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Raffael Cavallaro
@rafcavallaro.bsky.social
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Artist, husband, father, left politics, dog and cat person, former archaeologist, amateur musician & songwriter.
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Old couple
1-13-26
acrylic on linen 12” x 16”
© 2026 Raffael Cavallaro
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Old couple 1-13-26 acrylic on linen 12” x 16” © 2026 Raffael Cavallaro all rights reserved And old married couple embrace, intertwining the fingers of one hand. All rendered in muted colors.
January 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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Old couple
1-11-26 iv
pencil on paper 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”
© 2026 Raffael Cavallaro
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Old couple 1-11-26 iv pencil on paper 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” © 2026 Raffael Cavallaro all rights reserved And old married couple embrace, intertwining the fingers of one hand.
January 12, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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Old couple
1-11-26 ii
pencil on paper 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”
© 2026 Raffael Cavallaro
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Old couple 1-11-26 ii pencil on paper 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” © 2026 Raffael Cavallaro all rights reserved And old married couple embrace, intertwining the fingers of one hand.
January 12, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Eve and the serpent
1-8-26
acrylic on linen 30” x 40”
© 2026 Raffael Cavallaro
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The serpent dangles a fruit from his mouth offering it to Eve who grasps it apprehensively. Rendered in vibrant colors.
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Eve and the serpent
pencil on paper 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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The serpent dangles an apple from his mouth offering it to Eve who grasps it apprehensively.
December 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Nude, dog, and teapot
12-16-25
oil on linen 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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A nude woman, arms over her head, a teapot on the table beside her, glances down at the smiling dog at her feet. All rendered in and deep blacks and vibrant colors.
December 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”

@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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elienyc.bsky.social
I am once again asking white people to handle their Nuzzi/Lizza business in the privacy of their own pumpkin spiced brunch table and leave the rest of us the fuck alone with this poorly written bullshit
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The artist’s wife, dog and a cup of tea.
11-17-25
acrylik on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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A woman stands, stretching both arms over her head, facing a cup of tea that sits on the table beside her. The dog at her feet looks up at her expectantly. All rendered in vibrant colors.
November 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Light of the Morning
11-12-25
oil on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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A woman with shoulder length straight hair stands in the morning sunlight, stretching both arms over her head as the dog at her feet looks up at her. All rendered in brilliant colors.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Nude, dog, and french press
10-31-25
pull on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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A nude woman stretches both arms over her head, eyes closed. Her dog is at her feet and a french press is on the table beside her. All rendered in vibrant colors.
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
What was it that attracted that rich guy - the one who offered a masseuse a free horse, in payment for a handjob - to buying a website where everyone was talking about elite sex criminals, then filling it with Nazis denouncing feminism as a plot to destroy civilisation? Perhaps we will never know.
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Nude, dog, and beer
10-29-25
acrylic on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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Photographed in better light.
A nude woman stretches both arms over her head and looks down at an open can of N.A. beer on the table beside her. The dog at her feet looks up at her. All rendered in vibrant colors.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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As always, derek guy brings receipts. Here he explains how the labor movement was built on multi-ethnic solidarity in the face of white racist management attempts to divide workers by pitting different ethnic groups against each other. Fascinating, informative read.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 30
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The artist’s wife, dog, and a cup of tea.
10-20-25
oil on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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The artist’s wife stands, eyes closed, stretching her arms over her head, with their dog on one side, and a cup of tea on the table on the other. All rendered in vibrant color.
October 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Nude, dog, and beer.
10-8-25
Acrylic on canvas, 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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A nude woman with shoulder length straight hair, eyes closed and both arms over her head, rendered in vibrant colors, stands facing the viewer next to her dog with an open can of beer on the table beside her.
October 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Democrats are fighting for your healthcare
Republicans are fighting for their billionaires
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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David Cross on his colleagues performing at the Riyadh comedy festival

officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...
My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival
I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ...
officialdavidcross.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
Do we say a man is sane when he calls in the military to fight a war when there is no war? If such a man is not sane, do we have a solution to stop the madness if he’s in the White House?
September 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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macfarlanenews.bsky.social
Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%
September 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Nude, dog, and cava.
9-18-25
oil on linen 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
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A colorful rendering of a voluptuous nude woman with long wavy hair standing with both her arms over her head with her dog on one side and an effervescing flute of cava on the other.
September 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM