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Rebecca Herman
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Artist: sculpture, textiles, installations, paper, prints.
In a parallel, physical universe, I work at an art museum.
Best soundtrack ever?
RIP, Jimmy Cliff

so as sure as the sun will shine
i'm gonna get my share of what's mine
and then they harder they come,
the harder they fall
one and all

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpQr...
The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Today’s Executive Order haiku, to be worn by the judge of your choosing. #badpoetry #EO #haiku #artists #critics
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality?

Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism.

As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”

www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
If you do one thing today, read and share this link. It is the tech oligarchs’ plan to take over the government and build a post-democratic America, proven to be well underway.

To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
Suzanne Jackson leads with love and invites you to do the same. With her first major museum retrospective at SFMOMA, spanning six decades of her work, the 81-year-old artist demonstrates how freeing an expansive approach to life and art can be.
What the World Needs Now Is Love — and Suzanne Jackson at SFMOMA
The artist’s six decades of prolific, exploratory work shine in her first major museum retrospective.
www.kqed.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Choose your caption:
A) Entrance to National Archives’ Constitution Exhibit
B) Mock-up for my tombstone design
C) Mel Bochner fan art (I totally want to do this!)
September 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
After a long, rainy summer, the Bay Area art scene is beginning to thaw out with a celebration of local Filipino artists, the newly renovated Museum of the African Diaspora, and Suzanne Jackson’s diaphanous hanging paintings.
10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area Fall 2025
Artists on Black Oakland history, Suzanne Jackson’s diaphanous suspended paintings, Julio César Morales’s poignant watercolors, and much more.
hyperallergic.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
Rob Bonta (California), Anthony Brown (Maryland), Andrea Campbell (Massachusetts), Charity Clark (Vermont), Keith Ellison (Minnesota), Letitia James (New York), Kathy Jennings (Delaware), Dana Nessel (Michigan), and Dan Rayfield (Oregon) each stating "I promise to fight for trans students."
9 state attorneys general pledge to support transgender youth: 'We have your back'
"You belong here. You inspire us. And we do love you," nine state AGs tell trans youth in a new video.
www.advocate.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you read EO 14344 you may find some retrograde modern art criticism, leading to today’s Redacted Haiku:

The Founders impress / consciously perpetuating / brutal elite

#badpoetry
#haiku
#EO
#artcriticism
September 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
UC Berkeley turns over personal information of more than 150 students and staff to federal government: www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
UC Berkeley turns over personal information of more than 150 students and staff to federal government
UC Berkeley has provided the personal information of roughly 160 students, staff and faculty to the federal government in a directive from the UC Office of the President.
www.dailycal.org
September 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Government has lagged /
in usability lost /
high cost by design

#badpoetry
#EO 14338
#haiku redacted
September 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
sprawling aesthetics /
say nothing of time lost by /
American Potholes

#haiku
#EO 14338
#badpoetry
September 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
“After all, we’re all on our own cosmic journeys. Mine’s just way more impressive than yours.”
July 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
"Your poem reads as a thinly veiled defense of undocumented immigrants. Recall that these people sneak across borders and take pork plant jobs from veterans, threatening access to quality American food products."
Hope Is the Thing with Funding—and We’re Yanking Yours
“A federal agency has cancelled a $117,000 grant that was set to go to the Emily Dickinson Museum.” — MassLive - - -Dear Miss Dickinson, Following ...
buff.ly
July 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
From dropping letters in a mailbox to waving to neighbors and colleagues, the postwoman in Chris Ware’s new set of U.S. postage stamps does it all.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/chri...
June 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Today’s Redacted EO Haiku:
📑🙊
speak speech by pressure

under the guise of combat

“misinformation”

#EO 14149 #badpoetry #haiku #freespeech
June 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Holy MOCA! “Tolokonnikova, who spent two years in a Russian prison…spent those hours Sunday broadcasting live audio of the protests outside mixed with her own heartbeat to the empty museum.

“Police State Exhibit Is Closed Due To The Police State,” she wrote in a post on X.’”
June 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Barbara Kruger once again speaks our fears out loud, before we even found the words
June 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Rebecca Herman
“Perhaps unaware that he had sailed beyond the Constitution’s horizons, the president found himself drifting further and further from legal terra firma.”
New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”
“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...
buff.ly
June 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Today’s EO Haiku:
“End
hereby ordered:

human health, more expensive

wrapped in plastic”
#haiku #badpoetry #EO
June 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It may not be new but is the best thing I’ve seen all week—beating out the new Wes Anderson film for #1 on my list
"Mamdani is a fan of hip-hop music.[14] In 2019, he released the single 'Nani' under the stage name Mr. Cardamom.[72] Cookbook author and actress Madhur Jaffrey is featured in the single's music video.[73]" youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE
Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey)
YouTube video by Mr. Cardamom
youtu.be
June 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Name That authority
assassinated
stripped name
from nomenclature
#haiku #EO #badpoetry
EO 14172
June 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM