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Art provenance research through open, accessible, searchable data bases. #kg #museum #art #networks #textanalysis www.openartdata.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h
Emily Marris bought raw milk from a farm recommended to her on Facebook. After her 17-month-old drank it, the toddler contracted E. coli and nearly died. Despite knowing this, the farmer continued advertising “raw goat milk from a clean tested herd.”
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 22h
‘MAHA Gone Mild’ is an extremely terrible headline.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h
This reminds me of two scenes in the German movie “Downfall,” which depicts, historically accurately, Hitler’s last days. Both scenes involve Hitler and Albert Speer discussing Hitler’s “Nero Order,” by which the Führer had ordered the destruction of the Reich’s remaining economic infrastructure...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 02/10/2026
We're pleased to announce that Bellingcat won three awards at the Online Journalism Awards. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees listed here: awards.journalists.org/2026/10/02/c...
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards! - Online Journalism Awards
As the in-person celebration of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards (#OJA26) comes to a close, we congratulate the winners in the remaining 12 of 28 categories.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche
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Jake Bernstein @jakebernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration is using an anti-drug trafficking grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the country to funnel their ongoing collection of automated license plate reader data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction.
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family sues Trump administration over fatal Minneapolis shooting reut.rs/4AG8TUS
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Renee Good's family sues Trump administration over fatal Minneapolis shooting
The family of Renee Good, one of two US citizens fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, sued US President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday over her killing during deportation sweeps.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Alex Gibney's Elon YouTube trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp5W...
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Musk Official Trailer (2026) – Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk Documentary
YouTube video by Trailer HQ
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Would appreciate Dr Schumacher’s explanation of this quote from the AIC’s current provenance for Metzinger’s Woman with a Fan: “Probably with Paul Citroen, Wassenaar, by Jan. 15, 1953 [Calendar 1953]; sold through Karl Alexander Legat (1901–1953)” www.artic.edu/artworks/952... #provenance #aic
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Art Institute of Chicago failed to mention the names of the Dutch Jewish owners for decades. Now, as news of restitution spread, AIC has rewritten the provenance. Citroen goes from 0 mentions to 2? Is the story that Citroen REPURCHASED in 1953? www.artic.edu/artworks/952... #provenance #AIC
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So disappointing to see Dr. Schuhmacher‘s comments on the Grünbaum Schiele. Chicago Tribune quotes him as saying “In the case of the other artwork, ‘Russian War Prisoner,’ there is zero evidence that it was confiscated or that it was sold under duress under the Nazi period.” archive.ph/MhjwT #Shoah
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Loot “Seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art” “smuggled into the United States and laundered by dealers and collectors through false provenance, exhibitions, and museum donations” manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-an...
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D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of 15 Antiquities To The People Of Greece - Manhattan District Attorney's Office
“Our extraordinary partnership with Greece has now led to the return of 175 looted antiquities, and I look forward to continued repatriation ceremonies in the future,” said District Attorney Bragg.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So: how they were acquired by the Met or why are these objects were being returned only now?
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨 Social media venues such as #facebook and #instagram's algorithms have been designed by #meta to filter out 'social topic' such as #civilrights and #feminism. #Freespeech my ass. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Could be useful to remind readers of the looted antiquities found US museums that were returned to their countries only after DA intervention by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit @artcrimeprof.bsky.social @sauterne.bsky.social @museumofloot.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thousands protest Kennedy Center demolition fears, forming human chain to protect an institution Trump wants to destroy because he couldn’t slap his name on it. Happening in America. www.dw.com/en/thousands... #democracy #dictatorship #culture
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Thousands protest Kennedy Center demolition fears
Protesters took part in a "Hands Around the Kennedy Center" human chain. The demonstration comes amid fears the Trump administration could tear the arts hub down.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The only mystery is the absence of criminal indictments from jurisdictions where Musk has committed crimes. Especially in Europe. #France #Germany #UK
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No limit to the fecklessness and nihilism of the money men. Thoughtful and amusing article about the psychology of our profoundly stupid stock and bond markets as we race towards the edge #blackswan
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some pretty frightening humor(?) from the FT “given that continuing human existence is an important foundation for consumer spending and resource utilisation, it is also bad for financial markets” (Where “it“ is total annihilation of humans) #techbro #ai #finance
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“As OpenAI was forging ahead with its work, Microsoft employees debated whether what OpenAI was doing represented the “largest theft of labor in human history” ” #AI #ip #theft
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They just stole it all, which is, of course, a crime www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t... #authors #publishing #ai
