Tapping The Source, Trapping The Trace

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.

We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?

Lynell George on ‘Ode to ’Dena’ Conceived in the early days after the sweeping fires, the CAAM exhibition traces Altadena’s artistic history.

In my latest for Alta journal I write about “Ode to ‘ Dena,” a sweeping exhibition now up at CAAM the traces, the deep, rooted history of the African-American, artistic community in Altadena www.altaonline.com/preview/disp...

ProPublica Updates Supreme Connections Database With Newly Released Financial Disclosures We’ve updated our database with the latest financial filings from eight justices, detailing millions in book income, almost 40 trips and one gift.

Using our Supreme Connections database, you can search for the organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.

We just updated it with newly released 2024 financial filings ⤵️

Photos of Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, and Tracy Reed in a montage of scenes from Dr. Strangelove

BTD - Stanley Kubrick - DR. STRANGELOVE -1964 - Italian release poster

HBD Betty Davis!

Best advice I can give is to try and pick a rock that’s out of the way so no one flips it over to interrupt your writhing and expose you to the harsh light of day

Vidiots Launches Initiative to Preserve Rare VHS, with 1,500 Tapes Identified So Far Vidiots and BAVC are partnering to digitize rare VHS from Vidiots' legacy collection — starting with the first 100 of 1,500 titles.

Physical media forever 📼

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

Sharing this GIFT LINK so people can’t say they didn’t know what’s been happening in our name.

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Bathrobe-and-aquanet era Ozzy, you had to be there.

Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.

Just remembered Mercury retrograde kicks off today, with many secrets typically revealed through the accidents the season supplies. I guess I mean, this is just the beginning.

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Now THAT's a cease and desist letter

If you ever feel bad about being disorganized or losing things, take comfort in the fact that you've probably never lost anything so important the government had to issue a press release to help you find it.

(Unless you're these sheriff's deputies.)

Been talking to News12 Bronx since the 2008/2009 season.

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity

make them shut down the hotline

use all your best Borg jokes

Very large knotted tree stub with two smaller trees growing out of it

vibes are off

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

The fear of throwing a birthday party for yourself now has the greatest example in history realized

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER I WISH I COULD GET RID OF MY BLUES WHY DON'T YOU START A GARDEN, GLOOMY ОТТО JUST PLANTING SOMETHING WILL CHEER YOU UP МАУВЕ YOU'RE RIGHT NANCY WAS SURPRISED BY GLOOMY OTTO’S CHOICE OF PLANT LABEL - WEEPING WILLOW

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
May 22,1959

Check the record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record
Check the record
Check the guy's track record

#FallFriday

This was so much fun.

Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Biennale Curator, Dies Suddenly | Artnet News Koyo Kouoh, executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA and curator of the next Venice Biennale, died suddenly overnight.

You cannot imagine how devastating this is.

Rest in Perfect Peace Koyo Kouoh🙏🏾

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Good afternoon happy people.

An assortment of 1970s aluminum-framed lawn chairs with colorful, woven polypropylene seats, a design that emerged post-World War II when manufacturers repurposed surplus aircraft aluminum for lightweight, foldable outdoor furniture.

Friday

What we witnessed was a political kidnapping of an elected official and I don't know what more to say than that.