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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 1d

This is a terrifically written, really smart piece. Great perspective on an actor's career and reputation.

Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?

He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

slate.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 3d

This is outstanding. If you are a faculty member at these schools, send this you your deans and Presidents and trustees!!!

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 4d

The Battle Over Civil Society - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.

www.dissentmagazine.org

Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 4d

This is all just a fun game of "negotiation" for these billionaire fucks. None of these people should be within 500 yards of a school, let alone Higher Education policy. Fucking fascists, eat shit. That includes Schwarzman.

Billionaire Trump Ally Emerges as Key Broker in Harvard Fight

www.nytimes.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 4d

Every day, every Member of Congress should be asked why the US has murdered 21 people in international waters and Congress has done nothing.

U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says

www.nytimes.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 7d

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 12d

And not counting ICE's behavior as right-wing, government-directed terrorism.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13d

*our 🤦‍♂️

Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13d

I stand with Yasmin Williams. I know the fascists running are government are malicious, cruel people. But something about this story hurts so, so much. To organize a claque against an artist you are presenting?!? An artist who kept her commitment to perform when others didn't? I am so sad.

Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian

Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

www.washingtonian.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 14d

Please read this story.

Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian

Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

www.washingtonian.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13d

Nothing like a great prop. I was admiring Sean Connery's grail diary in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13d

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 13d

I disagree with lots of people who aren't Nazis! I'm very careful about who gets the "fascist" label. Murkowski? Too weak to oppose, fascism, but not a Nazi. Vance? Nazi!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Vance: "If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi."

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 14d

From a JustSecurity essay about servicemembers' criminal liability for the murders in the Caribbean. These paragraphs summarize the gross illegality of these acts.

this post assumes that LOAC does not regulate this strike (because LOAC is lex specialis, applying only in an actual armed conflict). Further, it assumes Trump’s jus ad bellum self-defense argument is without merit. Finally, it assumes the attacks violate International Human Rights Law’s rights to life and fair trial and its prohibition on extrajudicial killings.

But even if these attacks can be considered part of an ongoing lawful military operation in a non-international armed conflict (NIAC) akin to the campaign against al Qaeda and its associated forces or an international armed conflict (IAC) with the Maduro regime, the killings would still be crimes under LOAC’s prohibition on making “civilians the object of attack.”

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 14d

Please read this story.

Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian

Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

www.washingtonian.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 14d

This flew under my radar: Chris Rufo threatened troops on campuses in a podcast interview at @chronicle.com Two key passages:

Rufo So of course, previous presidents and administrations have worked with think tanks, scholars, civic leaders on policy, they continue to do so. And if anything — and maybe we can kind of leave with this provocative point — if anything, I think they should take stronger and even more decisive action against these institutions. And for me, the frame of reference is the campaign to desegregate universities in the 1960s, the early 1960s. And your listeners may recall that in fact, the President of the United States, President Kennedy, actually sent in armed … sent in the 101st Airborne troops to forcibly desegregate universities. I think he established an important precedent and I think the president to this day still retains all remedies up to and including parachuting in the 101st Airborne if these universities continue to discriminate on the basis of race, scapegoat students on the basis of race, and segregate students on basis of race.

Rufo The president under Article II of the Constitution retains the power to enforce the law, to make sure that universities are adhering with the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act. And I’m not saying that the president should send in the 101st Airborne. I’m merely saying that he retains the right to do so under the Constitution and longstanding precedent.
Stripling Well, if he does, I’m going to give you a call.
Rufo I expect that you would. I don’t think it’s happening, I don’t think it necessary at the current time.
Stripling Well, you’ve put the idea out there Chris and we know how these things work.
Rufo But I think that yeah the ideas should be floating out there. I think it’s one that is worth the consideration.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 14d

More specifically, I think Sunstein represents exactly the moral view described by Arendt that @bonniehonig.bsky.social was citing recently.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 15d

It's a banger, obviously.

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 15d

New Chotiner just dropped. (Given the state of the world, if he could give us some upcoming column release dates, I think we'd all appreciate a little something to look forward to.)

Can Liberalism Be Saved?

The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.

www.newyorker.com

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 15d

Republicans across America will say, "Some of the Democrats are so dangerous that even their own leaders won't support them!"

Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 15d

Doubt any evidence. D's always do this; it's nuts. Republicans would call Joe Manchin a commie. Why *help* them signal that Mamdani dangerous by withholding their own endorsements?!?

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 15d

I remember this essay very well, actually! Those passages had not stood out to me years ago, though they certainly resonate now. These sentences affected me profoundly, then and now. Thank you for the recommendation!!

Quotation from Hannah Arendt's "Personal Responsibility and Judgement." Included the argument that Germans who avoided participating in Nazism "refused to murder, not so much because they still held fast to the command 'Thou shalt not kill,' but because they were unwilling to live together with a murderer—themselves."

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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 15d

I am an anti-fascist and I oppose and abhor political violence.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 16d

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson

Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.

www.thecrimson.com

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