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Peter Joseph Swanson
@peterjswanson.bsky.social
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Queer. Vegetarian. Democrat. Public Option. Two-State Solution. Humanism. Social Justice. BLM. Boomer. Fight pollution. Minneapolis Urban. Fabulous novelist ...

My "About me" page at my Weebly website: https://peterjosephswanson.weebly.com/about-me.html
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Peter Joseph Swanson @peterjswanson.bsky.social · Mar 8
You want space alien drag queen paper dolls !!! You do !!! (it's at my Weebly website and this is that page):

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A paper doll set
Something For Everyone
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February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Wallace Polsom, “Things Fall Apart” (06 Jun 2017), paper collage, 16.3 x 24.7 cm | wallacepolsom.com/post/1615302...
February 11, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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I had this record. Leontyne Price !!!
February 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Sunset light on a sledding hill
6”x6” oil
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Illustration by John R. Neill from Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper from The Children's Red Books, Chicago, 1908. #booksky #artsky
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Illustration by L.J.J. Dubois from Panthéon Égyptien bt J.F. Champollion Le Jeune, Paris, 1825. #booksky #artsky
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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January 29, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Patrick Heron, *Vertical: January 1956, 1956, oil on canvas, Tate Modern, London UK
February 11, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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After singing on the world’s top opera stages for more than 40 years, acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves took a final bow and is pivoting to teaching the next generation. https://to.pbs.org/3O7n95s
Opera singer Denyce Graves takes her final bow on stage
After singing on the world’s top opera stages for more than 40 years, acclaimed mezzo soprano Denyce Graves took a final bow last month and is pivoting to teaching the next generation. Senior arts cor...
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February 11, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Legislator wants to legislate, while Mike Johnson is determined to play every game possible to prevent the House from interfering with the imperial presidency he serves.
February 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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NO LIES 👇 DETECTED.......
February 11, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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NEW: Sen. Elissa Slotkin denounced the Trump administration as she announced a grand jury declined to indict her and five other Democrats who appeared in a video urging service members to reject unlawful orders.
Slotkin slams Trump admin after grand jury refuses to indict Democrats over military video
She said Jeanine Pirro had tried to persuade a jury to indict the Democrats "at the direction of President Trump."
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February 11, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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February 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Opera singer Leontyne Price was born #OTD in 1927. She's 99 today!

Rising to international acclaim in the 1950/60s, Price was the first Black woman prima donna (principal female singer) at the Metropolitan #Opera. She has won more Grammys (19) than any other classical singer.

#legend #music #BHM
Black-and-white close-up portrait of legendary American soprano Leontyne Price, gazing upward with a dignified and expressive expression. She wears a dark headscarf (turban-style) framing her face, pearl earrings, and multiple strands of elegant pearl necklaces over a dark dress or top. The dramatic lighting highlights her strong features, poised neck, and commanding presence, evoking her iconic status as the first African American soprano to achieve international acclaim in opera. Born in 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, Price made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore, became renowned for roles like Aida, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, performed at La Scala in 1960, won 19 Grammy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), and broke racial barriers as a trailblazing Black artist in classical music during the mid-20th century.
February 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Synchromy in Blue | Stanton Macdonald-Wright
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence once bestowed on me their highest honor—Saint Perspicacious. My dear friend Jennifer Kroot premieres her film Hunky Jesus, about the Sisters’ legendary SF Easter pageant, opening the 40th BFI Flare in London on March 18. I can’t wait for the world to see it!
World premiere of Hunky Jesus to open 40th BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Jennifer Kroot’s riotous documentary tells the story of the wildly popular, annual Easter Sunday tradition in San Francisco known as Hunky Jesus.
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February 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby
February 10, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Kerry James Marshall
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Lost in Translation | Cartoon by Daniel Boris
February 10, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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White House says Trump plans to formalize regulatory rollback on greenhouse gases reut.rs/3MhAvLW
White House says Trump plans to formalize regulatory rollback on greenhouse gases
In a sweeping rollback of climate change policy, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to formalize a move to overturn the Obama-era legal basis for federal greenhouse gas rules, the White House said on Tuesday.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Your periodic reminder that libertarianism is a philosophy some people adopt once the roads have been paved.

And for good measure, let's add @hartmannreport.com 's sage observation that a libertarian is a Republican who wants to smoke pot.
February 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Sunset — Ivar Arosenius, 1903
Painting of a man on a hill playing on a flute at sunset in front of him is a big cloud with a bunch of dancing Devils perhaps being Charmed by his flute playing also Charmed by his flute playing are a whole lot of snakes slithering away across the ground underneath toward the the flute player
February 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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“La chica de la ventana” (The Girl in the Window) by Abraham Ángel (Mexican) - Oil on cardboard / 1923 - Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City, México) #WomenInArt #AbrahamÁngel #AbrahamAngel #Ángel #MuseoDeArteModerno #art #artText #arte #MexicanArt #MexicanArtist #MexicanModernism #PortraitofaWoman
Painted in 1923 by Mexican artist Abraham Ángel, this oil painting places modern femininity at a threshold between inside and outside as well as tradition and change. A young woman with warm coffee-toned skin sits with quiet self-assurance. Her eyes look intently sideways to our right ... steady, alert, and unflinching. She has short, neatly bob-styled dark hair, and her features are simplified with clear outlines and smooth planes of color. Small earrings frame her face, and a long necklace drops to her chest, adding a deliberate sense of personal style. She wears a patterned dress with short sleeves. The fabric is a bright, warm peach tone punctuated by small repeating marks. Her hands rest together at her lap, one gently crossing the other, creating a composed, calm gesture. Behind her, a large window divided into panes becomes a second “portrait” with sky and landscape like panels in a story. Beyond the glass, hills rise in simplified curves, a pale road or river cuts through the scene, and small houses and trees appear in tidy, flattened shapes. The space feels both domestic and expansive. The woman’s cropped hair, direct stare, and fashionable dress align with a decade when more women in Mexico were seeking education and work beyond the home. The portrait doesn’t sentimentalize that shift, it embodies it. The window operates as a social frame: she is presented as someone who belongs to public life even while seated in a private setting. In choosing to center women who could be read as defying expectations, Ángel may also be signaling his own relationship to social norms when he was living semi-openly with Manuel Rodríguez Lozano while building a bold, personal style shaped by the era’s avant-garde circles. The humble support (cardboard) and the crisp, flattened forms strengthen the sense of immediacy. This is not a distant academic ideal, but a contemporary person. She is watching, present, and fully allowed to look elsewhere.
February 4, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Bluesky is full of Russian & RNC trolls, knowing that the Democrat vote is easily divided & conquered, and many of the "cool cats" fall for it passionately (being so very "cool") ...
a group of people holding red flags in front of a building that says ' a ' on it
ALT: a group of people holding red flags in front of a building that says ' a ' on it
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February 10, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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The Republican party is no longer a legitimate political party; it members individually and collectively crossed the line into inhumanity, Fascism, barbarism, and murder, pedophilia
February 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM