“Are you wearing—“ “The Duomo-Ponte Vecchio-Colosseo-Torre di Pisa body suit? Yeah, I am.”

Israel’s Gaza policy in three paragraphs

I wanna go

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

“Might we ask what it is within the, shall we say, Nordic? disposition, which endeeears them so to the collectivist, and agitating elements within our society, one’s so much [cough] darker than themselves?”

“Where in the video do you see that he was assaulting law enforcement? Because from everything we’ve seen, law enforcement was assaulting him.” “Dana, law enforcement doesn’t assault anyone” This is an essential aspect of the fascist mentality—cops can’t assault people *by definition*

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

Get ready folks

To even bring up the authoritarian and oppressive nature of Maduro’s regime is to concede that the Trump administration has any interest whatsoever in promoting democracy in Venezuela and assit in confusing the issue. Trump is *literally* saying what this is about but people refuse to listen

Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment

New year, new stick

Ending the year as we began it

Brought Rachel to one of the hometown pilgrimage sites

Got Edwin Drood Christmas so now just one away from completing this decade-long project

Spurs with three straight wins against the Thunder … joyeux noël!

Brought Agnes to Rachel’s mom’s house—seems like she knows she’s about to be left for a week

Countdown to the first time I hear someone refer to the “Trump Kennedy Center” and I will finally be forced to leave DC

Agnes met Santa

😢

it’s interesting to see so many MAGA folks acting shocked at Trump’s statement, which is basically the same as every Trump statement I’ve ever seen

Happy Hanukkah (excuse the lilting shamash)

Happy Hanukkah (excuse the lilting shamash)

I can’t believe this Rivers thing is happening. One of the greatest stories in recent sports history (unless he dies)

The girls enjoying the new TV (not pictured)

Philadelphia story Friday

Agnes is sitting so stately

Gehry + Varda à Paris

Love him or hate him (and I’ve done both, though certainly more the former than the latter) Frank Gehry was a true innovator and an icon (in several senses) and probably the last great representative of architecture as a serious popular art form. Real end of an era. RIP

Another day of 17th century Jansenist readings comes to a merciful close

Saints Agnes

Enough is enough. Gonna be on here more

Fuck this shit

I’m Mr Blue Sky