1/19 "God bless America" was written by a Jewish immigrant from Russia. He wasn't Christian. He wasn't born a U.S. citizen. He wrote the song about a country that gave hope to the weary. Much of the Christian nation revision happened in the 1950s as a way to distinguish from "godless" countries.

How many cliches can Abigail Spanberger pack into one sentence?

Winsor McCay editorial cartoon from a century ago seems timely. #tariffs

Portrait of Philip Glass — oil on board, 2016 — by Luis Alvarez Roure. Glass was born in 1937. You do the math. :-)

Ergy Landau. Gare Saint-Lazare, 1934. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergy_La...

It's a mistake to ignore WaPo. wapo.st/3Jsvgrl

I used to look forward to @maddow.msnbc.com on Monday evening, but increasingly it feels repetitive and like she is phoning it in. A loss.

Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”

The French also sensibly imposed a similar requirement

Toshiro Mifune

I need a reporter to ask Trump what The Great Gatsby is about

In 1924, she described herself as the "only national photographer." 📷 Jerusalem.

I loved this picture. Bethel - Group of Children.

Edwin Smith Hardwick Park entrance gate

A candy message this Halloween.

Trump voters on SNAP.

Mike Johnson has mastered the sh*t-eating grin.

The print version of @theonion.com is worth every dime.

Serious question: Why does @chrislhayes.bsky.social bother having guests?

Why is @cachrislhayes.bsky.social focusing on Steve Bannon and not Russell Vought?

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE. Please cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until they stop. You can tell them why after you cancel. m.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...

🥩 ‘Pound-for-pound #beef might be the most climate-polluting substance people regularly use’ #ClimateCrisis HowDoIGoVegan.com drawdown.org/insights/gre...

Herbert Simon on the internet and attention, 1996

Philip Guston, Halloween Party, 1942

do i think the institutional democratic party would do better with a more populist economic message? yes. but there is the problem of getting voters to *hear* it and to *believe* it and that is where i think attention should go.

October 26, 2025

Is this what I think it is?

'Cross-dressing guests for a gay wedding in Petrograd, 1921. The “wedding” had actually been organized by a secret police officer who arrested all the attendees at the end of the ceremony, but the charges were eventually dropped.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...

I’m sorry @nytpitchbot.bsky.social but with crap like this you may be out of business

“Go get a real job” is quickly becoming the popular refrain for dealing with these losers

As this article explains, by requiring the Department of Justice to always agree with him, Trump has found a way to get away with murder: ”It is hard to prove someone intentionally committed a crime when the Justice Department itself said at the time that the action was lawful.”

Jacob Lawrence, Although the Negro was used to lynching, he found this an opportune time for him to leave where one had occurred, 1940-41 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134657

The Federal minimum wage was established in 1938. It was in effect for about 85 years. It has now, for better or worse, been effectively abolished.

Gaza largely absent from US media and discourse, as violence continues. The Trump administration doesn’t seem to care, because they already got their photo op. And apparently most media doesn’t care either, because Trump’s feelings were the most important story and they got on record with praise.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

Doesn't seem to have occurred to everyone yet that the US Congress may never reconvene.

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

Frost? Not tonight, but we know it is coming soon. A little frost is fine for pumpkins but not freezing. Remember your pumpkins are edible as well as decorative. Thank you for supporting the small businesses in your area. Where you spend your money matters. BTW, Epstein. #farmlife #fall #familyfarm

🐸 Portland Frog here, doesn’t she look ridiculous?

Bear by Ellen Bryant Voigt www.divasofverse.com/2021/03/bear...

Wilhelm Bendz: Interior from Amaliegade with the Artist's Brothers, 1829.

Hi res original if interested.

Got access to the Platner archive again -- have now spent +/- 45min poking around. No time to do a proper Substack post right now but maybe we'll throw some of what we found up here. If he's the Dem frontrunner (?!) seems worth folks having a clearer picture, wherever they come down. #MEpolitics

It’s hard to decipher but if you look closely you can find an alarming secret message in this headline

Stunning painting of an old man. Just perfect -- sensitive, moving, beautiful, human. By Jan Lievens, who was born OTD in 1607.