I was born an underdog. 21 surgeries by the age of 12 for spina bifida. A kid wearing goodwill hand-me-downs. I knew nothing would come easy, but I never doubted my right to the American dream.
Now, I'm running for the U.S. Senate to make sure all Iowans have a shot at theirs.
seems especially relevant today...
Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool
The link will take you to the journal home page with titles and abstracts. If you don't have institutional access and would like to read these, let me know in the comments.
In the new issue of American Art, 5 short “Commentaries” on “Visualizing Resource Extraction, 1840-1910” that I edited with Emily Gephart. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/amart/cu...
Seems like Gilead is around the corner. Take action April 5: handsoff2025.com
Starting at midnight tonight!
43% of social welfare recipients are White. 11 of the top 12 most dependent states are red states.
Alaska is the most dependent on federal aid while California (49) and New Jersey (50) are least dependent, contributing far more than they receive.
#RedStateMoochers
Listen to this great conversation between historian Heather Cox Richardson and Katie Paris, founder of Red Wine & Blue, a community of diverse suburban women working to defeat extremism, one friend at a time. Join Red Wine & Blue!
@jwomack68.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Coming soon from Leuven University Press. Animal Modernities is the result of a few years of collaborative scholarship and generosity. Katie Hornstein and Daniel Harkett brought this together. My essay on small Breton cows (pie noirs)is in it. #animalstudies; #nineteenthcenturyart; #ecocriticism
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Trump's Education Secretary nominee, Linda McMahon is testifying in her Senate confirmation hearing.
Her top priority will be to dismantle the Department of Education to fund massive tax breaks for the wealthy
Tell your Senator: vote NO on McMahon.
win.newmode.net/sunrisemovem...
Trump’s energy agenda is to attack American renewable energy jobs and raise power costs and increase economic chaos. American workers lose, people who pay electric bills lose, and only the Big Oil Barons win. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
‘Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.’ - Seamus Heaney, Poet & Nobel Laureate.
IKEA is the world's largest consumer of timber in the world.
Its demand is constantly expanding. As is its output of fast furniture.
Buy. Throw away. Buy again.
A recent documentary by Arte highlights the impact of IKEA's over-consumption on forests.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/ikea-the-t...
"It’s disgusting and, frankly, counterproductive to point out that I voted for this. To imply that I had personal free will and agency when I walked into a voting booth and picked Mayor Bomberman is insulting."
‘If you don't think 47 is modeling Adolf, go read up on "degenerate art." The takeover of the Kennedy Center is fascism at its finest’
—@ngoldfarb1 on threads
#art
#arthistory
#modernart
#degenerateart
#germanexpressionism
#fascistart
@kennedycenter.bsky.social
CFP: Trade and Its Representations (Paris, 12-13 Jun 25)
https://arthist.net/archive/43898
Dionysus and Aphrodite in Ancient Greece and Beyond (Madrid, 16-20 Jun 25) arthist.net/archive/43740
" In the latest news, the National Endowment of the Arts announced that it’s doing away with grants for underserved communities and instead prioritizing projects that “celebrate and honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.”" Hyperallergic
Elon Musk is executing a coup of the US government.
In recent days he’s gained access to a vast range of sensitive information of millions of citizens, businesses, and foreign development projects.
This is as serious as it gets. Over 70,000 people have already signed on. Join in:
FireElon.org
Textile Ecologies: right now
Let’s change what’s in the news! If you’re also tired of hearing about Blake Lively, POTUS, VP, the TikTok ban, Mark Zuckerberg and all the other garbage… share this video! Through it all, we’ll be there. ❤️#dogcontent
Gilead.
It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
