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He's saying renovations are needed because the facility is unsafe. But the money for renovations isn't available unless his name goes on the building. Ergo, if his name doesn't go on the building and, as a result, it's not renovated, then it must be demolished for public-safety reasons.
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d
Trump says the Kennedy Center won’t be renovated unless he gets his name on it.
September 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
It's a small world after all!!
September 15, 2026 at 12:19 AM
scootrdud.bsky.social
Where’s Mitch?
September 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran.

Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in … What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me. And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability. I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation. When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic: لا شكر على واجب "La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty. That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human. Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
September 14, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d
NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin

Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
www.propublica.org
September 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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“60 Minutes” — once a fearless national treasure — has been largely gutted. Over a year ago, I appeared on “60 Minutes” because I trusted the leaders of CBS to report the news with honesty and bravery.

That will be my last appearance on the show. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
My open letter to David Ellison
You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...
www.democracydocket.com
September 14, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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Christian Mike Johnson defends his guy's comments describing women as "cum trophies." bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"
September 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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atrupar.com
Q: On the checks, we have $40t in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote?

T: I'm doing it as a reward for having to put up w/Biden

Q: You also offered tariff refunds--

TRUMP: Not you

Q: And that didn't happen

T: You're the worst
September 11, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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journalstar.com
Gov. Jim Pillen has embraced Trump’s immigration crackdown. For years, undocumented immigrants worked at farms owned by his family business.
Gov. Pillen backs ICE crackdown. His company employs undocumented workers.
Gov. Jim Pillen has embraced Trump’s immigration crackdown. For years, undocumented immigrants worked at farms owned by his family business.
journalstar.com
September 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised:
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
No checks have been issued
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d
Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."
September 10, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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September 9, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. But for more than a decade, his hog business has employed undocumented laborers, The New York Times and The Flatwater Free Press found.
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September 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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September 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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5 months after @atrupar.com posted the video below. bsky.app/profile/gasb... h/t @kairyssdal.bsky.social
Screenshot of post from Patrick De Haan: "BREAKING: according to GasBuddy data, the live U.S. national average price of diesel has set a new record: $5.820/gal, surpassing the previous daily $5.819/gal all-time high that occurred June 17, 2022. (9/3/26 3:25pm ET)"
September 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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@americanair.bsky.social this is so embarrassing for you

The American Airlines CEO asks for Trump's help with the weather
September 2, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Mehdi Hasan to CBS, CBS News and Bari Weiss - "Do you think it's super offensive and disgusting and Islamophobic to do a tweet about the potential first ever Muslim Democratic senator which begins by referencing 9/11?"
August 31, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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NO media
1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media

Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended

Wa Post buried it

A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it

Repost the march they buried
August 30, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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DeSantis stole $10M from poor children and funneled it into republican political campaigns. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
www.cbsnews.com
August 27, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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JUST IN: Two people have died from measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s first measles deaths in 35 years and the first reported in the U.S. this year.

More than 2,700 measles cases have been reported in the U.S. this year, the highest in 35 years.
August 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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It was Natalie Harp who posted the meme of the Obamas as apes. She's also responsible for Trump as Jesus, Trump as the Pope, Trump as Elvis, and a meme of fighter pilots dropping feces on "No Kings" protesters.

No sympathy for this deranged sycophant. Her mind may be just as warped as Trump's.
August 24, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
August 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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When the order came to abandon ship, Doris Miller didn't.
He stayed and pulled men out of burning water.
He was 24 when he was killed.
www.JackHopkinsNow.com
August 22, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Deleted tweets show Natalie Harp’s zealous support for Trump on January 6 — CNN
August 22, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she flooded her Twitter feed with posts demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021.

Deleted tweets show Natalie Harp’s zealous support of Trump on January 6

www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/p...
Deleted tweets show now-Trump aide Natalie Harp’s zealous support on Jan. 6 | CNN Politics
Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she posted more than 150 tweets demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021.
www.cnn.com
August 22, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump's face is drooping dramatically and check out his discolored right hand
August 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM