No quarter. “Some time later, we became aware of the ultimate owner and intended use of the building,” it said. “This transaction is still subject to certain approvals and closing conditions.”

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

Very important story you won't see elsewhere. Thank you, Gillian Brockell for keeping on this beat so doggedly! 🙏🏼 @gbrockell.bsky.social

Flamboyant Borrego sky Wednesday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

August Macke : Woman with a Yellow Jacket, 1913 Watercolor

Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides

Washington Post journalists have been on X begging Jeff Bezos not to destroy their international reporting and sports too. I found it very moving to hear them talk about their work. So many of the foreign correspondents have risked their lives. Like Siobhán O'Grady, the Ukraine bureau chief ⤵️

Profound Longing (1965) by Hans Hofmann

Joan Mitchell, Begonia, 1982

Self-Portrait/ by David Hockney Collage on newsprint

AI is immoral, and any further growth must be blocked now. “The gas projects in development in the US will, if all completed, cause 12.1bn tonnes in carbon dioxide emissions over their lifetimes, which is double the current annual emissions coming from all sources in the US.” tinyurl.com/3xwdbc5p

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Remembering Anton Chekhov on his birthday 🎂 🎨 Osip Braz, 1898 "Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another."

“In my neighbourhood, there were Black photojournalists and my mom had a beauty shop so I grew up looking at Ebony, Jet, and Life magazine. I was curious why they were all missing from the history books, and I felt it was important these names needed to be known.”

Alice Neel, “Woman,” 1966. Oil on canvas. On view at the Anthony Meier booth at SF FOG Design+Art Fair, Jan. ‘26. ( Personal 📷)

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States." www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

Corner of Vin Scully and Stadium Way, Dodger Stadium.

Angelenos, train up (see info at 2:30 mark). Bad guys are doubling down. Tx, L.A. Taco!..

Electric Madonna by M. H. Maxy, 1926, Romanian Modern Art Gallery (Bucharest, Romania) #ArtHistory #ModernArt #Cubism #RomanianAvantGarde

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

out of the bottle, 2023 #photography #reflections #conceptphotography #stilllife

“Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well. Where thinking suddenly stops in a configuration pregnant with tensions, it gives that configuration a shock, by which it crystallizes into a monad.” — Walter Benjamin (1940)

Lysander-1 by Jules Olitski, 1970 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137351

An Expansive New ‘Skyspace’ by Perceptual Artist James Turrell Debuts in Aarhus

4000 years old, for those in the rafters..

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office www.science.org/content/arti...

Vincent van Gogh, Houses at Auvers, 1890.

Alexandre Calame (1810-1864) Hochgebirgstal mit Felsblöcken.

Tom Verlaine ~ There's a Reason (from Dreamtime, 1981) #NowPlaying #TomVerlaine #MusicSky Guitars all over the place Verlaine is great Verlaine🌟 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmow...

Give ‘em a follow, kick ‘em a fiver. Free coverage from yet another American front line.

As seen on r/nursing Alex Pretti's coworkers taking a moment of silence to honor him

From the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, and held in San Francisco.

Robert Adams, “Cloud and Sunlight. Glory.” 2020-2024. Wood and paint. On view at the Fraenkel Gallery booth, SF FOG Art+Design, Jan. ’26. (Personal 📷)

Hannes Caspar

If the Dutch are banning fat bikes, fat bikes should be banned.

for Alex Pretti

© Tatsuo Suzuki. Portrait

Can’t help myself from spinning this album over and over — Germaine Tailleferre: Chamber Music and Piano Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yT7...

First paragraph of the lede story in the main French daily, the very straight-laced Le Monde: "One shouldn't forget to say this when describing what's happening these days: a social experiment by the Trump administration that involves pushing a city to its limits." www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Snowfall is going to put traffic engineers out of a job. Just replace the snow with sidewalk level concrete and tada you’re done

Ed Ruscha, President, 1972. Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 61 cm. #painting #art #abstract #words

Lee Krasner, Imperative, 1976, oil, charcoal and paper on canvas, 127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in.) #painting #drawing #collage #art #abstract www.nga.gov/artworks/722...

#DumpTrumpTok.

The amazing pros at Bellingcat, a collective of investigative journalists and superbly skilled tech geeks, have now posted their detailed analysis of the shooting of Alex Pretti based upon all available images and video. They leave zero doubt that every word uttered by the Trump Admin is a lie.

Statement by President Clinton

I don’t see too many people talking about what an incredible accomplishment it was for MN officials and lawyers to get those affidavits and that motion written and filed and to get a Trump appointed judge to issue a TRO against the feds to stop them from destroying evidence - all in the same day.