Rob Fields

This is a big deal. Approval polls, like the media, courts, and Congress, can serve as vehicles for presidential accountability. We are watching in real time as the institutions that could hold this administration to account wither on the vine.

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Ht @joshtpm.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing this, Magali. 🙏🏽

Adam Serwer: “Donald Trump is still psychically wounded by the election of Barack Obama.”

@adamserwer.bsky.social

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They kidnapped this five year old when he was coming home from school and sent him to a jail in Texas. Imagine how terrified he must be.

You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes.

You want to pee in peace?

Quit your fucking job.

The answer to “How could it ever have happened back then?” is right in front of us, here & now.

In 2017 I read Valeria Luiselli’s book about her experiences interpreting for very young children facing deportation.

The name of the book, Tell Me How It Ends, is heart wrenching to think of in this moment.

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In art school we went over this and actually i kinda want to add that i think men are just not socialized to care about the subtle differences in these colors.
Cause i can tell that there is a difference in those nails and in the lip sticks and greyish nails in the video. -

Gavin Newsom is just a guy who's interested in power. He's willing to entertain a dialogue with execrable people like Shapiro. This is the latest version of Bill Clinton's "triangulation". He's dangerous bc he provides a platform for ppl who aren't engaged in any good faith arguments.

The response below: On-point. Ht @kdc.bsky.social

Louder. For the cheap seats in the back.

Also true.

Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.

And with Trump suffering from increasing levels of dementia (allegedly), it'll be all Miller running the show.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...

An administration that just didn't GAF. These people are all evil.

Haha!

The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content.

It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.

Suss, given the source.

I'm missing the Kerry James Marshall exhibit at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social in London, but I bought the catalog. Well worth it bc the interview with him is gold.

Here's one of the quotes that resonated.

#quotes #kerryjamesmarshall #artists #contemporaryart #artadvisor #painting #blackartist

Palestinians try to recover their tent after overnight rainfall flooded a beachside tent camp in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip. [Mohammad Jahjouh/AP Photo]

Shaimaa Wadi, 25, sits with her one-year-old daughter Tala, inside their tent in a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Palestinians receive donated food at a temporary camp for displaced people, on the beach near the port of Gaza City. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

A woman tries to recover a carpet after overnight rainfall flooded a beachside tent camp in Khan Younis. [Mohammad Jahjouh/AP Photo]

Winter floods wreak havoc on Gaza displacement camps as Israel blocks aid https://aje.io/nu8pwm

Enjoy, and keep an eye of for these artists and their future exhibitions.

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Best Art Exhibitions of 2025: Honorable Mentions Further proof that there was too much high quality art to see this year.

Second, here's my "Honorable Mentions" list. Honestly, there was too much good stuff coming out of the African diaspora and the Global South to let everything hinge on a single list.

iamrobfields.substack.com/p/best-art-e...

The Best Art Exhibitions of 2025 Hat's off to my favorite art shows by artists from the African diaspora & the Global South

Hey, y'all! Two post that highlight some of the great art that was on exhibit this year.

First, here's my "Best of 2025" list:
iamrobfields.substack.com/p/the-best-a...

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An example of bad "rebranding": Going from "Philadelphia Museum of Art" to "Philadelphia Art Museum".

As a former cultural institution leader, I can't help but think of the resources that were ultimately wasted on such a negligible change.

Beautiful rework by Stew!

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy m...

If you missed #OptOutOctober like I did, here's @eff.org's full guide to improving your digital privacy and security.

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