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- Reposted by Open Art DataIf there's a masculinity crisis in America, Ground Zero is the cowardly wusses who work for ICE and HSI, covering their faces with masks, fearful of an 80-year-old congresswoman, and reeking of panic What are the consequences for a U.S. secret police? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
- Reposted by Open Art DataYesterday, @nytimes.com reported how Elon Musk’s Boring Company is in talks with the government over a $6 billion Amtrak tunnel project. Here's our story from January about how the Boring Company's efforts in Las Vegas have gone on without oversight: www.propublica.org/article/elon...
- As Elon Musk laid waste to the federal government, the Department of Transportation quietly met with and consulted his tunneling firm, the Boring Company, a $6 billion Amtrak tunnel project connecting Baltimore, DC and Virginia. Our latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...
- Reposted by Open Art DataWashington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
- Reposted by Open Art DataWrote about the masked, plainclothes immigration goon squads. Gift link: wapo.st/438r062
- Reposted by Open Art DataIn other words, in order to avoid angering Trump, Apple plans on lying to consumers. The company will raise prices due to tariffs but invent other reasons. www.wsj.com/tech/apple-i...
- Reposted by Open Art Data1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."
- NEW on Open Art Data: Frederick Mont in #RKD database Frederick Mont, AKA Fritz Mondschein or Galerie Sanct Lucas, is a name that has popped up in Nazi looted art and in forgeries www.openartdata.org/2025/05/fred... #provenance #networks
- Reposted by Open Art DataThe highest paid editors in the world rewrote "Qatar Bribes Trump With" as "Trump Is to Accept" you know the way normal people talk normally
- Reposted by Open Art DataJust since I left town on Friday: -Stephen Miller floats suspending habeas corpus -ICE arrests a mayor under dubious pretext -DHS threatens to arrest members of Congress -Qatar gives Trump a $400 million plane he *gets to keep* -Trump's emissary is negotiating with Russia using Putin's interpreters
- Reposted by Open Art DataSince I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal
- Overseeing the presidential gift rules was among my duties as White House Ethics Czar -- so I know how it's supposed to work The gift of this plane to Trump is illegal & unconstitutional The AG & the WH Counsel oughtta be ashamed of themselves for allowing it abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- Reposted by Open Art DataBest possible endorsement of Pope Leo
- Adolf Hitler used the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933 as the pretext to suspend key rights in Germany. Do not be surprised when Trump uses an excuse to suspend American constitutional rights. That appears to be the plan.
- Reposted by Open Art Data⚡️Witkoff uses Kremlin translators in meetings with Putin, NBC reports. "If they speak to each other in Russian, he doesn't know what they are saying," one Western official told NBC News. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, called Witkoff's approach "a very bad idea."
- “German authorities said the case against Art Institute of Chicago director James Rondeau remains open after a bizarre incident onboard a flight to Munich.” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news... #travel #museum #provenance
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- Reposted by Open Art DataThis is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.
- Reposted by Open Art DataI was illegally fired for standing up for the American people.
- Reposted by Open Art DataWere you aware that Trump is destroying previous scientific research data? Not just discontinuing the funding of it. Not just hiding it from US. Literally DESTROYING IT. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
- Reposted by Open Art DataExclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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- Trump puts another election denier into power. Pirro’s “false statements about the 2020 election were cited as evidence during the Dominion Voting System’s litigation against Fox that resulted in the network paying a $787.5 million settlement in 2023” #coup #Jan6 #FoxNews
- “Beautiful mix of racism and dementia” youtube.com/shorts/gnXDo...
- Reposted by Open Art DataAppeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten. A must read on resisting authoritarianism from my colleagues Levitsky and Ziblatt (and Lucian Way). www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
- #Tips for searching the new Getty Provenance Index Demo 1. Search on “Pinakos” 2. Download 3. View csv files in folder 4. A look at transactions (Will share as I learn) Youtube Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBPz... #provenance #Getty #learning
- Reposted by Open Art DataArt historians - it looks like the Getty Provenance Index, one of our most indispensable tools, has become almost unusable thanks to a new update. Our best hope is they retain the old version. www.arthistorynews.com/articles/870...
- “In March, Pallot, who was the expert of the Galerie Didier Aaron, faced trial for commercial fraud, along with a carpenter and restorer, Bruno Desnoues, who admitted to fabricating the forgeries. The prosecutor asked for three years of prison time” www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/05/e... #forgery
- Reposted by Open Art DataThe Trump administration has shut down the CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, which crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow. via @nbcnews
- Reposted by Open Art Data(Bloomberg) - Air traffic controllers guiding planes bound for Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute early last week before flights at the key hub were snarled for days, according to people familiar .. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Trump is a Russian asset. Trump is a dangerous idiot. Trump is insane. Trump hates Americans. Take your pick. Whatever the cause, Trump has put quacks in charge of public health and Americans will die as a result. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #health #medicine #living
- NEW: Legal group founded by Trump aide Stephen Miller sues Chief Justice John Roberts to give the executive branch control over two federal judicial offices. The lawsuit claims the move “preserves separation of powers but also keeps the courts out of politics.” From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
- Reposted by Open Art DataA conservative legal group founded by White House aide Stephen Miller is suing Chief Justice John Roberts, arguing that two key court agencies should be controlled by the executive branch. Legal experts say the move would upend judicial independence. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Open Art DataFor years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever. www.wired.com/story/north-...
- Creationists in charge of US science, history, art, and libraries? House speaker ‘Johnson was a “young earth creationist”, holding that a literal reading of Genesis means that the earth is only a few thousand years old’ #Journalists write more about Johnson? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
- Trump attacks National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a... #history #culture #libraries
- Musk’s destruction of the FAA is an ongoing crime against Americans and all who fly to and in the USA. Travel bloggers should warn their readers. #airtravel #travelbloggers #Newark #United
- Reposted by Open Art DataPresident Trump posting an image of himself as Pope. We aren't a serious country, and he's not a mentally well man.
- The #RKD is a terrific aggregator of art provenance information from numerous museums. Sparql queries can be challenge, but here is a simple table of paintings linked to the Speelman art gallery. www.openartdata.org/2025/05/rkd-... #provenance #arthistory
- Reposted by Open Art DataHere it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.
- Four huge differences between USA and Weimar: 1) 250 years of democratic traditions in America 2) Trump tanking economy while Hitler improved it 3) We KNOW what happened last time 4) Trump is now 78 and Hitler was 43 in 1933 #dontgiveup #democracy #hope
- WaPo uses word “illegal” on front page online! (Quoting a judge, but still, it’s a step forward) #journalism #press #dicatatorship
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- Reposted by Open Art DataJudge Rodriguez, a Trump appointee, rules that the administration cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of TdA. It’s a wartime authority & we are not at war, he holds. On to the 5th Circuit & SCOTUS.
- Reposted by Open Art DataIf leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days | Robert Reich
- Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #Russia #prison #torture #PamBondi
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- Reposted by Open Art DataCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: “The attention on the Trump gold card I mean, it makes me very popular. Last night, I was out to dinner, and someone came up and said, ‘Can I buy 10?’…that's pretty good. It's $50 million for dinner. So, you know, it's paying for my dinner.”
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- Reposted by Open Art DataPlease highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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- Reposted by Open Art DataBREAKING: Communicating facts now officially deemed a "hostile and political act" by the White House
- It’s all illegal. Every bit of it. Enforce the law now before it’s too late. Trump, king of bankruptcies, will bankrupt America #crypto #TrumpCrimeFamily #ruleoflaw #liberty www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
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- Reposted by Open Art DataDon’t forget that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could put a stop to all of this.
- More and more crimes by Elon Musk Serious crimes against Americans and National Security #RuleofLaw #security #DOE
- "Access to both networks would normally require a "Q" clearance, the highest level of security clearance at the Department of Energy..." www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...
- Reposted by Open Art DataTrump’s attacks on due process, birthright citizenship, humanitarian aid, and the courts are not “politics.” They are a direct attack on our democracy. Enough is enough – I am introducing articles of impeachment against him.
- Reposted by Open Art DataHere it comes.
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- Reposted by Open Art DataIf there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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- Reposted by Open Art DataILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…
- Art Institute of #Chicago “relied upon the assurances of a discredited art dealer with an obvious self-serving agenda”. …Eberhard Kornfeld had told the AIC that he acquired the drawing from Lukacs directly, but investigators have concluded that the invoices he presented had been forged #museum
- Reposted by Open Art DataThis is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it.
- Wishing you the best. Did you see www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/...
- Reposted by Open Art DataNews from @propublica.org on the DOGE front: A Treasury Department inspector general is probing efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to obtain private taxpayer data and other sensitive information… www.propublica.org/article/trum...
- “the drawing had been owned by New York’s Galerie St. Etienne before making its way to Chicago” Judge orders the Art Institute of Chicago to restitute Nazi-looted Schiele drawing @theartnewspaper.bsky.social www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/25/j... #provenance #loot #NY
