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Former bookseller, writer, webmaster. Interested in literature, art, classical music, investments, civil rights, design, science, cooking. Progressive, ally. #RESIST
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Tesla accused of using sneaky tactic to dodge car repairs: a class-action lawsuit for alleges it's avoid fulfilling obligations in warranty agreements attached to its customers’ vehicles #Tesla #Musk www.thestreet.com/automotive/t...

Kiss up prize of the century goes to El Salvador's President Bukele who tweeted: #Trump #Bukele #ElSalvador

Gustave Caillebotte - Young Man at His Window (1876) There's a quality in his technique, sometimes that reminds me of Magritte, oddly enough. #PAINTING #ART #IMPRESSIONISTS

Early 20th century American Expressionism: Hill Top at High Noon (1925, oil on board) by Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) #PAINTING #ART

Arizona and the Sonoran Desert's iconic Saguaro cacti are dying at intense rate due to extreme heat: 20% dead since 2020. #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #climatecrisis

Georgia O'Keeffe - Sky Above Clouds II (1963) #PAINTING #ART

Edgar Degas - The Orchestra of the Opera (c1870, oil) #PAINTING #ART Interesting that the orchestra is painted in a relatively realistic style similar to Manet's up to that time, but the dancers in the background have a more impressionistic look, much as in his later works featuring dancers.

Some #algorithm, #YouTube. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Do YOU know it's April?

Watching #Trump's "government" in action is like watching a game of pin the tail on the donkey #CASHPATL #FBI #ATF apnews.com/article/atf-...

Ron Pastucha - Laugh (1994, mixed media on canvas) #PAINTING #ART

Detail from William Wegman's Cinderella #WilliamWegman #PHOTO #CINDERELLA

When "no #DEI" simply means blatant #racism: #Holocaust book, Maya Angelou's autobiography among nearly 400 items pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pur...

Jean Dubuffet - Site Aleatoire (1982, acrylic on canvas-backed paper) #PAINTING #ART

If #Trump's aim is to form some sort of US-Russian alliance vs all other nations, he's even dumber, crazier, and/or compromised than I thought. #Russia

Robert Yarbo - Suspension of Disbelief (1987) #PAINTING #ART

Takeaway from #Wisconson: #Elon #Musk = political liablity.

THE GOP IS COMPROMISED!

Ged Quinn - Tarsus, from a Distance (2013) #PAINTING #ART

Frank Romero - The Closing of Whitter Boulevard #PAINTING #ART #CHICANO #LosAngeles

Paul Gaugain - Le Gardien de Porces (1886, oil, detail) #PAINTING #ART #FRENCH #POST-IMPRESSIONIST #GAUGAIN

Thank you

No individual should have this kind of power in a democracy-to add insult to injury, there is no evidence that the Orange Palpatine has ever read a book, or visited a museum apnews.com/article/trum... Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology'

Ja, he probably does know nothing. #Trump #Musk

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

Kerry James Marshall - Past Times (1987, acrylic & collage on canvas) #PAINTING #ART

#Trump #Portrait #Whiny

You know #Trump can complain all he wants about his #portrait, but what they did to Vance was way worse.

#Trump has hissy fit over #portrait of him in the #Colorado State #Capitol

Lapicque - Paysage de mer (oil on canvas) #PAINTING #ART

U.S. to block #Canadians from entering border-straddling library #Trump #Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=1phU...

Robert Henri (1865-1929)-Lola of Santa Fe (1917) #PAINTING #ART

Nicola Wood - '60 Chevy (1991, oil on canvas) #PAINTING #ART #SUPERREALISM

Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga - Lost (2015, acrylic and oil) #PAINTING #ART #AFRICAN Democratic Republic of #Congo

Photo by Angel Ortiz: "Fluorescent Woman" (c1985) #PHOTOGRAPHY #ART #SPAIN

NEW STATEMENT FROM CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: "For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."