Tonight's program on #WetaClassical's #ChoralShowcase is called Silence and Meditation. Featured works: Silence Unaccompanied (last songs) by Charles Ives, Sacred Songs and Meditations by James Primosch, and Rothko Chapel by Morton Feldman. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

This week's MD-08 Local Hero is artistic visionary Busy Graham. Thank you, Busy, for your decades of service making the arts more accessible to everyone in our community. Check out her inspiring thoughts.

Local Hero Video Series: Week 317 Feat. Busy Graham

YouTube video by Rep. Jamie Raskin

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Coming up on WETA Classical's Choral Showcase: Folksong Symphony by Roy Harris, Old American Songs by Aaron Copland, and Heavenly Home: Three American Songs, arranged by Shawn Kirchner. Songs about angels, boatmen, and a cat! 🐈‍⬛ Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

Last year, the Trump Administration delayed a $10 million grant meant for thinning out ~4,000 acres of dense, dry areas in the Superior National Forest. Most of the work never started. Now, it’s on fire. This is the cost of Elon Musk and the actions of DOGE. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

‘We were shovel ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze

Fire crews now have to thin out thousands of acres of dense, dry forest as wildfires burn.

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I talked to On the Media’s @micahloewinger.bsky.social and their amazing producer Molly Schwartz Rosen, about my ICE flight reporting, third-country removals, and the professional pickle I am in. Starts at 34:00: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC Studios

This week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...

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NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler

A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

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As a person with father issues of my own, it’s terrifying how much that relationship has an effect on international politics in multiple countries. It crosses parties and ideologies. Obama wrote a whole book about his. Bush invaded Iraq over his. Get therapy, people.

There's an alternative universe where you're not only penalized for fraud (states don't need incentives to find it; they're picking up a lot of the bill) but penalized for denying benefits to eligible recipients.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

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To be clearer on this, Trump is faring worse than Bush did during peak unpopularity of Iraq War and worse than Nixon at height of Watergate.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump cratering in latest national polls, per new CNN analysis: *Average overall approval 22 points underwater, worse than Obama/Bush in 2nd terms *Among independents he's minus 45, worse than Nixon On the pod, @creynoldsnc.bsky.social on how Dems must capitalize: newrepublic.com/article/2132...

Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features Nkeiru Okoye's When the Caged Bird Sings, a work centering on love, support, and resilience within the African American community. Soloists include Christie Dashiell and Jubilant Sykes. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

When the Caged Bird Sings

From Nkeiru Okoye, music of hope, possibility, and endurance: When the Caged Bird Sings.

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Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is called “The Cost of Freedom” and features Letters from Gettysburg by Avner Dorman, songs of the Civil War, Figure Humaine by Francis Poulenc, and The Road Home by Stephen Paulus. Tune in/stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #America250

The theme of tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is America Sings: Songs and Hymns for Independence Day, and the composers/lyricists include Katharine Lee Bates, the Beach Boys, Stephen Foster, and Woody Guthrie. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

If you say that you believe that all people are created equal and that the Creator endowed us all with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, you cannot then treat immigrants as less than equal and entitled to no rights at all. #America250

Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical continues the America 250: A Classical Portrait theme by teaming American composers with American poets—New England poets, to be precise. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #ChoralMusic #America250 #AmericanComposers #AmericanPoets

The theme of tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is American Water Music. Featured works include "Shenandoah," And God Created Great Whales 🐳 by Alan Hovhaness, and Walden Pond by Dominick Argento. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #America250

Coming up on @WETAClassical’s Opera Matinee this Juneteenth weekend: Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane, the earliest known surviving opera by a Black American composer. Tune in or stream today at 1 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

Morgiane

The oldest surviving opera by a Black American, Morgiane is a tragedy and comedy with characters and ideas from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a story of love, family and personal discovery. A record...

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Freedom: Music for Juneteenth is the theme of tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical. Featured works include Credo by Margaret Bonds and Song of Hope by Florence Price. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #Juneteenth #America250AClassicalPortrait #WomenComposers

Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself

I wish Wendy Wasserstein were here to accept the challenge!

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lesley Manville takes a moment to acknowledge her fellow nominees while accepting the Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Play: "Would somebody like to write a play for five women? We are quite bankable, you know." #LesleyManville #TonyAwards

Lesley Manville takes a moment to acknowledge her fellow nominees while accepting the Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Play: "Would somebody like to write a play for five women? We are quite bankable, you know." #LesleyManville #TonyAwards

Tonight #WETAClassical continues its America 250: A Classical Portrait series with the Grand Mass in E-flat Major, composed by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach when she was just 19. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/... #ChoralShowcase #AmyBeach #America250 #WomenComposers

Tonight on #WETAClassical's #ChoralShowcase: works that incorporate the poetry of Walt Whitman. The compositions (by Muhly, Delius, Bates, and Vaughan Williams) come from both sides of the Atlantic and creative lives that span three (!) centuries. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. weta.org/fm/features/...

#DOJ is deleting the record of an attack we saw unfold in real time on #January6, when a vice president, lawmakers, staff, and visitors ran for their lives, and the #CapitolPolice put their own lives on the line to defend not only the #Capitol but the nation. #America250 www.npr.org/2026/05/26/n...

Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops

The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Today is the last day to submit public comments. This is a critical situation at the National Library of Medicine. Medical historians, let's make our voices heard! 🗃️

American Historical Association@historians.org · 3mo ago

Take action by May 26. The NIH is accepting public comments on its FY 2027–31 Strategic Plan. Tell the NIH to support the National Library of Medicine through investment in research infrastructure, digitization and preservation, and stewardship of medical history. Submit comments:

Top 20 Quotes from #Pope Leo XIV's 1st Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas to Inspire and Help You Build the Civilization of Love! www.catholicnewsworld.com/2026/05/top-...

Top 20 Quotes from Pope Leo XIV's 1st Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas to Inspire and Help You Build the Civilization of Love!

Catholic Church, Catholic News World, Vatican News, Pope Leo XIV, Breaking News, Pope News, Catholic Headlines, News, News today,

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In the wake of the administration's destruction of #USAID, I had missed Meghan Hussey Lim's story and witness. It is powerful. And we are all called upon not to avert our eyes but to bear witness and to work for the common good.

Busted Halo@busted-halo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Losing a job – especially one’s dream job – is hard. In this Voices From the Back Pew essay, Meghan Hussey Lim shares her experience losing her job at USAID and how praying public Rosaries gave her courage: buff.ly/pCZ69Hq

Losing a job – especially one’s dream job – is hard. In this Voices From the Back Pew essay, Meghan Hussey Lim shares her experience losing her job at USAID and how praying public Rosaries gave her courage: buff.ly/pCZ69Hq

The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.” The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/dD7xx4n

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Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features #requiems by three living U.S.-born composers: Requiem of Light by Patti Drennan, Requiem in the Light by Mark Buller, and Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. #America250 #EternalLight weta.org/fm/features/...