#mmfa

[theaskew]

Tom Wesselmann (American 1931-2004), study for Mouth #10, 1967. Liquetix over graphite underdrawing. (Source: MMFA, Montreal Museum of Fine Art)

#art #artwork #modern art #contemporary art #modern artwork #contemporary artwork #20th century art #20th century modern art #20th century contemporary art #American art #modern American art #contemporary American art #American artist #Tom Wesselmann #mouth #tongue #MMFA #Montreal Museum of Fine Art #pop art

[justinspoliticalcorner]

We’re only one week into the first criminal trial of Donald Trump, yet he and his MAGA allies are already intervening to identify and drive off the jury anyone they think could pose a risk to the former president. At Fox News, host Jesse Watters has launched attacks on the jurors, saying at one point that any juror who says they can be unbiased in the case is a liar, and citing Trump’s legal team as having uncovered potential jurors who were “undercover activists.” Trump himself quickly amplified Watters’ remarks (and as Lawrence O’Donnell noted, partially altering Watters’ quote) on Truth Social — an action that risks violating Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order prohibiting attacks on jurors, potential witnesses and other people related to the case. A prosecutor in the case reportedly called his remark disturbing while saying that Trump did, in fact, violate the gag order.   None of this has stopped Watters, who continued attacking the jury Thursday evening after it was fully seated. Steve Bannon, set to face trial himself later in the year before Merchan over the “We Build The Wall” scheme, cited Watters’ remarks as a reason that Trump’s team should move for an immediate mistrial. Watters has gone further than merely making general complaints about jurors; his efforts may have contributed to a juror leaving the trial entirely. On Wednesday, Watters called out “juror number 2,” describing extensive details about her work and personal life. By the next morning, the juror noted in court, her friends and family seemingly had figured out she was a member of the jury, and she withdrew from the trial as a result. [...] But the core issue here is that Trump and his media allies don’t believe that they should have to be subject to the same legal system as the rest of us. Instead, there’s a clear and concerted effort by MAGA forces to use media pressure to give Trump more preferential treatment, and to drive off any juror they believe poses a risk to Trump. That’s why Fox Corp. personality Clay Travis is happy to publicly urge the former president’s supporters to “do everything you can” to get on the jury and acquit Trump, regardless of the evidence at hand. This coordinated attempt to use chaos to undermine public confidence in Trump’s trial should be understood as part and parcel of Trump and his supporters’ attack on democracy — and their media allies are fully on board.  [...] At the heart of what Watters and Bannon are saying is that Trump deserves special treatment because of his political following. Without getting into the minutiae of jury selection in New York state, their claims are preposterous. 

John Whitehouse for MSNBC.com on the MAGA media's attacks on the People of New York v. Trump jury selection (04.22.2024).

In a column on MSNBC.com, MMFA news director Jon Whitehouse exposes the MAGA media's jury tainting strategies in the jury selection for the People of New York v. Trump election interference/business record falsification criminal trial.

See Also:

MMFA: The MAGA attacks on Trump's jury are part of their anti-democracy push

#John Whitehouse #MMFA #MSNBC.com #MSNBC #Opinion #People of New York v. Trump #Donald Trump Trial #Jury Tampering #Clay Travis #Stephen Bannon #Jesse Watters #Donald Trump

[verawhisk]

rory macdonald before round 5 with robbie lawler

#ngl i got a little nauseous drawing this lmao #halfway through the blood i was like hehe this is fine... [LOUD GAGGING] #anyways everybody say thank you rory macdonald and happy retirement !! #rory macdonald #ufc #mma #my art #mmfa #screenshot redraw #(?) #blood #injury #violence #queue #((EDIT: made it a little brighter!))

[toshootforthestars]

#palestine genocide #free gaza #genocide #benjamin netanyahu #israel hamas war #news #elno muskrat #meanwhile on twitter #media matters for america #mmfa #the 2020's

[duccnguyen]

Parall(elles) exhibition event at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. This event celebrates the incredible contributions of North American women to the world of design, showcasing a wide array of stunning works and objects dating back to the mid-19th century. Explore the intersections of gender, identity, race, culture, and social class through the eyes of talented American and Canadian artists, and marvel at their breathtaking skill and creativity. #ArtMTL #insiderMTL #MBAM #MMFA #MMFAdiscovery #MTLMoments #TheMontrealMuseumofFineArts (at Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnyU__P-t3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#artmtl #insidermtl #mbam #mmfa #mmfadiscovery #mtlmoments #themontrealmuseumoffinearts

[montrealflair]

Blue Morning Glory by Georgia O’Keefe

#georgia o'keeffe #Montreal #Montreal museum of fine arts #mmfa #blue morning glory

[bluntforcetr4uma]

#basquiat #montréal #mmfa #musée des beaux arts

[cherry-bomb-ships]

