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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 5h
The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed. WaPo reviews fifteen years of financials wapo.st/4dg5MJj free link 🎁
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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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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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15h
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h
The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17h
Pure evil
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JFC. Another unsigned ruling by rank cowards. How many dead bodies will the fascist Justices be responsible for by the time the next hearing date rolls around in December?. Fascist Supreme Court Justices are an enemy of the people's rights. Pack the court, soonest. Or else lose the Republic entire.
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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now (Gift Article)
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...
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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 (Gift Article)
He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I gasped! The Mighty Sparrow has left us. One of the most important and popular Calypsonians to ever do it! Songs filled political fire, irreverence, humor, naughty (very, very naughty) banter, and beats that make you wind your waist! Rest in Power, Sparrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...
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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91
He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In a 12-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emphasized that the majority’s decision created the conditions for some states to cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens or to force them to provide proof of citizenship before voting.
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Supreme Court Allows Use of Trump Administration’s Expansive Database for Voter Screening (Gift Article)
Critics of a citizenship database built by the Trump administration have raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watching this and thinking yet again about how Israel's mass killing in Gaza was facilitated by US-origin warplanes and munitions—military materiel the Biden administration kept flowing despite knowing how it would be used and over the objections of USG human rights and war crimes experts.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"As he has done time and again, PM Netanyahu used his speech to repeat baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide of Palestinians. Yet no lie can change the fact that he remains the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
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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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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The ICC* should have global arrest jurisdiction. * Netanyahu is barred from travel to many countries because of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant regarding war crimes
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026
Rosa María Carranza paid into Medicare for 24 years. Now she’s expected to lose coverage under a law Republicans passed and Trump signed. Ramya Gosike reports that 100,000 immigrants face the same loss.
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Immigrants Aren't Taking Away Our Healthcare—ICE Is
Millions of U.S. residents—including many immigrant families—are set to lose their healthcare under changes coming due to legislation passed under Republicans and the Trump administration.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Brooklyn Democratic Party County Committee meeting has ended, the rules changes were passed with hundreds of proxy votes, Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn was nowhere to be found. Chaos reigned. dispatch for @thecityreporter.nyc www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/23/b...
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Raucous Brooklyn Party Meeting Rubber Stamps Rule Changes That Judge Found to Be Illegal
Embattled Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn didn’t attend Wednesday’s chaotic meeting, where four of her allies contended with an angry crowd of opposition leaders.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Terrible mess. At least the CUNY Public Safety Officer working at the City Tech auditorium refused to arrest people or throw them out when the *leaders* of this party pointed at them. It seems like what she did was the most truly democratic (small "d") event of the day.
As the crowd grew louder, party leaders kept pointing to security to have people removed from the auditorium. But CUNY Public Safety Officer Tatiana Dunlap said that wasn’t her job.

“This is your meeting,” she said. “We don’t arrest people for yelling.”
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These f**krs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u... 750,000 booted off Obamacare. The dropped enrollees account for about 4 percent of the 19 million Americans who receive coverage through the marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act. Many live close to the poverty line. (Free link)
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Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud (Gift Article)
Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Big payouts to authoritarian regimes, contracts designed to bypass statutory requirements, including the human rights safeguards that come with most foreign assistance spending… 🎁 free link: wapo.st/4dLG4wo
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.” free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.” free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026
“The No. 1 problem the Kennedy Center has had is President Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NYC rainy afternoon activity 🩵
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Family history and genealogy, media juicing up controversy and fawning over science while failing to get that yes the historical analysis was conclusive. I couldn't not write about this! Shorter: just read @agordonreed.bsky.social. karinwulf.com/trove/the-fa...
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The Family History of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, and the Politics of Genealogy. - Karin Wulf
[The cover image is a page from Jefferson’s “Farm Book” at the Massachusetts Historical Society where he listed enslaved recipients of “Bread” at Monticello in 1810 –including Sally Hemings and four o...
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“That’s a fact not in evidence,” Martschink interjected.
“To be honest, a lot of this is not in evidence,” Magistrate Judge Amanda Leviner replied. free gift link wapo.st/3V4lD7B
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She cheered a teen protest against ICE. Police charged her with a crime.
