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  1. Your paintings are amazing.
    Beautiful photo realistic works on canvas.

    And with the books, and many of the paintings available in print, they are affordable for many as well.

    Thanks for posting SCALE. This is almost a political statement. Striving for better places in destruction.

    Below, I added a picture of the Avatar.

    @MichaelWhelan
    #Whelan #Art #Painting

  2. Am utterly entranced by my first tech device I am literally playing with. There are features I didn’t expect that are quite pleasant. Got a new Apple iPad 11 on the Memorial Day sale—$299 +Apple Care 2 years $368. It had been years, maybe 9, since I touched an iPad as part of my job then. The works inside this one are like an iPhone 15. Didn’t expect the camera and magnifier to be so good. Didn’t know the graphics scale up great from what I am used to on an iPhone. And yes, I am playing Clockmaker on the new big screen with a new appreciation of the artistry in it. Photo is using the quick magnifier view on my desktop system, foreground shows mouse mat/playmat with the Michael Whelan art. Keypad and set of 4 fave Flesh and Blood cards, Last Ditch Effort. That magnifier has a built in camera—very nice. @MichaelWhelan #ipad #Whelan #FAB #Fantasy #FantasyArt

  3. #Russia’s state-backed media outlets REN TV and RT have published video footage of the arrests of #US citizens Evan #Gershkovich and Paul #Whelan, both of whom were freed in last week’s historic prisoner swap between Moscow and the West. The clips were reportedly provided by Russia’s Federal Security Service (#FSB), which carried out the arrests.

    meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/0

    #Ukraine

  4. #Russia’s state-backed media outlets REN TV and RT have published video footage of the arrests of #US citizens Evan #Gershkovich and Paul #Whelan, both of whom were freed in last week’s historic prisoner swap between Moscow and the West. The clips were reportedly provided by Russia’s Federal Security Service (#FSB), which carried out the arrests.

    meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/0

    #Ukraine

  5. #Russia’s state-backed media outlets REN TV and RT have published video footage of the arrests of #US citizens Evan #Gershkovich and Paul #Whelan, both of whom were freed in last week’s historic prisoner swap between Moscow and the West. The clips were reportedly provided by Russia’s Federal Security Service (#FSB), which carried out the arrests.

    meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/0

    #Ukraine

  6. #Russia’s state-backed media outlets REN TV and RT have published video footage of the arrests of #US citizens Evan #Gershkovich and Paul #Whelan, both of whom were freed in last week’s historic prisoner swap between Moscow and the West. The clips were reportedly provided by Russia’s Federal Security Service (#FSB), which carried out the arrests.

    meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/0

    #Ukraine

  7. #Russia’s state-backed media outlets REN TV and RT have published video footage of the arrests of #US citizens Evan #Gershkovich and Paul #Whelan, both of whom were freed in last week’s historic prisoner swap between Moscow and the West. The clips were reportedly provided by Russia’s Federal Security Service (#FSB), which carried out the arrests.

    meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/0

    #Ukraine

  8. BLIP'S DAILY UPDATE: AUGUST 2ND 2024

    Gershkovich And Whelan Back On American Soil... Train Service Disrupted In Berlin... Nigeria Faces 24-Hour Curfews... AND... Slovakian Swimmer Potocka Collapses After Race At Olympics

    #Paris2024 #Olympics #Gershkovich
    #Whelan

  9. Alsu Kurmasheva, Evan Gershkovich, and Paul Whelan arrived in the United States after a prisoner exchange.

    They were met by U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and members of their families.

    #USA #Kurmasheva #Gershkovich #Whelan #Russia

  10. Alsu Kurmasheva, Evan Gershkovich, and Paul Whelan arrived in the United States after a prisoner exchange.

    They were met by U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and members of their families.

    #USA #Kurmasheva #Gershkovich #Whelan #Russia

  11. Alsu Kurmasheva, Evan Gershkovich, and Paul Whelan arrived in the United States after a prisoner exchange.

    They were met by U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and members of their families.

