This week marked a major milestone in the EU - the shattering of the cordon sanitaire against the far right in the European Parliament.
Here's my summary of what happened, what it means, and what's next:
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Literature teacher, Galați, Romania
This week marked a major milestone in the EU - the shattering of the cordon sanitaire against the far right in the European Parliament.
Here's my summary of what happened, what it means, and what's next:
Willows, Giverny - 1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10215
Steve Schapiro. Truman Capote in Motel Room in Humboldt, Kansas. 1967.
09.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Thomas Struth - Naples, 1989
09.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Boris Ignatovich, 'The Atlanteans', Leningrad / St Petersburg, 1931
09.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0And this beauty:
won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
www.divasofverse.com/2025/11/wont...
Formation of the crescent of Moon' - Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī, Turkish version of ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt, 17th c.
27.10.2025 05:04 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Cartoon of three panels. The first shows a flamingo standing in water, one leg bent, caption: Flamingo. The second panel shows the same scene, but just the flamingo's head and neck are above the water, caption: Flamingoing. In the third panel there are now just a few ripples in the water. Caption: Flamingone
www.worldofmoose.com/products/fla...
30.09.2025 09:10 — 👍 392 🔁 80 💬 8 📌 1💿🎶 NEW RELEASE: the Schoenberg Edition with Kirill Petrenko is out today! Discover a selection of the composer's works, including his Verklärte Nacht (1943 version). Find out more: https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/schoenberg-edition.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
19.09.2025 09:56 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Maurice Prendergast, Acadia, 1922
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134982
Gustave Doré, The Council Held by the Rats, ca. 1868.
31.08.2025 03:00 — 👍 59 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1Brett Weston, Rooftops, Manhattan, 1944
21.08.2025 16:12 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1Andrew Wyeth, 'Breakup', 1994, tempera on panel
07.08.2025 12:53 — 👍 63 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 2Mark Adams, Magnolia in glass, 1979
watercolor
Painting featuring three young Indian women, sitting facing left in different coloured saris
Three girls (1932)
by Amrita Sher-Gil #womensart
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait VII, 1953 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135155
I am two in one like a sparrow’s wings, and if spring is late I stay content with bearing the good omen.
Mahmoud Darwish, tr. Fady Joudah
04.06.2025 18:53 — 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0Happy Pride Month, Fannibals!
03.06.2025 13:08 — 👍 1867 🔁 350 💬 33 📌 8Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Estates of Margaret H. Rousseau and William C. Rousseau and the Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Norma Jean and Stanford Calderwood
Pastoral Landscape https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/192943
02.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0But I speak softer, every year a little softer.
A whisper.
To speak in a whisper.
To whisper—like the sea.
~Samuel Beckett
Playing weasels, 1909 #franzmarc #expressionism
25.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Parvaneh Etemadi (Iranian, 1948-2025)
Untitled, 1977, oil and cement on fiberboard
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Landscape with Sheep https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459358
22.03.2025 09:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Portrait of a Woman
German School 16th century
(The National Gallery, London)
rain falling
from a willow
eight or nine feet in the sky
Basho
Scientists against fascism
07.03.2025 18:55 — 👍 51 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Northern saw-whet owl
Peekaboo! You can’t hide from these laser-sharp eyes.
birdsofrey 📸
#littleowl #Nature #Owl
Against Winter by Charles Simić
www.divasofverse.com/2016/07/agai...
Documentary by Charles Simić
www.divasofverse.com/2025/03/docu...
Inspiration for smashing the patriarchy
Carlos Isidro
La Galana, guerrillera de La Mancha
a guerrilla fighter of the Peninsular War (1808–1814)