© Raoof Haghighi. 'Black,' 2026. Acrylic on canvas. 40 x 50 cm.

WMPG DJ Bobby Shaddox sings the. weather report in tribute to Bonnie Tyler's "Holding out for a Hero." youtu.be/jTm5Gl5-VkY

new video, fresh off the presses. i discuss justice jackson's concurrence and sam alito's disturbing dissent.

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕

i will say that although this is the beginning of the right’s assault on birthright citizenship, one difference with roe v. wade is that the latter was fueled by a mass movement with a broad, institutionalized base in the nation’s evangelical and catholic churches. the question, i think…

Acclaimed Artist Mitchell Rasor Speaks at the 2026 New Jersey International Film Festival on June 5! Read the story at: www.newjerseystage.com/articles2/20...

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

#Photography #Monochrome #FanHo

Happy Mother's Day.

2026 New Jersey International Film Festival Official Selection #20 Salt Marsh - Tom Bell (Yarmouth, Maine) With a haunting, original score by Lee Ranaldo, this film explores art, climate + solitude through the reflections of artist Mitchell Rasor. 2025; 15 min. watch.eventive.org/2026newjerse...

If you love Star Wars, thank the editor not the director

Crazy that President Zelensky has never demanded a $400 million gold bricked ballroom to feel safe.

The fact that russia refuses to end the war despite huge military and economic losses (both relative and absolute) for zero strategic gain underscores that the war was never about security in military terms, but always about imperialist conquest driven by identity delusions.

Casa Batllò / Barcelona #Odd #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

The most accurate indicator that something bad is about to happen.

The Susan Collins Concern Meter just hit 9.5 bsky.app/profile/atru...

#sunset behind a tree! What a perfect photo!

Evening viewing recommendation? “You can learn more from John Sturges’s audio track on the BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school” - Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997.

An actual war hero from Maine, Joshua Chamberlain, quit his job at a college and learned how to defeat Lee by reading a book about how to be a military officer. He read a book. Anyway. They should have hanged Lee outside the White House.

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

This is the guy who likes to downplay non-fatal injuries suffered by US service members in combat.

NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

the sacrifices i make for this job

"We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst..." Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis. Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫 1/

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.

There is no good military option with regard to Greenland, because the whole idea is insane. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3LuoB0O

I want the world to know how ashamed I am. This is not what Americans want. I recognize Greenland's sovereignty and their right to remain independent. If Greenland was ever threatened, the real America would show up to support them and leave when it's over. That's what real allies do. I'm sorry.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis slammed Stephen Miller: “…You don’t speak on behalf of this U.S. senator or Congress. You can say it may be the position of the president that Greenland should be a part of the US, but it’s not the position of this government. Because we are a co-equal branch.”

I don't want Trump or the United States to be "in charge" of the Western hemisphere. I want The United States to be a part of a rules based International system where we respect borders.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.

Trump just handed Russia and China all kinds of pretext and precedent to take illegal, unilateral action. We are headed into very dangerous times.

The 1st #CupOfJoe of 2026 goes to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy & Olena Zelenskyy. They believe in the sanctity of their country, & work tirelessly towards a free Ukraine. Their indomitable spirit is admirable. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.

just for the record, I would much prefer to live in a time where all it takes to support hundreds of good local jobs is to wake up every day and buy a newspaper for a nickel from a legally employed minor with a cool hat

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Today marks 160 years since the ratification of the 13th amendment, which abolished legal slavery in the United States. We honor those who fought for freedom and rededicate ourselves to advancing justice, equality, and civil rights for all.

highly recommend one of my favorite 2024 reads "Brought Forth On This Continent" by Harold Holzer for anyone interested in Abraham Lincoln, his views on immigration, and how we're very clearly repeating America's past in endless circles

We went to visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum today and I saw a great response to the claim that we can’t have DC statehood because it would make the flag look funny.

A watched pot never boils, but let me tell ya, a pot full of potatoes will boil over the moment you take your eyes off it.

As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...