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.

My next book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, comes out in one month from Bloomsbury. It's about the rise of the tech right, crypto corruption, the 2024 election, and Silicon Valley complicity in MAGA authoritarianism. linktr.ee/gildedrage

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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.

CBS's parent company Paramount settled Trump's frivolous lawsuit against 60 Minutes. Reminder that Paramount needs approval from Trump's FCC to be acquired by Skydance for $8 billion. Surrendering to Trump’s tyranny only invites more of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

246,000 children killed by Trump and Musk, and counting. Merkley: "How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of children dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?" #killers #resist

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

My heart is breaking in ways I didn’t know were possible—but I’m holding onto outrage. Two U.S. teens were dragged from their home in SoCal as federal agents shattered windows, hurled flashbangs, & took their parents. This is cruelty. This is terrorism. And it’s happening on our soil. F*ck ICE.

The U.S. is being run by fanatics. "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots . . . . So as we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology." #resist #goebells

For those of you not attending a No Kings Day event tomorrow, I have compiled a list of free movies you may watch online, to make sure you have something better to watch than der OrangeOne’s military parade. 1/3

“She told me about women inside banging doors, begging for food” “They were so hungry that they would pretend they were drinking [and eating.]”

Please read my substack post “The Next Terrorist Attack” and subscribe to @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

You’re welcome to quit bro

"Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word. "This is an old playbook, my friends. There is nothing new in this." #resist #speakout

Kilmar Abrego Garcia STILL has not been returned to the United States, as ordered by the Supreme Court.