Reposted by Jim NewberryInternet Archive @archive.org · 09/10/2026What if you could take a work of art, remix it, study it, share it, or build something new from it? You can. Public-domain works belong to everyone to be: 🛠️ Reused 🔀 Remixed ❤️ Enjoyed 🧠 Reimagined So go find something. Then make something new. Free to (re)use. blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w... 4329111
Reposted by Jim NewberryThe Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Corporate leaders say raising the minimum wage will hurt the economy. Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards, host of Optimist Economy, says it’s time to “call their bluff.” New pod tomorrow! @kedseconomist.com 912721
Reposted by Jim Newberry404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 13453180
Reposted by Jim Newberrywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Blue Morning Glories, 1935 by Georgia O'Keeffe #Womensart 51297241
Reposted by Jim NewberryElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/09/2026WARREN: You and Kennedy are keeping these pharma deals secret. The companies say they are immaterial. You still want the American people to believe they are a great deal? KLOMP: Billions of dollars have been saved in out-of-pocket transactions— WARREN: Then show me the receipts. 518139944190
Reposted by Jim NewberryRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Triumph of the Will to Have Waist-to-Height Requirements. 2217326
Reposted by Jim Newberrywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt 4704119
Reposted by Jim NewberryRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Lake Epstein Files Gulf of Crypto Scams River of Defeat by Iran Public Naps Pond Corruption Creek. I have as much right to name international bodies of water as he does. So do you. Go at it. Of course I'm not ever for altering original indigenous place names, not even for Lake Ontology. 23539100
Reposted by Jim Newberryfravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." Cormac McCarthy Kevin Kia artwork 523509469
Reposted by Jim NewberryUniversity of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Happy #NationalPhotographyDay to @jimnewberry.bsky.social's new coffee table book of photos that capture the souls of the Windy City’s musicians -- CHICAGO MUSIC, SEEN www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... 054
Reposted by Jim NewberryTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/03/20261908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health 32648914
Reposted by Jim NewberryKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026BREAKING: Court orders Todd Blanche to appear in court next week to provide missing docs supporting key redactions of alleged victims, to explain why handwritten FBI interview notes of an alleged victim of Donald Trump remain withheld, & to provide a date when he’ll give the missing redaction log. 32262861925
Reposted by Jim Newberrywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Bauhaus weavers, circle portrait (c.1927) #WomensArt 453479
Reposted by Jim Newberrywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Kathy Klien, US artist known for her intricate flower mandalas created with petals #womensart 0613109
Reposted by Jim NewberryMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026"'250 Years of Cruelty' – Viet Thanh Nguyen on the ‘American Empire' and How to Save the U.S." The liberation of the American peoples cannot be achieved without the shedding of imperial weight, writes the Pulitzer prize-winning author for Zeteo:zeteo.com'250 Years of Cruelty' – Viet Thanh Nguyen on the ‘American Empire' and How to Save the U.S.The liberation of the American peoples cannot be achieved without the shedding of imperial weight, writes the Pulitzer prize-winning author in this somber essay marking the semiquincentennial. 15755171
Reposted by Jim NewberryEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec... 42469831625
Reposted by Jim Newberrywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026US Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler in the studio, 1956. Photo by G. Parks #WomensArt 1760115
Jim Newberry @jimnewberry.bsky.social · 15/06/2026My book will be out in October, and is available now for pre-order! My publisher, @illinoispress.bsky.social is currently having a 50% off sale on all titles, through tomorrow, June 16th. Use code summer26; link: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... 022
Reposted by Jim NewberryKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This was a humbling experience for me to spend time in conversation with Sky and Amanda Roberts, who are two of the fiercest survivor-advocates I’ve ever known. I hope you’ll tune in and listen. 393166978
Reposted by Jim NewberryMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11/03/2026A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center. Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000. Her daughter turned down $22,224,000. www.lex18.com/news/coverin...lex18.comMason County mother, daughter reject millions as data center land dispute continuesA mother and daughter in Mason County are rejecting multimillion-dollar offers for their land as a proposed data center project continues to move forward, and they say they're not budging. 1152496548
Reposted by Jim NewberryAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/03/2026A statue depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein styled like Jack and Rose from Titanic appeared on the National Mall today, showing the two figures standing on a ship’s bow with their arms outstretched in the film’s famous “King of the World” pose. 241664367
Reposted by Jim NewberryInternet Archive @archive.org · 06/03/2026🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, FIDDLING AROUND (1930)! 🐭🎶🎻 🎬 The star looks a little odd because this is the first Mickey cartoon not animated by Ub Iwerks. It's also the first Mickey released by Columbia Pictures. Full short ⤵️ archive.org/details/fidd... #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain 034572
