Nicola Jennings on Trump’s wild west redux – cartoon

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Word On The Street

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The Morning Will Change Everything, Sebas Velasco

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There’s a world out there, Jess Allen

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Something has happened somewhere.

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This is how we must proceed, Gordon Brown.

What’s clear after recent events is that the fourth global order cannot be restored. 

We are not only in a more protectionist era but are moving from a unipolar world where the US was the sole hegemonic power to one that has many more centres of decision-making power.

 But because we are also a more interconnected world, we are more vulnerable to crises – from pandemics and climate emergencies to financial contagion. 

All the more so because countries can, as we saw this week, weaponise that interdependence and the choke points it creates for their own advantage. 

So if we are to have anything approaching a values-based order we will have at some point to agree an updated global charter for our common future, something that builds on the Atlantic Charter of 1941 and the UN Charter of 1945, but is geared to a completely different century. 

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Waiting Room, Tristan Martinez

“Waiting Room” is a celebration of transitional moments and experiences which may be otherwise overlooked.

 Martinez describes the work as “the feeling of being on the cusp of a moment, just as something is about to happen or just after something has happened.” 

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Blue light, Joe Webb

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Despite everything.

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There’s great news coming from Philadelphia Zoo.

A 100-year-old tortoise, aptly named Mommy, has become a first-time mom with the hatching of four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo.

 Since there were only 44 individual tortoises of their kind in all U.S. zoos combined, the arrival of these baby turtles is essentially a lifeline for the survival of this species.

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Unlikely Friendship

A woman was amazed when she realized her cat had slipped out the door only to find him relaxing in a tree — while getting "groomed" by a wild bird.

 In reality, the excited bird couldn't believe her good fortune, picking at an unlimited supply of fur for a nest she was building. 

 According to the TikToker who posted the video, the cat made his way up the tree the next day for another round of the spa treatment, while the bird returned for more free building materials.

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Kam. S. for Washington Walls. Brooklyn, NY.

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Speed Trap, Clark Winter

Clark Winter’s car photographs, taken during his travels around the globe, revel in nostalgia and reveal our strangely intimate relationships with our vehicles. 

 

Empty Places, Farhan Ajram

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The song remains the same, Dan Climan

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For many of us, the United States means music, progress, hope.

Illustration: Nathalie Lees/The Guardian 

 My first sense of the US’s allure came when I was a four-year-old, watching the glorious educational TV show Sesame Street, and being spellbound by its multiracial cast, and the way it offered a much more thrilling take on letters and numbers – and life – than the staid fare we got from the BBC and ITV. 

A little later on, I can recall a few lucky childhood friends returning from American holidays – in Florida, usually – coming home with comics and sweets that increased my sense of the States as a beguiling land of dreams. And then came the clincher: a great mountain of music, which still sits at the heart of my understanding of what the US is, and how it may survive its current crisis.

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Sarah's Scribbles

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Tell me about it, Michael Pederson

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Ain’t nothin on, William Greiner

this isn’t happiness

 

Time Is Running Out

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A guide to the Unknown Other, Damien Cifelli

In Tarogramma, the imaginary world conceived by Damien Cifelli as a setting for his vibrant paintings, plants are plentiful, but animals don’t exist. 

The landscapes are as diverse and enigmatic as its inhabitants, who commune with bodies of water, traverse the desert in a suit, and size up an enigmatic object on a dinner plate.

 Cifelli’s stylish figures investigate their environment to try to understand their place within it. 

Many of the paintings shown here were recently exhibited at Spinello Projects in Miami, emphasizing the artist’s recent focus on analyzing what life is like in this fictive world.

 

All the Dreamers by Nguan

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