www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/m... For Tony Rayns (1948-2026)

apnews.com/article/rahm... No fan of Rahm g-d knows but whatever his motives I gotta like this. Can't wait to see him attacked as a self-hating antiSemite or Hamas stooge by the ADL, Bret Stephens, Ben-Kvir, Tablet & whatever Republican neo-crusaders are still out there.

In what official capacity

www.nytimes.com/athletic/742... The king Midas of shitification strikes again, transforming a team of plucky underdogs into a demoralized band of overentitled losers. (Meanwhile, the perpetually snakebit Mets rallied 2x in the 9th & 10th innings to beat the Atlanta bullies.)

This published 8 years ago. The KKK helped shut the Golden Door in 1924. Trump's father was arrested at a violent Klan rally in Jamaica, Queens, Memorial Day 1927. I've always figured him supporting the Nazi-loving German American Bund--wish someone could prove it. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Finished version

Asked google a.i. for "Barn with cows. Farmer on stool milking tranquil cow marked USA. Farmer has Trump features. Standing behind holding out empty pails are two farm boys marked Don Jr and Eric. This should be drawn in the style of newspaper cartoonist Herblock"

Possible example of American exceptionalism: Is ours the world's first or only the world's most blatant kleptocracy?

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u... Another parapraxic tell: Watergate is only negligible in comparison to Trump's unending cascade of impeachable (not to mention criminal) offenses. Ambitious Vance naturally identifies w an elderly president's sparky young VP (albeit one a bit brighter than he).

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/w... Tel Aviv dep mayor Asaf Zamir: "I’m a left wing 2-state pro-peace Israeli but I’m not blind or crazy. I know the situation in Israel & we’re not those things we’re being called yet more & more Americans are buying into & voting on those grounds. That troubles me."

Good Trouble on Morningside Hgts: So is Columbia gonna acknowledge that prospective Congress-women Darializa Avila Chevalier & Claire Valdez were both associated w the university? DAC = grad student in sociology & CV = program asst in visual arts dept. (Also both were organizers w my old union UAW)

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u... Haitians (and Haiti) STILL being punished for their successful revolution

We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

Master of parapraxic disclosure Trump is chasing his shadow. Anyone not part of his cult can see that the "Radical Lunatic" defacing the national Reflecting Pool (the White House, the National Mall, the US Constitution), is Trump himself--right again.

Socialists Won Big in NYC Last Night and Aren’t Done Winning - Via: Jacobin jacobin.com/2026/06/dsa-...

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u... Read thru to the end to get the full extent to which the Trump regime aims to rewrite American history in blatant white supremacist terms--it's a tryout for a new gradeschool syllabus that combines white-washing with brainwashing.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... About time

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u... 'Mr. Trump blamed at least some of the problems on “vandalism” by people who he said were out “to destroy and demean our beautiful work.”' Speaking about himself per usual. Trump is the King Midas of shitification. Everything (& everybody) he touches, turns to shit

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u... Why not "Inside Hegseth's White Supremacist Agenda"? Let him sue for libel if he dares.

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w... “Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time ," Mr Vance said. Uh-oh. As Paul (a/k/a Saul) might have told Bibi "A man reaps what he sows."

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w... Welcome to our world Bibi! No matter how much the Dear Leader (a/k/a טאקו) thinks he done for the Jewish people, the writing was on the wall when son-in-law Jared pivoted from developing the Gaza beachfront to Albania's.

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o... Q: Why is this "bargain" better than all other bargains? A: B/c although it only cost the US $29 billion (plus est $130 billion losses to the economy) & less than 10,000 Iranians & Lebanese have died, it is essentially a weaker version of the Obama/Kerry deal.

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/m... Designated pull-quote: "Blatantly amateurish chunk of no-budget, lo-fi cinematic antimatter"

newrepublic.com/article/2118... One can only hope!

www.filmcomment.com/article/pen-... Rapping with the great Radu Jude...

hellgatenyc.com/knicks-overc... Hed says it all

This is what it should look like in front of the White House every day

The mayor showed up at a bar in Astoria to watch the game last night. www.reddit.com/r/nyc/commen...

Big test for boss Dolan protection-wise. Big test also for Mayor Mamdani who piggybacked a campaign ad on Knicks's Wed win and has said he'll be there too. What's the seating plan? Will Spike scrunch over for Zohru?

I expect to hear the booing in my apartment 17 blocks north of the Garden.

Can't wait for the Don to announce DC's classy new ICE concentrate camp

I'll hold my nose and watch

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w... Amazing guy. Years before I saw Chronicle of a Summer, I stumbled on a remaindered Grove press pbk copy of Les Stars in a 4th Ave used bookstore ca 1973 & it blew my mind.

If you're in Paris...

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u... Deft job. Great unknown to me pix of Paradise Now at & Motherfucker takeover at the Fillmore East. Everything is Now pp316-22. Might have mentioned Ben's work with Aldo Tambellini & involved in the Stonewall fracas as well.

If you're in Paris...

www.nybooks.com/articles/202... Jack Smith (left) & Jonas Mekas (rear right) help Barbara Rubin (center) dress the set for her 1967 mixed media extravaganza Caterpillar Changes, photo by the VV's invaluable man about (down) town, Fred McDarrah Everything is Now pp 235, 255

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/m... A deranged rom-com in the guise of a classically constructed Hollywood farce, it’s also an unclassifiable psychodrama. May acted out onscreen & behind the scenes, filing a lawsuit against Paramount after the studio shortened her original 3-hour cut by over a third.

tribecacitizen.com/2026/05/08/t... This just popped up in the neighborhood trumpsonian.us/rr

Off the pile #5 As mediocre as I remember it, this echt 60s twilight western (a vehicle for Lee Marvin's on again off again mustache, a simpering Jeanne Moreau & miscast Jack Palance) has one of the best western theme songs since Johnny Guitar, sung by Cass Elliot www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpzg...

www.momaps1.org/en/programs/... So much funkier, weirder & just better than the Whitney Biennial. The most positive expression of local culture since ZM's election. Super stuff through out but for me, Kameron Neal's installation of 16mm police surveillance footage 1960-80 was tops. Admission free

detritusbooks.com/products/ful... Ben Morea (1940-2026) Son of San Juan Hill, cohort of the Becks & Aldo Tambellini, inspiration for Trashman, founder of Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, stormed Pentagon, occupied Columbia & Fillmore, present at Stonewall, cut fence at Woodstock

Cost of Iran war spent by Trump/GOP: More than $25 Billion for two months. Cost of ACA subsidies cancelled by Trump/GOP: $35 Billion for one year.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u... Antisemitism in the US (or France) is exactly what Netanyahu & cohort want (& even encourage), namely the idea that to be a Jew is to be a Zionist or automatic supporter of Israel. Interesting that the NYT didn't bother to get quotes from senators Sanders or Ossoff

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/m... Anna Magnani was less an actress than a force of nature. Cast as the working-class stage mother who animates Visconti’s 1951 “Bellissima,” this donna del popolo turned diva could give chutzpah lessons to Mama Rose, her stage-struck counterpart in the musical “Gypsy.”

Unfit to command...in the eyes of his military commanders.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... You CAN make this stuff up!

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/m... Neither a backhanded compliment nor a dis to say the film, shot by the great Peter Hutton, looks better than it sounds.