The Calgary Public Library is paying $8,000 for an AI Artist Residency while Canadian artists earn a median income 44% below average and compete for grants at a 16% acceptance rate.
This is happening in arts around the world. I wrote about why.
blog.brennanbrown.ca/why-is-my-lo...
You really don't want to tangle with ballet dancers, they're either bitchy queens or women who have undergone horrors you can't begin to imagine.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps.
It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.
Congress has the power to restore funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Join me in calling your reps!
The MAGA regime wants to slash Medicaid to give tax cuts to corporations and the ultra-rich. #mnleg must act—because in MN, we take care of our families and neighbors. We won’t cut off low-income folks, seniors, or people w/ disabilities from the care they need. #HandsOffMedicaid @seiu.org
President Trump said that he is standing up for skilled workers and farmers by slapping tariffs on imports but farmers aren't happy.
Has anyone....?
The economy was better when we had the DEI.
I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.
Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.
The amount of secondhand embarrassment I have even just watching this is through the roof.
Spot on.
The Eagles said “Fuck the White House. We ain’t going”
Bruh…. How do you suppose to not like that team?
For the one time, Go F*cking Birds
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
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.
Christian charity groups have worked with the federal government for decades to deliver lifesaving American assistance around the world. Now, the Trump administration's cuts have left faith-based humanitarian groups with gaping funding deficits, hastily shuttered programs and unfolding layoffs.
Roses are red
And measles are too.
Thanks to RFK Jr,
Outbreaks just grew.
Image from NYT of Tulsi Gabbard wearing a white suit in front of a mic with scores of white men behind her wearing blue and gray suits. Her black hair is highlighted with a stark white streak.
It took me a moment to realize that this picture of Tulsi Gabbard was not in fact a picture of Cruella de Vil.
Sources name conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and far-right journalist John Solomon as potential replacements. 📜
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
You otter love these Valentines...
My husband- you seem sad. Why are you sad?
Me- because I don’t want RFK Jr to yank me off my medicine and send me to a re-education camp.
Absolutely rooting for one the European teams to take it all since USA just makes me sad right now and rooting for Canada is against my religion.
The good news is, both of my Senators are receiving “higher volumes of calls.”
Keep pushing. Doing so is how they keep “political cover” for actually pushing back and holding the fuckwits accountable.
super bowl ad
not even kidding about this, do a super bowl ad about how Elon has your social security number and can shut off your grandma's check at any time
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
All D senators — except Fetterman — sponsor resolution condemning pardons for those who assault led Capitol Police on Jan. 6.
There’s nothing “moderate” about Trumps actual positions on abortion
The Proud Boys are back and will get bigger
BE PREPARED for many activities coming ahead especially summer around any LGBTQIA2S+ events or activities
