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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Idea of Firs by Paul Klee, 1917 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Bequest, Eve Clendenin, 1974

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Enjoyed Corey Robin's essay "On Nikole Hannah-Jones" coreyrobin675129.substack.com/p/on-nikole-...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Frederick Douglass believed the US would only live up to its ideals when it granted equal rights to all citizens. He thought the best way to do this was to show that the Constitution was a radical document capable of delivering on this promise.
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Frederick Douglass Had a Radical Respect for the Constitution
Frederick Douglass believed the US would only live up to its ideals when it granted equal rights to all citizens. He thought the best way to do this was to show that the Constitution was a radical document capable of delivering on this promise.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.
Guy Christensen being antisemitic
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Richard Artschwager, Johnson Wax Building, 1974 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of Edward R. Broida
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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Souvenir de voyage / Memory of a journey - 1958 #artbots #magritte
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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still a sucker for the hard copy. (global.oup.com/academic/pro...)
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Laurence Mitchell @eastofelveden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel privileged to have entered the chamber of the mighty Gavrinis tomb last week. A 6,000-year-old Neolithic passage tomb on a tiny island in the Gulf of Morbihan, Brittany, it's interior walls are covered in swirling megalithic art. It Similar in some ways to Newgrange in Ireland ##TombTuesday
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Janeese4DC @janeese4dc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you Washingtonian Magazine for giving me an opportunity to lay out my vision for the future of DC. washingtonian.com/2026/09/24/i...
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In Her Own Words: Janeese Lewis George on Her Priorities, Challenges, and Trump - Washingtonian
A Q&A with the presumptive next mayor of DC.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Several Circles by Vasily Kandinsky, 1926 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sylvia Pankhurst, British communist and leading figure in the country's struggle for women’s suffrage, died on this day in 1960.
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Blue III www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/blue-i…
Blue III
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...
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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.
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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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oceanglider.bsky.social @oceanglider.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is really funny how much the "vibe shift" rhetoric was just something big city centrist elites who hated their "woke" colleagues & family were trying to will into existence
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Yolanda Díaz @yolandadiaz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
La inteligencia artificial ni es neutral ni se diseña sola. Hay que democratizarla y garantizar derechos laborales e igualdad de género, para evitar reproducir las brechas que ya existen. Hoy en la presentación de IA 360, para impulsar una IA responsable.
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Figures and Dog in Front of the Sun www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/figure…
Figures and Dog in Front of the Sun
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
"For a man whose academic field was built largely on faulty studies to ignore the intellectual fraud in his circle and lash out at people like Arday for bad scholarship – well, psychologists used to call that projection" @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...
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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way
The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...
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Jay Swanson @jayswanson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nor Americanness!!!!!
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Long Distance by Man Ray, 1916 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Gift, Peggy Guggenheim, 1979

© 2016 Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
PATTON avoids the clichés of famous men's personal lives by not presenting any personal life. (1970)
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2026
New tiger cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century aje.news/oxwijr
New tiger cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Makes sense: they hold a shared set of values (generating faux educational content that serves the political goals of the very rich).
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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As I read about Suk’s imagined court, I thought about the horror that is Bush v. Gore. What if a shadow court could have responded to that monstrosity? What if I could have taught my students that some important constitutional figures thought it bosh? washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/17/t...
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The Case for a Shadow Court
Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter the shadow court, an intriguing idea from Julie C. Suk.
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Jay Swanson @jayswanson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Against the Dictatorial Presidency, by thr brilliant Caleb Nelson: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Crystal Gradation www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/crysta…
Crystal Gradation
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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
H. R. Van Dongen’s 1980 cover to "Still Forms on Foxfield," by Joan Slonczewski
A crowd of old-timey people walk into a white church that has a large black spaceship rocket parked behind it.
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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A majority of the Indiana Supreme Court sounds hostile to the religious claims in this abortion exemption case. That’s not surprising, but the case remains an important test of whether “religious liberty for all” is a principled commitment or a hollow promise (cf papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).
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Religious Freedom and Abortion
The demise of Roe v. Wade has raised a host of religious liberty questions that were submerged prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s
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Piet Mondrian @pmondrian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/co…
Composition No. III Blanc-Jaune
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Red Tower by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome
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Jay Swanson @jayswanson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There might be something to this. It’s so much my favorite musical that I have trouble understanding why everyone doesn’t rank it number 1. But maybe the reality is I don’t like musicals?
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Graceful Ascent by Vasily Kandinsky, 1934 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"
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Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Friends! We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for our next annual meeting in Boston, MA, June 9-10, 2027. Please consider submitting a panel, roundtable, or individual paper proposal! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org?page_id=63
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Conference - Association of Law & Political Economy
2027 Annual ALPE Meeting June 9-10, 2027, Boston, MA We are thrilled to announce the Call for Proposals for the Association of Law and Political Economy’s 2027 annual meeting. We will meet in Boston, ...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 08/09/2026
How can we curb the Supreme Court’s antidemocratic overreach? Julie Suk, Polan Fellow at the Brennan Center, will discuss her new book The Shadow Court with law professor Kate Andrias in person and virtually on Wed., Sept 16, at 4 p.m. ET. Register:
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Book Launch - The Shadow Court by Prof. Julie C. Suk
Book Launch - The Shadow Court by Prof. Julie C. Suk
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
anyway i think DC statehood is a non negotiable. only way to give DC residents the tools to protect themselves.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went on to win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.

None of those victories were guaranteed. And none are permanent.

We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.

Happy Labor Day, New York. The future of worker power is ours to build. Learn more at nyc.gov/workerpower.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 07/09/2026
Mamdani has established the Office of Worker Power, a first-in-the-nation initiative to connect workers with education, resources, and organizations to help them form a union or demand better working conditions on the job. prospect.org?p=144128
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signs an executive order
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In his paintings of worn boots, Van Gogh turned the everyday into autobiography. Scuffed and unpaired, they stand for endurance and solitude—humble forms made radiant with struggle and life.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”
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ricfrophoto.bsky.social @ricfrophoto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Persistence of Form: #Abstract #Abstractart #geometric #mixedmedia #composition #colurs #structure #hardedge #Constructivism
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Jay Swanson @jayswanson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Right On, Big Earl!
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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