Some friends last weekend kinda landed on a working theory that Important Art Museums are some of the last places random Americans will be exposed to surprise in art that might make them feel something--even if the feeling is distaste--because you go as a Tourist Destination and can't pick the art.

This is a reminder to my LGBTQ+ friends: You deserve to be loved loudly and proudly. ♥️ Oh, and you look damn good in a selfie! 🌈

It's not really the type of video you "like" but likes and comments on the video help it with the algorithm so, so much.

This 👆 www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card). There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well. The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial www.usni.org/magazines/na...

This seems to be the perfect distillation of the point that putting volunteer military with no law enforcement experience on the streets of an unfamiliar city actually worsens public safety

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

A lot of the focus is on Hegseth but every person in the chain of command decided they were going to kill those guys.

So is he more angry at women lately for some reason or has it finally become acceptable to call it out when he does it?

Broke: Department of Defense Woke: Department of War Bespoke: Department of War Crimes

A mass review of immigration cases from 19 countries is now underway. This is the Muslim Ban rebuilt through paperwork. When the government flags whole nationalities, real people with legal status get pushed closer to deportation. Read: caliber.az/en/post/trum...

In the 18th century he would have been Mr Beast India Company

All the non-Native people calling Thanksgiving a "complex holiday" are so annoying lmao. Just make your little Thanksgiving post, no need to be so performative. It's National Day of Mourning, it's not "complex" if you're not Native

And the holidays are HERE. This is supposed to be the single biggest sales weekend of the year, but we are SO far behind on sales compared to where we should be by now. We really, really need to bring in a bunch of sales over this holiday.

Now, tonight's local urgent needs. We have . . . a lot. First, the local group's wishlist. A local mama needs two more packs of pull-up diapers for her toddler, and a baby nail-clipper set for her newborn [only $9.99]: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Fellow publishers are taking financial damage from unpaid bills from library distributor Baker & Taylor, who are closing down. About Comics had no exposure here (haven't yet found our way into the library market), but it's a good time to buy a book from, say, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social

we have to go back. to warn them.

It's haunted

54 years ago A band called 'Death' was punk before punk was punk Formed in November 1971 by the 3 Hackney brothers, they were influential pioneers of the genre and, along with Pure Hell, the first all-black proto-punk/punk band. #punkrock #death #protopunk #history #punkrockhistory #knowyourroots

National Guard aren’t ICE or Border Patrol. They didn’t sign up looking to harass and repress people. They’re volunteers, part time, in case of emergency. They didn’t ask for this. West Virginia National Guard shouldn’t have been deployed in Washington DC. Victims of the shooter and the president.

Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.

Let's not confuse the people giving the stupid orders with the people who have to deal with following them, who are often good and decent people.

Do you ever think about how many hundreds/thousands of miles of tunneled rapid rail infrastructure we could build in America with all of the money that these AI organizations are burning in hopes of being profitable 15 years from now especially if we had like a Danish or Belgian cost paradigm

We give it directly to Dallas Goldtooth

Private prison company GEO Group allegedly made immigration detainees work for no pay. Now it's at the Supreme Court trying to prevent the detainees from suing. bit.ly/4pfafj2

I don't think my turkey came out right #cats

Looking for past Garfield Macy's balloons. Found a new reaction image

Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...." web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2

I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.

Found out that the American Toby Jug Museum in Evanston permanently closed earlier this year, which is a shame. One of those great little museums that comes from somebody who is intent on sharing their personal hobby with others, and who has the time, resources, and space to do so.

As a cervical cancer survivor this makes me very happy to know. Every gender can get HPV related cancers. Vaccines are saving lives. Encourage your loved ones to get one! Sexual activity isn’t required (you can be born with HPV). Take care out there and congratulations Australia ❤️

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

🪷 Happy Birthday 🎊🎁 to Antinous 🎂🎉 Born 27 November 111 AD — 1,914 years ago! #Antinous is not a mythical deity. He truly lived. The world's most powerful man loved #Antinoos so much he proclaimed him a god. The last Classical deity! Full details here: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/anti... 🪷

You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.

Someone give me $500,000 so I can offer 1 year fellowships to young people in 2026.

🌓 Ursa Major/Minor 🌗 (2025 Remake) #telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

“The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan. In part because of how slow the response to the crisis has been, and in part because of who’s affected. These are people who have no political or economic power, and very little knowledge of the risk.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

One of the most colorful figures in the black market for ancient art has died. For @lrb.co.uk, I wrote about Jonathan Tokeley-Parry - a smuggler who made fake fakes to defeat border inspections to get Egyptian artifacts to the UK and US, whose downfall both changed and didn’t change the market.

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today i drove him over the golden gate bridge for the first time and the little man got very quiet in the backseat and then said “it’s really beautiful up here”

say this with a lot of love, but know that MANY Native people celebrate their version of Thanksgiving this holiday my people give a thanksgiving address often, at harvest festivals, gatherings, big occasions, etc my issue is "Thanksgiving" is once when it should be every month at a bare minimum

CDC Data Indicates We’re 2 Months Away From America Losing Its Measles Elimination Status We've talked a lot about measles throughout this year, which is particularly frustrating given that America officially eliminated this disease from its endemic state back in 2000. How we got here is a very…