Nothings Monstered

a digital drawing of a gray cat with a capped eye and studded collar, leaning forward and bleeding from the nose. It looks at the viewer with defiance or determination. Text around it says “get killed eight times/ come back nine”. The red border around the image has two cars, arrows, knives, and poison bottles, numbered to match its deaths.

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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Lombard is being fitted for a dress the dress is an absurdly long train and she turns and this massive dress spirals with her

Carole Lombard in No More Orchids (1932)

A poster done for NASA the Earth is shaped like an egg and it's been cracked open by a rocket which has burst from inside the egg and is heading off through the darkness of space to the distant Stars

Frank Kelly Freas, 1971

Black and white photograph of what the title says it is girl is in a kitchen leaning up against some piece of furniture and drinking some milk she has adorable little cowgirl boots on a western shirt and there's a big cowgirl hat on maybe it's a bench behind her

Young Girl Wearing Cowgirl Outfit — Nina Leen, 1949

Wood block print of two cats at night under a crescent moon one is black the other is mostly White I don't have the words to describe the style

Cats in Moonlight — Tomoo Inagaki

It's not that there weren't as many suffering men a couple generations back, but they didn't *talk* about it.

They used alcohol and violence to express their suffering, but they didn't talk about it.

A grey pitbull uses her generous tongue to slurp a ramen noodle

A pitbull makes a funny wide eyed face as she inhales a noodle

The very same pitbull stares admiringly at the noodle she is inhaling

As the noodle comes to an end, the pitbull’s remarkable tongue extends to catch the last of it

Everything sucks so here is my dog eating ramen. 🍜

Exuberance can come off as careless and reckless. That is why is important. It is, rightly or wrongly, seen as unguarded and unmeasured.

And in partaking it you convey not just honesty but vulnerability.

Mamdani Brings Lina Khan Onto His Team After Historic Election Win Zohran Mamdani has named his transition team—and it’s amazing.

New York City Mayor-elect Mamdani is kicking off with a big move: bringing former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to co-chair his transition team.

It's a strong suggestion that he’s willing to take on powerful corporate interests as mayor. trib.al/NofL7Bl

Husbands with Grindr profiles?

Wasn't that James at the other end of the 17th century -- the James who followed Elizabeth?

The 1700s were late in the day for this horror. IIRC, the craze was nearly spent.

The last execution for witchcraft in England was in 1685. (Scotland's last such execution was 1727)

Witch panics in Europe were a horror I should have studied more. They probably would illuminate the present.

The two wings of the Democratic Party are the Fighters and the Folders.

My senior senator is an origami master.

“Jim has been gliding on that one day in 1953 for 70 years.”

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

"every one of them, appalled by his own conscience and by the inflexibility of the laws, has said to himself: ‘We are not sufficiently virtuous to be so ruthless; philosopher legislators, take pity on my weakness; I dare not tell you that I am rotten, I would rather say that you are cruel.’"

Oil painting of a Young Man beautiful face big eyes for lips high cheekbones he has a young man's certainty about the world I think he has got a high collar around his neck which is not going to help him any when he's put into the guillotine at age 27

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just — Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1793

congress is a russian nesting doll of counter-majoritarian structures. seems to me that there's no need for a supermajority rule on top of that!

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut WASHINGTON—As fewer air traffic controllers show up for work amid a government shutdown that has halted their pay, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a recommendation Friday advising commercia...

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The Republicans are a bunch of rapists, pedophiles, and violent misogynists, meanwhile they’re trying to smear this guy just for following THOSE DIRTY WHORES

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

Kleptocracy ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

The Mafia Presidency Trump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say.

"If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works."
theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... | @theatlantic.com

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Virginia Teen Narrowly Defeats His Former Civics Teacher in County Election

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

What a good story!

Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.

NYT - Dozens of Venezuelans sent by the US to a maximum security prison in El Salvador describe being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/wo...

A bird that kind of looks like a peacock with a vulture head a vividly red eye and it's neck is black with these White Stripes running down it Flint and we can see it's underbelly is a gorgeous blue

vulturine guinea fowl

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"These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

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