This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.

The Poof 💨

Evening grosbeaks.

New Hungarian PM brutally confronts a news channel that banned him for years.

I'm just saying, it should have been a huge red flag when he started autographing Bibles.

This illustrates the need for broad and comprehensive reforms with money in politics. We need an international “No Dictators Day” before he steps up his attack on the nation he was supposed to govern, not humiliate. 😱🤬 This man is our nation’s enemy. He must be impeached. The world is watching.. 🤺🇺🇸

#ResistanceRoots Sarah Bagley was born on this day in 1806 in Candia, N.H. She was a labor leader and social reformer who spearheaded the first major union for working women in the U.S. She is best known for her activism on behalf of female mill workers in Lowell, Mass. /1

Me: Why are your mashed potatoes SO good? Let me watch what you do. Him: [adds five times more butter than I do]

Asking them to defend their positions as SURVIVORS is like TELLING THEM THEY DESERVE TO BE MOLESTED AGAIN. WE HAVE THE FILES RELEASE THEM 🤬😬😬

It was like 90° two days ago

This Day in #History 1927 Actress Mae West found guilty of “obscenity and corrupting the morals of youth” in a NY stage play entitled "Sex". She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined $500, the resulting publicity launches her Hollywood career.

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

The void blinked, and in the gap between darkness and forever, an iris of azure flame and gilded interstellar dust unfolds. Tendrils of dying starlight comb the black for a last embrace—a universe-wide sigh dressed in a halo of final, radiant breath.

John Gillo (British Artist, born 1948) "Rivermouth", 2013. Acrylic on Canvas, 40.8 x 50.8 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Trump is operating on a false premise. He thinks that if he threatens "wiping out a civilization," & they don't surrender to the threat, that he is then justified in bombing them into oblivion. The threat alone is a war crime. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for executing the threat. Boxing himself in.

The rich are screaming 😱 that people with second vacation homes over 5 million dollars will just flock to Florida if you put an extra tax on these poor people! WTF? 🤬 I lived in Florida these are New York SUMMER Vacation homes . You idiots obviously have never been to Florida in the summer

"Adan" shared this photo from the Coachella CA where hes picking green beans. "I get paid 40 cents per pound. The work is exhausting - especially due to the excessive heat in the area. But this is how I support my family." #WeFeedYou

"My son always texts to say he's on his way home. So I open the door, letting his 17 year old cat, and 16 year old doggo know that he's on his way. This is them waiting for him. Though it was adorable, and wanted to share." ❤️ Original post

"Oh, when will ignorance be dethroned, and reason and justice reign supreme?" -Lucy Parsons, letter to the editor, The Socialist, 12/7/1878

Y'all remember that show from the 90s, Ally McBeal? Everyone got hung up on the dancing baby, but the scene where she finds out her crush is married and imagines getting hit in the chest with arrows is what I always think of.

👏👏👏 Wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR’s future with $80M gift www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!

Oh sweet the PlayStation I won in the auction came in! Got it for around $35 from a goodwill in Ohio. Didn't know it came with a game tho LOL

On the note of writing advice, here's one I got in graduate school that straddles the line between mean and actually good. I once turned in a story with no quotation marks around the dialogue. The professor asked why, and I didn't have an answer. He told me: "Find more interesting ways to rebel."

Spent the afternoon cross-stitching. First time I've had the mental energy to attempt this in months. Page 3 almost done.

US Trade Rep Greer arrived in Mexico City for the next round of USMCA review negotiations.

Really, they don't care ... as long as those dollars go into their pockets. Their "truth" is that they are getting richer.

I think of the historical buildings and knowledge that has been destroyed by the violence of war. Not just now but ever since war and violence on others was acceptable.

Truth, right here…👇 Pass. It. On. 😎✨

Another thing to enjoy in my Stargate SG-1, the bits outside of the sci-fi space battle, life and death adventures, something you don't see often nowadays. You know...competent, functional government.

We could do something. We really could. We are, in fact, not helpless.we did it with cars, we can do it with guns.

And probably a guy who showed 1,000 red flags, but nothing was ever done about it

10 children were shot today in Shreveport, LA and 8 of them died. The police chief just doesn’t know how something like this could ever happen. But I think he knows exactly how something like this could happen and it has to do with the > 393 million guns in this country w/ very little regulation.

Round 2 of negotiations now needed for a war we've already won and when the strait is open? Remember when Trump campaigned how amazing his negotiation skills were? When do we get to see that?

Love, That Little Band From Texas !🎸🎶♥️🎯🎉🎊🕶🥁🧰⚠️🔞♋️‼️☑️

Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup. He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal. He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage. He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed

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STEFANIK: President Trump didn't call for genocide, Jake. You are putting those words in his mouth TAPPER: 'Your entire civilization will die'? STEFANIK: It's the terrorist regime, Jake. He's targeting the terrorist regime TAPPER: You're changing his words!

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

Explosions Occurred in the Samara Region of Russia: the Novokuybyshevsk Refinery Was Attacked, and Smoke Rose Up On the morning of April 18, explosions occurred in the Samara region during an air alert: the region was attacked by drones.

Almost every conservative Republican I know is conservative because of racism.

RFK Jr. wouldn't know a thing about cancer even if it hired him.