The Trump administration has moved forward with its plan to gut funding for NPR and PBS, calling the outlets "radical, woke propaganda disguised as news."
Our colleagues at @revealnews.org sat down with NPR's @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social to talk about the administration's attacks on journalism.
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Aerial view of CECOT.
A person in a crowd holds a protest sign at a peaceful protest rally in a park.
A person in a crowd holds a protest sign that reads “we the people stand in unity and love” at a peaceful protest rally in a park.
A crowd holds numerous protest signs at a peaceful protest rally in a park.
A person in a crowd holds a protest sign “hate won’t make America great again” at a peaceful protest rally in a park. A person displays a large American flag worn as a cape. Another person holds a small American flag.
Thank you @ripleyw.bsky.social !
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Tonight's bounty. Also, keep making calls.
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long.
They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
Watch the full interview with @jenpsaki.msnbc.com and subscribe to support independent media:
1) An overhead photograph of a wood table top covered with assorted objects. Central to the image are 10-15 black and white photographs. In the upper portion of the image is a book, with the title "On Tyranny" on the cover. In the bottom right is another book, slightly cropped. The title is cropped but the letters,"alism" and "Kornbluh" are in frame.
2) Three rows of several small black and white photographs hung by binder clips on a wall. The top row contains one larger black and white photograph The photographs are of trees and landscapes and unusual tableaus.
Snow day and working on test prints.
#currentartfundgrantee
#tristararts
#andywarholfoundationforthevisualarts
It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
🥰 Thanks Carla!
Black and white image of an overturned lawn chair with the words, “Anything fun planned this afternoon?" "Unmasking the small talk at Trader Joe's and let's talk about the weather" superimposed on top of the image. MARYADDISONHACKETT.SUBSTACK.COM
Post # 8 is live ⚡️
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I miss my desert.
1. Untitled (Zabriskie Point, Death Valley 11.10.19)
2019/2024
2. Untitled (Cap Rock, JTNP 12.01.19)
2019/2024
3. Untitled (Mesquite Dunes, DVNP 11.9.19)
2019/2024
#analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography
#mediumformat
#joshuatree #deathvalley
Excellent by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
“There’s no hard and fast rule for what I won’t cover, but I don’t think ‘Billionaires Are Good’ is a headline you’ll ever see on The Handbasket.”
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It's Sunday again and Nothing is Too Banal just dropped.
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From the way back machine:
“Hello, I’m_______”
One hundred hand-painted name tags
2016-2017
Acrylic on canvas
3 x 5 inches each
Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,
Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
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Bedside reading
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I went from 7 footnotes to none, cut 3 paras, removed a poem, and made it choppy like a bad haircut. Enjoy the reading list. #NothingIsTooBanal #quickreads #photography #politics #contemporaryart #autotheory