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Peter Huestis
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"Well-groomed" –Washingtonian Magazine
Pinned
Self-Portrait with industrial ketchup bladder, 2014:
This is inaccurate. Kash Patel always looks like he just sat on a thumbtack.
Kash Patel always looks like he's just been hit on the head by a 2x4.

Podcasting paens to Trump may explain in part why the FBI is declining so rapidly.
"The president is a spreadsheets guy" -- Dan Bongino
February 18, 2026 at 5:33 PM
It's Thumb Appreciation Day! 👍 Photogravure by Al Taylor, 1997:
February 18, 2026 at 1:25 PM
OMG, just look at this: Mark Wahlberg is shilling for a chad priest's prayer app. NEEDS IMPACT FONT
February 17, 2026 at 11:45 PM
It's National Cabbage Day! The Gardener, oil on canvas by Camille Pissarro, 1883-1895:
February 17, 2026 at 2:16 PM
LMAO, from Box Office Mojo, here is the total, cumulative international gross (theaters outside the United States) for the Melania Movie. It's literally a rounding error in the overall costs and wheelbarrows full of money being pushed back and forth.
February 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
"Guys, don't forget to like and scubscribe!"
February 15, 2026 at 11:44 AM
"Canadian newspaper gleefully reports about anti-American Greenlandic art" is your morning inevitability: www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...
The art of no deal: A Greenlandic carver's vengeful response to Trump shows opportunity amid crisis | CBC News
Greenlanders don't think that Donald Trump is done with their island quite yet, but some are determined to make the most of the crisis. Carver Kim Kleist-Eriksen — who carved his own rebuttal of Trump...
www.cbc.ca
February 15, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Happy Valentine's Day! The Jim and Tammy Show, lithograph by Roger Brown, 1987:
February 14, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Louis Wain's Tabby Toboggan Club, 1898:
February 14, 2026 at 10:21 AM
On National Radio Day, please contemplate the beauty of the Panasonic Toot-A-Loop, 1972:
February 13, 2026 at 11:21 PM
It's National Radio Day! One of my favorite Tad Dorgan drawings in my collection is this 1923 look at the early days of marketing radios as consumer products. "If this is the radio that plays the jazz I'll take it."
February 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM
"No, this kidnapping investigation is OUR podcast."
February 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Uh oh, the "body language experts" are back with their brilliant insights.
February 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Cindy Sherman offering drugs to a child in John Waters' Pecker:
February 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
French photographer Eugène Atget was born on this date in 1857. Men's Fashions, 1923-24. Fun fact: the NGA's copy was printed in the 50s by Berenice Abbot!
February 12, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I would have expected Claire's.
it turns out one of the core nodes of our pedophile hell planet is the underwear store at the mall. i would have expected spencers gifts first
this is fascinating on how Jeffrey Epstein is thought to have made his fortune:

Victoria’s Secret boss Les Wexner claimed Epstein stole hundreds of millions of dollars from him

www.ft.com/content/72c0...
February 12, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I'm in a state of shock after listening to this song by my niece! It has a surprising Tyrannosaurus Rex meets post-punk vibe and I love it. janefield.bandcamp.com/album/pigs
Pigs, by Jane Field Elementary
2 track album
janefield.bandcamp.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:43 PM
🚨Irony alert! 🚨
Jim Jordan: "You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress"
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The thread below is why I love Bluesky: I posted a baffling postcard, then @blagueplague.bsky.social asked about the origin of the phrase, then I speculated, and then @auctionaugur.bsky.social found the source, confirming my speculation. Love that shit.
Baffling postcard of the day:
February 11, 2026 at 12:49 PM
I mean, twerking technically HAS to be wide spread in order for it to be twerking.
Widespread Twerking is my new band name.
February 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Me, excitedly, to my boss: "I got an image request... IN THE MAIL." 📫
February 10, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Baffling postcard of the day:
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
"Nannies." Plural. More than one nanny.
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?

LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
It's National Umbrella Day! Insect with Umbrella, lithograph by Roy Lichtenstein, 1950:
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
I don't like the Nancy Drew reboot.
February 9, 2026 at 10:27 PM