A local political feud over a high school protest became a brief national fixation when police charged a woman with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is where the Millenium Stage daily free concert are/were/will be…
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A detail worth noting in all this madness is a magnificent 12,000 crystal lighting array at Kennedy Center Opera House created by J & L Lobmeyr, who also made chandeliers at Schönbrunn Palace and Vienna State Opera. It's an official gift from the Government of Austria, meant as a permanent memorial.
a starburst of brilliant crystals in circle on the ceiling, with rich red background
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Along the same lines, the Government of Norway donated 71 lighting fixtures to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in 1965, designed by Jonas Hidle and produced by Hadeland Glassverk and Høvik Verk. It's a central element of the Hall's atmosphere.
the concert hall with spectacular crystal and gold hexagonal chandeliers, amid rich woods, red carpets, and a copper-faced pipe organ behind the stage.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have been holding this news for weeks. I'm so excited to share an event I'll be participating in with @feministpress.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social @karnythia.blacksky.app and LORETTA J. Ross on Oct 6th at 6pm EST at THEE SCHOMBURG!!! Admission is free! www.eventbrite.com/e/2000312837...
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Feminist Press and Roxane Gay Present: FEMINIST CANARIES
Don't miss this bold conversation about how feminism prepared us for this political moment, even when the world refused to listen.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hope is the thing with feathers Rhiannon Giddens music.apple.com/us/album/hop...
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers by Rhiannon Giddens on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 10 Songs
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Nothing will come of nothing,” said old Lear, demanding a little more demonstrative love from his daughter. Only slightly more demented is the president’s capacity for feeling honored by honors he has extorted. wapo.st/46uOtAC Kennedy Center KenCen free link
We learned this week that we don't need elaborate explanations for what Trump intended. This was always just about a need for recognition, about a name, about a man killing the thing he wanted because he can't possess it fully and absolutely.
But the collateral damage is real, the loss of a public place is real, the insult to the memory of John F. Kennedy is real, and the damage to the larger organism of culture is real.
(from Washington Post column)
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Witty Librarian of City Of Heroes @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the courts need to start holding trump's lackeys in jail for contempt, since they can't do that to trump himself. make it clear NOBODY should tear down the Kennedy Center.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At some point in my life 🌈🦄 I was a small child in possession of purple psychedelic Peter Max tights 😍 Rest in Rainbows
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just in case…I have it on good authority, if you see one by the side of the road and you stop to pick it up…well, it might wake up and claw its way out of the pillowcase you put it in.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/09/2026
Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
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Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
2/Read about the man who paid for Trump Jr’s wedding-I mean, wedding party. (They say it’s ok b/c they’re friends and it was only the parties). Then imagine Hunter Biden letting an associate of Putin’s pay for his wedding. The scandal would be thru the roof. joycevance.substack.com/p/some-thing...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am fascinating by the ongoing Ed Sheeran story and the way it strikes right at the heart of the fading viability of "Oh, I don't do politics."
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Satan will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
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Sinners Remmick
Alt: Sinners Remmick, the demon musician
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rep Joyce Beatty: “The unlawful renaming drove audiences and artists away. Now the board has voted to shut down yet again to hide the terrible mismanagement under its current leadership. We’ll see the defendants in court.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Kennedy Center board votes to close venue after judge blocks Trump name from building
President warns renovations will not go ahead unless his name is added to facade of Washington arts venue
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m watching this now and it’s excellent! It’s part of the Independent Lens series on PBS. You know it’s going to be good because it starts with a history of the eugenics movement and weaves it into the techno fascist culture driving Silicon Valley and the race to AGI.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 14/09/2026
In New York City, what were once sloping underwater meadows are now bare sand or dredged-out basins. But in the last three years, all along the Eastern seaboard, scientists have begun consolidating their efforts in reestablishing eelgrass across state and county lines.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hang on, voters free 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Trump’s Effort to Assert Control Over Elections Continues Despite Supreme Court Loss (Gift Article)
President Trump has launched a broad, governmentwide effort to take more control of state-run elections and sow doubt about the outcome.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not right before bedtime, but…
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It looks like we’re *finally* at the magic Purcell point where Kavanaugh thinks we’re too close to the election for his party to rig it.
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 14/09/2026
Amazon has spent millions fighting the City Council’s “Delivery Protection Act,” but is now also quietly telling supporters that it will shut down its cargo-bike-delivery operation if the bill, which would pave the way for unionizing its drivers, passes. buff.ly/VK4FJq3
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Amazon’s Latest Anti-Union Push Not Only Endangers Workers But Also NYC Streets - Streetsblog New York City
Amazon is constantly touting its e-quad deliveries — but now the company is threatening to pull its bikes off the streets if it can't get its way.
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BIG NEWS: Reformers won their lawsuit against the leaders of the Brooklyn Democratic Party for violating the party's bylaws and NY Election Law and for attempting to circumvent the will of Brooklyn's voters! 🥳 More on this to come, but in the meantime, here's the decision:
iapps.courts.state.ny.us
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