Maldog

Maldog

@tmallory.bsky.social

Artist & Educator

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If not for the name "Crown of Thorns," you almost couldn't tell that this tropical native of Madagascar has stems just like the ocotillos that grow in my home state of Arizona in the Sonoran desert. #macro #macroflower

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The DOJ is reportedly considering dropping any audits of Trump, his family, or his businesses as part of a potential settlement of his bogus lawsuit against the IRS. That’s on top of the $10 billion in damages he wants. This is corruption on steroids — and taxpayers will pay the price.

I believe in brain 🧠 learning, so I encourage my students to try to shift from their amygdalas (survival mode) to their prefrontal cortex (exploring, processing & relational mode).

Don't just consume, be sure to also construct or create. Also, artists tell us that the opposite of depression isn't happy, it's expression. So to get out of the 4Fs, rest, digest, create and connect. Every damn day. Force yourself.

I believe in brain 🧠 learning, so I encourage my students to try to shift from their amygdalas (survival mode) to their prefrontal cortex (exploring, processing & relational mode).

It isn’t easy because if Maslow's hierarchy of needs isn't being met, Blooms taxonomy won't work (poverty, adversity, nutrition, trauma & mental health can all be obstacles to building critical thinking skills).

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94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. 85% of teachers are working second jobs during the school year, often just to keep up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Something has gone terribly wrong.

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I was at a #NoKings rally yesterday and rather than writing another essay about why this matters I will just say that it is pure joy to meet the people who want to stand out and the people who are doing the work. Thank you.

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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

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Don't repeatedly call the ICE hotline and play audio clips from the Nuremberg trials when someone picks up. That would be childish. Not 1-866-347-2423 from US or Canada nor 1-802-872-6199 from other areas around the globe.

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Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

How to bring about the realest realism while holding on to joyous and mysterious abstraction. How to control and craft without losing the dynamic chaos and sensuous serendipity? Do men shape the times? Or do the times shape men? So do artists design paintings or do paintings sculpt artists?

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AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

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Martin Luther King Jr. understood better than almost anyone that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined. Watch his powerful call to end poverty from his final Sunday Sermon.

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Let’s see, Venezuela take over, and wanting to take Greenland and at home he’s storming states with shock troops. Clearly we have an idiot in office that will kill us all.

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The President called for the murder of Congressional Democrats. Congressional Democrats should call for his immediate removal or resignation. Congressional Republicans should condemn his statements and call for him to recant them. It's the very least they should be doing!

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If Jesus said his disciples would be known by their love for others, then when we claim to follow him but we are known for our bullying, our mockery, our callousness, and our contempt for others, we are actively taking his name in vain. Love must be our reputation.

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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

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When Christians tie Christianity to a particular political figure and party, not only do they fuse the reputation of Christianity to everything that political movement does, they become more shaped by the ways of that political movement than they do by the ways of Jesus.

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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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A Christianity that makes the ultra wealthy and powerful feel safe and supported while making the poor and powerless feel unsafe and unsupported is a Christianity that is following someone other than Jesus.

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“He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.” -Mary, the mother of Jesus in the gospel according to Luke (1:53) Now compare this with the actions of those in power who claim to follow Mary’s son.