Adriana Postelnicu @nautylus2010

The EU Parliament now has a right-wing majority President von der Leyen's centre-right EPP yesterday broke the centrist coalition, joining with the far right in order to pass the climate deregulation demanded by Trump.

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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Willows, Giverny - 1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10215

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Steve Schapiro. Truman Capote in Motel Room in Humboldt, Kansas. 1967.

09.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 34 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Thomas Struth - Naples, 1989

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Boris Ignatovich, 'The Atlanteans', Leningrad / St Petersburg, 1931

09.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton won't you celebrate with me won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhi...

And this beauty:
won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
www.divasofverse.com/2025/11/wont...

10.11.2025 01:02 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

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 📌 0

Cartoon 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

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💿🎶 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 📌 0

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Maurice Prendergast, Acadia, 1922
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134982

18.09.2025 16:40 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Gustave Doré, The Council Held by the Rats, ca. 1868.

31.08.2025 03:00 — 👍 59 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1

Brett Weston, Rooftops, Manhattan, 1944

21.08.2025 16:12 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1

Andrew Wyeth, 'Breakup', 1994, tempera on panel

07.08.2025 12:53 — 👍 63 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 2

Mark Adams, Magnolia in glass, 1979
watercolor

29.07.2025 20:24 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Painting featuring three young Indian women, sitting facing left in different coloured saris

Three girls (1932)
by Amrita Sher-Gil #womensart

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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

05.07.2025 00:36 — 👍 95 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 3

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 📌 0

Happy Pride Month, Fannibals!

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Harvard 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 📌 0

But I speak softer, every year a little softer.

A whisper.
To speak in a whisper.
To whisper—like the sea.

~Samuel Beckett

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