Economist @pkrugman.bsky.social explains the key difference between Republican emphasis on incentives and Democratic emphasis on resources and explains why making sure people have access to resources creates a strong economy. youtu.be/A8V00Z5McYA

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In Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape (2025), art historian Cat Dawson identifies the roots of contemporary artists’ confrontation of monumentality by locating its watershed moment.

As of late, curator Erika Hirugami has been wondering if the curatorial field is poised to take a revolutionary stand against fascism. Why are curators not as politically active in the public sphere, as artists have been since the dawn of time?

LIKE SNOW Suppose we did our work like the snow, quietly, quietly, leaving nothing out. Wendell Berry

CNN — @aftynbehn.bsky.social : “This race is competitive because the Washington Republican agenda has not delivered. They have not addressed costs despite the commitment from Trump… they’re looking to vote for someone who’s going to usher in an era of change.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/p...

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Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place

MOTHER JONES: “You should be paying attention to the race in Tennessee’s 7th congressional district”

💡Did you know: SNAP benefits have a contingency fund that can be used during a gvt shutdown? This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress. The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats. apnews.com/article/snap...

This administration would never pass a law that would benefit We the People, but our Governors possibly could. This would save lives and thwart the felon’s desire to starve the poor and marginalized.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are doing a Town Hall on CNN this Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 9:00 PM (Eastern Time)

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

🧐… Checks out… 👇

It’s unnerving but I’m starting to like it

"There is not bigger set of snowflakes than Republicans in power" –Roxane Gay

Noam Chomsky

A new bill backed by Rubio would allow the Secretary of State to revoke U.S. citizens’ passports over political speech without any legal due process. truthout.org/articles/new...

Minnesota’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives office has a new leader. Guadalupe Lopez, who is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, took over the office in July. The MMIR office seeks to address the disproportionate number of Indigenous people who go missing or are murdered.

It has become that time of evening When people sit on their porches, Rocking gently and talking gently And watching the street And the standing up into their sphere Of possession of the trees, Of birds’ hung havens, hangars. People go by; things go by “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” excerpt James Agee

Chicago Mayor Deploys Salt Trucks as Mobile Barricades to Block ICE Operations

Trump is going to run the Kennedy Center in the ground just like he did Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Mortgage Co, Trump Vodka, Trump Airline, etc. I bet he eventually tears it down and builds condos or a gold-filled Trump museum.

Sen. Alex Padilla of California and three other Democrats are reminding the Smithsonian's secretary that the institution "is the responsibility of Congress."

This is somehow too complex for a lot of people: If you take away due process for someone, then you take away due process for everyone. It only works as a universal right. Otherwise, they can just say you're part of an excluded group and you have no ability to prove you're not.

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump. Join us.

There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.