That’s a perfect bit of street art…from Mexico.
Cartoons via Cagle:
Yeah, they are doing an animation series for adults…based on the original Dark Shadows series. I hope they don’t fuck it up like Tim Burton did.
I know it is a short thread, but I just couldn’t bear to look at the news.
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The Sky Dancing banner headline uses a snippet from a work by artist Tashi Mannox called 'Rainbow Study'. The work is described as a" study of typical Tibetan rainbow clouds, that feature in Thanka painting, temple decoration and silk brocades". dakinikat was immediately drawn to the image when trying to find stylized Tibetan Clouds to represent Sky Dancing. It is probably because Tashi's practice is similar to her own. His updated take on the clouds that fill the collection of traditional thankas is quite special.
You can find his work at his website by clicking on his logo below. He is also a calligraphy artist that uses important vajrayana syllables. We encourage you to visit his on line studio.
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I’ve lost the ability to express how absolutely outraged I am about everything Trump says and does. The words don’t exist for this extreme feeling.
Thanks for stepping up JJ.
Keenan Thomas / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
University of Tennessee to pay $1.9M to professor fired over Charlie Kirk comment — The University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees approved a settlement with former assistant professor Tamar Shirinian, agreeing to pay the fired faculty member $1.9 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/opinion/congress-scotus-trump-slaughter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uFA.WPKj.KFrBECpSGoDs&smid=nytcore-ios-share
There Is a Model for Shackling Presidential Power
By Kate Shaw
With its decision Monday in Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has fully embraced the unitary executive theory — the view, popular among Donald Trump’s loyalists, that presidents have unrestrained authority over the executive branch. With this decision, the court has fundamentally reshaped the federal government and handed us an executive branch on steroids.
Combine the Supreme Court’s radicalism in this case with the revanchist, overreaching second presidency of Mr. Trump, and the separation of powers as we have known it has been all but laid to waste.
In Slaughter, the court handed the president the power to fire at will the heads of independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission. The decision formally interred the Supreme Court’s 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, which for nearly a century has been understood to permit Congress to create and empower federal agencies that operate with a degree of independence from the president and the political winds. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that it is only when the president has complete control over those who assist in executing the law — including, importantly, the ability to fire them at will — that the Constitution can “live up to James Iredell’s boast that ‘the president’ would ‘be personally responsible for everything.’”
“The result,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor explained in dissent, “is a president who emerges with far greater power than ever before.” Under the up-is-down logic of the majority opinion, this concentration of power in one person is the best way to “produce the ‘vigor and activity’ necessary to preserve the Constitution’s separation of powers.”
Three worst Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch voted to allow President Trump to end birthright citizenship.