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The Beatles in Hamburg, June 26, 1966

Bottom-of-backpack discovery.

Deep-cover R2-D2 at Kansas rest stop.

What’s your favorite band?

Connor O'Malley has some amazing short films: "We left [Ireland] because they figured they didn't know how to do potatoes. But they figured out how to make curly fries and how to make waffle-cup fries. We're going back because we're getting our fries back."

Waiting to hear that the Iran peace agreement will require Trump to admit that the 2020 election was fair and to make a public statement about how he loves his sons and thinks they are competent. A day of celebration honoring windmills and low-water toilets is still being negotiated.

Here’s the shop dog at a food ‘n’ stuff in the Ozarks. His name is Captain Hook. I gave him a treat. He shook my hand.

Ed Valtman on Reagan winning the California Republican gubernatorial primary, June 1966.

“‘When we’re interacting with AI, we feel we’re becoming better at certain tasks and there’s enough research that shows we are not,’ says Anku Rani, a PhD student at MIT and co-lead author of the study.”

“First, the new paint job appeared uneven. Then, an algae bloom turned the water an acid green. Now, large chunks of coating are peeling off the basin…alongside patches of pea green in a dark, murky soup. The Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial seems to be rejecting its makeover.”

Views from the Ozarks

Hahaha it sounds like he was talking to his own fart. Like, he answered it as though his fart interrupted to ask “Sir, was the election rigged?”

Mix of hydrogen peroxide and Monster Ultra Paradise energy drink. Unleash the beast, broh!!

For de interesserte: jeg har en artikkel ute hos Kirke og kultur der jeg skriver om kamoen om den amerikanske skolen og om det kristennasjonalistiske prosjektet: www.scup.com/doi/10.18261...

An advertisement for Merrell's Female Tonic in the Kansas Prohibitionist, December 16, 1886.

Everyone here in KC is talking about the World Cup. But Clownball is the only game I’m interested in.

“One of the stranger, though beguiling, aspects of the evening was watching the United States Marine Band, which has performed for every president since John Adams, play the entrance music for each fighter. This included the cheesy ’80s anthem ‘Real American,’ popularized by Hulk Hogan…”

Have fallen down a rabbit hole. Listening to 5th Beatle Jimmy Nicol’s 1960s singles. youtu.be/7s2thBVdRYo?...

Sky Potato

UFO Sky Potato might be a good name for a spoof prog rock group.

David Hockney, “Tree Tunnel, August” (2005).

This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.

“KELLY: So he says this, and then he says that…If the president keeps contradicting himself, why are we talking about it? LIASSON: Because he is the president of the United States…What does it mean that this powerful person acts this way, doesn't seem to have a clear plan or strategy?”

"The Beatles are more popular." Joaquín de Alba, Washington Daily News, August 10, 1966.

Mark Twain in 1907: “Roosevelt is the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War—but the vast mass of the nation loves him….It sounds like a libel upon the intelligence of the human race, but it isn’t; there isn’t any way to libel the intelligence of the human race.”

"Well, that's one way of using your head!" H.M. Talburt on the GOP vs the New Deal, December 1933.

Gene Bassett's cartoon of the authorities/HUAC vs the protest counterculture, August 1966.

"He says he's planning a trip with LSD..." Joaquín de Alba, August 1966.

Herblock on Nixon’s authoritarian law enforcement instincts, June 1971.

Huh. It’s almost like you can’t trust what he says. “For weeks, the president has swung between predicting peace and threatening a return to full-scale war, leaving it unclear when or how the fight with Iran might end.”

Somewhere, Roy Cohn is smiling www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

“Trump’s America has the virtue of simplicity: no initial divisions; no loyalists and patriots, or Native peoples and settlers…unfair imprisonment, white-nationalist undercurrents. Imperfection is for losers, and America is a winner. It had to have been great in the past…”

I did a series of these back in the first Trump admin. Returning to it for the Great Unvaccinator. #FunWithPhotoshop

A poster for Rev David Noebel's 1969 anti-Beatles tour.

H.M. Talburt draws former president Herbert Hoover, author of "My Wreckord," offering his sage advice about the direction of the country, 1935.

"Forgotten Pages of History." Editorial cartoonist Henry Brown on African Americans and the American Revolution in the Chicago Defender, January 13, 1934.

Corn corn corn corn corn puddin'!

“The very foundation of our civilization is being undermined!” H.M. Talburt on conservative political posturing and wealth inequality, 1934.

“The Trump administration was deceived by the illusions of quick victory….[Reporting indicates] General Dan Caine had warned Trump that Iranians could shut down the Strait of Hormuz in response to a US attack, and [Trump] had dismissed it. He had said that Iran will surrender much faster than that…”

'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3

Grade school octagon

The American section of a Kristiansand shop.

Rubio has all the sweaty, falsifying energy of Martin Short’s Nathan Thurm character.

“When we're designing a study to a new cancer therapeutic, do you want Russell Vought [head of the White House's Office of Management and Budget], who is not a scientist, to determine which immunotherapy is ready to go into a phase 3 trial?”

"The enemy within the gates." Fred Wright on the costs of the Vietnam War and domestic social needs, December 1969.

“What are we going to remember from 250th? The cage fight on the president's birthday and Trump on the $250 bill? There's nothing here that is worthy of the country. And even the things that the president has set his heart most fixedly on [the concert] are turning into fiascos…”

“…on Monday, after days of haggling with Iranian officials through intermediaries on a preliminary agreement, Mr. Trump declared it was starting ‘to get very boring.’…‘I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over.’”

Ely's Cream Balm, 1887

A young Sam Clemens in 1853 NYC, writing to his sister, Pamela, about his walking regimen: “Four times every day I walk a little over one mile. And working hard all day and walking four miles is exercise. I am used to it now, though, and it is no trouble.”