🔸 Arroyo Coyote Tracks 🔸 mixed media painting Painted after encountering these tracks while exploring the dry tributaries that feed into a river valley. These tracks were new since our passage the day before, further revealing how this vein of the landscape is an active wildlife corridor.

"We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists... we didn't know of a single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure raw false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast."

I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.

I will be honest: we are not talking nearly enough about the downstream effects of these ICE and CBP deployments. For example: landlords and debt collectors file more aggressive collection and eviction suits with dubious (or no) factual bases, knowing that the defendants won't go to the courthouse.

The first thing Israel did was to cut energy off from Gaza. The US is doing the same with Cuba.

Feeling a lot of anticipatory hurt in my heart for the people of Cuba. They've offered the world so much and have endured the punishment of the US sanctions for generations-- to fully lock them down and starve them out now, right there off the coast... It's so beyond cruel.

time to be loud about this terrible decision. discord.com/company-info...

🔸 Roadrunner's Celestial Highway 🔸 Mixed media painting, 2.5" x 7" Here's the finished roadrunner! The original will be available on my patreon tomorrow (www.patreon.com/sasharjones), and I'll have playmats and prints at MFF this coming week.

A little warm up mixed media painting piece of a self-assured gryphon. Really the whole thing was a bit of an excuse to work with this vibrant scarlet color, if I'm being honest...

Just quit my weekend job at the torment nexus! (i was working 7 days a week for the past 2 years to pay off my substantial debts 💅)

Release

Very good digital security guide. Don't be a bozo, your security is your friend's security.

Slowly emerging from a chronic fatigue flare up week... I wish I knew what triggered this shit so I could avoid it better. I'm trying to start doing bits of journaling in my sketchbook more often and noting down how I'm doing, so hopefully I can figure out trends over time.

Finished up by fun warm-up dragon I was working on at FC! ✨This piece is partially the result of a red posca eruption, made into a happy accident by me picking up a cheap plastic knife that was nearby and combing the paint into some cool textures, then working from there.

Evening two of working on this fun little piece-- it's becoming more involved than I intended (as usual) but I'm also getting to go some cool places so it feels worth it so far!

"Ash Dance" 4" x 6" mixed media (mostly acrylic gouache and ballpoint pen) on toned paper mounted on reclaimed panel. Another experimental mixed media piece from last year, this time inspired by Phil Hale's work.

shit sucks, but this is far from the end. Grab onto one another and never let go. They’ve been trying to divide us for years so that we’re easier to topple. Individualism is poison.

Finished up by fun warm-up dragon I was working on at FC! ✨This piece is partially the result of a red posca eruption, made into a happy accident by me picking up a cheap plastic knife that was nearby and combing the paint into some cool textures, then working from there.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Pro tip: If you are attending a rally or action, wear a N95 mask & bring extras to give to others. High quality masks can serve triple-duty: they prevent you and others from getting sick from airborne viruses, they keep your face warm in the freezing cold, & they can protect against surveillance.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

Minneapolis says no to ICE.

I deleted TikTok back when the Oracle purchase was announced but if you've still got it, you GOTTA dump it. Especially for trans folks. It straight up says in the new TOS that they--Oracle, the company that has active ties to the Trump admin--are monitoring and documenting trans and NB users.

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

Thank you for a great FC--always a wonderful start to the year! Now that that's over with, I finally can carve out some time for artwork again... ✨

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

See you in 3 hours!

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

If you're attending FC and are interested in plant and mushroom identification and foraging, I'd love to have you at my panel this Friday evening! We'll be covering a lot of tools that are helpful for beginners and experts alike, and exploring the historical context

🔹 Entropy 🔹 9" x 12" mixed media on reclaimed panel. Probably my most important painting from last year. A wolf made of falling apart, a radical and fierce acceptance of the decay and change of self, of becoming a part of everything else. Original sold, prints available: sasharjones.com/store

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Why masking in 2026? Beyond COVID it's still cold and flu season, dealers can't opt out of their own sales room, and most don't get any kind of sick pay. I have also heard some mention how art is their profession in part because of chronic illness or disability, so the stakes differ vs the public.

As an Indigenous person, watching Trump make plans to invade an Indigenous territory is fucking terrifying. Everyone is making this about Denmark, but it will be Inuit facing this new wave of violent colonization.

Maranda and I have been wanting to do this talk for over a year now-- so excited to finally get to be doing it very soon! Come ask us your traditional art questions next week at Further Confusion!

This is basically the central message of If We Burn by Vincent Bevins. One of the most important books published in recent years

🔻 THE BEST IS YET TO COME 🔻 9" x 12" mixed media on panel Despite all the reasons to despair, to fear, despite knowing there is surely anguish yet to come: I also know this to be true. I have not lived to see my best moments yet. There is triumph and beauty and love still hidden over the horizon.

🔹 special power 🔹 mixed media painting this piece was an expression of a desire, almost a prayer— to find your special power, your inner reserve of potential, or the power to make change in yourself or the world around you, to hold that capability in your hand in and in your heart.

Organizing is a performance by an in-grouop to convince *other people* to join you in *an action* that furthers progress towards *a material goal*. No other people? Just an action. No action? Study group or podcast. No goal? Group therapy. These things are fine, but they are not *organizing*.

Get your vaccines before FC, hotties

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

Microblogging is just a catastrophically bad form of human interaction. If you sat down to design a system specifically meant to make people act out and create harassment mobs, you'd be hard pressed to build something more effectively toxic.

It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.

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There are protests in Bengal, Turkey, Canada, London etc. great to see. Workers all over the world should stand against US imperialist aggression and demand their government doesn’t support this

God I am so sick of living in the heart of an unbearably evil empire. My thoughts are with the people of Venezuela

Dreaming Horse by Franz Marc, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137668

Honestly my favourite work from 2025, and it was a random MS paint challenge #pixelart

Just did my annual end-of-year wrap up:

Capitalism is unsustainable. A system organized around endless profit accumulation cannot coexist with a finite planet. Protecting the Earth in the long term requires abolishing profit as the guiding principle of production.