The president wants taxpayers to pay half the bill for his new ballroom. 🏛️ This comes as inflation hits a 3-year high and gas prices soar. Stay informed on the stories that matter. Subscribe to the Lincoln Square Substack #BreakingNews #USPolitics #Trump

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Sounds like Kash Patel has infiltrated the highest levels of Antifa

"Biolabs" sounds scary, but what is the reality behind this bogeyman narrative spreading across our information space? "Biolabs ≠ Bioweapons labs: how an old conspiracy theory made a comeback" @inved.bsky.social inved.eu/insight/biol...

Trump’s day of reckoning will be here soon, but how can we make it sooner? https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-reckoning-is-coming-george-conway Become a Lincoln Loyal member to watch this episode of 6 Questions with @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social & special guest @gtconway.bsky.social

Russian artist and critic of Putin and Chechen leader shot dead in ⁠Poland www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This is so wild

Content from ‘independent’ pro-Kremlin influencers describing Moscow as ‘unfairly targeted by the West’ omits a central fact: sanctions were a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Colorado lawmakers praised farm workers, then stripped them of overtime pay equality. 1/2

I’m this nerd who checks every single line in insurance requests, approvals & medical summaries. The amount of “extra stuff” added by private clinics is enormous. 🤓 That’s how I uncovered that my parents got healthy teeth filed up for crowns they don’t need, which insurance then denied to pay for.

By contrast, people w/o vaccine are at higher risk of dying and not voting for fascism www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/c...

Per Zelenskyy, France will help restore the protective shelter over the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, while Swiss specialists will assist in rebuilding sites damaged at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Contract killing m.o.

Adelaide Hall (1901 – 1993), US born, UK-based jazz singer and entertainer and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance #WomensArt

Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt

GENERAL: “The $300,000,000,000 is real. Who cares where it comes from? The Iranians are still in charge. They’re gonna take that money and recover everything. You know that, Sean.” Even Fox guests aren’t letting them pretend Trump’s deal is good. (Obama had a deal for far less)

The Garden at Vetheuil - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9585

Widely known as a mentor to Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis' hallmark as a printmaker was the use of tonalities to evoke atmosphere and light, his technical bravura shows in this superb watercolour of bi-planes flying over New York City in 1919.

A rural scene from the troutbeck valley in the English lake District

"When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, 'May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, 'No, it did lots of other things too.'" ~James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) #Books #literature #Bloomsday

Once the snow shone for me Ounasvaara, Rovaniemi, Lapland #WhiteReindeer #Rovaniemi #Lapland #travel #Arctic #snow #moon #sky #trees #SkyAndEarth #scape #snowscape #nature #winter #chatgpt #OnceTheSnowShoneForMe

on this day in 1858 senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln gives his now famous "house divided" speech. "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." ~ Joseph Campbell

Farm in Normandy. Summer, 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12340

Happy birthday, Stan Laurel!

Arthur Szyk was a Polish-Jewish artist, born on this day in 1894. He worked primarily as a book illustrator and political artist. As an illustrator, he embraced of the traditions of medieval and Renaissance painting, especially illuminated manuscripts from those periods

🍋 #RecipeOfTheDay is a longtime favourite: my creamy, citrus-sharp Lemon Linguine! And just halve quantities if you haven’t got a tableful of people to feed. www.nigella.com/recipes/lemo...

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." ~ Leo Buscaglia

The Obamas with the artist and the new painting 💙

'Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.' Happy birthday, Joyce Carol Oates!

"Melody of Waves" by Ukrainian artist Shandor Alexander.

"Time of Bloom" by Ukrainian artist Shandor Alexander.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein

"One day - from the camp to Jerusalem" by Palestinian artist Imad Abu Shtayyah.

“Land Day” (2020) by the Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour.

"Mother's day, 1986" by Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour.

In Geneva Trump admitted the agreement with Iran was just a page and a half. Iran said it was a significant step towards *beginning* negotiations.

So basically the deal is just nothing?

It may seem odd that England’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded at a place called Old Slaughters, but that is how the world’s first SPCA took shape, on this day in 1824. #Animal #Welfare #Social #Reform #History #OTD

Words for our time

“We Shall Return” by Palestinian artist Imad Abu Shtayyah.

Our dear friend Irene shared 3 wonderful paintings by Ukrainian artist Shandor Alexander this morning, Tuesday. Please follow her as she always shows us beauty.

Emil Nolde (German, 1867–1956) "Clematis", 1934. Watercolor on Japan Paper, 45.5 × 34 cm. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Albert Marquet (French, 1875–1947) "View from a Balcony", 1945. Oil on Canvas, 65.1 × 50.2 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Interior with Flowers https://www.wikiart.org/en/marc-chagall/interior-with-flowers-1918

On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech now known as “A House Divided.” He was running for the Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, held by incumbent Stephen Douglas. #Slavery #Abolition #History #OTD

'Senegalese gardener.' (1922) After a successful start to his career in London, Rudolph Ihlee journeyed to Collioure in the Mediterranean, where the 'blond light that suppresses shadows,' had a profound effect on his work as he experimented with a spontaneous style of painting.

I barely remember measles and polio but even as a toddler I knew it was scary

Happy Bloomsday! On this day in 1904, Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle had their first date. Joyce used June 16th as the day when all the action takes place in his 1922 novel "Ulysses." #WriterSky #BookSky #Leopold #Bloom #History #OTD

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” -American writer Joyce Carol Oates, born on this day in 1938 #WriterSky #BookSky #WeWereTheMulvaneys #Blonde #Them #NationalBookAward #BOTD