Charles McNulty
@charlesmcnulty.bsky.social
LA Times theater critic, CalArts theater faculty, Village Voice alum.
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Trump is clearly not well.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
January 10, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Trump is clearly not well.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
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Is there a single day—1 single day—when RFK Jr does NOT do something to dismantle public health?
This one is exceptionally grim—IMHO, the USPSTF is world-leading
As Dr Caroll says, if you ever got a free mammogram, colonoscopy, or HIV test, you can thank the USPSTF
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
This one is exceptionally grim—IMHO, the USPSTF is world-leading
As Dr Caroll says, if you ever got a free mammogram, colonoscopy, or HIV test, you can thank the USPSTF
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
Kennedy Weakens U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Is there a single day—1 single day—when RFK Jr does NOT do something to dismantle public health?
This one is exceptionally grim—IMHO, the USPSTF is world-leading
As Dr Caroll says, if you ever got a free mammogram, colonoscopy, or HIV test, you can thank the USPSTF
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
This one is exceptionally grim—IMHO, the USPSTF is world-leading
As Dr Caroll says, if you ever got a free mammogram, colonoscopy, or HIV test, you can thank the USPSTF
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
1st review of what is so far a very bad year. (the show's not as bad as the year.)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Review: ‘The Notebook: The Musical’ isn’t transcendent, but it locates some wisdom in its transformation to the stage
The musical adaptation of "The Notebook," Nicholas Sparks' romantic novel that was turned into a 2004 film starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, undergoes some transformation at the Hollywood Pant...
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January 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
1st review of what is so far a very bad year. (the show's not as bad as the year.)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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German president says US is destroying world order reut.rs/4qMwPQX
German president says US is destroying world order
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has strongly criticised the U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump and urged the world not to let the world order disintegrate into a "den of robbers" where the unscrupulous take what they want.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM
German president says US is destroying world order reut.rs/4qMwPQX
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BREAKING: Indivisible and a broad coalition of groups across the country are calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
BREAKING: Indivisible and a broad coalition of groups across the country are calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.
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I'm monitoring first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement. I'll keep you updated, but Trump's deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence — and must end.
January 9, 2026 at 12:23 AM
I'm monitoring first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement. I'll keep you updated, but Trump's deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence — and must end.
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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GET TO KNOW SOME OF THE INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND ORGANIZATIONS WE JUST WITHDREW FROM:
European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- Prepares NATO members for threats that destabilize democratic institutions, like disinformation, coercive diplomacy or economic influence.
European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- Prepares NATO members for threats that destabilize democratic institutions, like disinformation, coercive diplomacy or economic influence.
January 8, 2026 at 2:10 AM
GET TO KNOW SOME OF THE INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND ORGANIZATIONS WE JUST WITHDREW FROM:
European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- Prepares NATO members for threats that destabilize democratic institutions, like disinformation, coercive diplomacy or economic influence.
European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
- Prepares NATO members for threats that destabilize democratic institutions, like disinformation, coercive diplomacy or economic influence.
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A year ago, Kenneth Turan's collection of some 4,000 books, acquired one by one over decades, turned to smoke and ash in the Palisades fire.
The question, Turan writes, was “whether it made sense, in my late 70s, to begin collecting all over again”:
The question, Turan writes, was “whether it made sense, in my late 70s, to begin collecting all over again”:
I Lost My Library in a Fire
The question before me was whether to begin collecting all over again.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:45 AM
A year ago, Kenneth Turan's collection of some 4,000 books, acquired one by one over decades, turned to smoke and ash in the Palisades fire.
The question, Turan writes, was “whether it made sense, in my late 70s, to begin collecting all over again”:
The question, Turan writes, was “whether it made sense, in my late 70s, to begin collecting all over again”:
This report is devastating. National action is needed now.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
January 8, 2026 at 1:20 AM
This report is devastating. National action is needed now.
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Another extraordinary event in our history: militarizing our own streets and shooting our own civilians. The video footage is incredibly damning, and consistent with deliberate killing. I hope justice prevails and the officer who shot her and his whole chain of command is brought to justice.
An ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the latest in a series of shootings by federal agents during immigration enforcement operations. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people.
Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September
All those targeted in the shootings were fired on while in their vehicles.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Another extraordinary event in our history: militarizing our own streets and shooting our own civilians. The video footage is incredibly damning, and consistent with deliberate killing. I hope justice prevails and the officer who shot her and his whole chain of command is brought to justice.
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please help my friend Tina Zimmer pay for her ovarian cancer treatment.
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Donate to Support Tina Zimmer's Fight Against Ovarian Cancer, organized by Karla Legaspy
Support for Tina Zimmer: Artist, Photographer, Director, and Beloved … Karla Legaspy needs your support for Support Tina Zimmer's Fight Against Ovarian Cancer
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January 7, 2026 at 9:44 PM
please help my friend Tina Zimmer pay for her ovarian cancer treatment.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ti...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-ti...
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I thought I had almost lost my ability to be shocked by this administration. But the new official White House website about January 6, filled with nothing but proven lies and Trump propaganda, is just unbelievable.
January 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I thought I had almost lost my ability to be shocked by this administration. But the new official White House website about January 6, filled with nothing but proven lies and Trump propaganda, is just unbelievable.
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The Trump administration’s lawless attack on Senator Mark Kelly is part of a much broader project to turn the US military into a partisan militia and silence veterans who might speak out against that by threatening their pensions www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 2:06 PM
The Trump administration’s lawless attack on Senator Mark Kelly is part of a much broader project to turn the US military into a partisan militia and silence veterans who might speak out against that by threatening their pensions www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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There’s is no shortage of people to blame for this particular moment in American history
January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
There’s is no shortage of people to blame for this particular moment in American history
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Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.
January 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.
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Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70
Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70
The internationally acclaimed film-maker was renowned for beautifully shot cinematic epics
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Béla Tarr, Hungarian director of Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, dies aged 70
An administration that makes all decisions on a divide-and-conquer zealotry and none on knowledge.
Breaking: The US excluded four childhood shots from the childhood vaccine schedule, a key policy win for RFK Jr. and "MAHA."
RFK Jr. notches win as US revises childhood vaccine schedule
President Trump called in December for reducing the number of vaccines in children's schedules. CDC acted on Monday.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
An administration that makes all decisions on a divide-and-conquer zealotry and none on knowledge.
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A new study found that the Supreme Court has become deeply polarized in cases pitting the rich against the poor, with Republican appointees far more likely than Democratic ones to side with the wealthy.
Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say
A new study found that the court’s Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70 percent of the time in 2022, up from 45 percent in 1953.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
A new study found that the Supreme Court has become deeply polarized in cases pitting the rich against the poor, with Republican appointees far more likely than Democratic ones to side with the wealthy.
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“The Secret Agent” has the best faces I’ve seen in a movie in a long time. Fairly certain that not one has seen a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon.
Wonderful unforeseen ending, too.
Wonderful unforeseen ending, too.
January 5, 2026 at 4:08 AM
“The Secret Agent” has the best faces I’ve seen in a movie in a long time. Fairly certain that not one has seen a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon.
Wonderful unforeseen ending, too.
Wonderful unforeseen ending, too.
Trump is obsessed with the Nobel because he knows that history is one battle he’s not going to win.
January 5, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Trump is obsessed with the Nobel because he knows that history is one battle he’s not going to win.
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And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 AM
And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations
“The Secret Agent” has the best faces I’ve seen in a movie in a long time. Fairly certain that not one has seen a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon.
Wonderful unforeseen ending, too.
Wonderful unforeseen ending, too.
January 5, 2026 at 4:08 AM
“The Secret Agent” has the best faces I’ve seen in a movie in a long time. Fairly certain that not one has seen a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon.
Wonderful unforeseen ending, too.
Wonderful unforeseen ending, too.