#painting #art Kerry James Marshall When Frustration Threatens Desire acrylic and collage on canvas, 1990

The grey lady would rather run this as a jokey local color piece than report his admission that the only purpose for the SAVE act is to give America perpetual 1-party rule. “Can you believe what a goofy fool he is? Last time he was here he said the far left were fascists, and now it’s communists”

Trump: If we pass the SAVE Act, Republicans won't lose an election for 100 years.

"We survive not by waiting, but by doing" is an all-timer, and applicable across many issues.

Two countries on NATO’s eastern flank have warned that Russia is preparing a possible “provocation” in the Baltic states or Poland in an effort to test the cohesion of the western military alliance.

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

White House Mocks Paltry Attendance At Democrats’ Great American State Fair — theonion.com/white-house-...

Oh come on, even the Guardian is doing the NYT-style hedging. We all know what’s going on here, and it’s not about crappy wording in the MOU.

Building stuff in the real world is hard.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for not enough good people."

Why is he wrong? Because the Reconstruction Amendments aren't just a series of specific provisions: rather, they were a comprehensive transformation of the character of the Constitution, and of our system of government A wholesale rejection of white supremacy, and an embrace of the Declaration

A few winks of a firefly of the Twitter of yore.

Such a fine example of his spacial thinking.

Local man discovers idée fixe is a thing.

If the USA weren't such a broken country, Iran getting $425 BILLION would be the death knell and impeachment of any president in history. What an absolute embarrassment of an admin.

I still don’t get it: how are Americans cool with any of this? American universities and science research were the jewel in the crown. I guess the assumption is that we won’t need new research after AI.

I love that the only thing our president understands is rent extraction

This is what three generations of nationalizing costs and privatizing profits has done. You see this most beautifully with the World Cup, and, well, Musk.

I frightens me how Musk is allowed to exist in two separate beings -- visionary tech trillionaire and dark, deadly supervillain -- and the news media doesn't seem willing to connect those two dots.

Bluesky politics makes me depressed, but it also brings a little Lille, and the wonderful @jonnelledge.bsky.social, and the people who follow him, which does the opposite.

Or: even Dick Gephardt has been radicalized.

Unclear why so many seemed so chill about ICE & CBP’s insane building plan: what would they possibly need so many beds for? Or the demands for voting rolls. Or openly calling for the jailing of the opposition. But at least Dick Gephardt is awake to this. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Excellent to bring this part of the information ecosystem into the conversation!

Sadly, an extremely good point. 🧵 Though it’s darkly ironic that the “meritocracy” people are now intent on building a Soviet Bloc corrupt society. Anyone who paid the least amount of attention for the last 50 years knows how badly those sucked, and how bad they were for *everyone*.

This is awesome!

feel like i'm repeating myself a bunch here but the unitary executive is grounded more in some rousseauian idea of the "general will" than it is anything in the american political tradition

The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."

Amazing that investing hundreds of billions in right-wing propaganda can create the most popular "news" sources in the country, and not a single singer or band you can even tolerate.

Same as pepper spraying a senator. I guess this is so routine they’re no longer newsworthy.

Trump threatened to “blow up” one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East today and I couldn’t find it about it on the homepage of the Times, Journal, or Post

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H.L. Mencken, 1920

For #BlueSkyArtShow #Tall my very own folly "The Tower of Elemental Memorabilia" echoing the shape of the pillars in the converted underground water reservoir at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum.

Question of the decade

I made a sculpture for whom I still harbour a severe dislike (mainly because it's a nasty arrogant little shit and we had multiple creative disagreements during the process). I reluctantly included it in an exhibition since I was one work short. To my absolute mortification, it was the first to sell

Yes. It would probably get its arse kicked, but not before putting up quite the fight.

Klaus Ensikat (German Artist, born 1937) Illustration from "Katzen" by Axel Eggebrecht Watercolor and Ink, 1997. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover

Caveats about the Church abiding, our Chicago Pope seems like a good dude, sent by something to remind us that the greatest power we have is the nurtured ability to care for those who need help the most.

When all of this is over, when all the tell-all books have been printed, all the trials concluded, all the people with nothing left to fear by speaking up... we're going to find out it's all been so much worse than we ever thought it was. That the whole thing was absolutely and totally awful.

The comments in the petition make for very disheartening reading. It seems that the Foundation has just given up on maintaining the system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... Is this a prelude to shutting Wikipedia down, or retreating behind a paywall? Why do any of this? It seems like self-harm.

Can the re-editing of the entries for cash be far behind?

“All of your free labour is ours and we can do what we want with it!” Sticks out tongue, shakes bum.

As a longtime user and donor I really believed in what Wikipedia was up to. It’s super, super disheartening to find that management are just a bunch of greedy, shortsighted assholes like everywhere else.

“Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia” https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943 > Fire the engineers who know how the system works, fire the ones organizing labor, hope nothing catastrophic breaks before you can ship something splashy

Oh for God’s sake, can something on the web resist the pull towards evil? And from the people who are always begging me for a donation “to keep the lights on.” Right.

The right has been making the same dishonest “law of the jungle” argument for ages. Remember the outrage over Obama’s “You didn’t build that” speech in 2012? But they never cut everyone’s taxes to zero, do they? Yuval Noah Harari on the Mistake Strongmen Keep Making www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...

Just re-posting this to say —how could ANYONE see this news story and not conclude everything so SO SO wrong? We do not live in a remotely just society by any stretch of the imagination. This is Nevada. Her two children were deprived of their mother for TWO YEARS. www.cnn.com/2026/05/16/u...

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century