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Does this person seem sane to anyone?

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Pay air traffic controllers and TSA and not ICE. Ground all private planes.

Good morning and happy Sunday 🐴 🥰

Queen of the Beatniks: Remembering ‘Chippewa Girl’ Judy Henske - Wisconsin Life In the early 1960s, New York City’s “Queen of the Beatniks” was a young woman from Chippewa Falls. Judy Henske wowed audiences for decades with her deep, soulful voice, sadly passing away in 2022 at a...

Queen of the Beatniks: Remembering ‘Chippewa Girl’ Judy Henske

This is such a good thread & point, and also it feels like so much going on right now is that the people in power believe ALL the lies the GOP has been telling to consolidate power, and keep acting on things that were only ever supposed to be useful rhetoric to rally voters/terrorize people.

B&W art. A fancy ballroom where men in white tie are reveling with women in evening gowns. The revelers have paused in their dancing and are looking down at the dance floor. A fist has punched through the floor. We see below the ball men and women hunched down in a cramped space holding up the revelers' gala. One of these people crammed down in the depths has punched through the dance floor from below.

From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906

An adorable raccoon.

Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’ Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center

Ticket sales for the Washington National Opera have collapsed since Trump took over the Kennedy center

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Quite a headline.

Time for a ceremonial rewatch of Carly Aquilino

The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.

This is wonderful!

Betsey Johnson wearing her tinsel motorcycle jacket designed for the New York CIty Paraphernalia Boutique, 1966.

#BetseyJohnson #60sFashion

It was the BEST store.

Photo by Steve Vidler Pale yellow long sleeved mini dress with op art target design in black on the front

Paraphernalia Dress by Michael Mott (1966)

you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt

It used to be called a No Brainer.

Alberto Giacometti, Still-Life with Bottles, 1958

women, are they bitches?

Evanston mayor @danielbiss.bsky.social is launching investigations into reports of immigration agents brutalizing community members.

“They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason.”

Mike Nichols and the American Century - Boston Review The director’s life reflected both the feats and the failures of the postwar U.S. experience.

BOTD Mike Nichols!!!
MCCT5 5)Closer 4)Who’s Afraid of VW 3)Angels in America 2)Carnal Knowledge 1)Graduate
From Us:
Woolf: midcenturycinema.org/node/78
Grad: midcenturycinema.org/2017/02/04/n...
CK: midcenturycinema.org/node/90
& via @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/mik...

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government.

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness

This is from @mcopelov.bsky.social is important. The “very serious people” have dressed up their own political preferences as wisdom and savvy for too long. They aren’t helpful. Not at all.

Lmao they’re playing this at the Zohran party rn

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.

Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.

'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

In 1789, the women of Paris walked the 30km or so to Versailles to demand bread from the king Louis XVI.
Hunger is a very destabilizing factor for governments. The GOP is asking for trouble.