    #USA #Kurmasheva #Gershkovich #Whelan #Russia

  12. Alsu Kurmasheva, Evan Gershkovich, and Paul Whelan arrived in the United States after a prisoner exchange.

    They were met by U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and members of their families.

    #USA #Kurmasheva #Gershkovich #Whelan #Russia

  13. The first photo of WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich, journalist Alsou Kurmasheva, and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan after the prisoner exchange.

    #USA #Russia #Gershkovich #Kurmasheva #Whelan #Prisonerswap

  14. As the #US sought over the course of a year to extract #Gershkovich, #Whelan & others w/o offering #Krasikov in return, snr Russian #intelligence ofcls had made clear there was no deal w/o him. German ofcls eventually agreed, extracting their own price of a dozen Russian prisoners in return.
    The #Biden admin has pursued a series of large prisoner swaps w/hostile countries, including last year extracting 10 Americans & a fugitive from #Venezuela & a major deal w/ #Iran….
    #Russia #geopolitics #law

  15. Jailed #US Wall Street Journal reporter Evan #Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul #Whelan were among 26 prisoners from the US, #Russia, #Germany, #Poland, #Slovenia, #Norway and #Belarus being freed in a major east-west exchange on Thursday, #Turkey's presidency said.

    It said 10 prisoners, including two minors, had been moved to Russia, 13 to Germany and three to the US.

    reuters.com/world/lawyer-ex-us

    #Ukraine #EU

  16. #RUSSIA RELEASES U.S. REPORTER IN PRISONER SWAP: Evan #Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal journalist, as well as a former American Marine Paul #Whelan jailed in Russia on espionage charges, have been freed due to the major prisoner swap with the United States, Bloomberg reports.

    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

  17. According to Bloomberg, as part of a prisoner exchange, Russia released WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan.

    #USA #Russia #Gershkovich #Whelan

  18. How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia

    Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was 🔸arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January🔸 in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
    Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.

    In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.

    In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.

    And now Karelina.
    Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return.

    theguardian.com/world/2024/mar

  19. How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia

    Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was 🔸arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January🔸 in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
    Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.

    In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.

    In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.

    And now Karelina.
    Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return.

    theguardian.com/world/2024/mar

  20. How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia

    Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was 🔸arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January🔸 in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
    Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.

    In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.

    In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.

    And now Karelina.
    Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return.

    theguardian.com/world/2024/mar

  21. How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia

    Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was 🔸arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January🔸 in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
    Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.

    In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.

    In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.

    And now Karelina.
    Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return.

    theguardian.com/world/2024/mar

  22. How $50 for Ukraine led to desperate battle to free LA ballerina held in Russia

    Amateur ballerina #Ksenia #Karelina, an American and Russian dual citizen who celebrated the new year with a trip to Istanbul with her partner Chris van Heerden, a South African professional boxer, before heading to Russia to visit family, was 🔸arrested and detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on 28 January🔸 in her hometown of Yekaterinburg, about 1,100 miles east of Moscow.
    Karelina may be the latest victim in a chess match over detainees between the US and Russia, which dates back more than 15 years when, in 2008, the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested #Viktor #Bout, a former Soviet military officer and translator, on conspiracy charges. Bout was eventually traded in 2022 for the WNBA champion #Brittney #Griner, who Russian officials had arrested for possessing vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil.

    In March last year, Russian officials arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter #Evan #Gershkovich in the same place as Karelina, Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich and the ex-US marine #Paul #Whelan, arrested in 2018, are being held on bogus espionage charges, according to the US government.

    In January, Moscow also arrested the English teacher #Robert #Woodland #Romanov, a dual US-Russian citizen, on drug charges.

