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Appreciating the official reference to the “John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” in the @nytimes.com remaining as it should, without dignifying the unofficial renaming attempted by the Trump party.

God forbid news relied on “academics” for the facts. Best to rely on what my neighbor is hearing…that clearly should be what informs the nation. Trust in the media has eroded because people crying “fake news” have been given far too many platforms of power. Don’t dumb it down. Stop platforming dumb.

Comical, @wsj.com.

God forbid news relied on “academics” for the facts. Best to rely on what my neighbor is hearing…that clearly should be what informs the nation. Trust in the media has eroded because people crying “fake news” have been given far too many platforms of power. Don’t dumb it down. Stop platforming dumb.

The latest from @msroth.bsky.social:

“Sycophancy may spread like an epidemic, but so can efforts to practice freedom by telling people things they don’t want to hear. This will require less fawning and more fortitude — on campus and beyond. Nothing artificial required.” Wesleyan University’s @msroth.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com

“Only a few, like Wesleyan University’s @msroth.bsky.social, have been willing to say that we must be ‘steadfast in opposition to extortion,’ and that the threat to higher education is a threat to civil society itself.” #HigherEd @chronicle.com

I'm a structuralist so I don't think there are "good guy" and "bad guy" university execs so much as are positions with more or less affordance to do right. But boy am I looking at Wesleyan going, look at that affordance! I want to send my kids there!

My first A1! Old-school thrill for sure.

Reactionaries managed to control the historical curriculum for generations of students, particularly in the South. Under President Donald Trump, this blueprint is being adapted and disseminated directly from the White House. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-e...

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

“Sycophancy may spread like an epidemic, but so can efforts to practice freedom by telling people things they don’t want to hear. This will require less fawning and more fortitude — on campus and beyond. Nothing artificial required.” Wesleyan University’s @msroth.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com

Chrissy, wake up. You won’t believe the dream I just had. #StrangerThings

Well…glad “Ragtime” is a work of emotional genius, because traveling through CT back home from NYC tonight was a nightmare…worth it, but Oy! ❄️❄️❄️😵

Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”

Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I honestly feel sick. This is a tragedy. Let kids draw. Let kids create. Celebrate human endeavor, human learning, human art. Not this fake garbage.

Everything was Ragtime ❤️ #TheaterSKY

Looming snowstorm? Eh. NYC bound to revisit “Ragtime” since it transferred to Lincoln Center. 🚊❄️

The condescension and moral preening are getting all the glory in this email, but don’t sleep on the new head of CBS News declaring that the last 7 days were a “slow news week.”

Great cause. Great tunes. An annual Dublin tradition welcoming in Christmas, this year including Bono busking with Imelda May on “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

NEWS: The Trump admin has quietly implemented a near-total BAN on abortion care at VA, even in cases of rape or incest. This is yet another attack on reproductive freedom and a profound betrayal of veterans who put their lives on the line for our country. Shameful.

Political and corporate spokespeople now regularly treat a request for comment from the mainstream media as an opportunity to drop a free ad into the middle of the story. Bad faith non-responses should just be discarded, with a note that they declined to respond to the substance of the question.

Amateur hour at the highest level.

This antisemitic and homophobic administration will eventually come for Weiss. This is the way of Christian Nationalism. They don't get to some point of white supremacy and then are like, "Ok, we're good now."

The plight of the dictionary: “Merriam-Webster was a touchstone of stability. We’ve lost that. Does it matter?” @newyorker.com

Bari Weiss wanted to cover up torture because she thought Stephen Miller's perspective was needed first. That's the headline.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

A CBS News source tells me this tonight about 60 Minutes abruptly yanking the CECOT story: "It’s definitely fishy. I don’t think this happens very often. I’m theorizing that perhaps Bari wanted it held, but I don’t know that for certain."

“Even in darkness it is possible to create light.“ 🕎

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

The Kennedy Center is named in honor of a man that gave his life for this country. Trump has done nothing but grift from this country. May the Kennedy Center one day return to delivering on its national promise.

Kerry Kennedy — Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s daughter and RFK Jr.’s sister — says she’s going to grab a pickax as soon as Trump’s term is over and take his name off the Kennedy Center.

“Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people.” – Rob Reiner

Again: none of this is legal, and the rush to commit crimes just because a guy in a tie said so — and journalists’ refusal to describe it as a crime — is just incomprehensible to me. You can say no!

Please also note this is obviously the spread-bigotry-against-trans-people games. Fuck all of this, forever.

Working at Center Theatre Group in L.A. for many years and growing up experiencing theatre through the curatorial lens of its founding artistic director, Gordon Davidson, was life changing. Knowing that Bernstein tapped Gordon to direct “Mass” to inaugurate the Kennedy Center always seemed perfect.

There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent. The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.

"We are going to reverse every renaming, pull down the gold leaf, and rebuild the East Wing" should not be the Democrats' main 2028 plank, but there are worse things to run on. It's one of those visuals you can actually start executing in Week One. Do it, put it on TV, rub it in, hurt some feelings.

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

A stain on our nation.

Wesleyan University’s College of Design and Engineering Studies (CoDES) staff and University Communications captured the magic of the season as only Wesleyan could—with some campus inspiration, CoDES ingenuity, and a ton of makerspace fun.

Happy Chanukah.

Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us Trump’s a schmuck.

Rest in peace, dear Rob Reiner. Your legacy of goodness will far outlast that of the current man in the White House.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

The world has its selfless heroes—Ahmed al Ahmed—and its selfish monsters—President Trump. In moments of crisis and mourning, those true colors show clearly. Live your life like Ahmed. 🙏

A 2016 interview with Scott Simon, in which Rob Reiner and his son Nick talk about a film they made together based on Nick's struggles with addiction. www.npr.org/2016/04/30/4...

The monstrousness of this President never ceases to sicken me…