When you hire an idiot to run your country. "The research firm Capital Economics estimated that if the Treasury is forced to issue refunds, the cost would run to about $120 billion, or 0.5 percent of gross domestic product." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

March 28 will be the largest nonviolent protest in American history. Find your local No Kings event to stand up for our communities and reject Trump's fear and violence. app.sosha.ai/s/m9GnRlOG

A majority of cases will never be reported, either. Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren't investigated www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

"I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.” From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days. www.propublica.org/article/life... #Trump #ICE #childabuse

🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️

Theatre break. At ProPlay, we make plays that have been professionally produced available to read for free online, to encourage their further production. There's no fee to subscribe, and we don't charge to post a play or participate in production royalties. proplay.ws #theatre #theater #playwrights

Theatre break: If you hate A.I., how do you feel about Ian McKellen as a hologram? (Spoiler: McKellen loves it.) Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/t... #theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky

Theatre break: New watch-at-home #theatre (which isn't really theatre at all, but never mind), including "Bat Out of Hell: The Musical," of which the composer says, "If you don’t go over the top, how are you ever going to see what’s on the other side?” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/t...

if you haven't read jezebel's 2018 coverage of the listserv where 400+ "left-of-center" transphobic "journalists" methodically orchestrated the current moment, it's a good companion to the TNN interview: www.jezebel.com/private-mess...

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

This is the full 60 Minutes segment on CECOT Bari Weiss and CBS News didn't want you to see. substack.com/@blueatlgeor...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

BREAKING: CBS just yanked a 60 Minutes episode and slapped the word “postponed” on it like people are stupid. Trailer wiped. Segment gone. This isn’t a delay — it’s a cover-up in real time. They’re protecting “someone”. Period.

“I’ve lived here for a long time, and I’ve never seen so many police cars.” ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.

The President of the United States deleted this photo of the drawer full of photos with himself and Jeffrey Epstein from the DOJ's illegally redacted release of the files last night. We are watching a cover up in real time. This is file 468.

Theatre break. Zhao on her film Hamnet: "Not only did I feel it was a container for me to tell a great story, but also to explore my own inner ideas that I hadn’t allowed to come through, like many women." NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/m... #theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky

A genius. He did new things in #theatre, which is hard enough, but he also communicated new ideas through it, which is harder yet. That’s why his work had a reputation for being too “intellectual” (a sometimes fair assessment, often not), but he kept it up to the very end. A playwright’s playwright.

Theatre break: "To the argument offered by the show’s creative team that the setting is specific but the robots are 'universal' and 'ethnically undefined,' Craig replies, 'They’re not Roombas.'" NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t... #theatre #theater #theatreSky #theaterBSKY

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

#Theatre cleanse: "Before being accepted for the Theatre of Veterans programme, she knew nothing about theatre or dramatists. 'I knew Shakespeare was a dramatist, and that’s all.' That said, she is still not much of a theatre fan herself. 'I hate theatre.'" www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Visual arts cleanse: "The hardest part for Lewis in the process has been letting go of her own attachment to the control and predictability of working with her hands. 'It’s been challenging to wrap my head around.'” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/a...

2. NYC #NoKings 👑

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

MAGA minions don’t get to decide which voices the American people are allowed to hear. Join us on Saturday to remind Trump that there are NO KINGS in the USA: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Book cleanse. "'It was a big sacrifice,' she said. 'I felt willing to do it because I felt it was really important for the industry, for authors, and for readers who want their favorite authors to be able to continue doing this.'" New York Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b... #booksky

Weiss watch.

“In solidarity with Chicago educators navigating these horrors instead of focusing on learning.” Today in the life of a Chicago teacher.

Book cleanse: "A deeply moving portrait of a strong yet gentle man and the profound impact he had on an often unscrupulous, unjust world." reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202... #books #booksky #moviesky

"I’ve never told my own story. My illness, my disability, it has taken everything from me. I have spent my life fighting to get help, and it never comes. I have reinvented myself more times than I can count. I thought, 'I need to tell this.'" www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-entert...

Theatre cleanse: "When you’ve stood beside someone in court, you understand the theatre of it ....But you also see where justice fractures. Theatre lets me interrogate those fractures in ways the law never can.” www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s... #theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky

Theatre cleanse (literally): "Attendees old and young stripped down to swimsuits and navy robes to see Dutchman, a play set in a sweltering subway car....It’s the second time the production has been staged at the bathhouse." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/s... #theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky

The Trump administration can't be allowed to punish arts organizations that uplift trans and queer experiences. We celebrate this win, not just for our clients but for all of our First Amendment rights.

Dear Executives, Please know the American people are going to turn your business upside down as soon as you bend the knee to this fascist regime. See what happened to Target? 40% loss in value and CEO fired. We’re doing that to Disney/ABC now, and you’ll be next 🙂. Sincerely, Your Customers

Theatre cleanse: "Yes, the whole thing’s make-believe, but at least the artifice is out in the open. And everything else is as real as it gets, which is exactly what many of us are after." www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... #theatre #theater #theaterBSKY #theatresky

The moral squalor of Trump has brought us back to the basics — especially understanding the importance of checks and balances and separation of powers. Both the Republican-controlled Congress and conservative Supreme Court Seem hellbent on abdicating their duties to a tyrant.

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The Wall Street Journal just published the photo of the birthday letter from Trump to Epstein. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Canadian here. I foresaw the mass ICE detentions, as did many others. Trump and Miller said they'd do it. But I thought they'd happen quietly under the surface of daily American life. And I'm sorry to say I thought most Americans would quietly acquiesce. 1/4 #America #UnitedStates #ICE #resist

"Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews. The crews were among the 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... #resist

More of what Trump is killing in America: Stores. Churches. Orchards. Construction. Schools. It's true: Everything Trump touches dies. www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/u...

The dismantling of USAID has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...

"Meghann Abraham said officers took away her shelter. The night before, she had fended off a similar effort by federal agents by showing them a notice from the city giving her until Monday to leave. "This time, the officers scoffed at the notice, she said." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

“Canada is living through an era of acute, sustained, profound and abiding rage. The source is President Trump; the object is the United States. The American threat to our sovereignty, so sudden, so foolish, is reshaping Canadian life.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

Tickets are now on sale for the Gabriola #Theatre Festival, Aug. 26-30! I'll be premiering my show, "Boy Player," and the amazing performers Katie Ellen Humphries, Jem Rolls, Jon Paterson, and Johnnie MCNamara Walker are bringing theirs to the island as well. Tix at www.gabriolatheatrecentre.ca/gtf

Trump social policy: “When leaders come to see me to make a trade deal for billions and billions and even trillions of dollars, and they come in and there’s tents outside of the White House, we can’t have that. It doesn’t sound nice.” www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...

“After the beatings, Martínez told me, some inmates vomited blood, and others couldn’t walk for days. ‘If they’re going to kill us, I hope they kill us soon,’ he said he told himself.” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I'll be premiering this at the Gabriola Theatre Festival in August. It's about what happened after my parents died when I was a kid and I suddenly found myself transplanted from Edmonton, Alberta to N.Y.C. It's also about love, family, and connection. And showtunes. www.gabriolatheatrecentre.ca/gtf

The GOP's greatest superpower is the sheer cartoon evil of their policies. "They are taking healthcare from the poor so they can give tax breaks to millionaires" makes you sound like a hysterical SJW but it is straightforwardly what they are doing.