The Age of Enshittification www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Gaza City residents told to ‘leave now’, while UN human rights chief condemns Israel for ‘war crime upon war crime’.

Opinion | The One Danger That Should Unite the U.S. and China - The New York Times @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

abcnews.go.com/US/trump-ree... From July

www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/p... From July

"All I really want is honesty. Mass shootings are the price we pay for the Second Amendment. It’s as simple as 2+2. Why can’t gun defenders just say that?"

Anyone surprised? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

At Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump’s performance “seemed right out of the Kremlin playbook,” @sbg1.bsky.social writes. What did he reveal about his Administration’s true plans?

Cecilia Alemani for Artforum's Under the Cover video series www.artforum.com/video/cecili...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @owenjones.bsky.social

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“A Disney vacation today is “for the top 20 percent of American households — really, if I’m honest, maybe the top 10 percent or 5 percent” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/o... From 2023 @shorterbrooks.bsky.social “In 2020, Biden won only 500 or so counties, but together they are responsible for 71 percent of the American economy. Trump won over 2,500 counties, responsible for only 29 percent.”

Neil Young Responds to Donald Trump's Takeover of D.C. With Vicious New Protest Song 'Big Crime' - Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

From 2023

A Stain on Judaism Itself - by Peter Beinart substack.com/inbox/post/1...

A.I. Is Coming for Culture | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Israel says it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for a military offensive in some of the territory's most populated areas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o... @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

MACBA Barcelona: Coco Fusco: I Learned to Swim on Dry Land – My Art Guides myartguides.com/exhibitions/...

And the winner is... Hoda Afshar Untitled #01 (from the series Code Black/Riot), 2024, National Portrait Gallery www.portrait.gov.au/npppphoto/10...

With “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee turns Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 drama into what is one of his most personal films, both emotionally and intellectually, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social ‬ writes.

Julia Child, who was born on this day, in 1912, was known as a titan of the culinary arts. But she was also highly politically engaged, speaking openly about her support for Planned Parenthood and her disgust with the Republican Party.

James Baldwin didn’t believe in reform; he believed in revolution. “Anything less than a total social reckoning—a complete psychological makeover of white America—was worthless,” Louis Menand writes.

Your attempts to reconfigure peace-builders as perpetrators of "hate" is a cruel and dangerous lie in the face of the murder and starvation of an entire people. Films and talks about Palestine is not conspiracy theory. #auspol #IsraelPalestine

Latest news! North Carolina Reps. joined together to propose a bipartisan resolution for continued Red Wolf repopulation and recovery effort support, including building wildlife corridors. With only 18 known Red Wolves left in the wild, every step forward is vital. Read more: 🔗 bit.ly/4mDSqZC

Quiznos? Cosi? Subway? Jimmy John's? Jersey Mike's? Any sub shop I visit from this day forward will be judged not only on the taste & value of its sandwiches, but their weight, velocity, & stability of their wrapping.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/14/d... Art Newspaper Newsletters

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/2025/08... Bendigo Writers Festival

Congrats to Liu Jiakun on winning the Pritzker Prize! It was an honour to meet him (and his many cats) in Chengdu recently www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Demis Hassabis on 'Radical Abundance' and our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ | DeepMind | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

British Art Show names Ekow Eshun as curator for upcoming 10th edition - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/07/b...