🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Pastel still life, including a nice vase bought in a shop attached to an auction house, some ranunculus flowers, alstroemeria and an iris. The dried items on the right came from a bag of pot pourri. This was probably sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition. #pastel #flowers

WASHINGTON: Despite republicans’ best efforts, including a 24 hour filibuster-style debate — “the state house approved a levy on incomes over $1 million… pays for free breakfast & lunch for k-12 students…” news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

Anthropic just published the most important study on AI and jobs yet. The researchers call it a "Great Recession for white-collar workers." It maps out EXACTLY which jobs AI is actively performing right now vs. which ones it COULD perform.

Jeanine Pirro: She can’t indict a ham sandwich, but I bet she makes a mean Martini…

Agreed! Most mainstream journalists have failed us.

I like Taco Bell tacos as much as anyone else. But, I’m going to have to drop Taco Bell from the weekly rotation. I simply can’t stand ordering food from a drive-thru automated computer… So long, old friend…

Saying goodbye to the bird-legged hoe. #SheShed

World’s largest krill harvester at centre of row over ‘blue tick’ sustainability label

"When American troops deploy, they do so under civilian authority and in the name of the American people. Citizens have both a right and a responsibility to understand what their government and their military are doing." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive...[T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man." -- James Madison www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-una...

One of my watercolour studies of irises #watercolour #watercolor #iris #botanicalart

It’s time to make Citizens United history. Montana — and now California — can lead the way. Here's how. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-california-can-neuter-citizens

One of those sunsets where the sun is much lower than where it looks to be (on the front range of CO). Spent time in an RV park east of Limon. Local diner was great. 8”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel

Casual Reading #oilpainting #art

Bernice King has it absolutely right. We are facing a moral crisis in this country. And we must all act together to end it.

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

This time, we are all victims, we are all at risk… And. We. Will. Win…

One more Cambridge May Week scene, quite a large painting combining materials. Quite an evocative hazy image like butterflies in the mist. This is one of the paintings sold at exhibitions at the Linda Blackstone Gallery a few years ago. #art #oilpastel #gouache #ink

This picture simply must permeate the internet…

The level of indignity is unfathomable…

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)

Queuing for the ball, oil pastel with rubbed-in gouache. Oil pastel is by nature resistant to water but you can scrub and rub body colour into the surface to get some good effects. #oilpastel #gouache #Cambridge

A larger one in a similar vein. I think this one sold in a gallery exhibition (I don't know who has it now). Nice and wild in its technique. #oilpastel #gouache #dippen #acrylicink #mayweek #cambridge

Two figures at Nevile's Gate, Trinity College, Cambridge, oil on canvas, sold a while ago (framed by me). #oilpainting #TrinityCollege #ThomasNevile

@bsky.art landscape #art #landscape #watercolour #artsuki

Portland Headlight, Maine. Made with acrylic on 16x20 on canvas. #acrylic #acrylicpainting #artist #artists #art #painting #originalart #traditionalart #Portland #Maine #nature #fineart #scenery #landscape #headlight #sea #ocean #lighthouse

Joyful Noises IV #art #artistsofbluesky #contemporaryart #modernart #inkpainting #pastel #abstract #abstractart #artlover #mixedmedia #graphite #oilpainting #painting #artwork #panelpainting #outsiderart #expressionism #abstractexpressionism

T-glottalization makes my head explode…

Beautiful

Never forget. 🇺🇸

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

A Royal horse takes a royal poo right in front of Trump and Melania. #RoyalVisit #UK #SummerOf2025 #Britain 💂‍♂️

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Another of my watercolour drawings of Winchester from 1997 (still in my possession). I sat by some railings with my back to the cathedral and completed this on the spot even though light rain came on (I had an umbrella). #art #Winchester #enpleinair #watercolour

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

As I wrap up the end of the year, I have one last thing to say… Fuck Donald Trump…

‘Splains a lot…

He will be sworn in by Bernie Sanders and Leticia James how cool is that?

Reading only first and last chapters #oilpainting #art

Cliff Cash event Friday December 19th in Rocky Mount NC #NorthCarolina #RockyMount

Adolf Liebscher (Czech, 1857–1919) "Midnight Mass", after 1900. Oil on Canvas, 76 × 56 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Tahquitz Canyon Trail”l Oil on Canvas 40 x 30 Inches Jed Bowker (American painter b.1977) #Art

Stanislav Brusilov (Russian Artist, born 1976) "Winter Landscape", 2022. Oil on Canvas, 85.1 × 100.1 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt