"Exclusively for UChicago on-campus housing residents, students can borrow original artworks for their dorm rooms—for free—all school year long." artsmidwest.org/stories/art-...

Dalí in Dorms: Midwest Museum Loans Art to College Students

Art isn’t always meant for white gallery walls behind rope. Sometimes, it lives amid loft beds and term papers—if even just for a moment.

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"I kind of hate myself when I say stuff like this, but I think we proved that the epic is the art form that really fits where the Iron Age is at right now. The only question is, how do we top ourselves?"

Homer’s Message to the Writing Staff of The Iliad, Season 2

“Come in prepared to meet our first ever female writer, Cassandra, who just finished her apprenticeship in Crete.” 7/27/26

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If you're wondering what party will help you keep your Social Security benefits and which one is trying to take them away, this is a Republican on the Senate floor TODAY:

I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.

There it is. Todd Blanche's Senate committee vote is postponed.

@problembear.bsky.social www.breitbart.com/politics/202...

Mary McCord warns that right-wing militias and extremist groups pose a growing threat as political rhetoric normalizes their activities. Public awareness and accountability are needed to prevent escalating political violence. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The rapid rise of right-wing militias

A former federal prosecutor examines how white nationalism came out of the shadows.

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Exclusive: Independent Seth Bodnar Weighing Exit from Montana Senate Race if Democrat Bankhead Refuses to Drop Out #mtpol share.newsbreak.com/j5hu8k6f?s=i16

Exclusive: Independent Seth Bodnar Weighing Exit from Montana Senate Race if Democrat Bankhead Refuses to Drop Out - NewsBreak

Independent Montana Senate candidate Seth Bodnar could withdraw from the state’s U.S. Senate race before the Aug. 10 filing deadline if Democrat nominee Al

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This @jamellebouie.net is very good and here he finds one of the more explicit examples of Musk making this case in his own words. He also notes Musk is denying that anybody died due to his USAID cuts: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Agreed. On Monday @polphilpod.bsky.social and I explicitly tied Musk USAID cuts to his "belief" that white civilization is embattled and white nations must be saved from invasion to preserve the "West." We argued Musk's "zero died" claim is code to global far right: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

a statement from Fauci's lawyers says Rand Paul has "an intense & seemingly pathological course of retribution, revenge, & obsession with Dr. Fauci ... The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful, and we will examine all options to hold him accountable."

Lawgeeks, here's one to watch that was filed on Friday. A lawsuit challenging DHS' use of facial recognition tech to collect info about ICE protesters and then retaliate against them by cancelling their TSA Precheck and Global Entry. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So as the NYTimes is blocked from AI scraping, Meta will now be getting news from Newsmax. What could possibly go wrong?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.

AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

“Concrete chunks had left craters a foot deep and were strewn across tidal flats, almost four acres of state park were burned, and seven bobwhite quail eggs and a collection of blue land crabs had been incinerated.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

SpaceX Blast Left Officials in Disbelief Over Environmental Damage

Fish and Wildlife Service biologists expressed frustrations in emails obtained by Bloomberg.

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"The US delegation walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, in protest at comments made by France that compared Washington's voting on human rights to that of authoritarian states." www.bbc.com/news/article...

US walks out of UN Security Council meeting during France's remarks

The row sparked after the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending the term of the UN high commissioner for human rights.

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The self-destruction of America. fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

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Huge wildfires in France and Spain have grown to the largest either country has seen in decades, breaking modern records.

The Fires in France and Spain are Breaking Modern Records: Charts and Maps

Huge wildfires in France and Spain have grown to the largest either country has seen in decades, breaking modern records.

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France’s National Rally has spent years opposing green regulations. Now, the party is seizing on the country’s worst blazes in years to argue that Emmanuel Macron’s government is failing in one of its most basic duties: Protecting people and their homes.

As France burns, the far right sees an opening

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is casting the wildfire crisis as evidence the French state can no longer protect its citizens.

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Another theory, entirely consistent with that accurate description of his character, could be that Vance sees the Groypers as his potential power base against Marco Rubio in the 2028 presidential primary.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.

It's tempting to dismiss this as the worst people in the world fighting, but Vance is also a good weathervane of where the right in the US is headed since he has no inner convictions at all, and he seems to believe that the future of the US right is openly antisemitic extremely online young people.

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

Hey, remember when Fauci privately told a reporter on Feb 7th 2020 that Covid was "more deadly than even your strenuous flus... This is deadly stuff" but then told a public press conference on Feb 27th 2020: "This is a flu. This is like a flu"? Oh wait! That was... Donald Trump.

Man offers woman a pile of money and she is so deeply not interested in him. By Judith Leyster, who understood, 1631. Today is her birthday.

Butte residents hold ICE memorial outside Sen. Sheehy's office #mtpol share.google/krberCca296f...

Butte residents hold memorial for those who died during ICE actions outside Sen. Sheehy's office

Indivisible Butte members held a memorial outside Sen. Tim Sheehy's office honoring 60+ people who died from federal government actions since 2025.

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'Millions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospitals.' 19thnews.org/2026/07/mate...

As maternity wards close, community outrage rises in key battleground states

Millions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospi...

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🚨Trump has officially ENDED a critical affordable health care program, leaving seniors to deal with more expensive prescriptions in 2027. Destroying critical care for seniors? That’s NOT the future Americans were promised.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy

Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.

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We only rate dogs. This is a very fast tater tot. Please stay out of the way as he clearly has places to be, and only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: choppertp)

That was the day Obama graciously invited Sanders to the White House, his colleagues lionized him, and then Obama gave him the use of the Rose Garden for a presser with the understanding Sanders would concede. He gave a speech with all the press there, live. He did not concede to Hillary, and left.