Bertolt Ottoman
@trampolinechaplin.bsky.social
Escaped internment in the 20th century. Poet, historian, bookseller, father, Texican.
Unserious click-bait journalism at its finest: "Six months into his term, the Trump administration is veering toward what some say could be a constitutional crisis."
August 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Unserious click-bait journalism at its finest: "Six months into his term, the Trump administration is veering toward what some say could be a constitutional crisis."
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“Maybe light is a / pre-existing condition for love, an auspice of longing”
— Alina Stefanescu (@alinaetc.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Couplet Poetry, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Alina Stefanescu (@alinaetc.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Couplet Poetry, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.
June 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“Maybe light is a / pre-existing condition for love, an auspice of longing”
— Alina Stefanescu (@alinaetc.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Couplet Poetry, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Alina Stefanescu (@alinaetc.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in Couplet Poetry, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Truly wild, but I'm so old that John Entwhistle's body of work is now cooler than Daltrey and Townsend's combined. Weird.
May 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Truly wild, but I'm so old that John Entwhistle's body of work is now cooler than Daltrey and Townsend's combined. Weird.
Ok, it's true, this happened on my watch.
May 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ok, it's true, this happened on my watch.
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A Lotto Carpet (Turkey, c 1600). Carpets displaying this striking design of stylized vegetal arabesques in yellow on a red background are often called "Lottos," after a famous altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto that depicts a similar textile.
May 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A Lotto Carpet (Turkey, c 1600). Carpets displaying this striking design of stylized vegetal arabesques in yellow on a red background are often called "Lottos," after a famous altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto that depicts a similar textile.
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“Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Scenes from a Marriage,’ from 1973, is the greatest artistic exploration of the vicissitudes of marital loneliness,” Agnes Callard wrote, in 2021.
The Problem of Marital Loneliness
The new “Scenes from a Marriage,” on HBO, avoids the dark questions that Ingmar Bergman confronted in the original.
nyer.cm
May 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Scenes from a Marriage,’ from 1973, is the greatest artistic exploration of the vicissitudes of marital loneliness,” Agnes Callard wrote, in 2021.
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Is there more free speech at Bari Weiss' University of Austin? No, decidedly less. And quite an ideological litmus test. Plus: if you're critical of anything Benjamin Netanyahu is doing, they'll be all in favor of kidnapping you and stashing you in a concentration camp somewhere.
Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
quillette.com
May 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Is there more free speech at Bari Weiss' University of Austin? No, decidedly less. And quite an ideological litmus test. Plus: if you're critical of anything Benjamin Netanyahu is doing, they'll be all in favor of kidnapping you and stashing you in a concentration camp somewhere.
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#FuckCrypto and the criminal oligarch nag it rode in on. It's a vehicle for crime and an egregious waste of electricity, consumption of which we must conserve, not massively increase for another fucking casino. Earth bats last. We don't have the luxury of such idiocies anymore. #MoneyAintBroke
U.S. Crypto Market Structure Bill Unveiled by House Lawmakers
As a successor to the so-called FIT21 bill in the last session, the committee chairs in the House have released a discussion draft of a market structure bill.
www.coindesk.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#FuckCrypto and the criminal oligarch nag it rode in on. It's a vehicle for crime and an egregious waste of electricity, consumption of which we must conserve, not massively increase for another fucking casino. Earth bats last. We don't have the luxury of such idiocies anymore. #MoneyAintBroke
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Murphy: "There's no guarantee that we are gonna have a free and fair election in 2026. He's trying to rig our democracy, to destroy dissent, to cripple the opposition, so that even if his approval ratings are in the 30s next year, there isn't the ability for his opposition to muster a real campaign"
May 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Murphy: "There's no guarantee that we are gonna have a free and fair election in 2026. He's trying to rig our democracy, to destroy dissent, to cripple the opposition, so that even if his approval ratings are in the 30s next year, there isn't the ability for his opposition to muster a real campaign"
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde
May 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde
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When the Guggenheim introduced Hilma af Klint to New York in a blazing 2018-19 retrospective, it scooped sublime canvases out of obscurity and laid them out like freshly polished gems. They were big, abstract and geometrical, yet they also celebrated recognisable organic forms.
Hilma af Klint at MoMA — artist who blended botany and mystery
Her portraits of flowers, on show in New York, are accompanied by symbols whose meanings remain an enigma
www.ft.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
When the Guggenheim introduced Hilma af Klint to New York in a blazing 2018-19 retrospective, it scooped sublime canvases out of obscurity and laid them out like freshly polished gems. They were big, abstract and geometrical, yet they also celebrated recognisable organic forms.
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Francisco Collantes, Saint Onuphrius (Madrid, c 1645) The 5th cen St Onuphrius was a Persian who withdrew as a hermit to the desert of Thebes, where a raven miraculously brought his daily ration of food. At his feet, a crown and scepter allude to his royal origins as he was the son of a Persian king
May 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Francisco Collantes, Saint Onuphrius (Madrid, c 1645) The 5th cen St Onuphrius was a Persian who withdrew as a hermit to the desert of Thebes, where a raven miraculously brought his daily ration of food. At his feet, a crown and scepter allude to his royal origins as he was the son of a Persian king
Pulitzer Season has begun. This is great local journalism.
