Alana Bograd

Dung beetles

Big time Lionel Bengelsdorf vibes…straight out of Philip Roth’s Plot Against America.

And Jews escaping persecution from pogroms. Come on.

Nice cover

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Used To Spread Holocaust Denial and Glorify Hitler OpenAI’s Sora 2, launched on September 30, faced backlash for generating controversial videos, including antisemitic and misogynistic content.

Well this was completely and utterly predictable: globalextremism.org/post/openais...

Independent citizens doing the media’s job…sigh

Cindy Sherman vibes 💕

Look at all the mega churches that are actual platforms for the gop.

Given anonymously

Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134740

Are we at the Lysenko stage of whatever the f*ck it is that they’re doing? 🤮

@ezraklein.bsky.social

You gonna talk to your friend? bsky.app/profile/geor...

What a cute little surprise

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

So the understandable idea that we need leaders of "both sides" to denounce political violence is, I believe, a nonstarter. MAGA's whole rhetorical mode, for 10 yrs, has been advocacy of violence. It'd have to denounce itself. It won't. So what else we can do to slow the rush toward more? 2/3

Agree

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Teen Girl Squad 😍 featuring so and so, what’s her face, the ugly one!

True

🤯 just when you thought you couldn’t get more depressed n anxious about the state of everything…

😦 😔

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He’s a snowflake, snowflake, little snowflake, falling falling falling falling falling from the sky.

Never forget…that Borat scene 🤮

City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.

The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

The authoritarian checklist It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy

New, from me:
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

Erik Satie
Composer

In 1917 Satie collaborated with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso to produce Parade, a mixed media performance that included music, dance, and visual art.

Satie, Cocteau, and company were charged with “cultural anarchy” and put in jail for 8 days.

youtu.be/_Chq1Ty0nyE?...

This is kinda amazing. I wish I knew how to shave that well.

Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...