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Who will be sleeping while campaigning across the states???

Hmmmm. Does this mean we have a chance in Kansas? It would be so sweet to oust this POS.

Finally! Free-read article from New York Times.

I really never post this sort of thing, but I am so happy with the lovely wallet I just bought from an independent British merchant on Etsy that I just feel compelled to share it. The Trump tariffs are really hurting these artisans. They could use your business.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1893, George Grosz was a German artist known especially for his caricatures of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. This is "Eclipse of the Sun," 1926.

BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1884, Amedeo ModiglianI, an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks and figures — works that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought after.

BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1834, James McNeill Whistler, an American painter active during the American Gilded Age. He eschewed sentimentality and lived by the credo "art for art's sake." His signature took the shape of a stylized butterfly with an added long stinger for a tail. And yes, that's his mother.

Kentucky Governor Demands Health Update on Mitch McConnell www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1907, Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits that often documented her physical, mental and spiritual struggles. This is "The Two Fridas."

BORN ON THIS DAY in 1940, Chuck Close was an American painter and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others.

Whoever the presidential candidates are I think this is a really good idea.

EVERYTHING he touches turns to 💩 and then starts smelling like him.

I was lucky to catch a Martha Graham Cracker concert this year. But my fondest memory of this brilliant and gorgeous man was The Lorca Cycle, a series of three plays about gay Spanish poet Federico García Lorca who was assassinated by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Thank you President Obama. 🙏 I appreciate your honesty, intelligence, dignity, integrity, humility & humor. 👍 Looking forward to the opening of your Presidential Center this week! 👀 Wishing you & your family all the best & continued success, Mar🐫

Repost! Celebrate Obama Appreciate Day!

Repost! Celebrate Obama Appreciate Day!

Standing ovation for Rep. Beatty, who sued Trump over the renaming of the Kennedy Center, took him to court, and won!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx2Y... Run, don't walk, to see this hilarious movie!

Happy birthday, Egon Schiele! An Austrian Expressionist, he was known his intense self-portraits. Gustav Klimt, a figurative painter of the early 20th century, was a mentor to Schiele. He died of Spanish flu at 28.

Happy birthday, Gustave Courbet! The father of Realism, whose independence paved the way for the Impressionists, Courbet should also be known for a lifelong dedication to the self portrait that ranks with Rembrandt. Here are three and a loverly 19th century photograph.

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Bruce Springsteen using his voice for good. @reallyamerican.bsky.social #Pinks

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

A hero and a humble public servant. Your wit and wisdom will be missed, Barney!

Japanese robot detects 0.1mm rail cracks and repairs them autonomously at night using 10,000 RPM grinding and ultrasonic inspection

BORN ON THIS DAY in 1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, an English poet and painter, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with John Everett Millais. He inspired contemporary artists such as William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists.

WATCH — @realdlhughley.bsky.social : “I don’t understand why a 4/5 star athlete would go to a school where the state is ushering in a new iteration of Jim Crow… if you can’t run in a state, don’t run in a state.” #Memphis #Louisiana #Tennessee #Alabama @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

"The Second of May" by Francisco Goya. It depicts one of the many people's rebellions against the French occupation of Spain that sparked the Peninsular War.

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Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

GERMANY JUST INTRODUCED “DOG PARKING” OUTSIDE STORES Supermarkets are now installing climate-controlled, ventilated pods where you can leave your dog safely while you shop. Locked by app. Temperature regulated. Stress-free design.

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