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The fact that somebody has $236.4m laying around while millions are struggling to make rent suggests there's some major problems in the world and one of 'em ain't illegal immigrants taking your job.
Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction
Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction
A painting by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record-breaking $236.4m (£179.7m, A$364m) with fees, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the most expensive work of modern art sold at auction.
The six-foot-tall painting, titled Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, was painted by the Austrian painter between 1914 and 1916 and shows Lederer, a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons, draped in a Chinese robe. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The fact that somebody has $236.4m laying around while millions are struggling to make rent suggests there's some major problems in the world and one of 'em ain't illegal immigrants taking your job.
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
What else needs to be said?
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
What else needs to be said?
ICE aims guns at Americans.
This photo comes from Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times, a non-profit newspaper with no paywall.
This photo comes from Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times, a non-profit newspaper with no paywall.
October 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
ICE aims guns at Americans.
This photo comes from Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times, a non-profit newspaper with no paywall.
This photo comes from Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times, a non-profit newspaper with no paywall.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
Yeah he's pretty funny! m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
m.youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Yeah he's pretty funny! m.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Peak to Peak Highway is starting to show fall colors 💖
September 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Peak to Peak Highway is starting to show fall colors 💖
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David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
www.the-reframe.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...
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Me, June 6, 2024:
“Conway envisioned [that if reelected] Trump would ‘try to violate every law,’ [and] predicted to host Ronny Chieng … ‘You’re gonna see capital flow, both human and financial, like we’ve never seen from the U.S. before.’”
“Conway envisioned [that if reelected] Trump would ‘try to violate every law,’ [and] predicted to host Ronny Chieng … ‘You’re gonna see capital flow, both human and financial, like we’ve never seen from the U.S. before.’”
George Conway Makes Chilling Prediction About Second Trump Term: 'Like You've Never Seen'
But the conservative attorney offered an optimistic take too.
www.huffpost.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Me, June 6, 2024:
“Conway envisioned [that if reelected] Trump would ‘try to violate every law,’ [and] predicted to host Ronny Chieng … ‘You’re gonna see capital flow, both human and financial, like we’ve never seen from the U.S. before.’”
“Conway envisioned [that if reelected] Trump would ‘try to violate every law,’ [and] predicted to host Ronny Chieng … ‘You’re gonna see capital flow, both human and financial, like we’ve never seen from the U.S. before.’”
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“If I were president… I will end that war in one day, it would take 24 hours.”
“I would get that ended in a period of 24 hours. It would be easy, that deal would be easy.”
Instead, he grants his fellow psychopath latitude for ongoing mass murder.
Insults Zelenskyy.
Envoy: “Putin’s not a bad guy.”
“I would get that ended in a period of 24 hours. It would be easy, that deal would be easy.”
Instead, he grants his fellow psychopath latitude for ongoing mass murder.
Insults Zelenskyy.
Envoy: “Putin’s not a bad guy.”
SUMY - the numbers climb again.
Murdered: 32 (two children)
Wounded: 84 (ten children)
Bodies have been removed but bloodstains remain.
We can also see the pain etched on to faces of even Ukraine's hardened emergency workers.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Murdered: 32 (two children)
Wounded: 84 (ten children)
Bodies have been removed but bloodstains remain.
We can also see the pain etched on to faces of even Ukraine's hardened emergency workers.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
April 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“If I were president… I will end that war in one day, it would take 24 hours.”
“I would get that ended in a period of 24 hours. It would be easy, that deal would be easy.”
Instead, he grants his fellow psychopath latitude for ongoing mass murder.
Insults Zelenskyy.
Envoy: “Putin’s not a bad guy.”
“I would get that ended in a period of 24 hours. It would be easy, that deal would be easy.”
Instead, he grants his fellow psychopath latitude for ongoing mass murder.
Insults Zelenskyy.
Envoy: “Putin’s not a bad guy.”
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Narrator: iPhone production will not be coming to the U.S.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Narrator: iPhone production will not be coming to the U.S.
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Classic Trumpian rhetoric.
April 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Classic Trumpian rhetoric.
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On Friday, federal judge Paula Xinis had ordered the Trump administration to provide daily updates to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States.
Trump admin tells judge man wrongly deported to El Salvador is alive, still detained
On Friday, federal judge Paula Xinis had ordered the Trump administration to provide daily updates to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
On Friday, federal judge Paula Xinis had ordered the Trump administration to provide daily updates to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States.
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WELKER: Consumer confidence has plummeted. Inflation fears are at the highest level since 1981
NAVARRO: But we did have the greatest rally in stock market history for many decades last week
WELKER: But it's down from when the president announced his policies overall
NAVARRO: But we did have the greatest rally in stock market history for many decades last week
WELKER: But it's down from when the president announced his policies overall
April 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
WELKER: Consumer confidence has plummeted. Inflation fears are at the highest level since 1981
NAVARRO: But we did have the greatest rally in stock market history for many decades last week
WELKER: But it's down from when the president announced his policies overall
NAVARRO: But we did have the greatest rally in stock market history for many decades last week
WELKER: But it's down from when the president announced his policies overall
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Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
April 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
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beyond parody — the White House cites Trump’s “frequent victories in golf events” as evidence of his health
April 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
beyond parody — the White House cites Trump’s “frequent victories in golf events” as evidence of his health
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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week.
R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.
Putin’s stooge.
R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.
Putin’s stooge.
April 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week.
R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.
Putin’s stooge.
R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday.
Putin’s stooge.
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Xi Jinping seeks to strengthen economic ties during tour of south-east Asia
Xi Jinping seeks to strengthen economic ties during tour of south-east Asia
President’s first stop is Vietnam as China urges US to end trade war and return to ‘right path of mutual respect’
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will visit Vietnam on Monday as he begins a tour of south-east Asia where he will seek to strengthen ties with neighbouring countries amid an escalating trade war.
Xi will visit Vietnam from Monday, before travelling to Malaysia and Cambodia, a high profile tour that Chinese officials have described as being of “major importance”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Xi Jinping seeks to strengthen economic ties during tour of south-east Asia
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SUMMERS: “.. the person who has a really artful deal here is Xi Jinping ..”
@larrysummers.bsky.social
@larrysummers.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
SUMMERS: “.. the person who has a really artful deal here is Xi Jinping ..”
@larrysummers.bsky.social
@larrysummers.bsky.social
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The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.
Trump attacks on law firms begin to chill pro bono work on causes he doesn't like
The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The ripple effects of Trump's actions targeting specific law firms already are being felt beyond boardrooms, in declining interest in pro bono work for causes that are unpopular with the president.