Don Weingust
@weingust.bsky.social
Shakespeare and theatre scholar; proud papa of USC entrepreneur and Hostelpass.co CEO; old actor/musician; former Ensemble member at Glide SF; ally; happy Californian.
Giving thanks today for Andy Borowitz (@borowitzreport.bsky.social) and his tips for all who may be sharing a Thanksgiving table with MAGA relatives.
www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-to-gas...
www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-to-gas...
How to Gaslight Your MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving
Helpful tips!
www.borowitzreport.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Giving thanks today for Andy Borowitz (@borowitzreport.bsky.social) and his tips for all who may be sharing a Thanksgiving table with MAGA relatives.
www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-to-gas...
www.borowitzreport.com/p/how-to-gas...
Peace plan? What a joke. Why is Trump so keen on appeasing Putin? It can’t be that Trump is in Putin’s pocket, and compromised by kompromat. That would be too simple and obvious.
From @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
From @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Peace plan? What a joke. Why is Trump so keen on appeasing Putin? It can’t be that Trump is in Putin’s pocket, and compromised by kompromat. That would be too simple and obvious.
From @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
From @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
@harrylitman.bsky.social describes out-of-her-depth prosecutor Lindsey Halligan admitting that the full Comey grand jury never saw the actual indictment:
“Halligan already had egg on her face for a series of blunders. This was more like an entire omelette.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
“Halligan already had egg on her face for a series of blunders. This was more like an entire omelette.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
“There is no indictment”
Lindsey Halligan — and the Comey Prosecution — Enter Free Fall
substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@harrylitman.bsky.social describes out-of-her-depth prosecutor Lindsey Halligan admitting that the full Comey grand jury never saw the actual indictment:
“Halligan already had egg on her face for a series of blunders. This was more like an entire omelette.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
“Halligan already had egg on her face for a series of blunders. This was more like an entire omelette.”
substack.com/home/post/p-...
#Shakespeare folk: don’t miss today’s New York Times Sunday crossword.
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
#Shakespeare folk: don’t miss today’s New York Times Sunday crossword.
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Trump has about as much respect for The People's House as he does for the people.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trump has about as much respect for The People's House as he does for the people.
Only 1,171 more days
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I’m writing to explain to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social that one of her most popular books is on sale at Amazon right now for only $1.99. Treat yourself, dear reader!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I...
Men Explain Things to Me
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things an...
www.amazon.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I’m writing to explain to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social that one of her most popular books is on sale at Amazon right now for only $1.99. Treat yourself, dear reader!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00I...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Part of being a grown-ass person is learning to tell the difference between what we may want to be true, and what really is.
#autism
#vaccines
#RFKJr
#POTUS
Past-the-paywall (gift) link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
#autism
#vaccines
#RFKJr
#POTUS
Past-the-paywall (gift) link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Part of being a grown-ass person is learning to tell the difference between what we may want to be true, and what really is.
#autism
#vaccines
#RFKJr
#POTUS
Past-the-paywall (gift) link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
#autism
#vaccines
#RFKJr
#POTUS
Past-the-paywall (gift) link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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"History warns us.Censorship has been used to silence filmmakers before: Nazi Germany’s propaganda machine, Soviet censorship and even Hollywood’s own blacklists.Every time it was dressed up as virtue.And every time it was oppression.Every time, its targets expanded.”
www.thewrap.com/celebrities-...
www.thewrap.com/celebrities-...
Liev Schreiber, Debra Messing, Greg Berlanti and 1,200 More Reject Israeli Film Institution Boycott in Open Letter
"We cannot stay silent when a story is turned into a weapon, when lies are dressed up as justice and when artists are misled into amplifying antisemitic propaganda."
www.thewrap.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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White House Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, Stephen Miller, says early morning Bay Area earthquake part of administration’s seismic retribution plan against libtards.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
4.3 magnitude earthquake jolts the San Francisco Bay Area
People reported feeling their homes shaking and receiving phone alerts.
www.pbs.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
White House Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, Stephen Miller, says early morning Bay Area earthquake part of administration’s seismic retribution plan against libtards.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
Hey @jimmykimmel.com, here’s an expression of how much you mean to so many. And it’s just the beginning.
