When you hire an idiot to run your country. "The research firm Capital Economics estimated that if the Treasury is forced to issue refunds, the cost would run to about $120 billion, or 0.5 percent of gross domestic product." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
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March 28 will be the largest nonviolent protest in American history. Find your local No Kings event to stand up for our communities and reject Trump's fear and violence. app.sosha.ai/s/m9GnRlOG
20.02.2026 02:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A majority of cases will never be reported, either.
Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren't investigated
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"I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”
From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days.
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#Trump #ICE #childabuse
🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️
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Theatre break. At ProPlay, we make plays that have been professionally produced available to read for free online, to encourage their further production. There's no fee to subscribe, and we don't charge to post a play or participate in production royalties. proplay.ws
#theatre #theater #playwrights
Theatre break: If you hate A.I., how do you feel about Ian McKellen as a hologram? (Spoiler: McKellen loves it.) Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/t...
#theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky
Theatre break: New watch-at-home #theatre (which isn't really theatre at all, but never mind), including "Bat Out of Hell: The Musical," of which the composer says, "If you don’t go over the top, how are you ever going to see what’s on the other side?” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/t...
18.01.2026 20:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Except, perhaps, if they're hot enough to be on Heated Rivalry, Season 2.
17.01.2026 06:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0if you haven't read jezebel's 2018 coverage of the listserv where 400+ "left-of-center" transphobic "journalists" methodically orchestrated the current moment, it's a good companion to the TNN interview: www.jezebel.com/private-mess...
02.01.2026 00:21 — 👍 1292 🔁 646 💬 8 📌 15Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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This is the full 60 Minutes segment on CECOT Bari Weiss and CBS News didn't want you to see.
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News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we
have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.
We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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BREAKING: CBS just yanked a 60 Minutes episode and slapped the word “postponed” on it like people are stupid. Trailer wiped. Segment gone.
This isn’t a delay — it’s a cover-up in real time. They’re protecting “someone”. Period.
“I’ve lived here for a long time, and I’ve never seen so many police cars.”
ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.
The President of the United States deleted this photo of the drawer full of photos with himself and Jeffrey Epstein from the DOJ's illegally redacted release of the files last night.
We are watching a cover up in real time.
This is file 468.
Theatre break. Zhao on her film Hamnet: "Not only did I feel it was a container for me to tell a great story, but also to explore my own inner ideas that I hadn’t allowed to come through, like many women." NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/m...
#theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky
A genius. He did new things in #theatre, which is hard enough, but he also communicated new ideas through it, which is harder yet. That’s why his work had a reputation for being too “intellectual” (a sometimes fair assessment, often not), but he kept it up to the very end. A playwright’s playwright.
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Theatre break: "To the argument offered by the show’s creative team that the setting is specific but the robots are 'universal' and 'ethnically undefined,' Craig replies, 'They’re not Roombas.'" NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
#theatre #theater #theatreSky #theaterBSKY
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
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#Theatre cleanse: "Before being accepted for the Theatre of Veterans programme, she knew nothing about theatre or dramatists. 'I knew Shakespeare was a dramatist, and that’s all.' That said, she is still not much of a theatre fan herself. 'I hate theatre.'"
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
Visual arts cleanse: "The hardest part for Lewis in the process has been letting go of her own attachment to the control and predictability of working with her hands. 'It’s been challenging to wrap my head around.'” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/a...
26.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2. NYC
#NoKings 👑
Massive crowd in DC
Massive crowd in Times Square
It’s going to take ages to pay all these people
18.10.2025 17:39 — 👍 7073 🔁 1303 💬 62 📌 112MAGA minions don’t get to decide which voices the American people are allowed to hear. Join us on Saturday to remind Trump that there are NO KINGS in the USA: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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Book cleanse. "'It was a big sacrifice,' she said. 'I felt willing to do it because I felt it was really important for the industry, for authors, and for readers who want their favorite authors to be able to continue doing this.'" New York Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
#booksky
Weiss watch.
13.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gender Inclusive Schools 44m • C In solidarity with Chicago educators navigating these horrors instead of focusing on learning. K Hurley Wales is with Craig Wales in Lincoln Square. • Follow 21h • C Yesterday started like many others. Craig made us coffee. My neighbor offered us some freshly baked scones. The girls ate their breakfast, excited for a three day weekend and their daddy's birthday. At 8:15 AM, we learned that an elderly man had been tackled by border control in a nearby alley. At 8:30 AM, ICE detained two landscapers near Foster and Lincoln, a few blocks away. The entire neighborhood came out to help by recording and protesting, one of whom happened to be a WGN producer. She was violently abducted. ICE slammed into a neighbor's parked car during their rapid getaway and kept right on driving. At 9 AM, our school principal initiated our rapid response network and hundreds of parent, staff, and communities mobilized to patrol our school in support of our at-risk families and to allow our children to safely play and learn outdoors. At 10 AM, ICE arrived fully alarmed near Ravenswood Elementary, a local public school where many of our friends go and teach. I spoke directly with my dear friend who teaches there immediately after it happened and, as you can imagine, she was terrified and traumatized. At 10:15, ICE was reported outside a local daycare, where many of our neighborhood kiddos go.
As the day unfolded, at least 8 of our neighbors were detained, and there were dozens of confirmed ICE sightings outside local schools and businesses. Craig and I spent a collective 10 hours patrolling our daughters' school. Several schools went into lockdown, following the same protocol response we'd follow for an active shooter. Elsewhere in the city, in the last 2-3 weeks ICE has: -killed a young father after he dropped his son off at school, the agent sustained minor injuries -shot a woman 5 times and tried to blame her for provocation (body cam footage proves otherwise) -shot a priest in the head with a pepper bullet while he prayed at a protest -teargassed dozens of Chicago police -teargassed reporters and non-violent protestors -stormed a building with helicopters, arresting (among criminals) US citizens who had done nothing wrong, including zip tying 4 children, torn from their beds in the middle of the night barely clothed and not allowed to dress -detained a family while their children played in the fountains at Millennium Park -handcuffed an alderperson inside a hospital -Stormed through suburban parks to try and catch nannies walking babies -they are masked, wear no names, 'arrest' with no warrants, and will kill you if you try to fight back -71 percent of the people taken have no criminal history, most are just trying to work through the slow process of naturalization As I write this, l'm seeing live footage of them raiding Home Depot and receiving reports of them detaining 18 Uber drivers at O'Hare. If you're outside of Chicago and weren't aware of what's happening here, now you know. This is not okay. Nobody should be pretending this is okay.
As I write this, I'm seeing live footage of them raiding Home Depot and receiving reports of them detaining 18 Uber drivers at O'Hare. If you're outside of Chicago and weren't aware of what's happening here, now you know. This is not okay. Nobody should be pretending this is okay. Chicago is my favorite place in the whole world. I have lived here for 28 years and I have never felt so profoundly unsafe until this week. And it's not because of gangs or crime or unhoused people or drug users or migrants. I feel unsafe because there are militarized units with loaded guns in the school parking lots of my district, kidnapping my neighbors. Now please enjoy my family photo, taken last night while trying to salvage Craig's birthday and preserve normalcy for our children at one of this city's incredible restaurants. I made this post public so that it can be shared. I will also post footage and media links in my comments.
A white family with hearts over their children’s faces
“In solidarity with Chicago educators navigating these horrors instead of focusing on learning.”
Today in the life of a Chicago teacher.
Book cleanse: "A deeply moving portrait of a strong yet gentle man and the profound impact he had on an often unscrupulous, unjust world." reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
#books #booksky #moviesky
"I’ve never told my own story. My illness, my disability, it has taken everything from me. I have spent my life fighting to get help, and it never comes. I have reinvented myself more times than I can count. I thought, 'I need to tell this.'" www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-entert...
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