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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In the 19th century, industrial chemists invented new synthetic pigments—chrome yellow, cobalt blue, emerald green. By the 1880s, Van Gogh seized their brilliance, swapping the browns of his peasant scenes for blazing color and fierce contrast.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rural Ohioans are getting in the fight and making a difference in this race. I’m grateful for your support and proud to fight for your communities.

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René Magritte @renemagritte.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In The Menaced Assassin (1927), Magritte draws on imagery associated with the 1913 Fantômas film and turns it into Surrealist theatre. Bowler-hatted men with a net and club flank a doorway, and the painting preserves its mystery rather than resolving it. #artbots #magritte

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At Vétheuil, Monet lost his wife Camille and nearly lost his home. Yet from grief and financial ruin came beauty—soft river light, frozen winters, fragile hope.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

trump's pentagon: www.wired.com/story/a-pent...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 1908, Monet destroyed at least 15 new Water Lilies paintings because he was unsatisfied with their quality. The outburst came just before they were set to exhibit in Paris, forcing a postponement. Even masters have moments of doubt.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#ResistanceRoots Johnny Appleseed was born on this day in 1774 in Leominster, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was a real person, and he planted a lot of apple trees, but he mainly sold them to make hard cider. He was also a pacifist, altruistic, revered nature and respected Indigenous tribes. /1

Johnny Appleseed. The romanticized image of Johnny Appleseed handing out sweet, shiny apples for children to bite into is a myth popularized much later. In the 1800s, the American frontier ran on alcohol. Water supplies weren’t safe to drink. Because fermenting killed off pathogens, hard cider became the primary daily beverage for entire families — even children. The average frontier settler drank 10.5 ounces of hard cider per day. Because Appleseed refused to graft trees due to his religious beliefs, his apples were genetically unpredictable, small and bitter. Known as “spitters” because you’d spit them out if you tried to eat them raw, these tart apples were perfect for pressing into hard cider. Resourceful frontier families used them for other staples as well, including apple butter, applesauce and livestock feed, and used a process called “freeze distillation” to make applejack. Note, however, that Appleseed rarely sold apples. He sold the young saplings and the land itself.

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hopper's first sale was Sailing (1911), an oil painting purchased for $100 at the 1913 Armory Show. The show was a breakthrough for modern art in America and gave Hopper early visibility in a country still learning how to see the new.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bridges were New York’s emblems before the skyline came to define the city. In Queensborough Bridge (1913), Hopper turned steel into a horizon as he studied how infrastructure shapes urban feeling.

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026

- Jason Arday was a Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism. In the week after he resigned, fifteen national outlets wrote 163 articles about him. - In the week after the Channel 4 film, the same fifteen outlets wrote 14 about Orr.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1945. 24 fired female employees of the Lindstrom Tool and Toy Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut picketed outside the factory in protest of their firing to replace with returning men. Let's tell the often untold story of women workers in World War II!

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Anne C. Serling @anneserling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"In every country in which there has been a loss of freedom, where does it begin? It begins in news media, in public print, in books, and on the proscenium. That's where they attack you first right there. That's the bread basket." —Rod Serling

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jon Husted is at the center of the biggest corruption scandal in Ohio history. He fought for a billion-dollar bailout for FirstEnergy using your tax dollars, now you’re paying more on your utility bills.

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Kerry Kennedy @kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@repbeatty.bsky.social is a national hero. She has fiercely and courageously stood up for the Kennedy Center, for the arts, for Uncle Jack’s memory, for this country’s history, and for the law, time and time again. We will not be bullied into silence or submission. Thank you, Rep. Beatty.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Monet’s studio boats let him float between water and sky. He built them himself, turning rivers into moving studios—reflections becoming his horizon.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They say you are the company you keep, and Jon Husted has chosen to surround himself with Nazi sympathizers and pedophiles.

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Salvador Dalí @salvador-dali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dalí titled some works like headlines. Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) was painted on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. It turns political rupture into a single, contorted body on a barren stage.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is an amazing set of weird excuses that completely validates Pro Publica. “You see there’s an innocent explanation for Russian oligarchs funding our giant private vacation!”

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WNBA @wnba.com · 14/09/2026

Woke up WORLD CHAMPS 🏆 #USABWNT | #FIBAWWC

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best argument for why the Trumps aren't corrupt is that they're happy to accept gifts from people who think they're buying influence when in fact they're all snakes who don't pay their debts.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 11/09/2026

25 years later, September 11 remains a day of remembrance.

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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Then Joe Biden walked in. When the former president made his surprise appearance, the congregation broke into loud applause, a sound you rarely hear inside that building. He took his place beside Governor Kathy Hochul and the mayor, and the three of them looked at home together..."

