Andrew Hazlett

Gotta be animated with surround sound audio of tormented souls in agony!

Remembering my friend Olivia Newton-John today. She was a truly beautiful soul. This is from her very first US TV special in 1976 - "A Special Olivia Newton-John" 💖

Picasso's famous painting of the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Next up: an immersive, interactive "Guernica"? Or perhaps something gory by Francis Bacon?

YouTube video by Xosst You Ask Me If I Have A God Complex...

Could be RFK jr. "You ask me if I have a God complex..." youtu.be/6i3NzZYswFc?...

What Do We Owe Andry? Our country sent this young man and hundreds of others to a foreign gulag to be tortured and sexually assaulted.

What Do We Owe Andry? Our country sent this young man and hundreds of others to a foreign gulag to be tortured and sexually assaulted. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-do-we...

LAWSUIT: FIRE challenges unconstitutional provisions Rubio uses in crusade to deport legal immigrants over protected speech FIRE seeks a landmark ruling that the First Amendment forbids the government from deporting lawfully present noncitizens for constitutionally protected speech

BREAKING: FIRE is suing Secretary of State Marco Rubio, challenging the laws he is using to target lawfully present noncitizens for speech protected by the Constitution.

No administration should be able to deport lawfully present noncitizens for their opinions.

www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit...

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

Here comes Pestilence

Andersonville 1864 -- Death Before Dishonor

On or about this date in 1864, my great-great-grandfather arrived at the gates of Andersonville, the notorious POW camp. He had survived three years of hard fighting in South Carolina, Florida, and Virginia, and he miraculously endured in rebel prisons long enough to be released in early 1865.

Raw milk sickens 21 people in Florida including 6 children Public health officials in Florida are reporting 21 cases of campylobacter and E. coli infections linked to drinking raw milk, all from the same farm.

Bottoms up MAHA! apnews.com/article/raw-...

Pencil emblazoned with Woody Guthrie's "This Machine Kills Fascists"

Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie . ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie .

“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.”

Happy heavenly birthday, James Baldwin.

One reported bit that opened my eyes: a reason Harris didn't want to make a public break with Biden during the campaign was how she thought it would play as a black female "subordinate" betraying her white male boss. Racism, misogyny, etc. had many such less visible influences on the election

Non-compliant reality will be terminated

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

President X in Jan. 2029 needs to cancel and claw back all contracts with Palantir. They should suffer the fate inflicted on USAID contractors who were trying desperately to feed people.

I can’t stress this enough

These rates are the result of magic “math”

And they’re being done on the whim of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

More than 1,000 National Guard troops leave Los Angeles, Pentagon says About 250 troops will remain in the city after thousands were ordered there to quell protests of federal immigration raids.

Did you know we STILL have 250 National Guardsmen doing nothing in Los Angeles? wapo.st/3JboTrG

We would be lost (sometimes literally!) without you guys. Thank you!

I just had the same reaction, but I was too old for Ghostwriter.

Oh my God! I am experiencing the faintest sense of deja vu... It is possible that at age 13 or 14 I got this book out of the library. If so, I only read the first couple of chapters because my little adventure game ended with some if/then BASIC and maybe a random number generator.

Trump Demands That Drugmakers Lower Some of Their U.S. Prices by September

Perhaps some of my fellow former-Republicans remember anti-anti-Trump conservatives freaking out about Kamala Harris's worries about so-called price gouging. Her proposals seem Milton Friedmanesque compared to this: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...

They need a steady supply. Will be interesting to see how they spin college campus activity in September.

The amigo @mikemadrid.bsky.social flagged this for me and it makes sense: Latinos didn't "join the GOP." They just stopped trusting the Democrats. There could have been an opportunity to court them. Instead, the GOP squandered that chance.

Now its poll testing and focus groups instead of wagon trains and boot polish. Ha.

Unfortunately, despite all their other changes, Democrats still have a >little bit< of McClellan in them when it's time to go on the offensive.

At least one country in the world has an electorate demanding liberal democracy and good government!

Ya don't say!