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Matt Stromberg

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 4d

Pepperdine shuts down show after artists withdraw to protest censorship, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1048434/pepp...

California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering "Political" Art

Pepperdine University abruptly closed the show as at least a dozen artists asked to withdraw in protest of what they called an act of censorship.

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 4d

Pepperdine shuts down show after artists withdraw to protest censorship, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1048434/pepp...

California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering "Political" Art

Pepperdine University abruptly closed the show as at least a dozen artists asked to withdraw in protest of what they called an act of censorship.

hyperallergic.com

Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 6d

wait, Barry White is taking over cBS?! let's go!

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 6d

Just a nit pick, journalists don't "do the fucking news," they are supposed to gather, verify and report "the fucking news."

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 6d

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1046144/10-a...

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles, October 2025

Radical nun Corita Kent’s photos, Ofelia Esparza’s transformative Día de los Muertos altars, Cameron Harvey’s biomorphic abstraction, Suchitra Mattai’s syncretic storytelling, and more.

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 10d

For @hyperallergic.com, I spoke with 5 artists included in this year's Made in LA biennial at the Hammer (opening this weekend!) who explore history, narrative, and time in their work. hyperallergic.com/1046894/five...

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial

Ahead of the opening at the Hammer Museum, Hyperallergic spoke to participants whose practices embrace the show’s threads of history and dissonance.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 11d

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1045916/uc-i...

UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art

The merger will combine both institutions’ holdings to establish a collection of over 9,000 artworks.

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 22d

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️

🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST.

🗣️IT IS EUGENICS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 22d

+follow $ trail on Tylenol claims, too! Look at who authored latest "study" this admin will trot out as their "evidence"! Look at that author's COI! Note that 2024 JAMA study found no link& attributed prev, v weak findings to confounding! Ask a science journalist!

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Pregnancy pain relief blamed, again | Autistic DJ makes Coldplay interesting

Is exposure to acetaminophen in utero linked to being autistic? How many autistic people care about this question?

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 24d

Superchief fights to survive through crowdfunding / membership via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1043395/supe...

Superchief, Beloved LA Arts Hub, Fights to Stay Open

A longtime cornerstone of underground art and photography is thinking outside the white cube to stay afloat amid financial challenges.

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · 26d

LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model , via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1042271/la-l...

LA Louver to Close Gallery Space and Shift Into Private Model

The Los Angeles gallery’s vast archive will be donated to the Huntington library.

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29d

If you aren’t already familiar with Horst Wessel, this is a good time to learn how people are turned into martyrs by authoritarian regimes for propaganda purposes.

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Horst Wessel - Wikipedia

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Sep 11

Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE - @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1040791/jorg...

Street Vendor Beloved by LA Art World Abducted by ICE

Advocates are rallying support for Jorge Cruz, a green card holder who sells frutas, elotes, and more at venues like Frieze LA and the Hammer Museum.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 11

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 11

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of US political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest reut.rs/41PWH4l

Nation on edge: Experts warn of “vicious spiral" in political violence after Kirk killing

The assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk marks a watershed moment in a surge of U.S. political violence, one that some experts fear will inflame an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest.

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Sep 8

LA’s Holocaust Museum Walks Back “Never Again” Statement, Sparking Outcry, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1040088/los-...

LA’s Holocaust Museum Walks Back “Never Again” Statement, Sparking Outcry

The museum posted and then deleted a vaguely worded statement that many interpreted as a denunciation of Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 6

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.

In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Sep 6

Yah totally it’s like “mom, dad please stop fighting!”

Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ha no this is great thank you. I’ve been watching a lot of “commentary” about it all and I still can’t tell if it’s bigger than watergate or like no big deal.

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Sep 6

can someone please explain this whole taylor lorenz / dark money thing to me like I'm 6

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Cory Brown @localmustard.bsky.social · Sep 5

Seen out and about in Chicago.

A poster with an image of a woman in a black balaclava holding a tire tool with the text “The government is abducting your neighbours are you going to let them?”

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

just got a pr email to attend a "lobby reveal" so that's a thing now i guess.

Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Sep 4

15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall: Radical Chicano printmaking, Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston, the LA and California biennials, American Artist on Octavia E. Butler, and more. via @hyperallergic.com
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15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall

Radical Chicano printmaking, Trenton Doyle Hancock confronts Philip Guston, the LA and California biennials, American Artist on Octavia E. Butler, and more.

hyperallergic.com

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · Sep 4

Pretty wild that Bari Weiss made a name for herself by claiming she's silenced for her beliefs and then just quit and then started a media company and is going to be getting hundreds of millions of dollars to merge with and control CBS.

If that's censorship I'll take some please

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Sep 2

Decades After “Heartbreaking” Thefts, Santa Ana Pueblo Recovers Stolen Artifacts, via @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1037100/deca...

Decades After “Heartbreaking” Thefts, Santa Ana Pueblo Recovers Stolen Artifacts

The repatriation effort is significant not just for the amount of time that has elapsed, but also because it is completely organized and funded by the Pueblo itself.

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Matt Stromberg @mattstromberg.bsky.social · Aug 28

Took my kids to see #kpopdemonhunters at the Baldwin Crenshaw mall last week and to see a multiracial group of kids singing and bopping along to a Korean-themed film about overcoming family trauma in a south central theater, I dunno, maybe the kids will be all right.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · Aug 25

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost.
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(ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

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