Zach Phoenix

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Pleased to announce that KAOS, our resident shadow cast troupe, will be performing at this special ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 50th anniversary event at The Grove of Anaheim with Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Barry Bostwick, and Tim Curry in attendance!

🎟️: www.groveofanaheim.com/events/detai...

The prompt for Day 2 of #AuGhost is "SHY" 👻

#AuGhost2025 #TradArt 😈🎨🦇

Guys With Pickup Outside Funeral Parlor Will Bury Grandma For Cheaper

Guys With Pickup Outside Funeral Parlor Will Bury Grandma For Cheaper theonion.com/guys-wi...

Family of Virginia Giuffre re: Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer

"It's w/ horror & outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker G. Maxwell has received.. Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children.. she should never be shown any leniency"

News article titled "Trump orders firing of BLS commissioner, after large summer revision" by Andrew Ackerman. It reports that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released major downward revisions to May and June jobs data. Trump announced the decision on social media, stating she would be replaced with someone "much more competent and qualified." The revisions removed 258,000 jobs from earlier counts, marking the largest two-month downward adjustment since the pandemic.

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.

A black and white photo. NPS personnel appear to be using a recoilless rifle to attack a massive creature barrelling down the side of a snowy mountain like an avalanche. A second recoilless rifle, mounted on a car, is about to be devoured by its gaping maw.

In the 1950s, the US National Park Service acquired M27 recoilless rifles from the military.
Their stated use was to trigger controlled avalanches, but a recent analysis of ammunition purchases shows they used many times more rounds than necessary.
The NPS was hunting something.

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

They have downgraded her sex offender status to move her to a minimum security facility. The next logical step is a commutation or a pardon. If you have any information on that, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous as always. Please share widely 🙏 www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

Dear Leader doesn’t like being inconvenienced by the consequences of his incompetence. So he's firing the person who put together today’s jobs numbers. They will be replaced by a MAGA apparatchik who will cook up imaginary numbers more to the glory of Dear Leader.
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

A flyer in black, white, and pinks of a vintage pin-up girl flanked by two smiling cats advertising "Show Me Your Kitties," a fundraiser for the Little Lion Foundation. Date: August 23, location: At the Top, 105 W. Broadway in Long Beach. Time: 5:30pm

If you're in the L.A. area, the Show Me Your Kitties cat-themed burlesque show is happening 8/23/25 in Long Beach with proceeds going to the Little Lion Foundation cat rescue! www.tickettailor.com/events/theli...

How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13 President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a…

President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter.

U.S. agents, however, suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders.

(Published June 2025)

Tom Lehrer songs were a key part of my childhood. Time to go play “Smut” and “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”. And maybe “The Vatican Rag”.

THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it.
🧪🧵⬇️

Currently on the phone with Visa

Instead of starting with a complaint, I approached this as a Confused American Consumer who doesn't understand why they can't buy things off a website they use

The call center rep immediately asked if it was about Steam/itch

(cont)

Hulk Hogan Was a Racist, Liar, and Scab In the 1980s, the professional wrestler portrayed himself as an all-American hero—but he was really a “jabroni” the entire time.

"Hulk Hogan should be remembered as a living expression of our national decay: a hero exposed as a fraud, a fraud exposed as a coward, and finally a coward who cried with joy upon finding an authoritarian monster to tell him that his sins were in fact virtues."

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Black and white photo of a fluffy grey cat lying down for a studio portrait. The word “patience” appears in the upper left corner.

Patience. Postcard from my collection, no date.

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

A work in progress pen drawing of a stylized raven that flows into a set of symbols and root structures

Starting to lay in the colours and I realized this is part of a set. Not sure if that's thr final shade..will finish this up tomorrow
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Crime has gone down in Lexington because we’ve invested in housing-first programs and built mental health services into our public safety strategy.

This EO threatens that progress, while laying the groundwork for the mass internment of our neighbors.

Don’t let anybody tell you that this is normal.

It’s nighttime in an atmospheric hidden alcove of an old park and a black cat is slinking across the top of an ornate park bench. Through the surrounding dense foliage lamplight shines upon the cat, casting the cat’s shadow along an ivy covered wall behind the bench. I actually witnessed this scene on one of my many moonlit nighttime sojourns. The cat didn’t like my staring and quickly ran away. It is rendered in black ballpoint pen.

“Shadow Walker”

Available as a giclée fine art print in my Etsy shop.

Find it here:
theartofrobhusberg.etsy.com/listing/7950...

One of my old AuGhost drawings. Looking forward to seeing what everyone does with this year’s prompts!

Honestly one day someone should make a show like this. Don't ever explain why he's a clown, don't reference it, make it a completely normal legal drama, just occasionally he honks his nose or falls over. Everybody reacts like it's normal. He drives a really small car too. He's a great lawyer

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine that dramatically BOOSTS the immune system’s ability to fight tumors- even WITHOUT targeting a SPECIFIC cancer type. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery, AND radiation treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️

Betty Hapschatt is into Pinterest and her husband Ralph has been following furries on Tumblr for years. No one follows their dog's Mastodon account.

Oil painting in progress of a woman with a lynx skull for a head, with 4 arms. One hand is holding a hose from a gas pump, one hand is on her cheek, one holds up 2 fingers, one is palm up with a zippo lighter floating just above. She is surrounded by plants and bird of paradise flowers. The full moon rises behind her.

Did more on that pump handle. Next time, I’ll get the lighter in. Then it’s just cleaning stuff up, adding highlights, etc. It’s getting there.
#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #losangeles #surrealism #wip #workinprogress

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.

Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.

It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.

That’s it.

...You're welcome...??

🖤🖤 House on the Rock 🖤🖤

I used to lie in the graveyard
#alloart

a cat staring towards the camera surrounded by a blue vase that broke on the ground (the cat is not injured), there are also some flowers

me, suddenly remembering that the whole point of being alive is to love as much as you can