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Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History
Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who was the acquiring curator in 1988? How did he/she manage to not know from whom it was acquired? Why did Cleveland negotiate for months instead of simply returning the loot? #art #smuggling
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Norton Simon museum has used a variety of tactics to cling to a Nazi looted Cranach. California got fed up and passed a law in 2024. New lawsuit has just been filed courthousenews.com/california-m... #Nazi #loot #law #NortonSimon
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California museum sued over Renaissance painting looted by Nazis
Two separate lawsuits seek to recover art works stolen during World War II under a 2024 California law that calls for state law to decide ownership claims.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How did so many artworks looted by Nazis from a Jewish Holocaust victim end up in major museums? This is where digital provenance research gets interesting www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #looting #laundering #networks #art
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#arthistory #holocaust #museums | Open Art Data
Arthur Feldmann, a major art collector, was murdered in the Holocaust. In 1939 the Gestapo seized many of the artworks in his collection. In October of 1946, Sothebys of London sold several dozen of t...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 14/09/2026
A massive, important read from @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu:
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why is The Economist talking about German trains in an article about buses? Where are the specific examples? Slipping from one subject to another is not great in such an analysis.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They really are ugly, though.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ex MoMa chairman and Metropolitan Museum trustee Leon Black is back in the news. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/b... #Epstein #LeonBlack #museum #money
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He Gave Millions to Jeffrey Epstein. What Did He Get in Return?
In “Money to Burn,” William D. Cohan charts the rise and fall of the Wall Street billionaire Leon Black.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Goering had bought them from Count Contini Bonacossi www.lootedart.com/MFEU4T15383
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Ante Topic Mimara,"The Master Swindler of Yugoslavia", by Konstantin Akinsha
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
”critics say” ? What do experts say? If it’s not mackerel can a news org simply report it’s not mackerel? #journalism
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seriously? The most serious threat to American democracy in history and The Economist is serving up woke?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why hope to die at 75? What is Curai Health?
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Repetition of Nazi imagery normalizes the regime’s horrors to make its views acceptable in political debate. These aren’t jokes. They are weapons.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Looking forward to an aggressive few weeks (at least) of non-stop questions for Rubio and every other Republican about not just associating with, but hiring a white supremacist to write speeches for the state dept.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reupping from 1997: Leading scholar on Claude-Emile Schuffenecker suggests the artist may be the author of suspected Van Gogh fakes www.theartnewspaper.com/1997/09/01/l... #art #vanGogh #fake
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Leading scholar on Claude-Emile Schuffenecker suggests the artist may be the author of suspected Van Gogh fakes
New revelations point fingers at the artist, but the question of whether they were forgeries or merely innocent copies remains
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🚨 ELON MUSK IS SPENDING BIG TO SAVE KEN PAXTON. Yes, THAT Ken Paxton: → Indicted on felony securities-fraud charges. → Impeached by the REPUBLICAN Texas House. → Reported to the FBI by his own senior aides.
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Loot and forgeries have provided many tax benefits to ‘donors’ and frankly it doesn’t seem right
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a good and important book.
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to a maximum of three years imprisonment over three satirical sculptures featuring Mao Zedong exhibited in 2009, almost ten years before the law under which he was charged came into effect. buff.ly/v8JtxuH
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not an unwarranted move. But if the US really wants to stop sanctions evasion, it should be focusing on the crypto bros who are pocketing a fortune laundering money for the IRGC, starting with a half dozen partners of the Trump bros. www.timesofisrael.com/us-slaps-san...
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US slaps sanctions on Turkish bank, calling it ‘critical financial lifeline’ for Iran
US Treasury accuses Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi Anonim Sirketi of enabling Iran's efforts to move oil revenues from China to Turkey and offering services to Iranian finance entities
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Libération @liberation.fr · 03/09/2026
Cyberattaques en France : le ministère de l’Ecologie touché à son tour par «une attaque informatique sophistiquée» ➡️ l.liberation.fr/FdX
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Open Art Data @openartdata.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Time for action is now. What specific actions? Article doesn’t say.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say reut.rs/3SE3AUZ
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EXCLUSIVE: Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his new CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania deaths from the agency’s online measles tally after he questioned whether the disease contributed to the ​fatalities, three sources familiar with the situation said.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 02/09/2026
Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump approves disaster relief funds for 7 red states, after denying aid to blue states
Ahead of the midterm elections, the president isn’t even being subtle about his scandalous politicization of disaster aid.
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