Derek Miller
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Theater historian. Little League coach. Cruciverbalist. American citizen opposed to tyranny.
I thought Disclosure Day was kind of terrific. If you're on the fence, go see it this weekend.
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Ugh. So good. Thank you as ever,
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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Dead Country Fair | Defector
Things come out of Donald Trumpās mouth, then just keep on coming out of it. If he says something once, he will say it again, primarily to reinforce how powerfully and unprecedentedly successful he wa...
https://defector.com/dead-country-fair
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
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4fuxake
3 days ago
A where's Waldo to celebrate freedom 250 šš
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Tell Yale not to cut deals with murderers and thieves (aka, the Trump regime).
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Tell Yale: Donāt cave to Trump Administration demands
On Friday, the New York Times broke the news that Yale is in the midst of settlement negotiations with the Trump administration over an investigation into its admissions policies at the college, law s...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-yale-dont-cave-to-trump-administration-demands?source=bluesky&
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If you haven't made a trip to Dia:Beacon to see the Tehching Hsieh exhibit, go this summer. It's a stunning exhibit and the details are outstanding. (Also, I'm basic and it was my first Dia:Beacon visit. Won't be my last.)
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Anna Kornbluh
7 days ago
"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68%
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Someday, kids, with hard work and no ethics, you too can become a lackey for a fascist, personalist regime.
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John Rogers
10 days ago
"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?
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A few words on the politics of Fiddler on the Roof.
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A few words on the politics of Fiddler on the Roof.
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I'm two weeks late to this brief online kerfuffle, but it's still worth explaining.
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Fiddler on the Roof is Not a Zionist Play
It's just not.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/fiddler-on-the-roof-is-not-a-zionist?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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I'm two weeks late to this brief online kerfuffle, but it's still worth explaining.
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Fiddler on the Roof is Not a Zionist Play
It's just not.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/fiddler-on-the-roof-is-not-a-zionist?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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If you ever start to wonder if this is normal, just remember the MURDERS still going on.
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11 days ago
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Resistance Studies Series
15 days ago
"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register š
www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon
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This is so good. As usual. Thank you,
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States werenāt living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has...
https://defector.com/promises-made-promises-kept-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-absolutely-looks-like-shit-now
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This is the civic equivalent of moneychangers in the temple.
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"Stupid and incompetent" is a bit harsh, but, yes, agreed. Most work is mid or bad, including most of my own. It's just how life is. They can't all be bangers.
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24 days ago
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Trump take Knicks.
25 days ago
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#worldcupboycott
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Thrilled to have an essay on tickets in this great new collection, coming out this fall. You can preorder for 50% off (this and other UM Press books) with code SPRING26.
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Theatre Things
Theatre Things: Material Theories and Histories considers key theatrical objects through a comparative approach, examining the uses and histories of different parts of the theatre throughout time and ...
https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/Theatre-Things2
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Some thoughts on protest and (reasonable) punishment.
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Fence Me In
For protest to be effective, protesters should not contest reasonable, non-violent accountability for violating rules/laws.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/fence-me-in?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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PT | Sean Murphy's defense attorney
30 days ago
Woke king is here
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about 1 month ago
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There he is! I found him!!
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about 1 month ago
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Have they tried using Devin to open the Strait of Hormuz?
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In the finale of the Schumann Piano Quintet, when they start the fugue with the first movement theme and the pianist keys the first note so hard that it double-strikes? I love that. (Also, Schumann piano quintet rocks.)
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If only his attention span for shiny things were as developed as that of your average infant.
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Jeffries: Democrats don't take any of this that seriously.
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Better late than never. But the fact that this wasn't obvious to the entire Democratic caucus the moment the regime committed the first murders ... World-historical political malpractice.
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about 1 month ago
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The fascism is so prominent you can see it from *space*!
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I finally caught The Outsiders musical. I had some thoughts.
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Reading Reading in The Outsiders
How to think about literacy in the musical adaptation of The Outsiders.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/reading-reading-in-the-outsiders?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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I finally caught The Outsiders musical. I had some thoughts.
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Reading Reading in The Outsiders
How to think about literacy in the musical adaptation of The Outsiders.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/reading-reading-in-the-outsiders?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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Trish Greenhalgh
about 1 month ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years Iāve had SIX messages from people who saved a kidās life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesnāt Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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Stephen Colbert to Harvard's Institute of Politics?
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
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Harvard Management Company: No bubble too inflated; no swindle too immoral. (They bought cryptocurrency last year and just sold it. They're now buying in AI and semiconductors. Guess they aren't losing money fast enough.)
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HMC Exits Ethereum ETF, Cuts Bitcoin Holdings in First Quarter | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Management Company fully exited its short-lived investment in an Ethereum exchange-traded fund and sharply reduced its Bitcoin holdings in the first quarter of 2026, scaling back the Universit...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/5/19/hmc-exits-ethereum-cuts-bitcoin/
about 2 months ago
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The duty of an opposition party confronting an illiberal ruling party is to oppose them at every moment. That elected Democrats continue not to understand this remains truly incomprehensible to me.
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What does this even mean? Seriously. He appointed judges who overturned Roe. He basically doesn't believe other people exist. He's not "in a bind." He. Does. Not. Care.
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Michael Clemens
about 2 months ago
MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.
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A message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth
YouTube video by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xa0wGqF_RY
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Quantian
about 2 months ago
Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.
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The public poetry program on NYC's MTA stinks. I attempt to explain why.
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NYC's Subway Poems are a Train Wreck
Public art can be wonderful. But it must be strange and silly, not sober and serene.
https://open.substack.com/pub/derekmillerinnyc/p/nycs-subway-poems-are-a-train-wreck?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=46r09g
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To be clear: this piece has NO LYRICS. It's literally just the title and then, you know, music for wind ensemble. I don't like this one bit.
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Kristian G. Andersen
about 2 months ago
āHHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2ā This might be the most insane thing yet.
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Virologist accused of starting COVID-19 will fight U.S. ban on funding
HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a āpattern of deceptionā in describing virus studies long before pandemic
https://www.science.org/content/article/virologist-accused-starting-covid-19-will-fight-u-s-ban-funding
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The Boston Globe
about 2 months ago
Harvard University's top leaders likely enslaved thousands of people between the founding of the school in 1636 and the defeat of the Confederacy, according to new research.
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Harvard officials enslaved more than 1,600 people, new research reveals - The Boston Globe
So far, they have confirmed that at least 259 Harvard officials enslaved people ā and they are still digging through records.
https://trib.al/rvpFQMm
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Charlotte Canning
about 2 months ago
I wrote on how we arenāt facing a crisis of trust but one of truth.
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Trust Isnāt the Issue (opinion)
What we actually have is a crisis of truth.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/05/11/trust-isnt-issue-opinion
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Government lawyers are full of shit and never act in good faith. Stop inviting these people to campus.
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about 2 months ago
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So, Canvas is hacked, right? Super awesome.
about 2 months ago
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Will
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about 2 months ago
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Brilliant satirical poster in the Barker Center today:
about 2 months ago
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Economic anxiety.
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