@GregGrandin George III imposed a naval blockade of the US during the Revolutionary War in 1778. "would bring the Revolutionary diplomatists to their knees, and, (to use the King's own words,) "would make them come into what Great Britain might decently consent to." (Trevelyan, George III)
@moetkacik I liked it when she was trying to warn Norman Finkelstein about the Jewish Bolsheviks and Norman is grinning thinking about how many views he's getting
@thetolerantweft "..and if he slew him he reigned in his stead with the title of King of the Wood (Rex Nemorensis).." (Frazer, opening of The Golden Bough)
@NaziaKaziTweets 2 1/2 months after Obama met Chavez, democratically elected President Zelaya of Honduras boarded the helicopter in his PJs at gunpoint. Obama did it earlier in his first term (June '09) than Donroe's second term 1/2026 abduction
@RaniaKhalek The Times forgot to mention that Petraeus is Chairman of KKR Middle East which is planning developments in the West Bank
https://t.co/oQO71cb0mP
@RaymondPettibon@AJEnglish Michael McClure: “Dylan’s politics were like first strike capability politics. If the Chinese are building the hydrogen bomb.. go in there and take it out.. macho politics.. not a bleeding heart liberal.. heard him bare his heart a couple of times and my blood ran a little cold"
@RaymondPettibon@David_Raffin I just got the Estonian import of Arvo Part's Russian Girls Are Hot oratorio and detected what appears to be an anti-Zhdanovian sentiment in one of the plainsongs, but I liked Raymond's album cover nonetheless
@RaymondPettibon@David_Raffin that was before El Greco presented Phillip II 'onan masaoka,' an old Cretan recipe with ingredients gathered from the cum-trails
@RaymondPettibon@David_Raffin Velazquez initially envisioned an Onan-Marx synthesis while spilling seed applying the final touches before the Portrait of Mariana vernissage, but Mars got the whole thing on video to get Diego to help scuttle the Treaty of Westphalia
@culturaltutor MoMA has one of the world's best de Chirico collections, unfortunately the aren't showing Double Dream of Spring, Melancholy of Departure, Song of Love, Enigma of a Day to the public. They used to show them before they expanded, and immediately after the first renovation.
Not only Kamala Harris but also Zelensky lost US presidential election. He supported Biden & then Harris, became de facto involved in campaigning for her in Pennsylvania, attacked Trump & his vice-president Vance, and called them, respectively, "loser" & "radical." Now he tries to make U-turn.
@artistmanet Painted the year Manet became close friends with Mallarmé, it recalls for me Mallarmé's 1864 L'Azur:
Unceasing let the dismal chimney-flues
Exude their smoke, and let the soot's nomadic prison
Extinguish in the horror of its blackened queues
(tr. H. Creekmore)