“No matter how much you might want to avoid paying attention to this truly unsavory story, it is not going away.” @sbg1 writes about the latest developments in the Trump-Epstein saga—and what comes next. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xz3NUJ

Zohran Mamdani handed the Democratic Socialists of America their biggest win in the organization's 43-year history. Here's a look back at socialism’s presence in American politics.

First time revisiting the big H since my college years. What took so long? #herodotus #history

Inspiration of Saint Matthew https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/inspiration-of-saint-matthew-1602-1

Take a break from insanity in DC & share some fun and surprising FACTS. Anyone? My contribution today: the NYC subway transports more people annually than all U.S. airlines: over 1.7 billion rides in peak years vs. U.S. airlines around 900 million to 1 billion passengers annually in recent years.

“[Balzac’s] The Lily in the Valley is...remarkable in simultaneously giving full-throated voice to romantic passion and containing it, inflating its rhetoric while ironizing it.” —Peter Brooks

Crowning with Thorns https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/crowning-with-thorns-1603

Engrossing bio of Sargent by Paul Fisher. Good prep for the Sargent & Paris show in NYC this spring and summer

#art #americanart #johnsingersargent

Detail from Caravaggio’s Denial of Saint Peter @metmuseum.bsky.social. One of his last paintings. Looking perhaps to do a Caravaggio art safari to Rome next year. L’arte per piacere! #caravaggio #arthistory #italianart

In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees

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X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m.

Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app?

If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

The gals of the family in black. Miss them terribly. Do people still say « gals »? 🙅🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️#oldschool

Nice little Saint-Aubin exhibit on the way to the Siena show @metmuseum.bsky.social #paris #arthistory

The magnificently curated show of Sienese art currently @metmuseum.bsky.social leaves NY at the end of the month before opening in London @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social . Just go! #arthistory #siena #italianart