Daina Taimina, a Cornell University mathematician uses crochet to demonstrate Hyperbolic Geometry #womensart

For everyone, whether you've seen it or not. Especially @kschwenky.bsky.social who requested good things today, and @laminx.bsky.social whose name should give it away.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

No, it's a *euphemism* known as "stake whatever". It's a tactic known as AUTHORITARIAN. You should familiarize yourselves with the term.

I *love* the second image. No kings ever ... but the greatest Prince of all fucking time.

First, it staves off apathy, cynicism, and despair. Second, it demonstrates to those who might use violence against innocent civilians that they would be doing so against grannies, kids, neighbors. Third, it shows allies and partners that the America they need is alive.

The Onion can re-run this today with D’Angelo swapped in for Prince RIP a(nother) legend @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social

Please Democrats and Dem-aligned small-$ donors . . . Let's not McGrath the actual McGrath again. With a single digit fraction of what McConnell-haters gave her to lose by 30 points last time, we could have flipped four and possibly five State houses. Even at $20, please donate smart.

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

La Dona Maria Felix, 1949 #diegorivera #artdeco

As you take in the news each day, bear in mind that breaking our spirits is part of the plan. Quite frankly: you all need to find some damn grit and dig in. We warned you that things would be worse the second go-round, but I’m seeing people throw up their hands screaming over mild inconveniences.

Sure... SOMEtimes. But there are times where the person is well enough known or the incident is so common in America that we do not in fact owe that vermin one moment of reflection or consideration -- nor anything. The sooner he is thoroughly forgotten, the better.

In Murkowski's defense, she's not at all smart.

Yes. Share my guide so we don’t all die open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Putting the "total" in "totalitarian". He was always serious in his phrase "run the country" instead of "run the government."

Amarjeet Nandhra is a artist and educator who often employs printmaking on fabric to highlight social causes. One of the many fascinating artists interviewed in #ReframingWomenPrintmakers !

[Eye roll] I wish the (chronological and intellectual) kids would learn to tell the difference between the enemy (gop, white nationalists, so-called conservatives) and allies who are sometimes/often lame & inept.

No. The time for protesting and speaking up is NEVER past. Courage is contagious. Showing other citizens that we're not quitting, nor just accepting autocracy & fascism is ESSENTIAL practice. Citizenship is fucking hard.

So many leftists are laser focused on never doing anything wrong instead of ever doing anything helpful.

From the No Shit desk:

Jessica Brilli, contemporary US artist who works in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th century iconography #WomensArt #Monday

you can trick your brain into having fun on the 4th by not thinking about it as pro-American and instead thinking of it as anti-British

This is true. Otherwise, they win.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

In keeping with Republicans supporting all Nazi relics.

Barbara Walker, contemporary artist known for her figurative drawings and paintings #WomensArt

THANKS OBAMA

Printmaking has been vital to both the creation of art and women's activism. Barbara Kruger's “Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground), 1989, silkscreen #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Counterpoint: DON'T repost because it's not fucking true. Even if it were true, it would not be worth reposting, as KH/TW *won* NY's EVs, so the outcome is the same. But again, almost no claim in the headline is true.

A really shitty Trolley Problem brought to life. I can't even puzzle through what the Attorney's ethical obligation is under California RPCs. Oof.

So much.

And according to anyone paying even partial attention to the trvmp coalition, Project 2025, anything they've said for 10 years...

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men), 1980 #womensart

Knock this off. We/Dems know how to monitor polling places & vote counts. Might not be great in other aspects of winning elections, but vote protection, we're golden. THAT'S why KH/Dems didn't protest 11/6: We KNOW shit. This is the EXACT maga nonsense from 2020. We lost. It kills me, but we lost.

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"Take the time you would have spent complaining about politics online, and use it to write a comment opposing the proposed Office of Personnel Management rule to politicize public services" Source includes how to write a public comment and provides examples. DEADLINE IS JUNE 7TH!

Cue the semi-aware libs who will flood this doubtlessly fantastic person with $70M out of hatred for Lindsay so she can lose by 10% instead of 17%, when that amount of money could swing 5 statehouses and 5 Congressional seats. Call it the Amy McGrath Misallocation of Money.

Let's be clear that trvmp isn't interested in Ukraine or in Europe's/our best interest; he didn't suddenly get on the correct side of this invasion. Rather, he's pissed that putin isn't doing what he wants. He's ONLY pissed that he's not getting his way, not getting a "deal".

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

i understand everyone is upset but keep the actionable threats offline and keep any HRT logistics talk quietly on whisper networks (Signal) where journalists and the stasi can't see

Great. Now cue dumbass Dem contributors flooding her with money in a race she cannot possibly win, when we could flip 5 statehouses and 5 House seats with 10% of what she'll amass. See, Amy McGrath vs. the husk of mitch mconnell.

My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.

Tar Beach (Part I from the Woman on a Bridge series) by Faith Ringgold, 1988 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137514

No matter how you voted in last year's election, no one voted to destroy the Postal Service. But the new administration plans to break up the Postal Service and sell it off to private corps. Here's what you need to know + how you can help save the public Postal Service.

Trump is a terrifying fascist who is likely to destroy our country. That’s why I spent most of my time criticizing Democrats.