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Are we ready to admit yet that Andrew Wyeth was great? Yes!

Does it make sense to tackle “waste, fraud, and abuse” by firing Inspectors General whose job is to find fraud & waste to eliminate them?

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... a sensible call to universities—resist thought control

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... WaPo journalist illustrates “restoring truth and sanity” to American art

Top photos of the cherry blossoms from readers and The Post- hope Springs eternal in Spring

How Trump can deport all those migrant predators at the National Zoo —brilliant satire!

www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... Sen. Chris Murphy lays out what’s at stake and what to do

DOGE fires nearly all staff at U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters —Shame shame! Not a good look, Mr. Trump, if you want Nobel Peace Prize. USIP is totally beneficent—what do you have against peace?

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o... Hillary Clinton explains the issues in a primer for dumb and dumber current administration

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... a knockout story by Sebastian Smee

www.getty.edu/art/collecti... Spectacular oil study by Beccafumi, 15th-century Italian painter

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/28/t... Art Newspaper Newsletters Job of Smithsonian is “to educate, to challenge” to make us think about our society, not to soothe with platitudes.

Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian Now he’s attacking museums and history, thinking censorship of “negative “ events will erase them from memory. What about “lessons learned” from past mistakes?

www.curbed.com/article/arch... The Frick! Updated but still lovely

Transcript: Trump Text Fiasco Worsens as Brutal Details Wreck Fox Spin newrepublic.com/article/1931... via @newrepublic.com explains the many layers of the security breach debacle

“F—king Idiot”: Trump Team Considers Fall Guy for War Plans Group Chat newrepublic.com/post/193122/... via @newrepublic.com it had to happen after appointing so many unqualified officials to sensitive posts.

Trump wants Nobel Peace Prize. Assaulting and shutting down USInstitute for Peace is not a good move for PR

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/... moshe Safdie designed the Institute for Peace, under threat by DOGE. Link to my story on Safdie’s work

Cartoon Dr says we did everything we could before Elon cut our funding. Not a joke:!future of science & medicine at risk.

One Painting Got Me Through Winter www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/... DOGE assaults non-profit Institute of Peace, link to my story how architecture and ethics unite

For four Venezuelan friends, Alien Enemies Act cuts short an American dream No words just tears

Hegseth purges all but white males from historical records

I was at Connecticut Foodshare this morning with Senator Blumenthal to talk about the massive cuts by Trump and his billionaire friends to child food programs. Kids are going to go hungry so that billionaires can get another big tax break.

Trump is an idiot, that’s always been clear, but I never thought Elon Musk was an idiot. Now I wonder. Musk either doesn’t know the first thing about our Constitution, separation of powers, and checks & balances, etc, or he constantly lies about all of it. I can’t tell which it is. What do u think?

What are we doing ????????????????????????

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... We can’t just lament the dismantling of our republic. Time to do something about it: speak out, call Congress, write letters, march, anything!

www.latimes.com/entertainmen... What to do with Getty Museums endangered by wildfires

Trump is ending democracy promotion abroad even as he assaults democracy at home Fantastic Opinion piece tells the truth about Trump

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... the comments by WaPo readers are blunt analyses of the mire the U.S. is in

🥌🧹🇨🇦 Canada should challenge Trump to a curling contest, winner take all