Sgt Rock! If you ever want to really enjoy some good comics, I highly recommend digging into any of Joe Kubert's Sgt Rock stories. They are amazing. Mostly because of what Kubert brought to it. I took a crack at Sarge, but Kubert is the only one who can really do the character justice.

The only people missing from this are Jonathan Turley, Mike Lindell and the rest of the characters from the the Mos Eisley Cantina.

Stephen Miller looking like he's about to flick a cigarette into the trail of oil leading to the building where all the innocents are trapped. And Dan Scavino looking like ... well.

3/3 Another two-faced devil from Michael Pacher, who was v. good at imagining them. This one from his Christ in Limbo.

“That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law based on his own say so,” said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer. interc.pt/3Y42cKm

Trump would much rather have you talking about a Vanity Fair article than the decades he spent sexually assaulting little girls w/Jeffrey Epstein or all the money he launders for the Russian mob. Remember that and react accordingly. He’s adept at media manipulation & distraction.

I’m old enough to remember when certain influencer folks were trying to convince us that the Democrats deal to open up the government was well played. If we ever get back in power we should dump the dead weight post haste. Stop playing into their hands.

2/2 Fab demon moments of the Renaissance c/o Michael Pacher, whose day is today.

Devil: see, this is an EVIDENCE BASED argument! St. Wolfgang: sorry, that is not a peer-reviewed journal. By Michael Pacher, 1479. It's his day.

PEOPLE MAG ON MUSK VS. MEMPHIS: “Resident says she can’t open windows anymore because of rotten smell from living near Elon’s data center in BOXTOWN…” No community input. Just vague promises of jobs and investment. @MemphisChamber @mayorpaulyoung people.com/resident-liv...

Please read every word of this article, and please pass it on. We need to understand the day to day reality of what’s happening, and know how to help. It is no exaggeration to say that the United States is under occupation, and we are in the beginning stages of another Underground Railroad.

Remembering Eddie Kendricks today on what would have been his 86th birthday (born December 17, 1939) | Explore The Temptations co-founder's musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/EKendricksHBD

HAPPENING NOW: About a dozen faith leaders chained themselves to San Francisco's immigration court, blocking the entrance. "If you come for them, you'll have to go through us," the group sang. Dozens rallied alongside them, hoping to shut the building down for the day.

This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.

Only fascists get enraged at antifa. 75 yrs ago the US was in the business of killing fascists on sight - no questions asked...and we did a great job

It frankly observed that it produces “plausible-sounding but fictitious” outputs inconsistent with academic standards.

Since today is the 30th anniversary of HEAT.

New UK MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations. Tech creates “peril” as weapons, drones and robots inflicted devastation on the battlefield, and some algorithms could “become as powerful as states”. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Joshua Tree National Park In stillness, the land waits. Shaped by wind. Its rhythm moves without hurry. Time slows where silence endures. Calm lingers in the embrace of nature. #photography #joshuatreenps #California #desertlandscapes #landscapephotography #desert #joshuatreenationalpark

ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Canter’s staff shaped the deli into what it is today: a place where a stranger is treated like a regular, and a regular is treated like family. Here we speak with three employees with a combined 133 years working at the Fairfax landmark. The full story: lataco.com/canters-deli... By Lauren Bethke

‘Heat’ at 30: Michael Mann’s Meticulous Masterpiece of Both Style and Substance That Transcends Genre ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/heat/

NYT op-ed reminds billionaires to heed the French Revolution, mentions Network State cultists Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan. "It’s as if the sheer scale of this wealth, which beggars even the riches of the Gilded Age, has induced a kind of class sociopathy." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

David Teniers, born OTD in 1610, made a painted inventory of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm's amazing art collection. Here, Mantegna's Saint Sebastian & Teniers' somewhat revised copy of it.

happy 30th

The action is the juice. For HEAT’s 30th anniversary, I spoke with Chris Ryan, INDUSTRY’s Mickey Down & Konrad Kay, @oneblakeminute.bsky.social, and @katiewalshstx.bsky.social about the film’s legacy and impact. Link to the Men’s Health story below. Proud of this one: dub.sh/zNIYOsg

The 🇺🇸American epic crime drama film "HEAT" written and directed by Michael Mann starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1995 🎬 Warner Bros.

“If the last decade was shaped by viral lies and doctored videos, the next will be shaped by a subtler force: [AI] messages that sound reasonable, familiar, and just persuasive enough to change hearts and minds,” warn Tal Feldman and Aneesh Pappu. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/05/1...

Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark.

Essential reading via @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2041... Side note on Greg's gripping opening anecdote about Miller's family: in 2016 I saw Miller open a Trump rally in Johnstown, PA, boasting about their successful business there, portraying them as the "good" immigrants.

Today, @rohangrey.bsky.social kicks off a series on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency, by considering the Left's missed opportunities and explaining how it can reclaim control over the future of money.

It does. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Read my full remarks here ↓ www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/foreign...

The Donbas isn’t Putin’s end game. If he gets it, he will demand more. We know this from history and we should learn from history. Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Marvin Gaye released ‘Here, My Dear’ 47 years ago on December 15, 1978 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/MGayeHMD

NEW JERSEY — bonkers… the husband of an ICE agent uses her marked car to pretend to be Homeland Security and respond to a call HE MADE HIMSELF… with a gun and sirens and everything.

Saw this video of Tristan Harris on Diary of a CEO sharing what AI-tech bros have shared regarding their motivations pursuing this technology. It’s horrifying. These tech ghouls have us all on a suicide mission because of their EGOS. 🫠

Mass market paperbacks were always my favourite format. Made the idea and the feel of a book so exciting - a compact self-contained world you could carry round in your pocket. Genuinely sad they’re going. Trade paperbacks are just the ‘cheap’ version of a hardback. Not their own thing at all.

Born on this day in 1610, in Antwerp, my younger colleague & friend David Teniers. Incredibly diverse painter. Here having a Boschy moment for Temptation of Saint Anthony, complete w/ A+ flying demons.

#OneHitHistory Carl Carlton’s other US #Top40 hit was “Everlasting love,” co-written & co-produced by Buzz Cason… He’s a US #OneHitWonder honoree, too, but not under that name. In 1960, under the pseudonym Garry Miles, Cason earned US #OneHitWonder honors with “Looking for a Star.” #OneHitWondered

#OneHitHistory No, Carl Carlton didn't earn US #OneHitWonder honors... (As the 'blaster pointed out, he had 2 hits). Leon Haywood, who wrote/produced "She's a Bad Mama Jama" did, though. He had his US #Top40 hit in 1975 with "I Want'a Do Something Freaky To You." Carl Carlton R.I.P. #OneHitWondered