Alana Bograd
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Artist/Philly www.alanabograd.com
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Alana Bograd,Techno Forest Bather, 26āx32ā, oil on canvas
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Paul Renfro
about 1 month ago
Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.
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Alana Bograd,Techno Forest Bather, 26āx32ā, oil on canvas
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Tim Onion
3 months ago
May this one day happen to them.
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3 months ago
Vintage embroidery, applique wall hanging from Gujarat, India
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Protect Them Oil on linen 18"x24" 2026 Alana Bograd
3 months ago
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Sarah Kendzior
4 months ago
Last year, I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and Twin Peaks. I wrote about Laura Palmer. A generation of girls, now women, who grew up in Laura Palmerās world.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
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Laura Palmerās House
Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palmers-house
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Gabe OrtĆz
4 months ago
āAbout 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the buildingās Haitian staff in their apartments.ā
www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
https://www.jta.org/2026/01/30/united-states/jewish-seniors-rally-behind-their-caregivers-as-350000-haitians-are-set-to-lose-legal-status
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Happy to score this beautiful whistle from
@nancyjosephson.bsky.social
and help increase donations to local organizations that do important work for immigration protection services. Please consider donating to an immigration protection service org and call your representatives to defund ICE
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Hetan Shah
4 months ago
Blistering piece on ed tech in
@economist.com
. āAlthough ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schoolsāand often impairs it.ā
economist.com/united-state...
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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
https://economist.com/united-states/2026/01/22/ed-tech-is-profitable-it-is-also-mostly-useless
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4 months ago
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social
4 months ago
The absolute accuracy of this.
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Adam Schwarz
4 months ago
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
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Joel S.
7 months ago
Well this was completely and utterly predictable:
globalextremism.org/post/openais...
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OpenAIās Sora 2 Used To Spread Holocaust Denial and Glorify Hitler
OpenAIās Sora 2, launched on September 30, faced backlash for generating controversial videos, including antisemitic and misogynistic content.
https://globalextremism.org/post/openais-sora-2-used-to-spread-holocaust-denial-and-glorify-hitler/
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture
8 months ago
Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134740
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Elizabeth Spiers
8 months ago
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners:
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie Kirkās Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/
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The Onion
8 months ago
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UTāAs law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
https://theonion.com/witnesses-assumed-charlie-kirk-shooter-was-just-ordinary-gunman-on-school-campus/
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Jeff Sharlet
8 months ago
So the understandable idea that we need leaders of "both sides" to denounce political violence is, I believe, a nonstarter. MAGA's whole rhetorical mode, for 10 yrs, has been advocacy of violence. It'd have to denounce itself. It won't. So what else we can do to slow the rush toward more? 2/3
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9 months ago
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More Perfect Union
9 months ago
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert
The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/city-atlanta-opening-grocery-store-clear-up-downtown-food-desert/OV3YJG2FTJFZ3CUOK42EEC5A2E/?taid=68b0d4e99638c200011dd7c3
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Don Moynihan
9 months ago
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we donāt acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
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The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-authoritarian-checklist
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Rob Klippel
9 months ago
Erik Satie Composer In 1917 Satie collaborated with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso to produce Parade, a mixed media performance that included music, dance, and visual art. Satie, Cocteau, and company were charged with ācultural anarchyā and put in jail for 8 days.
youtu.be/_Chq1Ty0nyE?...
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Gary Shteyngart
9 months ago
This is kinda amazing. I wish I knew how to shave that well.
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N. Olya
9 months ago
Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here:
apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...
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Quick drawing break of whatās in front of us-My daughter, Vera, drew our dog, Scooby, and I drew the author of the book āVera, or Faithā (quick google image search of
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9 months ago
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Brad Lander
11 months ago
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together ā in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
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11 months ago
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile, recently released its first images of the cosmos/deep space. Vera Rubin (1928-2016) was a pioneering US astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe
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Rep. Jamie Raskin
11 months ago
The United States of America: No Kings since 1776. Donald Trump: Russian-owned since 1978.
