" Weistling’s painting took on a darker meaning when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s official X account posted, to the artist’s consternation, an image of the painting with the caption:
“Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.”
'The main stories that are told through art of the American west tend to focus on white settlers. ' Emily C Burns
To some, the post seemed like authoritarian propaganda,
similar to what was put out by Joseph Goebbels about Aryan motherhood in 1930s Nazi Germany.
“In case you had any doubts about the white supremacist thing,”
"the benign look on the couple’s faces and the presence of an innocent newborn distract from the real problem:
what’s not in the painting’s frame."
"The main stories that are told through art of the American west tend to focus on white settlers, which omits the suppression of other populations,”
said Emily C Burns, director of the Charles M Russell study for the center of art of the American west
and an associate professor of art history at the University of Oklahoma.
“It’s challenging when a single image of something that is incredibly complicated is placed in the foreground. What stories are lost in that?”
"Those stories include the US government’s violent expulsion and genocide of Indigenous people to clear land for settlers, and the Black cowboys, many of them formerly enslaved or one generation removed from slavery, who went west on horseback and helped develop the country’s nascent ranching industry. Also omitted are the Chinese immigrants who built the west’s railroads and worked its goldmines and factories, and who, due to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, could not legally gain US citizenship."
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/23/dhs-art-post-propaganda
"Under the leadership of Kristi Noem, the DHS has taken up Donald Trump’s orders for mass deportation with militant aplomb and an all-out publicity blitz.
Noem looked glamorous as she livestreamed pre-dawn Ice raids in New York and toured the southern border on horseback.
Meanwhile, the department shares mugshots of migrants and reminders from Uncle Sam to “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS.”
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In a 2002 New York magazine profile of Epstein, Trump was quoted saying: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy … He’s a lot of fun to be with.
It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do,
and many of them are on the younger side.”
According to the New York Times, Trump flew on Epstein’s jets at least seven times over four years in the 1990s.
In the new CNN report on Wednesday, the outlet also reports that in Trump’s 2004 book – Trump: How to Get Rich – he referenced receiving a call from a man he called “the mysterious Jeffrey”.
the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump allegedly sent Epstein a birthday card in 2003 for his 50th birthday, that reportedly featured a drawing of a naked woman and a message that said in part: “Happy Birthday – and
may every day be
another wonderful secret.”
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