Yo I'm sorry I feel like I dont post a whole lot of ship things anymore but in all honesty at this point I'm so lonely and touch starved that if I just think about receiving a Cuddle my brain shuts down for the next six hours 😔

#like most of my fleeting thoughts with my f/os just boil down to 'whhat if we K i s SE d... mmfa nd... h eld hands ;0;' #I WANT TO POST MORE I PROMMY BUT LIFE KIND OF A MESS RN 😭😭😭 dont worry im not like. miserable or anything. stuff just be chaotic rn #ruby rambles

[justinssportscorner]

Gideon Taaffe and Charis Hoard at MMFA:

Instead of celebrating the rising influence of women’s basketball, right-wing media seized on the highly anticipated draft to attack the WNBA and dismiss the low wages of some of basketball’s biggest stars.  After a historic women’s NCAA tournament, the Women’s National Basketball Association draft drew substantial media attention both praising the rising influence of the league and criticizing the low wages of the league’s stars. Right-wing media chose to denigrate the sport and its players rather than engage with critiques of how women athletes are treated.

With the WNBA's popularity surging due to several college megastars such as Caitlin Clark being drafted, right-wing media launched unhinged sexist attacks against the league (and women's sports in general). These same people attacking the WNBA and women's sports launch attacks against trans women participating in women's sports under the purported guise of "saving women's sports."

#Women's Sports #Sexism #WNBA #Caitlin Clark #Matt Walsh #Clay Travis #Dan Dakich #Jason Whitlock #Tom Shillue #Blain Crain #Alex Berenson #Liz Wheeler #Outkick #FNC #The Daily Wire #Gender Pay Gap #Women's College Basketball #NCAAW

[thekimonogallery]

Nanka (active in Japan, mid-19th c.), Netsuke: Two-part Manjū with Engraving of a Map of Japan, 1820-1830. MMFA, purchase, Dr. Stephen Fichman Fund. Photo MMFA.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ilana Berger at MMFA:

Google is allowing right-wing propaganda organization PragerU to run climate-denying ads on its search engine even though the tech giant previously committed to prohibiting ads that feature claims that contradict the “well-established scientific consensus” about climate change. In 2021, Google updated its ad policy to prohibit ads for or on content that “contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.”  Yet, nearly three years later, Google is still profiting from ads that contain climate change misinformation.  When Media Matters searched for phrases like “climate change,” “global warming,” and “climate crisis” on Google Search, the search engine returned PragerU ads that promised its website reveals “the truth about climate change” — or what it calls the “fake climate catastrophe.”  “Climate policies are causing inflation and keeping poor countries trapped in poverty,” the ad-description text read. “Get the facts with our Climate Change and Energy playlist.”

[...]

PragerU is deeply rooted in climate change denial

Along with the Daily Wire, PragerU is financially dependent on generous donations from fossil fuel billionaire Farris Wilks.  Recently,  PragerU Kids, a PragerU offshoot that produces conservative “educational” content targeted at school age children, has partnered with five different states to bring right-wing propaganda into public school classrooms.  Media Matters reviewed PragerU Kids’ ”educational” content and found it was rife with misinformation about climate change. In one video, a cartoon narrator explains why embracing climate denialism is akin to participating in the Warsaw uprising, when Polish Jews attempted to liberate Warsaw from German occupation during WWII.  

Google profits off of right-wing propaganda factory PragerU's climate change denialism ads.

#PragerU #Dennis Prager #Google #Climate Change #Climate Change Denialism

[verawhisk]

its so twisted, and that is so luke rockhold - joe rogan

#YOU KNOW WHAT SCREW IT IM NEVER GONNA FINISH THIS SO I'LL JUST POST THIS LMAO #THIS IS ALREADY SO OLD #my art #ufc #mma #luke rockhold #paulo costa #mmfa #blood #injury #violence

[duccnguyen]

Anybody Speaking Words, 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat In the painting “Anybody Speaking Words” (1982), he painted ladders and arrows going both up and down near the figure’s torso to suggest the vocal range of an opera singer. Another painting, “Toxic” (1984), serves as a visual representation of hip-hop: Basquiat cut up and collaged copies he made of his own drawings, much in the same way hip-hop producers sample and chop up existing songs “to create a new rhythm,” Ms. Desmarais said. #ArtMTL #insiderMTL #MBAM #MMFA #MMFAdiscovery #MTLMoments #JeanMichelBasquiat (at Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkrXCzdrbiI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#artmtl #insidermtl #mbam #mmfa #mmfadiscovery #mtlmoments #jeanmichelbasquiat

[gaytheropods]

[ID: a screenshot of a quote tweet. The original tweet is by Media Matters (@ mmfa) And reads, "Fox News host Jeanine Pirro calls it "insanity" to wear a mask to protect yourself from wildfire smoke." Following this is a link which is cut off. Above is a quote tweet by Mac (@ goodpoliticguy) which reads, "the woke mob is trying to cancel inhaling toxic fumes smh what won't they take from us". End ID]

#lizard screaming #sorry to post twt screenshots #this is funny to me though

[mariacallous]

On Monday, X filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for America (MMFA), a nonprofit, alleging that a recent report showing big name advertisers appearing next to antisemitic content on X was an attempt to “destroy” the company by encouraging advertisers to pull their money.

