Robert Bettmann
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Moving over from Twitter (finally.) Founder arts non-profit Day Eight. Father and husband. “They do these things when the tree is green what will they do when it is dry?”
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Yes, we spend as much as double as comparable economies with the same or worse outcomes, not to mention the stress and bankruptcies which don’t happen in almost any case where universal/etc coverage exists. www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Yes, we spend as much as double as comparable economies with the same or worse outcomes, not to mention the stress and bankruptcies which don’t happen in almost any case where universal/etc coverage exists. www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
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This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’ capitalandmain.com/this-l-a-mus... - @jamuseum.bsky.social #DEI #noscrubs
This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’
The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’ capitalandmain.com/this-l-a-mus... - @jamuseum.bsky.social #DEI #noscrubs
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FIFA decided to have a ceremonial match commemorating Pride Month during the World Cup and it ended up being scheduled for Egypt and Iran. Both countries have complained, with Egypt saying it “categorically reject[s] any activities related to supporting homosexuality during the match.”
Egypt and Iran complain about planned World Cup 'Pride' match in Seattle
Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over the scheduling of a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that’s expected to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
FIFA decided to have a ceremonial match commemorating Pride Month during the World Cup and it ended up being scheduled for Egypt and Iran. Both countries have complained, with Egypt saying it “categorically reject[s] any activities related to supporting homosexuality during the match.”
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It’s a Christmas miracle! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7754...
Anita Bonds Will Not Seek Re-election, Adding To The Already-Chaotic 2026 Campaign Season
By 2027, D.C. will have a new mayor and could get as many as six new councilmembers.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It’s a Christmas miracle! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7754...
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A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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December 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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December 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Refreshingly clear language from the NYT
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Refreshingly clear language from the NYT
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Pop star Sabrina Carpenter tells White House to stop using her music reut.rs/446rFX3
Pop star Sabrina Carpenter tells White House to stop using her music
U.S. pop star Sabrina Carpenter on Tuesday demanded that the White House stop using her music after the Trump administration featured one of her songs on a social media video showing ICE agents apprehending people.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Pop star Sabrina Carpenter tells White House to stop using her music reut.rs/446rFX3
Good piece from Michelle Goldberg @nytimes.com insisting of the important contexts of a journalists affair with RFK during the campaign, and her “work” for him
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Opinion | A Serious Journalism Scandal Hiding Inside a Frivolous Sexual One
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December 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Good piece from Michelle Goldberg @nytimes.com insisting of the important contexts of a journalists affair with RFK during the campaign, and her “work” for him
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
RIP Tom Stoppard www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
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November 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that making Jews uncomfortable is a goal. www.cbsnews.com/news/fdny-co...
FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker explains "emotional decision" to leave role over Mamdani's mayoral win
FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker speaks for the first time in an exclusive interview with "CBS Mornings" about his decision to resign after Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win in New York City.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that making Jews uncomfortable is a goal. www.cbsnews.com/news/fdny-co...
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At last, we know Bowser's 2026 plans: but what about Anita Bonds? Sources tell me she's discussed retiring/endorsing aide Kevin Chavous to replace her.
When I talked to her last night, she said she's running...but also that she's 50-50. It's confusing! Here's what I know:
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
When I talked to her last night, she said she's running...but also that she's 50-50. It's confusing! Here's what I know:
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
At last, we know Bowser's 2026 plans: but what about Anita Bonds? Sources tell me she's discussed retiring/endorsing aide Kevin Chavous to replace her.
When I talked to her last night, she said she's running...but also that she's 50-50. It's confusing! Here's what I know:
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
When I talked to her last night, she said she's running...but also that she's 50-50. It's confusing! Here's what I know:
wamu.org/story/25/11/...
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
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November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
Obviously
In poll of Hispanic adults, 68% say the situation for Hispanics in this country has worsened in the past year. www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Obviously
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Tegna shares fall 5% after Trump criticizes lifting local TV ownership cap reut.rs/3LZAiwj
Tegna shares fall 5% after Trump criticizes lifting local TV ownership cap
Shares in Tegna fell 5.5% on Monday after President Donald Trump criticized a proposal to lift the current cap on local television station ownership, which is necessary for the company to be acquired by Nexstar Media.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word "cameo" for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
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November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word "cameo" for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black — has died at age 111, the mayor said. She told Congress in 2021 that she lived through the massacre 'every day' reut.rs/4pt18LJ
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black — has died at age 111, the mayor said. She told Congress in 2021 that she lived through the massacre 'every day' reut.rs/4pt18LJ
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This is more of the same. We should reject debates that focus on the "quality" of someone's gender performance. Who is or isn't a man has nothing to do with going to war with Venezuela or Uganda.
Civil society shouldn't be whittled into a pageant for tough guys.
Civil society shouldn't be whittled into a pageant for tough guys.
Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is more of the same. We should reject debates that focus on the "quality" of someone's gender performance. Who is or isn't a man has nothing to do with going to war with Venezuela or Uganda.
Civil society shouldn't be whittled into a pageant for tough guys.
Civil society shouldn't be whittled into a pageant for tough guys.