Ric Camacho

The Epstein Scandal Is Now a Chronic Disease of the Trump Presidency Read the e-mails—this isn’t going away anytime soon.

“No matter how much you might want to avoid paying attention to this truly unsavory story, it is not going away.” @sbg1 writes about the latest developments in the Trump-Epstein saga—and what comes next. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xz3NUJ

Zohran Mamdani and the Rise of American Socialism Zohran Mamdani’s victory brings new life to the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization that has had its ups and downs.

Zohran Mamdani handed the Democratic Socialists of America their biggest win in the organization's 43-year history. Here's a look back at socialism’s presence in American politics.

Likely to be yet ANOTHER broken promise from this lot of nutters

First time revisiting the big H since my college years. What took so long? #herodotus #history

Agreed!

Inspiration of Saint Matthew

Inspiration of Saint Matthew https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/inspiration-of-saint-matthew-1602-1

Take a break from insanity in DC & share some fun and surprising FACTS. Anyone? My contribution today: the NYC subway transports more people annually than all U.S. airlines: over 1.7 billion rides in peak years vs. U.S. airlines around 900 million to 1 billion passengers annually in recent years.

Was he over for dinner and did he espy it prominently displayed on your coffee table? 📖 👀

Interesting. I thought it was breezily written and very unacademic even given the detail but that may just be an indication of what I’ve been reading as of late. Hah.

As sorrowful an observation as it is true

Looking all Byronic in NYC

Passion’s Countervoices | Peter Brooks Balzac’s The Lily in the Valley gives full-throated voice to romantic passion and at the same time contains it, inflating its rhetoric while ironizing it.

“[Balzac’s] The Lily in the Valley is...remarkable in simultaneously giving full-throated voice to romantic passion and containing it, inflating its rhetoric while ironizing it.” —Peter Brooks

Crowning with Thorns

Crowning with Thorns https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/crowning-with-thorns-1603

Engrossing bio of Sargent by Paul Fisher. Good prep for the Sargent & Paris show in NYC this spring and summer

#art #americanart #johnsingersargent

Wholeheartedly agree.

Detail from Caravaggio’s Denial of Saint Peter @metmuseum.bsky.social. One of his last paintings. Looking perhaps to do a Caravaggio art safari to Rome next year. L’arte per piacere! #caravaggio #arthistory #italianart

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

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X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.

Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?

If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

The gals of the family in black. Miss them terribly. Do people still say « gals »? 🙅🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️#oldschool

Screaming in the middle of the ocean…oh but what a scream!!

Nice little Saint-Aubin exhibit on the way to the Siena show @metmuseum.bsky.social #paris #arthistory

The magnificently curated show of Sienese art currently @metmuseum.bsky.social leaves NY at the end of the month before opening in London @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social . Just go! #arthistory #siena #italianart