The steamer Lac La Belle, which was carrying passengers and cargo, sank in a storm in 1872. Eight people died when one of its lifeboats capsized. On Feb. 13, a shipwreck hunter and diver announced that he had located the Lac La Belle at the bottom of Lake Michigan after nearly 150 years.

Still Life - Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers - 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14653

and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...

“18 Days, 20 Lives: New Yorkers Who Didn’t Survive the Cold: Freezing days and nights claimed the lives of a grandmother, a dancer, a dispatcher and a man who lived among a colony of feral cats.” — www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

As we dismantled in-house capacity, we dramatically ramped up the requirements/paperwork for executing basically any project (RFPs for consultants because that's been outsourced, EIS's, lawsuits). And the result is... car crashes like this, which don't make the front page but undermine confidence.

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

If you like the news and managing towers.... highly recommend News Tower. 10/10 store.steampowered.com/app/1649950/...

“All a Black neighborhood gets from a plant is death.” Black residents of St. James Parish in southern Louisiana dubbed “Cancer Alley” hope their lawsuit can be a blueprint for other communities fighting toxic pollution in their backyards, ray levy uyeda reports.

Leon Botstein commiserating with a pedophile in the early hours of 2015

BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Bringing some of the TV show style into the games... hell yes www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-S...

““What do you want to use it for?” asked the bloke in the shop. I told him that underneath it all I wanted to address lifelong self-esteem issues, but in the short term I’d settle for being able to drill a hole.”

I asked a nutritionist last year the easiest way to improve diet and she was like "make your plate colourful" and it's worked wonders

Jesus those ghouls

I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”

my father-in-law (z”l) taught at bard before he was forced to retire due to motor neuron disease and this is the first time i’ve been grateful he passed away this fall so that he doesn’t have to see the school he put so much of his last functioning years into crash like this

Came across this totally normal picture of a ceremony representing the unification of the towns into Jersey City.

“… Liam is in hiding with his family after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas detention center. Liam is now no longer going to school — let alone a Super Bowl.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island? LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children

BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June

As someone whose first academic job was teaching at Bard: Botstein has an unholy hold on the college. We never had independent full faculty meetings, as he presided over all of them. He's been Bard's president more than 50 years & will be interesting to see if anyone there calls for him to step down

Roger Goodell hitting SKIP straight to Woke 2 because the owners want to sell some ads in Rio

insofar as you can say the story of the US is the story of all humanity it’s this: a never ending battle between those of us who recognize that we are all human beings, created equal and endowed with the same rights, and those of us who would rather kill/die than acknowledge this self-evident truth

what a shot

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

They got the big game on at the bar

Dropkin's shot to knock all 3 stones out with sound and replays

For #SuperbOwl Sunday, an owl-themed painting that is hands down one of my favorite artworks of all time: Singing Cats Led by an Owl, by an unidentified Lombard artist from circa 1700. Looks closely at the mice used as musical notes (and the butt trumpet as well)

world's least normal man can't just eat chicken wings at a super bowl party while on an all meat diet

Median New Yorker right now, probably.

Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?

I would like different weather please. Thank you.

two-ish weeks of unseasonably cold weather has made me reevaluate my core belief that i would be fine living in an isolated lighthouse along a desolate rocky coastline

80% of the political posts on this site are some variation of a combination of these two mutually exclusive tenets: 1. i would simply not be in the minority 2. i would simply not do anything necessary to achieving the majority

Saturday's Weather Rating: 1/10 The arctic has arrived - again. We have an Extreme Cold Warning and a Wind Advisory in effect starting at 10:00am. Wind chills fall to nearly 20 below zero tonight. I've got nothing. The vibes have frozen over.

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

the last two Popes went out of their way to call this man an immigrant hating freak and a fake Catholic. Bless his heart for going to Italy expecting to have a normal one❤️

New York Movie, 1939 #socialrealism #hopper

Confronting my mortality by receiving blank stares from younger coworkers to both arrested development and its always funny references.

On his first day in office, Mayor Solomon put traffic safety at the center of his public safety agenda.  In 2025, we lost 6 community members on our streets. Every single one was preventable.  #JerseyCity #VisionZero #TrafficSafety #PublicSafety #DayOne #JCPolitics #SafeStreets

I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing. www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...

The release of the Epstein Files really lays bare the evils of (among other things) networking.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

May this January end promptly.

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad