John Ross: How to paint like a Somalian
Welcome back to another tongue-in-cheek episode of How to Paint Like a Feminist, where the satire is thick and the brushstrokes are heavier than the policies behind them. John Ross: How to paint like a Somalian Pull up a chair—yes, even that big red one resurrected by presidential approval—because today’s palette tells a familiar story: Somalia purple, hemp green, and a shade that’s supposed to be red but somehow ends up pink, which, frankly, fits the theme perfectly. As the hemp green gets smeared across the canvas like a wintertime mess you’d rather avoid stepping in, it becomes a metaphor for the latest continuing resolution being sold as fiscal responsibility under the new Trump administration, despite quietly carrying over Biden-era spending levels unchanged. Buried inside that same bill is a conveniently overlooked hemp ban, wiping out a $29 billion industry the government itself created just a few years ago—proof that what the government gives, it can just as easily t...