Ned Horn
@nedhorn.bsky.social
Alumni of The University of Max's Kansas City. AI is really really good at creating really really ugly pictures. None of that here (and no photoshop either). There is truth in real photographs, which is why AI is out to destroy real photography.
You have to see it you have to see it you have to BEST INTRO TO ALBERT CAMUS see it you TRUE TO ITS SOURCES have to see it INDICTMENT OF CORPORATISM you have to SUPPRESDED OUT OF FEAR see it HILARIOUSLY FUNNY you have to DEEPLY MOVING see it !!!! COYOTE VS ACME !!!!
Cousin Vicky on her 100th birthday with great great grand daughter Abby
My journalist cousin just got back from #Ukraine. The universal consensus there is that Ukraine has already won but Putin just hasn't gotten the memo yet. The question now is what will a peacetime Zelensky be like, assuming he stays on.
According to the unpublished autopsy chapter, the problem with Democrats isn't ossified candidates. It's ossified political operatives who have grown wealthy in their jobs and detached from the traditional base. I can buy that. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.
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A great model sure knows How to strike the right pose Protesters picked up by the police are free now 'cause she shamed their captors into freeing them.
A handy graph to post next time somebody drops cherry picked anecdotes about the latest crimes by an immigrant in Texas. Source: the state of Texas
In 2017, when surgeons removed Lindsay Graham's spine, the decision was made to preserve it for posterity. It will now be displayed in the Smithsonian.
Here's Lee Miller as photographed by Man Ray and Lee Miller as painted by #Picasso. I think the Picasso is more true to life. For real.
A scholar in NYC just got evicted because he had 10,000 books. Here's a small selection. My father's count was 3000. I got up to 1000 at one point. I practically lived in the stacks at Columbia. But I never heard of any of these and they look FASCINATING. Anyone read any?
Putin put Trump in office. Trump stopped sending arms to Ukraine. Biden had made arms shipments contingent on Ukraine not attacking the Russian heartland. Now the were free to do so. So they did. And now Ukraine is winning. Russia is dying. Putin won the cold war... and destroyed Russia.
"We value your privacy." Translation: "The money we will receive from selling your private data is valuable to us."
When I was born Eisenhower was president and the Republican party was anti-segregation, anti-tariff, pro-immigration, pro-abortion (!!For real!!), pro-NATO and pro-alternative-energy (which back then meant nuclear). And if you lived in NYC it was the party of honest government. Wha happened?
If CNN is correct, this is total and unconditional surrender -- by the United States. There is no way to spin this. www.cnn.com/2026/06/17/m...
US releases official agreement with Iran. Read the 14-point text | CNN
The United States on Wednesday released the official text of the memorandum of understanding reached over the weekend with Iran.
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When I was born the richest man in America was Howard Hughes. In today's money he was worth about $14-billion. Let's not call Elon Musk a Trillionaire. Let's call him a 70 Howard-Hughes-inaire.
The last of the giants has passed from the earth. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others
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Save Jimmy's! Bars like this are almost all gone, and with them New York, the Real New York, is vanishing away. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘It holds a lot of memories’: the push to save a beloved New York dive bar
Jimmy’s Corner, opened by former boxer Jimmy Glenn in 1971, is a vestige of an older New York – and its loyal patrons are fighting to protect it
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Croesus: "What will happen if my army crosses the river and invades Persia?" Oracle: "A civilization will be destroyed" Croesus: "Let's do it!"
genocide noun geno·cide ˈje-nə-ˌsīd : the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group -Websters He said it. He actually said it. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
Trump says 'a whole civilisation will die tonight' if Iran doesn't make deal, as US hits Kharg Island
Trump says
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David Ellison insists 70% of Americans are centrist, center-left or center-right. But what does that even mean anymore? My beliefs are pretty much the same as 50 years ago. But my once radical beliefs are now mainstream and my mainstream ones are now radical. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
David Ellison says 70% of Americans are centrist. Surveys tell a different story
Paramount Skydance CEO has repeatedly cited the statistic when laying out the approach that CBS News and potentially CNN would take
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RMG Research is a poll that has consistently given Trump higher numbers that other polls. So today's numbers are very... interesting...
The Adding Machine is getting a revival! About time too. And look at that cast. Maybe next season we can get The Voysey Inheritance. Another old play that is very relevant today. thenewgroup.org/events/the-a...
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Sometimes I wish the Catholic church had a division for Atheists 'cause right now I'd join. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Pope seems to rebuke Trump in remarks about leaders with ‘hands full of blood’
Pontiff’s unusually pointed comments come after Pete Hegseth’s prayer for violence against enemies ‘who deserve no mercy’
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As the royal court parties on, only the court jester understands the enormity of the loss their incompetent military leaders have just suffered. JAN MATEJKO - STAŃCZYK, 1862
Who else used to do yoga to her show in the morning? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...
Lilias Folan, Who Brought Yoga to Middle America, Dies at 90
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