Kara Walker Creates Haunted Beast From Butchered Confederate Statue

Via: Hallux  •  Photography & Art  •  4 Comments  •  last year

This is incredible: artist Kara Walker took a statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that had stood in Charlottesville, Virginia until 2021, chopped it up, and reconstituted it into a disfigured beast. It’s part of an exhibition of several such works called Monuments, which opens at The...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

Via: Hallux  •  Op/Ed  •  3 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  last year

“For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.”

The Shadow President

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  3 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  last year

“From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term....”

Trump Commutes Sentence of Former Congressman George Santos

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  4 Comments  •  1 Like  •  last year

“Santos had admitted that he participated in a scheme to submit false campaign-finance reports and artificially inflate the amount he raised”

US news outlets push back against Pentagon's reporting restrictions

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  2 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  last year

Trump bemoans his Time magazine cover. ‘The picture may be the Worst of All Time’

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  13 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  last year

Frankenstein: Why Mary Shelley's 200-year-old horror story is so misunderstood

Via: Hallux  •  Entertainment  •  5 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  last year

“As Guillermo del Toro's new film starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi is released, why is the message of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel still...”

Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  last year

““There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  2 Comments  •  1 Like  •  last year

““There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said.”

Once a loyal foot soldier for Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene is increasingly bucking her party

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  21 Comments  •  6 Likes  •  last year

“From the Gaza war to the Epstein files to the government shutdown, the MAGA-aligned congresswoman has grown critical of her fellow Republicans.”