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David Platzker / Specific Object

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gregorg @greg.org · 25/09/2026
In preparing his history of the Betsy Ross Flag & Banner Co. and the show of artist banners this weekend at Independent and Marian Goodman Gallery, David Platzker @specificobject.com discovered this unknown, buck wild Warhol banner from the project's summer 1963 debut show: greg.org/archive/2026...
a black and white photo of an andy warhol banner that reproduced a white round 1960 campaign button with a newsprint headshot of pat nixon, an uptight white lady with the words pat for first lady underneath, at 7 by 5.5 feet, a documentary image found in teh archives of american art by david platzker in 2026
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gregorg @greg.org · 31/07/2026
louise lawler was photographing daniel buren's ballet no. 11 in feb. 1978 when the placard-carrying performers passed in front of moma, which had sol lewitt banners on the facade. the two works she made for herself are titled truck and volkswagen greg.org/archive/2026... [s/o @specificobject.com]
louise lawler's black and white snapshot of a truck on 53rd st in manhattan with the museum of modern art in the background, a 1978 work titled trucka 1978 photo titled volkswagen by louise lawler is a black and white snapshot of a vw beetle in front of the museum of modern art on 53rd st in nyc. striped banners of sol lewitt hang on the glass panel facade, and a cluster of people holding placards with vertical stripes pass under the awning, a performance art piece by daniel buren, which is why louise lawler was photographing there that day
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’ve watched this video of Mike Lindell being served legal papers during his TV interview at CPAC a dozen times already! 🤣🤣
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Stephen Miles @spmiles42.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The corruption of the Trump Administration remains so massive while also being so obvious that people just don’t know what to do. If Kushner was merely shaking someone down for $5,000 using his govt role, there’d be an outcry. But do it for $5,000,000,000 and mostly there’s 🤷‍♂️ #TrumpCorruptionWatch
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Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 05/02/2026
Shot & Chaser.
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 31/01/2026
Shocking. So out of character. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
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Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/01/2026
these banners are printed with the coolest giant banner system ever, developed by @laborcamp on IG the letters are cut from insulation foam and rolled with paint
humans printing banners
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)
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Walker Art Center joins growing list of organizations closing on Jan. 23
"This reflects our institutional values to center our community, support our staff, and to approach our work with care and safety in mind," a representative says.
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 06/12/2025
How it went. How it's going.
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 29/11/2025
Also a metaphor for Republican foreign policy since Bush I. bsky.app/profile/just...
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
So he did exactly what he said in his confirmation hearing that he would not do. Perhaps it’s time to haul his ass back in there. Also congrats to everyone, including Olivia Nuzzi, who helped normalize this man. So many people will die of preventable diseases as a result.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Everytime I listen to Stephen Miller I think of this one angry nerdy bitter kid I went to high school with who used to have just one line in his AIM profile, the Radiohead lyric: “When I am king, you will be first against the wall”
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 14/11/2025
Published yesterday: The Trump Organization requested a record 184 foreign workers this year. me, for @forbes.com
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Trump Organization Sought Record Number Of Foreign Workers In 2025
Labor Department data show President Donald Trump’s businesses applied to hire at least 184 foreign workers for seasonal jobs at golf courses, a winery and Mar–a-Lago.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 06/11/2025
Today, in Batshit Insanity News, we present... www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
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Tiricohairline @trejames.blacksky.app · 05/11/2025
Shutting the government down AND cutting off funds for food stamps, right before an election was a masturful move. Compliments to the chef.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A noted archeologist likened Donald Trump’s “authoritarian” White House destruction to the cultural vandalism once committed by ISIS.
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Real-Life Indiana Jones Torches Trump’s White House Teardown With Scathing ISIS Comparison
Archaeologist who spent years documenting the recovery of ancient artefacts looted by ISIS in Syria and Iraq is shocked by Trump’s wanton destruction.
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 23/10/2025
Birds of a feather flock together. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/n...
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Cuomo Joins Adams at Knicks Game. Is an Endorsement in the Cards?
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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al. A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator" 3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2025
Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/10/2025
They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The year is 2003. 17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity." Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jane Goodall on Donald Trump: “I see the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
TRUMP AT THE UN: “The teleprompter is not working… whoever’s operating this teleprompter is in big trouble.”
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Longreads @longreads.com · 11/09/2025
"For a long time, many skeptics believed it never even happened and claimed that it was a hoax on a vast scale. Now, almost everyone agrees that the B-Thing took place, but opinion is split on what it means." — @kylemacneill.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com
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The Artwork That Spawned 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Mystery
Art collective Gelitin installed a balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. A year later, the planes struck and conspiracy followed
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 11/09/2025
Greed and avarice. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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Ken Griffin Loves Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles So Much He Tried to Buy it From Australian Museum
The hedge-fund titan said he once tried to buy the painting for several hundred million dollars from the National Gallery of Australia.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/09/2025
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Their meeting took place this morning in the Pool Room of what once was the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building. I can't help thinking what Mark Rothko (who was commissioned to paint the Pool Room's murals—and who later withdrew) would have thought about today's anti-Mamdani meeting.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Qhapaq 🦙🇵🇪 @qhapaq.art · 25/08/2025
*angry face* apnews.com/article/us-t...
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European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over tariffs
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 24/08/2025
This image, 🤬 bsky.app/profile/lati...
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 22/08/2025
We've reached the "Degenerate Art" stage of this Nazi administration. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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White House Targets Specific Artworks at Smithsonian, Including Painting of Refugees and Fauci Portrait
The White House listed artworks at Smithsonian museums that it denounced, including a painting of refugees, a Fauci portrait, and more.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/08/2025
"A shelf of books in alphabetical order is called a miracle."
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Collective Nouns for Librarians
A group of librarians is called a cardigan. A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading. A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 21/08/2025
Mark it as spam.
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 20/08/2025
Lmao they’re being indicted for bribing Adams to kill a bike lane.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Virginia Giuffre's family's statement about Trump's latest comments is...wow:
"Giuffre's family called that admission by Trump "shocking," while questioning whether Trump was aware of Epstein's and Maxwell's actions.

“It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago. It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal actions, especially given his statement two years later that his good friend Jeffrey 'likes women on the younger side . . . no doubt about it.' We and the public are asking for answers; survivors deserve this,” the family added.

In their statement, the family also said that it was Maxwell who “targeted and preyed” on Giuffre while she was working at Mar-a-Lago."
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 30/07/2025
“I’m 100 percent sure that this is not a money-lighting-on-fire session,” said Jason Haber, a real estate broker who led the fund-raising call. His listings include a $23 million penthouse near Gramercy Park. “Every single one of his plans will hurt the very people that he thinks it will help.” 🔥💰🔥
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‘Anybody but Mamdani’: 5 Groups Emerge to Raise Millions in Attack Funds
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/07/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...
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The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI
Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 18/07/2025
A better headline would be “Several NYPD unions endorse Mayor Adams because of corruption.” gothamist.com/news/several...
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Several NYPD unions endorse Mayor Adams despite corruption allegations
The Police Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union representing rank-and-file NYPD officers, has not announced whom it will endorse.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
the "no means no" jokes write themselves
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David Platzker / Specific Object @specificobject.com · 26/06/2025
The art dealer made me do it. bsky.app/profile/arch...
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
ICE spokesman is trying to say these people in the video below are not ICE. Well then: who are they?
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