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Legitimate news organizations should withdraw from the White House press pool over the @apnews.com ban. They are not getting any truth sitting in those chairs anyway. Nothing to be gained and everything to be lost.

Thank you @actualbenfolds.bsky.social

1939 Auden: Law, say the gardeners, is the sun

Okay so Kamala Harris is President, and she believes that billionaire businesswoman Oprah Winfrey is just the person to lower the US budget deficit. First stop Pentagon, which has NEVER passed an audit. This plane, those drones, this base, that missile shield-don’t need ‘em. #maga ok with that?

ABC: “federal judge blocked Trump administration from orchestrating its plan to place 2,200 employees of USAID on leave at midnight… also ordered reinstatement of 500 workers and ordered no USAID employees should be evacuated from their host countries…”

In 1849 writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was arrested for being part of an intellectual circle that criticized the government. He was sentenced to death, reprieved at literally the last moment, and served four years in a Siberian prison camp then six years of compulsive military service. Anywho…

Just like Teddy Roosevelt said: “Speak loudly and carry a small stick.”

This is a pants on fire emergency. Even if you don’t think it will make a difference, please CALL the offices of your legislators and remind them of their role in the system of checks and balances. They keep track of who is paying attention. We must act. #citizensact

Some folks have forgotten their @schoolhouserock.bsky.social No More Kings. #ffs

Thanks @amctheatreshold.bsky.social for having Anora, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and Hard Truths playing in my town! I often have to drive 45 minutes to see smaller Oscar contenders. #goingtothemovies #oscars

Started the reading year strong with Adam Ross’ “Playworld,” instantly timeless, funny, moving and so quintessentially New York.