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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 1h

"Orifices appear where they are not and do not appear where they should be. This is Colwell hitting back at the hetero-patriarchal policing built into algorithms, at AI’s pretension to “know” what is risqué from what is actual risk…"

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Saskia Colwell – Venice 2025

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 1h

Fingers Crossed — Saskia Colwell, 2024
Charcoal on vellum mounted board
40 x 20 cm

A drawing of a person pinching the skin of their armpit with a couple of fingers in such a way as to make a shape with the folds the skin that looks like a vulva

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 1h

Nor that I have any illusions about passing with it into posterity
because I know the people will one day tear it down.
Nor that I wished to erect to myself in life
the monument you’ll not erect to me in death:
I put up this statue just because I know you’ll hate it.

(Translated by Donald Walsh)

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 1h

"Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium" — Ernesto Cardenal

It’s not that I think the people raised this statue to me,
because I know better than you that I ordered it myself.

Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3h

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium by Ernesto Cardenal
www.divasofverse.com/2016/11/somo...

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium by Ernesto Cardenal

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium It’s not that I think the people raised this statue...

www.divasofverse.com

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3h

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium by Ernesto Cardenal
www.divasofverse.com/2016/11/somo...

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium by Ernesto Cardenal

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium It’s not that I think the people raised this statue...

www.divasofverse.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

I know that some people see foreign aid as wasteful but limiting the spread of deadly diseases is in all our interests

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12h

More than eight months after President Trump cut U.S. foreign assistance to Africa, health officials are reporting a rise in deadly infections brought on by a shortage of medical supplies, including a new Ebola outbreak in the Congo that has already killed several dozen people.

U.S. aid cuts are being felt across Africa. Here’s where.

How the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. aid has affected disease preparedness and response in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2h

He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 5h

Again, Trump has crossed a Red Line no president has ever crossed: personally ordering the criminal prosecution of an American he doesn't like despite DOJ not finding evidence of any crime.

If Trump can do this to the powerful, he can do it to you. That's not freedom, and its not America.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 6h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 10h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 4h

I can recall a time, not too long ago, where examples of "papers, please" governments were used as un-American counter examples.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9h

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 9h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 6h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h

Spiegel on the criminal complaint against James: The US legal system has become a farce. When lackeys can file charges on the orders of their masters, no one can feel safe anymore. Then arbitrariness prevails. The end of the rule of law and freedom. And that affects everyone

US-Justizministerium klagt prominente Trump-Gegnerin Letitia James an

Die Vorwürfe lauten Bankbetrug und falsche Angaben: Das US-Justizministerium hat Anklage gegen Generalstaatsanwältin Letitia James erhoben. Die Widersacherin von Donald Trump reagierte mit einer Kampf...

www.spiegel.de

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 2h

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 11h

There's +$25 in bonus donations on this, so if you donate a dollar it magically becomes $26! Get on it and let's get some kids school supplies!

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 12h

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 2h

Downstairs — Saskia Colwell, 2025

Painting of a naked behind the thick boards of a Stairway railing her breasts are out of halfway protruding through the gap between two of the boards which are running upwards at a steep angle and so her breasts are squashed and pointing in different directions

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 2h

Edna Cooke, 1920

Illustration for the Ladies Home Journal a bunch of girls gamboling in the waves and beneath them are some nereids also playing around it in the waves

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 2h

Enoch Bolles, 1926

Cover of Snappy stories magazine a man and a tuxedo dancing with a flapper in a gold cocktail dress that's green on the inside and she's doing a twirl that is lifting up her skirt high enough that we can see the shorts she's wearing underneath they're very modest shorts by modern standards

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