Reposted by Jim NewberryLaura Letchinger - Painter Contemporary Art @lauraletchingerart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Another big thank you to @jimnewberry.bsky.social for the walnut artist's frame on WINDING ROAD | 33.5"x10.5"x1.25" | oil on canvas mounted to five cradled wood panels ✨ #contemporarypainting #framing #artist #art #livewithart 091
Reposted by Jim NewberryLaura Letchinger - Painter Contemporary Art @lauraletchingerart.bsky.social · 04/03/2026HEART | 37”x61”x1.5” | oil on paper mounted to cradled wood panel, beautifully framed in walnut by @jimnewberry.bsky.social ✨ #oilpainting #nokings #contemporaryart #love #art 081
Reposted by Jim NewberryMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic... 22384582198
Reposted by Jim Newberrywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart 8935174
Reposted by Jim NewberryEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/01/2026it's really good that Oracle bought TikTok, a business that only loses money, at a time when it took on $56bn+ in debt and $240bn in lease obligations for GPUs to rent to OpenAI, a company that will run out of money. This could all have the funniest ending ever 692637675
Jim Newberry @jimnewberry.bsky.social · 24/01/2026theguardian.comUS immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s order 000
Reposted by Jim NewberryChris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026You may have missed the news this week while certain groups focus on themselves, but Australia’s grid has hit a new milestone. 16509112
Reposted by Jim Newberrywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart 1714116
Reposted by Jim NewberryKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Nixon insisted the bombing of Cambodia was just targeting Viet Cong outposts there and not meant to undermine its government, but the bombings destabilized the Lon Nol government and paved the way for the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields and the massacre of more than a million people. 11868462238
Reposted by Jim NewberryEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/01/2026This is the best citation of my work yet www.theguardian.com/business/202... 391852172
Reposted by Jim NewberryNick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Tis the season when we repeat "peace on earth" -- even as a massacre has been unfolding in El Fasher, Sudan, apparently claiming tens of thousands of lives. It may have slaughtered as many people in seven weeks as the Gaza war did in two years. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | As We Speak of ‘Peace on Earth,’ We Seem Indifferent to a Mass Atrocity 24824
Reposted by Jim NewberryTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5 5573559018055
Reposted by Jim NewberryProPublica @propublica.org · 18/12/2025📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here's what you should know: propub.li/48KUw5Z 11532253
Reposted by Jim NewberryCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high. 31191452782
Reposted by Jim NewberryNick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Huge thanks to my readers: On the first day of my annual holiday giving guide this year, readers donated 2.6 times as much as last year (probably because of matches, which mean that $1 donated becomes $4 to the nonprofit). Join in: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Gifts You Can Give That Save Lives 03810
Reposted by Jim Newberrywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunia, 1925 #WomensArt 044982
Reposted by Jim NewberryAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Meanwhile Los Angeles news has been running non stop stories blaming the entire Palisades fire on an arsonist. Hint: We’ve always had arsonists, power lines, camp fires etc but they didn’t used to burn down whole cities. This is a level of free Climate denial oil companies must f’n love. 918851
Reposted by Jim NewberryLeah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all. 7086352732
Reposted by Jim NewberryViet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025There is now a Center for California Literature! Long overdue. Please come to the kickoff event with Aja Monet, Ryan O’Connell, Roxane Gay, and myself on Oct. 3 at the wonderfully named Giovanni’s Room in LA. 0265
Reposted by Jim NewberryAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Human rights defender Greta Thunberg: "I am not scared of Israel, I am scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity. What we are doing here is trying to show there is some humanity left. That there are still people willing to step up when all other means fail." #3E 9250311407
Reposted by Jim NewberryNational Immigration Law Center @nilc.org · 12/09/2025Farmworkers feed America — often in dangerous conditions for low wages. Last summer, at a legal clinic we hosted with @ufw.bsky.social, we heard directly from immigrant farmworkers about their experiences working in the field. What they shared ⤵️ www.nilc.org/farmworkers-...nilc.orgBehind Every Meal: The Farmworkers Who Feed AmericaOver the summer of 2024, in collaboration with United Farm Workers, we sat down with several farmworkers, volunteers, and organizers to hear their stories. 216958
Reposted by Jim NewberryCurrent Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Rahm Emanuel encourages us to fear China solely because this would unify the country. But what is the threat? www.currentaffairs.org/news/politic...currentaffairs.orgPolitical Elites Just Make Up New Enemies Whenever They Need ThemRahm Emanuel encourages us to fear China solely because this would unify the country. But what is the threat? 1235
Reposted by Jim NewberryRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/08/2025What happened before, during, and after a hurricane, flood, and lies and racist violence hit Katrina should be remembered accurately, even though it was narrated with wild, destructive inaccuracy at the time, by government officials and mainstream media. Wrote about it here, five years after:thenation.comReconstructing the Story of the Storm: Hurricane Katrina at FiveHow we remember Katrina is how we'll prepare for future disasters. Getting the story straight matters for justice—and for survival. 432688