NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.1 is now published! Now fully open access, this issue features a cluster of essays edited by Louise Geddes and Nora J. Williams reflecting on casting, race, community, and tragedy in productions performed on and off Broadway. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

Obfuscating on Obliterating www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

UVA President James Ryan Caved to MAGA—and They Forced Him Out Anyway newrepublic.com/article/1973... via @newrepublic.com

One of the things I love about the discovery reported in today’s Guardian is that it puts paid to the prejudice you see in a lot of biofiction that Anne Shakespeare/Hathaway would have been illiterate. Nope! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Republican Senator Thom Tillis just said he’s not comfortable voting for Trump’s nominee for US Attorney Ed Martin after it was revealed he went on a white nationalist podcast.

A Chinese-born American businessman was sentenced last week to five years in prison in China, on charges related to a criminal case nearly 25 years ago, despite having frequently made routine trips in and out of the country after the fact.

On this date… a minute and a lifetime 💔 It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch.

“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him..." www.azpm.org/p/headlines/...

The defense secretary is accused of dangerous incompetence by insiders. The homeland security secretary has her purse and $3000 nicked. The FBI director flies gov't air to visit an NHL game and his country-singing girlfriend. The supposed pretext for a security state is that it makes you safer

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/b...

We know whenever completely unqualified hucksters are hired for mature educated trained expertise type jobs, it’s inevitable that they will screw up. Ringmaster Dump and his circus monkeys. “I don’t know anything about it.” Says the “boss”.

Hundreds of flights were canceled or rerouted after a power outage at London’s Heathrow Airport, causing travel havoc worldwide. Follow live updates.

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem. Meta pirated millions of books to train its #AI. Search through them here. (Alex Reisner) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

1. The astronauts were not “rescued.” They were never “stranded.” 2. USAID never spent $50million on condoms for Gaza. 3. Haitian migrants were never eating peoples’ cats & dogs. 4. Trump did not win the 2020 election. Trump’s greatest legacy is the destruction of truth.

Review: The Mosinee Project at New Diorama Theatre "A brilliant, multi-layered, and intrinsically meta-theatrical project"

"The White House ordered a stop to the background check investigations after they deemed the process too intrusive..." abcnews.go.com/Politics/sto...

University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.

On the one hand, it’s bad to turn the White House into a used car lot. But on the other hand, let’s not talk about how we are becoming a kleptocracy.

“The right invented the term Trump Derangement Syndrome to dismiss analysis of Trump’s autocratic tendencies,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “But the real derangement lies in either the refusal or the inability to see Trump clearly.”

“Purge of journalists” underway at Voice of America, I’m told. Ukrainian correspondent Ostap Yarysh already impacted.

I was expecting al green to be thrown out, sure, and then other people to have stood up with him, and one by one they all get thrown out like Spartacus. They make them be removed. I was expecting that because movies have made me expect courage, solidarity, and honor

I am looking at a chamber filled with hundreds and hundreds of people, and if you asked me to seriously estimate what percentage of them understand how deep in the s*** we are right now, I mean really truly understand how close America is to full collapse, I would put the number at between 10 and 20

Find out more about Henry IV, Part 1 in our next #Shakespeare webinar! 🗓️3 March at 6-7.15pm 💻Online via Zoom Emma Smith will be discussing the new Oxford World's Classics edition of Henry IV, Part 1 with Indira Ghose. FREE and all welcome! #HenryIV #EnglishLit

February 28, 2025 A day that will live in infamy.

I stand with President Zelenskyy against King Trump and Autocrat Putin! Do you ? Long live Ukraine !

Trump cuts short Zelenskyy meeting after fiery White House clash https://www.ft.com/content/2108807d-2f06-4cc4-9c83-c6485c941939

I want everyone to know that screaming match in the Oval Was all for Russia TV that was there

Skies over NYC. Sail on sail on sailor!

The mother of a jailed British Egyptian activist has been hospitalized and is at risk of sudden death, a doctor has said, as her hunger strike to demand her son’s release reached 151 days.

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com Not a good look at all. A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network. www.thedailybeast.com/new-msnbc-bl...

This week’s #leshow reveals Elon’s cheating at video games (he’s 53), and corrections to the geyser of hagiography coming out of NYC last week. First hearing: 10a PT/ 1 p ET wamc.org, wcbe.org, kalw.org, and public radio stations through the day. & podcast!

Opinion | Trump’s border czar picked the wrong congresswoman to bully - MSNBC

Remembering Navalny. Murdered by Putin one year ago.

Breaking News: Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney resigned after she was ordered by the Justice Department to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams that she had championed.

London Theatre Company have today released production photos of Richard II, starring Jonathan Bailey and directed by Nicholas Hytner, this fresh take on Shakespeare’s subtle, caustic and powerful play is currently playing the Bridge Theatre

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia’s military struck the site of the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, causing “significant” damage to a structure that prevents radiation from leaking from a damaged reactor. Follow live updates.

One underreported facet of the Great University Crisis is the contribution of a small number of consultancy firms who recommend: *Centralise functions *Cut small courses *Reduce student options *Abolish loads of joint awards *Chop staff headcount This is *exactly* what you must not do. (1/3)

Got my first "Violating an Executive Order" and "I'll make sure you lose federal funding" parent threat today for teaching "DEI" books in our upcoming "Liberty and Justice" themed unit. Even in "Blue" Massachusetts we're dealing with this. Anyway, don't obey in advance, and don't obey later.

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.