Susan Wadsworth-Booth
swadsworth-booth.bsky.social
Susan Wadsworth-Booth
@swadsworth-booth.bsky.social
Nor, apparently, do you have to swear in a new, duly elected member.
They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Our celebration of KSUP’s tradition of publishing excellence continues with select back issues of “Civil War History.”
August 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Congrats to the many KSUP authors who appear in our July roundup of news and reviews, including @newsguy.bsky.social, @chrisbriem.bsky.social, @alas-not-me.bsky.social, and more. Another big month for books!
July news and reviews
Kent State University Press is featured alongside the publisher Gray & Company in a profile from Cleveland Magazine—”From the Rust Belt to the Bookshelf: How Two Cleveland Presses Champio…
kentstatebooks.wordpress.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Well.

So.

Who’s gonna tell the…sorry, just checking my notes…director of he OMB, that fiscal management isn’t the Fed’s job it’s…checking again…his.

The gaslighting will continue until forever, I guess
Vought accuses Fed of ‘fiscal mismanagement’
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought accused the Federal Reserve on Sunday of “fiscal mismanagement” amid tensions between the White House and the Fed. “The President has b…
thehill.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Our fall catalog is here! Join us to:
📕anticipate new books (including titles by @chrisbriem.bsky.social and @terryallenbelew.bsky.social);
📕look back on 60 years of KSUP history; and
📕celebrate recent successes by @newsguy.bsky.social and others.
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July 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Great seeing so many recent titles from Kent State University Press at Loganberry Books in Cleveland! Big thanks to them—and to independent bookstores everywhere—for their support.
July 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Republicans in the House and the Senate keep complaining about the Trump administration’s priorities. They seem to have forgotten that they have the power to do something, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
A Congress That Votes Yes and Hopes No
Congressional Republicans keep wringing their hands over the White House’s legislative priorities … and then voting for them.
bit.ly
July 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
That’s incredibly ironic; I have been singing that song in my head all day.
Batch of high schoolers hanging out in the backyard tonight. Hearing Natalie Merchant in my head…these are days to remember.
July 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Pleased to share a new Q&A with @terryallenbelew.bsky.social, author of “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—selected as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
A Q&A with Terry Belew, author of “The Deep Blue of Neptune”
Big thanks to Cheryl Dyer for talking with Terry Belew, author of The Deep Blue of Neptune—selected as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. It’s coming in September from Kent State U…
kentstatebooks.wordpress.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Even better in print! Grateful for the opportunity to highlight KSUP books in the July issue of Harper’s (which is celebrating its 175th birthday the same year we’re celebrating our 60th). Look for it on newsstands now.
July 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Literally the first thing I thought of. Tell me again history doesn't matter
Gen. MacArthur himself once led mounted troops against the unarmed residents of a tent city, so, nice?

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July 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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And @maxwellfrost.bsky.social the SSA itself is telling the lie, through email blasts to the whole country
July 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter
July 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Cover reveal! Rebecca Jumper Matheson's book "Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps" is coming in November in our series with the Costume Society of America: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/artisan...
July 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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"The individual incentive in a budding authoritarian state is always to capitulate; that's the point of imposing costs on speech." - Rebecca Tushnet, professor of First Amendment law at Harvard Law School.
After settling with Trump, CBS News staffers fear what comes next | CNN Business
Paramount Global is being hammered for bowing to presidential pressure and settling a lawsuit that it likely could have beaten in court.
www.cnn.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
For the Trump presidential library?!? Please. Just cancelled our subscription.
Yeah “no apology” definitely makes it okay.

Disgraceful
Details of the Paramount settlement with Trump over 60 Minutes lawsuit:

- $16 million for Trump presidential library
- Release of transcripts in the future
- No apology
July 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Just canceled our Paramount subscription. This is despicable. A spurious lawsuit aimed at stopping actual journalism.
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger
July 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” -Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) A Wrinkle in Time
July 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The whole Alligator Alcatrez thing sounds like something a comic book villain would do. The fact that it's REAL is insane. My brain cannot process the cruelty nor the Christians cheering it on.
July 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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UPDATE: 2 more impersonators in Houston alone. (One was shot by a man’s wife)

How long are we going to let this madness go on? We should be requiring agents to ID themselves, not legislating to protect masked vigilantes. @MarshaBlackburn
June 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Thanks to @jwi.bsky.social and all of KSUP's friends at Vesto PR for facilitating a lively conversation between Martin H. Bush and Sol Gittleman about Bush’s new book with Kent State—“Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves.”
Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves
YouTube video by Kent State University Press
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June 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Please tell me HOW this is pro-life, all of you who say that’s your top priority. This is sick and cruel beyond belief.
LENOIR CITY, TN — pregnant fiancée of an American lost her baby in ICE detention after they denied her prenatal care after pleading for help for days. (@ltgovmcnally & @lowellrussell21’s district)

Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty
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June 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Grateful to Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmag.bsky.social) for including KSU Press in this writeup of book publishing in Northeast Ohio—and pleased to see more attention for “Light Enters the Grove”!
From the Rust Belt to the Bookshelf: How Two Cleveland Presses Champion Local Authors
Both Gray & Company and Kent State University Press have built business on producing work for Northeast Ohio-based readers. By Maura Zurick
clevelandmagazine.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM