Tom Murphy
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I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!
"I fixated on something I had never considered before: the faces of the white National Guard soldiers deployed to Arkansas’s state capital. It wasn’t the various expressions on their faces that interested me—it was that I could see their faces at all. And badges with their names."
My First Protest
Protests have always inspired me, but for most of my life, they’ve been for other people. Donald Trump changed that.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"I fixated on something I had never considered before: the faces of the white National Guard soldiers deployed to Arkansas’s state capital. It wasn’t the various expressions on their faces that interested me—it was that I could see their faces at all. And badges with their names."
Viburnum Berries
Viburnum Berries
as ‘attenuated morality’ burbles out from this
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Viburnum Berries
The Trump gold card
The Trump gold card
Pay to play
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December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Trump gold card
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dorsett pears, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1899
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
dorsett pears, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1899
Clouds
December 11, 2025 : Wondercab Mini (102A)
Nothing but clouds this week: a visual thread.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Clouds
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The Last Bookstore • Los Angeles, California, USA
Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Downtown #LosAngeles #California #LastBookstore #BlurredMotion #People #Books #May_18_2025
Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Downtown #LosAngeles #California #LastBookstore #BlurredMotion #People #Books #May_18_2025
December 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Last Bookstore • Los Angeles, California, USA
Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Downtown #LosAngeles #California #LastBookstore #BlurredMotion #People #Books #May_18_2025
Rolleiflex 3.5 MX-EVS • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2025
#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film120 #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #Photography #Downtown #LosAngeles #California #LastBookstore #BlurredMotion #People #Books #May_18_2025
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milwaukee apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917
December 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
milwaukee apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1917
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The Reverse Ampersand Found in the Rebound Gutter of Laws of the State of New York. Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, 1802.
December 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The Reverse Ampersand Found in the Rebound Gutter of Laws of the State of New York. Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, 1802.
"... appears to be dazed and confused about the substantive aspects of the presidency, and has been for every day of his two terms. ... [his] only interest in the presidency is continuing the grift that is making his family obscenely wealthy by monetizing US relationships, prestige, and resources."
Trump: Dazed and confused, as the people suffer.
December 11, 2025
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December 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"... appears to be dazed and confused about the substantive aspects of the presidency, and has been for every day of his two terms. ... [his] only interest in the presidency is continuing the grift that is making his family obscenely wealthy by monetizing US relationships, prestige, and resources."
On the Wall
On the Wall
we were supposed to be better than
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December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On the Wall
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated...
www.un.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
"As news cycles have turned against his administration on the economy—as well as the Epstein files, immigration sweeps, strikes on small boats in the Caribbean, and his mental acuity—Trump has tried to regain control of the narrative by diving into the orchestra pit."
December 9, 2025
When G.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
"As news cycles have turned against his administration on the economy—as well as the Epstein files, immigration sweeps, strikes on small boats in the Caribbean, and his mental acuity—Trump has tried to regain control of the narrative by diving into the orchestra pit."
Sandro Botticelli - Madonna of the Magnificat
Sandro Botticelli - Madonna of the Magnificat
A “Tondo” painting essentially means a work which is painted on a circular canvas or panel.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sandro Botticelli - Madonna of the Magnificat
Winter Field
Winter Field
look how it curves away from us
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December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Winter Field
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𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕:
Trump's recent remarks about Europe "are trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future ... ".
youtube.com/shorts/QsowR...
Trump's recent remarks about Europe "are trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future ... ".
youtube.com/shorts/QsowR...
Pope Leo speaks out AGAINST Trump's peace plan for Ukraine
YouTube video by Sign Of The Cross
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December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕:
Trump's recent remarks about Europe "are trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future ... ".
youtube.com/shorts/QsowR...
Trump's recent remarks about Europe "are trying to break apart what needs to be a very important alliance today and in the future ... ".
youtube.com/shorts/QsowR...
Good
“All Dictatorships Do This”: Margaret Atwood on Trump & History
YouTube video by On with Kara Swisher
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Good
My Year in Reading
My Year in Reading
How I read 80 books in one year
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December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My Year in Reading
Bricks
Bricks
helpless worn angles of schools and churches
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December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bricks
I'd watch this.
“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life
Paris-based filmmakers Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley make their return with Room Temperature. Despite both hailing from California, this is their third collaboration yet first production to be shot in ...
thefilmstage.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'd watch this.
“[H]aving a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists and the PhDs, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States,” said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
December 8, 2025
Last Wednesday, December 3, a reporter asked President Donald J.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“[H]aving a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists and the PhDs, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States,” said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Yeah. Winter's kind of creepy.
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Yeah. Winter's kind of creepy.
Camille Pissarro - Still life with apples and pitcher
Camille Pissarro - Still life with apples and pitcher
In contrast to some of his other Impressionist contemporaries, Camille Pissarro did not paint still life pictures very often.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Camille Pissarro - Still life with apples and pitcher