j9collier

j9collier

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j9collier
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Only a compromised US leader sides with Putin over Ukraine, compromised by greed, an authoritarian worldview, ego, and likely by coercion. DJT is, by definition, a national security nightmare as well as a traitor to democracy. Putin started the war and can end it today. Might does not make right. 🇺🇦

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

j9collier
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It's really hard to believe one person can contain this much ignorance, arrogance, grievance, petulance, and malevolence.

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social

What a maroon. A true national embarrassment, day in and day out. But this is more than just more Trumpian idiocy. It damages a vital and valued relationship. It makes the US a laughingstock internationally. What a flaccid act by an impotent buffoon. wapo.st/4gUNpvA

wapo.stTrump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating Canada feudPresident Donald Trump said he's making the change because “Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly.”
j9collier
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Happy birthday to Vincent van Gogh, born March 30, 1853. He painted the moth from a drawing he made of what he believed was a death's-head moth, depicting a small skull on the insect's thorax. But the moth's four large eyespots are distinctive of the giant peacock moth, Europe's largest moth.

j9collier
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I've been lax in posting art, so I'll share something by a highly imaginative artist I enjoy: Charles Burchfield. I love this portrayal of the seasons as a literal passage through time. I just wish I could see a hint of sunlit spring in the snow swirling outside my window. #art #spring

j9collier
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I recently read a little about trans Danish artist Lili Elbe, the subject of the 2015 film The Danish Girl, and I discovered this lovely painting she created a century ago on the island of Capri. #Art #EndHate

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In 1830 Charles X of France suspended freedom of the press and the constitution, restricted voting, and purged his opposition, triggering the July Revolution. Forced to abdicate, he left France in exile.

j9collier
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For some inexplicable reason, I have been thinking lately of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's allegorical murals of government, specifically his representation of bad leadership. #Art #Government #Kakistocracy #DumbestTimeline

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j9collier
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It's an inspired masterpiece, but I feel like Lorenzetti and his oligarchs did miss a few characteristics of bad governance, particularly Ignorance. Maybe we're even less discerning now, living in the (dis)information age?

j9collier
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For some inexplicable reason, I have been thinking lately of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's allegorical murals of government, specifically his representation of bad leadership. #Art #Government #Kakistocracy #DumbestTimeline

j9collier
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His cross-eyed Tyrant, portrayed with demonic horns and tusks, is surrounded by the figures of Cruelty, Treason, Fraud, Frenzy, Division, War, Avarice, Pride, and Vainglory. The Tyrant rests its feet on a goat, a medieval symbol of Lust.

j9collier
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A 14th-century book for city magistrates called these flaws the "leading enemies of human life." Below the Tyrant, Justice is portrayed by a bound, despondent woman in white, her broken scales lying beside her.

j9collier
@j9collier.bsky.social

For some inexplicable reason, I have been thinking lately of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's allegorical murals of government, specifically his representation of bad leadership. #Art #Government #Kakistocracy #DumbestTimeline

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