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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 17d

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle To Star in Broadway Revival of Proof

Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle To Star in Broadway Revival of Proof

This will be the first revival David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play.

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 1h

And the Hunter Biden story next to it!

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 9h

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 1d

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 2d

And thinking an AI animated figure is somehow a "virgin"???

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 3d

I still don’t get how this is basically a non-story but Biden being old and diminished was a generational scandal. You worry about a president losing their faculties in large part *because* it might empower some lunatic like this! That’s the concern!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 4d

A gorgeous, joyful classic

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 4d

Emphasize attention as a muscle that can be built up and strengthened - like working out, getting fit - the process is enjoyable

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 8d

First: Police, Synchronicity Tour
Best: Pogues with Joe Strummer subbing lead
Last: Horsegirl

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 8d

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 9d

Prince. Kicking myself I never saw him.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 13d

Right. They're not children, they have agency, they make choices.

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 15d

Yes. Along with the structural factors, he was too infirm to defend and promote his accomplishments.

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 15d

I've wondered this too. If say Jeffries never endorses Mamdani, how will that make it easier for Dems to win in the midterms? Would Jeffries just continually be going around saying, Hey I didn't endorse the now-mayor of New York, vote Dem?

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 15d

Just pledged a recurring donation to my old local station, KASU in Jonesboro Arkansas. Send defunded NPR stations some love! adoptastation.org

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media

Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16d

I push back against doomsaying and defeatism because, first, it’s misleadingly false, and second, the false belief makes it more likely to come true.

That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to worry about. It means don’t deny successful societal resistance and grant him power he doesn’t have.

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 16d

Douthat is a guy whose idea of a well-run state is something like Franco's Spain, but he can't say that and stay employed by the Times, so he twists himself in the most hilarious pretzels

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 17d

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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · Aug 21

playbill.com/article/ayo-...

Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle To Star in Broadway Revival of Proof

Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle To Star in Broadway Revival of Proof

This will be the first revival David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play.

playbill.com

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 18d

"This cringing puppy" 👍

Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 18d

Reading about the civil rights movement and learning about the cities and towns that chose to close their own public facilities - pools, parks, zoos - rather than integrate profoundly altered my understanding of human nature.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19d

The real existential threat isn't AI — it's billionaires. My latest, for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

What AI’s Doomers and Utopians Have in Common

Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 18d

WGA-East protest at ABC, NYC. Hundreds here.

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Dave Auburn @daveauburn.bsky.social · 19d

Agree, Noah!