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Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
September 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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A scene from The Iliad, famous in Greek and Roman art, here engraved onto a gold ring as an intaglio seal: the Trojan princess Kassandra clutching at the ancient wooden statue of the goddess Athena, as Troy falls. Ajax the Lesser would rip her away, defiling the statue and temple. 🏺 1/

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September 17, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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According to Forbes, the Tesla Cyber Truck has surpassed the Edsel as the worst selling vehicle in history.
September 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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In light of the Baltimore Sun using AI, here's what a real person goes through when creating an editorial cartoon

editorialcartoonists.com/an-open-lett...
(response from @aaec-cartoonist.bsky.social to @baltimoresun.bsky.social )
September 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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September 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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"I feel that I should write in colored inks, that golden asterisks should flicker between my paragraphs..."
Beverley Nichols prepares to write about Gloria Swanson, from The Star-Spangled Manner (1938). This is how Dolly Parton's biography should be printed.
September 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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The Emperor's Sycophants
August 29, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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We don't have to wonder if Trump was a human trafficker - because right now, the United States is conducting a policy of shipping people, as slaves with no rights, to corrupt regimes. He IS committing human trafficking. America is. Officially.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Eswatini opposition attacks US deal as ‘human trafficking disguised as deportation’
Men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to be temporarily held in kingdom
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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August 27, 2026 at 1:49 PM
My siblings and I went to an album signing that Dolly Parton was doing at Peaches Records in Seattle around 1980. She was tiny and super nice. My sister played her album non-stop for the next week. RIP.
August 25, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Carole Lombard for In Name Only (1939). Her interesting gown was designed by Irene for RKO.
August 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Louise by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.
August 24, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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The cockroach, out of hatred for the ant, voted for the insecticide.

They all died.

Including the cricket, who cast an invalid vote, and the fly, who did not go to the polls at all.

America’s political landscape in a nutshell.
August 24, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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While the media is now painting Human Printer Natalie Harp is just delusional obsessed women, note the below article linking her to Russia. While perhaps not an overt agent, perhaps a UI. I fear people are ignoring just how compromised she may be.

martindvasquez.substack.com/p/natalie-ha...
Natalie Harp is the Voice of the President. She Also was the Voice for OAN, a Network That Broadcasted Russian Propaganda to United States Citizens!
The claim is structural. A person who built her media career inside a network that employed a Kremlin-paid journalist, aired fabricated content aligned with Russian disinformation narratives, and lost
martindvasquez.substack.com
August 21, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Guys from company that makes exploding rockets totally sure they’d be better at nukes.
August 21, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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Admiring the way Don Paterson lathers the last three stanzas into queries. It reminds me that the heart of a question is always a questing. And every sonnet has its quest.
August 21, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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John Dos Passos foresees the Trump White House.
(From State of the Nation (1944))
August 20, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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Lilian Harvey by Otto Dyar, 1933.
August 13, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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Spanish Olympic skateboarder performed a jump during yesterday's Totality
12.8.26

Spanish Olympic skateboarder Danny Leon performed a jump as a solar eclipse occurred, timing the trick with the moon passing in front of the Sun.

Credit: Danny Leon
www.instagram.com/danny_leon/r...
August 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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Profile in Courage...
August 13, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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August 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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August 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Louise wears her Jean Patou gown on the set of Prix de Beauté (1930). A classic portrait by James Abbe in Paris.
August 12, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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August 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Catch me talking about editing the memoir of a Hiroshima survivor that was lost for decades. The book is being published today.

a.co/d/0iN2o8u9
A Hiroshima survivor’s lost memoir - The World from PRX
Today marks 81 years since the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of people. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister, was on the outskirts of ...
theworld.org
August 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM