A Zucker for Art

All bodyweight work today, outside on the rooftop gym in the brisk 39 degree weather!
-3x12 low bar triceps extensions
-3x10 parallel bar deficit pike push ups
-3x12 decline alt side plank shoulder tap + push ups
-10x20 chest to floor burpees
#FitnessSky

The Art of the Assignment In their essay, Blake explains that “Good assignments awaken us to the breadth of possibilities available to us rather than narrow ­things down to one possibility. They are the scaffolding we…

A good assignment can help your stream of stream of consciousness and creative juices flowing. My latest piece on 🎨📝 Artfully Learning features two examples of artist initiated assignments: theartsandeducation.com/2025/11/11/t...

and Laverie Valee!

Katie Brumcach!

Thanks Jose! The last two reps are pretty excruciating!

Yeah, this is another horrific job by the media stirring unfounded fear and distrust in medicine and healthcare! Isn't melatonin a natural occurring compound?

Signs of the Times The streets of New York City can feel overwhelming due to the massive amount of stimulating sights, sounds and activities occurring on practically every block. But those of us who frequent the city…

Life is demanding without understanding, but signs made by artists open up our eyes, hearts and minds. Read about the power and potency of artfully designed signs in my latest Artfully Learning piece, "Signs of the Times": theartsandeducation.com/2025/11/09/s...

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

You're not an opposition party. You've sold us out to the oligarchy. This is real life, not political chess. Those millions losing coverage and facing serious and uncertain outcomes because of it are because you can't be the leader they need. You've failed, and it's time to resign.

This country will never be great until we have, among other basic necessities, Medicare for all!

Brad Lander would be a great U.S. Senator representing the state of New York.

HOLD THE LINE. Please ensure that our ACA subsidies are extended. We cannot afford to lose them!

Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: The Beloved Children’s Book Author’s Little-Known Scientific Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms “Imagination is the precursor to policy, the precondition to action. Imagination, like wonder, allows us to value something.”

"Peter Rabbit" creator Beatrix Potter's little-known scientific studies of mushrooms (which help mycologists identify species to this day) and of lichens (the mysterious reproduction of which she discovered, revolutionizing their place in the kingdoms of life) www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/28/b...

As I mentioned in the message I left your office, it's time for you and your colleagues who voted NO, to insist that Schumer steps down. He's not fit to lead. He's clearly done the opposite by capitulating. We the people made it clear last Tuesday that we want REAL tangible change. This ain't it.

As I just said in a message I left your office, it's time for you and your colleagues who voted NO, to insist that Schumer steps down. He's not fit to lead. In fact he's done the opposite by capitulating. We the people made it clear last Tuesday that we want REAL tangible change. This ain't it.

You've got my support and I know you have the support millions of other New Yorkers. We're eagerly anticipating canvasing and then voting for you to be our next Senator!

"Thanks to my parents whose story as American citizens who were rounded up and put in prison camps just for being Japanese during WWII, well that affected my life greatly. And it really echoes strongly today, let's not add another story like this to our history." - Hiro Yamamoto (Soundgarden)

Today's core/rotational strength circuit:
-3x
10 pull ups + knee tuck


-3x12 hanging windshield wipers
-3x20 kb sit up + OH press (35 lbs)


-5x5 right arm kb windmills + 5 left arm kb windmills (50 lbs)

-3x22 scorpion push ups
#FitnessSky

Incidentally this level of frenzied lobbying of your senators is what the republican base does every day, year round

Which is why Democrats must not cave in on any agreement that does not extend and protect ACA subsidies. If the GOP cannot abide by that simple ask, then no deal is worth making with those devils.

Is the only source at this point Axios? Regardless, I've been calling and also advocating for others to do the same. Also, I wrote a script that I'm more than happy to share with anyone!

Do they typically answer on a weekday? In New York, no one at the offices of our two oligarchy loving senators answer! I always have to leave a voicemail, which does ensure that I'm staying composed, because I can read from my script, rather than feeling slightly bad for yelling at a human being!

"Without a genuine Jewish civil rights organization, we lose more than a national advocacy platform. We lose institutional infrastructure for coalition building. We lose organizational memory of how to show up in multiracial movements...."

Short, sweet and sweaty workout today. Started out with 10 minutes of AMRAP dumbbell stair carries, followed by 5 sets of 20 dumbbell bent over rows. #FitnessSky

Here we go! www.trumpcancelledmyflight.com

I haven't met a the Mountain Goats album that I didn't really like! "Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan" is the latest from one of the greatest!

Shibboleth Nine times out of ten, a 548-foot long hairline crack in the floor of a historic building would be a major cause for concern. But in 2007, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo altered the floor of Turbin…

I wrote a piece about an incredible art installation by Doris Salcedo called "Shibboleth;" and the impact that art has in addressing major ongoing issues like the profiling and ostracizing of immigrants theartsandeducation.com/2025/11/07/s...

Elise Stefanik erased Trump from her launch video and her website for governor.

She’s trying to rewind the clock to before she turned ultra MAGA.

But New Yorkers are smart. No matter how hard she tries to run away from Trump, we know she is his top ally and strongest supporter.
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And also, Eric Adams is a total creep and disgrace. He doesn't need Ziwe's brilliant prompting to expose it, he does it all on his own.

YouTube video by Ziwe ERIC ADAMS IS AN ICONIC GUEST | ZIWE INTERVIEW

Ziwe is brilliant. This is next level comedy and social commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...