cloner

It's a Brand New Age of Stupidity.
The crickets are cashing in their chips.
Planes are building homes in newly lit ground nests
and the Fat Man is on TV again,
wobbling and saying something about a chair,
or a building? or something else?
It doesn't matter.

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

defector.com/good-riddanc...

I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.

Sam Kieth, 1991

Donate to Help Ron Regé Jr recover from serious injury, organized by Ron Regé Jr On May 30, I accidentally knocked over a large, heavy mirror in my apartment.… Ron Regé Jr needs your support for Help Ron Regé Jr recover from serious injury

Help Ron Rege!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-ron-r...

This is why right now is dumber than thr Iraq runup. There was a year of endless propaganda on top of the war mindset of post-9/11 and Bush at +60% approval. Right now its a historically unpopular president following an unpopular ally into a war nobody wants and he's making zero attempt to sell it

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

Non-toxic male roll models are out there, if young men genuinely want to find some.

Strom Thurmond speaks from a lectern. Seated beside him is a figure in a white robe and hood.

Trolling Strom Thurmond - UMass Amherst, 1969

This is how the Republicans slash Medicare without telling us they’re slashing Medicare.

artists support each other when systems will not. there's little safety net. it is resilience. artists are not your competitors. artists are your peers, mentors, and the ones who will defend the ability to create sustainably.

to those who struggle to continue drawing,
you are an artist.

Not shocking, but nevertheless absolutely appalling. PBS is low-key propaganda for the MAGA crew now, I guess.

Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws Inside the effort to de-democratize AI

The House has passed the GOP's budget bill with the 10-year ban on state AI laws intact. If the provision survives reconciliation in the Senate, the California, Colorado, or any other state that sought to pass laws governing AI would be legally banned from doing so.

This is what's behind the bill:

'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History | Common Dreams "The people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos and hoodies—it's people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins, sitting in this Capitol right now," said Rep. Maxwell Frost.

Unconscionable and evil.

www.commondreams.org/news/republi...

Golden Axe

This is not good

Eric, you should just leave the light on.

Or, better yet, tell us the days when you don’t have a scoop about Trump’s brazen corruption.

this should be career ending

A few facts everyone knows about 1890s cinema is that the viewers were prudes shocked at a glimpse of ankle and films like THE KISS (1896) caused a scandal with the open smooching--

What's that? THE KISS wasn't offensive at all? It was actually a comedy & was even screened at church fundraisers?

Orca 1977 is an underrated gem of summer horror. I love it.

Elon Musk will now have a company town.

Starbase, Texas, home of Musk's SpaceX, will soon be an official city.

A total of 212 Starbase residents, most of whom are SpaceX employees, voted to incorporate as a new town.

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

same! some things never change

like and share if you agree

John Severin, 1980

claiborne hotel courts sign, west of simsboro, simsboro, louisiana, 1982

claiborne hotel courts sign, west of simsboro, simsboro, louisiana, 1982