

Honestly

he also froze the hiring of more air traffic controllers: democrats-transportation.house.gov/news/press-r...

Me, reading the news this year

Worth noting that McConnell refusing to whip votes to convict Trump at his impeachment trial (or vote himself to convict) is *why* we’re now in a position where Hegseth is the Defense Secretary. If McConnell is looking for the person at fault, he might want to consult a mirror.

See Liza Now!

Why are university presses important? A thread 🧵