House Republicans are setting the stage for Democrats to win in November by massive numbers like how Republicans did in 1994 and 2010. They have no idea how angry people are right now.

Orca at rubbing beach.

Drink da lua. Receita: água, luz da lua e sonhos. ☽

Journal des Demoiselles, 1872 💛🩵🩷 - #1870s #1870sdress #1870sfashion #fashion #fashionplate #Bustledress #fashionillustration #vintagefashion

Roberto Pare (Cameroonian, born 1998) The Arnolfini Spouses, 2021 Oil on canvas 59 1/10 × 47 1/5 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

these vintage library promotional posters go so hard

Correct, and the *reason* why they're trying to make "saying how much you're going to fight" into the only criteria that matters is because just talking shit requires no expertise, no training, no skill, and no knowledge. Because they know if those things are required then they're locked out.

Goodnight. The Goddesses of Fate, Bauer.

Forest Raven

I find it baffling people are claiming Chuck Schumer and Senate Dems caved for nothing even though they basically got everything they wanted out of a TSA funding deal with the added bonus of now making Mike Johnson and House Republicans shoot themselves in the dicks

The Claudina Butterfly 🦋 #art

an oldie but goodie, with best wishes from the seasonal goddess herself, Persephone ❄️🥀

“…her turbulent six-month tenure as editor in chief, it appears the proud anti-woke warrior has instead helped destroy that trust—something that is now laid bare in the network’s rapidly shrinking ratings. Indeed, new ratings data obtained by Status… is catastrophic.” www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

"Speaker Mike Johnson blamed Democrats, who control none of government, for derailing efforts to fund DHS." I will never understand how the reporters who cover this garbage can stand to listen to it without screaming a these people for constantly lying to them.

The DHS shutdown is 1000% Republican's fault

With Senate Dems voting for the DHS funding deal and House Dems prepared to vote for it today until it was killed by House Republicans, there is no longer even the slightest debate about who owns this shutdown. Republicans are blocking funding. They own it 1,000%.

House GOP blowing up the Senate's TSA funding solution isn't going over well.

Ito Shinsui: Spring (c. Early 1950s) This elegant work, "Spring", by Ito Shinsui (1898–1972), features two women are dressed in exquisitely patterned kimono that exemplify the sophisticated textile designs of the mid-20th century.

Oh boy. 3d Cir. imposes sanctions against attorney who used AI to prepare a brief "riddled with factual and legal inaccuracies, and then, after being notified, used AI to prepare a second brief with the same problems. Attorney reprimanded. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...

Mae West.

...between the Penelope, the mermaid lovers, one of the sketch design comms, another random watery design I'm working on for fun, AND my as of yet secret piece for the @morpha-archive.bsky.social artbook project, there appears to be a BIT of a theme going on this season 🐟🐡🐠🪸🐚

Through Lisbon, 2021 by Evgeny Lushpin (Russian, b. 1966). Oil on canvas | 91 × 66 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

"Once in a Blue Moon" we actually get a blue Moon! 🌕️ A Calendrical Blue Moon is defined as the second full Moon to occur in a calendar month. Almanac.com/MoonPhase

We been knew.

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

Ever fretted about not having a handy place to keep all your leeches? Well, here it is ~ handsome 1860s earthenware jar designed for apothecaries to store their medicinal leeches, with perforated lid so the little fellows can breathe collection.maas.museum/object/182254

This watercolour of Catalina Island by Swedish/American artist Gunnar Widforss ~ a detailed study of colour, light and shadow ~ looks as fresh here as it did when it was painted just over 100 years ago (1921)

Daily bunny no.3258 ready for dessert

ONE MORE TIME: None of us (myself included) should be spending even one moment or ounce of energy discussing 2028 until AFTER THE MIDTERMS. There's numerous reasons for this including the fact that THE OUTCOME OF THE MIDTERMS WILL ITSELF LIKELY HEAVILY INFLUENCE WHO RUNS IN 2028 ANYWAY.

For the “Do something!“ crowd, the Democrats did something.

This is considered a huge win under the rule of a fascist regime. Schumer and Jeffries have never stopped doing their jobs. Sorry if they aren’t performative enough for some of you “Resign!” Resisters.

'Karin reading,' watercolor by Carl Larsson, 1904

50 years ago....On this date in 1976, “I’m Just a Bill” first hit the airwaves on Schoolhouse Rock! I miss Schoolhouse Rock... 🗣Well, now I'm stuck in committee....

To really illustrate how profoundly stupid, self-absorbed, & unthinking antivaxxers are just consider the very-easily-predictable results of what would happen if they got their way & stopped other people from vaccinating. They’d suffer and die, too. Cause vaccination isn’t just an individual choice.

Britain, 1938

A very good boy guarding his family home for 2,000 years! 🐾 Roman mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

With inflation, this is like 8.75 hats today W.M. Morrison c1898 Library of Congress

Alphonse Mucha 1896

Destiny Unbound - Horses of The Camargue with backlit sunset light. The Camargue is a natural region located south of Arles, France

Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978) First Signs of Spring [First Crocus], 1947 Oil on canvas 22 x 17 in (55.88 x 43.18 cm) Norman Rockwell Museum #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Jean-Francis Auburtin, 1866-1930. French painter. Belle-Ile, 1896 Oil on canvas 65 x 92 cm 25 1/2 x 36 in - private collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Senate Democrats had quite the week: The shoved Mike Lee and the SAVE Act into a locker and then won the DHS funding showdown. Not bad.

An Afternoon Tea II (2026) - Elena Wuest (b.1977) #contemporary_painting #minimalism

Two Fairies Embracing in a Landscape with a Swan (c.1900) - Hans Zatzka (1859-1945) #romantic #mythological_painting

Rest easy, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Aretha Franklin & Roberta Flack 💙💙💙💙 🕊🕊🕊🕊 Legendary.

Sarah Vaughan, Jazz Singer, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in Newark, New Jersey 📸 William Gottlieb (New York Çity, 1946)