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It’s time to back the prancing Kprince into an illiquidity corner.

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City Light display, Seattle, 1940 www.flickr.com/photos/seatt...

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Happening now: Israeli tanks have entered the northern West Bank after 40,000 Palestinians were expelled from three refugee camps in the Jenin & Tulkarm areas. There's a real and present danger that these camps will be erased. This genocide must be stopped. By us all. Now!

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What happened to the future? This is beautiful.

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#OTD in 1898. Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%27Acc...! J'Accuse at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20974 #books

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Jacob Lawrence, The migration gained in momentum, 1940-41 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134658

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View from the Window of Vincent's Studio in Winter, 1883

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#TeslaTakedown in the news and on the march!

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Open Door, Brittany, 1896

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The Entrance Hall of Saint-Paul Hospital, 1889

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The Path in the Bois De Boulogne, 1903

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Strada Romada in Bordighera, 1884

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Cat by Vasily Kandinsky, 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137936

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Yellow Haystacks (Golden Harvest), 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12589

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Reviewing an exhibition of Henri Manguin's work held at Galerie Druet in 1910, the afficionado of avant garde painting Guillaume Apollinaire wrote: 'M Manguin is a voluptuous painter. His paintings are a colourist extravaganza, a sumptuous visual hymn to life and beauty.'

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Saint George and the Dragon (Saint Georges et le dragon) by Odilon Redon https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/6047/

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@bookcritics.bsky.social Luis Buñuel was born today, February 22, in 1900.

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DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes. The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations. What happens when you put 19 year olds in charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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#TeslaTakedown

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Hugo Ball, German writer, poet, & co-founder of the Dada movement, born today in 1886. Here's his costume for perhaps his most iconic performance, of his poem Karawane. For what it's worth, these last few years have helped me better understand Dadaists' embrace of accident & absurdity in their work

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“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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Sara Josephine Baker died #OTD in 1945. In 1917, she noted that babies born in the US faced a higher mortality rate than soldiers fighting in World War I, drawing a great deal of attention to her cause. She also is known for tracking down Typhoid Mary. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jo... #womeninStem

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Yacht https://www.wikiart.org/en/andre-derain/yacht-1905

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Big Balls, currently data mining US citizen’s private information held by govt agencies, has quite a cv. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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William Powell and Myrna Loy overlook San Francisco Bay for "After The Thin Man" - 1936

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Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear, 1891 https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12767

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“We have an obligation to resist kings, we have an obligation to resist oligarchs.”

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KING LEAR #FirstPreview

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Seashore https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-serusier/seashore-1914

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Sunday on the Marne by William James Glackens https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/3050/

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Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 at the age of 39.

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BOTD Bob Rafelson!!! BBS changed the world (sadly, it changed back) From Us: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... More: @aduralde.bsky.social: www.thewrap.com/bob-rafelson... @profhendershot.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/arch... Christian Zilko: www.indiewire.com/features/gen...

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wrote up the unbelievable shenanigans going on in Delaware corporate law prospect.org/justice/2025...

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The great Alan Rickman

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Boats at Royan https://www.wikiart.org/en/samuel-peploe/boats-at-royan-1910

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Larry Rivers, The Last Civil War Veteran, 1959 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135117

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Taxpayers funded this research but now won't benefit from or be able to easily access it? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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it is your civic duty as americans to destroy these people, using any means possible. All of them, they must be crushed and ended, ground to a pulp. Bannon, Musk, Trump, the Feckless members of congress who enable this

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André Derain, L'Estaque, 1906 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134533

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The clog-maker, 1888 https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12363

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