Adam J.B. Lane
@ajbl.bsky.social
Cartoonist, author, man for all seasons. CAUTION contents may include art, politics, dinosaur and shark fanboying, film, historical oddities, baking, Pittsburgh sports.
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"If Trump’s first term was marked by a level of graft and self-dealing that would have embarrassed a Tammany stalwart, then his second term seems to be an explicit effort to outpace his previous record and set a new high-water mark for political corruption in the [US]."
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Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"If Trump’s first term was marked by a level of graft and self-dealing that would have embarrassed a Tammany stalwart, then his second term seems to be an explicit effort to outpace his previous record and set a new high-water mark for political corruption in the [US]."
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Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
Tired of dating bull—? Try Minos Matchmaking Service!
Procrustes bed and breakfast - for the last leg of your journey.
Sisypheus hauling services. You’ll keep calling us back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Tired of dating bull—? Try Minos Matchmaking Service!
Now for the love of Pete give the man some offense!
Mr. Nutting has no business owning a baseball team if he won't ride Skenes and the most promising rotation in baseball to the postseason.
Mr. Nutting has no business owning a baseball team if he won't ride Skenes and the most promising rotation in baseball to the postseason.
Never a doubt.
Paul Skenes is your 2025 NL Cy Young Award Winner!
Paul Skenes is your 2025 NL Cy Young Award Winner!
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Now for the love of Pete give the man some offense!
Mr. Nutting has no business owning a baseball team if he won't ride Skenes and the most promising rotation in baseball to the postseason.
Mr. Nutting has no business owning a baseball team if he won't ride Skenes and the most promising rotation in baseball to the postseason.
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Obviously prejudicial to the outcome
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Obviously prejudicial to the outcome
Mamdani wasting no time drive-testing the proposition that head-on confrontation is the only rational approach to Trump.
Holy shit. Neither Cuomo nor Sliwa would have went after Trump, maybe ever but Zohran is doing it as soon as he has the office.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Mamdani wasting no time drive-testing the proposition that head-on confrontation is the only rational approach to Trump.
To mark the passing of former shadow US President Dick #Cheney today, this banger from @mluckovich.bsky.social of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
To mark the passing of former shadow US President Dick #Cheney today, this banger from @mluckovich.bsky.social of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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"I am reminded of Hitler’s plans for Germania, his imagined new capital city for the Thousand-Year Reich, when looking at the comically large renderings for Trump’s ballroom. [Both conceal] fundamental inadequacies."
@aselrod.bsky.social decodes the ballroom:
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...
@aselrod.bsky.social decodes the ballroom:
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...
Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project
Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love ...
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"I am reminded of Hitler’s plans for Germania, his imagined new capital city for the Thousand-Year Reich, when looking at the comically large renderings for Trump’s ballroom. [Both conceal] fundamental inadequacies."
@aselrod.bsky.social decodes the ballroom:
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...
@aselrod.bsky.social decodes the ballroom:
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...
Never fear, the French have put their finest man on the case—
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Never fear, the French have put their finest man on the case—
If America's present trajectory is roughly analogous to the decline of the Roman Empire (it's sure tempting to see it that way) is social media/AI slop our equivalent of their lead pipes, brain poisoning everybody and weakening the ruling class?
September 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If America's present trajectory is roughly analogous to the decline of the Roman Empire (it's sure tempting to see it that way) is social media/AI slop our equivalent of their lead pipes, brain poisoning everybody and weakening the ruling class?
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Literally just now occurred to me that there is a non-zero chance that Emmanuel Clasé threw the 2024 ACS against the Yankees.
After a season with a 0.659 WHIP, he put up this line in three games against New York:
After a season with a 0.659 WHIP, he put up this line in three games against New York:
September 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Literally just now occurred to me that there is a non-zero chance that Emmanuel Clasé threw the 2024 ACS against the Yankees.
After a season with a 0.659 WHIP, he put up this line in three games against New York:
After a season with a 0.659 WHIP, he put up this line in three games against New York:
The local food pantry endorses cannibalism.
September 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The local food pantry endorses cannibalism.
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fortunately our corporations are rising to the moment
A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing
That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!
www.theatlantic.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
fortunately our corporations are rising to the moment
Could there be a more perfect example of the "This-is-how-you-found-out-Celebrity-X-has-died" social media post?
With no hint of any trouble at first, praise for a tasteful but overlooked career highlight, followed by an oblique sting in the tail.
With no hint of any trouble at first, praise for a tasteful but overlooked career highlight, followed by an oblique sting in the tail.
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Could there be a more perfect example of the "This-is-how-you-found-out-Celebrity-X-has-died" social media post?
With no hint of any trouble at first, praise for a tasteful but overlooked career highlight, followed by an oblique sting in the tail.
With no hint of any trouble at first, praise for a tasteful but overlooked career highlight, followed by an oblique sting in the tail.
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The Guardian cuts to the heart of the matter with its hard-hitting reporting.
September 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The Guardian cuts to the heart of the matter with its hard-hitting reporting.
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I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.
"But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness."
That is Ezra Klein.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
That is Ezra Klein.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.
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G for Gates Ajar is one of the entries in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, wonderfully illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social "Gates Ajar" was one of the most popular funeral flower arrangements of the 19th-20th c. The motif arose from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' 1868 novel, Gates Ajar.
August 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
G for Gates Ajar is one of the entries in A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, wonderfully illustrated by @landisblair.bsky.social "Gates Ajar" was one of the most popular funeral flower arrangements of the 19th-20th c. The motif arose from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' 1868 novel, Gates Ajar.
Visiting Cape Cod today the idea for the perfect name of a local cannabis dispensary struck me like a bolt from the blue:
THE LOBSTER POT
THE LOBSTER POT
August 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Visiting Cape Cod today the idea for the perfect name of a local cannabis dispensary struck me like a bolt from the blue:
THE LOBSTER POT
THE LOBSTER POT
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Sketchbook flip through. Visit my patreon for more sketchbook stuff… www.patreon.com/larsenproject
August 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Sketchbook flip through. Visit my patreon for more sketchbook stuff… www.patreon.com/larsenproject
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Or the fact that he’s owner-in-waiting of the sports franchise looking to build a for-profit stadium that needs City of Boston sign off.
August 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Or the fact that he’s owner-in-waiting of the sports franchise looking to build a for-profit stadium that needs City of Boston sign off.
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glad he got to the bottom of this for us
How I Came to Be in the Epstein Files
A conspiracy wrapped in a conspiracy theory wrapped in an enigma
www.theatlantic.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
glad he got to the bottom of this for us
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Fallen. #CemeterySaturday ▪️ Norwood Park Home Cemetery, Chicago
July 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Fallen. #CemeterySaturday ▪️ Norwood Park Home Cemetery, Chicago