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Matt Radcliff

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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📎Sprout @allenbussell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If Trump demolishes the Kennedy Center…what will Congress do? How about the Washington monument? Jefferson? Lincoln Memorial? What stops him from demolishing everything? This is LAWLESSNESS.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Since I recorded this on TUESDAY, Susan Collins pushed ANOTHER anti-abortion judge through. She's an extremist who doesn't give a damn about your reproductive rights.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 17/09/2026
Yudkowsky is rationalist in the sense that his arguments are derived from pure reason, with no real basis in epistemology. When he writes about AI, he is writing about imaginary computers in his head. And these imaginary computers are mostly influenced by sci-fi stories, not actual tech.
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Instead of saying "the Kennedy Center board decided to close" we should note that "a group of Trump appointees including Laura Ingraham and Dan Scavino decided to shut it down"
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is it newsworthy that the President of the United States publicly led his supporters in a pledge to cheat like hell in an upcoming election?
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The Grackle King @athenrein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's time to plan an art heist It's time to rob a zoo It's time to eat a bagel and arrest Winnie the Pooh
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Matt Radcliff @mrradcliff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s a half cup plus a tablespoon.
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Jim Parrett 🍁 @jymn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Joanie Labine played records in a suspended booth next to the Whisky a Go Go stage and danced along to the music. Beginning with a Johnny Rivers’ set, she pioneering 'go-go' dancing in her self-made fringe dress that became a go-go fad. Photos from 1964.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
when i worked at sbux in high school they kept scheduling me for like 35 hours a week and i kept saying i can't work this schedule i have to go to school. turned out they were hugely overscheduling kids to avoid giving enough hours to the adults that they would've qualified for health insurance
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/09/2026
The only reason that some people are demanding Mayor Mamdani skip the 9/11 ceremony is pure Islamophobia. Period.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We’re suing to bring transparency back to Trump’s State Department—and you can help! Are you aware of an international agreement that the U.S. may have concluded since Jan. 2025? Have you been unable to locate it on the State Department’s site? Let us know 👇 ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-...
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Why We’re Suing the State Department Over International Agreements
Lawfare is suing to bring transparency back to international agreements—and you can help.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026
Every single Republican interviewed from now through Friday needs to be asked about Trump’s 9/11 lies. Anything less is journalistic malpractice.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"navier-stokes pronunciation" "navier-stokes for dummies" "other math problems with 1 million dollar prize" ... "other math problems with 100 dollars prize" ... "used math textbooks cheap"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.
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k9k9dancer.bsky.social @k9k9dancer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
He said he'd be too busy to play golf, yet 25% of his time is spent at his golf resorts, & overcharging the SS. He said he wouldn't start any new wars....yeh, sure. He said he'd release his tax returns...still waiting. He said he'd release the Epstein files...riiighhht. Just a few of the lies.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Department of Defense is now the Department of Don’t Call It A War Because We Would Have To Pay Benefits To Widows
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John Trant @trantteam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sometimes a story is just..."well that didn't really work, but here is all our data showing that, and the only real result is that a bunch of companies are lying on their labels" Won't publish in Frontiers or MDPI or their ilk, but not sure who else will consider it. Ideas? #chemsky
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Again, the president has a chance to lead by example here and have these centers constructed next to his shitty golf courses and his tacky senior center in Palm Beach
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 02/09/2026
Remember this going into the midterms.
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Oh-ho! We’ve finally found those “real americans” they’ve been talking about for years!
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We’re talking here about Col. Josh Gaspard, who parachuted into Bashur during the 2003 invasion as a 2LT, then a year in Afg, then company command in surge-era Iraq. His Columbia degrees aren’t even in the “woke” social sciences, they’re in industrial engineering and engineering management systems.
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John Lithium @johnlithium.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
PRO-TIP: Purchase albums from your favorite bands and musicians BEFORE they pass away.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An idle imagining: And also an independen, nonpartisan, body for selecting their clerks. Last stage is judges interview five top candidates and pick from that pool. Or something.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Lake America" sounds like a summer camp for men whose wives have left them.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is wild. In late 2025, federal and state officials kept a Mexican woman in custody for almost a month by repeatedly rebooking her just before her 72-hour time limit ran out. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The citizen sleuths at Project Salt Box watch ICE contracts and find horrifying things: $57 million(!) to pay bounty hunters to track down immigrants; $17M to convert a San Antonio warehouse into a detention facility. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-triple... www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-awards...
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ICE triples its orders to the private firms hunting immigrants
Three of the firms also hold ICE contracts to check on migrant children. Another holds a third contract to collect fines from people already deported.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/08/2026
Guys, this is for real. Senate GOP and the administration want to pass a law that outlaws bikelanes on the 160K mile National Highway System. Imagine if adding protected bikelanes to many arterials would suddenly be against the law. Let’s not allow this.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's disgusting that this unpopular clown is using Dolly Parton's death to ride on her legacy of generosity and popularity. He has to use AI because Dolly Parton was never photographed with Donald Trump in real life. Because he is everything she disliked: selfish, dishonest, mean, and rude.
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steve @stupidlikeafox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Any grad students reading this: do not synthesize dimethyl mercury. If someone asks you to do it, say “no” and call your school EH&S people, who will drop a piano on that person’s head (probably only figuratively)
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I spent 18 months documenting Rocky’s trial lawyer’s ties to the KKK, even knocking on an old Klanman’s door and letting him touch my body as the price of getting the information I needed. The court dismissed the case today.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A reporter should hold up a map of the Great Lakes with numbers on them and ask Trump which one he's just purported to rename.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
you know how stonewall was basically the queer community hitting the tipping point because Judy Garland died? no reason just sayin
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Matt Radcliff @mrradcliff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’m pretty sure that George Clinton had a cape like this back in the day
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm putting in my tenure application on Oct. 1 and need to demonstrate my work's reach and impact. If you happen to have assigned any of my works to your students would you mind emailing me the syllabus? ajbauer2 [at] ua [dot] edu
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/08/2026
Today is the LAST DAY to leave your public comment on the NSF Proposal. The Proposal implements Vought’s science destroying OMB Policies ahead of time, and we cannot let this sneaky proposal scoot by quietly. Leave your public comment today by visiting the link: zurl.co/ZGP3i
The graphic contains a photo of Russell Vought, the red Stand Up for Science logo, and the NSF logo. The graphic reads: "Today is the last day to leave your public comment on the science endangering NSF Proposal".
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
chicago.suntimes.com/graphics/wea... It's absolutely not OK. Chicago seems to be the only media region covering this story: Sun Times and WBEZ.
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12 nights without power in Gary, Indiana, ‘Why is this OK?’ | Chicago Sun-Times
With no power and a spotty generator, every day is a struggle for a family of seven as they approach two weeks without electricity in Northwest Indiana.
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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Periodic reminder: You can - and should! - nominate your own work for The Best American Science and Nature Writing. The link to do so and all the info you need are right here: jaimegreen.net/basn
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing — Jaime Green
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I said this aloud as the end credits rolled on the masterpiece that is Paddington 2. Didn't everyone?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A man who aided US authorities by testifying against Mexican cartels was illegally removed *three times* in recent weeks — including to Mexico, where he had protection from deportation due to threat of torture/death. A judge in MD has ordered his return. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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