4/14 The stunning account of Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz — the UMaine alum civil engineer taken from his car in Portland during the ICE surge in January — who today partnered with the ACLU of Maine to sue the agents who took him #maine #MEpolitics

OMG you guys!! He lost! Orban is done! Congratulations to the Hungarian people! Next it’s going to be us!

Imagining Bela Tarr looking down from Beckett heaven right now, smiling at Orban’s fate.

No Kings march, Buffalo - from Niagara Square up Delaware. A good turnout given the cold & wind (it was snowing a bit!). Lots of creative and expressive signs, including "NOT TODAY SprAyTAN"... Saw a young man completely wrapped in the transgender flag, standing motionless for ages, bearing witness.

Trump Demands Allies Do Their Fair Share To Fuck Up The World https://theonion.com/trump-demands-allies-do-their-fair-share-to-fuck-up-the-world/

Odense Zoo, March 14

2: •we're in a complement of The Truman Show, with Donald as conscious focus & the rest of us only dimly aware we're being milked for entertainment content •when interacting with AI it calls my questions 'genuinely important & interesting', & often says that I am 'right to push back'. I'm special.

I'm sorry, but this snowstorm just looks FAKE to me. -at the house in Burlington, Vermont www.instagram.com/reel/DUmFcgK...

Emit a tale woven one vowel at a time. #palindrome

THIS STATUS IS JOY I have confused the letters that were in the poem and which you were busily scribbling for a book Forgive me they were a pale view so sad and so exact #anagram

Out today! Amazing music, performed with absolutely stunning artistry.

scratch it off the list: finally saw "Jeanne Dielman ..."

Ahem with all this snow and ice lately it's a bit much.

Meiselas: precisely

Trump Alleges That Democrats Secretly Paid Alex Pretti To Be Model Citizen https://theonion.com/trump-alleges-that-democrats-secretly-paid-alex-pretti-to-be-model-citizen/

The Western New York Peace Center held a vigil at Bidwell Parkway and Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo on Saturday for Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol agents.

🚨 NEW — Statement from the family of Alex Pretti: "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital... 1/

O Germany, white mom! How soiled you are As you sit among the peoples. Among the shit-spattered You really stand out. -brecht [germany 1933/my gloss]

Jan-23-2026 "Among Hispanic voters who supported Trump, only 8% express outright regret and 19% are disappointed—meaning 27% total have soured on him, while 71% still feel positively about their choice. So roughly three-quarters of his Hispanic supporters are sticking with him." [Weareequis]

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

This book, incredible for its perceptions, penetration into pigment and psychology, connections that come to life and fully convince across art forms & social class & historical epoch & much more. Relevant to musicians in all kinds of ways. Imo

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny https://theonion.com/all-6-branches-of-armed-forces-present-at-arrest-of-undocumented-nanny/

Today I'd say the most perfect film I've seen is Kiarostami's 'Where Is the Friend's House?' True, it's very simple, minimalist, with low production values, so it sidesteps the 'dangers' of many movies. Yet its cinematic arc, casting, poetry, lens-spirit relative to its people & places - sublime.

Man Gets Into Mess Usually Reserved For Stars Of Silent Film Era https://theonion.com/man-gets-into-mess-usually-reserved-for-stars-of-silent-1819570481/

They’re not even trying to hide the white supremacy any more.

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secular humanist u.s. citizens, transpose as necessary

Ihop Jan 1 2026

Textbook 'dusting'

As wonderful as Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev is it gets a negative ∞ for animal treatment. Good Lord.

Kendrick Lamar Awarded Nobel Beef Prize

D’Souza’s apologetic fallacy #maklelan3049 youtu.be/fAh-6Q2gj9k

Just watched Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) for the first time. Speechless, me and it.

It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person. -Hari Kunzru <perhaps an obvious, old-hat point but nicely formulated and still crucial>

Celebrating the day with a little Kreutzer action

Study Finds Young People Now Watch More YouTube Content Than Zoetropes Of Galloping Horses https://theonion.com/study-finds-young-people-now-watch-more-youtube-content-than-zoetropes-of-galloping-horses/

Meet two heroes of our times.

Seen at Cleveland Museum of Art. I don't believe I've come across this sort of monochrome Stella before. Amazing!

Niagara Square earlier today

Shocker of all shockers...

Responding to the Secretary of War #maklelan2913 youtube.com/shorts/fXR1t...