This is a big deal. Approval polls, like the media, courts, and Congress, can serve as vehicles for presidential accountability. We are watching in real time as the institutions that could hold this administration to account wither on the vine.

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Thank you for sharing this, Magali. 🙏🏽

Adam Serwer: “Donald Trump is still psychically wounded by the election of Barack Obama.” @adamserwer.bsky.social

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They kidnapped this five year old when he was coming home from school and sent him to a jail in Texas. Imagine how terrified he must be.

You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes. You want to pee in peace? Quit your fucking job.

The answer to “How could it ever have happened back then?” is right in front of us, here & now.

In 2017 I read Valeria Luiselli’s book about her experiences interpreting for very young children facing deportation. The name of the book, Tell Me How It Ends, is heart wrenching to think of in this moment.

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In art school we went over this and actually i kinda want to add that i think men are just not socialized to care about the subtle differences in these colors. Cause i can tell that there is a difference in those nails and in the lip sticks and greyish nails in the video. -

Gavin Newsom is just a guy who's interested in power. He's willing to entertain a dialogue with execrable people like Shapiro. This is the latest version of Bill Clinton's "triangulation". He's dangerous bc he provides a platform for ppl who aren't engaged in any good faith arguments.

The response below: On-point. Ht @kdc.bsky.social

Louder. For the cheap seats in the back.

And with Trump suffering from increasing levels of dementia (allegedly), it'll be all Miller running the show. newrepublic.com/article/2053...

An administration that just didn't GAF. These people are all evil.

Haha!

The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content. It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.

Suss, given the source.

I'm missing the Kerry James Marshall exhibit at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social in London, but I bought the catalog. Well worth it bc the interview with him is gold. Here's one of the quotes that resonated. #quotes #kerryjamesmarshall #artists #contemporaryart #artadvisor #painting #blackartist

Winter floods wreak havoc on Gaza displacement camps as Israel blocks aid https://aje.io/nu8pwm

Hey, y'all! Two post that highlight some of the great art that was on exhibit this year. First, here's my "Best of 2025" list: iamrobfields.substack.com/p/the-best-a...

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An example of bad "rebranding": Going from "Philadelphia Museum of Art" to "Philadelphia Art Museum". As a former cultural institution leader, I can't help but think of the resources that were ultimately wasted on such a negligible change.

Beautiful rework by Stew!

If you missed #OptOutOctober like I did, here's @eff.org's full guide to improving your digital privacy and security. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

An entire city of unsupervised theatre kids.

Great! Lest there be any doubt that Musk is a terrible person, there's more right-wing, AI slop on the way. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Via @shannonrwatts.bsky.social: "Good-versus-evil thinking increases cruelty because it gives people a reason to stomach violence." How to stop cult-like thinking with Jane Borden open.substack.com/pub/shannonw...

@drstaceypatton.bsky.social: "What we’re witnessing is the deliberate cultivation of biological exhaustion as social control. Hunger, stress, and deprivation don’t just break spirits, they rewire bodies." Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America bit.ly/3JkXXq4

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Congrats, Grace Wales Bonner! www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

Via @adamserwer.bsky.social

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Ya think? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...

A common question from new collectors about pieces of art they're considering: "But is it a good investment?" In my latest Substack post, I share some of the signals I evaluate as I advise my clients on potential art purchases. Read on. open.substack.com/pub/iamrobfi...

One of the best pieces I've read recently on this moment of constant mass shootings. "America is reading a suicide note written in the hand of white male grievance...And the country keeps pretending the note doesn’t exist." drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/suicide-tu...

One of the biggest offenders when it comes to bad faith arguments, Bret Stephens, is at it again. Basically, folks like Stephens believe they should be able to say anything, without consequence. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

I hate how everybody in this administration is dead-set on linking DEI to "lowered standards", when that's not at all the case. Meanwhile, what folks SHOULD be upset about is the placing of unqualified people in Federal positions just because they're sycophants for Orange Julius.

Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.

The Dallas shooter, Joshua Jahn. If he were Black/Muslim, we'd already be hearing things like, "Where were his parents?" or, "Where was he radicalized?" Right-wing trolls would be implying the inherent criminality in our community. Where's the national convo on what's going on w White men & boys?

I've written about this a half-dozen times since 2015, because it continues to be relevant that the alt-right originally weaponized irony and memes in order to 1) spread extremism without consequence and 2) cultivate all these semi-ironic violent extremist edgelords foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/c...

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Where that Rapture at, tho?

No backbone, no profits. Ht @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

By next spring, they'll be bragging about the passenger airliner they shot out of the sky because it was filled with "antifa commandos"

Christian nationalism is backed by radical right wing think tanks, media companies, gun manufacturers, etc. It's a web of money & extreme ideas connecting Christian nationalists to those behind the scenes, such as Federalist Society kingpin, Leonard Leo.

This is what the slow breakup of the United States could look like—not political violence or civil war, but blue states banding together to protect themselves from Trump's unchecked and unaccountable regime. And meanwhile, states like Florida ban vaccine mandates. apnews.com/article/flor...

This, and Schumer, Jeffries, and Gillibrand STILL haven't endorsed Mamdani. The Democratic Party’s Voter Registration Crisis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...