Putin’s Russia must be stopped. It has no place at the table of civilized nations. I stand with Ukraine.

The roll-call of creatives and givers we lost this year is nearly as troubling as the list of harmful shitbags we didn’t.

Features of recently announced Trump-class warship include: • 60% Russian funded • Postures/threatens but avoids physical conflict • Saves money by not paying crew • Pageant dressing room stealth mode • Bankrupts any port it enters • If sunk by enemy vessel claims it was not sunk

Find someone who’s comfortable in your silence and who invites you into theirs. And by ‘someone,’ I mean ‘a cat.’ Go get a fucking cat.

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

If Not Now, When? It's time for the 25th Amendment www.againstallenemies.net/p/if-not-now...

I finished reading “The Blacktongue Thief” by @buehlmeister.bsky.social while delayed at the airport getting home from Thanksgiving. Kinch and Bully Boy have been living rent-free in my brain since and refuse to leave. I felt compelled to draw them. #theblacktonguethief #jeniidrawsshit #fanart

Tarantino is a director whose work I enjoy, but him trashing talented actors just because he thinks the world really needs to know his goodzez and badzez is a pretty ‘basic bitch’ look.

So, the closest historical analogs to Trump seem IMO to be Nero and Henry VIII. Henry is more accomplished, and not a physical coward, but equally cruel, misogynistic, and bad for the country. Nero is just a toxic, talentless, privileged cunt who wants constant praise. But yeah. Good times.

So, Notre Dame is STUNNING post clean-up. Wow. New paint, who dis? #NotreDamedeParis #NotreDame #Paris #Cathedral #France #MoyenAge

I’m pretty good with romance languages, but I checked out Polish on Duolingo and after about 3 lessons it felt like I had beefed with the toughest dude in the bar. I was like “This cauliflower-eared MF doesn’t even need vowels—I’m sorry, please don’t stand up, I’ll see myself out.”

I just want to say that I love you fuckers. Especially the freaks. I see you and I’m here for it. Gooble Gobble.

Rest in Peace, Tom Stoppard. Farewell to a truly brilliant man.

I’m ready to start calling him Pete Hagueseth. #Warcrimes #Venezuela

Sigo avanzando por Le France 🇫🇷 del 1348 y cada vez me gusta más este libro. No que los franceses mueran a carretadas, me refiero a lo bien y acertado que escribe @buehlmeister.bsky.social y lo bien que ha traducido el grandísimo @manueldelosreyes.com 🤭

🔥'Entre dos fuegos'🔥, de @buehlmeister.bsky.social 📖 @ozeditorial.com, 26/1/26 en librerías. Preventa CON ÍTEMS en @gigamesh.com gigamesh.com/entre-dos-fu... 💜📚 Terror Medieval, traduce @manueldelosreyes.com y estoy con las galeradas (que está tan pulido que ni hace falta. Es el mejor Manuel) 😈📖

In Bologna. Please enjoy this photo my good friend took of the famously uncouth light source Manspreadio Lampusa.

I just want to say that I’m personally disgusted by most US policies right now. We should be fully supporting Ukraine, insisting on justice for Palestine, turning away from fossil fuels, making healthcare and education accessible to everyone, and treating immigrants humanely. Fuck this.

The world desperately needs to stop burning fossil fuels, but the oligarchic kakistocracy in the US wants to start a war with oil-rich Venezuela to steal its resources. Iraq 2.0, without even trying very hard to sell it because they’ve got troops in our streets ready to crush dissent.

Pompeii

"How dare you accuse this murderer of murdering someone he murdered."

My tax dollars, when not buying bombs to drop on kids in Gaza or hiring boot camp washouts to cosplay as paramilitary thugs in Chicago, are apparently feeding lavish meals to antidemocratic billionaires and murderers. Awesome. I wonder when my Franco-Irish friend Gill O’teen will show up to dinner.

If I were in Game of Thrones, my household saying would be “This comment looks similar to others that have been reported.”

One of the most disingenuous arguments you will ever hear is when an opponent of your point of view re: collective policy says “Well why aren’t you doing it?” Examples: “Go fight for Ukraine personally, then” or “Invite a refugee family into your house, then.”

I have long felt that when the spatchcocked sellouts that comprise today’s Republican congress finally turn on Trump, they’ll do it out of self interest and in lockstep. Friends, I believe the moment is nigh.

pro tip: innocent people don't work this hard to keep the files that prove their innocence a secret

If you’re looking for immersive folk horror, let David Barnett take you to seaside town Scuttler’s Cove, where London money and ye olde local gods are about to collide. Having visited Cornwall for the first time last year, I can tell you that this quick, fun read felt like going back there.

Out on my local trail a lot these days enjoying the last embers of the season. Late Autumn in Ohio is melancholy, cold, and beautiful—you can feel the snow coming.

Happy Wednesday!

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The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

So the US government is too shut down to feed our own hungry citizens, but not too shut down to murder Venezuelans, build a $300 million dollar ballroom where the East Wing used to be, or deploy untrained thugs to manhandle Spanish-speakers on our streets. Got it. Are we fucking great yet?

Apparently cat wife missed me while hooman wife and I were away celebrating the latter’s birthday.

Another watercolor done on vacation, this one based on two dogs who barked at me in San Miguel de Allende three years ago. One can hardly blame them, I was clearly up to no good.

I wonder if Bob Seger is currently nostalgic for his youthful nostalgia.

Here here. You know, the Putin dicksuckery couldn’t be more obvious. Hegseth in a Russian flag tie and the side of the White House facing Moscow knocked down? Trump’s going to make Employee of the Month at the Kremlin.

And this, for those who want to put a toe in the water with my work, or to add an ebook to their collection. UNDER HEAVEN is much less than a coffee this week in US, at all the usual-suspect ebook retailers.

Rainy morning in Dayton. Played around with watercolors a little bit.

Big turnout for the No Kings rally in Dayton. Can’t wait to see what they looked like in the rest of this big, beautiful country.

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

Am I expecting trouble at the No Kings rally today? No. Am I wearing my favorite pair of glasses there? Also no 😂 #NoKings #DefendtheConstitution #ProAmerica #AntiOligarch #AntiRacist 🇺🇸 ✌🏼

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

it's getting rapidly memory-holed that in 2012 kennedy claimed to a divorce judge that the brainworm affected his brain function and therefore future earning potential www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

Come on by tonight, PA-NJ-NY-MD folks!