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It's Pop Art Day! Who even knew?

patrickroath.com/bio/ We need new blood in Congress. I support @patrickroath.bsky.social and you will too once you get to know him. Hat tip to @davidhogg.bsky.social for touting this terrific candidate.

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BORN ON THIS DAY in 1889, Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist who married Jean Arp, a leading figure in the Dada movement. Sophie is now considered one of the most important geometric abstractionists of the 20th century.

Wow. What a great story! Read at this gift link.

I cannot stop watching this! How am I just now finding out that Zohran is Young Cardamom!

So many oddities about this man, but isn't it bizarre that we all just carry on as normal despite his daily use of this clownish self image? It's like he's a drunken, crazed, obese football fan who painted his face and beer belly in the home team colors. #globalembarrassment

Hilarious! Whoever created this website deserves a Peabody.

BORN ON THIS DAY in 1938 - Happy 88th birthday to David Bailey, the English photographer whose portraiture shaped our image of the Swinging Sixties.

A true master of light is gone.

HAPPY INAUGURATION DAY, MR. MAYOR!

RIP Brigitte Bardot. In honor of the legendary French actress, take a few minutes to watch Kate McKinnon's hilarious impersonation on SNL.

By all means, do share your decorating ideas, likely costing millions, while the American people are struggling to afford housing, food and health insurance. What a piece of shit.

Merry Christmas Scum.

“Global Warning” by Marta Tereziya, winner of the Tidal Shift Award, a prize for young artists who want to solve our climate crisis. "Seeing wildfires start all over the globe, I felt helpless. As if I was a little bunny, knowing that it will kill everything including me in its sight."

"Rama Duwaji is excited for her husband Zohran Mamdani’s new job. Just don’t call her the mayor’s plus-one." That's how The CUT begins its profile of New York's soon-to-be first lady. The photo shoot is mind-blowing. Get to know this amazing artist. Link to The CUT profile in the comments.

Score a BIG one for the resistance! BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow President Trump to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in the Chicago area over the objection of Illinois officials. Read the order and the whiny dissent from Alito and Thomas at the link below.

Analysts cite President Trump’s tariffs. A backlash from Canadian consumers has virtually stopped the sale of American whiskey in the industry’s biggest export markets. Overall, exports of American whiskey are down about 9 percent from 2024.

BORN ON THIS DAY in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat.

One of the best audiobooks I've listened to this decade.

BORN ON THIS DAY in 1861, Ivana Kobilca, a Slovene painter whose work is effortlessly romantic and realistic. Her confidence and immediacy, and her love of the paint itself, remind me of John Singer Sargent.

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. On Dec. 13, 1960, four conspirators staged a coup attempt to install his son, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, on the throne.

QE2 as painted by Lucien Freud who was born on this day in 1922.

BORN ON THIS DAY in 1598, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the baroque sculptor, painter and architect who defined the High Renaissance. Here are Damned Soul, Jesus, Louis XIV and a self portrait.

One of my heroes!

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

None of the alleged drug boats that were destroyed recently by the US Navy in the Caribbean or Western Pacific had anywhere near enough fuel capacity to have reached the United States. Facts.

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden by German expressionist painter Otto Dix.

One of Trump's flying monkeys is about to get his wings clipped. So good to see a Democrat go on offense! WTG @ericswalwell.bsky.social!

"Hera" by Francis Picabia

The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.

No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

I’ve been saying this for a year

BORN ON THIS DAY in 1886, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita was a Japanese-French painter who moved to Paris and encountered the international art scene of the Montparnasse neighborhood and developed an eclectic style that borrowed from Japanese and European artistic traditions.

Excellent NY Times opinion piece by Greg Lukianoff, the president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Thank you, FIRE, for the good work you do.

A portrait of Vincent Willem van Gogh (who died at age 37) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (who died at 36).

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out - Malwarebytes www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

A real President ………. Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

The Labor Department is pushing an ad campaign with posters evoking another era: very 1950s, very Caucasian, very idealistic. It’s Norman Rockwell meets Josef Stalin. The ads ... are part of a deliberate anti-DEI campaign being waged by the Trump administration.

WARNING: If you read this review of Philadelphia's new Calder museum, you're going to lie awake at night wanting to go. Kudos to my lovely friend Kathryn McFadden on yet another enchanting piece about the art scene in Philly.

This is "The Prado Philip II" by Sofonisba Anguissola, an Italian Renaissance painter born on this day in 1532. As a young woman, she traveled to Rome where she was introduced to Michelangelo, who immediately recognized her talent. And, since he was gay, he did not sexually harass her.

You're looking just awful, Cheato.