Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021. The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down. The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker. This is what she did with it: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Still thinking about "Unmanned Drone" by Kara Walker, made out of a decommissioned statue of Stonewall Jackson. Going to be thinking about it for years. My god.

The first look at the scale of Disney backlash after it suspended Kimmel. Wow>> “Antenna estimated a total of 3 million cancellations for Disney+ and 4.1 million for Hulu in September. Both of those figures far exceeded the trailing three-month averages for the services” www.wsj.com/business/med...

Kahlil Robert Irving's meticulous bronze replica of the streets of Ferguson. A beclowned statute of a Confederal naval commander, Matthew Fontaine Maury: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week. This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In 2021, a violently contested statue of Robert E. Lee was finally taken down from its pedestal in Charlottesville. In 2023, it was melted down into bronze ingots. Its remnants are now are on display in Los Angeles, in a new exhibit called MONUMENTS: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The one of Jeff Davis is exhibited exactly as it lay after being toppled by Richmonders in the summer of 2020, paint and all. Personally, it’s one of the most impactful exhibits at the Valentine and I’m glad more people get to experience it.

In 2021, a violently contested statue of Robert E. Lee was finally taken down from its pedestal in Charlottesville. In 2023, it was melted down into bronze ingots. Its remnants are now are on display in Los Angeles, in a new exhibit called MONUMENTS: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week. This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

“ “Who heals a wound that continually opens itself?”- Kara Walker www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Artist Karon Davis used her son, Moses, as the model for this sculpture of a young Black man holding a statue of a Confederate general by his horse’s tail. Descendants (2025)" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021. The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down. The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker. This is what she did with it: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Charlottesville’s monuments, transformed, are on display in major LA exhibition. From @loisbeckett.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My birthday is Sunday and for as long as I can remember I have used that occasion to raise needed funds for a project, organization or person. This year is no different. I have a goal of raising $5000 by 10/20 for EvLovesNYC @evlovesnyc.bsky.social - If you can & want to, please support this project

There's plenty of complexity to the story of Ian Roberts, the Black Iowa superintendent arrested by ICE. But the way the @nytimes.com chose to frame this article is racist and shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

"The contest has included levels of on-camera drama that surpass even those of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." I covered Fat Bear Week victor "32 Chunk"--a brutal villain from previous seasons who finally found his redemption arc: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My favourite genre of journalism is mainstream outlets writing measured, comprehensive reports in the same manner they would write any other report, but the subject is utterly whimsical www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

"I wondered if, in person, a SeaWorld performance might feel more like a farce, or even a tragedy. What I did not expect was that Ginuwine’s SeaWorld concert would turn out to be a masterclass in ageing gracefully." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Another hit by @loisbeckett.bsky.social

This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker. The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

"He also called the diner “a shiny beacon of hope in an otherwise sort-of bleak urban landscape”. (It is located on Santa Monica Boulevard, in a neighborhood full of high-end art galleries.)" Honestly...

“The generic-brand cola tasted cheap and was served with a woke bamboo straw.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Retro-futurism”, in this case, seemed to mean gorgeous, Tesla-inspired, mid-century modern architecture coupled with wait times that would shutter an ordinary McDonald’s. I visited Elon Musk's new Hollywood diner: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“A waffle, branded with the Tesla lightning bolt, was cold. The heap of kale was only partially dressed. The generic-brand cola tasted cheap. But the food came in elaborate Cybertruck boxes – and they were, to be honest, delightful. @loisbeckett.bsky.social visits the Tesla diner

"Earth is being slowly dehydrated by the unmitigated mining of groundwater, which underlies vast proportions of every continent." Terrifying @propublica interactive by @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

"The majority of the earth’s population lives in the 101 countries that the study identified as losing fresh water... This suggests the middle band of Earth is becoming less habitable." @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social on the latest data: www.propublica.org/article/wate...

"The majority of the earth’s population lives in the 101 countries that the study identified as losing fresh water... This suggests the middle band of Earth is becoming less habitable." @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social on the latest data: www.propublica.org/article/wate...

"Earth is being slowly dehydrated by the unmitigated mining of groundwater, which underlies vast proportions of every continent." Terrifying @propublica interactive by @abrahm.bsky.social + @lucaswaldron.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

Disneyland at 70: artists on the park’s five best rides – and why they still captivate

Intressant i Guardian om en trend jag missat men helt ställer mig bakom: It’s sexy! It’s Swedish! It’s everywhere! How princess cake conquered America www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...

You cannot imagine how fast I clicked on this @loisbeckett.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...

"Princess Cake is more subversive than its smooth marzipan surface might suggest... Its green coating might conjure up a buxom extraterrestrial, but that doesn’t really change the fundamental impression: this cake is very, very sexy." www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...

"LACMA's Michael Govan noted that the sleek leather benches in the sunlit galleries were only there as temporary place-holders: architect Peter Zumthor had requested red-brown leather benches stuffed with duck feathers, which had yet to be installed." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“In this moment, while we’re seeing the worst of our federal administration, we are seeing the best here in the city of Los Angeles." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Also if I owe you an email now you know why I'm behind! Support @coyotemedia.org now please and thank you! givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Can confirm. For reporters covering this, it's in PACER or give me your email and I can forward a copy.

“It is difficult to describe. It is a terrible fear,” he said. “It feels like a sandbag falling on your body. Your vision starts to darken – because the American dream is escaping you at that moment.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tolokonnikova was in Los Angeles to display a new performance piece called Police State, which includes a replica Russian prison cell like the ones in which she was incarcerated for nearly two years, including in the notorious penal colony IK-14 in Mordovia.

This article is incredible, and if you're an artist you should read it.

“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”

Irony, by now long dead, somehow continues to be brutally murdered

Wormhole indeed. An incredible read. "I was thinking of dehumanization and scapegoating as a universal mechanism – applied with heartbreaking ruthlessness both back home and here,”

“What does violence prevention work look like without the federal government? These cuts are forcing us to come to terms with that." @abene-writes.bsky.social reports on Trump's elimination of funding for many gun violence prevention programs: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...