Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent. There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators erased from public memory. Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning met similar resistance; Andre Breton and Dalí both also being misogynistic megalomaniacs who vanguarded surrealism from women...

via Freyja Howls

Once upon a time it was considered embarrassing to repeat things that are verifiably false. If you did, people considered you to be a profoundly idiotic moron.

These days the morons simply coalesce and convince themselves that their lies are the truth. Not because the facts say so, but because they *believe* them to be true. #RandomThoughts

Doctor Who was began as an educational show, designed to communicate concepts of science and history to a family audience.

While this initial design has been subverted in the new series, I posit that it is still an educational show:

An important lesson about how life’s shit and that you should hug the people you love a little harder every day, because time is cruel and people are very very squishy.

"Yes, there must be nefarious actors at work here...(or...maybe the stock is just a worthless piece of junk.)

But NO! There must be a conspiracy to cause this to fail."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/19/markets/trump-media-nasdaq-suspected-market-manipulation/index.html

In Congress, one hundred twelve chose to stand,
Against aid to Ukraine, a perilous hand,
Siding with Russian interests, clear and stark,
Betraying Democracy, leaving a mark.

#BidenHarris2024

We have to keep the jury in a former president's criminal trial secret so the defendant doesn't order his supporters to literally murder them. This former president, who is also a proudly self admitted serial sexual assaulter and was found liable for rape, is also currently out on bail for other crimes and is under criminal indictment in four jurisdictions for nearly a hundred felonies.

He is also a current candidate for president of the United States.

Maybe it's just me. Kinda feels like it.

If you think Joe Biden is to blame for the chaos in the Middle East, wait until you find out about this thing called religion.

Yes, Speaker Mike Johnson did just point at Donald Trump when talking about "hardened criminals."
😂

🗣️ CAMPAIGN! ON! THIS!

Busted: GOP Senate candidate who bragged of Michigan roots exposed as Florida resident

https://www.rawstory.com/busted-gop-senate-candidate-who-bragged-of-michigan-roots-exposed-as-florida-resident/

A fantastic cover of The House of the Rising Sun. The band doesn't seem to have a name. The musicians and the singer are all brilliant. Sina, the drummer is dynamic.
https://youtu.be/6dSE4fgOf2Q

: a great little throwaway sketch from the Circus

#CoSoComedy #ProperLegends #CoSoPython #classic

https://youtu.be/LctLxeOTahQ

WI GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde expressed his doubts about the 2020 election results by arguing nursing home residents are too close to death to vote. He said that nursing home residents have only five, six-month life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote. He stood on Trump's ongoing conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
https://www.rawstory.com/eric-hovde-2667717417/

.

Trump is a spiteful and immoral man who is adored by spiteful and immoral people.

And those people vote.

And so must you vote.

Unfreaking believable!!

April 7, 2024 at 8:32 am EDT
“Let’s talk about the Nazis… I would like to know what they did that was illegal.”

— Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby (R), on the House floor.

#abortion #children

This is a very powerful ad. Certain to really p off MAGAs

A Republican proposed a bill the other day that would change the name of JFK Airport in DC to Donald J. Trump International.

The Democratic response was swift….. ☠️