thinking about ann reinking in all that jazz 🌟

Henri Matisse

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Art Deco House With Tree Shadow, East Twickenham: watercolour and pencil

When you can hear Tori Amos take her foot off the piano pedal in Tear In Your Hand 🎹

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

This is starting to look interesting

Spring Haze YouTube video by Tori Amos - Topic

For the first day of spring:

Spring Haze by Tori Amos from her To Venus and Back album.

youtu.be/nao0KjzYxnw?...

Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE Gets Hulu Streaming Premiere Date - When To Stream NEON's hit Park Chan-wook crime comedy NO OTHER CHOICE is set to make its SVOD debut next month, arriving on Hulu on April 24th, 2026. The film world premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival befo...

NO OTHER CHOICE (2025)
Streaming: April 24, 2026
Hulu
#NoOtherChoice
whentostream.com/park-chan-wo...

This work from 1832 depicts the courtyard of Corot's home in Ville d’Avray, the town and surrounding countryside were the inspiration for numerous works, including the first painting he made on returning from Italy in 1828.

Painting of an urban wintry scene, with a hill at back featuring numerous sled riders

I've always loved the background of Jacob Lawrence's 1943 painting "City College is Like a Beacon Over Harlem," with its snow-covered hill featuring numerous sled riders at play

Painted snowy urban street scene with figures walking about, including a boy with a shovel

"Winter Scene from My Window," 1933, by Allan Rohan Crite, influential Boston-based African American artist & illustrator whose work is now on view in a show at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibiti...

Bolsonaro in prison, Yeon sentenced to prison, Andrew arrested on his birthday...and America still holding on to a 34 count felon as President.

I had the same exact thought!!!!!!!!!

I don't believe so, so that means you need to! :)

Support Minneapolis Daycare Workers Contribute mutual aid to the educators and caregivers who love and care for our children everyday

One small thing you can do *right now* — donate $5, $10, $50, whatever you're able — to this rent fund for South Minneapolis daycare workers whose families are sheltering in place. Can we raise $5k today??

Whatever you can give matters. And if you can't give, can you share?

givebutter.com/Rbpl0z

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

If you're looking to revisit some of Catherine O'Hara's legendary comedic performances, Netflix has added four of her Christopher Guest comedies in the US:
Waiting For Guffman
Best In Show
A Mighty Wind
For Your Consideration

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

The last Columbia protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism...

READ: Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...

Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show." Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms. Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room. "I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

There's no way you can keep funding a federal government who's primary mission is to inflict pain on the population. Every federal agency from McMahon at DoE to RFK shredding HHS and everything in between. Every day we let them stay open is more time we'll need to repair the damage they've done

Love that song so much I bought it as a hat 🤗

Sesame Street Instagram: Big Bird snuggling a smaller bird. Offering comfort in Scary Times: After a violent event, children of different ages will have different needs. These age based strategies can help them feel safer and more secure.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Links to fundraisers follow in the thread below. Please help the families who are, for a variety of reasons including race and immigration status, receiving less attention.

Yes, new Oscar record (according to the BBC alert I just got!)

'Looking at the Snow.' (c1930) By the deftest of touches, Christopher Nevinson takes us right to a place and makes it real. Although we are given no clue to the actual location or who the figure is in the painting, it is immaterial.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

The Shop Around The Corner!

Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor but never Mayor! Thank god!