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Movements make leaders.

Keeping a Critical Eye on the Art World With Damien Davis Join us on March 2 for a virtual conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis.

Join us tomorrow for an intimate conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis, whose distinctive voice challenges the power structures and inequities of the contemporary art world.

Acres of free parking!

IDF sure does have a knack for finding hospitals to destroy.

This so wrong. It fundamentally misunderstands the nature of freedom struggles. Mandela & Walesa emerged from within social movements that were far larger than them. In Mandela's case, the movement began before he was born!
(Besides, Iranians don't need outsiders telling them what to do.)

In his book,”Tattoos on the Heart,” Fr. Gregory Boyle advocates for a “compassion that can stand in awe of what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.” I thought about that a lot as I read & reread this astounding book by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Portrait of Harry Belafonte, in an oval form, with his head tipped back in song and hands gesturing

Close-up of portrait of Harry Belafonte

Charles White's stunning portrait of Harry Belafonte, iconic singer, actor & civil rights activist born on this day in 1927

Wise.

Miles and Trane on Record: A Critic’s Favorites University Musical Society

This Miles and Coltrane top ten list is an excellent entry point into jazz generally ums.org/2026/01/29/m...

Fact is he is indeed my president. It does no good to pretend he isn't.

The former African minister in ICE detention Federal agency says Ghana’s Kenneth Ofori-Atta overstayed his visa but lawyers accuse US of aiding ‘political’ extradition request

www.ft.com/content/84ea... The former African minister in ICE detention

I guess when you've recently shitcanned your entire Middle East reporting team, the only alternative is to sit on your duff and wait to see what the utterly trustworthy military found out.

She is actually the best. Imagine if Musk, Bezos, or Zuck had even 10% of this woman’s creative generosity

Kinda like killing a cartel leader. There is always another more violent one to replace him.

I need to add that the casual misogyny is truly something else.

As Sharon Su @doodlyroses.com said yesterday, engaging with the classics can be personally challenging, even for people like me whose profession is to see the past in context. bsky.app/profile/dood...

The Front Page (1931 film) - Wikipedia

Watching the 1931 film The Front Page as a way of avoiding reality. It fully deserves its place among the best films ever made. Surprisingly a major character is an unjustly condemned anti-capitalist radical. Unsurprisingly casual racism pops up throughout the film.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fro...

They are also literally in a hotel ballroom in Florida. Not the situation room or anything even vaguely secure

Truly.

They've explained to me how the sound of a missile being intercepted is different from the sound of a missile strike. No one should ever have to learn this.

When your day has been interrupted multiple times by WhatsApp messages from a friend who's been in & out of bomb shelters all day long. All because of the evil men do.

My president is a lying, conniving, war-mongering, white supremacist who claims to have grabbed women by the p*ssy. Just the facts.

tweet says: GOP @GOP X.com Vote the pro-peace ticket. Vote Trump- Vance

A year and a half ago.

Smart kid.

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

Americans joined POTUS at the White House to celebrate Black History Month.

These people have no shame. No president has worked so hard to censor the stories of African Americans. #BlackHistoryMonth www.whitehouse.gov/videos/ameri...

Related. bsky.app/profile/andy...

Good for you. I'm always disappointed by how few bikes & e-bikes I see on the streets or, like this morning, at the Ix market. Then I remember that I'm one of many people who choose not to bike because this city is so bike-unfriendly. Not great for walking, either, but I do it.

Especially downtown!