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Jesse Spafford
11 months ago
This administration is marked by not just its cruelty but its complete inability to craft coherent policies or consider the obvious consequences of those policies.
bsky.app/profile/phil...
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jamelle
12 months ago
wrote about what the protests say about the strength, or lack thereof, of the trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but Heās Actually a Weak Man (Gift Article)
He is still dangerous, though.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/opinion/trump-los-angeles-ice-strongman.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.E5I6.RwfRanUrJCEw&smid=url-share
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The Child Bearer Acrylic, gouache on paper 9"x12" 2016
about 1 year ago
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Our Golem Is Up 11x14ā Oil on linen
about 1 year ago
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Adam Schwarz
about 1 year ago
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Neroās court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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колобок Ń Š½Š¾Š³ŃŃŠ¼Šø Kolobok With Nails 2025 Oil on wood 20āx20ā Alana Bograd
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бŃŃŠµŃŠ±ŃŠ¾Š“ Š½Š¾Š²ŃŠ¹ гоГ (sandwich new year) ink 9"x12" 2022
over 1 year ago
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Our Cosmic Behavior Oil, paper, ink on canvas 10"x8" 2024 Alana Bograd
#art
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over 1 year ago
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Full On Cosmic, 2025, 9āx8ā, Oil, ink, wax, paper, on canvas,
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#art
#contemporarypainting
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Spocked Hands Investigate 2025, 10āx10ā Oil and wax on wood panel
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āWithin the 2-dimensional internet world, new collectivities have arisen, invisible by the light of day-tribes with distinct worldviews, beholden to manipulationsā¦ā
#timothysnyder
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Running Out, 38x48ā, Oil on canvas, Alana Bograd
#womenartists
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Spock Hands Blessing, 12āx12ā, oil, ink, paper collage on wood panel, 2023
over 1 year ago
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Sleep of Reason, 14āx11, oil on canvas, 2025
over 1 year ago
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Studio today
over 1 year ago
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Rabih Alameddine
over 1 year ago
Nizar Ali Badr (Latakia, Syria) Refugees found pebbles
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NY Times Pitchbot
over 1 year ago
Elon Musk grew up in an apartheid country, backed a German political party that seeks to rehabilitate Hitler, was sued by the federal government for abuse against Black workers, promoted pro-Hitler tweets, and gave a Hitler salute twice in a speech. But what are his real political beliefs?
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Elad Nehorai
over 1 year ago
I wrote this in June 2023 a year or so after I tried to get mainstream outlets to cover the story. Havenāt been this angry about the collective failure of our society to properly address antisemitism in quite a while.
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Elon Musk is the most dangerous antisemite in America
Elon Musk often amplifies antisemitic conspiracy theories. His power as Twitter CEO gives him terrifying influence.
https://forward.com/opinion/549819/elon-musk-is-the-most-dangerous-antisemite-in-america/
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Rabih Alameddine
over 1 year ago
Ferenc Berko, Denture Shop, Rawalpindi, 1946
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Robert Reich
over 1 year ago
57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.
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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016
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Prof. Bob Howarth
over 1 year ago
Poignant piece by
@billmckibben.bsky.social
"the steady loss of intelligence in our nation and our world worries me the most. Even as the stakes grow higher, weāre losing our hard-won ability to understand the world around us." The LA Fires and the Big Bang
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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The LA Fires and the Big Bang
The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness
https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/the-la-fires-and-the-big-bang?r=4sd26&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Hyperallergic
over 1 year ago
From a banana menorah to versions by DalĆ and Peter Shire, artists have long remixed the traditional Hanukkah lamp.
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Modern Menorahs That Break the Mold
From a banana menorah to versions by DalĆ and Peter Shire, artists have long remixed the traditional Hanukkah lamp.
https://hyperallergic.com/788001/modern-menorahs-that-break-the-mold/
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her)
over 1 year ago
*grabs a t-shirt and runs outside*
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