The American College Theatre Festival has suspended its affiliation with the Kennedy Center after nearly six decades of partnership. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Amer...

Here it is! www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

May there be accountability for this.

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Protesting #ICE for Christmas

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

I think. I have assessed all the projects. Phew. *sips tea* Great break. Okay. Now let's get to work on that new course for January.

Yet another white move to innocence.

As I was saying. David is more concise.

The venal king of crass, stupid, petty, paltry, and cruel.

Saying good-bye to the men at the prison til after the holiday tonight was as intense as I have ever experienced it. It's always sad. One of the men silently wept as we wrapped up class. I just stood with him while he cried.

We knew he was vile. He just keeps reminding us. I quote the late Rob Reiner, who said, that this "mentally unfit" man is "the single-most unqualified human being to ever assume the presidency of the United States."

As I am slowly climbing the steep mountain of final projects I am grading, this note arrived: "Your course was honestly life changing. You are a legend and it has been so enlightening to begin to get to know you. I'm very much looking forward to my second class with you in the spring." Huzzah.

Exhausted Bills fans malfunction all over Western New York.

For your Sunday blocking pleasure.

So my Ted made this site with some found data. See what kind of good trouble you might make. fnuk.net

⚡️ JUDGE ORDERS KILMAR RELEASED IMMEDIATELY… “A Maryland judge on Thursday ordered the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national mistakenly deported to his home country earlier this year, from immigration custody.” www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-...

@mjmckean.bsky.social Thinking of you and Annette. Thrilled to see all the good things you are doing.

First failed search letter from this academic cycle. Curious that it arrived just two days after I read an article about how this partic university is in several kinds of disarray.

"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot. 'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...” www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

"Many of you are miserable, horrible people. But you are persistent, you never give up. Sometimes I wish you’d give up, but you don’t." —Dear Leader at an ostensible celebration of the arts Damn straight, you old grifter. We never give up.

Thread. Important context.

(1/4) ICE detention has become a black box. Oversight has been gutted. Families are being separated. Pregnant and postpartum women report starving in custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, and their pleas for help going unanswered.

His sentence has been vacated. He has spent 27 years on death row. He was convicted w/junk science. Louisiana, what is the matter with you? You owe the man restitution, not further persecution.

Spotify has been running I.C.E. recruitment ads and has refused to remove them. You can just cancel your subscription and let them know you won't be back as long as they are helping to recruit storm troopers. #SpotifyUnwrapped

I do in fact stay awake at night sometimes thinking about how the MAGA ghouls are destroying actually-essential counterterrorism efforts in favor of directing resources towards brutalizing elderly taco truck workers

In the next round of Vlad's Cards Against Humanity ...

Take Hegseth's reckless, murderous self to court, @kidscanpress.bsky.social .

"Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too." — Tom Stoppard, COAST OF UTOPIA

"You taught me language. And my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse." Let's ride, @profanity.accountant

"You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?" Vale, Sir Tom.

This is the way.

@davidleveaux.bsky.social My condolences, David. I am remembering you introducing me to Sir Tom in the lobby of the Donmar, lo, these many years ago. And watching you both get feted at Tavern on the Green once upon an opening night.

I got to meet Sir Tom three delightful times in this world: in the lobby at the Donmar, where I was starstruck; at a Broadway opening, when I was a bit better prepared; and then over a meal and very good conversation at Tavern on the Green. The very best bounced Czech. (1/x)

Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.

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this is just gutter racism

Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is. There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”

He does like them on the younger side.

Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”

From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt. Thanks to Marc Elias “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

Tomorrow is both my dad's and my mom's yahrzeit. He died last year, after a very rough final few months, four years to the day after mom. Notre Dame pasted Army for him that night, which he would have enjoyed. It's been a helluva year to try to grieve and rebuild.

Not surprised, but disappointed to see Jesse Green using 'colorblind' in his NYT article today w/o any acknowledgement of the dated, problematic implications (to wit, erasure). Multicultural casting, Jesse, surely, in conversation with color conscious approaches. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...

#slawaukraini #standwithUkraine

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🔥Chris Murphy: "The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM" If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side."

This is pedagogical malpractice. Hear your students when they speak. Also, knock it off with the paternalistic consensual warranting; don't speak for them. INVITE THEM INTO DIALOGUE.

"..federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times in 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since Oct. 1. Federal agents have used chemical irritants at least 30 times since a judge placed restrictions on their use of tear gas and pepper spray."