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Charlotte Canning
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Performance historian. Reader. Teacher. Feminist. Views my own and represent no one else. She/hers
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The Scopes Trial began 100 years ago today. Why do we even remember it? The power of theatre. Live performance makes things real and relatable.
Theater Helps Us Remember the Scopes Trial 100 Years Later
'Inherit the Wind' changed how people understand, and remember, the legendary Scopes trial.
time.com
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"The Revolution that failed is the Revolution [that this] Administration cannot bear for Americans to know and mourn. The Revolution that succeeded is the one some American institutions are determined to ignore."
The nation’s semiquincentennial is upon us. In a year marked by political violence and fear, the prospects for a peaceful anniversary appear remote. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/a2fJKz
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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This is what I and a lot of people on here have been saying and I wish senate dems would just say it too instead of the weird combination of “actually this protects healthcare”, “I didn’t support it but now I’ll shill for it” and the angus king special of “I surrender here’s my tummy”
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Precisely. As a world “leader” the U.S. is done for decades.

In a White House meeting with civil rights leaders in early 2021, President Biden recounted his first trip to Europe. Biden he announced to them, “America’s back!” The European leaders said “yeah, but for how long?”

They were skeptical.
There's arguably no effective way for any future administration to undo the strategic damage being done to the U.S.'s relations with these and other states.

No matter what we do, the U.S. will be seen as an untrustworthy, craven & mercurial "partner"—something simply to be endured or hedged.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I still have nightmares (quite literal wake-up-gasping nightmares) about dealing with the US healthcare system as a chronically ill person
so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement

my out of pocket cost: $473

what my insurance paid: $4258

what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This entire article points out that there is no plan. His own Treasury Secretary says he doesn’t know anything about it. So why does media keep running these kind of headlines? He keeps making these Truth Social posts and media keeps running stories as if it is something real.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."

Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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"In losing, Dems have said: we will relinquish future opportunities to use deadlines to bend Trump to our will. That is a posture of weakness that voters will pick up on."

On the pod, @brianbeutler.bsky.social has good ideas for Ds to salvage something from shutdown:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
Trump’s Rage over Shutdown Boils Over in Rant that Should Wake Up Dems
Trump’s angry new rant about air traffic controllers and the government shutdown showed his weakness. A sharp observer of Senate Democrats explains why they seem to be caving—and what they can do inst...
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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You can read more in this interview with Gaffield. www.liberalcurrents.com/desallines-a... The book is available at Yale University Press: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... and is a great read. fin/
Dessalines: A Maligned Hero Gets His Due
Dessalines was a man of action more than ideas, but his actions helped bring revolutionary ideas into existence, along with a wide range of revolutionary thought around the world, inspired by Haiti’s ...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Never has there been a case of more "good fucking riddance," but it's not unamusing that they're hightailing it right after the first snow storm hit. Chicago has a built-in defense against unserious jagoffs and it's called winter.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement

my out of pocket cost: $473

what my insurance paid: $4258

what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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For many years, @americanstudier.bsky.social has worked tirelessly to make scholarship more accessible to a broader audience and help interject academic observations into our political discourse.

He is now continuing that crucial mission away from Substack - and he deserves your support:
In these fraught times, we need spaces & communities of our own, that we can make what we want & use to support each other & our work. &, yes, to avoid Nazis as much as possible. That's why we left Substack, & why @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social worked so hard on our new website. So+🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com
Black and White and Read All Over
Where Scholarship Meets the Public
blackwhiteandread.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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RE: "negotiate" It wasn't health insurance, was long term care insurance, but when my parents had a medical emergency, I fought the insurance company for 2.5 months, calling repeatedly until the bastards would activate the policy. I got clinically diagnosed PTSD as a result. Good times.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.

Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.

Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.

Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.

But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints"

www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Wut?
Trump says that HBCUs would be "all be out of business" if fewer Chinese students were allowed to go to American universities
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Texas censorship news.
The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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And to those who are so angry that they claim they won’t vote, here’s a simple reminder of something.

Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House because fewer than 7,500 people IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY voted for Republicans over Democrats in just a few districts. That’s it.

Not voting is what got us here.
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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“A Reagan-appointed federal judge resigned from the lifetime position so he can speak out against what he believes are abject derelictions of duty and abuses of power within the Trump administration.” lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM