📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today the United States is being “humiliated by the Iranian leadership.” He also questioned the endgame, warning that entering a conflict without an exit plan risks repeating failures seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Highlights from a riverbank walk: the avalanche of spring migrants is so thrilling to see. Red-Breasted Mergansers (best hair ‘do), Buffleheads, Eared Grebe, Black-necked Stilt #birds

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds. #Resist #NeverTrump @tonyhq1985.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @dpsl.bsky.social @terriresists.bsky.social @resist4harris.bsky.social @moberzan.bsky.social @57kev.bsky.social @realkingresist.bsky.social

Can't believe the mentalist didn't see the shooting coming...

Pamela Brown: A $430 million bet was placed moments before the president's latest announcement. Sam Liccardo: Five separate presidential announcements in the last month where we've seen excessive trading within minutes. This is not a mere coincidence. This is racketeering.

“We ought to be able to end hunger.”

Twin Peaks: Doctor Jacoby.

#WorldBookDay Graeme and Sarah Lorimer, *Men Are Like Streetcars* (Boston, Little, Brown and Company 1945) #BookCoverArt #DustJacketArt #GraemeLorimer #SarahLorimer

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Contact sheet of Billie Holiday recording the album Music for Touching Phil Stern, 1955

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

Paul Poiret Tissu pour robe, 1919

Remembering Joan Miró on his birthday 🎂 📷 Bill Brandt, 1963 "I have utter contempt for painting. I’m not interested in any school or any artist. Not one. I’m only interested in anonymous art, the kind that springs from the collective unconscious."

Joan Miró, Marc Chagall & Jacques Prévert at La Colombe d'Or restaurant, St. Paul de Vence 📷 Philippe Halsman, 1955

Joan Miró, Plaza real à Barcelone, regarde jouer les enfants 📷 Brassaï, 1955

"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..." www.eenews.net/articles/oil...

It’s amazing how much of our current hellscape has been driven by powerful white men with hurt feelings cause by the same black man.

Boucles, là.

Funambule des pétales.

SCTV 5/4-5:13 My only advice to you is when everything gets you down, you get up... AND MAMBOOOOOOO

when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it

Also folks don’t seem to appreciate the difference between work and school. At work you are trying to deliver a product effectively and efficiently. Is AI helpful to that end? Maybe? But in school you are TRAINING YOUR MIND. AI is not at all helpful.

@ektashahmd.bsky.social You see this?

Samuel Beckett & Jasper Johns by Robert Doisneau Paris, October, 1975

Eudora Welty by Nancy R. Schiff, 1993 "I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."

Remembering Valerie Hobson on her birthday 🎂 📷 Sasha, 1939 "Valerie was a tall, strong, intelligent girl with glorious eyes & a quick wit (too quick a wit, some people thought, but I had suffered too many English ladies to complain about that)." - Michael Powell

Here’s the moment, lost on all sides

Smiling Crocodiles. Isabel De Obaldia. Glass.

18th century Iranian bird scissors.

Baroque dance notation. #dance #dancenotation #baroquedance

Good morning! Today’s timeline cleanse? I wanted to take some photos of our Icelandic stallions, Ori & Baldur, with the autumn color on Tres Monjas but Baldur was much more interested in a play date with the ladies.

Song of the day

Hillary Clinton on war in Iran

Boulders with Moss at Flat Rock Oil on canvas 1985 christopherlewisart.com #art #painting #sydney #blueskyart

The Night Ferry to Therassia Gouache on paper 1985 christopherlewisart.com #art #painting #santorini #blueskyart

"Watch one thing this week: Ships through Hormuz --Not statements --Not markets If flows don’t recover, the system tightens further -- necessarily" I hate to bring X here, but it's silly to discuss any of this disaster without this context that I'm not seeing this clear anywhere else

For starters, he barnstormed the whole country six times in the two years that he entered the political stage in the spring of 2024. Here is a visualization by the invaluable Vox populi blog of his last campaign tour, broken down by the 106 electoral districts:

#OtD 13 Apr 1906 Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Samuel Beckett, was born. During the Nazi occupation of France, Beckett joined the French Resistance as a courier. After the war, he was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance for his efforts

Boy, feel like its been forever since the news of the day has yielded this - let's savor the moment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCB...

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

Victor Orban the original "spin dictator" has conceded defeat. The far right around the world have looked to Orban as the model. Trump and Vance interfered again and again to try and prop him up. Clearly the people in Hungary want nothing to do with Trump. This is a great day for democracy.

Peter Beard ~ Francis Bacon on his Roof, London, 1972 #FrancisBacon #Photography

So killing their spiritual leader, bombing an elementary school, threatening to wipe out their civilization, referring to it as a Christian holy war, and sending Mr. Personality Vance to negotiate didn’t get things resolved?

Florence Reece, daughter of a Kentucky coal miner and married to Sam Reece, an organizer for the radical National Miners Union, wrote “Which Side Are You On?” in the 1930s. It became an anthem for all workers and a reflection of working-class consciousness and solidarity that is still sung today.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

Reposting Vasa for #ShipPicSaturday - wonderful wonderful museum, would love to go back.

SNCF La BB 9266 en gare de Lyon Perrache avec le Mistral train 1 en 1963. Les BB 9200 pionnières de la Grande Vitesse, ont fait les trains les plus prestigieux.

Whelp they couldn’t even spell secretary.

"America fought to defeat fascism. This ‘triumphal arch’ reeks of it." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0... Yes there are still a few great journalists at the Post. Thank you @philipkennicott.bsky.social and thank you whoever shepherded this into print.