Alexa Birdsong

Opinion | Digital Dopamine Is Consuming America. It’s Time to Fight for IRL.

Digital Dopamine Is Consuming America. It’s Time to Fight for IRL. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

MacDowell Awards 149 Fall Winter Fellowships to Artists MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program, has awarded 149 Fellowships to visionary artists working across seven disciplines, representing 25 states and Washington D.C., as well as 16 cou...

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Will the C.D.C. Survive?

Will the C.D.C. Survive?

Kennedy Center’s New Dance Director Criticized ‘Woke’ Ballet Culture

Kennedy Center’s New Dance Director Criticized ‘Woke’ Ballet Culture www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...

Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift

Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift

Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Occupied D.C.? Six GOP States Send National Guard to Washington as Outcry Grows over Trump Power Grab Six Republican-led states have now pledged National Guard troops to the Trump administration’s takeover of Washington, D.C., where it has assumed control of policing under the claim of tackling crime....

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The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

Texas Democrats End Walkout, Allowing Redrawn Map to Pass

Texas Democrats End Walkout, Allowing Redrawn Map to Pass www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

Gaza War Protesters Arrested at Offices of Schumer and Gillibrand

Gaza War Protesters Arrested at Offices of Schumer and Gillibrand www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/n...

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

Opinion | The Waste Musk Created

The Waste Musk Created

SpaceX Starship Rocket Explodes Before Test

SpaceX Starship Rocket Explodes Before Test
#elonmusk
#spaceX
#disaster
#badkarma

Former President Barack Obama issued a warning about the future of American democracy, while speaking at an event in Connecticut.

Obama cautioned that the country is “dangerously close” to normalizing behavior “consistent with autocracies.”

The Reagan-Appointed Judge Fast-Tracking Trump to Trial

The Reagan-Appointed Judge Fast-Tracking Trump to Trial
#constitution
#trump

Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse

Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse
THIS IS AMERICA!

Israeli Strikes Target Iran’s Nuclear Program

Israeli Strikes Target Iran’s Nuclear Program

It’s like these dudes have nothing else to do but destroy our planet.

“The Beginning of Fascism”: Rep. Delia Ramirez Says Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown Is Crushing Democracy As immigrant rights protests spread to Chicago, we speak with Democratic Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and married to a DACA recipient and recently called ...

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Lorna Simpson: Painting as a Weapon of Freedom In a small but haunting survey at the Met, a celebrated conceptual artist shifts gears, with meteoric results.

#lornasimpson
#blackart
#themetmuseum

Lorna Simpson: Painting as a Weapon of Freedom

Howardena Pindell Is Still Breaking Down Barriers for Black Artists “All the whiteness was getting on my nerves.”

#blackart
#blacksky

A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?

A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
#academia
#censorship

Live Updates: Trump to Send National Guard to L.A. to Quell Immigration Protests

#citizenprotest
#nationalguard
#Trump
#policestate

Federal agents conduct immigration raids across LA. Protesters and city officials respond Immigration and Customs Enforcement said about 44 people were arrested in the raids.

Wonder what ICE’s budget is?

The Major Supreme Court Decisions in 2025 In a term that was increasingly overshadowed by emergency requests related to President Trump’s swift executive actions, justices heard arguments on transgender rights, the role of religion in public ...

#supremecourt

Evil. Danger. Danger.

After Trump Takeover, Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Fall Sharply

Kennedy Center Patrons not dancing to his music.
#Tump
#KennedyCenter
#Arts