Photographer: Imogen Cunningham

Every time someone sets off fireworks in my neighborhood I rush to check the news to see if they’re celebrating that It Finally Happened.

Clever people for quite a while have sort of worked out that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'. Trump seems to go straight to 'my friend is my enemy'. Which makes things a bit confusing.

In a just world, I would never have to know who Donald Trump is, much less have to worry about anything he might think, do, or say.

A true role model bsky.app/profile/mich...

A secretive political organisation is paying influencers US$1500 per post to attack a young, female Democratic candidate in an upcoming primary in Illinois. I'd expect to see something similiar coming from Advance ahead of the Farrer byelection, and electoral laws struggle to respond.

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

Freedom is a heavy load by Ursula K. LeGuin

Frankly, if this comes as any surprise then you really need to start paying attention.

I’d tweak this slightly by saying “Epstein class” rather than “capitalists” but otherwise, yeah

People who have the ability to send us to war should have to take drug tests first. Drugs fuck with perception of reality. Simulate thoughts and feelings that aren't rationally supported. Give false enthusiasm and a feeling of self-praise. Hegseth, Rubio, Trump NEED TO PEE IN A CUP!

R. E. Meatyard

"The things that will DESTROY US are: POLITICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLES; PLEASURE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE; WEALTH WITHOUT WORK; knowledge without character; BUSINESS WITHOUT MORALITY; SCIENCE WITHOUT HUMANITY; and worship without sacrifice." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I don't watch award shows so I missed this at the time. Way to go Ricky! youtu.be/NDY_vIrgq-w?...

News and culture is very rapidly being dominated by administration-aligned companies. It's actually astonishing how fast this has happened. And it's not stopping. Today will be a significant detail in the many, many textbooks that will be written about the era I fear we're still at the start of.

The inimitable Francesca Woodman

Somebody else is doing her time for her

Jarring to consider....

Sign outside restaurant in Japan...

You don't know me but I'm your brother I was raised here in this living hell You don't know my kind in your world Fairly soon the time will tell You Telling me the things you're gonna do for me I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see Takin' it to the streets