Kristin M. Jones

You guys look amazing!

Gemma the monster

View of Delft, 1661. Sunlight splashes through soft clouds onto weathered hardness of brick & stone. Breathtaking. Vermeer, born OTD 1632.

Today in marine invertebrates

during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now

Attorney General James Launches Portal to Collect Photos and Videos of ICE Activity in New York NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James is encouraging New Yorkers to submit videos or other documentation of federal immigration enforcement actions in New York following yesterday’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on Canal Street in New York City. “Every New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation,” said Attorney General James. “If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share that footage with my office. We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law. No one should be subject to unlawful questioning, detention, or intimidation.” Attorney General James is asking New Yorkers to share photos or videos of federal government actions using the Office of the Attorney General’s new online portal.

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity.

"We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes.

Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

god if I had a house this is so the shit I’d get up to!!!

Omg! My Web. 11 is battered and coverless. I can't wait to get this!

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

YouTube video by Eye Filmmuseum Famille de jeunes chiens

1912 short film of puppies being cute. Stencil colored!

youtu.be/U_pEY-dq_VQ

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

It's time to get your flu shot! Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

It's time to get your flu shot!

Last flu season 280 kids died from influenza, 89% were unvaccinated.

Each year 100s of thousands are hospitalized & 10s of thousands die from influenza just in the US.

Don't wait, you're online already, schedule your free shot now!

Please share & spread the word.

YouTube video by Lee Walters Lamb And Her Rock

Our top news story tonight:

That's me, July 1969, in Colorado where Ken somewhat improbably was teaching at the Aspen School of the Arts & I even less probably was his feckless 20-year-old assistant. I learned how to thread a Kalart Victor (& outside of class dropped acid & had the revelation that Everything is Now.)
Thx Rob!

Oh, I’m so sorry to hear this. Dear, brilliant Ken. Deepest condolences.

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

Photo-realistic drawing of a cat snoozing on a cane-seated chair

I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

Yeah, I figured something like this was gonna happen.

Why *almost* every door? What made the difference? Hardware, reportedly.

Covid Shots Protect Pregnant Women, but Getting Them Now Can Be Hard

New: The CDC acknowledges that pregnancy, in and of itself, is a high-risk condition for severe Covid. Yet it removed its vaccine recommendation for pregnant people without other conditions. Its contradictory messaging, plus the Trump admin's broader actions/inaction on vaccines, has reduced access.

“There’s artificial intelligence, and there’s actual intelligence.”

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Happy Deborah Kerr's and Michael Powell's birthdays!

This passage nearly broke me.

Street urchin

Dapper man of letters

Our Accidental Cat is settling in quite nicely. Here's a classic "how it started/how it's going" where you can see his transformation from street urchin to a dapper man of letters.

beautiful orange flower in a hellscape of calming shadow and a gorgeous white picket fence during a morning of peace and quiet

an explosion... of yellow leaves on a winsome tree on a lazy fall day

a riotous... number of white pollinator blossoms in front of the purple haze of a nicely maintained house with a lovely set of stairs leading to the street

the civil disobedience of a quiet, well kept street with delightful gardens beyond moss encrusted stone terracing

"War-ravaged" Portland today... #WarRavagedPortland

New York Sign Museum at Noble Signs - Open House New York Established in 2013, Noble Signs is a Brooklyn-based studio dedicated to the art of hand-painted and craft signage in the New York area, specifically focusing on the vernacular lettering styles that l...

There's also the sign *museum* :)

This only happens to you once