Sarah’s back directing another episode of Sheriff Country, the popular spin-off of the CBS hit Fire Country. Go get ‘em, daughter! www.facebook.com/share/1cKHhK...
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Valerie Wayne
@valeriewayne.bsky.social
Professor Emerita, U of Hawaii. Early modern literature and book history. Editor, Cymbeline for Arden and Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England. Also a grandma who sings.
I invite you to join me in signing this Declaration of Interdependence for the next 250 years in the U.S. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ne...
Next250 - Sign the Declaration of Interdependence
As the United States reaches its 250th birthday, the nation stands at a crossroads of great or dangerous change. We, the people, have the power to build a promising future for everyone. A future that ...
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Our Board member Prof. Valerie Wayne @valeriewayne.bsky.social has written an introduction to the ODNB’s new set of entries on female stationers:
A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.
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Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
Canada’s Trump-Fueled Brain Gain
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VIDEO | In Hungary, the fascist Orban government tried to ban the Pride Parade🏳️🌈and threatened to punish those who joined. The response was clear: a massive march with hundreds of thousands of people.
Protest in Honolulu estimated at 7-10 thousand—which is really big for us!
One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here. medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...
Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children
The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding,
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Steven Pinker’s nuanced take on Harvard and its contributions. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
Opinion | Harvard Derangement Syndrome
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‘An autoimmune disorder’: how Trump is turning American democracy against itself
If you missed my sniffly @nvshakespeare.bsky.social talk on author attribution in early English playbooks—both print and manuscript!—last month, a recording is available online: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/ You can find it by scrolling down to the April 2, 2025 news item about my visit.
ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it: www.mla.org/content/down...
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In the short run, loss of America’s appeal to scientists around the world. In the medium term, economic depression. In the long term, the US reverses its development. www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t...
NIH grant terminations under Trump have totaled at least $1.8 billion, analysis finds
Researchers calculated that $1.8 billion in National Institutes of Health grants were terminated in just over one month
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Terrific news. “…the court ordered the administration to immediately take steps to restore the agency’s employees and grant funding activities.” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/13/r...
Report: “In a Major Win for Libraries, Federal Judge Orders IMLS to Be Restored”
From Words and Money: Finally, some good news for the library community. On May 13, federal judge John G. McConnell in Rhode Island issued a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking Trump administrati...
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NEW: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress after a brief standoff with DOJ officials this morning. w/ @ktullymcmanus @jordainc t.co/BJ79oZAj9C
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/12/congress/donald-trump-library-of-congress-fight-00342326
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Republicans are deploying every trick in the book to gut Medicaid while claiming they’re not cutting it. The CBO estimates the latest GOP plan would kick nearly 9 million people off Medicaid. Why? To fund tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit corporations and the rich.
So if I am getting this right: Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired. Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal. Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.
Rob Townsend@rbtownsend.bsky.social · last yr.“President Donald Trump continued a firing spree at the Library of Congress on Saturday when he dismissed the top copyright official in the nation” bit.ly/43amMei
Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.
This German broadside from 1605—by Heinrich Ulrich— illustrates the papal conclave that elected Camillo Borghese that May. He became Pope Paul V. (@ransomcenter.bsky.social Popular Imagery Collection 285)
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
