There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
8 photos of the same woman in various poses
Contact sheet of Billie Holiday recording the album Music for Touching
Phil Stern, 1955
Who is protecting us from this madman?
A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding
Fabric design: flowers in blue, orange & pink
Paul Poiret
Tissu pour robe, 1919
Miro sits in front of a canvas with his palette & paintbrush. You can see the back of the canvas, on which is written "Joan Miro - 22/III/63"
Remembering Joan Miró on his birthday 🎂
📷 Bill Brandt, 1963
"I have utter contempt for painting. I’m not interested in any school or any artist. Not one. I’m only interested in anonymous art, the kind that springs from the collective unconscious."
Three smiling friends, sitting at an open air restaurant, in the sunshine.
Joan Miró, Marc Chagall & Jacques Prévert at La Colombe d'Or restaurant, St. Paul de Vence
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1955
The painter watches young girls playing hopscotch in a Barcelona square.
Joan Miró, Plaza real à Barcelone, regarde jouer les enfants
📷 Brassaï, 1955
"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..."
www.eenews.net/articles/oil...
It’s amazing how much of our current hellscape has been driven by powerful white men with hurt feelings cause by the same black man.
Cette photographie en noir et blanc montre un gros plan sur des dreadlocks. À l'arrière-plan, flou, on distingue la tête d'une personne aux cheveux bouclés. Le premier plan met en valeur la texture et les détails des cheveux tressés, tandis que le reste de l'image reste estompé. Les deux personnes semblent observer une prestation qu'on ne distingue pas en arrière plan.
Boucles, là.
Hortensia séché, dont les pétales ont pris des teintes douces et chaudes allant de l'orangé au rose pâle. La lumière traverse les pétales, soulignant leur finesse et leur structure presque papyracée. Entre deux fleurs, une araignée suspendue à son fil semble flotter par-dessus l'arrière plan uniformément blanc.
Funambule des pétales.
SCTV 5/4-5:13
My only advice to you is when everything gets you down, you get up...
AND MAMBOOOOOOO
when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it
Also folks don’t seem to appreciate the difference between work and school. At work you are trying to deliver a product effectively and efficiently. Is AI helpful to that end? Maybe? But in school you are TRAINING YOUR MIND. AI is not at all helpful.
@ektashahmd.bsky.social You see this?
Beckett & Johns talk together on a couch
Samuel Beckett & Jasper Johns by Robert Doisneau
Paris, October, 1975
Black & white portrait of the writer wrapped in a blanket
Eudora Welty by Nancy R. Schiff, 1993
"I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."
Black & white portrait of the young actor
Remembering Valerie Hobson on her birthday 🎂
📷 Sasha, 1939
"Valerie was a tall, strong, intelligent girl with glorious eyes & a quick wit (too quick a wit, some people thought, but I had suffered too many English ladies to complain about that)."
- Michael Powell
Here’s the moment,
lost on all sides
Smiling Crocodiles. Isabel De Obaldia. Glass.
18th century Iranian bird scissors.
She can't even lie competently.
Good morning! Today’s timeline cleanse? I wanted to take some photos of our Icelandic stallions, Ori & Baldur, with the autumn color on Tres Monjas but Baldur was much more interested in a play date with the ladies.
Song of the day
Hillary Clinton on war in Iran
Boulders with Moss at Flat Rock
Oil on canvas 1985
christopherlewisart.com
#art #painting #sydney #blueskyart
The Night Ferry to Therassia
Gouache on paper 1985
christopherlewisart.com
#art #painting #santorini #blueskyart
Within 10 days, parts of the global economy will start running short of critical goods After 30 years studying economic sanctions and blockades, I don’t say this lightly: --Not just higher prices --Shortages. Markets are not ready for this 9:25 PM · Apr 12, 2026 · 950K Views Relevant View quotes Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h Everyone is still talking about oil prices That’s already outdated --This is no longer a price shock --It is the early stage of a system-wide supply shock Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h Here’s the mechanism: price spike → physical shortage → economic contraction We are now crossing into step 2 That’s when things break. Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h ~20% of global oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. That flow is now constrained -- by Iran AND US And it’s not just oil—it’s the base layer of modern production: fuel, fertilizer, plastics, much more
Once inventories run down, this stops being about expensive inputs It becomes about missing inputs Factories don’t slow because costs rise They stop because materials don’t arrive Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h We’ve seen the smaller version of this. 1973: ~7% supply disruption → shortages, rationing, industrial decline in under 90 days. Today’s shock is larger. The system is tighter -- We are at Day 45 Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h The sequence from here is predictable: Asia first → Europe next → global compression Not collapse Contraction Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h The U.S. won’t be spared Energy independence doesn’t protect a globally integrated economy When supply chains seize, the shock transmits via trade reductions Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h This is the real shift: Prices no longer determine outcomes Access does And once that flips, governments start choosing winners and losers Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h Watch one thing this week: Ships through Hormuz --Not statements --Not markets If flows don’t recover, the system tightens further -- necessarily Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape · 8h By the time shortages show up in headlines, it’s already too late That’s how these shocks work Full breakdown—mechanism, timeline, what happens next: new analysis: Escalation Trap substack
"Watch one thing this week:
Ships through Hormuz
--Not statements
--Not markets
If flows don’t recover, the system tightens further -- necessarily"
I hate to bring X here, but it's silly to discuss any of this disaster without this context that I'm not seeing this clear anywhere else
