Hrag Vartanian

Don Lemon arrested by federal officials in connection with church protest Former CNN host Don Lemon was arrested by federal officials and charged in connection with a church protest in Minneapolis that he had covered.

What is happening to Don Lemon is what the NYPD tried to do to the photographer who took photos of the action in front of the Brooklyn Museum director's home. The elites floated this in the art world, and so many fell for the ridiculous outrage.

Wooden chairs on display in a gallery

Various objects, including brooms and a pitchfork, on the way hanging in a gallery

A shaker long bench on display in the gallery

Some beautiful historical objects at the Shaker show in Philadelphia at the ICA. It opens Saturday.

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

Wut is happening? 🤯

Maybe the Heated Rivalry crew? 🤷🏻 😂

My last hairdresser left the field to pursue bring a strongman competitor, and my current hairdresser is away to do hair at the Winter Olympics. WTF is up with this?

People waiting on a subway car with its doors open while in the station

If this train ever moves …

“TikTok deleted my account. I had 1.4 Million followers.”

🇵🇸 Journalist Bisan Owda loses her TikTok Account to platform censorship — which she points out Netanyahu openly said would come.

Why is the TikTok discourse ignoring this part?🤔

Influencers “not particularly interested in the truth, they’re interested in whether or not a particular story will get a lot of attention and traction in online spaces.” As power of gen AI increases, getting harder to tell what’s real. Next, AI that tailors disinfo to target by age, race, interests

That’s just a collectible then, not a publication, no?

What a waste of resources. The cruise company should pay for that and then cruises to Antarctica should be banned.

maybe there just shouldn't be cruises to antarctica. (or anywhere, cruises are lawless, terrible things that dump a ton of waste in our oceans)

LIKE.HE.WAS.A.DEER.

Yes, good imagery.

Sometimes when my nervous system gets overloaded with so much information my head starts to vibrate. Does this happen to anyone else?

does not mention ICE or DHS once

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings.

This can't be "reformed"

Tweet from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Ok, finished 4th book in Game Changers series and it was my least favorite. My ranking:
1. Tough Guy
2. Heated Rivalry
3. Game Changer
4. Common Goal

Also, @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social has a bartender in no4 named Aram, which is such an Armenian name. Dying to know if that was the intention.

House Democrats' support for impeaching Kristi Noem surges after Minnesota shooting The latest batch includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and several swing-district, moderate and leadership members.

New Noem impeachment co-sponsors today: AOC, Neguse, DelBene, Garcia, Scott (Va.), Horsford, Hayes, Landsman, Peters, Norton, Auchincloss, Latimer, Crow, Soto, Walkinshaw, Meng, Ruiz, Castor, Ross, Levin, Cisneros

It's at 140 — nearly 2/3 of the caucus @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/01/26/k...

I think it’s about scale & audience. Coates is a household name & built a big audience enthusiastic about his work, not to mention extensive and wide ties to political, academic, media, & cultural elites. At the end of the day it’s about money & if people are making it they often look the other way.

This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.

💯

Perhaps the most politically important thing about Zohran Mamdani is that it seems like he really, really likes New York and New Yorkers.

oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove.

people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.

‘Dragon Hole’: Scientists found a huge ocean sinkhole hiding 1,700 strange viruses beneath the sea | - The Times of India Science News: Deep in the South China Sea, scientists from Chinese marine research institutes, including the First Institute of Oceanography, have been exploring a .

Umm… Chinese find 1,700 previously unknown viruses in a sinkhole 🦠 what could possibly go wrong.

Narrator: he hates many LA and Berlin art dealers and many tech artists

Oh I know he’s problematic. Did you see my follow up post underneath.

Is it too late to call the commercial cannabis industry “weeded rivalry”

He looks like he could be a first time LA or Berlin art dealer at Art Basel Miami Beach or a tech artist about to ask pedo tech bro collectors for a commission.