Wild, on so many levels.

🦗 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. [Source]

Looking for local, indie media to support? Send your dollars to the very excellent @missionlocal.org! Their reporting on ICE activity in the Bag Area has been particular good, including this thread here:

#refuseuline refuseuline.com

We canceled our Disney+ and Hulu subs today. TV has afforded us lots of comfort + escapism in these tumultuous times, but we refuse to support companies that willingly capitulate to the thin-skinned Cheeto and his cronies.

Love, expressed in brush strokes.

Little Edie foreverrrrrrr.

Thanks to Jason + @404media.co for this reporting, which I found really affecting. Devoting time and attention to hobbies is such a wildly varied, human endeavor. It sucks that this senseless tariff BS is gonna rob so many folks of the pleasure + joy they find in them.

Today is really and truly the very last day of @20x200.bsky.social’s objectively incroyable LAST CALL sale, where you can save 50-70% off on amazing art. 20x200.com/collections/...

2003!

Today is really and truly the very last day of @20x200.bsky.social’s objectively incroyable LAST CALL sale, where you can save 50-70% off on amazing art. 20x200.com/collections/...

At the age of 17, Ruth Orkin biked from Los Angeles to New York City for 1939 World's Fair, taking photographs along the way. She went on to become a celebrated photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Ruth! September 3 (1921-1985)

Feels weird to talk about buying art amid all the bad news, but a) art helps! and b) our art is *very* affordable and c) maybe it'd feel nice to support an indie biz rn? We'd sure appreciate it a lot! Head over to 20x200.com + enter code RENEW20 at checkout to save an extra 20% when you spend $75+.

Excellent reporting from @missionlocal.org on the horrors of San Francisco's immigration courts right now. Truly monstrous, my heart breaks for our friends and neighbors. missionlocal.org/2025/08/six-...

Touched grass today and it helped.

In other news, I‘ve been doing some curatorial research this week and loc.gov, my beloved, stalwart source for soooo many years, is riddled with broken links and returning error after error. Everything good is being broken. 😭

Please, please, please don’t put blind links to X posts in your newsletters. I don’t care how interesting, urgent +/or funny whatever you’re linking to is. It’s immediately less so because it’s happening there. I never want to contribute even an iota of my attention to anything on there ever again.

Can’t wait to see, Sarah, and also hope that you inspire my other design, fashion and culture faves to exit Substack too.

Another report on the 2nd edition of @zeroartfair.bsky.social from the Observer observer.com/2025/07/zero...

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

Happy Fourth! Keep fighting for peace, justice, and each other. Love, 20x200 Pictured: Fury, Martha Rich (@martharich63)

When I teach South African history, students will ask me how South Africans of European descent or South Asian descent can call themselves African. I reply by asking them — mostly white & Black — how they can call themselves American.

Popping in for a minute to say that it really sucks that the murder bill passed Congress and ALSO to thank every single person who tried to stop the bill from passing. What you did matters. Finally, I wrote a few words: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu... - I hope they might offer some encouragement.

📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL

Put it in my veinsssss.

When past is present: Ansel Adams, "People walking, Manzanar Relocation Center," 1943. From my perambulations around the website of the Library of Congress. www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

Lotta important images in these archives. Lots from Ansel Adams, and tons of amazing work by Dorothy Lange: beautiful portraits and ofc the iconic I am an American image.

A poster of printers marks. 2008. Fanette Mellier. collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/354608

Me too! 🥹

Just in case you’re trying to figure out a really great sign to carry tmrw, Edel Rodriguez has generously shared a trove of his brilliant images for you to print. (Fb link, sorry) He also did the cover art for the current issue of TIME, shown here. www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

Just in case you’re trying to figure out a really great sign to carry tmrw, Edel Rodriguez has generously shared a trove of his brilliant images for you to print. (Fb link, sorry) He also did the cover art for the current issue of TIME, shown here. www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

You love to see it.

100% this. A protest is a celebration of community. Show up. Look out for each other. Wave a sign. Go home feeling energized. Can they turn violent? Yes, and when they do it’s usually because of cops. But the vast majority of the time they don’t. Be angry. Be disciplined.

A helpful explainer from big-hearted blogger Joanna Goddard re: immigration raids and LA that I’ll be sharing with my not-very-online +/or less politically engaged friends/fam: cupofjo.com/2025/06/11/i...

ACLU’s Know Your Rights library has great resources for people planning to protest this weekend: www.aclu.org/know-yo... Stopped by Police: www.aclu.org/know-yo... Protestors’ Rights: www.aclu.org/know-yo... Be safe out there.

Your Saturday plans, sorted: www.nokings.org Thanks to @martharichart.bsky.social for the art!

Yes! Always so happy to see your name in my inbox, @lauraolin.bsky.social.

🪧 THURS at 9AM: We're speaking w/ @ucberkeley.bsky.social's @owasow.bsky.social and @wired.com's @couts.bsky.social to look back at times when protests have been successful instigators of change, and times when protests may have hurt a movement. ❓How do protests persuade audiences? buff.ly/tSIgQ8s

Some very timely recs from my brilliant friend Omar.

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018)

LAPD sweeping people out of the MOCA parking lot- I’ll follow up, I believe that’s private property? Mural says “who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose…” etc.

hotel mathes, fleischmanns, new york, 1978

Timeline cleanse! Got lost in Shane Drinkwater’s work for a while today and encourage you to do the same.

TODAY: Introducing BRAND NEW HYDRA, photographer @todseelie.bsky.social, with a photo essay on crashing the Venice Biennale with a bunch of art punks on rafts made of junk flaminghydra.com/p/f071b948-c...

Do not rank Cuomo, my friends!