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Dramatist. HOTEL MAYFLOWER; CONGRESSMAN DAVY More at: https://www.richardbyrneplays.com/ and https://stage-write.ghost.io/

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 2d

"Can't own the sun / Can't buy the moon / That's lunacy

So why they think / You're gonna sell / Your dignity?"

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CONGRESSMAN DAVY news coming soon!

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Davy Crockett's speech to Congress from DAVY CROCKETT's ALMANAC.

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 1d

America's soybean farmers unimpressed.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 1d

Jaysus.

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 2d

Much of it written by Trevor Griffiths -- one of the UK's greatest dramatists and screenwriters.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 2d

good morning. watch Reds.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 3d

Left the minute Musk hinted he would buy it.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Some fierce Philip Berrigan energy here.

As Berrigan said: "The Biblical view of the law, the courts, and the state is profoundly radical. The Bible looks upon the state as a kind of rebellious artifice; it is spurious, a human creation in rebellion against God."

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 3d

Reds. Trevor Griffiths.

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 4d

ugh.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 4d

St. Magnus of Füssen deals with devils in various manners - including ignoring them.

Staatsgalerie Füssen

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 5d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 5d

"To someone who invited him to capitulate to the Central Committee, [Rakovsky] replied gently: 'I am getting old. Why should I blot my biography?'"

Victor Serge, MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONARY

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 5d

When @davidsimon901.bsky.social says precisely what you would say about AI.

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David Simon says no to AI in an interview on NPR

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 7d

Auf Wiedersehn, Augsburg

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 7d

BrechtHaus, Augsburg. A pure delight.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 8d

Spent a wet and chilly afternoon at the Fuggerei in Augsburg: the oldest social housing complex on the planet.

500 years old and still going strong. Mozart's grandfather lived there.

Jakob Digger, the founder of the Fuggerei, Augsburg

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 9d

Allen can't be taken seriously after "debating" Yarvin.

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 9d

Cut off the oxygen of our attention.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 9d

Another opportunity to remind everyone who's still posting on Substack that there *is* an EXIT sign you can follow out of there.

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 11d

She's no Connie Francis, sir.

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 11d

The Swift thing ... what do you expect her to do? You don't write to Kellogg's and say why don't they put out new corn flakes. No! The people want corn flakes, by God. They want what they want and thank goodness, you know, it's good for the kids. The grandparents can appreciate it.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 11d

The Totentanz mural in the Stadtmuseum in Füssen, Bavaria.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 13d

Castles be crazy.

Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 15d

HOTEL MAYFLOWER reading in Innsbruck at Literaturhaus am Inn last night.

First time auf Deutsch!

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HOTEL MAYFLOWER at Literaturhaus am Inn. Innsbruck , Austria.

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 15d

Ezra Klein is the dude with the shovel in a hole who should stop digging.

Then he texted Ta-Nehisi Coates and said: "Hey can you tell me it's ok to keep digging?"

And Coates says repeatedly: "Stop digging."