Andy Karlson

THE NEW COLOSSUS NOT LIKE THE BRAZEN CIANT OF GREEK FAME. WITH CONQUERING LIMBS LISTRIDE FROM LAND TO LANDS HERE AT OUR SEA-WASHED, SUNSET CATES SHALL STAND A NICHTY WOMAN WITH A TORCH. WHOSE FLAME IS THE IMPRISONED LICHTNING AND RER NAME MOTHER OF EXILES FROM HER BEACON-HAND GLOWS WORLD-WIDE WELCOME: HER MILD EYES COMMAND THE AIR-BRIDGED HARBOR THAT TWIN CITIES FRAME. "KEEP ANCIENT LAHDS. YOUR STORIED POMP!" CRIES SHE WITH SILENT LIPS. CIVE ME YOUR TIRED. YOUR POOR. YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARMING TO BREATHE EREE. THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE. SENO THESE THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST-TOST TO ME. I LIFT HY LAMP BESIDE THE COLDEN DOOR!** THIS TABLET. WITH HER SONNET TO THE BARTHOLDI STATUE 2F LIBERTY ENCRAVEO UPON IT. I8 PLACED UPON THESE WALLS IN LOVINO MEMORY OF EMMA LAZARUS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY. JULY 221849 DIED NOVEMBER 19** 1887.

An idea of America worth fighting to reclaim.

America is an idea, and anyone who believes in it should have a home here.

This is the epitome of "Midwest Nice": an action that is superficially prosocial and selfless, which under the surface contains a tangle of strategies and motives that can be set into play in different ways depending on how circumstances unfold.

🙏

These sick fucks know we'll be coming for them eventually and are trying to psych themselves up to get violent to try and get ahead of justice.

HOWEVER, I did engage in the ultimate Midwestern passive-aggressive power move: I shoveled out my neighbor's driveway apron. They've been out of town since before last snow, and their house-sitter is being neglectful. We've got 3 inches of snow forecast overnight, gotta get that sucker cleared out!

Today I am my own paragon of nontoxic masculinity: I shoveled out the curb cuts from the snowplow detritus, because clear sidewalks are important for accessibility.

I also used the right tool for the job: a square-bladed garden shovel. Worked like a charm!

a man is holding a yellow helmet in a room next to a lamp Alt: Gif of The Shoveler, from Mystery Men, saying "God gave me a gift"

It's shoveling time.

a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen

i generally agree, which is why i think ms. villalba should die

WHOA

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Rereading LOTR and the flight to the ford, where the party rushes poisoned-by-an-evil-blade Frodo to Rivendell to heal him of the cursed wound inflicted on him at weathertop, is a little less frantic and harrowing than I remember

Delete the fucking fake AI deli video, don't play dumb

Then get bent, asshole

Fuck your AI crap and fuck you

from a state party director

What an interesting coincidence.

This is really beautiful, and I am so grateful to learn a little about your friend Joe. May his memory always be a blessing.

Our friend, Joe, was fighting a battle against a brain tumor, and an insistent voice in my head told me to paint a mini version of the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth for him. The background is painted to resemble bricks in varying colors of browns, rusty reds, yellows, and buffy beiges. The simple labyrinth was inked on top of that. The 4 corners are based on a recurring theme in the stained glass windows in the Church-a red cross with a white intersection surrounded by 4 blue squares with diamonds inside each square. Unknown to me at the time, Joe was a labyrinth fan and actively looked for ones to walk in his traveling days. He now had one at hand, literally, for his use during his last year on earth. His memorial service is today. RIP Joe, a true giant among men.

Day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar is a tribute to a dear friend, Joe, whose memorial service is today. Not great art, but the story is in Alt text if you're curious.
#Labyrinth #RIPJoe

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

[Tumblr] vigilantsycamore Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

tis the season

black & white photo of Toshiro Mifune when he was approximately 30 years old, looking dapper as hell, standing up & leaning against a mailbox, cigarette in his right hand - wearing a v-neck Christmas sweater (over a collared shirt, with slacks) with 3 sections: top and bottom is dark with a pattern of tiny white Christmas trees, middle is white with two reindeer standing on either side of a snowflake.

black & white photo of Toshiro Mifune when he was approximately 30 years old, looking dapper as hell, grinning and sitting down so his black dress shoes and patterned socks are visible - he's wearing a v-neck Christmas sweater (over a collared shirt, with cuffed slacks) with 3 sections: top and bottom is dark with a pattern of tiny white Christmas trees, middle is white with two reindeer standing on either side of a snowflake.

Toshiro Mifune in his Christmas sweater photographed for Eiga Star magazine, c. 1950

Yeah. And they fought it tooth-and-nail the whole way BECAUSE they understood how important that bullying and trauma was to maintaining their ideology.

Another one for the ‘actual, literal, Biblical Antichrist’ file

Imagine disrespecting the great Don Hutson like this. "Football player statue" my ass.

Bob Crumb coming out of retirement just to say "RFK Jr. is right about vaccines and my ex-wife should've taken more advice from me" is such a fitting end to Boomer Americana and everything the "alt-comix" movement claimed to stand for

Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.

If you go look at her twitter, nuzzi was (is??) supported by A LOT in the DC press corps
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic

IMO not enough scrutiny directed at VF's Mark Guiducci, who hired Nuzzi. The RFK affair was disqualifying on its own ofc, but the fact that it happened (it's RFK Jr!) was an obvious sign more ethical lapses + embarrassing stuff was floating around. Reflects poorly on an EIC to not anticipate as much