Here’s the dramatic effect of the restoration of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in 1994. The process involved cleaning, removal of yellowed varnish, replacement of earlier discoloured retouching & other surface repairs www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-colle...

For Anna Seghers, #BornOnThisDay in 1900, my thoughts on TRANSIT (tr. Margot Bettauer Dembo), the striking novel behind Christian Petzold's film. A Kafkaesque story of shifting identities in the midst of #WW2, still highly relevant today. #BookSky 💙📚 #BOTD jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/t...

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

Aïcha - Khaled

Because, during the Occupation, nothing was created without an “in spite of,” sometimes an “against,” and everything was a case of “making do.” - Hervé Le Tellier, The Name on the Wall Tr: Adriana Hunter

My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people." www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...

Something most reporting on CAIR is going to miss: This is about getting people accustomed to the idea of the govt labeling domestic opponents as foreign extremists and terrorists. CAIR makes a good early target bc racism. It’s straight out of the Putin-Orban playbook for criminalizing dissent.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Is it milk? A handy guide to measuring like a Brit.

It took me about 15 months to type the history of the R&B charts into a spreadsheet so that I could organize by the date the song entered the charts. 2978 of 22,828 Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come" January 30, 1965 #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQbs...

Bret Stephens, making the case for the United States invading Venezuela: "Why hasn’t Greta Thunberg set sail to Caracas with symbolic deliveries of food?" ...No one has ever made Bret Stephens look worse than Bret Stephens. The competition is only ever for second place.

Calanais, Isle of Lewis. #StandingStoneSunday #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland

There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy. Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Mag Judge Fitzpatrick says two statements by Halligan to grand jury "appear to be fundamental misstatements of the law that could compromise the integrity of the grand jury process."

Forgive me for the occasional mistakes, because of course there are some: memories can falter, accounts contradict one another. Please believe that, despite all this, I tried not to cheat. - Hervé Le Tellier, The Name on the Wall Tr: Adriana Hunter

I wrote a skeptic's guide to how to use AI, out soon. Readers know I don't suffer fools -- or AI hype merchants -- gladly. I regularly write about the bubble that's formed as a result of their grift. But AI *does* have utility. You can pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782388...

Dolores Park San Francisco, CA

Adam, the Father of Mankind, was created on the twenty-eighth day of October at two o’clock in the afternoon. - Eça de Qeirós, Adam and Eve in Paradise Tr: Margaret Jull Costa

We Await Silent Tristero’s Empire. “So that’s what it stands for,” said Oedipa. - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

📽️ WATCH: Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. Listen to parent and education advocate Erika Wright talk about the crisis she believes is happening in her state’s public school system: https://propub.li/4qXq3Zv

What pure pleasure it is, in these dark times, to read a bright fantasy about Adam and Eve and evolution, about the necessity of loving the poisonous roots, the scattered nebulae, and even one another without any expectation of being loved in return. - Francine Prose

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

Cuidado - Madredeus

ICE vs the clergy

Still takes my breath away

As with other law enforcement, you have a First Amendment right to film ICE. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).

Mobile IDs promise convenience, but before you download your state’s app, there’s a few questions worth asking yourself. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

These "Honored Scientists" went about with a suite of followers, like some new Christ with his Apostles. They completely lost the right to make mistakes or not to know something, they lost the right to be allowed to think things over. #Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard

ICE to Native Americans: Go back to where you came from! newrepublic.com/post/203195/...

Breaking: Sunset Supervisor Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz has agreed to resign after scandals over pet store, finances.

"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."

It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally. Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors." tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v

What’s it like, Oedipa, being all alone in a nightmare like that? Of course they stick together, they keep in touch. They can always tell when they come on another of their kind. Maybe it only happens once every five years, but still, immediately, they know. - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

With Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger's electoral wins in New Jersey and Virginia, 10 Democratic women will be leading states in 2026.

This is a big deal because in a lot of cities you have to get on a freeway in order to do the most important drive in ride hailing: the airport run.

My thoughts on CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson. A brilliant, terrifying novel, written by a woman in the early days of Hitler's government - and she could already see where it was all heading. Horribly timely in 2025. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/c...

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