Aaron

A cartoon that says Kentucky at the top. There are two tombstones the smaller one on the right says 6802 killed in battle died of wounds or disease below that it says second world war 56 months. The larger tombstone says 7997 killed by tuberculosis during war period 56 months.

So many cool primary sources out there. But here is one, to illustrate the point (Kentucky TB Association Ad, ca. 1945)

Picture of lion dancer performing and stepping out of an MTA bus

Happy Lunar New Year! 🐎🧧

Wishing good luck and good health to all in the Year of the Horse. And don't forget—public transit is the best way to get to your New Year's festivities.

RIP to Jesse Jackson, who in this debate w/David Duke in 1977 delivered (until the host cut him off) a message of unity and against "national isolationism" that's important to hear today. He also ended the show w/one of the sickest burns ever directed at Duke: "You're not even a legitimate Klansman"

has he ever given an answer for why? it’s baffling

this ridiculously ahistorical pablum (meant to appeal to…. who? oped dopes?) is disqualifying in itself

This one can come over from the other place.

fuck 😭

King

more on wiseman’s sense of humor: his most recent sight & sound top ten has *three* marx brothers movies and a wc fields short

in jackson heights. or you can base it on their interests. if they’re into politics, city hall and state legislature. if they’re a teacher, high school 1&2 and at berkeley. medicine, hospital and near death. animals, primate or zoo… actually wait scratch that one

Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.

The impact of Frederick Wiseman on nonfiction filmmaking was seismic beyond measure and beyond compare. Like how do you even begin to consider his influence on documentary technique or his decades of insight into how institutions (and artistic spaces) operate? What a treasure. R.I.P.

i hope aoc herself publicly calls this shit out

if you go at 95, 96, and all people can say about you is how much they loved you and there aren't even enough hours in the day to mention all the great movies you left behind...that's the dream, ain't it? hard to be sad if whenever you think about things they made you can only say "yeah. hell yeah."

absolute giant of cinema for 50+ years, through many american eras. two of his greatest skills were capturing people in a way that never felt untrue and making the mundane utterly riveting (my mind immediately goes to the half-hour parent-teacher meeting in DEAF). rip to a great, great filmmaker

this is truly the most apt description of him i’ve ever read

Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

new york is intimate? intimate????

#brazil #behindthescenes🎬 #filmmaking director #terrygilliam

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Mamdani to Resurrect Bus and Bike Lanes Killed by Eric Adams

When it comes to making our streets work better, political leadership is the key ingredient. This is great news.

you missed the best one

Molly Lambert @mollylambert I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone 12:31 PM • 12/12/19 • Twitter Web App 59.5K Retweets 294K Likes

Lance St. Laurent @LanceStLaurent When you see this blatant anti-moon propaganda, consider the source The Sun @TheSun • Jan 18, 2019 'Super blood wolf moon' may trigger end of the world this weekend thesun.co.uk/news/8223896/s. 8:32 PM • Jan 20, 2019 • Twitter for iPhone 49.9K Retweets 493 Quote Tweets 238.7K Likes

Paul Ford v @ftrain When the moon hits your knees And you mispronounce trees Sycamore 5:14 AM • 2/27/18 • Twitter for Android 13.6K Retweets 37.3K Likes

dustin Couch @Dustinkcouch nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's haunted nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted 10:18 PM - 29 Oct 2018

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

“cash bar available” comes close

how are you still at this, holy mackerel

why wait til ‘28?