Lewis LaCook

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

This is perfect.

UC says Trump demand for $1-billion fine would 'completely devastate' university system The Trump administration has proposed the University of California pay more than $1 billion to settle antisemitism charges and restore frozen grant funding at UCLA.

Kleptocracy

UC says Trump demand for $1-billion fine would 'completely devastate' university system www.yahoo.com/news/article...

🕯️🇺🇦 During the combat mission, 39-year-old Maryna Hrytsenko “Mary” — a combat medic of the 3rd OSHB, the chief custodian of the funds of the Chernihiv Art Museum — died.

Maryna died on the morning of August 7, 2025, along with two comrades, as a result of an attack by a Russian drone.

It’s Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation And it's all about Trumponomics

It’s Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-beginn...

Private Prisons Cash In on Trump’s Mass Deportations GEO Group and CoreCivic are boasting of ‘unprecedented growth opportunities’ as they partner with ICE to surveil and imprison immigrants.

Fascism is big business

Private Prisons Cash In on Trump’s Mass Deportations prospect.org/justice/2025...

Stewart offers a nice demonstration of the ways current GOP talking points about the need to “liberate” Los Angeles align with post 9/11 justifications for the war with Iraq.

It was always about eliminating the Palestinians & stealing their land. The slow but steady illegal takeover of the West Bank, and the demolition of the Gaza Strip, are nearly complete. This is the Palestinian holocaust, carried out by a state that was born of a holocaust.

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Are you there god? It’s me, Orange Julius

Waiting for them to cut me open and find out where the whirring sound is coming from

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

It just struck me that the land currently known as the United States had chattel slavery longer than it hasn’t.

Daily sketchbook.

Nantucket, Mass.

#art #landscape #sketching #artwork #sketch #drawing #sketchbook #sketchaday #brooklynartist #art #brooklyn #cubism #olana #nantucket

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bub...

We used to be a proper country

Pied Pipers the Alligators away from the concentration camp.

Damn them for all time for not caring that he’s a child trafficker.

Firing a labor statistician for giving a weak jobs report is like firing your cardiologist because you have high cholesterol.

That last line is so perfect

Opened the dishwasher
Standing water
These bitches clean?

#haiku

crimes! at the free continental breakfast

Vultures are holy creatures.
Tending the dead.
Bowing low.
Bared head.
Whispers to cold flesh,
“Your old name is not your king.
I rename you ‘Everything.’”

[The poem "Clergy" originally published in the collection Love Notes from the Hollow Tree by Jarod K. Anderson] #poetry

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

The man who had his doctor report that he’s 6’3”, 238 lbs fired the person in charge of reporting labor statistics.

Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.