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Frank Moher
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Journalist, playwright, sometime actor. Prairie boy living on an island. #journalism #theatre #writing
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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
The Debate Over Colorblind Casting Isn’t Settled After All
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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...
‘I need to do everything now’: the Ukrainian combat medic-turned playwright
Since Alina Sarnatska’s first play premiered a year ago, she has documented wartime Ukraine with unflinching frankness
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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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...
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
2. NYC

#NoKings 👑
October 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
It’s going to take ages to pay all these people
Massive crowd in DC Massive crowd in Times Square
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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indivisible.org
MAGA 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
October 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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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
The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
frankmoher.bsky.social
Weiss watch.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Oct 13
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“In solidarity with Chicago educators navigating these horrors instead of focusing on learning.”

Today in the life of a Chicago teacher.
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
October 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
Very Big in Sheboygan | A review of “John Candy” by Paul Myers | Literary Review of Canada
Amy Spurway reviews “John Candy: A Life in Comedy” by Paul Myers. As far as she’s concerned, the book is as sentimental and heartwarming as its subject.
reviewcanada.ca
October 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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"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...
New Nanaimo play examines illness, disability and health care
Bonnie Catterson's 'Pivot' coming to the OV Arts Centre starting Oct. 10
www.nanaimobulletin.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Theatre cleanse: "When you’ve stood beside someone in court, you understand the theatre of it ....But you also see where justice fractures. Theatre lets me interrogate those fractures in ways the law never can.”
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
#theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky
Suzie Miller on her Prima Facie follow-up Inter Alia: ‘Boys are looking for male mentors. Instead they get the internet and porn’
Starring Rosamund Pike as a judge whose son is accused of sexual assault, a filmed version of the hit play lands in UK and Australian cinemas this month
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Theatre cleanse (literally): "Attendees old and young stripped down to swimsuits and navy robes to see Dutchman, a play set in a sweltering subway car....It’s the second time the production has been staged at the bathhouse." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/s...
#theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky
Half Naked and Sweating With Strangers, for Art
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September 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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aclu.org
The Trump administration can't be allowed to punish arts organizations that uplift trans and queer experiences.

We celebrate this win, not just for our clients but for all of our First Amendment rights.
Court sides with ACLU and queer performers over federal trans funding restrictions
As in many authoritarian campaigns, art has been recognized as a vital form of resistance — but bad actors have sought to curtail it accordingly.
www.advocate.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Dear Executives,

Please know the American people are going to turn your business upside down as soon as you bend the knee to this fascist regime.

See what happened to Target? 40% loss in value and CEO fired.

We’re doing that to Disney/ABC now, and you’ll be next 🙂.

Sincerely,
Your Customers
September 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Theatre cleanse: "Yes, the whole thing’s make-believe, but at least the artifice is out in the open. And everything else is as real as it gets, which is exactly what many of us are after." www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#theatre #theater #theaterBSKY #theatresky
The Guide #208: How theatre is holding its own in the age of artificial intelligence
In this week’s newsletter: Live performances offering authentic human connection are drawing crowds to the stage, as AI-driven drivel worms its way into other creative industries
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The moral squalor of Trump has brought us back to the basics — especially understanding the importance of checks and balances and separation of powers.

Both the Republican-controlled Congress and conservative Supreme Court Seem hellbent on abdicating their duties to a tyrant.
September 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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jacobsilverman.com
My next book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, comes out in one month from Bloomsbury. It's about the rise of the tech right, crypto corruption, the 2024 election, and Silicon Valley complicity in MAGA authoritarianism.
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Gilded Rage | Linktree
A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.
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September 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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esqueer.net
The Wall Street Journal just published the photo of the birthday letter from Trump to Epstein.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
A stylized letter in the shape of a woman’s torso with dialogue printed inside. The text is a back-and-forth exchange labeled “Voice Over,” “Donald,” and “Jeffrey,” discussing life, enigmas, and friendship. At the bottom, it ends with “A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.” Signed “Donald J. Trump” with his signature. A caption below reads: “A photo of the letter, which has been turned over to Congress by the Epstein estate.”
September 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Canadian here. I foresaw the mass ICE detentions, as did many others. Trump and Miller said they'd do it. But I thought they'd happen quietly under the surface of daily American life. And I'm sorry to say I thought most Americans would quietly acquiesce. 1/4
#America #UnitedStates #ICE #resist
September 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews. The crews were among the 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
#resist
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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More of what Trump is killing in America: Stores. Churches. Orchards. Construction. Schools. It's true: Everything Trump touches dies. www.cnn.com/2025/08/24/u...
‘It’s like one day everyone left’: How immigration crackdowns are starting to reshape America | CNN
Across the country, more immigrants are slipping into the shadows. There can be unexpected ripple effects.
www.cnn.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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The dismantling of USAID has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM