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🔥Give away to celebrate the solo show of Vera Molnar at @ArtBasel. Have one rare Vera Molnar "rouge au hasard" fine art poster (2004, Brot Kunstedition Mestemacher) to give away to a collector. Retweet this post and I’ll pick someone this week.

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children. History's first trillionaire.

RT @davetroy: Bottom line: Every dollar sunk into SpaceX is going to be used to wage war against the West, in favor of Putin’s worldview.…

Split Logic public minting goes live 2 hours from this post on @verse_works!

“As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.” — Hannah Arendt

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Yeah, we think this Christian nationalist mythology is dangerous. America was founded on religious freedom and the separation of church and state. We’re not surrendering our real history — or our future — to grifters wrapping authoritarian politics in a Bible and a flag.

People should never forget that these grifters raided Florida’s emergency fund to the tune of almost $1 billion to torture immigrants in the Everglades. Sociopaths.

"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion." — Bertrand Russell

The SPLC indictment is Trump letting the white supremacists he calls his base know he's got their backs. The administration is trying to erase America's racist history with one hand—and writing its racist future with the other. My latest for The Nation: thenation.com/article/politi…

Suspending a primary election days before early voting starts just so you can redraw the maps to disenfranchise Black and brown voters is a perfect example of the lengths Republican politicians will go to rig our democracy in their favor.

New footage shows ICE agents detaining a mother traveling with her young daughter at San Francisco International Airport. Witnesses repeatedly yelled “I don’t know who you are” as agents refused to show ID. What has America become?

Most people aren’t saying this but I will. Americans are drastically underestimating how serious things are right now. And by the time it’s obvious to everyone… it’ll be too late. What are people missing?

When 3.5% of a population actively participates in sustained, peaceful protest, it can topple authoritarian regimes — like the one currently in the Oval Office. We need 12 million people to show up on March 28 to get to 3.5%. Will you be one of them? Find out how at nokings.org

Counterpoint, @Heritage: If you’re pretending non-citizens vote despite your own study showing otherwise, you’re probably trying to cheat. @MarshaBlackburn #SaveAct #VoterSuppressionNotVoterID

Trump declares almost 50% of Americans to be public enemy number one – right after Iran. This is no longer politics; this is open civil war from the mouth of a president. Anyone who brands half of their own people – millions of ordinary Americans who simply vote differently – as the "greatest enemy" hasn't understood America; Trump hates it. This rhetoric isn't "tough," it's treacherous. It destroys precisely what makes America strong: the idea that Americans, despite all their differences, are one nation. Trump has just proven that he doesn't want to be president of all Americans – but merely the leader of a faction that considers the rest the enemy. Insane. And extremely dangerous.

Since this article of mine was written, it has been announced that Vice President JD Vance will go to Hungary to campaign for Orbán. It is an all-out effort, from both Washington and Moscow. To say this is a curious coalition is to say the least. It is the new shape of the world.

Attacking civilian targets such as power plants is exactly what Putin’s Russia is doing to Ukraine. As always, the pupil is emulating his master.

Orban now backed by Trump, Vance, Putin and Netanyahu.