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Charles McNulty

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LA Times theater critic, CalArts theater faculty, Village Voice alum. www.latimes.com/people/charles-mcnu…

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1h
Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h
In an essay about Jacqueline Kennedy published on Thursday, Michelle Obama praises the efforts by her fellow former first lady to make the White House a nurturing home and writes that the presidency does not come with a “deed to a few acres of prime real estate to remake in our own image.”
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Michelle Obama, Praising Past White House Remodels, Takes Veiled Aim at Trump
In a new essay, the former first lady writes that the presidency does not come with a “deed to a few acres of prime real estate to remake in our own image.”
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 8h
The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
Breaking-news graphic featuring a photo of RFK Jr with headline that reads "RFK JR. TO GIVE 1.6M IN CDC FUNDS TO EXPERIMENT ON AFRICAN BABIES IN UNETHICAL TRIAL"
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 11h
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Carson.
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Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Canadian author Anne Carson, for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that in playful dialogue with the classical tradition has cr…
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She has no satisfying excuses for her abjet sellout to Trump
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Signs the Blue Wave Is Coming
And affordability is no hoax.
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Charles McNulty @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I adore Laura Benanti. Her solo show is an amuse bouche. Charming yet slight. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: Tony winner Laura Benanti sings some of her most shameful secrets in breezy solo show 'Nobody Cares'
Tony-winner Laura Benanti brought her solo comedy cabaret 'Nobody Cares" to the Wallis and the show is now headed to South Coast Repertory.
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Charles McNulty @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The Outsiders" at the Hollywood Pantages: L.A. deserves a better touring company. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: Musical performances and glorious staging rescue touring production of ‘The Outsiders’
'The Outsiders,' winner of the 2024 Tony for best musical and based on the classic S.E. Hinton novel, has its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
SENATOR SLOTKIN: If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat that you’ve never heard of, that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Charles McNulty @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welcome to Beverly Hills! Your gasoline future.
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Charles McNulty @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wish Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of "Epistemology of the Closet," were alive to deconstruct Pete Hegseth's "no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors" edict.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 02/10/2026
Disney cuts 300 workers, offers executives early retirement
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Disney cuts 300 workers, offers executives early retirement
Another round of job cuts comes as CEO Josh D'Amaro aims to consolidate the company's sprawling operations around a "One Disney" theme.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
slate.com/news-and-pol... "the president’s usual tics: run-on sentences, bluster, insults, lies. But it also contains moments of confusion, incoherence, and paranoia"
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Is Trump All There? A New Interview Gives Us Five Serious Reasons to Wonder.
We just got an unfettered view into the mind of the world’s most powerful person. It’s alarming, to say the least.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thread.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 30/09/2026
The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters
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Fed’s Watchdog Finds No Evidence of Criminality in Renovations
The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the central bank’s renovation of its Washington headquarters, a $2.4 billion project that became a flashpoint between the Fed and the Trump administration as the president pushed for lower interest rates last year.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That cocky, misplaced look of smug success on Senator Eric Schmitt’s face—moments before everything came crashing down around him because he’s so carelessly incompetent.
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Charles McNulty @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A sign of how far we’ve descended.
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Charles McNulty @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is barbaric — and shocking to me, despite everything we’ve lived through.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tom Cruise has dangled from cliffs, skyscrapers and planes, but oil magnate Digger Rockwell is his riskiest role in eons. He opens DIGGER lounging in a bed soaked with cat pee, tempting an elderly feline named Maggie to lick wet chow from his gnarled pinkie nail. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: Tom Cruise destroys Earth in 'Digger,' a messy climate satire that occasionally strikes gold
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu teams up with a prosthetics-swaddled Cruise for a bleak comedy about a Texan oil driller who triggers the end of the world.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It is often weakened by attacks on the institutions in the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January of 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here's an excerpt -- read the whole column and tell me what you think
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Christopher Knight LAT @knightlat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“… writing about discovery is an ancient pleasure …” Mark Swed’s final regular column as classical music critic at the Los Angeles Times is “echt Swed,” meaning essential, informed, witty and surprising reading. It was a pleasure being Mark’s colleague for decades. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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A 30-year love letter to L.A. with a final revelation
How an ancient church in a small German town and a new concert hall in DTLA bookend my 30 years as classical music critic of the L.A. Times.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Breaking News: The Kennedy Center had delayed a plan to repair leaks that officials now cite as a serious safety risk, whistle-blowers say.
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 25/09/2026
A 30-year love letter to L.A. with a final revelation
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A 30-year love letter to L.A. with a final revelation
How an ancient church in a small German town and a new concert hall in DTLA bookend my 30 years as classical music critic of the L.A. Times.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Another Instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” 🤭
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Charles McNulty @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not ready for prime-time: "The Peterson Show" at the Echo Theater Co. What a disaster! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: The fallout of a disgraced TV dad not named Bill Cosby lands with a thud in 'The Peterson Show'
The Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of 'The Peterson Show' by Janine Nabers, a play that reunites the cast of a beloved Black sitcom after the TV dad has gone to jail.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump’s now stated view that media criticism of him is a threat to national security is not only authoritarian to the core, it’s also the opposite of the truth.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 22/09/2026
'Begin Again,' John Carney's 2013 film about music industry rebels, gets second crack as a musical
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Review: 'Begin Again,' John Carney's 2013 film about music industry rebels, gets second crack as a musical
San Diego's Old Globe presents the world premiere musical 'Begin Again,' based on the 2013 film by John Carney, with a book by Jenna Clark Embrey and Molly Beach Murphy and music and lyrics by Pat Monahan and the band Train (Jerry Becker and Matt Musty).
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hitler and other top Nazis inspect a scale model of a planned triumphal arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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