Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
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- a good story that contains the hallmark of great reporting: a direct quote from one of my bluesky posts
- In my opinion? Absolutely. Taney brought us the disastrous Dred Scott, but Roberts has delivered horrible rulings on a wide variety of issues — Citizens United, Heller, Shelby County, Brnovich, Dobbs, and of course Trump v US.
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- I.D.I.C. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
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- Anyone still upset over Bill Clinton’s $100 haircut?
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- Where is that world is burning but I have a book coming out meme when you need it.
- Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
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- As a lifelong Catholic, I'd like to invite these MAGA critics to help themselves to a chalice filled with shut the fuck up.
- Criticizing the pope for "suicidal empathy." Yeah, man, Christ definitely said there should be limits to our empathy. You fucking nailed it.
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- Related: Tomorrow's LNP | LancasterOnline will feature numerous letters from Lancaster County readers critical of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office's participation in a program with ICE and its immigration crackdown
- A Lancaster County judge had to send home around 24 people who were in his courtroom Tuesday morning for protection from abuse hearings because no sheriff deputies were available to provide security.Most of the people in the dozen cases were… lanc.news/4lZI6vH
- Mary, with dog, interrupted from reading by v. agitated flying angel. Dog, not liking this, hides behind her lectern. Annunciation as perspective demonstration, 1555, by Paris Bordone, born OTD 1500.
- Angel cackling: "I'll Annunciate you...and your little dog too!"
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- Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards: - Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so. - Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so. - Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI. - Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.
- if you don’t understand a post, you don’t have to reply to it. if you think the poster may not understand their own post, ask yourself if they’re making a joke.
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- What struck me most was that every single one of the thousands of beings depicted (men, saints, angels) had a distinctive face and it felt like) his own life story. There was nothing repetitive or impersonal in this vast throng. A staggering feat of imagination and art.
- just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful
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- Stephen Miller's law firm has sued to place federal courts under the control of the president. It's flagrantly unconstitutional. But do they have a point?
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- Trump wanted to be president to pardon his own crimes. Now he wants to be Pope to pardon his own sins.
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- Only way to do it if you love your kid.
- Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
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