    And now Karelina.
    Van Heerden is desperate to raise awareness and money for his partner’s legal defense and return.

    theguardian.com/world/2024/mar

  23. A question for @[email protected], I was reviewing my old copies of H. Beam Piper's Space Viking and was reminded of the reversed covers on the Ace editions.

    On the left is ACE 77780, $1.50, on the right is ACE 77779, 1980, $2.25. I think the one on the left is the original bc the MW icon looks correct (they are lo-res).

    Can you share any info as to why this cover was flipped to the reverse for the later edition? Michael is not credited on the flipped cover. Thanks!
    #SciFi, #Whelan

  24. @brianrrs37
    Not to mention, Trump had more than ample opportunity to arrange #Whelan 's release, and never did. In fact, DT never even mentioned him.

    His brother David tweeted, #Trump "appears to have mentioned my brother #PaulWhelan’s wrongful detention more in the last 24 hours than he did in the 2 years of his presidency in which Paul was held hostage by #Russia (zero).... I don’t suggest he cares now any more than he did then (zero).”

  25. Viktor #Bout’s Lawyer Confirms That #Trump Passed on Deal for Paul #Whelan, Skewers Don Jr.’s Tweet About ‘Terrorist’ Client

    Attorney Steve Zissou: “Actually, they didn’t even make much of a deal about it, and they really did lose an opportunity to get Whelan home.”

    lawandcrime.com/objections-pod

  26. Everyone's in an uproar over the #Griner-Bout swap, saying that it was a bad deal and that it should have been #Whelan instead or both in exchange for an arms dealer.

    However I'm not surprised that Bolton is coming out with this admission now. And of course #Trump has something negative to say about this administration's decision to accept the deal when he had an opportunity to trade Bout for Whelan during his presidency and didn't take it.

    Oh the hypocrisy....

    nypost.com/2022/12/08/trump-tu

  27. @rudyschwartz @godpod They don't want him released. They want to foil any attempt #Biden makes to improve the lives of others, including Whelan. #GOP #TuckerCarlson #Griner #Whelan #Russia

  28. 9 dec 2022 ⬇️

    Convicted #Russian operative Maria #Butina appeared on Russian TV to assert that it was Russia's decision that Brittney #Griner was exchanged for Viktor #Bout (as opposed to Paul #Whelan), describing it as "an offer that can't be refused" & boasting about Russia's "position of power."

    #RussianMediaMonitor #RussiaIsATerroristState

  29. So the Press keeps saying "it was one or none" leaving open the option for lhe public that Whelan was an "either or" choice when they KNOW Whelan wasn't ever an option at all. It was always "BG or none." The U.S. was trying to get a package deal using BG's celebrity status.

    #Griner
    #Whelan
    #Fediverse
    #blackmastodon
    #Blackfedi

  30. He was convicted at a special court-martial in January 2008 on several charges related to larceny and was given a bad-conduct discharge in December 2008 at the rank of private. Whelan’s last place of duty was Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California.

    None of this precludes making efforts to bring him home. But he is NOT the hero that the ususal suspects on the right are claiming he is. Don't be fooled by WHY they are raising a stink.

    \fin
    #Whelan #MoreGOPNonsense

  31. A few more bits on Paul Whelan:

    The Marine Corps released Whelan’s service record, showing that he was convicted in a 2008 court-martial on charges related to larceny.

    He joined the Marine Reserves May 10, 1994, and was an administrative clerk and administrative chief. He rose to the rank of staff sergeant in December 2004 and was deployed in the war against Iraq for several months in 2004 and 2006.

    #Whelan #MoreGOPNonsense

    \1

  32. 9 dec 2022 ⬇️

    Meanwhile in #Russia: top state TV #propagandists reveal the narrative they'll be pushing to harm #Biden and enrage #Americans about the exchange of Brittney #Griner for Viktor #Bout by falsely claiming that it wasn't Russia's decision to oppose #Whelan's release, as opposed to Griner.

    #RussianMediaMonitor #RussiaIsATerroristState