The Kennedy Center was built for the people, and that is what he hates about it most.

ICE is staying at this hotel in downtown Minneapolis. Instead of screaming at them, we tried serenading them with encouragement to defect and lay down their weapons. #singingresistance

Maybe focus on this today. Not Josh Hammer's fantasy time. kansasreflector.com/2026/01/28/t...

The whole Kennedy Center thing simply underscores again that fascists do not make good or even popular art that anyone wants.

This same publication did this same interview less than a decade ago

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Thornton Wilder, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (1942), Act 1

I transcribed the score for the Al Carmines musical JOAN (1971), Joan of Arc adaptation set in NYC. Heres a clip from our concert back in October, directed by Patrick Loughstein. This is a duet with two of our outstanding and brilliant performers: Carmen Ruby Floyd as Mary and Lila Blue as Joan.

sure why not let's grade all essays by public opinion. would save me some time

Goodbye to the master. ❤️

It’s worth repeating this over and over again because it should be repeated: after emails in which Summers appears to consult with Jeffrey Epstein about the best way to sleep with a grad student he is mentoring and also calls a slur were leaked, he will continue teaching students.

Sharing these on behalf of my spouse, who does not have Bluesky but does love pigeons.

First of all, it was ONE lizard. Second of all, his name is Bobby.

This graph shows the country trying to puke up something nasty it swallowed.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

Happy about this agreement but let’s be clear: the “challenged industry” is Broadway shows making record profits while the people who make eight shows a week happen are struggling to keep up with the cost of living in NYC But glad an agreement was reached and strike averted!

"Pity the nation whose leaders are liars."

Yesterday my spouse Patrick and I put on a concert of the 1971 Al Carmines musical JOAN at The Green Room 42. Two original cast members came to see it. So did Peter Filichia, cohost of “This Week on Broadway”—and here he is talking about seeing the show nearly 50 years ago, two nights in a row.

One person driving by our local protest started chanting “We need a king! We need a king!” so it does seem to be frying their circuits.

we're getting to the point with this weekend where if you are a person who needs protesting advice, you should probably ignore any protest advice not coming from like the NLG, ALCU etc because random people are not having the best ideas about it right now

Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.” Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

"Transcribing (and Performing) the Score of a Lost Off-Broadway Gem" Here's the story of what brought my spouse Patrick and me to this concert—a bit about the piece, how it found us, and what we've done since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO1_...

So what do you say, J.D. Vance? You once feared Trump could be the American Adolf Hitler. But that seems to be the hope of the new generation of Republicans you’ve raised. Will you denounce this outbreak of antisemitism, racism and fascism in your party?

"Transcribing (and Performing) the Score of a Lost Off-Broadway Gem" Here's the story of what brought my spouse Patrick and me to this concert—a bit about the piece, how it found us, and what we've done since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO1_...

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Sunset from the Madison Building at the Library of Congress tonight

John-Andrew Morrison might be the first person in history to play Medea AND Abraham Lincoln within the same calendar year.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

Megan Stalter posed on the Emmys red carpet holding a handbag stating “Cease fire!”

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

Now is not a good time to upgrade any equipment for my work

This fall, we’re bringing the score a little closer to home. We’d love to see you there. Songs from JOAN By Al Carmines The Green Room 42 Monday October 20 @ 9:30pm In-person and livestream tickets: thegreenroom42.venuetix.com/show/details...

A couple years ago in DC, my spouse and I helmed a staged reading of a surreal, queer, preachy adaptation of Joan of Arc set in 1970s downtown NYC written by the brilliant Al Carmines. The reading was the first performance of the musical in nearly fifty years.

A couple years ago in DC, my spouse and I helmed a staged reading of a surreal, queer, preachy adaptation of Joan of Arc set in 1970s downtown NYC written by the brilliant Al Carmines. The reading was the first performance of the musical in nearly fifty years.

People out there replying, "That's it, we're fucked. It's over." If you need to walk away, fine. But why would you message people—many of whom are exposed or can't leave—encouraging them to give up?

Willing and capable I should say. I'll probably expand on it tomorrow but parts of the kilmar rally today were a good example of "a parade of low energy and low quality speakers crushing the morale of the crowd" and I keep seeing this protest after protest

in the occupied territory of DC: @streetsensedc.bsky.social @ggwash.org @washingtoninformer.com @51st.news @wcp.bsky.social @ethiopique202.bsky.social

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

A pretty incredible scene

Only one channel responded to a request for comment, and the response is clearly itself AI-generated.

It is increasingly clear that the majority of federal law enforcement officers do little or no real work, hence having the time and resources to do what they've been doing under Trump. Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.