"What Trump would mind, what he does fear, is a Republican Party with a spine. He fears a Republican Party in which members of Congress begin to participate in the investigations of his scandals or they abandon him as his fortunes fall."

Colourful Morning 1/2

Wonderful interplay of patterned textiles (& little musical scrolls) in this Coronation of the Virgin, 1420, by Gentile da Fabriano. Today was his day.

Mass in a gothic church at night. Haunting scene by Pieter Neefs the younger, born on this day in 1620.

"Tooth decay was a leading cause of death hundreds to thousands of years ago, peaking roughly in the 1600s to 1800s."

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

2/2 They're here! Elegant company (w/ excellent lace collars!) conversing outside a palace. By Dirck van Delen, whose day is today.

Huge news in the museum world: Ronald Lauder is giving (giving!) the Neue Galerie to the Met Museum -- 600 artworks, building, the whole thing as.ft.com/r/ce602a4d-b...

The Jesuit church in Antwerp, 1668, painted on marble (& how great is that?) by Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, who was born OTD 1630. That’s my painting over the high altar, too!

Breaking: #Canada's government launches strange #sovereign wealth fund with general taxpayer money while running massive budgetary deficit. Fund will invest in building new Canadian infrastructure including energy projects. TLDR: Misguided and a boondoggle. Thread 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

A "chain-link" column on the south portal of the western facade of the church of Saint-Lazare D'Avallon, in north-central #France. c.1160. #architecture #art #History #medieval

Love this family portrait by Cornelis de Vos, 1631. We don't know who family were but we know something of each member's character! Well, maybe not the bird.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “There is a moment when internet companies get the stink of death on them,” Julia Angwin writes. “For Meta, that time is now.”

Science.

NASA Artemis photos. Wow.

Another one. #SpellingBee

Like my oil terminals.

A Stray SpaceX Rocket Will Smash Into the Moon at Mach 7 in August, Analyst Says https://gizmodo.com/a-stray-spacex-rocket-will-smash-into-the-moon-at-mach-7-in-august-analyst-says-2000752619

Cartoon by Drew Sheneman

Thread. Gerrymandering in Tennessee.

Thanks Buffalo! That was very cool, and appreciated. 💙 www.nhl.com/news/buffalo...

Even during the darkest days of the Jim Crow era, efforts to disenfranchise Black voters have always claimed to be "race neutral." The Supreme Court's decision to weaken the Voting Rights Act is Jim Crow in new clothes.

2/2 Wonderful portrait of an 80-year-old man by Michiel van Mierevelt, whose day has been today.

I would pay good money (in hard ECU?) for a supercut of thatcheritescot video intros.

"Not long ago, someone estimated that there were seven full-time book critics left in America. With The Post’s Book World gone, that number has dropped to five."

a gift from my neighbor {her chickens lay such beautiful eggs} #foodonfriday #eastcoastkin

And in Employment News . . .

“Her [doctors] rec’ed surgery to remove the tumor, & the voices ‘told her that they were fully in agreement w/ that decision,’ according to the report…. As she regained consciousness after the operation, the voices relayed a final msg: ‘We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye’."🧪

April Showers

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Inequality in America. The bottom 40% really don't count.

Asparagus and red currants in 1703, by Adriaen Coorte.

Peptides for all.

Great.

Melania: I never cut child in half with sword. I never do this. The entire USA: what? Melania: not me.

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

2 in a row and 3 Queen Bees in the last 10 days. On a roll. #SpellingBee

type shit i'm on

Third world Toronto

So I've done some posts on the follies and fantasies of trying to reach non-voters at scale, which a lot of leftists believe is the key to the electoral socialist revolution. I'm equal opportunity, so now I'd like to talk about the tunnel-vision that pervades a lot of the Dem political class. 1/x

Iran released another LEGO inspired video. This one is specifically for Pete Hegseth.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

Just a day after appearing on the National Mall, a statue of President Trump is gone. Mocking Trump’s “Golden Dome” project for a missile defense system, the statue depicted him holding a hole-ridden golden dome like an umbrella as missiles rained down. https://wapo.st/4tnTm7R

Closing in on 600 Genius but had been stuck on 9 Queen Bee forever and had just about given up on getting the badge for 10. And so, sadly, finished 600, and then just before bedtime thought one more try - and got the last word needed! A little miracle. A ray of light in a dark time. #spellingbee