Doug Coulson
@dougcoulson.bsky.social
Rhetoric professor at Carnegie Mellon. Lawyer, bold wordsmith. Exploring how legal language shapes justice, identity, and power. Latest book Judicial Rhapsodies: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/b2773z23s
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Extraordinary that the Texas government would be so corrupt that it would have to black out more than 80% of its emails with Elon Musk.
NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s influence over state government.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Extraordinary that the Texas government would be so corrupt that it would have to black out more than 80% of its emails with Elon Musk.
What on earth. www.cbsnews.com/news/warning...
Warning signs appear on Mexican beach declaring area restricted by U.S. as Mexico rejects Trump offer to strike cartels
The signs read in English and Spanish, "Warning: Restricted Area," and had been declared restricted by "the commander."
www.cbsnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
What on earth. www.cbsnews.com/news/warning...
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Stop whatever you're doing and read this piece by @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social laying out how John Roberts has spent his entire adult life constructing the scaffolding for Trump's authoritarian takeover, and why he's so invested in rigging the system to continue to help Trump.
Using racial profiling in immigration sweeps. Defying Congress' power of the purse. Firing independent agency commissioners.
President Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man: John Roberts
President Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man: John Roberts
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Stop whatever you're doing and read this piece by @pemalevy.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social laying out how John Roberts has spent his entire adult life constructing the scaffolding for Trump's authoritarian takeover, and why he's so invested in rigging the system to continue to help Trump.
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Forgot I made this. IYKYK. 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Forgot I made this. IYKYK. 🧪
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Tangerine www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WA1...
Big Head Todd & The Monsters Tangerine
YouTube video by VanZepaFudgeingMule
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November 20, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Tangerine www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WA1...
Crikey. And double negative trigger.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Crikey. And double negative trigger.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’
With students terrified and arrests rising, educators turn activists – scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safe
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Kerry James Marshall, Untitled, 2009, Acrylic on pvc, 62 x 73 in
July 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Kerry James Marshall, Untitled, 2009, Acrylic on pvc, 62 x 73 in
The Big Push - Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkn...
The Big Push - Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones cover)
YouTube video by The Big Push
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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The Big Push - Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkn...
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Good line. Comey case is the "four seasons total landscaping of prosecutions."
I mean, Lemons must understand that at point his license is in jeopardy. I’ve never seen anything close to this.
This is the “four seasons total landscaping” of prosecutions. Except here, there will most certainly be lasting professional consequences, if not criminal.
This is the “four seasons total landscaping” of prosecutions. Except here, there will most certainly be lasting professional consequences, if not criminal.
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Good line. Comey case is the "four seasons total landscaping of prosecutions."
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"Another Battle After One Battle After Another: The Sequel" (Imagined Sequel to One Battle After Another) - Episode 601
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Another Battle After One Battle After Another: The Sequel" (Imagined Sequel to One Battle After Another) - Episode 601
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One Battle After Another somehow predicted Greg Bovino almost perfectly.
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
One Battle After Another somehow predicted Greg Bovino almost perfectly.
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![Titre inconnu (noyer indifférent), 1929,
Oil on canvas
92.2 × 73.2 cm
Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan
Titre inconnu, from Tanguy's early Surrealist phase, is populated by enigmatic, unfamiliar figurations. They are clearly distinguishable but unidentifiable, suggesting both inorganic and organic origins, coming perhaps from the depths of the oceans, the expanses of the desert, or the infinity of the universe.
The shapes could as easily represent the beginnings of natural history as the catastrophic end of civilization.
The four largest of them, casting shadows from an invisible source of light, have congregated around a patch of fog rising in delicate tendrils. Both fog and figurations are seen against a dark ground whose relief-like surface is broken by spectral, white horizontal bands that fade into the immeasurable, pitch-black depths of space.
We gaze upon an alien, nonhuman, and yet disconcertingly real universe that is in the process of becoming or dying, buffeted by the primeval clash between light and dark.
The Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung, who acquired Tanguy's painting the year it was created, discusses it in detail in his book Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (1979, first published in German in 1958).
He associates it with bleakness, coldness and human detachment, with cosmic inhumanity and endless abandonment, additionally interpreting it as an example of the loss of beauty and meaning in contemporary art, which has thrown human beings back on themselves as viewing subjects. However, the absence of explicit meaning, as demonstrated by Titre inconnu, can also lead to associations and reactions that yield illuminating insights into the world of darkness, very much in the spirit of Surrealism.
~ Uwe Wieczorek
"Yves Tanguy, the painter of gruesomely elegant entities in the air, in the depths of the earth and the seas, [...] my lovely friend."
~ André Breton](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxm5rxu25m37hvuddaymcnkz/bafkreidnuzfutik2zutyhpjmf2r7hjqb65olsilzkiyd7aamlwho7fsgim@jpeg)
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Yves Tanguy (1900-55) is one of those rare artists who walked into art almost “off the street.” And that’s barely a metaphor. In the early 1920s he drifted through Paris after serving as a sailor, changing jobs, living impulsively — until one day he saw a painting by Giorgio de Chirico.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Yves Tanguy (1900-55) is one of those rare artists who walked into art almost “off the street.” And that’s barely a metaphor. In the early 1920s he drifted through Paris after serving as a sailor, changing jobs, living impulsively — until one day he saw a painting by Giorgio de Chirico.
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Mainie Jellett (Ireland, 1897-1944) :
Painting, 1938
Oil on canvas
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NYC.
Further description in the alt text 👇
Painting, 1938
Oil on canvas
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NYC.
Further description in the alt text 👇
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Mainie Jellett (Ireland, 1897-1944) :
Painting, 1938
Oil on canvas
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NYC.
Further description in the alt text 👇
Painting, 1938
Oil on canvas
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NYC.
Further description in the alt text 👇
“By creating out of whole cloth this ‘presidents can commit crimes with immunity’ doctrine that is anathema to the Constitution and rule of law, the Roberts court validated Trump’s view of himself as above the law, beholden to no one.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“By creating out of whole cloth this ‘presidents can commit crimes with immunity’ doctrine that is anathema to the Constitution and rule of law, the Roberts court validated Trump’s view of himself as above the law, beholden to no one.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I just want to point out that Halligan, the incompetent Trump flunky responsible for this debacle, is also in charge of reviewing the content of exhibits at the Smithsonian.
The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I just want to point out that Halligan, the incompetent Trump flunky responsible for this debacle, is also in charge of reviewing the content of exhibits at the Smithsonian.
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it speaks volumes that the only moment of genuine joy he has is when he’s hanging out with someone who ordered the murder and dismemberment of a journalist
November 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
it speaks volumes that the only moment of genuine joy he has is when he’s hanging out with someone who ordered the murder and dismemberment of a journalist
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What dystopia, where?
Surveillance defense system, Kew Bridge station, at this moment
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What dystopia, where?
How it's going. abcnews.go.com/US/solid-gol...
Solid gold toilet named 'America' sells at auction for $12M
An 18-karat gold working toilet sculpture entitled "America" by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan sold Tuesday evening for a whopping $12,110,000.
abcnews.go.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
How it's going. abcnews.go.com/US/solid-gol...
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when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days