Rebecca Herman

EO Nonsense 14172: “Restoring Names that Honor American ?$%*!_ness”

EO Twisted Haiku for mangled judgments:

Art Tragically Stripped
Honor Assassinated
Prosperity ALL

#EO 14172
#embroidery
#judges
#executiveorder

12 Angry Muppets

Ooh, i love the way Mark E Smith screeches “New Face in HELL!” Really captures the feeling of keeping up with the names in the news

#letterpress

Thank you speaking with artists in Minnesota!

Dreamhaven comic bookstore!

Opinion | Tim Walz: The Un-American Assault on Minnesota Federal officials are lying. My state’s Corrections Department honors all immigration detainers.

www.wsj.com/opinion/tim-...

Putting on the Pressure

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“ Across Minnesota, ICE continues to stop, harass, and detain people regardless of their citizenship status...

This directory of places to donate to all comes from activists on the ground, plugged into the situation.”
www.standwithminnesota.com

Purpose
Of
Freedom.
Speak
Speech
By
Pressure
Suppress
*Misinformation
#executiveorder #letterpress #printing

Yo La Tengo + Luna + guest from The Dils

That time last week we went to the Fillmore… seems like a long time ago!

Anyone else see Mel Bochner paintings everywhere and get a good laugh in his memory? #conceptualart #sidewalk #art

Yes! I still listen to all these GBV albums

LANGUAGE LAGGED LIFE / ALL USABILITY LOST / HIGH COST BY DESIGN
#executiveorder 14338 #EO #badpoetry #haiku Federal Register Vol 90 No 163

Haiku written in honor of replacing Brutalist Dallas City Hall with casino:

To Visually Connect / Beloved Brutalist Elite / With Civic Virtue

#executiveorder 14344

I can imagine this building as a Brutalist Casino. No need for demolition—just lots of flashing lights!

“BY AUTHORITY
*General Public*
ARE NOT
Artist or Critics”

#executiveorders #badpoetry #EO #haiku 14344 www.federalregister.gov/executive-or...

Best soundtrack ever?

One of my favorites, and I definitely needed some Jimmy Cliff magic this morning

Dark blue velvet collar that reads: By Authority “General Public” means not Artists or Critics

Today’s Executive Order haiku, to be worn by the judge of your choosing. #badpoetry #EO #haiku #artists #critics

Sprawling Aesthetics say Nothing of time Lost by American (flag) Potholes

Executive Order 14338 #letterpress #badpoetry #haiku #aesthetics

Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”

What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?

Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.

As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”

www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

If you do one thing today, read and share this link. It is the tech oligarchs’ plan to take over the government and build a post-democratic America, proven to be well underway.

To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

What the World Needs Now Is Love — and Suzanne Jackson at SFMOMA The artist’s six decades of prolific, exploratory work shine in her first major museum retrospective.

Suzanne Jackson leads with love and invites you to do the same. With her first major museum retrospective at SFMOMA, spanning six decades of her work, the 81-year-old artist demonstrates how freeing an expansive approach to life and art can be.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Badly Stenciled sign saying “PARDON OUR APPEARANCE”

Choose your caption:
A) Entrance to National Archives’ Constitution Exhibit
B) Mock-up for my tombstone design
C) Mel Bochner fan art (I totally want to do this!)