Twelve Coffee Pots  -   William Kentridge , 2012

"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."

President Trump's deployment of the DC National Guard to patrol national monuments, pick up trash and shovel mulch in its home city is projected to cost taxpayers $201 million. That's more than $1.8 million per day.

Think of the waste this involves

people are starting to speak up about the Argentina bailout

Genuinely wonderful news. Huntington's is a monstrous, monstrous disease.

Hillary Clinton: "When I hear people like Kennedy talking about getting back to a time where we aren't vaccinating, we're drinking raw milk - yeah, & people didn't live! I mean, this is so crazy, it's so wrongheaded, it's so shortsighted and it's going to cause deaths... it already is costing lives"

watched a documentary about the making of megalopolis last night and I really think we should encourage more rich people to spend more time pursuing extremely iconoclastic artistic visions and less time fucking up every workable aspect of society

This guy led the cancel culture moral panic on campus even when some of us were pointing out that we had much more to fear from state censorship

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

happy birthday Gritty

If anyone’s interested, editors now prefer binary reviews - to generate online heat - and pressure their critic teams to deliver slatings or hymnings. A standard three star review (like this) will not get you much work as a freelancer, unless you’re happy to have it headlined as a pasting.

Edward Okuń (1872-1945)

Bluesky, ilustración gráfica:

Three happy boys — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe, 1889

Glorifying the American Girl, 1929

Briscoe Park

"Serengeti Christmas Tree" — Paul Kirui, 2020 www.instagram.com/reel/DNL0Gu7...

1947

Edwin Georgi

Briscoe Park

The Drinker — Michel Fingesten, 1919

Pasadena, CA — Elliott Erwitt, 1963

Fatebe Reverse Gallop — Ebecho Muslimova, 2020

Zobeide and the Winged Serpent (from The Arabian Nights) — John Batten, 1915

Dog, Colima, México, c. 100 CE earthenware

Renzo Picasso

La Belle Epigue, from Miss Piggy's Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Kermitage Collection — Michael K. Frith, 1984

Hilda — Duane Bryers

Monument de la Renaissance Africaine, Dakar, Senegal — Pierre Goudiaby, 2010 Bronze 52 m/171 ft, built on 100 m hill

Mego Star Trek Action Playset, 1975

Noel Streatfeild — Lewis Baumer, 1926 oil on canvas 30 in. x 25 in.

Genesis 1:2 — Robert Crumb, 2009

The Supreme Court to Black Americans

The Bronx

Cat with a Ball of Wool — Richard Müller, 1922

this insane space plutocrat was in charge of the whole government for like six months, probably killed a lot of people worldwide, compromised essentially everyone’s security, and made everything infinitely shoddier but no less expensive. And he is the guy who’s supposed to take us back to the moon.

When the world is 20% scams and 50% bubbles, having self-confidence and charisma, even if temporary and chemically induced, is better than ideas or expertise.

The sound of Ukraine

Eurana Park, Weatherly, PA — Judith Joy Ross, 1985

ultimate utilitarian debate brain moment — “nooooooo my imagined infinite future happiness outweighs the very real suffering in front of me”

#OtD 24 Sep 1968 14 men (including five priests and a minister) raided a federal office in Milwaukee, took 10,000 draft cards, and set them on fire with homemade napalm in protest of the Vietnam war. Learn more about opposition to the war in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e...

Yes and also we all aren't outrage jukeboxes, you can't just press a button and have us be outraged on request. We're all allowed to focus on what we want and where we feel our voices will be effective right now, and trust that others will fight the other fights worth fighting. It's a group effort.

I'm back in the fucking building.

Just sayin...

Sitka

I'm sure if a Democratic elected official mandated that a left-wing organization had to be given access to all of a state's public schools, they would be completely fine with it and would never ever call it "grooming" or "indoctrination" or anything.

New gender dropped. Lorraine Bracco photographed by Peter Lindbergh for a Vogue France profile in 1990 to promote Goodfellas.