Emily Elizabeth

Monochrome photograph featuring a crouching white woman in a spotty dress next to an intetior wall with torn wallpaper

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), critically acclaimed US photographer #womensart

Photo featuring an elderly woman and man holding hands in a interior space

Musician and painter Joni Mitchell (with artist David Hockney) #WomensArt

Why does he keep saying he’s ended six wars?

What the hell is he talking about?

Doomscrolling Reminder Lady also highly recommends muting, unfollowing and blocking people who annoy you; as well as an offline hobby and time with animals, who can't read and don't know what social media is at all.

Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.

BBC One - War and Peace Leo Tolstoy's epic story of life, love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia.

The BBC adaptation of “War & Peace” is excellent and it’s streaming on lots of places

What's most frustrating about this is the same thing that's frustrating about all of the Trump admin moves. You are watching a slow-motion unfolding of an action that is simply not legal, yet it happens anyway. It's the story of the university attacks, Institute of Peace, withholding of grants...

Letter to the Smithsonian: Internal Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions and Materials The Honorable Lonnie G. Bunch III Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 1000 Jefferson Dr SW Washington, DC 20560 Subject: Internal Review of Smithsonian

Discussion of the Smithsonian debacle focuses on object labels and language etc but the White House letter is potentially a lot more pernicious. Asks for job descriptions, teacher guides, list of collections, even memos related to acquisition. Are they going to de-accession things they don't like?

Following the success of "Kafkaesque", we will be rolling out the following new authorial adjectives over the coming months.

- Becketty
- Audenoid
- Ishiguroish
- Cuskesque
- McEwanian
- à le Carré
- Bergerac
- Didionine

Gouache paintings of long tailed blues
(might have a couple of these still available if that's something that interests you)

Wallpaper with trees, and a camp site with a UFO abducting a camper. There are aliens looking at the scene.

Wallpaper in the bathroom of a local place here in Pittsburgh.

MERYL STREEP

FAME! IM GONNA LIVE FOREVER IM GONNA LEARN HOW TO FLY

a tiny aloe plant with a post it note that says LEAVE ME ALONE! TRYING TO LIVE >:(

tell me about it, tiny aloe plant on the counter at the cafe near my house

If this were Biden, this would be playing on Fox News on a loop with interviews of psychiatrists being asked to comment on it.

Thanks everyone, with your support we were able to send $11,958.97 to the World Central Kitchen. 🖤

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Whenever I see any framing that is like “This used to be America, what happened?” I think about how I was in my thirties before I learned George Washington’s “wooden teeth” were actually dentures made of gold, ivory, and teeth forcibly pried from the mouths of his slaves. That’s the FIRST GUY.

Alan Dershowitz looking like absolute shit filming the police cause he was shut down at the farmers market

Please commit this picture of Alan Dershowitz filming the police to memory so my Halloween costume makes sense

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

"The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers... They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases."

Texas governor threatens Democrats who left state to prevent congressional map vote – US politics live Greg Abbott says he will try to remove Democrats unless they return to allow vote to take place on redrawing the US House map to favour Republicans

Do you know which state has the largest number of Black residents?

TEXAS (nearly 4 million)

Trump’s demand that TX redistrict & the Republican legislature’s acquiescence is an attack on Black representation. Stand with Texas Dems.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy. Any notion that the economic data misrepresents the reality of how the economy is performing is way off base. There are revisions to the data, even big revisions, but they universally say the economy is doing worse. That’s because it is. BTW, the DOGE cuts are a key factor in the revisions—not because BLS has cut staff, although that can’t help, but because the government often reports payrolls to BLS late. It didn’t matter when government employment was stable, but now that it’s declining, the cuts are picked up in the revisions.

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe.
From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

~

James Baldwin
Born OTD in 1924

Being a woman in the U.S. in 2025 is being a second-class citizen with no bodily autonomy and no pay equity and spending 10 years writing an essay about how casually men destroy women’s lives and not one day later, some fucker publishes a piece about how men not getting laid is a crisis

The image is a detailed illustration depicting various stages of the Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon) life cycle, along with its food plant.

Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle et des phénomènes de la nature, Guérin-Méneville, F.-E., 1838.

If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court Sam Altman has admitted that ChatGPT conversations can be used against you in court if they are subpoenaed.

"If you’re pasting in contracts, asking legal questions, or asking [the chatbot] for strategy, you're not getting legal advice…You’re generating discoverable evidence. No attorney-client privilege. No confidentiality. No ethical duty. No one to protect you."

There is absolutely no excuse for any Democrat asked about trans athletes to ever respond with anything but “why are you wasting my time asking about FEWER THAN FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO PLAY GAMES WITH THEIR FRIENDS. What is wrong with you?”

This photo looks like JD Vance is posing with an array of slightly-off clones.

My favorite Bluesky moment…