This artwork shows a cropped portion of "The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host", a dramatic 1836 masterpiece by English Romantic painter John Martin.

Purity culture exposure linked to higher sexual shame in trauma survivors. This research highlights the deep impact that specific religious scripts can have on psychological recovery and sexual well-being. www.psypost.org/purity-cultu...

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"If you won't even sacrifice your comfort to your principles, you won't sacrifice greater things, that's for sure." www.the-reframe.com/are-you-brav...

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The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

Amazing work!

So big picture here is there is some guy that randomly is super close with John and has friends high up in the Israeli government. He connects John to fundraisers and bizarrely secures high level meetings with foreign governments as well. Also no one knows what his job is. Concerning!

‘Self Portrait with Milan.’ #Painting by Sasha Sokolova #art

Noah Shachtman: “The president may wish to be considered in the same class as Napoleon or Alexander the Great, but he is in danger of turning himself into the next Mobutu Sese Seko or Mohamed Suharto: a kleptocrat remembered not for his ideas, not for his power, but for his greed.”

Many Republican lawmakers think the purpose of college is not building technical or thinking skills to prepare students for their professional lives, but simply ideological indoctrination. And that they are not opposed to that per se, they just want it to be their kind of ideological indoctrination.

What’s surreal about this… a fifth of space x revenue comes from the federal government… www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

it’s so fucking dispiriting that Booker et al don’t understand this. a government without buy in from *everyone* doesn’t represent everyone. it’s literally Mitt Romney’s 47% gaffe turned into democratic policy. goddamn desolate out here.

just think about how republicans talk about people who don’t pay into the system and then think about why billionaires would want more of those people. just politics 101 stuff.

Jenness House IV, Truro - 1934 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/1036264

Happy 80th birthday to Cher, who has always understood the assignment.

#JiayingHe (何家英,) Ballet

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

HERE we fuckin go

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

HS counselor here. Each year I was reader of names. For those I did not know for sure I asked for a card with phonetics. Parents are there and if the school does not know the child's name that is embarrassing. I told friends that I spoke for 45 minutes at graduation and everyone was happy about it.

My father wrote his name on an index card that someone read into a stadium mic. This was 1980. Faculty were assigned to read the names from the cards by degree or department. It worked. Graduating class of over ~6,000. Names read, check.

I have the privilege of reading the names of the grads at my college of engineering. 500 people from all over the world. I meet them, listen to them pronounce the name their parents carefully selected for the thing they love most. I practice for hours. It’s the best work day of my year, every year.

The whole AI-to-make-graduation- efficient is bizarre. The most efficient way to award diplomas is by mail; there’s no logical need for ceremonies. The whole reason they exist is for the human touch & so people can celebrate each other. AI for “efficiency” here is nonsensical (& doesn’t even work🫠)

Breaking: Congratulations to Estonia for becoming the first Baltic state to shoot down a russian drone! Latvia and Lithuania should follow suit immediately.Poland and Romania should take note. Not a single drone from russia should be allowed to violate NATO airspace! news.err.ee/1610027866/i...

There goes the last moral Republican

Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

🔥 USA TODAY: @ffrf.org and @faithfulamerica.bsky.social: "religious progressives who oppose Christian nationalism, will protest at Rededicate 250 with an inflatable 'false prophet' that looks like a golden calf with the visage of a certain 47th president." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Meanwhile bsky.app/profile/papa...

The Witch by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer #Caturday

Lever de lune sur la mer, 1822 - Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), peintre allemand majeur du romantisme, célèbre pour ses paysages mystérieux et symboliques, exprimant la solitude et la contemplation face à la nature. #Romantisme #CasparDavidFriedrich

Béguinage de Bruges, 1951 - Willy Ronis (1910-2009), photographe français. #photographie #WillyRonis

Well it's new moon and time to release new art into the world! The long delayed newsletter will be emailed out at moon rise (6pm tonight UK) 🌚

Peacock ‘invasion’ of Italian seaside town ruffles feathers

Again I say: in addition to everything else awful about them, these people are just deeply fuckin weird

The Crowiness of Crows 10 x 8 Pen and ink It is not enough to say the crow flies purposefully, or heavily, or rowingly, or whatever. There are no words to capture the infinite depth of crowiness in the crow's flight.- Ted Hughes Get the art: www.lolajovan.com/store/p928/a... #art #crows

Friday night, late spring, eastern Massachusetts. Market Basket parking lot. Skies clearing after two days of rain. Robins chirping. Sparrows splashing in pothole puddles. Shopping cart scraping asphalt. The faces of strangers weary after the workweek. One breath in, one breath out. Night coming on.

Abandon Harris = Abandon Our Drinking Water Elections have consequences. I wish the Purity Police in the White Left could have grown up and realized that for once. But that maturity seems to be lacking in their movement.

Why does disability policy matter? Medicaid is the program that pays for the home care services that allow disabled people — kids, adults, seniors — to live in their own homes, with their families, instead of being locked up in institutions. RFK Jr's attacks on home care are incredibly unpopular

May 15, 1964: Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Cousin Joe Pleasant, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Muddy Waters, Otis Span, Ransom Knowling, Willie Smith • Hunter College Assembly Hall, New York, New York

Henri Martin The Facade of Marquayrol

I ran out of shampoo and used my wife's and what the fuck they have been robbing me my whole life how is this legal

Fetterman is a dick, but he's also the cover for all the Democrats who agree with him He's the convenient scapegoat

Maddow: Williamson County TN still has Confederate flag on its seal-and now they're carving up Memphis to erase Black voting power in Congress. This isn't subtle. It's engineered suppression. Call it what it is: JIM CROW 2.0.

Nara Park https://www.artic.edu/artworks/197044/

Happy Birthday to the one and only Bruce Goff. I wish his design for the Frank Cole House (1939) still existed in its original form. Now surrounded by McMansions, the home backs up to the Park Ridge Country Club. Hopefully one day someone brings it back! (OA+D Archives)

#localangle Minnesota had two Bruce Goff houses in one town

"Lumière du matin, perche et nénuphars blancs", 2024 - David Miller, artiste britannique, né en 1966. #Hyperréalisme #DavidMiller