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Bob Staake, “Reflecting Pool,” November 17, 2008.

Anthony Gross, La Route de Ste Livrade, 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125618

Chris Ofili, The Raising of Lazarus, 2007 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137672

Ulysse Comtois, From East to West, 1961 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135344

Is Election Month over yet? 😸🇨🇦

I like this season's Document collection. Document is a Korean menswear brand that used to do minimalist-styled clothing that leaned heavily into distinctive silhouettes, although this season feels more heritage-y. In the US, they are carried at No Man Walks Alone and Namu Shop.

When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

Paywalls on court documents impede democracy. But instead of getting rid of PACER fees, the judiciary is implementing a 20% fee hike. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

When Republicans (and bigshot reporters) start scolding Democrats for being out of touch, they show who the real elitists are. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/nothing-is...

Constable fled the Brighton crowds (“Piccadilly by the Seaside”) to chase storms instead. ⛈️ Rainstorm over the Sea (c. 1824-28) gives 85-90% of the picture to sky, with scraped, slashed paint conjuring the downpour. A private sketch, now a radical Romantic classic. 🌊🎨 #ArtHistory #JohnConstable

Impression III (Concert) by Wassily Kandinsky, 1911, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau (München, Germany) #ArtHistory #ModernArt #AbstractA For more on this painting, the birth of Abstract Art, and their impact on art in general, see: interlude.hk/music-art-sc...

You can't expect the New York Times to give any attention to a story about the president being credibly accused of violent rape when the story breaks so close to an election. It's not like we're talking about something *really* important, like email security protocols.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

🏛️ TODAY AT 4 P.M. ET: A judge will hear Trump's extraordinary request to stop California from counting 20k mail ballots — one day after the 9th Circuit rejected the DOJ's attempt to bypass him. Stay tuned as a ruling is expected shortly after the hearing. Background: https://demdock.com/4srTlR6

Resting Cows https://www.wikiart.org/en/franz-marc/resting-cows-1911

Huge headlines around the world. In major US media, unreported. Something's fishy here.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

It now turns out that Elon Musk funded Cornel West's 2024 ballot push in its entirety in an effort to siphon votes away from the Democrats. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

In unfortunately chosen remarks, JD Vance calls Trump a tinpot dictator. Hilarity ensues. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Fintan O'Toole: Kushner’s political and financial relationship with the UAE’s president, Mohammed bin Zayed ...constitutes what must surely be the worst case of US foreign policy being conducted outside the law and democratic oversight since the Iran-contra scandal...

For Mike Rogers, shielding Elon Musk from any form of accountability is his highest mission. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The News You Need, Tuesday, October 27, 2026: • As Voting Gets Underway, Bibi’s Closest Confidant Denounces Him • Trump Accused of Yet Another Rape • Putin sent AfD Leaders to Syria for Training by Hezbollah • Trump Celebrates Billions for Big Oil, and Himself • Student Power Prevails in Serbia

Michael Ramirez, Las Vegas Review Journal

Huge headlines around the world. In major US corporate media, complete silence. Something fishy here.

A hunting trip to Mongolia furnishes cover for meetings between TrumpJr and Putin sidekick Umar Kremlëv. TrumpJr stood on stage with a wide smile as an auctioneer sold off the chance to join him on a week-long hunting trip in western Mongolia. “Will you beat $225,000? I’m giving you a bargain,” the

An excerpt from Casey Michel's new book focuses on how Jared Kushner landed $2.2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund after all professional advisors concluded his request was unqualified, thus launching Kushner's role as an agent for the Saudi government.

Gideon Rachman says that even if, as now seems likely, Israeli and US voters each deliver an electoral thrashing to their leaders, we can expect Netanyahu and Trump to carry on with a sharp escalation of the Iran War just the same—because they can, and pointless acts of violence are second nature.

I saw Musk, Alex Gibney's documentary, yesterday afternoon. This is easily the most important documentary of the last decade. Watching it reminded me that over the last decade, exactly two publications have done a stand-up job of covering Musk: WSJ and Wired. The balance of US media has been AWOL.

At this point, the case that Pete Hegseth is a Russian stooge is pretty strong. And there's no shortage of folks in upper echelons in the Pentagon who are persuaded of that, too.

In Ingram, Kerr Co, Texas, local police helped the DHS seize roughly ten percent of the entire population of the town and deport them. The economic and social consequences for the community have been devastated. And the police have now concluded they made a serious error in judgment.

A good summary of the House Judiciary Dems' 50-p report on Trump's history as a violent sexual predator, including a well vetted, under-oath account from Beatrice Keul of how Trump raped her in an Atlantic City hotel room in 1993, after the pair were introduced to one another by Jeffrey Epstein.

Me at my performance review

Vivek Ramaswamy and his hair were on Fox & Friends this morning defending his vile attack ad

This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Chilling in Central Park

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Rowan

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Baby Ralph

As Trump boasts about how much money the fossil fuels industry is making from the war on Iran, his personal holdings in oil and gas are now worth between $22.5–$81.6 million, up from $12.6–$46 million at the end of 2025. He's personally profiting from the war, just as he said in the campaign rally.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer doesn't make political endorsements, but they're making an exception in the governor's race this year: "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

A report released Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on President Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein included new details from a young Swiss woman raped by Trump in an Atlantic City hotel room in 1993, whose meeting was arranged by Jeffrey Epstein. time.com/article/2026...

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.