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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026

Thousands of Kennedy Center supporters gathered Friday in protest of President Trump’s takeover and closure of the building, surrounding as much of the performing arts venue as they could, linking arms and chanting, “Hands off! Hands off!” wapo.st/4rhwDug

Demonstrators gather outside of the Kennedy Center during the “Hands Around the Kennedy Center” protest on September 18, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post.

Demonstrators hold hands to form a human chain during a rally outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on September 18, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators gathered to form a human chain around the building after President Trump announced the closure of the facility. Photo by Tom Brenner for Getty Images.

Laura Black of Clearwater, FL holds her sign as demonstrators gathered outside of the Kennedy Center during the “Hands Around the Kennedy Center” protest on September 18, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post.

Demonstrators gathered outside of the Kennedy Center during the “Hands Around the Kennedy Center,” protest on September 18, 2026 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Craig Hudson for The Washington Post.

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Christine Gundermann @cgpublichistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is a dark day for the Smithonian and museums under pressure.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Producers—and prize juries—love plays like these because they appear edgy but don’t really challenge prevailing views.” @alisasolomon.bsky.social and Arielle Angel discuss ‘Birthright,’ a new play about a tired debate. jewishcurrents.org/birthright-s...

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'Birthright' Stages a Tired Debate

The play is among a rash of productions that seek to reassure Zionist audiences they’re worth arguing with.

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Arno Rosenfeld @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@raskin.house.gov is launching an investigation into whistleblower allegations that the Trump administration illegally manipulated federal antisemitism investigations to punish universities despite a lack of evidence that they had violated the law. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Live updates • Six reported killed in Israeli strike on Gaza port; IDF says it targeted Hamas

France to expel two Iranian diplomats in coming days, foreign minister says . Senior Democrat launches probe into Trump’s university antisemitism investigations. Huckabee says U.S. concern heightened ...

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New on our site: An exchange of letters between editor-at-large Arielle Angel and theater critic @alisasolomon.bsky.social on the phenomenon of Jewish plays that “debate” Israel/Palestine. jewishcurrents.org/birthright-s...

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As always, Sherrilyn Ifill is the conscience of our times -- and her warnings are urgent. Listen. And act.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund

Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Visas revoked for journalistic outlet board members who criticized Trump allies. Very bad for First Amendment freedoms of the press & to speak truth to power. Fits alongside the attacks on Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, & tech researchers for their free speech. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/w...

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U.S. Revokes Visas of Board Members at Costa Rica’s Top Watchdog Newspaper

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Senate Republicans voted against lowering out-of-pocket health care costs, reversing cuts to food programs, and a measure to lower rising electricity prices in their budget blueprint. But they voted to give Trump’s ICE thugs $70 billion to keep terrorizing our communities. Priorities.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Two days before Hungary’s election, Trump pledges to buy votes for Viktor Orban with US taxpayer dollars.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Stunningly bullshit framing on this NYT story that insists that somehow renewables are a dicy unpredictable thing and downplays that they're far, far cheaper most of the time by focusing on how they're not always. As is often the case with the NYT, comments smarter than article.

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Spain Says the Sun Shields It From Rising Gas Costs. Is That True?

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I think often too many of us sort of mock or deride it as par for the course—which in one sense it is—and don’t recognize it as an escalation, which it is also is. I’ve been writing on these issues for years. Hegseth is by far the most militant Christian nationalist at this echelon of power.

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Eyal Press @epress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hard to overstate how repulsive this is. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

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U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

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Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 26/02/2026

it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.

was met with widespread protests: state, county and city governments across the United States forbade their employees from non-essential travel to North Carolina; numerous corporations and firms curbed plans to hold events and create jobs in the state, and many
performers canceled performances in North Carolina to boycott the state; North Carolina's economy lost over $400 million in investments and jobs. The bill was also criticized by several religious organizations, and President Barack Obama denounced it and called for its repeal. McCrory ultimately lost his bid for re-election in 2016 to Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, a vocal critic of the law.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The combination of having a stupid and destructive idea and the unearned confidence to boast and preen about it is not new, but in the RFK Jr. era, these guys have all gotten so LOUD. In any case, this editor belongs nowhere near journalism, and for "ingest" alone, he should be invited to retire.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee

Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Following the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, CJS would like to remind journalists/the public their rights to record public events, free from gov. retaliation and assert journalist privilege–even when gov. authorities attempt to intimidate or silence reporting.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

so about 12 hours after the media breathlessly writes “trump shifts tone” stories hes essentially encouraging assassination and threatening to jail the minneapolis mayor

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 25/01/2026

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.” 💔💔💔

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The 15 richest people in America saw their collective wealth jump nearly $1 trillion during Trump's year back in office. Many of them were standing alongside Trump at his inauguration one year ago today. How are you doing?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

There are no consequences, journalistically speaking, for being banned from press conferences that are widely televised and entirely performative. This kind of access gets them nothing. And they shouldn't be fired; their bosses should back them.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

GOP taking its talking points these days directly from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s state media

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

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The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/12/2025

"Emphasizes Religion"??? They violated the Constitution by using official government accounts to post things like "We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior." Shame on you for whitewashing this lawless, Christian supremacist regime, @nytimes.com.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.

When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.”

What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

BREAKING: The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel just voted to drop the hepatitis B birth dose from its recommendations. This move strips away a proven safeguard for newborns and reverses long-standing, evidence-based policy. A disaster for public health.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

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Opinion | My Father Died of Hepatitis B Before the Vaccine. We Must Not Go Back.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25

Then beneath it

TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

😡😡😡😡

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Every word of this is worth reading. These people are not outliers in young MAGA leadership. The person you are when you think you can get away with saying anything is the real you.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I'm not usually quick to shout "Boycott!" but...yeah, walk away and never look back.

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

In the wake of their crossover hit Can I Be Frank?, anti-Zionist activist and performance artist Morgan Bassichis is poised to carry their lineage of radical politics to the main stage. Read Alisa Solomon's (@alisasolomon.bsky.social) profile: jewishcurrents.org/can-morgan-b...

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Can Morgan Bassichis Be Famous?

In the wake of their crossover hit Can I Be Frank? , the outspoken anti-Zionist performer is poised to carry their lineage of radical politics to the…

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“Without jfrej I don’t think I would have had the clarity or the courage to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social “ - @bradlander.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Landed standing on stage at the Mazals

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Support The City’s crucial and excellent reporting!

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