While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports:

Trump's Insanity & Dementia is contagious for the uneducated American...

Sounds about right.

This is the entrance to the Art Deco Eastern Columbia Building, built in 1930 in Los Angeles, USA

I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

This is a big bipartisan win to restore 1 million federal workers’ freedom to have a voice on the job. The Protect America’s Workforce Act rightfully reverses this admin’s attack on collective bargaining rights, & I hope to see the Senate take it up soon. federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/202...

15.8 billion miles away from earth. 😳 Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.

We’re deeply concerned by the DOJ’s decision to abandon the disparate impact standard, a crucial tool for identifying and addressing policies that may look neutral but still harm Black communities and other marginalized groups. Read our full statement: blackvotersmatterfund.org/black-voters...

Happy Thursday, friends!! I hope you enjoy your day!! We got this! #Pinks

My God!

It’s wild that people actually voted for this. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Inuit Tapestry! Malaya Akulukjuk (Inuk/Canadian, 1915-1995). Mermaid (1977, wool and cotton tapestry).

🤷🏽‍♂️ www.sfgate.com/national-par...

'The perfect brand collaboration doesn't exist.' Agatha Christie/Mr Men:

The new Pentagon press corps is batshit‼️ Full of QAnon conspiracy theorists, TikTok influencers, clickbait bloggers, deep state hunters, and an accused pedo. Not a serious journalist in the bunch.

Two scenes by Richard Scarry to gladden the hearts of all introverts 🙂

You may have heard that DOGE is dead. Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government www.wired.com/story/what-i...

When a poem becomes a prayer. Siegfried Sassoon (1934)

Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.

Devastating. Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder. "It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens would be sold to the highest bidder rather than preserved for posterity." www.alternet.org/trump-destro...

Poetrye, theatre, storyes, daunse, art, scholarlye researche about literature, historye, and language -- all of these thinges mattir more now, not less.

Artemisia Gentileschi in 10 Paintings by Candy Bedworth for @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social www.dailyartmagazine.com/artemisia-ge...

Told to Avoid D.E.I., Arts Groups Are Declining Grants Instead www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/a...

WTF. Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

"By its own definition, the alt-right is no more. Because it’s no longer an alternative to the right. It is the right." From the archives:

The Chattanooga News November 12,1917

😂🤣😂

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

Thinking back to working in the Mayor’s office where I learned don’t #email anything you would want to see as a headline. 🤷🏽‍♂️

The photographer Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home. See more of his images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/AzEaHO

NEW: Tennessee has one of the highest rates of gun-related homicide. A blind spot in the state's probation department appears at a time when experts say offenders are a danger to domestic violence victims, @wpln.bsky.social and @propublica.org found.

Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom, 1889 #art

WTF 😬

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

#LookAndSee 246 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky At first you put your arms around me Then you put your charms around me I can't resist this sweet surrender Oh, my nights are warm and tender youtu.be/BNirQXe8HOA?...

History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves. Here’s what we all need to prepare for.

Do you remember when the White House had good taste? Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.

They will do anything to keep folks from having representation. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Goodbye Comet Lemmon. See you again in 1,155 years. ☄

History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...