the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams

Democrat-FL Debbie Wasserman Shultz 🤪

Trump says US will ‘run' Venezuela until a safe transition is possible

Famed live music venue Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco to close.

Where is Congress❓️

Can’t believe the winner of both the Israel Peace Prize and FIFA Peace Prize has started 2026 with an oil war.

. The GRIFT CONTINUES!! CONGRESS DO YOU DAMN JOB!!!! #Congress #Epstein #Israel #Venezuela #WW3

January 2, 1969: Cicely Tyson, James Baldwin, unnamed guest, and Harry Belafonte attend 'To Be Young, Gifted And Black' Gala at the Cherry Lane Theater, New York City.

Happy 80th birthday to British activist and Black Panther Barbara Beese (January 2, 1946) Beese was one of the Mangrove Nine charged in 1970 with inciting a riot protesting police raids on the Mangrove Restaurant in the Notting Hill neighborhood of West London.

Philip Glass, Robert Wilson • Einstein on the Beach, 1978 ᴄᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴅᴇꜱɪɢɴ ʙʏ ᴍɪʟᴛᴏɴ ɢʟᴀꜱᴇʀ

S∩X∩˥Ⅎ HAPPΞNING: Happy 88th birthday to Japanese composer, visual artist, poet, and performer Mieko Shiomi January 1, 1938 ❝I think a simple event is enriched by classical music.❞

What might account for the abrupt rise and equally abrupt fall, between the 1960s and the turn of the century, of the “golden age” of serial killing? And why were so many of these brutes from the area around Seattle’s Puget Sound? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/GM5SKR

'Leicester is the all-women punk rock band capital of the UK'

Desert in a Minute: Ocotillo Lodge’s Mid-Century Design and Rolling Stones Legend

Liars reap what they sow www.npr.org/2025/12/31/n...

Happy celestial birthday Isaac Asimov January 2, 1920—April 6, 1992 ❝When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.❞‬

Bonne année ya bana vea (Happy New Year, my friends) • Franco Luambo and TPOK Jazz, 1962

This is why we're on earth btw, nothing else.☺️💙😎

First film viewed in 2026. I liked it, but it probably isn't for everyone; it's very Jarmuschian. IYKYK

Watch Them Resolutions • Slim Gaillard & Babs Gonzales

22 art exhibitions in L.A. to look forward to in 2026 Including new museum openings, Yoko Ono’s first solo show in L.A. and a deep dive into horror movies.

ᴛʜɪꜱ ʟɪꜱᴛ ᴋɪʟʟꜱ ꜰᴀꜱᴄɪꜱᴍ Woody Guthrie's List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions: Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running

because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn

Off-duty DHS officer involved in fatal L.A. New Year’s Eve shooting: police

ЯΛBBIƬ, ЯΛBBIƬ, ЯΛBBIƬ ᴍᴀʀɪᴏɴ ᴘᴇᴄᴋ, ʀᴀʙʙɪᴛ ɪɴ ᴄʟᴏᴠᴇʀ, 2021

New Year’s Resolution #2026

Duane Allman's New Year's Resolution, January 1, 1969

Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason promoting Smokey & The Bandit II, 1981

January 1, 1986: Comic book creator and artist Jack Kirby photographed for the Los Angeles Times at his home in Los Angeles, California. 📷 Bob Carey

New Year’s Resolution • Carla Thomas and Otis Redding, 1967 ❝Let's turn over a new leaf / And baby let's make promises / That we can keep / And call it a new year's resolution❞‬

December 31, 1986: Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, and Beverly Johnson getting ready for New Year’s Eve at Paradise Garage in New York City.  📷 Tseng Kwong Chi

Jack Kerouac holds a doll as he leaves the Artist's Club after a New Year's Eve party, New York, New York, January 1, 1959. 📷 Fred W. McDarrah

Kenneth Patchen, “At the New Year”, 1939

Debbie Harry, New Year’s Eve, 1977

Jack Kerouac, Plans for New Year's Eve, December 23, 1947

MUSIC HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to Black American actress, singer-songwriter, and civil & human rights activist Odetta Holmes December 31, 1930—December 2, 2008 ❝The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.❞‬

Ultra Violet and Salvador Dalí at the 20th Annual Le Bal Blance Russian New Year’s Eve Celebration, St. Regis Hotel, New York City, 1969

New Year's Eve party, Smalls' Paradise, Harlem, New York, January 1, 1942.

ΛRT HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to Greek-American artist, sculptor, and art pioneer, Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali) December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013 ❝Symbols of communication are made to reach out and communicate. In my work it all has to do with me trying to communicate with myself.❞

🧪A few more hours to go…

❝You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I'm only going to dread one day at a time.❞‬ —Charlie Brown Happy New Year, Charlie Brown ᴀʀᴛ ʙʏ ʙᴀɴᴋꜱʏ

Regular mindfulness practice has been linked to many positive health benefits, including reduced stress and anxiety, better sleep and quicker healing after injury and illness. Mindfulness can help us to be present in a distracted world and to feel more at home in our bodies, and in our lives.

❝Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more.❞‬—Judy Garland

Patti Smith, CBGB, New York, New York, December 31, 1977 📷 Allan Tannenbaum

@beatgrrrl.bsky.social - The Allen Ginsberg Project - 2025 Retrospective - allenginsberg.org/2025/12/w-d-...

America's first glass house, built for the 1933 World's Fair, set to shine again Workers have installed glass exteriors walls on the House of Tomorrow in Beverly Shores, Indiana, as part of a $4 million effort to restore the 12-sided home to how it looked 90 years ago.