Contemporary Aboriginal Art (2025) #Art

Mamdani more popular than Netanyahu among U.S. Jews. The AP poll suggests that Mamdani’s positions on Israel have not prevented him from maintaining a net-positive image among American Jews overall. @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social reports in the story.. forward.com/news/836468/...

This is good!

for Americans just a glimpse of the extent to which he is a global laughingstock

truth nuclear bomb

data visualization is my passion.

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

"1969 was the year of the summer of hate. For me, it wasn't about going to see Jefferson Airplane at the Central Park band shell and taking LSD. It was about sitting on a park bench drinking wine and snorting deuce bags of heroin." --Dee Dee Ramone (why I think it matters, in comments)

We had dinner with my Chinese immigrant in-laws last night, and we talked about America. My MIL said that living in America, a place that values freedom, gave her permission to become the person she wanted to be. If you’re looking for something to celebrate today, I think it’s a good place to start.

Proud to be an American. True patriotism is defending the Constitution, protecting our democracy, and striving for liberty and justice for all. Our country has never been perfect, but its promise is worth protecting. Happy 4th of July. ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

A SEAL IN EVERY CITY

A useful guide.. as a primer The Sane NYC DSA vs the Crazy National DSA- A Guide for the Perplexed If you are confused about what DSA is, the answer is that it is two very different organizations that I don't think can coexist for much longer open.substack.com/pub/nathanne...

NEW: Americans are pessimistic about the future. But which actors do they think are having the worst impact on the economy/society? Voters find the most harmful actors to be: 1) Billionaires 2) Corporate landlords 3) Sports gambling 4) Artificial intelligence 5) Cryptocurrency

Damn!

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

Seriously, anyone who talks about unskilled work needs to do a shift picking fruit, a shift caring one-to-one for a stroke patient, and a shift working as a short-order cook. If they actually survive all three without quitting, getting sacked for being useless, or hurting someone, I’d be amazed.

Reporting from the scene of the crime!

@jamestalarico.bsky.social is what a politician should be.

I’m actually a big fan of this headline because it shows that they’ve got absolutely nothing lol

Meanwhile (and thank you, Mark Sumner) www.unchartedblue.com/ukraine-upda...

Brennan: ODNI orchestrates 18 agencies and runs the NCTC — the no-fly/terrorist screening database. Dropping Bill Pulte in with no IC experience is a national security risk. Worse, NSPM-7 now flags "anti-capitalism," "anti-Christianity," and gender/migration views as domestic terrorism indicators

This is great piece

Today, I introduced legislation to require that the minimum wage be a living wage. $25 an hour is what’s required for a full time worker to pay their bills, and we shouldn’t accept that full time work leaves people living in poverty.

Press freedom today in the United States is under attack like never before. Assaults, intimidation, arrests, even deportations of journalists are up. The @nppa.org Mickey Osterreicher says this moment is “unprecedented.” This is Episode 4 of The Battle for Free Speech podcast

bitch you can't be serious the fragility and pettiness of these people, who aren't content just to strip away people's rights they want to pretend they're Good and Just Doing Law, too, and are deeply offended when people acknowledge otherwise

I beg of you: please read @uncivilcollective.bsky.social's new report on the "civility industrial complex" that is pushing a right-wing version of the humanities into public higher ed while defunding actual humanistic teaching & research. www.uncivilcollective.org

nope

A good start to the day. Some terrific election results AND a new PJ Harvey release! (I ❤️ PJ)

Brad Lander: "A new humanism doesn’t ask what’s efficient. It asks what’s worthy of us. A new humanism says dignity isn’t a value you balance against other values. It’s the floor that everything else stands on."

AI companies like Anthropic and Perplexity are paying college students to promote their products on campus through clubs, swag and events. AI student ambassadors say they have lobbied professors directly, urging them to use specific AI tools in their classes. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

He's going to be doing this when he's 90. Clearly, it's what fuels him.

* LEBANESE PRESIDENT AOUN SAYS WILL ACCEPT NOTHING LESS THAN END OF 'ISRAELI OCCUPATION' OF SOUTHERN LEBANON @reuters.com

what must it be like to experience genius like that in person, and how are we as a society not adequately funding arts education to nurture every child who who wants to pursue a similar path

Zooming in on the Loop

New start-up idea. Who wants to get in on it? "WeTent" -- Sharable work/living spaces for young creatives

He's the real deal.

Look yall, no shade to anyone who maintains a strict 'no twitter' policy, but where else can I watch acclaimed leftist filmmaker Boots Riley absolutely torch one of the most toxic and idiotic dudes of the online left?

vice president joss whedon

We cut child poverty by more than half during the pandemic, and then we decided to let it more than double again. Now those children are losing their food aid.

From the pain of apartheid to luscious beauty: 10 of the best recordings by jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim The pianist and bandleader, who has died aged 91, had an inimitable style where bright, guileless melody met a fearless improvisational impulse www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

JUST IN: Kenyan McDuffie has conceded to Janeese Lewis George in the Democratic primary for D.C. mayor. D.C.'s about to have its first democratic socialist mayor y'all. www.huffpost.com/entry/janees...

Many people believe that monetary profits are necessarily evidence of "productivity" AND they believe that *markets* organize distribution. They have literally no conception of a *public* interest.

OMG (as my people would say 😀), yes, yes, yes, to this. Also, I can now forgive John Starks. . . . .😉

Here we go!

Markets aren't simply a function of consumers' and producers' decision-making. They are *political* systems designed to distribute resources and financial wealth. Essentially, they are "public" institutions that we *make*, yet that are described (deceptively) as "private."

100%

In this well-reported piece on the billionaire cabal to stop the California ballot measure to implement wealth tax on billionaires, I especially appreciated this detail: sfstandard.com/2026/06/13/b...

It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press