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

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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
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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.
www.bfi.org.uk
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
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"It does not matter who votes, but who counts the votes." ---Stalin
February 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention. ~Donald Barthelme

#workonpaper #art #painting
February 3, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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“the Trump Administration violated federal law by secretly convening a group tasked with developing a dangerously slanted report to use as the basis for attacking the Endangerment Finding... ”

www.edf.org/media/court-...
Court Rules Trump Administration’s Secret “Climate Working Group” Violated Federal Law
EDF & UCS – Proposal Must Be Withdrawn and Is Forever Tainted
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February 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Bruno Liljefors 1860-1939
Swedish artist
Cat in the Summer Meadow - 1920
Oil on canvas

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 7, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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I Thought Freedom Would Set Me Free (And You Gave Me A Song), 2020, by African American artist Arcmanoro Niles (born in 1989)

Oil, acrylic, and glitter on canvas

178 x 128 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Republicans want a Nazi Police State. Democrats want police to be part of a fair criminal justice system and that is the opposite of fascism. And Don Knotts was hilarious ...
a black and white photo of a police officer wearing a hat and tie .
ALT: a black and white photo of a police officer wearing a hat and tie .
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February 8, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Stephen seems to have been on vacation for a few weeks, but he's back with a vengeance.
moranstephen1000.bsky.social Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 2d
Y'all mad about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish? WTF is Melania Saying? You'd need subtitles to understand the Slovenian sex worker.
February 8, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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February 8, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Our Land, 1951
Charles White (American, 1918-1979)
private Colllection

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 7, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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Reminder: Trump is also working to end the Voting Rights ACT and the Civil Rights Act. His white supremacy goes way beyond sharing racist images.
deanobeidallah.bsky.social Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 3d
There you go: Trump says about posting the grotesquely racist video of the Obamas as apes: “No, I didn’t make a mistake.” MAGA is a white supremacist movement.
February 7, 2026 at 3:44 PM