Notices by Tarnport (tarnport@mastodon.green)

JD Vance is vacationing in Vermont this weekend and boy is he attracting attention from Vermonters. Some of the protest signage is instant classic.

Such as,

"It would have been less embarrassing if you had fucked the couch."

and

"Go ski in Russia."

One day our culture, too, will survive only in fragments, and those fragments will be taken as the whole story.

Mid-14th century Northern Italian murals.

#medieval #painting #history #archeology

Do google Krasnov. Wow. Almost gone. No rebuttal, just erased.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/21/2305351/-Magic-Disappearing-DB-Story-About-Allegations-Trump-Was-Recruited-as-a-Russian-Asset

Kathe Kollwitz. The Mothers, 1922.

She is a gleaming outlier. She paved the way to German expressionism but was a generation or two before it took off. She was concerned with peasants and justice and is remembered for profound grief, having been born in just the moment to lose a child in WW1 and then die herself during WW2. Obviously her worldview was not sanguine. I am sorry to be so doom-y, but we must not shy away from what her work has to tell us now.

#woodcut #painting

I stopped using the word DEI last week and am using anti-discrimination/pro-discrimination instead. Don't let them set the terms of the discourse. Because they lie they find it very easy to spin messaging. Fight back, starting with truthful words. Name it simply to their faces!

From a friend at a coffee shop in Chicago. I love that Frank Stella-inspired centerpiiece in the art!

"The world is violent and mercurial - it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love - love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from, at all the time, is love."
- Tennessee Williams

A friend in Chicago sent this photo to me today. I love the source of the quote, and I love that it's presented as a Valentine.

So the courts have final jurisdiction when we don't agree with them, like on immunity and 20 other issues, but if you don't agree with them you just ignore them and move on. Right.

This is not going to work out well.

@kaia this is scared me to death, because as soon as you said it... Of course they will! De beers probably paid for his pacifier

Americans are just starting to titter, "Call your Representatives! Demand answers!"

Among the least likely, least believable parts of this whole unbelievable story, Americans at all levels are just letting it happen.

200,000 are in the streets of Munich this weekend, in one city on one day, and not a tenth the threat in a country 1/6th the size. The People United will never be defeated! That Sacred Unity really is the answer.

But I mean, do call your Reps, I guess. Leave a message. Sure.

"Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards."

- Bob Crow, trade union leader

I would not want to get into a street fight with Maxine Waters. She should just belt him across the face with her purse. I'd like to see him hit her back on live TV... Some skinny-ass Nazi tough guy with his little rainbow Band-Aid holding on his earphone! He won't even say who's employing him, and he's blocking access to a public building. Maxwell Frost and Maxine Waters and others there are members of Congress. They should pull rank and gross tonnage and prevail! Push that man aside.

Every day of our lives we have heard the excuse of "just following orders" about the majority of Nazis.

Following Nazi orders makes you a Nazi.

Do not follow Nazi orders. We all know better.

Chakaia Booker. Raw Attraction, 2003.

I almost never mount living artists here. Putting ethics aside, another reason is because I can get so excited I don't know what to say in 400 characters. Her oeuvre is so vast and beautiful - I encourage you to search it out online. What at first may seem like a gimmick, her signature use of recycled tires, explodes into meaning in her hands. One of the greats, and at the same time I think universally accessible.

#sculpture

John Watkiss. Hypatia, 2003.

He was a notable comics illustrator who died far too young. You can see several strong influences from a century earlier in this work, which I thought was appropriate for today. Here we see Hypatia of Alexandria seized by the Christian mob in the moments before her death, but standing tall in a bright light.

#painting

Hail, morning! In icy fog. -1°c.

"This is an emergency, and it demands emergency response from every American with power or influence. The window for effective resistance narrows with each passing day. History will judge harshly those who had the capacity to resist but chose instead to wait and see how things develop. The time to act is now, before the mechanisms that would allow effective resistance are completely dismantled."

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/a-coup-is-in-progress-in-america/

If you link in posts to YouTube or bsky or similar please tell us what it's about, because if we can't see it people like me are unlikely to click just to find out. Thx.

Again, just like the CA water release was not shortsighted, the prices rising for common people because of tariffs are part of the planned economic destruction that they have said out loud. The longer smug liberals keep saying gotcha, they're so dumb, the fewer heads we have on the street. Please y'all just quit crowing long enough to read Project 2025. (also Muskolinis tweets - he's made it crystal clear that crashing the economy is the hope, to destroy the dollar and transition to crypto etc)

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