“Autumn in Light” by Erin Hanson

how many shooting of national guard members did we have before trump deployed a bunch to dc? less than now right? and he said he deployed them to completely stop gun violence ? huh

It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.

I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤 #art #painting #portrait #illustration

Angel of Judgement ✨ - OC: Abaddon/Cirrus #oc #ocsky

Undersea Sleepover

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans. Viola Fletcher was there. www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...

The girlies look mad at me for taking pictures of them instead of picking them up and putting a little salmon oil treat directly into their mouths

11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Cleveland’s west side. The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in. Tamir’s life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.

The US is about to invade Venezuela and there are people on this hellsite saying we should be nicer to the libs who want rainbow imperialism

finished some old sketches 🍓

I can't take much more liberals gloating over "those dumb rednecks were so tricked by fox news" after Liberals allowed themselves to fully back a genocide on the off chance it would keep them safe for 4 more years.

Pablo Picasso, Spanish (1881-1973), Woman with Cat, 1900, pastel on card, 44 x 52 cm, private collection

13oct - ‘the curious and quite dreadful sensation of being forgotten’

death's call

How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.

Mahmoud Said (Egyptian | 1897 - 1964). Portrait of Mme. Batanouni Bey (1923, oil on canvas).

THIS is why Zohran asked for the meeting.

Zohran has done more for America in 3 weeks than Chuck Schumer has done his entire career.

Remember: the only way to save New York City from Donald Trump’s wrath is electing Andrew Cuomo.

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

Freeing the Spirits of the Sea

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

people don’t give a fuck about brown people being bombed. everytime i see terrible images coming out of Palestine all I see are people who look like my family. liberals don’t see brown people as human and don’t care that gay/trans brown people have been murdered overseas by these rainbow bombs

Maybe when we stop acting like the Democrats and the Republicans are two different parties we can start dismantling this shit

Bombs are not preferable to those being bombed. No, not even if you sell it as being “less likely to happen”. And definitely not painted with a rainbow (cause let’s associate pride with bombing others /s) “Less likely” is only better to those who need not worry about clear, blue skies.

It’s cool that ICE is on the streets terrorising communities and people are on the cusp of losing healthcare and so Democrats have decided that this would be the best use of their time. 🙄

But no resolutions condemning fascism, huh?

pinkwashing American imperialism is exactly what’s been happening over the past few decades, Obama and other ‘queer friendly’ democrats funded and signed off on Arab people getting bombed overseas, and now liberals online yearn to go back to that and throw a fit when getting criticized over this.

Organizations that typically work to protect Chicagoans from everyday gunfire are shifting their tactics to keep communities safe from a different type of threat: ICE. “This is an issue for all of us,” said Pastor Matt DeMateo, CEO of New Life Centers. “It’s a Chicago issue. A humanity issue.”

The reason you see AI pushed so hard in products, ads and promoted posts is that they know people don't WANT to use it but they are desperate to recoup on their millions in investments. They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.

*Arab person seeing a rainbow colored bomb being dropped on them from overhead* “at least they support queers”

The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention

I'm going to be selfish for a minute, and say that my life personally is so much better, and so much grander, and so very beautiful, because trans people are in it. Fascists can fuck off, trans people aren't going anywhere. happy trans day of remembrance. you all deserve so much more than this 🏳️‍⚧️

Not a criticism of Mamdani in particular, but as long as we allow massively funded, heavily armed right-wing paramilitaries to have veto power over every aspect of public policy, it will be impossible to enact even the most basic social democratic reforms that a lot of liberals say they want.

I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

I saw this in Tumblr years ago and it's been living in my head. I've never been able to find it again so I remade it myself.

I’ve been saying this for ages: These folks are doomed to be permanently angry because they’re angry about aspects of the culture that policy ultimately can’t change. They’re seeking political power as a consolation prize for lack of cultural power, and will always be dissatisfied.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

This is the lady who wrote Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high" speech

Naziha Salim (Iraqi | 1927 - 2008) Untitled (1964, oil on canvas).