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Swing Beat: The Future Looks Bleak for Jazz at the Kennedy Center The performing arts institution has let its music programmers go, and currently its jazz season is composed of one WWII-era big band.

The future looks bleak for jazz at the Kennedy Center

#jazzsky

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Kennedy Center fires head of jazz programming, adding to a string of staff exits Kevin Struthers had worked at the arts institution for 30 years, overseeing a program that had been a draw for prominent musicians.

Kennedy Center (under Trump) fires head of jazz programming

#jazzsky

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When I wanted to avoid ultra processed food, I used to buy products made in Canada.

But the option is being denied to Americans due to Trump tariffs.

MAHA imagines ConAgra will magically change its ways.
(Edited 8:21 PM via @skeetsapp.com)

Why I’ve cancelled my WaPo subscription, after a lifetime of loyalty dating back to the Watergate era.


Total irony that ‘America First’ security is now the Department Forever Wars.

War is coming!

Next up: A “war time” draft for young men (women aren’t eligible)

Need more troops for the streets of DC and other cities.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/04/trump-defense-war-department-rename

DC Jazzfest artist in resident Corcoran Holt, on stage with Billy Harper, George Cables, Steve Toure

#jazzsky

Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.

Hegseth’s role model

Justice Judge dismisses unprecedented DOJ lawsuit against Maryland federal court Justice Department officials are expected to continue their legal challenge, either by appealing Cullen's ruling or pursuing separate legal challenges... 9 minutes ago

The US Department of Justice is not above the law.

Democrats need to stop saying crime is not a problem in DC.

They have managed crime badly in DC and given Trump and opening.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/carjacked-capital-crime-pandemic-still-roiling-dc-rcna224655

Criticize Trump's Ukraine policy, have the FBI raid your house

Hope this one is a TACO threat. I’m not so sure.

Armored National Guard vehicle collides with SUV on Capitol Hill The incident is under investigation by the D.C. National Guard, an official said. Yesterday at 5:16 p.m. ET • 3 min MYODNP 273RD CHUTEN HOT ESNA

Officials said the driver of the SUV had to be extricated by firefighters and was sent to a nearby hospital

DC home rule should mean DC runs its government.

Nice history from the Smithsonian (read it before someone orders it taken down)

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...

Hegseth and Trump are purging generals faster than Xi Jinping


Two countries, one system
#Chimeria

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-air-force-general-david-allvin-to-retire-early/

I suggest you figure out who needs to hear it and how to say it so they listen. Find a place that likes oligarchs and doesn’t question them. Maybe contribute an op-ed to the WSJ?

Bluesky is the last place you need to reach - it’s even more of an echo chamber than X.

CZA-tA TO S9190 LABEL OTHER END Paper s, afresod on fed woman LABEL OTHER END UNITED STATES POSTAL WARNING THIS EQUIPI UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE HALF MM TRAY - EIRS 74HP A worker handles ballots on election night in 2024 at the Los Angeles County ballot processing center in the City of Industry. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times) 10 By Michael Wilner Washington Bureau Chief | X Follow Aug. 18, 2025 Updated 1:54 PM PT D 193 • The U.S. Constitution gives the president no authority to prescribe or govern election procedures, leaving that to the states. • The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Putin attempted to influence the last three U.S. presidential elections in Trump's favor. President Trump said Monday he would renew his assault on mail-in voting after Russia's autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin, told him to do so at their meeting in Alaska last week. The president provided few details, but wrote on social media that he would "lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly 'Inaccurate,' Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES."

Trump is following Putin’s election advice.

Don’t listen to RFK jr.

Get your shots.

(I won’t reveal what federal museum this picture was taken in for fears Trump’s museum police will take in down)

A = The Atlantic Sign In Notably, both sets of statistics seem out of keeping with the views of D.C. residents. About 65 percent of them told The Washington Post that crime was a "very" or "extremely" serious problem last year, even as violence declined. Perhaps locals are responding to a measurable increase in public disorder - petty offenses such as vagrancy, shoplifting, and unsanitary conditions, which drive our perceptions of major crime. As I noted in a Manhattan Institute report last summer, indicators such as unsheltered homelessness and sanitation-enforcement requests to the city's 311 line have spiked (and those trends continue into this year). When Trump complains of rising ; "squalor," he's not off base.

Crime is a problem in DC. Murders are 7x the rate of NYC.

“Washington’s murder rate was generally rising even before the pandemic. The murder rate at the end of 2024 was, per Asher’s data, lower than 2023, but still about 70 percent higher than that of a decade prior.”

SEPTEMBER 2025 THEATLANTIC.COM THE WAR ABOUT NOTHING Sudan and the world America left behind By Anne Applebaum Photographs by Lynsey Addario The Atlantic EST: 1857 Plus: Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods By Nancy Walecki The Death Doctors By Elaina Plott Calabro

I read commentators says the Atlantic is the new Washington Post.

They hired away many WaPo writers, true.

But the direction of the magazine feels backwards looking, little different than the Smithsonian magazine.

It’s not going to break important news.

Darkness is killing democracy

Seems to be a fashion trend for Kennedy Center performers to wear red ties…not sure how that started.

Hegseth is not just dumb, he’s batshit crazy.


https://apnews.com/article/pete-hegseth-crec-church-christian-nationalism-wilson-e71c3ea072fa959b5bee09a4d2093f1a

The Kennedy Center Glenn Miller Orchestra Oct. 17 at 7 & 9 p.m. I Terrace Theater The golden age of jazz is back! For one night only, the most popular big band in the world takes the stage performing timeless hits like "Tuxedo Junction," "Moonlight Serenade," and "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Formed in 1956, the Glenn Miller Orchestra continues to tour globally with swingin' music from the 1930s and 40s paired with modern, Miller-style tunes. GET TICKETS JAZZ AT THE KENNEDY CENTER »

Just received email with heading “Jazz is back at the Kennedy Center”

Nope, jazz is dead at the Kennedy Center, sadly

#jazzsky

No on seems to be asking: What does Melania know about Epstein and Trump’s relationship with him?

Should Congressional hearings require her testimony?

Half of Bluesky posts: Let's humiliate our pets! It will be so cute!

Reality: your pet inmates don't want to be on social media. They want their owner-overloads to get a life and stop bothering them.

Lamenting when things were right, in jazz and other ways...

The late Mulgrew Miller...

Performing at the Kennedy Center (when jazz mattered there)

#jazzsky

History does repeat itself when there's a criminal conspiracy to hide the truth.

Today's firing of government statisticians is part of a broader pattern of behavior of the Trump administration.

top EXCLUSIVE Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum The Smithsonian said it restored the display to an earlier version, which notes that "only three presidents have seriously faced removal." Yesterday at 8:08 p.m. ET

History is being rewritten at the Smithsonian following a Trump administration “content review”

The Donald Trump Center for performing arts considers classical music too woke and globalist.