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Seph Rodney, PhD

@sephspeaks.bsky.social

Freelance visual arts critic and curator, former editor at Hyperallergic, current contributor to the NY Times (www.nytimes.com/by/seph-rodney), former artist, lapsed poet. "To make something beautiful should be enough; it isn't. It should be" —R. Siken

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I mean more or less exactly

28.02.2026 02:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials Ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a statement on the incident on Thursday.

This is how screwed up everything is. The DOD shot down a CBP drone which cause the FAA to shut down the airspace around El Paso. We have stupid idiots in all levels of all agencies thanks to this Regime.
If we go to war, GOD help us.
abcnews.com/US/dept-defe...

27.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 11396    🔁 3197    💬 849    📌 292
I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

24.02.2026 12:38 — 👍 15635    🔁 2751    💬 0    📌 1

It's still up.

23.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 37    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

23.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 10335    🔁 2032    💬 341    📌 86
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Michael Silverblatt, NPR’s ‘Bookworm’ Who Interviewed Authors, Dies at 73

A light has gone out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b...

23.02.2026 20:28 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Anyone else curious how the Federal workers who were fired under this administration are going to vote this November?

18.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 3419    🔁 527    💬 221    📌 25

Fascists: Next Gen

19.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 311    🔁 71    💬 48    📌 3

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

19.02.2026 12:20 — 👍 13450    🔁 3457    💬 128    📌 127
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We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives The best work in the Bronx Museum’s biennial indicates aspirations beyond this time and place.

Thinking about the Bronx Museum's AIM Biennial. I'm arguing that mere sentimental depiction isn't enough: hyperallergic.com/we-must-do-m...

17.02.2026 21:47 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

This is something that a warlord forced to behave as though they are really interested in democratic elections would say.

14.02.2026 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

14.02.2026 00:10 — 👍 25513    🔁 8381    💬 649    📌 339

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

11.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 9164    🔁 2562    💬 206    📌 74

ICE agents shouldn't wear masks. We need to know who is attacking and committing crimes. Masks undermine accountability, invite abuse, and help place perpetrators above the law.

11.02.2026 01:34 — 👍 9647    🔁 2158    💬 374    📌 78

I did the thing! I emailed, cold, the author of a book I liked to tell them it was good, and to say thanks. Know what? That's a good idea. You were all correct. Everyone should do that.

11.02.2026 01:31 — 👍 1878    🔁 129    💬 78    📌 15

Every month is Black history month.

11.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

4 months after Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, Forbes reports that Binance now holds $4.7 billion of the $5.4 billion supply of Trump’s World Liberty Financial stablecoin. That is 87%. It is the largest corruption scandal in the history of the US presidency.

10.02.2026 14:07 — 👍 3177    🔁 1389    💬 113    📌 87

The smirk on Mike Johnson's face. I want to wipe it off.

10.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The annual change in GDP topped 15% in only five years since 1929 -- four times under FDR and once under Truman.

Conservatives at the time, and since, denounced those presidents for practicing "socialism," which Trump claims is the top problem constricting the economy today.

10.02.2026 22:54 — 👍 1747    🔁 422    💬 59    📌 15
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Besides the point but “praying it was fake” is such a funny thing to say here. “Oh my God is this video real or is it A.I.?”

06.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It just doesn't get much more blatantly racist than this. It just doesn't.

06.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Read it all please.

05.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 2382    🔁 1218    💬 70    📌 38

And you are doing the right thing in valuing your labor.

06.02.2026 01:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
lizzie johnson
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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lizzie johnson
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

04.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 9811    🔁 4423    💬 207    📌 429

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

04.02.2026 23:47 — 👍 1222    🔁 587    💬 17    📌 3

This is why the Dems are flailing about like a wind sock.

05.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New York School of Visual Arts chair resigns due to Epstein ties David Ross has resigned as chair of the SVA's MFA Art Practice program after it was revealed that he featured in the Epstein files

The chickens are coming home to roost:

artreview.com/new-york-sch...

04.02.2026 21:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is sad, but good: Artists are refusing to normalize this idiocy, and instead of just commanding performances - which they can't do - the Trump people are closing it down and slinking away.

02.02.2026 20:49 — 👍 2839    🔁 613    💬 88    📌 18
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02.02.2026 03:05 — 👍 1282    🔁 552    💬 13    📌 73

Not sure what theories are inadequate here. That members of a marginalized group might/can work for the system that marginalizes their people is one of the oldest topics. There’s an infinite amount of literature on it.

02.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 945    🔁 137    💬 35    📌 2