Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (1853-1890), The White Cottage Among the Olive Trees, 1889, oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, private collection

"Because of a patchwork, highly financialized retirement system, union pension dollars have been implicated in almost every manner of attack against the working class." Excellent piece by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social. inthesetimes.com/article/fina...

Here is a terrific pack of resisters by the incomparable @hopeful66.bsky.social Check it out, follow and share Thank you for the inclusion, I appreciate you 💙🫶 go.bsky.app/VhToynX

But seriously, what's up with Frank Grillo always arresting superheroes right before the 3rd act? #Peacemaker #Superman #CaptainAmerica

True Story...

Revisionist history in under five days.

Where have we seen this before?

As long as I am a member of the United States Congress, I will NOT fund authoritarianism. I will NOT support Fascism. And I will NOT vote for a continuing resolution that steals from American families.

Most people start with performance Then they hope connection follows Autistic folx often start with honesty Then get punished for it So we learn to perform too Not by choice - but for survival But here’s the catch - honesty is connection Honesty is true safety Performance just delays it

As today is International Translation Day, I thought I'd share this piece I wrote about one of my favourite writers, Natalia Ginzburg, a few years back. As @alexanderchee.bsky.social says in it: “How do we write about evil, especially when everything feels so wretched?” A writer that speaks to now:

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Democratic Governors Can Arrest ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For? open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

He’s going to use the military, under the guise of “crime” in cities to bring chaos to provoke people into exactly what he’s claiming there is, when there isn’t “crime.” Fox News will gladly televise it to back him up, & the NY Times will run an “opinion” piece on how crime is out of control.

Despicable humans

Cutting grass sucks, but sometimes you look up and Damn.

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the awesomely awesome Sian Rees about her book “The Floating Brothel, which tells the story of the Lady Julian, the all female convict ship that transported women to Australia in the 18th century.

Rufous-tailed Jacamar at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature

Rain, Midland Hotel, Manchester, painting by Paul Lloyd. #NorthernArt

No one is picking up the phone in the press office @fbi. Its recorded message does not allow a reporter to leave a voicemail request. Repeated email requests go unanswered. Is this a glitch or deliberate policy—to just ignore inquiries?

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

Dr. Seuss, 1941. library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb...

Walking down a ramp, drinking a glass of water with one hand or climbing up an escalator should also be considered…

Big beams going up in Maine right now likely visible from most of New England. Take a peek north and pull out a phone camera if nothing is visible with the naked eye. go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038/NGC 4039 or Caldwell 60/Caldwell 61) are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. #astronomy #astrophotography #telescope #universe #sky #deepsky #video #animation #3D #galaxy #stars

Neguse: "I would challenge anyone to make sense of the rantings and ravings you just heard from the president. These are not serious people tweeting out offensive videos last night on Truth Social ... I think it's important for all of us to acknowledge what we see with our own eyes"

I WILL NOT LET THIS GO. THIS MAN IS A PEDOPHILE RACIST RAPIST! RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!

The bitter irony behind Trump's vengeance-fueled Comey indictment - Alternet.org share.google/YwVaWiOrK3S0...

HOLY CRAP. Do wormholes exist? Researchers may have detected wormholes from another universe - Knewz share.google/gF63I8D4HoPU...

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE BIRTHRATE IS IN THEUS IS IN THE TOILET. FULCK RELIGION. FULCK JUNK SCIENCE USED BY RELIGION TO JUSTIFY THIS. HEART MUSCLE CELLS CONTRACT IN A PETRI DISH, IDIOTS. Hundreds of US women charged with pregnancy-related crimes since fall of Roe | Roe share.google/KgoVSVltlFtr...

A bit of fun painting my favorite subject tonight.

I saw a video of Don Lemmon saying that Hakeem Jeffries isn’t endorsing Mamdani because Mamdani didn’t endorse him in his reelection campaign. If that is true, that’s just infantile bullshit. Mamdani was a local politician with no national voice. He was NOT one of the LEADERS OF THE PARTY!!

This is the President explicitly threatening to withhold federal funds from New York City if voters elect a candidate he opposes. This is an unlawful attempt to coerce voters through federal financial threats and a textbook example of voter intimidation to influence the outcome of a local election.

sad that I can't reduce the $0 I spend on EA games any further

West wind shepherding rose-coloured clouds at dawn. #俳句 #English俳句 #俳句inEnglish #haiku

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.