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Mark Hamill
3 days ago
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated.
#ShameOnUS🇺🇸
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Kennedy Center Chief Threatens Legal Action Over Canceled Christmas Concert
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/us/kennedy-center-concert-lawsuit.html
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Dean Obeidallah
17 days ago
Tonight CBS aka State TV- will air the "Trump-Kennedy Center" honors that Trump is hosting. Please no one watch this BS!!
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Outrageous! It is a living monument to JFK. This must be stopped.
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Kennedy Center board votes to rename to ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Kennedy Center trustees, installed this year by President Trump, have voted to rename the center after him, said press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/12/18/kennedy-center-renamed-trump/
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“Few writers for the stage — or the page, for that matter — have exhibited the rhetorical dazzle of Mr. Stoppard, or been as dauntless in plumbing the depths of intellect for conflict and drama.” Gift Link
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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.nd6B.FT20IjRysUCy&smid=url-share
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Aaron Parnas
about 2 months ago
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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“But the shortest answer for why Democrats caved is that Chuck Schumer is the party’s leader in the Senate. The fish rots from the head.”
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Chuck Schumer Needs to Go
The Democratic Senate leader has lost the thread. Everyone is suffering because of his lack of judgment.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202985/chuck-schumer-failure-government-shutdown?utm_source=newsletter
about 2 months ago
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Anne Applebaum
2 months ago
Ticket sales for the Washington National Opera have collapsed since Trump took over the Kennedy center
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Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’
Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Peter Baker
2 months ago
How Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic mother of five who was referred to in the society pages as Mrs. Paul Pelosi, embraced a fight against a deadly virus afflicting gay men and intravenous drug users.
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A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS
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A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/nancy-pelosi-aids-lgbtq.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.VlTO.tXQdbkfC5o6M&smid=url-share
2 months ago
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Kim Davis, who has been divorced three times and married four, has become one of the nation’s most steadfast defenders of “biblical marriage.”
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The Closed-Door Supreme Court Meeting That Everyone Should Be Paying Attention To
Kim Davis, the thrice divorced and four times married Kentucky clerk, wants SCOTUS to repeal same-sex marriage.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kentucky-clerk-kim-davis-gay-marriage-supreme-court_n_690cf7bee4b027afb322b9f7
2 months ago
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Jon Cooper
2 months ago
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Timothy Snyder
3 months ago
This is absolutely right on every point and everyone who sits on a governing board or serves as president or provost or similar should please make the time to read it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/opinion/trump-compact-universities-constitution.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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“Conservatives hope that Mr. Kirk’s death will help cement both conservative and conservative Christian values in American life for decades to come.” Gift article
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Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/style/gay-men-trump-administration-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h08.FjRd.jkpKWrKxqgps&smid=url-share
4 months ago
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Don Moynihan
4 months ago
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
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The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-authoritarian-checklist
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Pete Buttigieg
5 months ago
RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are canceling vaccine development for bird flu and other dangerous diseases - an action which puts us and our kids in danger.
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RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research
The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rfk-jr-cuts-500-million-mrna-vaccine-contracts-dealing-major-blow-prom-rcna223281
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Harry Litman
5 months ago
Elegant resignation letter from
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. Lots of departures, but his is one of the biggest blows to the Washington Post.
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Goodbye, Washington Post
"A swirl of terrified excitement" for 18 years, 5 months and 16 days
https://substack.com/inbox/post/169777799?utm_campaign=post
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Ari Cohn
5 months ago
I think the word "Nazi" is quite overused these days, but demanding a list of people who attended an event at which speech about and by people the Florida regime clearly considers undesirable is....some real Nazi-ass shit.
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Garrett Eisler
5 months ago
A big one. RIP, Robert Wilson. Responsible for many hours of mine spent at BAM over the years. Even when unsatisfying dramatically, always stunning and haunting to watch. A truly unique aesthetic, one that will forever be instantly identified as only his.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
5 months ago
"The policies of this administration reinstate an era in which the rights conferred to all people in the United States by the Constitution are subject to a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race, ethnicity or assumed immigration status." Call this fascism Juan Crow.
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Opinion | Juan Crow Is Back With a Vengeance
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/trump-juan-crow-birther-race.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.sh7p.4BhPlgPsX1_2&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Kyle Griffin
6 months ago
The downsizing of the National Weather Service and the NOAA appears to be part of an effort to privatize the work of such agencies. In several instances, the companies poised to step into the void have deep ties to people tapped by Trump to run weather-related agencies.
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Trump appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing weather forecasts
Downsizing at the National Weather Service appears to be part of an effort by Republicans to privatize such agencies.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-lutnick-weather-service-privatization-conflicts-9892de853c283468e6fb970cfd898d96
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Pete Buttigieg
6 months ago
If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.
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George Takei
7 months ago
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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Opinion | Roll Back Legal Same-Sex Marriage? Republicans Are Getting It Wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/opinion/gay-marriage-republicans-obergefell-hodges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q08.XDv9.R3E3viXc2KoR&smid=url-share
7 months ago
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“The administration also unveiled a plan to require job applicants to write short essays describing how they plan to advance Trump’s priorities.”
