My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...

He destroyed the reflecting pool because of I Had a Dream. He wants to destroy everything good.

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

Washington, DC has never looked as bad as it has in the past few months—and it’s not just the reflecting pool

Italian President says that Elon Musk is a crazy drug addict and he should be locked up in a psychiatric hospital.

In ancient Rome, it was believed the goddess Fornax—the divine personification of the oven—presided over baking bread. Ovid wrote that farmers "prayed she’d regulate the grain’s heat." Her festival, Fornacalia, was celebrated with offerings of baked goods. #MythologyMonday

obvious chilling effects

#FridaKahlo Two Women (Salvador and Herminia), (1928)

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” ~James Baldwin, 1955. Image: Ulf Anderson/Getty Images.

We’re not going back like they want us to.

Evening, Howe Sound, W.P. Weston, 1928

#PaulineRoche “Tuesday at the Tate”

Good Evening🌟 Kei Nomiyama ~ Enchanted Babboo Forest, 2016 Fireflies light up a bamboo forest on the Japanese island of Shikoku as night descends.

open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p.... The mechanism is the Mussolini mechanism…The defendants are called terrorists. The targets are antifascists. The vocabulary is identical because the technique is identical.

Ummm this is nuts but everything is nuts buuuut… this is really nuts and I feel like, duh, we’ve been completely infiltrated and our government is no longer ours.

I think new homes should have an option to include a special cat closet, a small room where a built-in litter box goes. It should be vented to an exterior wall, easy to clean, accessed by a cat door, with higher-end self-cleaning boxes. To clean the room, the homeowner uses an outside door.

OMG post storm Mpls sunset, we earned this

Jamie Wyeth, Ida Proper (watercolor, 2005)

They arrested a guy for touching the reflecting pool but not the cops who killed two protesters.

'Nana's Tea' by artist Alice Toomer

In the Ming dynasty, cats were courtly art made alive. At the royal court, each feline received a name as elegant as a poem: a pure white cat was “A Piece of Jade,” a black cat with a white belly became “Black Clouds Covering Snow,” and a white cat 1/2 #caturday #history

A dessert for your holiday menu: Reflecting Pool Jello. 🇺🇸 💚

Félix Vallotton, Fireworks, 1900

I’m currently down on Capitol Hill. Patriot Front, a white supremacist group, got on the Metro and has left the area

Kobayashi Kiyochika, Fireworks at Ikenohata, 1881 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, 1875 dia.org/collection/n...

By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.

Of course they are. This “evidence” becomes fuel for their rumor and conspiracy theory mills… which they plan to use to justify bad laws (making it harder to vote and even more chaotic) and deny election results they don’t like. That’s their midterm strategy, because they know they can’t win fair.

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

When we are cheering because the Supreme Court partially upheld the 14th Amendment there is a problem.

Stay cool today! 😎 Mark Thompson, Sea of Ice, oil on birch panel, 2026

Hadrian’s Wall, painting by George Callaghan, Irish artist.

Big in Louisiana today: State Supreme Court upheld decision vacating the conviction of Chris Duncan, who spent 26 years on death row claiming innocence. Context: 80% of people on Louisiana death row have been exonerated; this conviction hinged on discredited doctors. We reported on case here:

The Fatigue Mihail Zablodsky Oil on canvas (2022)

"Giardino Segretto" (Secret Garden) and was created by artist Jim Buckels

Ghost pony on a lane I know I know It's serious

Albert König (1881–1944): Weather Clouds, 1920

Gippsland twilight, 2009 by Kirrily Hammond, Melbourne based Australian painter known for her landscape work #womensart

Pope Leo Is A Wise Man...... (www.vatican,theleaven.org)

William Victor Higgins | Canyon Drive, Santa Fe, ca. 1914, oil on canvas. 24.25x27.5 in.

Samir Rakhmanov Oil pastels on board #art

We are not alone. we are encircled by angelic spirits.

Bill Sharp - Blue Pitcher with Lemons.

George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) : Girl in a Red Kimono, (Geesje Kwak), 1893 oil on canvas | 61 x 49.5 cm Important figure in Amsterdam Impressionism Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Netherlands

Wassily Kandinsky : Several Points, March 1925 oil on board 27.75 x 19.75 in | 70.5 x 50.2 cm Painted while teaching at the Weimar Bauhaus in Germany.

Keiran Brennan Hinton (Canadian, born 1992) "Sun Shower", 2020. Oil on Canvas, 56 × 48 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

A.J. Casson (Canadian, 1898–1992) "Housetops in the Ward", 1924. Oil on Canvas, 75 × 61 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Anna Volkova, Russian-Dutch (1974- ), My Blue Fairytale, 2025, porcelain

© Choy Moo Kheong. 'Echo Through The Canyon.' Acrylic on canvas, 2024. 152.4 × 101.6 cm.