Carol Ann Johnston

A painting of a long-haired white woman, seated (depicted from the side) with her head tilted back, eyes closed, and hands clasped over her knee. Her white blouse falls off her right shoulder and her long curly brown hair flows behind her.

Big news - the National Gallery of Art today announced the acquisition of "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy," a c. 1625 painting by Artemisia Gentileschi! The work will be on view beginning late February in Gallery 29 on the main floor of the West Building.

Read the full press release - lnkd.in/gZXtwMdr

It seems that the proclivity toward serious criminality (felonies) is far higher among ICE and CBP agents than among immigrants taken as a whole. Stats on this subject are persistent and offer the same results.

100%

Ex-ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing immigrant in custody Louisiana detention officer admits to sexual abuse of detainee as reports of harassment and neglect surge inside facilities across US

At an ICE concentration camp, this thug RAPED HER FOR MONTHS.

He’s just been convicted.

HOW MUCH ABUSE DON’T WE KNOW ABOUT?

What we KNOW is horrific enough.

By the way…

The PROSECUTION called this COERCIVE series of ongoing RAPES a “romantic relationship“.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Washpost foreign correspondents plead with Bezos to keep the overseas bureaus alive.

Folks need to understand that at current rates it will take ICE 11+ years of this kind of sustained activity to remove all the undocumented immigrants in the US. That what Trump-Vance-Miller are doing is putting into place is a permanent national terror force that will last for at least a decade.

Could you elaborate?

trump has probably destroyed the minnesota republican party for the duration

👇👇

He is full-on delusional, I agree.

And we should be saying that out loud using that language all the time, and so should our former allies that are currently being threatened by his delusions.

He’s delusional.

Unhinged

HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”

Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

So a Tolkien fan more than a bearer of facts.

How serious is the error?

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Won't they just be replaced with toadies?

MS-NOW Analysis Destroys MAGA’s Claim That Renée Nicole Good “Ran Over the ICE Agent” - TLP Media Jen Psaki just absolutely dismantled the latest right wing fairy tale. On Friday’s edition of MS NOW’s The Briefing with

Like they even care about truth...

MS-NOW Analysis Destroys MAGA’s Claim That Renée Nicole Good “Ran Over the ICE Agent”

tlpmedia.co/politics/ana...

Not content with going full Nazi, Trump has decided we must suffer the worst of the Weimar Republic as well.

“I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.”

— Nina Simone

Can’t make this sh@t up.

This week: we execute a U.S. citizen.

Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”

It's so transparent what's going on here.

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

BREAKING: ICE shooter identified as Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

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i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

“God damn them all.”

The Extraordinary Military Career of Mark Kelly Good lord, has this man done a lot.

My friend @charlotteclymer.bsky.social has written about Mark Kelly’s distinguished military career. This is not to be missed. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

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