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Editing the 17th-century republican woman writer Lucy Hutchinson from Baltimore, Maryland, also fascinated by Scottish, Italian and neo-Latin poetry.
Amongst the books expelled from the US Naval Academy library as too “woke” are studies of gender in Renaissance poetry, with two books discussing the soldier-poet Sir Philip Sidney. His Arcadia is as yet unpurged, but what if they notice that Sidney’s Pyrocles disguises himself as a woman?
22.04.2025 02:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How fitting that Pope Francis invoked the poem that stands first in the Italian canon in celebrating the turn to solar energy, a gift we are still fully to receive.
Laudato sie, mi’ Signore, cum tucte le tue creature,
spetialmente messor lo frate sole,
lo qual’è jorno, et allumini noi per lui.
Trump is trying to hand billionaires another tax cut — while climate disasters get deadlier and the rest of us foot the bill. The ones who should be paying? Big Oil companies like @exxonmobiloil.bsky.social that caused the climate crisis.
This Tax Day, we’ve got one thing to say: Pay up, Exxon 🧾
Thank you Senator Van Hollen!
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The dismantling of the Black Lives Matter Plaza, Washington DC
'You can't rewrite history' - conservative commentators rejecting removal of Confederate memorials
