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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art)

@markstaffbrandl.bsky.social

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Artist, art historian, art/metaphor philosopher, loves animals, comics, progressive politics, physics too. https://www.drgreatart.ch/

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 10h

Portland and Chicago are ICEGestapo ravaged, nothing else.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Canada.

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 3d

I did the "Dr Great Art:Metaphors of Othering" performance-lecture, Thursday, 25 September 2025, Trotte Pfyn TG, as a guest of artists Alex Meszmer/ Reto Müller and Chantal Romani. It was very enjoyable. Thanks to them and the audience.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Constitutional Democracy.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 4d

History. The 2025 Heritage foundation is gaving Trump follow Htler’s playbook line-for-line.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 5d

Trump’s all-out fascist attack on Chicago has escalated.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 6d

Lying, demented idiot fascist traitor.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 8d

Real Medicine

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 9d

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden is demanding Gavin Newsom be ARRESTED for saying Stephen Miller is a fascist.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST.
VAN ORDEN IS A TRAITOR.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 9d

Assolini‘s fascist intimidation. Armed I.C.E. Gestapo in full tactical gear / weapons patrolling Chicago’s downtown streets and on the river. He wants to incite violence then pull the final Hitler suspension of the Constitution trick.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 10d

Cornelia and I had a great studio visit and brunch with our Chicago friends Super chef and entrepreneur Paul Kahan and Yoga/political master Mary Klonowski, as well as Res and Renata Frehner.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 11d

Call it as it is.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 15d

Go WOZ, beste Schweizer Zeitung!

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 16d

Russian media.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 17d

Metaphern der Anderen / Metaphors of Othering
Performance-Vortrag/Lecture in German
Critiquing Art History in relationship to each epoch/period’s inclusivity or lack thereof, and the metaphors involved in that.
Donnerstag, 25. September 2025, Trotte Pfyn
Einlass 19 Uhr, Beginn 19.30 Uhr

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 17d

Pres. George Washington, a truly great human, sworn in “TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,” NOT ignore and destroy it as the fake, wannabe-dictator now TRUMP.
(From HBO ‘John Adams’ mini-series)
youtu.be/B24x0AR96z0?...

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 18d

Relevant even more so now. Shown only once in 1998 on SNL.

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 19d

So, where is the National Melissa Hortman Day?
Or National Parkland Victims day
Or Sandy Hook Remembrance Day
Or Virginia Tech Day
Or Uvalde Day
Or Pulse nightclub day
Or …or …or …or
😡

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 19d

Yes, all the censorship and threats of violence are terrible, but do not forget what they want us to: EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN EPSTEIN !!!

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 19d

They blatantly LIE to interfere in an election and yet —

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 19d

MAGAt Fascism marches on

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 19d

Sinclair, the people behind the Swiftboat lies about Kerry. ABC affiliate giant Sinclair is demanding that Kimmel issue a public apology to conservative activist Charlie Kirk and also make a personal donation to Kirk’s family and his fascist organization, Turning Point USA.

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 20d

Enough is enough. Fight fire with fire.

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 21d

The HBO John Adams series is great! And a timely reminder that the US was, despite its failures, based on law and love of liberty and the necessities of life for the lowest to the “highest,” AGAINST things now resurfacing as fake nobility like the MAGA oligarchs and the perverse wannabe king Orange.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 21d

Fully “private” media gets bought up by super wealthy fascists. Which is another readon why they want to destroy PBS and the like.