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#ResistanceRoots Mary Hunter Austin was born on this day in 1868 in Carlinville, Ill. She was a writer, feminist, environmental conservationist and champion of Indigenous rights. Her life was shaped by the high desert landscapes she loved and battles over our most precious resource: water. /1

Mary Hunter Austin, by Charles F. Lummis, ca. 1900. Austin’s early writing is celebrated for its rich, mystical prose documenting the flora, fauna and Indigenous people of the high desert. Her environmental activism and Indigenous rights advocacy were driven by a mix of personal isolation, a lifelong rebellion against social conformity, and deep immersion in the landscapes and cultures of the American West. Rather than viewing issues in isolation, she developed a unified philosophy that rejected human dominance over both nature and women. Today, she is recognized as a pioneer of ecofeminism, nearly a century ahead of her time. Her later work explores how the exploitation of nature and the marginalization of women are rooted in the same societal power structures.

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When Camille, Monet’s first wife, died in 1879, he painted her on her deathbed. It’s not polished — it’s raw grief on canvas. Art historians have called it one of the most intimate and honest paintings of loss in art history.

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In the late 1920s, American realism was beginning to brush up against modernism’s flattened forms. In Cape Ann Granite (1928), Hopper makes granite the main actor—carving hill and house into interlocking planes, as his realism reached toward abstraction.

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day! Unions fought for decades to build the American middle class, and I am honored to fight alongside them as they keep fighting for working families.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII

Painting of a Black woman in house dress, apron, & slippers, washing dishes at a sink

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Renoir painted nudes, Monet didn’t. His wife Alice said she’d kick him out if he brought models home. So instead, he painted his stepdaughters—especially Suzanne, who posed for Woman with a Parasol. Sometimes family drama shapes art history.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 03/09/2026

If you didn’t know, now you know that Illinois earned ANOTHER credit upgrade this week. That’s two in just the span of days from Moody’s and S&P. We’re strengthening our reserves, confronting pension obligations, and putting our state on a path to long-term financial security.

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am proud to stand with nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago and National Nurses United as they strike today. Speaking up and advocating for your patients should never result in retaliation from your employer.

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Van Gogh distrusted varnish. He left his paintings matte, which he considered closer to the natural appearance of the paint and more aligned with his artistic vision.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In today's newsletter I wrote about J.D. Vance's role in the death of Pierre Damas Bel, the 20 year-old Haitian refugee who took his own life in Springfield, Ohio. It's things like this which make me wish there was, in fact, a god who punishes evil. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

People like J.D. Vance, his political allies and supporters, and the media apparatus that protects him routinely espouse the idea, sometimes explicitly but always implicitly, that all immigrants are accountable for the actions of one criminal in their midst. But people like Vance are never held accountable for their explicit words and actions or the foreseeable, tragic outcomes they cause. For this reason I expect nothing to happen to Vance over this or any other action he takes. I expect him to remain in office, and even if he is never elected to a public position again, I expect him to grow even wealthier and more influential than he is today. Like Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney, Vance is far more likely to die in a comfortable bed at an advanced age than he is to face the justice he deserves for his crimes. Our system has proven itself unwilling and incapable of holding the powerful to account and I don't expect it to make an exception for him.

But make no mistake: J.D. Vance killed Pierre Damas Bel. He killed him every bit as effectively as he would have if he had been driving the truck that ran him over. He killed him every bit as much as he would have if he had pointed a gun at his head and pulled the trigger. People have died because Vance rightly assumed he could get away with saying anything, no matter how disgustingly untrue it was, because his targets were vulnerable Black immigrants whom very few if any powerful people or institutions ever go out of their way to defend or protect.

If there is a Hell, Vance deserves to burn in it. If there is not, he should be forever remembered as the craven, monstrous bastard that he is.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Everything you need to know about Mike Johnson's character and the GOP's views on sexual harassment can be seen in the way he handled the censure of Chuck Edwards as compared to the way Kevin McCarthy handled Adam Schiff's:

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Folks, we are less than 65 days away from the Midterms — and the @electdemocrats.bsky.social announced another round of Red-to-Blue candidates! Across the country, we're excited to deliver BIG DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES this November. Join us on our journey to flip the House: underwood.link/831R2BUpdate

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🧵🧵🧵Here’s a thread with 10 fairly obscure examples of Trump’s derangement and dishonesty. See if you’re familiar with all 10. 10 BATSHIT TRUMP FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW 🧵1. Last year, Trump reposted a Truth Social user’s claim that Joe Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced by a robotic clone.

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Trump Amplifies Another Outlandish Conspiracy Theory: Biden Is a Robotic Clone (Gift Article)

President Trump reposted another user’s false claim that the former president had been “executed” in 2020 and replaced by a robotic clone.

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In 1886, Van Gogh painted Skull with a Burning Cigarette while studying in Antwerp. A student prank turned memento mori—mortality lit with a flicker of dark humor.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ashley Moody redirected $10 million in taxpayer funds meant for sick children for her own gain. She must resign.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Kind of in the category of things we already know. But the stats here are a deep mix of sad and horrifying.

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hopper created Harlequin and Lady in Evening Dress (1900) during his first year at the New York School of Art. The costumed figures and dramatic lighting typify the academic symbolism he later traded for everyday realism, but the spotlight instinct remained.

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