Keenan Shionalyn

What I thought would be a quiet day of translation...having made it only through the character list, what was supposed to be a peaceful pastoral is instead a comedy documenting the fall of the family that brought us fascism. All from the playwright who just writes "bourgeois" frivolous comedies...

No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events.

The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.

From the iran community on Reddit: A haunting performance by an Iranian singer amid live fire over Tehran Explore this post and more from the iran community

This is a live performance of “Zombie” by The Cranberries, sung by an Iranian vocalist named Aidin Nazemi, while the city of Tehran is under the fire of war and visible anti-aircraft gunfire. #iran

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A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

It is almost as if...wait for it...people who are historians and actively study oppression and authoritarianism had enough insight based on knowledge to accurately predict what was occuring. Stop giving airtime to those who couldn't see the signs, amplify those who did.

This week I've been reading "The Death of Nero", an unstaged play written during the rise of Stalin. Two times merge in the play, the time of Emperor Nero, alongside a populist uprising in 1919. In the end, the two blend disrupting time.

History is rhyming again, 100 years later and Nero is reborn.

People in Serbia are rising up.

Beautiful to see.

Queer erasure has been on the agenda since Stonewall. They've never made it a secret.

People weren't listening, and thought it couldn't happen to them. They stayed wrapped up in the false sense of security of not being 'other' enough.

They thought we were safe.
But we're not.
We never were.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

Dear President Zelensky, I am so sorry Trump and Vance behaved in such an abhorrent way. You and Ukraine deserve so much more after this horrendous decade. The experience and lessons learned by the Ukrainian people deserve to be heard, not shouted over to get the best sound byte. #славаукраїні

Creating new translations of plays has begun to change how I write in English. I've stopped using the article "the" finding more powerful ways to express without it. Not especially profound, but while editing my current chapter, I noticed how rarely it appeared when expected.

If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

YouTube video by Anti Trump 2025 Governors Ball US Army - "Do You Hear the People Sing" BRILLIANT TRUMP TROLLING!

You GUYYYYSSSSSSS

The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

NEW: Ukraine has NOT been invited to Ukraine peace talks.

Zelenskyy to NBC just now:

“I will never accept any decisions between United States & Russia about Ukraine. Never.”

Clear message. Trump has NO mandate.

Don't let them revise LGBTQ+ History. The T has always been here and always will be. Click "Was this page helpful?" at the bottom of the page, click "No," and leave a comment.

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

READ THIS ASAP:
“If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.”

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So cool!

YouTube video by LadyGagaVEVO Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Official Music Video)

Cast a spell and rid us of this nazi shit. Thank you Gaga, we all collectively screamed with you!

2025 Annual Conference - American Society for Theatre Research ASTR is a US-based association dedicated to theatre and performance scholars by serving hundreds of members globally.

Theatre & performance scholars, please apply! The world is terrible, but I still think gathering together matters. Plenary presentation & working session portals close tonight! #AcademicSky #TheatreSky 2025 Annual Conference - American Society for Theatre Research www.astr.org/page/confere...

It's clear that a lot of academics don't believe philosophy is about critical thinking. They believe philosophy is about categorization.

When you ask people to think about things they've already categorized, they can't because that would require taking off the neat & tidy bow they've placed on it.

Protest might be the goal as a pathway to enact martial law. While that certainly presents the possibility for revolution, the bourgeois attitude of our country means accepting an openly fascist regime is more likely. Our country is woefully miseducated and complacent, the worst combination.

Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post. Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the

This goes hard

Native artists bring fresh perspective to revamped Seattle waterfront As Seattle revamps its waterfront, these artists are bringing a splash of Indigenous culture to downtown Seattle in the form of new public art.

Celebrating the rich Coast Salish history is essential to our state’s culture.

I am thrilled to see the Seattle waterfront revitalization prioritizing the inclusion of Indigenous art! www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

YouTube video by MCCTheater Jinkx Monsoon, "One Day More" — MCC MISCAST24

I am sure many have seen this but I had to share this moment of joy. Jinx Monsoon as the entire cast of Les Mis

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

RIP David Lynch, you opened the door to me for oddities that allowed me to discover a whole community of non-normative thinkers. You will be missed, but you will live on through your work.