Shortly after, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced that it would be investigating MMFA for “potential fraudulent activity.”

Neither X nor the Attorney General’s office responded to questions about whether these moves were coordinated.

“This is a frivolous lawsuit meant to bully X’s critics into silence,” says MMFA president Angelo Carusone. “Media Matters stands behind its reporting and looks forward to winning in court.”

But it is likely not just this report from MMFA that has stopped advertisers from spending on X. Last week, Musk appeared to endorse the antisemitic “great replacement” theory in a post, leading many advertisers, including IBM and Disney, to pause or pull ads from the platform entirely. It was the latest blow to X’s shrinking ad revenues.

Early Saturday, Musk posted on X that he would file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters, along with a screenshot of a document in which X alleges that MMFA “misrepresented the real user experience” on the platform.

“These lawsuits quite clearly are triggered not by an offense, but by Musk losing advertisers. And it’s quite clear they’re leaving because of what he said,” claims Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit watchdog group that is also being sued by X for their research. In the suit, filed in August, X alleges that CCDH had cost the company “at least tens of millions” of dollars in advertising revenue and other costs. CCDH’s reports showed how disinformation and hateful content was allegedly able to remain and circulate on X. The suit alleges that CCDH accessed the data to show this by using another nonprofit’s Brandwatch account.

“To be a victim in that lawsuit is incredibly expensive. It’s incredibly time-consuming,” says Ahmed, who estimates that CCDH has had to spend more than $250,000 in legal fees to defend itself. Ahmed worries that these types of lawsuits could have a “chilling effect” on other organizations monitoring X.

In the suit against MMFA, X claims that “99% of X’s measured ad placement has appeared adjacent to content scoring above the Global Alliance for Responsible Media’s brand safety floor”—an advertising industry standard to prevent monetization around harmful content—and that MMFA had “manipulated” the platform’s algorithm to return results that, the suit claims, are otherwise rare.

In response, X CEO Linda Yaccarino claimed that “not a single authentic user on X saw IBM’s, Comcast’s, or Oracle’s ads next to the content in Media Matters’ article.” Yaccarino added that “only 2 users saw Apple’s ad next to the content, at least one of which was Media Matters.”

But users on X have been running their own experiments, sharing screenshots of ads running next to content returned when users searched terms like “heilhitler” and “1488,” a hate symbol.

“Holy shit. If you search HeilHitler, you get a ton of ads. I literally just got the German Government's ‘come live in Germany’ ad on the search,” user @ErinInTheMorn posted. “Media Matters was not lying.” WIRED was not able to replicate these results, and it appears as though ads are no longer running against this and similar terms.

Taking aim at nonprofits, Ahmed says, might backfire on Musk. “I think it's really important that people understand that this is a man that you're doing business with, and that if you advertise on that platform, you're essentially endorsing the behavior.”

Since Musk took the helm at X, the company has seen a steep decline in advertising revenue, which comprised about 90 percent of its revenue at the time of purchase.

One of Musk’s first moves as owner was to lay off nearly everyone at the company working on trust and safety—the roles that ensure that hate speech, disinformation, nudity, violence, and other inappropriate content are kept off the platform. And as many experts feared, hate speech did increase after Musk took over. In response, some advertisers have pulled their spend on X amid fears the platform is high-risk.

In an attempt to right the ship, X brought on now-CEO Linda Yaccarino, an experienced advertising executive from NBCUniversal. But Musk has remained the focal point of X, and though the company said in October that it was seeing some of its marquee advertisers return, a different study from MMFA found that these advertisers were spending 90 percent less than they had before Musk took over the company.

Shannon Jankowski, interim director for US free expression at the nonprofit PEN America, claims that X’s choice to file its suit in Texas is “arbitrarily choosing a venue that’s known to be conservative, that’s likely to favor Elon Musk and X.” Texas also doesn’t have any laws on the books that prevent “strategic lawsuits against public participation,” or SLAPP lawsuits, she adds, meaning that it will be more difficult for MMFA to get the case dismissed or recover any legal fees from X.

“It can bankrupt those organizations to try to get rid of these lawsuits,” Jankowski says.

But whether or not X’s lawsuit is successful, or the Texas Attorney General’s investigation returns anything, Jankowski worries it will hamper future accountability work. “If he can just file a frivolous lawsuit in a conservative venue, and then potentially trigger government-level investigations, it’s just really going to deter organizations from wanting to dive into this work.”

[artlimited]

Albert Dumouchel in the Collection of the MMFA | Revelations https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/albert-dumouchel-in-the-collection-of-the-mmfa-revelations-mbam-montreal/en/7585048