Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

Home of Sunday’s FIFA World Cup final, with the overseer of the concentration camps, Donald Trump, in attendance.

Dia Al-Azzawi (Iraq, b.1939), "Landscape No 1," acrylic on canvas, 1983; photo: Christie's. #art #arte #modernart #contemporaryart #iraq #middleeast #middleeasternart #acrylic #paintings #paintingoncanvas #museum #artgallery

Drop something monochromatic 🖤🤍🩶

John Singer Sargent, Ralph Curtis on the Beach in Scheveningen, 1880

A mighty, positive, giving force over generations.

This newsletter might be helpful navigating the parasite situation. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Unless Blanche brought the rest of the Epstein Files with him to the hearing— which he was required to provide to this body many months ago— he should have been booked and fingerprinted at the door and given a notice to appear, not seated for a freakin’ interview.

How do you apply investigative skills to environmental stories? Join us tomorrow for a live talk with Press Awards Environmental Journalist of the Year Costanza Gambarini (@source-material.org). She'll explain how she combines digital research with rigorous reporting. discord.gg/bellingcat?e...

@ejeancarroll.bsky.social: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”

George Bellows Central Park (1905)

If Argentina advances, Cabo Verde should automatically get third place. 🇨🇻

Pausa de hidratación

Google's Pentagon contract is the clearest test yet of DeepMind's bet that a strong safety culture and personal trust can stand in for real governance, including independent oversight, transparency, and accountability This bet has failed. It can't Trust is not governance

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

That crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Yeats, That Crazed Girl Ph. Arnold Genthe, 1922 Anna Duncan, Isadorables dancer

Reports of a 🔥 in North Philly ..

Bay Area, you need to get to the Etruscans show at the Legion of Honor. I thought it might be a retread of Rome's Villa Giulia museum — it's not. It's gorgeous, unexpected, huge, and wonderful. Read @sahotchkiss.bsky.social for @kqedarts.bsky.social here

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See story for SALUTE recommendations, contact protocols etc. www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/07/13/c...

#Art: Up/Rooted (2025) #Artist: #CydneJasminColeby (b. 1993; #🇧🇸) #ArtMovement/Style: #AfroFuturism #Collage #VisualArt Medium: Mixed media on paper 106.7 × 78.7 cm (42 × 31 in) #DailyArt #TalkArt #Artsy #ArtPost #FineArt #ArtHerstory #WomensArt 258

Today we celebrated at the ribbon cutting of the El Cerrito del Norte complete streets project. San Pablo Ave and intersecting streets are now much safer for all people - walking, biking, or driving. Next step is planning to make all of San Pablo Ave safe, in El Cerrito and beyond.

Fascinating story about the Mascogos of Coahuila – an Afrodescendent group who arrived in Mexico in the 19th century fleeing slavery in the U.S. english.elpais.com/internationa...

From Haymarket Books, in paper or as a digital download, with free live events around the country.

Manishi Dey (India, 1909-1966), Untitled (Woman), mixed media on paper, 1962; photo: Christie's. #art #arte #portrait #india #indianart #asianart #modernart #mixedmedia #museum #artgallery

Good Afternoon✨ Marc Chagall ~ The Sun of Poros, 1968

If you want to have an awesome day: take a dinosaur obsessed kid to a natural history museum. If you don’t have a kid, borrow one.

“Stop The Slop” … pro sloganeering. Albany Bulb, Albany, Cal., July ‘26. (personal 📷)

Very pleased to learn that this photo of mine has been shortlisted in the 2026 Australian Photography Awards. Magnetite in waiting. Piles of magnetite (against a backdrop of a rusty red roof) waiting to be loaded onto a ship at the Whyalla steelworks.

De Turingia. 1905 Edvard Munch. Noruego, 1863-1944.

Ashley Bickerton, Tormented Self-Portrait (Susie at Arles), 1987-88 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136238

This is 'curtains for zoosha' territory

Georgia SoS Raffensperger recorded the “perfect call” with Trump because Graham lied about his earlier call

'Noon' by contemporary Ukrainian painter Olesya Hudyma #WomensArt #Summer

'Quiet Shore' (July 11, 2026) mixed media art by Jin Kobayashi

Andrey Zakirzyanov- The Tower, ca. 2012 #Art

This week in clouds. #MentalHealthMatters 💙

Farallon Islands, near San Francisco 🦭 🦭 🦭 🦭 Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

A leucistic Bald Eagle🦅 📸credit in frame

Blue Green Yellow Orange Red by Ellsworth Kelly, 1966 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137719

This Afro-Brazilian Photographer Preserves the History of Black Resistance in Bahia Lázaro Roberto and the Zumví Archive weave memory and identity. hammerandhope.org/article/afro...

Museum of Applied Arts, Hungary Zsolnay factory (Pécs) 1899-1900

Skyline cleanse 🌿 Clinton Gulch today

Meanwhile in Catalunya ..

Mark Rothko, Latvian-American (1903-1970), No. 3/No. 13, 1949, oil on canvas, 216.5 x 164.8 cm, MoMA, New York City, New York, USA

Hello gorgeous jellyfish 🪼 I’ve finally gotten back to the studio at the end of this week—I’m about to transition into exploring heavy texture abstract work so this is the last collage for a bit! If you’re a fellow multi passionate creative, you’re feelin’ me🤪 #art #collage #artoftheday #mixedmedia

"There is no more important memory to revive today than the story of the fight over the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — especially its contentious Title VII section outlawing employment discrimination on grounds of race, color, sex, national origin, and religion." hammerandhope.org/article/civi...

Hah! (With Benny Goodman as "Shoeless" John Jackson due to contractual issues. He was signed with Columbia Records at the time. —youtube poster BCN Fan)

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