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Rob Fields

@robfields.bsky.social
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Art advisor focused on the African diaspora and the Global South. Boards: @uniondocs, Volta Art Fair Image: Joana Choumali, "Whose Peace Is It Keeping?" 2024 linktr.ee/robfields

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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good job, America. Way to break the social contract.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026
They published this the same day they published the news that Mamdani's office is releasing to the public thousands of documents showing Giuliani's office knew how toxic the air was around Ground Zero and lied about it, leading to more deaths than on 9/11.
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 08/09/2026
Senator Chris Van Hollen calls for Democrats to reject funding from the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC: “What AIPAC demands of candidates it supports is unconditional support for the actions of the government of Israel... We don't do that for any other country in the world.”
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have a lot of hope that this documentary will do the work of exposing Musk, which Democrats won't.
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Documentarian Alex Gibney on the power and influence of Elon Musk
Alex Gibney's new documentary “Musk” premieres this week at the Venice Film Festival. The nearly four-hour film explores the power and influence of Elon Musk.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Few artists have been as intertwined with a struggle & so beloved by the people fighting as Sliman Mansour. Sadly, he has passed at age 79. In 2023, he told @hyperallergic.com: "Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings…We are not less than any other people in the world.”
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Sliman Mansour, Painter of Palestinian Hope and Humanity, Dies at 79
"Our fight now is to tell the world that we are full human beings," Mansour told Hyperallergic in 2023. "We are not less than any other people in the world.”
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🎯🎯🎯 Ht @ebogjonson.bsky.social
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We love to see it!
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026. Dumbo, Brooklyn 📸: Fujifilm X-Pro2 🔭: Voigtlander 35/1.2 #streetphotography
A south asian man in a bright green turban and a suit looks at his phone in Dumbo, Brooklyn. He’s lit from bright, golden hour light from the right side and casts a long shadow.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Excited for this! 🙌🏽
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This short thread.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Every accusation is a confession, Uncle Ruckus. 🤡 ht @clarajeffery.bsky.social
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Joyce Karam @joycekaram.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Iran regime is growing more defiant and confident. Not in a rush for negotiations or ceasefire. It’s cutting side deals on Hormuz routes (French and Japanese ships crossed), maintains firing capability, clamping down domestically.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 06/03/2026
This is called infantile egocentrism and we're supposed to age out of it by the time we're 5 or so.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"No stupid rules of engagement" also means "no stupid rules of engagement" on the part of the Iranians towards American troops. Hegseth, like Trump, is in way over his head, and that's going to cost American lives.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Trump, the, bankruptcy king and genius: “Everybody that has ​not called for force majeure we expect ⁠will do so in the next ​few days that this continues. All exporters in ​the Gulf region will have to call force majeure," Kaabi told the FT."
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Let them go fight their own effing wars, if that's what they want.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I use AI. And I know Anthropic is in bed with Palantir, so I'm using Claude now, while I wait for Mistral to be competitive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is the headline the world will remember...
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You can just say things.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I can't think of any immigrant in American history who has assimilated worse than Musk. The guy hates most of the people here and wants to hurt us, has open contempt for our traditions or values, and has spent billions trying to destroy our culture to replace it with that of his foreign childhood.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is a big deal. Approval polls, like the media, courts, and Congress, can serve as vehicles for presidential accountability. We are watching in real time as the institutions that could hold this administration to account wither on the vine.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Ht @joshtpm.bsky.social
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Thank you for sharing this, Magali. 🙏🏽
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Adam Serwer: “Donald Trump is still psychically wounded by the election of Barack Obama.” @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Some good news... ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/01/2026
They kidnapped this five year old when he was coming home from school and sent him to a jail in Texas. Imagine how terrified he must be.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
You’re arresting terrified children and using them as bait. Arresting kids getting treatment at doctors’ offices. Blinding protesters. Illegally raiding homes. Making people terrified to leave their homes. You want to pee in peace? Quit your fucking job.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The answer to “How could it ever have happened back then?” is right in front of us, here & now.
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ohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
In 2017 I read Valeria Luiselli’s book about her experiences interpreting for very young children facing deportation. The name of the book, Tell Me How It Ends, is heart wrenching to think of in this moment.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
100%
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MellowYellow @queeribbean.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
In art school we went over this and actually i kinda want to add that i think men are just not socialized to care about the subtle differences in these colors. Cause i can tell that there is a difference in those nails and in the lip sticks and greyish nails in the video. -
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Gavin Newsom is just a guy who's interested in power. He's willing to entertain a dialogue with execrable people like Shapiro. This is the latest version of Bill Clinton's "triangulation". He's dangerous bc he provides a platform for ppl who aren't engaged in any good faith arguments.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The response below: On-point. Ht @kdc.bsky.social
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Colette Gaiter @cgaiter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Louder. For the cheap seats in the back.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
And with Trump suffering from increasing levels of dementia (allegedly), it'll be all Miller running the show. newrepublic.com/article/2053...
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Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
An administration that just didn't GAF. These people are all evil.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Haha!
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The problem with ICE is not insufficient training or even training content. It’s creating an agency where you give people guns and tell them to terrorize Brown people and then recruit people excited to do that.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Suss, given the source.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'm missing the Kerry James Marshall exhibit at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social in London, but I bought the catalog. Well worth it bc the interview with him is gold. Here's one of the quotes that resonated. #quotes #kerryjamesmarshall #artists #contemporaryart #artadvisor #painting #blackartist
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/12/2025
Winter floods wreak havoc on Gaza displacement camps as Israel blocks aid aje.io/nu8pwm
Palestinians try to recover their tent after overnight rainfall flooded a beachside tent camp in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip. [Mohammad Jahjouh/AP Photo]Shaimaa Wadi, 25, sits with her one-year-old daughter Tala, inside their tent in a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]Palestinians receive donated food at a temporary camp for displaced people, on the beach near the port of Gaza City. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]A woman tries to recover a carpet after overnight rainfall flooded a beachside tent camp in Khan Younis. [Mohammad Jahjouh/AP Photo]
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Hey, y'all! Two post that highlight some of the great art that was on exhibit this year. First, here's my "Best of 2025" list: iamrobfields.substack.com/p/the-best-a...
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The Best Art Exhibitions of 2025
Hat's off to my favorite art shows by artists from the African diaspora & the Global South
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
An example of bad "rebranding": Going from "Philadelphia Museum of Art" to "Philadelphia Art Museum". As a former cultural institution leader, I can't help but think of the resources that were ultimately wasted on such a negligible change.
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Beautiful rework by Stew!
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Rob Fields @robfields.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
If you missed #OptOutOctober like I did, here's @eff.org's full guide to improving your digital privacy and security. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy m...
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