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Carl Knickerbocker
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Suburban Primitive artist. Painting for quite some time. Making short idiosyncratic films (animation puppet) since 2010. Florida. Old.
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No, seriously. The President of the United States is a pouting infant, a malignant, mentally unstable narcissist yelling at another country that he will go to war if he isn't given a peace prize.

And we all know this isn't yet bottom.
January 19, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
January 11, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland:

"Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Never forget. 🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍
January 6, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.
September 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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No reason.
August 30, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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💯
August 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. 

That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
August 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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August 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The naturally occurring "free market" is a myth.
July 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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By any metric of fascism, when they come for the comedians, it's here.
July 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode deficits

3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.
July 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Jon McNaught has created over 40 covers for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉. In this new film he takes us through the process of making a cover and explains why the everyday scenes he captures can take on unexpected significance when they finally appear beneath the masthead.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6t...
How to make a cover for the London Review of Books, with Jon McNaught
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
www.youtube.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.

2) Explode the deficit.

3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.

4) Repeat.

They're trying to get away with it again.
May 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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‘Nothing justifies or explains the war; it is the spasm of a maddened species. You do not feel good to be American. Or victorious.’

David Thomson watches the films of Terrence Malick:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Thomson · Cool Tricking: Terrence Malick melts away
Terrence Malick​ is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who attempted to overthrow our government via a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol. The administration agreeing to pay her family $5 million of taxpayer money is disgraceful.
May 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Image stills from latest short. #art #film
April 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Growing up, the broadcasting legend’s South Bank Show was @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social's window on a world outside Wolverhampton. Now she’s a devoted fan of his Radio 4 show
Melvyn Bragg, my idol: Caitlin Moran meets her hero
Growing up, the broadcasting legend’s South Bank Show was our columnist’s window on a world outside Wolverhampton. Now she’s a devoted fan of his Radio 4 show
www.thetimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM