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April 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is of course terrible news, but it's heartening that one of his first acts was to announce a Joe Orton retrospective.
Breaking news: The Kennedy Center board of trustees voted Wednesday afternoon to install President Trump as chairman of the board, cementing the plan Trump announced Friday to overhaul the storied arts institution with him at its helm.
New Kennedy Center board elects Trump as chair. Rutter departs as president.
President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. President Deborah Rutter told staff she was departing the institution.
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February 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Oh no, Trump has nominated an anglerfish from Dark Bramble to head NOAA!

(Context: I have been playing Outer Wilds for several months and can only view world events through that lens.)
February 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The acting nominations announced this morning for the 2024 Academy Awards represent the first cohort where none of the nominees were born before 1950. (In fact the only nominee born before 1960 is Isabella Rossellini.)

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97th Academy Awards - Wikipedia
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January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM