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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 3h

been quite the week in British counter-terrorism

Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 3h

My front page story for Wednesday’s South Wales Evening Post - A former soldier who is now in charge of protecting UK energy infrastructure from terrorism and cyber threats drunkenly beat up a man in a Swansea / Abertawe bar.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

A day after Newsom kills AI kid safety bill, Altman announces ChatGPT erotica

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ChatGPT will create ‘erotica,’ Sam Altman announces

OpenAI is ready to tackle adult content, its CEO says.

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 3h

Who gets called a child, & who gets called an adult is a choice.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

US banks tap Fed repo facility as overnight rates climb, signaling funding strain reut.rs/3KKwSwZ

US banks tap Fed repo facility as overnight rates climb, signaling funding strain

U.S. banks borrowed $6.5 billion from the Federal Reserve's Standing Repo Facility (SRF) on Wednesday, central bank data showed, and repurchase rates rose, suggesting tightness in meeting funding obligations with a large net Treasuries settlement due this week.

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Benny Andrews @bennyandrews.bsky.social · 9h

No More Games https://www.wikiart.org/en/benny-andrews/no-more-games-1970

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 9h

When the Fondation Cartier first opened in 1984, it was the first French luxury brand to put its money into contemporary art. Catherine Bennett considers the rise of powerful private interests in France and the struggle of public institutions to keep up

The rise and rise of private foundations in France

The opening of the Fondation Cartier in 1984 changed the French art world. As it moves to a space in the heart of Paris, Catherine Bennett considers the balance between private and public interests…

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 8h

'Crossing', Petticoat Lane (2024) bu Doreen Fletcher
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👤 @doreenfletcher.bsky.social

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kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 8h

wrote briefly about architecture and the situation at u Chicago www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?

The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 21d

There are few artists whose work is more relevant to the US present than Juan Genovés.

A smart, agile museum should present a show ASAP, perhaps using the Hirshhorn's fine collection of 13 Genovéses as a starting point.

ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 24d

Izquierda Derecha, by Juan Genovés, 1967, 📸 via @beysicc

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Tyler Green @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Ed Ruscha, Norm’s, La Cienega, on Fire, 1964.

Or, more to the point:

Ed Ruscha, Norms on fire, 1964.

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 7h

Margaret Sullavan, director Ernst Lubitsch, and James Stewart on set of THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)

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Alma Woodsey Thomas @almathomas.bsky.social · 6h

Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/188590

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Louise Bourgeois @louisebourgeois.bsky.social · 6h

It Breaks If They Are Separated http://www.moma.org/collection/works/119706

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 3h

MacKenzie Scott gives $63 million to Morgan State, its largest-ever donation

MacKenzie Scott gives Morgan State its largest donation ever

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has now given Morgan State University a total of $103 million.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 3h

How to even begin to teach this stuff? My god.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3h

Wow—has a president ever explicitly confirmed a presidential finding authorizing an ongoing covert action before? Let alone a brand new one?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4h

It's fundamentally insane that providing health care coverage is left to employers. hbr.org/2019/03/why-...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

He still had this up *after* the story about the Young Republicans group chat with the Hitler praise was released.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 4h

Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.

Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.

When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others.

She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.

By @maxblau.bsky.social

A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.

Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 4h

She was irresponsible. She had fits of melancholy when she would lose the self-control necessary to keep up appearances.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4h

Quite a day.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4h

Congressman Dave Taylor is a Republican from Ohio. His staffer had this American flag - desecrated by a Nazi swastika - on his wall during a call.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 5h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 4h

It's Chora, for me. Perhaps also Chartres.

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