It is inappropriate for art museums to allow shoppers to glorify themselves and boost their collex's value with exhibitions such as this. It is a plain violation of norms, at minimum. This story allows SFMOMA director Chris Bedford to embarrass himself, but treats the practice as routine. It isn't.

Andrew Russeth@russeth.bsky.social · 19h ago

For the New York Times, I spoke to RM of BTS about how he has championed Korean modernists and his upcoming SFMOMA show www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/a...

I don't find this surprising. I find it tragic.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2d ago

One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you

www.latimes.com/politics/sto... “President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public — which is why they overwhelmingly re-elected him to this office,” White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said…” The “overwhelmingly re-elected” lie always confirms the casual WH fraud

How Democrats plan to rein in Trump should they win in November

For Democrats, impeachment remains an option, but they are reluctant to make it a centerpiece of their agenda this time.

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“She has dedicated her life to fighting the KKK, neo-Nazi groups, extremists. And for all of that life’s work, we’re all safer. We’re all better as a community,” he told The AP. “It is not just ironic, but terrible, that for this work she’s been indicted by the current Department of Justice.”

Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center official charged in broader criminal case against group

Newly unsealed court records show that a former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been charged in the Department of Justice’s broader criminal case against the Alabama-based civil rights group.

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Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.

Someone tell the NYT that Third Way is not a “leading Democratic centrist group,” it’s a gaggle of corporate America shills -- sort of like the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left

One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.

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If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

In Treacle Museum news: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/10/c...

Comment | What happened to George Lucas’s vision of a museum for ‘the people’?

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s new admission and membership fees are tone-deaf and self-defeating

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Oh, look. Here's corrupt MAGA Rep. Ken Calvert taking credit for infrastructure projects in his district when he voted against Joe Biden's bill that funded it. Typical MAGA loser.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/e... Mike Rogers is a bigot. Expect this bigotry to drive his race to become Michigan's MAGA GOP Senator in November's election.

Did Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed say he believes America deserved 9/11? There's no proof

His Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, made the claim on his social media accounts.

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In Christian nationalist campaign news, thread:

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last wk.

CO GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx got caught taking illegally large campaign contributions, so he told supporters to funnel unlimited money to him through a new online merch site. He wouldn't tell us who ran or it where the money is going... so we bought some merch to find out...

Showing up and taking the 5th is not contemptuous, it’s a constitutional right. NOT showing up at all like Jim Jordan didn’t when he was subpoenaed? THAT is contempt.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last wk.

BREAKING: A Senate committee votes to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at COVID hearing.

Timing.

God@thegodshow.com · 2w ago

Republican Senators are voting to confirm Trump’s lawyer to be AG when it just came out that Capital One shut down Trump’s accounts under suspicion of money laundering and Trump wants exemption from being investigated for tax fraud. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS.

You could have voted no on Blanche. Idiot.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.

The founders are calling. They suggest you read the damn Constitution.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Good lord. Adventures in museum inanity, from an architectural fiasco to leadership kookiness -- and all for a low, low admission price of just $24. A steal!

gregorg@greg.org · 2w ago

So the museum director swaps out artworks and historical objects for reproductions and color photocopies at the same time the show's longtime organizers and curators disavow the decision and quit the newly reopened museum? Meanwhile the same donors are also giving a wing at the Met.

Argle-bargle!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

This is truly a sick individual.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/a... Today in corrupt art museum news: "The show includes 68 versions of the American flag, including one made with 44,500 toy soldiers, as well as realistic images of the founding fathers generated by artificial intelligence and a wedding dress inspired by Betsy Ross."

After Claiming ‘Bias’ at Smithsonian, Trump Officials Stage Patriotic Exhibition

Trump officials have promised to “make visual arts great,” with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.

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"At the redesigned Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the art-world tradition of mistaking spiritual anti-hierarchy for class politics is alive and well. LACMA treats labor as a source of authenticity but ignores its own workers’ demands for a living wage." jacobin.com/2026/07/lacm...

The Hollow Egalitarianism of LA's Revamped Art Museum

At the redesigned Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the art-world tradition of mistaking spiritual anti-hierarchy for class politics is alive and well. LACMA treats labor as a source of authenticity b...

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Considering how badly Covid was mishandled, they're probably going to regret the decision to make Fauci's personal diary and journal public. We're going to see how it was handled from the insider, from Fauci's point of view... based on you know...science.

🚨 New Modern Art Notes Podcast! My wonderful 2016 conversation with the late, great Betye Saar. manpodcast.com/portfolio/no... 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🔊: open.spotify.com/show/25SUibT...

"The full breadth of the U.S. government’s foreign policy architecture has been hollowed out and you really are operating within the whims, fantasies, impulses of one guy." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/plumb...

Plumbing the Depths of Trump’s Iran Debacle

Here in the U.S., we’re looking at the Iran War in terms...

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apnews.com/article/trum... Cankles is telling our corrupt SCOTUS that defaming a woman he sexually assaulted is just part of doing his job as president. Uncle Clarence is likely to go for it, obviously, but the rest?

Trump and DOJ ask Supreme Court to toss $83 million defamation verdict in E. Jean Carroll case

President Donald Trump and his administration are asking the Supreme Court to dismiss an $83 million defamation verdict won by writer E.

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The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.

Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

LACMA's new Geffen "is a collection of Tik Tok Houses nested into a McMansion. In wandering around this cave I somehow kept thinking of the ruin Ye left behind when he tried to renovate the Tadao Ando-designed beach house in Malibu."

The Museum That Ate the Art

Explore Aaron Betsky's review of Peter Zumthor's LACMA Geffen Wing and discover why its architecture may overshadow the art. Read more.

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Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . It was ignorant anti-vax kooks like RFK Jr who got most Americas killed by Covid.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