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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 10d

Just listened to the one on Olympe de Gouges. Fascinating! Must catch up with the rest, especially interested in the one on de Staël.
Hope you're doing well! :)

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 16d

Check out @eggerdc.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com's Morning Shots.

As Trump says, "Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen." www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-not-a-...

He’s Not a Doctor. But He Did Stay at the White House Last Night.

In retrospect, maybe the era of bleach-injection speculation wasn’t so bad.

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 10d

ICYMI, new from me at @thebulwark.com: the 80th anniversary of #AnimalFarm. Also, the surprising story of its 1947 Ukrainian-language edition.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10d

"Orwell, a democratic socialist, thus seems to be envisioning a scenario in which the Soviet regime evolves into a state capitalist oligarchy and drops its Communist trappings. That never came true—or did it?"

ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/animal-far...

‘Animal Farm’ Never Gets Old

Orwell’s classic turns 80.

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · 10d

Good stuff!

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder @jeffreyasnyder.bsky.social · 13d

What do you think are the politics of the person who said the following?

When a person says something that a ton of people find offensive...and then that person is punished for it, that’s not cancel culture. That is consequences for your actions.

Click 👇

banished.substack.com/p/what-we-ke...

What We Keep Getting Wrong about the Cancel Culture Debate

Amna & Jeff re-up, & reflect on, a deep-dive post on cancel culture from 2022

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 18d

On view at the Marie Antoinette exhibition in London, a famous Vigée Lebrun portrait of the queen.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 16d

'Concert Hall', Queen's Hall, Langham Place (1929) by Sybil Andrews

(Glenbow Museum)

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Tomek Jankowski @tomekjankowski.bsky.social · 27d

It has been deeply heartening to see Ukraine, a nation fighting for its very survival, to turn to art and literature for solace. It has also raised the profile of other Eastern European writers and artists from the 20th century - operating under similar circumstances: platformraam.nl/artikelen/28...

The life of Ukrainian books and authors in wartime

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian literary scene has seen some dramatic changes. The Ukrainian author Andrei Kurkov reflects on...

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · Sep 7

CBS/YouGov poll:

– 57% oppose deploying the National Guard to DC
– 58% oppose deployments to other cities
– Just 36% on independents support deployments

Pundits who are imagining a hypothetical voter should stop claiming that voter would support these deployments: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-n...

@CBSNEWSPOLL YouGov

MOE:+-2.5PT
SEPTEMBER3-5.2025

TRUMP DEPLOYING
NATIONALGUARDTO...

FAVOR
OPPOSE
WASHINGTON,DC
43%
57%
OTHERCITIES?
42%
58%

@CBSNEWSPOLL YouGov

TOTALSAMPLEMOE:+/-25PTS.
SEPTEMBER3-5.2025

TRUMP DEPLOYINGNATIONALGUARD
TOOTHERU.S.CITIES?
BYPARTY

DEMS
INDS
REPS
FAVOR
7%
36% 85%
OPPOSE
93% 64% 15%

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · Sep 5

my colleagues in C18 literary and cultural studies didn't need David Bowie's endorsement to know that they are the coolest, sexiest group of scholars, and I'm sure they're all taking the news that he was planning "18th Century Musical" completely in stride

David Bowie's final project was a musical set in London

Shortly before his death, the star wrote dozens of notes for a musical set in 18th Century London.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · Aug 26

The geopolitical ramifications of the United States becoming a dictatorship are *huge* and so I expect most foreign leaders to try to avoid reckoning with it for as long as possible.
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social @cathyyoung63.bsky.social

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Aug 25

"It’s rare to pack so much culture-war toxicity into one short post over something that matters so little." But Chris Rufo can do it!

@cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Rufo's anti-woke authoritarianism: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-chris-...

How Chris Rufo Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Cancel Culture

The anti-woke warrior’s authoritarian roots are showing

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · Jul 20

How bizarre.

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · May 4

ICYMI! Very proud of this piece.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · May 3

Thorough takedown of "trollish, ill-informed pseudo-intellectual" Curtis Yarvin (who wrote for a while as "Mencius Moldbug") by @cathyyoung63.bsky.social.

The Blogger Who Hates America

Curtis Yarvin’s popularity keeps growing. His intellectual rigor, not so much.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · May 3

How has Trump’s actual record so far measured up to the dark scenarios anticipated by those of us who thought his victory would be a disaster? Let’s go through each of the biggest concerns of anti-Trumpers. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/100-days-o...

100 Days of Trump: The Fears Were Justified

Bad policies made worse by lawlessness, pettiness, and stupidity.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · Apr 28

"Oh, calm down, how bad can he be?" @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on exactly how well-founded Trump critics' forebodings turned out to be.

100 Days of Trump: The Fears Were Justified

Bad policies made worse by lawlessness, pettiness, and stupidity.

www.thebulwark.com

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · Apr 15

Also worth emphasizing that Garcia is the husband of a US citizen and the father of three children who are US citizens, that he has had a legal work permit for several years & has committed no offenses in the US.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · Apr 15

There should be an elected Democrat on the ground in El Salvador every minute of every day until Abrego Garcia is brought home.

D's should do the work the DoJ is refusing to do. They should harass Bukele's govt, demanding answers and sending...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bring-him-...

Bring. Him. Home.

Our cause is here; our time is now.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Apr 15

BRING HIM HOME.*

"Trump is in an impossible situation. He cannot allow Abrego Garcia to come home because (a) it would be capitulation to the Supreme Court, and (b) Abrego Garcia cannot be allowed to testify about what he saw and experienced at CECOT. So Democrats must make Trump pay."

Bring. Him. Home.

Our cause is here; our time is now.

www.thebulwark.com

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · Apr 10

Nepo baby? Do tell. Who's my influential relative?

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · Apr 10

Pavlovian drool responses to Ayn Rand characters? *Moi*?

www.thebulwark.com/p/ayn-rand-i...

Ayn Rand in Our Day

The mixed literary, philosophical, and political legacy of the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, forty years after her death.

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · Apr 10

Who knew I was being held up as an example of rising tech hate

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · Apr 3

Dawg it's so over for tech

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · Apr 3

Dawg it's so over for tech

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · Apr 10

Oh I'm fine with the resistance, lol.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Apr 3

"It’s almost as if the Trump administration’s decision to put the screws on the universities isn’t actually about reining in antisemitism on campus at all."

@cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Trump's war against the universities: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-war-...

Trump’s War on the Universities

The administration’s power grab is no solution to the real problems on campus.

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Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks much, Howard!