The Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Christopher Knight will retire from the Los Angeles Times on Friday, November 28. As the paper’s staff art critic, he published exhibition reviews and commentary on the city’s arts institutions, writing for the publication for 36 years.

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The @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social has been on fire lately, and this is oped is no exception. (And worth noting as an aside that no LLM could produce an article of this power and precision). www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

For context: Larry Summers continued with Epstein despite 2008: Epstein guilty plea in Florida 2008-19: MANY civil lawsuits (including by Virginia Giuffre) against Epstein for child rape/trafficking 2018: Miami Herald's @jkbjournalist.bsky.social blockbuster series on Epstein trafficking ring

“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.​“

Homayoun Ershadi, who starred in Abbas Kiarostami’s A Taste of Cherry, has died after a battle w cancer. The film, a layered meditation on life and death, won the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

Things are fine.

Reminder that many Republican elected officials aren’t just hostile to Obamacare but to the very concept of “insurance” which violates their deeply held creed of fuck-you social Calvinism. My Le Monde diplo report from Trump I mondediplo.com/2017/07/05he...

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I really try to mind my business when it comes to this loser, but MY GOD.

"Artists know that you only have to do something once to prove to others that the unimaginable is actually very much possible." Read @hrag.bsky.social's powerful essay on artistic creative imagination and Mamdani's election. hyperallergic.com/1055167/the-...

One of the most important articles you will read this year. Esmat Elhalaby, "Genocide and the Limits of History in Gaza," Journal of Palestine Studies. @esmat.bsky.social 🗃️

The wealth of the 10 richest Americans surged $698B in the past year. Trump’s tax handouts to billionaires and cuts to health care will only make inequality worse. We need an economy that works for everyone – not one that works for the 1% and hangs everyone else out to dry.

Huge victory in Mississippi www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

So is he packing his bags???

Breaking news: California voters approved a congressional map that could give Democrats up to five more House seats, countering Texas’s GOP-favored redistricting in a nationwide battle over district lines. https://wapo.st/3WYEm2h

Mayor elect Mamdani. Epic!!!

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

Hyperallergic is tracking NY elections from the perspective of the arts.

They’re counting on you to sit this one out. Don’t give them what they want. Get loud with your ballot. Drop it off today or hit the polls tomorrow ASAP. #CAVoteYesProp50

tired: great gatsby parties wired: bastille day parties

“A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.”

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

You can donate needed items directly to your local food banks on Instacart.

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We spoke to released Palestinian prisoners who allege severe abuse while incarcerated, & families of detainees whose bodies have been returned to Gaza bearing signs of torture. Our @pbsnews.org story. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

I really like how Zohran Mamdani has run a campaign that is so focused on making New York City a safe (including from the fascism of our current federal government) and affordable place for all its residents, and I am really appalled by how racist so much of the opposition to his candidacy has been.

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

I have one sibling who has no children. But I am "auntie" to quite a few folks.

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

well, that's awkward

Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Palestine 36 is screening this morning at 10:30 at The Riviera in Santa Barbara, with director Annemarie Jacir in conversation sbifftheatres.com/cs/palestine...

California vote yes on 50.

Please watch our @pbsnews.org film, made across the last year. A generation of children, severely injured by Israeli strikes, are facing unnecessary disability, amputation & even death because Israel’s authorities won’t let them leave Gaza to seek treatment. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The entire White House East Wing has been demolished as Trump moves forward with ballroom construction, AP photos show. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Oh www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

🔥 WashU in STL rejects Trump’s loyalty oath compact! 🔥 The resistance cannot be stopped! AAUP chapters and organized higher ed workers across the nation are unified in spearheading this fight—let’s keep it up!

first term: destroy Jacqueline Kennedy's rose garden. second term: bulldoze East Wing

An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well

In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.

ICYMI 🗞️ Read of the Day "What's most concerning is the goal of it, which is seizing control of universities & putting them in the hands of the government..."–RUAAUP-AFT President Rebecca Givan @rkgwork.bsky.social on the Trump loyalty oath. #rutgersthedailytargum www.dailytargum.com/article/unio...

This is Idaho 💙

*looks directly at camera*