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— Joanna Klink
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A luminous full moon rises in the sky, prominently featured against the dusky blue of early night. In the foreground, a line of Eurasian cranes is silhouetted in mid-flight, their long legs and necks stretched out as they navigate by the moonlight.

Look to the sky tonight for March's full moon 🌕🍃

Also known as the Worm Moon, it marks the shift in seasons as the soil warms, earthworms re-emerge, and nature awakens.

It has many other names including: Lenten, Plough, Crow, & Sap Moon.

🕖 Moonrise: 18:09*

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

TERRIBLE TIMING: When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran.

“War begins when you will, but they do not end when you please.”

-Niccolò Machiavelli

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

I do not need to hear any more from MarkWayne™️ like… ever…

I absolutely and profoundly love her.

JCO is like the Trent Reznor of the literary world where novels are her NIN and tweets are her “inexplicable later success scoring Disney films”

@JoyceCarolOates X.com speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.

if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that

Alexey Kondakov, artiste ukrainien. Il montre des figures mythologiques intégrées dans des scènes urbaines ordinaires : métro, rues, appartements . Son travail joue sur le contraste entre le passé et le présent, produisant des images à la fois poétiques, ironiques et mélancoliques.
#AlexeyKondakov

#LeonardTsuguharuFoujita,
La Vie, (1917)

Three F-15s were shot down on one day! Why aren't Democrats attacking the incompetence and chaos of the conflict? Why aren't they calling for hearings? Voters are primed to see Trump as chaotic and out of control but Democrats become incredibly timid over anything involving military conflict.

Thomas Fransioli.
American, 1906-97.
Lluvia en Charleston. 1951
Óleo.

Au dessus des nuages, 2025 - Andrea Baruffi, peintre italien contemporain, ancien illustrateur à New York, dont les toiles figuratives mêlent atmosphères à la Hopper, ironie et éléments surréels.
#peinturefigurative
#AndreaBaruffi

I don’t like the sentence I’m about to type.

But here goes.

Pregnant children are being taken by ICE to a facility in Texas so they’re legally forced to give birth.

American artist Elizabeth Colomba painted her cousin Armelle while thinking with (and against) the language of canonical portraiture. The pose and polish nod toward John Singer Sargent’s "Madame X," but the remake shifts what is centered. It's not spectacle, not rumor, but presence and Black womanhood held with dignity and specificity. Armelle stands in an elegant interior, her body angled slightly while her face turns in profile. Her eyes look up and to our right, toward a framed painting on the wall. Her skin is a beautiful warm brown tone under soft, controlled light. Her black hair is gathered into a neat bun, and small earrings catch a faint highlight. She wears a crisp black-and-white ensemble with a white, button-front top with a deep black collar and black trim at the sleeves, paired with a long black skirt that falls in a smooth, heavy drape over a white underskirt hem. One hand rests lightly on a small wooden table, fingertips relaxed. The other hand holds a single pale pink flower on a long stem, hanging downward like a quiet punctuation mark. The floor beneath her is a bold black-and-white checkerboard, sharpening the geometry of the room. In the upper right, the framed picture shows an outdoor scene with a standing figure beneath palms. It's an image that pulls her attention and organizes the whole moment around looking. Armelle’s sideways glance toward the “painting-within-the-painting” (a 1885 watercolor painted in the Bahamas by Winslow Homer called "Under the Palm Tree" at the National Gallery of Art) creates a triangle of looking: we look at her, she looks toward art history, and art history looks back ... all reframed through family, roots, and choice. Colomba has described beginning from an existing story and remaking it to feel true to her mixed French and Caribbean inheritance. Here, that remaking reads as both critique and care, claiming the museum’s visual grammar as a space where Black beauty is not an exception but a standard.

"Armelle" by Elizabeth Colomba (French) - Oil on canvas / 1997 - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #ElizabethColomba #Colomba #TheMet #BlackArt #BlackArtist #art #artText #BlueskyArt #PortraitofaWoman #WomenPaintingWomen #MetropolitanMuseumofArt

"It Is March" by @victoriachang.bsky.social with alt text: #poem #poetry

NPR: “What would happen in Oklahoma if everyone without legal status working a job disappeared tomorrow?”

Gov. Stitt (R): “It would be devastating.”

Agree, agree, agree. Biden’s embrace of normalcy was shocking. It came into focus for me with the whole Trump shooting incident. We all wanted normal times, but it was clear things were not normal & hadn’t been for long time.

In 2020 voters and the grassroots delivered. We worked like crazy to elect Biden and majorities.
Biden and his admin had many tools, in Congress and out, that they failed to use. His whole approach was to embrace normality. But it was not a normal time.

But all is not lost. 2027-2030 we will likely get one last window to rebuild US democracy.

We cannot fail again.

We must understand the task, which is to destroy the power of the Republican party. The opposite of bipartisanship.

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US.

His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism.
And he failed.

Good for Rep. Omar to clap back at Mace's ignorance and racism. My respect for the lady from Minnesota has increased 100-fold in recent months. She's rightly sick of the BS from MAGA GOPers and more power to her.

The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.

Starting to think our government and a large segment of our population might be evil