Kristi Noem's wedding photos should have been our first clue.
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Kristi Noem's wedding photos should have been our first clue.
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This is pretty funny ... and accurate. #makeitshitty.
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It took a newspaper from another country to get my attention on this and clearly define why we should delete ChatGPT.
The AI platform has been useful for me but its owners are bankrolling MAGA and it plays a significant role as a technology weapon for authoritarianism.
Buh-bye, fascists.
When you put on a song that opens something in you, when you let it do what it is trying to do, when you rise up and move to it or weep to it or laugh out loud at how perfectly it says the thing you could not say.
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A person with a voice or an instrument and a feeling can reach through time, find you in your car or in your cups or in your Thursday afternoon, and take hold of you long enough to lift you up.
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He's getting back at all those kids of color who intimidated him as a kid, isn't he?
05.03.2026 15:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"In a time of destruction, create something." — Maxine Hong Kingston
Thank you for this quote of the day, @janisian.bsky.social
"Under the second administration of President Donald Trump, there has been a growing fear that museums are self-censoring...The Whitney Biennial, at least, is not obeying in advance."
The arts have power.
“Whitney Biennial 2026,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Mar 8–Aug 23, 2026.
"'It’s a parody of the Creation of Adam,' he said. 'I’ve got a lot of white world leaders who are destroying this planet, and they are put in place of God.'"
And this provocative work has them riled up in New South Wales.
regionriverina.com.au/what-is-hate...
"At a moment when arts and culture, public education, historical memory, and American democracy itself are under coordinated attack, silence is not a neutral posture. It is a decision with consequences."
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"After the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, Montclair writer Michael Laser began work on a novel imagining a dystopian United States ruled by authoritarianism.
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"Holcroft’s story, about theater artists working in a country where art is censored by the government, feels not like a static Gordian knot but something slippery and alive."
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"America first" my ass.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
"Public space is where citizenship becomes visible, where disagreement acquires form, and where power encounters scrutiny.
"The transformation of public space over the past century has therefore reshaped not only how democracies function, but how they are experienced by ordinary people."
"In this photo collection, Leyad Zavriyev explores street art and graffiti from neighborhoods across the world – from Buenos Aires and San Juan, to Marrakech and Brooklyn."
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Read all of "This Is a Banana," follow, or subscribe (it's free) to my Substack at randallwhite.substack.com I write about how creativity shapes democracy and public life.
For insights about misinformation currently being spread by US military leaders in Iran, see: www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org
Arkansas, North Carolina and my own state of #Texas have political primary #elections today. Let's vote our way out of this trainwreck.
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REPLY REQUESTED. Please name one song or musical composition -- in any genre -- that brings you joy. I'm writing a piece for randallwhite.substack.com about the power of music to lift us up ... especially when it feels like the world wants to drag us down. THANK YOU!
02.03.2026 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I can't with these boys...
02.03.2026 20:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He has a girlfriend?
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Artists of all disciplines, I hope you will read my latest Substack. “This Is a Banana: How creative people become essential witnesses when the lie is the point” open.substack.com/pub/randallw...
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Hegseth thinks he's playing Counter-Strike 2, doesn't he?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...
Meet Argentine anti-totalitarian artist Margarita Paksa in this Artforum article by Daniel R. Quiles of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Work shown here: Margarita Paksa, "Silencio (Silence)," 1967/2010.
www.artforum.com/features/mar...
"These walls tell stories of struggle, resilience, memory, and pride: remembering victims of dictatorship, honoring cultural icons, and calling for justice. What unites them is how they turn everyday streets into open-air galleries."
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A work of visual, performing, or literary art affirms that:
• attention still matters
• precision still matters
• reality is worth the effort required to see it clearly
In a culture of contempt, such care is not ornamental.
It steadies us.
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Artists aren't bystanders to this moment.
They're building new ways of living together. My next essays outline how that work moves from influence to structure.
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My Substack this afternoon will be about the arts and truth.
Meanwhile, this popped this a.m.: "The performing arts, with their warm embrace of subjectivity, might not seem the most likely corrective amid this crisis. But they have much to teach us about the notion of truth."
“Everything is politics. But now, more than ever, art is politics because you don't get to make art in a fascist state,” said Irish singer-songwriter CMAT when the Guardian spoke to her on the Brits 2026 red carpet.
www.theguardian.com/global/video...