🧵Update: In Worcester, MA, ICE dragged a mother away from her baby & family—without identifying themselves or showing a warrant. She’s now in San Antonio. The community tried to stop them. They were met with force. Read it. Share it. Never forget it
tinyurl.com/No-warrant
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/No-warrant
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Pulitzer Season has begun. This is great local journalism.
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JERRY: they're all coping about the pope
GEORGE: because the pope is woke?
JERRY: because the pope is woke
GEORGE: so... it's pope cope?
JERRY: it's woke pope cope, George, woke pope cope!
GEORGE: because the pope is woke?
JERRY: because the pope is woke
GEORGE: so... it's pope cope?
JERRY: it's woke pope cope, George, woke pope cope!
May 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
JERRY: they're all coping about the pope
GEORGE: because the pope is woke?
JERRY: because the pope is woke
GEORGE: so... it's pope cope?
JERRY: it's woke pope cope, George, woke pope cope!
GEORGE: because the pope is woke?
JERRY: because the pope is woke
GEORGE: so... it's pope cope?
JERRY: it's woke pope cope, George, woke pope cope!
Ercelik v. Hyde
Wow. I'm in federal court for Ercelik v. Hyde, the Amherst student w/ state criminal charges (dismissed this morning) where ICE camped outside his apartment for a month trying to arrest him.
He wants to leave on a flight for Turkey@9:35pm, ICE wants to hold him for weeks/months before removing him.
He wants to leave on a flight for Turkey@9:35pm, ICE wants to hold him for weeks/months before removing him.
May 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Ercelik v. Hyde
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The Psychology of Blind Loyalty: How Psychology Explains the Unwavering Support for Donald Trump
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
The Psychology of Blind Loyalty: How Psychology Explains the Unwavering Support for Donald Trump
The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #321
open.substack.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Psychology of Blind Loyalty: How Psychology Explains the Unwavering Support for Donald Trump
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Brilliant.
"I Never Thought the Leopards Would Eat My Face."
Just everyone else's face.
Oh dear.🐆
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
"I Never Thought the Leopards Would Eat My Face."
Just everyone else's face.
Oh dear.🐆
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
May 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Brilliant.
"I Never Thought the Leopards Would Eat My Face."
Just everyone else's face.
Oh dear.🐆
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
"I Never Thought the Leopards Would Eat My Face."
Just everyone else's face.
Oh dear.🐆
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Yea, she seized on the anti-Establishment angle without seeing that The Dude's libertarian daimon was moderated by the Dude's non-violent nature as well as by his highly-developed bullshit detector. Obviously, Ashli Babbit was not an English major.
I've been rewatching Big Lebowski bit by bit. It's become a favorite--& I owe that, nothing more, to Ashli Babbitt. Hadn't seen it in decades when I first rewatched it to write about her in The Undertow. She considered it scripture. Maybe she didn't really get it? That's, like, just my opinion.
May 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yea, she seized on the anti-Establishment angle without seeing that The Dude's libertarian daimon was moderated by the Dude's non-violent nature as well as by his highly-developed bullshit detector. Obviously, Ashli Babbit was not an English major.
Ossoff better have pepper spray if he debates her in person.
May 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Ossoff better have pepper spray if he debates her in person.
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You really want to scare those thugs?
Re-open Shawshank.
Re-open Shawshank.
Markwayne Mullin: "Let's have Riker & Alcatraz both open. So we got east coast & west coast both covered, & put our most notorious criminals in them so people understand we're a nation of laws again, unlike under Biden... I don't believe in keeping them comfortable. I want them to regret the crime"
May 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You really want to scare those thugs?
Re-open Shawshank.
Re-open Shawshank.
LIST OF LAW FIRMS THAT BENT THE KNEE
(or THE WILLINGLY EXTORTED):
Kirkland & Ellis
A&O Shearman
Simpson,Thacher & Bartlett
Latham & Watkins
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Paul Weiss
Milbank
Wilkie, Farr & Gallager
(or THE WILLINGLY EXTORTED):
Kirkland & Ellis
A&O Shearman
Simpson,Thacher & Bartlett
Latham & Watkins
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Paul Weiss
Milbank
Wilkie, Farr & Gallager
May 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
LIST OF LAW FIRMS THAT BENT THE KNEE
(or THE WILLINGLY EXTORTED):
Kirkland & Ellis
A&O Shearman
Simpson,Thacher & Bartlett
Latham & Watkins
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Paul Weiss
Milbank
Wilkie, Farr & Gallager
(or THE WILLINGLY EXTORTED):
Kirkland & Ellis
A&O Shearman
Simpson,Thacher & Bartlett
Latham & Watkins
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Paul Weiss
Milbank
Wilkie, Farr & Gallager