The Sloth speaks

Museum Researcher
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The classiest, slow-moving, arboreal you'll ever meet.

[The Sloth speaks @slothisticated]

Yes 👏
But we don’t stop here.

Cities are dropping ICE contracts. Police accountability is overdue.

Governor, you’ve taken a big step—now use your power to push counties, pull state support from raids, and protect our people on the ground.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

NEW: We are suing Donald Trump.

This is a manufactured crisis. He is creating fear and terror to take over a state militia and violate the U.S. constitution.

The illegal order he signed could allow him to send the military into ANY STATE HE WISHES.

Every governor -- red or blue -- should reject this outrageous overreach.

There’s a lot of hyperbole out there. This isn’t that.

This is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism that threatens the foundation of our republic.

We cannot let it stand.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

Not sure LAPD knew they were being watched here……

[The Sloth speaks @slothisticated]

Stop asking us to stay peaceful while offering no protection.
If you know this is manufactured chaos, then meet it like a leader—not a spectator.

Keep the CA State Guard out of federal reach

Ppl are being held without warrants, w/out food or water.
Where is your line, Governor?

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Trump is trying to manufacture a crisis in LA County — deploying troops not for order, but to create chaos.

Don’t take the bait. Never use violence or harm law enforcement.

[The Sloth speaks @slothisticated]

Now, #34 is threatening to deploy active-duty military—something that violates the Posse Comitatus Act unless the Insurrection Act is formally invoked. (It hasn’t been.)

This isn’t about peace or safety.
It’s about control.
It’s authoritarian overreach.

[The Sloth speaks @slothisticated]

You call for peaceful protest. But that’s what we’ve been doing and we are met with sanction violence.

When police & ICE violence escalates, when our people are abducted and brutalized, where is the protection? What are YOU doing to ensure these state-backed thugs stay peaceful?

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into LA County — not to meet an unmet need, but to manufacture a crisis.

He’s hoping for chaos so he can justify more crackdowns, more fear, more control.

Stay calm. Never use violence. Stay peaceful.

[The Sloth speaks @slothisticated]

What’s worse—this deployment may be illegal.

Federalizing the National Guard under 10 USC § 12406 can be lawful *if* coordinated with the governor. Clearly, it’s not.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

HOLY HELL!

Look at what’s happening in LA!

Someone call the National Guard!

Oh, wait… that’s Jan 6… my bad 😳

[The Sloth speaks @slothisticated]

When leadership acknowledges harm but doesn’t move to protect people directly affected, it is abandonment and a failure of duty.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice. We are in close coordination with the city and county, and there is currently no unmet need.

The Guard has been admirably serving LA throughout recovery.

This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

It's shocking how little coverage this is getting:

After the Oct. 7 attack, Hamas offered to free children, women & elderly hostages in exchange for 5 day ceasefire

Israel said no and invaded Gaza instead

Those hostages are now trapped under the bombs

https://t.co/9SUw33t7b9

[Malphier @malphier]

One simple reason: people don't value artists the same way they did back then, and artists need to eat.

Most of these sculptures (and the most impressive works of art in general) were commissioned by wealthy families, nobles, emperors, etc. Not to mention, many of these artists were born in favorable conditions. See, let's talk about these sculptures:

1: David of Michelangelo. Michelangelo's father was the town's judicial administrator. His family was bankers for generations (albeit smaller banks, still far above "peasants"). Later in life, he moved to Florence, which was basically the place to study arts. Art, in general, was really favored by the wealthy there: the council, merchants, and other rich people. Need I say more about his incredibly beneficial circumstances?

2: Abduction of Proserpina, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. This was commissioned by the Cardinal Scipione Borghese. I could end the argument here, but his father always encouraged him in his pursuit for art, and he even got various patrons from an early age. Are you beginning to see the pattern here?

3: Corradini's Modesty. I don't know much about Corradini, but he also had various patrons. Curious, huh?

4: Ugolino and His Sons, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Jean had access to some of the best education he could get. His first studies were under François Rude, a famous sculptor at the time. I think it's enough, right?

The fact is that back then, the wealthy were more than willing to throw a fuck ton of money at artists, and they were willing to wait YEARS to get masterpieces. Compare this to now, where people barely want to pay you 10 USD/h and expect masterpieces in 2 weeks. Hell, even if your work is among the best in history, odds are, you're never gonna find a patron. Sure, PATREON is a thing, but even then, people are barely able to afford a 3$ monthly subscription for each artist they would like to support. When they are able to, they would also need to be willing to, and there aren't that many people who are both willing and with stable enough condition to support us.

Yeah, I would probably be capable of making a sculpture like this, and I definitely can make highly detailed oil paintings. The thing is: it's not worth it, because at the end of the day, I need to eat, and I can't eat if I am working on something that can take years without getting paid anything for it; or being paid as little that it might as well be for free.

[Zoë Crowther @zoenora6]

For anyone who doesn’t have TikTok: there’s a trend at the moment where people are romanticising their lives by editing them like Wes Anderson and it’s honestly so creative and wholesome

🧵👇 Here are a few of my favourite ones

[Dr. Monica Cox @DrMonicaCox]

This hit for me today.

[Pascalle Lepas 🪼 @lepas]

I love that the sound baby owls make is *tv static.* 11/10 precious nightmare creatures.

[Intuitive Ashley (fka The Wildlife Host) @IA_Crystals]

Me after purchasing my 10th plant in 3 weeks

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

It’s not divisive to call out white supremacy. What’s divisive is to not work to eliminate it.

[Pascalle Lepas 🪼 @lepas]

my favorite part of Qanon is that the core of their belief is that a group of horrible monsters are ritually scaring children in order to extract powerful energy from them, and that's... Monster's Inc.

[The Nap Ministry @TheNapMinistry]

White supremacy will end when white folks decide to end it. Period.

[The Nap Ministry @TheNapMinistry]

What if you saw grind culture for what it is - a collabo between capitalism and white supremacy - so you decide to no longer align yourself with such trash?