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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“I’d like to paint you, but there are no colors, because there are so many, in my confusion, the tangible form of my great love.” Frida Kahlo, in a letter to Diego Rivera via @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy #sundaysentence

Reproduction of Frida Kahlo’s letter to Diego Rivera. The opening addresses “Diego“ and the body runs in lines of cursive script written in Spanish in pale sepia-colored ink. It is signed “F,” and the first line of the postscript is marked out in black.

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sibel, with the felicitous intuition so prevalent in the bourgeoisies of non-Western countries, saw psychoanalysis as a “scientific sharing of confidences” invented for Westerners unaccustomed to the curative traditions of family solidarity and shared secrets. Orhan Pamuk #SundaySentence

The paperback cover of Orhan Pamuk’s novel, the museum of innocence, which features along the bottom a mirror image of a classic car with five passengers before a panorama of the Bosphorus, with the city of Istanbul and distant hills in the background.

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“A novel is a way of completing life.” Colm Toibin #SundaySentence

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Barn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens have offered conflicting visions over the role of A.I. and corporate power. Voters are paying attention. @milesmacclure.bsky.social reports:

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Data Centers Divide Democrats in Michigan Primary

Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens offer conflicting visions over the role of A.I. and corporate power.

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Matilija poppies are thriving in this summer’s cool weather. #FlowerReport #California

Three large flowers with large white creased petals and crinkled edges, and deep yellow pompom-like centers, against a background of trees and greenery. A white stucco wall marked with wavy designs is at the left.

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Nicole Lane @snicolelane.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sharing this again. We're hiring 📢 - If you like planning stories, editing, writing, and cross-platform storytelling, apply to our managing editor position at Traverse Northern Michigan Magazine and MyNorth. Apply through our application (+ send me a DM): www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

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910 Media Group hiring Managing Editor in Traverse City, MI | LinkedIn

Posted 7:24:30 PM. At 910 Media Group, we’re building the future of local and regional media. Our portfolio includes…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“To be a Parisian in Nablus was to be out of step with the times, locked in an old colonial formula where subjects imitated masters as if in the seams of their old garments they hoped to find some dust of power left trapped.” Isabella Hammad, The Parisian #SundaySentence

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Today we look back on Lauren Alwan's essay from our May 2022 issue, where she recalls how David Hockney inspired her, first as an art student and later as a writer, helping her navigate toward a different way of telling stories. worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/may/dec...

The book Pictures by David Hockney on a wooden table

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“She seemed to have purified him completely, picked him down to bone and tendon and then put him back together.” Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The Fugitive #SundaySentence

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Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Podcast Episode · The New Yorker: Fiction · June 1 · 1h 24m

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Good morning! It's Mary Cassatt's birthday, and here's her elegantly japoniste depiction of a woman washing, 1890.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Gita Lenz, Street Scene, Carmine Street & 7th Avenue, NYC, late 1940s - 1950s

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Beautiful spring artichokes in a flower bed in the San Francisco Bay #FlowerReport #California

Two pale green stalks of artichokes and their spiked leaves against a shaded background of trees and morning sun highlighting the tips of the artichoke petals.

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My latest hero, Julia Barnett Rice, born May 2, 1860, founder of The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise in New York City in 1906. newrepublic.com/article/7515...

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Deafened

George Prochnik is at his best when reporting on the work of scientists, soldiers, and soundproofers—people for whom noise is a decidedly earthly conc

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/05/2026

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/vGV8tjE

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ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job

Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A #flowerreport this Easter Sunday from Northern California: blueberries, nigella, and cerinthe ✨

A close-up of a flower bed containing branches of a blueberry plant, with pointed oval leaves and clusters of white ripening berries, stalks of Nigella with clusters of new blossoms, and a branch of cerinthe, with purple blossoms hanging from the fanned bract.

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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 29/03/2026

Donald J. Trump remains President of the United States of America because Republicans find raping children less offensive than taxing billionaires. #RemoveTrump

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🧵 Ottoman Eid Purses, Istanbul Work, 1850s

These are exquisite examples of mid-19th-century Ottoman craftsmanship, specifically designed for the tradition of gifting during Eid (Bayram). In Istanbul during the 1850s, such purses were often used to present gold coins or sweets to children, family members, or the less fortunate.

Visual Analysis & Craftsmanship: The image showcases four rectangular purses (likely velvet or heavy silk) featuring a technique known as Dival embroidery (or Sırma), which was highly popular in the Ottoman court and urban elite circles.

Material: The base fabrics are rich velvets in deep burgundy, plum, and charcoal tones, providing a luxurious contrast to the metallic threads.

Embroidery Style: The designs use gold and silver couched threads. In this technique, the metallic threads are laid on the surface and stitched down with fine silk thread, creating a raised, three-dimensional effect.

Motifs: The patterns are quintessentially Ottoman, featuring:

Stylized Florals: Clove-like shapes and palmettes.

Arabesque Curves: Symmetrical scrolls that reflect the Rococo and Baroque influences that were merging with traditional Ottoman aesthetics during the Tanzimat era (1839–1876).

Note: These weren't just functional items; they were symbols of the giver’s status and generosity. Once the gift inside was used, the purse itself became a cherished keepsake.

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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Miner’s lettuce, sometimes called winter purslane, is found throughout the California foothills. In Ojai, we’d go hiking with a bowl and a bottle of blue cheese dressing and make salad with it. #FlowerReport #California

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The Museum of Contemporary Art in LA has acquired Unmanned Drone (2023), Kara Walker’s reassembly of a 1921 decommissioned statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/24/l...

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Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles acquires Kara Walker sculpture made from dissected Confederate monument

Walker’s “Unmanned Drone” is a centrepiece of “Monuments”, a landmark exhibition at Moca and The Brick

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

One of the most beautiful cinematic endings ever ✨

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

“…abstract painting resists narration and presents itself all at once, as a whole or a oneness that cannot, and never will, tell a story.” — Laurie Fendrich, from her 1999 essay, Why Abstract Painting Still Matters #SundaySentence (and one of her wonderful, reinvented modernist pictures)

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

“My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes.” George Eliot, channeling the anachronist Edward Causabon in MIDDLEMARCH #SundaySentence

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Jeff Stormer @jeffstormer.gobirds.online · 09/02/2026

You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

“Slowly they disappeared: the yalis that were burned down one by one, the old fish traps my father used to point out to me, the fruit sellers who used to go from yali to yali in their caïques, 1/2

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

AKA Everything Trump Touches Dies

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A sidewalk Meyer lemon—winter in California is citrus season 🍋 #FlowerReport

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This is a planet of overlapping lexicons, Generation after generation, trade after trade, Expedition after expedition sent out to bring home Name upon name, terms of identity in endless degrees of intricacy —Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing #SundaySentence

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Bill Bramhall, NY Daily News

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It’s oxalis season in Northern California 💚 #FlowerReport #rain

A potted cactus submerged in a patch of oxalis, consisting of stems of tiny green heart-shaped leaves.

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Lauren Alwan @laurenalwan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Sunset tonight in the SF East Bay ✨

A sky of Iran’s and gold behind the silhouette of an elevated freeway.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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