“Temptation of Insanity”
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oil on board

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went to a ghost town today

Yaz asked me to post this

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?

Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

The Trump administration can go fuck itself

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

A 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota who had been missing since December was subjected to violence and torture before his body was found last week in a field in New York, the authorities said. Five people were arrested in connection with his death and charged with murder, the police said.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

An American flag built on the backs of Black people...

Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways

All this in New Orleans... What a moment

I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature.
Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:

Listening @likaluca.bsky.social talk about trade publishing at the ASU Humanities Institute: “Stay brave and don’t minimize your work.” ❤️

On the German press baron who "calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In 2016 I started writing a book about the Euromaidan in Ukraine because I feared it was a premonition of what could happen under a Trump presidency in the United States if we slid into an oligarchy.

Are Americans courageous enough to stand against a false government like Ukrainians?

It’s time.

"Stop the Coup!"

Scene at Treasury.

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government.

Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Thank you Lily ❤️