Enjoying the intense light effects in contemporary US artist Dan McCaw’s depiction of a woman in a sunroom

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

who doesn't love a rush of oxytocin? ❤️

Happy Caturday 🐈

this is the people's ballroom

❤️ Chicago has had enough of these assholes. 🫡 (this is from the 3700 block of N Kildare)

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

This is spot on 🔥

JFC Police State on steroids here we come! Once again, I wonder who or what will stop them, or even slow their roll. Hopefully the Vichy companies bidding on this will be made public & we can start there.

Meanwhile, in Alaska 😢

Step 1: levy tariffs & terrorize/kidnap farm workers so food prices soar Step 2: fire countless fed employees & embrace policies guaranteed to put other people out of work (withholding grants, embracing AI etc) Step 3: Shut down govt so that SNAP benefits expire Step 4:

ok who did this? ☹️

Love this! Incredible paint-on-glass artistry and visual storytelling. Pulls you immediately into Dostoevsky's dark dream and carries you in its flow. (Would love to see this animator do a Kafka story!)

lol man oh man ☠️

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

why not isn’t this something they are proud of

I’ve been on a steady rotation of heartbreak & seething rage over this all day. The cavalier disregard for anything meaningful or symbolic of what America once aspired to be. It wouldn’t surprise me if King Slob whips out a sharpie & decides to add his name to the original Constitution on a whim.

See thread for the full, long list of backers helping him desecrate the White House. If you have any dealings with these jerks and enablers, maybe a good idea to let them know how you feel.

Really good idea for an exhibition here that other museums could learn from. Artists created a set of VR interventions on existing works in a museum so anyone with the VR headset got the 'new' exhibition. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/13/i...

I am not, generally, a sentimental person. But this feels like a stab in the heart of the country I love (despite its many flaws) and thought I knew. American history and its founding ideals mean less than nothing to these soulless, avaricious, shallow, and breathtakingly stupid trolls.

“Whistlemania” across the Chicago area, as anti-ICE activists get ready to create a derisive, high-pitched cacophony wherever masked feds are sighted chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This is bonkers. What the absolute fuck to the moon & back. (And as an Angeleno prof, though not at UCLA, this is too close to home.) Again, I wonder: who or what will ever stop him? (other than arterial plaque with an assist from a stack of double cheeseburgers 🙏)

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

This thread is so moving & perfect for today. #NoKings

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM

Intentionally ramming the vehicle of an activist they don’t like in order to detain him, injuring him in the process. So there’s destruction of property (his vehicle) and, I assume, assault with a deadly weapon? The trials of these ICE goons cannot begin soon enough.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Now he’s shelling California? “The military show of force coincides with No Kings rallies and marches across the state on Saturday that are expected to draw large crowds…” www.latimes.com/california/s...

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

This piece by @eric-reinhart.com is layered & thoughtful, putting into context a social mechanism that no longer seems useful, and offering, broadly, a way forward. "You cannot appeal to civility when the entire political project of the far right is to revel in transgression and humiliation."

Not good. Ridiculous, yes, but a clear pretext for kneecapping any nonMAGA org they don’t like. The shutdown=a perfect opening to pull this fascistic bs (not that there was oversight before). They’re determined to paint us all as “terrorists” to crack down harder. Good luck! No Kings here we come!

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines. We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them. scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17... trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror. “We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

Solid gold 🏆😂

I used to be able to keep these DAILY MEMOs to under 3 minutes, the last couple videos have been impossible to. ICE is escalating in Los Angeles, just look at the article version with every incident highlighted. This is only what we could confirm, only what we know of. @lataco.bsky.social

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Put it in the Louvre. 🖼️ with ❤️ & solidarity to Portland.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish?

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

I want to go to The Met a couple of days in a row for hours and hours and not do much of anything else. I also love seeing museums through someone else's lens, so Laurie Anderson doing this is a real joy.

"Bliss' etching by contemporary printmaker Faith Chevannes #ReframingWomenPrintmakers