The Milky Way — Georges Barbier, 1921

They like Trump and want to help him

I hope everybody who even *thinks* about suggesting we go back to the high-risk healthcare pool situation is diagnosed with a pre-existing condition tonight.

Edward Gorey "Books seem to me to be pestilent things ..."

John Namerredje Guymala

Yawkyawk — Lulu Laradjbi, 2005 pandanus, bush cane, natural dyes, Maningrida

the correct way to handle truly odious defections from an enemy is just to refrain from spitting on them. you don't have to make friends with them and you absolutely shouldn't trust them. just refrain from spitting on them when they are attacking your enemies

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

most on the nose “he’s on a mission from god” reference in recorded history

Actress Jean Seberg photographed by Willy Rizzo, 1959 #BicycleBirthday November 13 (1938-1979)

The president of Syria, al-Sharaa, has had one wife. Trump has had three. And to ask "how many wives do you have?" shows what a rude, ignorant xenophobe Trump is. And that Vance found the remark to be the epitome of wit shows what an oaf JD is.

My read: * white women Trump voters think the gains they'll get from white supremacy will outweigh their losses from his male supremacist policies * men of color who vote for Trump think the gains they'll get from male supremacy will outweigh their losses from his racism Both groups are wrong.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

This isn't driven by class or racial solidarity: Serrano is half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban--like Afro-Cuban Enrique Tarrio, former director of Latinos for Trump, former chairman of the Proud Boys & convicted J6 seditionist. Trump's appeal to men like this is gender solidarity, pure & simple.

This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like: Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977

Toad — Kazumasa Nagai

Toad — Kazumasa Nagai

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

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The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

here's a 13GB .zip with all 33,572 images from the Epstein doc dump, converted to pdf and OCR'd drive.google.com/file/d/15UfF...

JD Vance in 2021: "What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…"

This whole country appears to have watched L&O SVU for 25 years. Are we really going to let a perp go who has this much evidence against him? Shouldn't the ego of amateur detecting skills demand otherwise?

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

I used to think THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW was sci-fi. Now it’s a liberal fantasy about a functioning federal government.

"We can't investigate this because there is no evidence* and if we look we might find some." * i.e., it has not been proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt

Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...

We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.

Olive Borden in The Monkey Talks (1927)

@neolithicsheep.bsky.social #RuminantWatch Maxime Pivot Mabanza, 43-year-old teacher of La Sape and sapeur for 36 years, Brazzaville - Tariq Zaidi, 2017 There is no rule that says a goatherd can't dress like this.

Clementine Biniakoulou, 52-year-old housewife and sapeuse for 36 years, Brazzaville - Tariq Zaidi, 2017

The cruelty is the point.

A Dull Afternoon — Edward Gorey, 1974

i think this is true to some extent but it's easy to underestimate the extent to which society does not really care about women or children despite many ostentatious declarations to the contrary

hiiiii politico I know you're new to this and not to brag but I've been reading the news for quite a while now so I wanted to let you know that when somebody is serving a prison term for crimes they have been found guilty of you actually no longer have to say that they are merely "alleged"

Gustave Callibotte. Rooftops Under Snow. 1878/9 Oil on Canvas.

This morning’s swordplay. The joy of learning something new (and on your own) is permission to just focus on how something sounds and feels. I’m a sensory person. I find the sound of wind, metal quite satisfying, and meditative in the morning. #jian #straightsword

And it would help this effort if every Dem said something along the lines of "We *know* he rapes women. The only question is does he also rape girls."

They don’t even necessarily *know* whether they’re using LLMs anymore. What’s OK? Summaries, Grammarly? Brainstorming? Their college has an institutional subscription to ChatGPT, so why is their prof mad at them for using it?

An unfortunate effect of AI: for all the talk of it enabling “creativity,” many of us feel forced by its utility for plagiarism to move toward more restrictive and surveillant measures in the classroom. In the last few years the classroom is of necessity becoming more locked down than it ever was.

Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.

The IRS is a tax agency we have to interact with, and also a key means that a lot of safety net programs (EITC, CTC) are delivered. Since Trump took over, the IRS has *lost 3/4ths of agency leadership *one quarter of employees *is now on its 8th leader New leader has no experience, also leading SSA