September 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hey @jimmykimmel.com, here’s an expression of how much you mean to so many. And it’s just the beginning.
Only 1,223 more days.
September 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Slightly diminish a book
The Merchant of Venison
The Merchant of Venison
Slightly diminish a book
1983
1983
Slightly diminish a book.
Moby Glans
Moby Glans
September 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Slightly diminish a book
The Merchant of Venison
The Merchant of Venison
This analysis by @asharangappa.bsky.social is spot on. The only bone to pick: referring to Curtis Yarvin as an “intellectual” (though she qualifies tech-bro intellectualism a little later on).
asharangappa.substack.com/p/making-sen...
asharangappa.substack.com/p/making-sen...
Making Sense of MAGA
An ideological roadmap to help you understand the madness.
asharangappa.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This analysis by @asharangappa.bsky.social is spot on. The only bone to pick: referring to Curtis Yarvin as an “intellectual” (though she qualifies tech-bro intellectualism a little later on).
asharangappa.substack.com/p/making-sen...
asharangappa.substack.com/p/making-sen...
The psychology of tennis explained, by one who knows the game from the inside, the delightful Howard Jacobson:
jacobsonh.substack.com/p/lawn-tenni...
jacobsonh.substack.com/p/lawn-tenni...
LAWN TENNIS, OR THE FINE ART OF SELF-ABUSE
Decency laws prevent my showing the victim of Daniil Medvedev’s furious assault at the US Open the other day.
jacobsonh.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The psychology of tennis explained, by one who knows the game from the inside, the delightful Howard Jacobson:
jacobsonh.substack.com/p/lawn-tenni...
jacobsonh.substack.com/p/lawn-tenni...
“[A] good man is not faster to take, he is slower.”
It’s a wonderful, if not always easy, world. And it’s a little more wonderful for the writing of Howard Jacobson. His latest Substack:
jacobsonh.substack.com/p/it-isnt-th...
It’s a wonderful, if not always easy, world. And it’s a little more wonderful for the writing of Howard Jacobson. His latest Substack:
jacobsonh.substack.com/p/it-isnt-th...
IT ISN'T THE POOR WHO ENVY THE RICH, IT'S THE RICH WHO ENVY EVERYBODY
Here’s the saddest story.
jacobsonh.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“[A] good man is not faster to take, he is slower.”
It’s a wonderful, if not always easy, world. And it’s a little more wonderful for the writing of Howard Jacobson. His latest Substack:
jacobsonh.substack.com/p/it-isnt-th...
It’s a wonderful, if not always easy, world. And it’s a little more wonderful for the writing of Howard Jacobson. His latest Substack:
jacobsonh.substack.com/p/it-isnt-th...
“[R]esistance is patriotic,” says an insightful and affirming #LaborDay Substack from @timothysnyder.bsky.social.
“And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains.
snyder.substack.com/p/look-on-my...
“And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains.
snyder.substack.com/p/look-on-my...
Look on my works, ye Mighty
Labors of Destruction and Creation
snyder.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“[R]esistance is patriotic,” says an insightful and affirming #LaborDay Substack from @timothysnyder.bsky.social.
“And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains.
snyder.substack.com/p/look-on-my...
“And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains.
snyder.substack.com/p/look-on-my...
Amidst the turmoil, the world spins. Enjoy these small views of it, via The Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 Finalists
The finalist selections in this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition were just revealed by contest organizers at Oceanographic Magazine, and feature some of the best coastal, drone, and u...
www.theatlantic.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Amidst the turmoil, the world spins. Enjoy these small views of it, via The Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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