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Trump accelerates push to reward loyalty in federal workforce
Many critics say the administration is scrapping a nonpartisan, merit-based civil service in favor of a biased, politicized system.
https://wapo.st/4l7nGiY
7 months ago
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National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/climate/national-parks-trump-americans-censorship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.hVFb.jU7wr3KKvWru&smid=bs-share
7 months ago
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The 78th Annual Tony Awards® | Gypsy Performance | CBS
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7 months ago
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Southern Baptists plan to vote this week on acting to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage 10 years ago this month.
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Southern Baptists to Vote on Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/same-sex-marriage-baptists-obergefell.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.1dLC.nybFFDOuUj0p&smid=bs-share
7 months ago
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Is This the Best the Democrats Can Do?
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Is This the Best the Democrats Can Do?
Recent comments from Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries suggest that the party’s leaders are ill suited for the moment.
https://newrepublic.com/article/196102/schumer-jeffries-leadership-failure-trump
7 months ago
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Happy June!
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June is bustin' out all over - Leslie Uggams
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7 months ago
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“The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine.” Gift link
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Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/health/trump-hiv-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.-Hf9.J_xOqBqTqyjk&smid=url-share
7 months ago
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New Year, Same Old Lane
8 months ago
Here was yesterday’s other highlight, doing physical therapy with a splayed-leg blue jay, helping him “walk” to build strength in his legs.
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"For Mr. Trump, white people are the true victims; Black people and minorities have received an unfair advantage in the United States."
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Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-race-south-africa.html?smid=bs-share
8 months ago
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader.
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Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/pete-hegseth-prayer-pentagon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.ZUxS.9UcSyQaOLCAX&smid=bs-share
8 months ago
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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ mammoth tax and immigration bill would add so much to the national debt that it could force nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare beginning in 2026, Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper reported late Tuesday.
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Trump and GOP’s tax bill would force cuts to Medicare, CBO says
Some $500 billion in cuts to Medicare could be avoided if Congress instructs the White House budget office to disregard the reconciliation package’s debt impact.
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8 months ago
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The Red Scare Still Haunts America
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The Red Scare Still Haunts America
The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.
https://newrepublic.com/article/194991/red-scare-still-haunts-america-clay-risen-history
8 months ago
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"The American retreat from climate action has made the United States a global outlier. Nearly every other government has recognized that a hotter planet poses a profound threat to humans and ecosystems. Not the Trump administration…"
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The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/climate/trump-climate-denial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.sWYF.kUgRkiUMRrkO&smid=bs-share
8 months ago
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Mueller, She Wrote
8 months ago
He should anyhow. But especially now, yes.
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Trump Judge Rules It’s OK to Discriminate Against LGBTQ People
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Trump Judge Rules It’s OK to Discriminate Against LGBTQ People
Far-right Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk just rolled back LGBTQ rights to a massive degree.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195375/trump-judge-ok-discriminate-lgbtq-people
8 months ago
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Coming Out of the Closet Was a Liberation. Why Are Some Peeking Back In? Long a place of hiding and shame, it’s now being reconsidered in queer culture — and beyond.
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Coming Out of the Closet Was a Liberation. Why Are Some Peeking Back In?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t-magazine/gay-closet-pee-wee-herman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Gk8.-ehL.jstHhq-WwFI9&smid=url-share
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“The Trump-backed head of the Kennedy Center has called for a blacklist of artists who choose not to perform at the Washington, D.C., venue.”
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Kennedy Center Boss Wants to Blacklist Anti-Trump Stars of ‘Les Misérables’
Ric Grenell lashed out at “vapid and intolerant artists” who won’t play at the MAGA-fied venue.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kennedy-center-boss-wants-to-blacklist-trump-boycotting-stars-of-les-miserables/
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“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy. By that measure, America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism.”
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Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/trump-authoritarianism-democracy.html
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Ron Filipkowski
8 months ago
He tags the FCC Chair on his whine. People who don’t want to perform at the New MAGA Trump Center must be punished!
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“LGBTQ+ celebrations coast to coast are facing funding shortfalls as corporate sponsors cut back. And even backers are electing to be “silent partners.”
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Big brands distance themselves from Pride events amid DEI rollback
LGBTQ+ celebrations coast to coast are facing funding shortfalls as corporate sponsors cut back. And even backers are electing to be “silent partners.”
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“Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether. “
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National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters
Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether.
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Washingtonian Problems
8 months ago
If you’re wondering what happens if Kennedy Center employees don’t comply with the new no-mask policy, here’s their latest email:
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“President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, accusing the outlets of producing biased coverage and “left-wing propaganda.”
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Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to End Federal Funding for NPR and PBS (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has accused the two broadcasters of using public funds to produce biased coverage and “left-wing propaganda.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-funding-npr-pbs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE8.PIol.ZMQFXj6Pn8_d&smid=url-share
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