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Surfing the apocalypse. No longer seeking wisdom.

Loves the sound of the rain.
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Paula Rego,
'Hey Diddle Diddle', from the series 'Nursery Rhymes', 1989 etchings and aquatint prints
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Liberals are always concerned with optics, never with structural violence.
June 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
JFC Bluesky

Kids are facing famine in Gaza and you all are gleefully posting foodie pics.
a woman is holding a baby in her arms while walking a dog
ALT: a woman is holding a baby in her arms while walking a dog
media.tenor.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The lesser of two evils won. Austerity for most, money for the rich.
April 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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#AnyoneButConsAndLibs repost so this reaches more eyes.
April 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"The United States has always had a very bizarre fascination with the Roman Empire. The Founding Fathers didn't look to early Athenian democracy for a role model but to the much more brutal Roman version. "
April 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Erik Prince is the guy who sleeps in front of the slave market waiting for them to open up so he can be first in line
April 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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#PinkMoon Over Water"
by Georgia O'Keeffe. 1923 #WomensArt #FullMoon #SuperMoon
April 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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April 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Jon Stewart (Democratic Party contender) says not to worry; it's not really fascism. It's not really happening. Ignore what you eyes tell you.
Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US.

They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.

www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
April 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The hope for a new Spain with the defeat of Franco.
"The instinct for life, stronger than death and destruction, beating in this scence... Motherhood under the Sign of the Revolution,"
Umbral, 2 October 1937
The tragedy/trauma of what Franco's victory meant for the women who lost
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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'Ngayuku ngura - My Country' by Wawiriya Burton, Indigenous Australian artist from Pipalyatjara who is also a ngangkaṟi (traditional healer) #womensart
April 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Liberals who funded a genocide scrapping the barrel of victimhood.
April 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The empire must be stopped.
March 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@davidnmaisie.bsky.social

The big brains in the mainstream press are calling for a return to the cold war era. At home and abroad. Dark days ahead.
March 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Poster produced by the CNT calling for farms and factories to be run by the trade unions and for unity between anarchosyndicalist CNT and socialist UGT.
Committee for aid to Euskadi and Northern Spain so probably after Francoist offensive against began in March 1937
March 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Brilliant photograph by Agustí Centelles of Republican troops in process of taking the Aragonese town of Belchite from Francoist defenders. Early September 1937. Original is held in the Reina Sofia.
March 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Canadians ask yourself:

How would Norman Bethune or Tommy Douglas address the cult of billionaires currently sitting astride the world? Any response that doesn't scrap the systems they have put in place is to surrender without changing anything.
"Presents from Madrid" (1937) by Canadian painter Paraskeva Clark. Watercolour of gifts sent to her from Spain by Doctor Norman Bethune (CNT scarf, Catalan govt propaganda magazine Nova Iberia, literacy schoolbook for Republican troops).
March 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Probably never said any of it if we are being honest.
March 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Newsagent's in Glasgow, early summer 1937.
Ominous news headlines: Mussolini refusing to stop aiding Franco and "Bilbao's Heroic Stand". The Basque city fell to Francoist troops on 19 June 1937.
More:
www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=...
March 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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CNT anarchist trade union poster. Madrid. 1936-38. The train advances towards the future crushing capitalism and fascism under its wheels. Beautiful artwork by artist signing as "Iturzaeta".
February 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Martha Gelhorn, among the most perceptive foreign journalists to cover the Spanish Civil War. When asked in 1983 of her abiding memory of the conflict, she answered ‘The enormous bravery of the people, absolutely unbelievable bravery under appalling conditions'
February 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This was just done at the University of Cincinnati. The administration are also requiring RAs to inform on any potential trans students to assign them to separate dorms.
February 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM