Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
Imagine a world where Americans were smarter and didn’t applaud when reactionary idiot Ronald Reagan made a show out of removing the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House. We wouldn’t now have to worry about affording to fill gas tanks next month.
All Passion Spent: Vita Sackville West, novelist, poet, gardener,
born #OTD 1892; inspired Virginia Woolf’s Orlando; wrote The Edwardians (published by Hogarth Press), created garden at Sissinghurst Castle Kent @nationaltrust.org.uk
Portrait by William Strang 1918, Kelvingrove Art Gallery Glasgow
StudioCanal’s 4k UHD presents this masterpiece as perfectly as it has ever been seen, both sound and vision a step up from the previously superb Blu-ray, one of those presentations that's so good it really has to be seen to be believed - my Letterboxd review of THE THIRD MAN #FilmSky
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🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing Congress to add new provisions targeting transgender people to the SAVE America Act — a sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
Ooo, just preordered from @bookshop.org . This looks exciting.
A new excerpt from A World Appears: Minds Before Brains - by Michael Pollan - The Microdose themicrodose.substack.com/p/minds-befo...
Photo by Erich Consemüller (1902-1957) of a woman — thought to be either Lis Beyer or Ise Gropius — seated in Marcel Breuer’s “Wassily chair.” The woman is wearing a theatrical mask by Oskar Schlemmer.
Emile Fabry (1865–1966). Musée D'Orsay.
A short reflection on why I think polytheism is a sensible path when grounded in a robust philosophical system.
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Learning a second language can be hard. Signing up for Pre-K and 3-K is easy.
Go to myschools.nyc to apply today. Deadline is tomorrow at midnight!
David Hockney (b. 1937), “English Garden” (1965), acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm.
The #WINTER of 1911 - the Ashcan School
‘Snow-Capped River’
George Bellows (1882-1925). Oil on canvas. 1911.
#GeorgeBellows #AshcanSchool #AmericanArt #landscape
Photograph taken inside the U.S. House chamber during a State of the Union–style event. In the foreground, Donald Trump is blurred while walking past. In the background, a man in a suit stands among seated attendees holding a handwritten sign that reads, “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES!” Other lawmakers and guests look on.
Rep. Al Green, thank you for this moment.
Susan Rice saw this moment coming. She described it plainly, and she was right.
Now, Netflix must decide which side of history it wants to be on.
The right choice is obvious. The only question is whether Netflix has the courage to make it. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...
Kash Patel, laser focused on the safety of the American people
Time for dessert! Arranged with gentle symmetry by Raphaelle Peale, 1814. Today has been his day.
Steve Bannon’s latest legal headache isn’t Epstein-related—it’s crypto.
A new lawsuit claims investors lost millions in the MAGA-linked “F*ck Joe Biden” memecoin, with funds meant for charity allegedly disappearing as the coin imploded.
#YesWeCan, America, #YesWeCan. We just have to want it badly enough...
Never forget who Trump governs for.
You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.
This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
Guess who went to the urologist today…
Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000)
"Madame Galoche", 1965.
Watercolor, Pen and Ink on Paper.
Illustration.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Kabuki studies #1-3, 1997
WHY WE LOOK? Because fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth has been excommunicated from the NYC party scene over the glamorizng publicity photos she shot to promote the Melania Trump documentary
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Charles Willson Peale (American 1741-1827) Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale I) 1795
Charles Willson Peale (American 1741-1827) Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale I) 1795
Johan Tobias Sergel (Swedish 1740–1814) Faun, 1774, Finnish National Gallery
Johan Tobias Sergel (Swedish 1740–1814) Faun, 1774, Finnish National Gallery
Johan Tobias Sergel (Swedish 1740–1814) Faun, 1774, Finnish National Gallery
