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Alana Bograd

@abogs.bsky.social
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Artist/Philly www.alanabograd.com

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hey @governor.pa.gov please see below. This is the kind of messaging we want from you in Pennsylvania. “If Mr Kristol can do it, you can too”
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.
A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Alana Bograd,Techno Forest Bather, 26”x32”, oil on canvas
Alana Bograd, oil painting, Techno Forest Bather
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
May this one day happen to them.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Vintage embroidery, applique wall hanging from Gujarat, India #WomensArt
Highly decorated embroidered wall hanging with images of stylised animals and plants
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Last year, I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and Twin Peaks. I wrote about Laura Palmer. A generation of girls, now women, who grew up in Laura Palmer’s world. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...
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Laura Palmer’s House
Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.” www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
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'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Happy to score this beautiful whistle from @nancyjosephson.bsky.social and help increase donations to local organizations that do important work for immigration protection services. Please consider donating to an immigration protection service org and call your representatives to defund ICE
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The absolute accuracy of this.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Well this was completely and utterly predictable: globalextremism.org/post/openais...
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Used To Spread Holocaust Denial and Glorify Hitler
OpenAI’s Sora 2, launched on September 30, faced backlash for generating controversial videos, including antisemitic and misogynistic content.
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Given anonymously
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/09/2025
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
So the understandable idea that we need leaders of "both sides" to denounce political violence is, I believe, a nonstarter. MAGA's whole rhetorical mode, for 10 yrs, has been advocacy of violence. It'd have to denounce itself. It won't. So what else we can do to slow the rush toward more? 2/3
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
True
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert
The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
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The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
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Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Erik Satie Composer In 1917 Satie collaborated with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso to produce Parade, a mixed media performance that included music, dance, and visual art. Satie, Cocteau, and company were charged with “cultural anarchy” and put in jail for 8 days. youtu.be/_Chq1Ty0nyE?...
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Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This is kinda amazing. I wish I knew how to shave that well.
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N. Olya @nsolya.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Quick drawing break of what’s in front of us-My daughter, Vera, drew our dog, Scooby, and I drew the author of the book “Vera, or Faith” (quick google image search of @shteyngart.bsky.social )
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile, recently released its first images of the cosmos/deep space. Vera Rubin (1928-2016) was a pioneering US astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe #WomensArt
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 15/06/2025
The United States of America: No Kings since 1776. Donald Trump: Russian-owned since 1978.
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Jesse Spafford @jessespafford.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This administration is marked by not just its cruelty but its complete inability to craft coherent policies or consider the obvious consequences of those policies. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
wrote about what the protests say about the strength, or lack thereof, of the trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man (Gift Article)
He is still dangerous, though.
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Child Bearer Acrylic, gouache on paper 9"x12" 2016
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Our Golem Is Up 11x14” Oil on linen
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Oil on linen
Our Golem Is Up
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
колобок с ногтями Kolobok With Nails 2025 Oil on wood 20”x20” Alana Bograd #art #painting #kolobok
колобок с ногтями
Kolobok With Nails 2025
Oil on wood
20”x20”
#art #Painting
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
бутерброд новый год (sandwich new year) ink 9"x12" 2022
бутерброд новый год (sandwich new year)
ink
9"x12"
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#painting #drawing #art
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Our Cosmic Behavior Oil, paper, ink on canvas 10"x8" 2024 Alana Bograd #art #painting
Our Cosmic Behavior
Oil, ink on canvas
10"x8"
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Alana Bograd #art #painting
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Full On Cosmic, 2025, 9”x8”, Oil, ink, wax, paper, on canvas, #wip, #painting #alanabograd #art #contemporarypainting
Full On Cosmic, 2025, 9”x8”, Oil, ink, wax, paper, on canvas #alanabograd #art #contemporarypainting
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Spocked Hands Investigate 2025, 10”x10” Oil and wax on wood panel #alanabograd #wip #art #painting #womensart “Within the 2-dimensional internet world, new collectivities have arisen, invisible by the light of day-tribes with distinct worldviews, beholden to manipulations…” #timothysnyder
Spocked Hands Investigate 2025, 10”x10” Oil and wax on wood panel #alanabograd #wip #art #painting #womensart “Within the 2-dimensional internet world, new collectivities have arisen, invisible by the light of day-tribes with distinct worldviews, beholden to manipulations…” #timothysnyder
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Running Out, 38x48”, Oil on canvas, Alana Bograd #womenartists #art #painting
Running Out, 38x48”, Oil on canvas, Alana Bograd
#womenartists #art #painting
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Spock Hands Blessing, 12”x12”, oil, ink, paper collage on wood panel, 2023
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Sleep of Reason, 14”x11, oil on canvas, 2025
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Alana Bograd @abogs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Studio today
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Nizar Ali Badr (Latakia, Syria) Refugees found pebbles
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Elon Musk grew up in an apartheid country, backed a German political party that seeks to rehabilitate Hitler, was sued by the federal government for abuse against Black workers, promoted pro-Hitler tweets, and gave a Hitler salute twice in a speech. But what are his real political beliefs?
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I wrote this in June 2023 a year or so after I tried to get mainstream outlets to cover the story. Haven’t been this angry about the collective failure of our society to properly address antisemitism in quite a while.
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Elon Musk is the most dangerous antisemite in America
Elon Musk often amplifies antisemitic conspiracy theories. His power as Twitter CEO gives him terrifying influence.
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/\__/\__/\__/ @cardiograms.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
David Lynch smirking in an interview

-Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.
-Elaborate on that.
-No.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Ferenc Berko, Denture Shop, Rawalpindi, 1946
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.
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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016
Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal
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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Poignant piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social "the steady loss of intelligence in our nation and our world worries me the most. Even as the stakes grow higher, we’re losing our hard-won ability to understand the world around us." The LA Fires and the Big Bang open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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The LA Fires and the Big Bang
The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 22/12/2024
From a banana menorah to versions by Dalí and Peter Shire, artists have long remixed the traditional Hanukkah lamp.
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Modern Menorahs That Break the Mold
From a banana menorah to versions by Dalí and Peter Shire, artists have long remixed the traditional Hanukkah lamp.
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