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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛

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Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/ 🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈‍⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · Jun 19

Just a reminder to authors working on #EarlyModern English drama that I edit a book series, "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Histories and Theories. I would love to read your proposal! #Drama #16thC #17thC 🗃️ wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories

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Democrats @democrats.org · 15h

It’s been 16 days since @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social won her election.

Republicans still haven’t sworn her in.

She would be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

If Republicans don’t pass our bill to reopen the government and extend ACA tax credits, millions of families will see their health care costs soar.

Here's just one example of a MD couple who would see their costs nearly TRIPLE — a health catastrophe and another Trump betrayal:

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 19h

I did PT in 2015, and I still do the exercises about 4 days a week. Changed my life!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

Trump’s nominee to be the Army’s lawyer is confused about the First Amendment.

Independent journalists must be free to report the facts without fear of retaliation.

If we're sending troops to war under false pretenses, Americans have a right to know.

Graphic with Senator Warren asking: Is it consistent with the First Amendment for DOD to revoke a reporter’s press credentials for publishing a story that’s critical of President Trump?

DoD official responds: Yes... If the basis was that the person published information that was not otherwise approved for release by the Department.

Senator Warren Responds: Whoa.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is so dark

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 19h

#EarlyModern

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 19h

Does anyone know of any good scholarship on John Fletcher's The Elder Brother?

Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 19h

He's flat on his back, nearly, no hip joints. 😻 He loves sun.

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 19h

I saw it. A very beautiful floofy white belly kitty.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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votolatino.bsky.social @votolatino.bsky.social · 1d

Your voice matters. Your vote counts. Election Day is November 4, 2025. Check your registration, find your polling place, and make a plan to vote – early, by mail, or in person. Democracy works when we all show up. Learn more at: votolatino.org/electioncenter/

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm surprised that hasn't happened yet. But that's only because they are with him. Wait until they aren't.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

The "Policia" label on the shields was a clue, but the thing about stupid, lazy people is that they're stupid and lazy. So here we are, having to debunk photoshops that the Right is gleefully meming and sharing. "A lie can travel around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," as they say

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 2d

'Supermoon' - the first of 3 this year. This evening's fantastic rising full Harvest Moon! Actually 100% about 04.45 tomorrow morning. Also rising into the 'Belt of Venus' #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

The Harvest or Hunter Supermoon. Currently just 362k miles from Earth. It is properly called a Perigee Moon.

Moon rising over the east of south London

The full Moon rising through the Belt of Venus which is an atmospheric phenomenon that appears as a pinkish or brownish glow in the sky right after sunset or just before sunrise. The glow is visible above the dark blue band of Earth's shadow, which rises on the horizon opposite the sun. The phenomenon is also known as the anti-twilight arch.

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 1d

“In my mind, it’s not that Dad is heading to yet another of his jobs. In my mind, it’s that he’s always heading away from home.” ~ Sandra Benítz in A Place Called Home, Twenty Writing Women Remember

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 1d

LOL, just got my first citation to a paper of mine that does not actually exist. Thanks, Sam Altman

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

Bad news: Anti-vaxxers have been given leadership positions at US health agencies and are doing everything they can to take away vaccines.

Good news: Despite all their spin, in reality they have been too incompetent to do anything effective to restrict vaccine access in any meaningful way so far.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 1d

Fabulous discussion of the Nobel prize work in medicine.

The Brian Lehrer Show @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social · 1d

Today:
- @alexzimmerman.bsky.social on the next mayor's impact on public education,
- ‪@danielgriffinmdphd.bsky.social‬ on the immunology work that won the Nobel Prize
- @railstotrails.org rehabs abandoned train tracks as hiking trails

Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org

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Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 1d

Applications for #digital exhibits at #Shax2026 are now open! Showcase your work on early modern projects — find more information and apply at shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

Image of the Chandos portrait of William Shakespeare, overlaid with translucent green text of computer code and strings of binary code. Along the right side of the image, dark text reads "Propose a Digital Exhibit". End ID.

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