About to start another batch of 25 #portraits of #redhook #brooklyn with recorded #oralhistory for each one. Listen to Valerie in the Red Hook Houses here: soundcloud.com/freeportrait...

Who will Mamdani appoint to the MTA board, and why does that matter? good piece from @jmartineznyc.bsky.social for @thecity.nyc today:

SHARE: Put something beautiful in the world, & help me do the same: Vote to give The People's Artist award from Johnny Depp of $25K to The Free Portrait Project: VOTE here: peoplesartist.org/2026/rusty-z... Cast one free vote every day for the next 5 days, thanks! #art #painting #NYC #brooklyn

Hell yeah. Sock that up with some bacon, and put a bib around my neck.

#StreetArt #WallMural #Graffiti

Los Angeles.

I got nominated to receive a $25k prize to do my work giving free portraits with oral histories to everyday people in New York City Help me get this prize by voting for me once a day for the next 7 days, please and thanks: peoplesartist.org/2026/rusty-z...

The Greens win our first ever directly elected Mayor - a huge historic victory! Huge congratulations to Zoë and the entire team. Two party politics isn't dying. It's dead and it's buried. And we're making hope normal again.

“While Mayor, I was often asked ‘how have you been able to afford this in Copenhagen🇩🇰?’ I’d reply, ‘how have you been able to NOT afford it?’ 25 years ago we were a few days away from going bankrupt. So the city invested in the cheapest infrastructure..bicycling.”~ Morten Kabell

I left Northern Ireland to come here to play soccer in 1981. It was at the height of the troubles. When I left my mates called me a lucky bastard for getting to go live in America. Last month I was home in Ireland for a wedding. The same people told me how sorry they were for me having to live here.

I am interrupting your doom scrolling to show you some lichen under my macro lens. Okay, carry on.

I Fully Endorse this Idea….

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

A kind of tv show they don’t make anymore is “Guy Comes to Town, Then Leaves.” Kung Fu, Incredible Hulk, Highway to Heaven, things of that nature. We need more Poker Face, that’s all we have left.

Bikes keep you young at heart.

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

Hell yeah let's do it

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

I fully and wholeheartedly support every single country who used to be an ally of the United States now telling us to go f*** ourselves.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

5 days left of fundraising! Donate $50 or more and get a hand painted bear in the mail. donorbox.org/the-free-por... No, I didn't use AI. Yes, I did study Fozzie and Bobo to do the voices. Donate what you're able to help me paint Red Hook Brooklyn, thank you. #painting #artsky #Brooklyn

One of my favorite Oscar Wilde anecdotes is that he once did a reading and Q&A in a mine. With miners. Like down a mineshaft. He had this crazy idea that everybody of every occupation deserved and could benefit from art and information

IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

As per @thecity.nyc :

Take a day off

80% of arguments start because someone hasn’t eaten yet.

This poster!

I asked the sales manager what's the difference between front-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, and rear-wheel drive, and this was his response! 🤣

Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

I like this picture.

Hell yeah

The level of greed is sickening.

Red Hook in the news today: While Many NYCHA Residents Remain Skeptical of Private Management, This Red Hook Tenant Leader Sees An Opportunity - City Limits share.google/exYyCbSCis2K...

If people don't like you, that's ok. If dogs don't like you, then it's time for some self-reflection.

Hell yeah, I love this painting.

Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here: t.co/In5lBaF2ox

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

Only $1,300 left to raise To give 25 free portraits with oral histories to people in Red Hook Brooklyn Make a tax deductible donation today, please and thank you. donorbox.org/the-free-por...

This is why I do the community portrait work that I do: Listen to Rusty Zimmerman (the artist), by The Free Portrait Project on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/AGVGHeAfslEe...

Your regular reminder that as bad as you think things currently are living in a country run by an incompetent and corrupt group of racist grifters, it’s going to get worse. Look out for yourselves and your community.

As Opposition Grows, Oklahoma Organizers Share How They Halted an ICE Warehouse | Truthout truthout.org/articles/as-...

back on my bullshit

Four days a year, Seattle Center turns into a free clinic. The line starts the night before. By the end of the weekend, volunteers will have seen around 3,500 patients, many of them working people who either don’t have insurance or can’t afford to use it.

Dog snuggles can fix this