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Raffael Cavallaro

@rafcavallaro.bsky.social

Light of the Morning
11-12-25
oil on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
all rights reserved

A woman with shoulder length straight hair stands in the morning sunlight, stretching both arms over her head as the dog at her feet looks up at her. All rendered in brilliant colors.

November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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Adam Serwer

@adamserwer.bsky.social

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Peter

@notalawyer.bsky.social

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM

Raffael Cavallaro

@rafcavallaro.bsky.social

Nude, dog, and french press
10-31-25
pull on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
all rights reserved

A nude woman stretches both arms over her head, eyes closed. Her dog is at her feet and a french press is on the table beside her. All rendered in vibrant colors.

October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM

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flyingrodent

@flyingrodent.bsky.social

What was it that attracted that rich guy - the one who offered a masseuse a free horse, in payment for a handjob - to buying a website where everyone was talking about elite sex criminals, then filling it with Nazis denouncing feminism as a plot to destroy civilisation? Perhaps we will never know.

October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM

Raffael Cavallaro

@rafcavallaro.bsky.social

Nude, dog, and beer
10-29-25
acrylic on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
all rights reserved

Photographed in better light.

A nude woman stretches both arms over her head and looks down at an open can of N.A. beer on the table beside her. The dog at her feet looks up at her. All rendered in vibrant colors.

October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Raffael Cavallaro

@rafcavallaro.bsky.social

As always, derek guy brings receipts. Here he explains how the labor movement was built on multi-ethnic solidarity in the face of white racist management attempts to divide workers by pitting different ethnic groups against each other. Fascinating, informative read.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14d

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM

Raffael Cavallaro

@rafcavallaro.bsky.social

The artist’s wife, dog, and a cup of tea.
10-20-25
oil on canvas 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
all rights reserved

The artist’s wife stands, eyes closed, stretching her arms over her head, with their dog on one side, and a cup of tea on the table on the other. All rendered in vibrant color.

October 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Raffael Cavallaro

@rafcavallaro.bsky.social

Nude, dog, and beer.
10-8-25
Acrylic on canvas, 30” x 40”
© 2025 Raffael Cavallaro
all rights reserved

A nude woman with shoulder length straight hair, eyes closed and both arms over her head, rendered in vibrant colors, stands facing the viewer next to her dog with an open can of beer on the table beside her.

October 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Diedrich Bader

@diedrichbader.bsky.social

Democrats are fighting for your healthcare
Republicans are fighting for their billionaires

October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Raffael Cavallaro

@rafcavallaro.bsky.social

David Cross on his colleagues performing at the Riyadh comedy festival

officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...

My Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival

I’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ...

officialdavidcross.com

September 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM

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margauxaf

@margauxaf.bsky.social

September 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM

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Steven Beschloss

@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

Do we say a man is sane when he calls in the military to fight a war when there is no war? If such a man is not sane, do we have a solution to stop the madness if he’s in the White House?

September 28, 2025 at 3:42 AM

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Scott MacFarlane

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

September 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM

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Karl Jacoby

@karl-jacoby.bsky.social

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/