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“…years later, in 1980, I was in Italy, on my way back from my first chess olympiad in Malta. During a long layover, I caught The Empire Strikes Back. It was my first experience with American cinema that hadn’t been filtered by a censor and a dub. What a drag to […]

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An irregular array of several, floating Darth Vader heads of various sizes, against a greenish blue starfield.
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 = 𝗔𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺

The distorting stink of equivocation over at Ward Carroll’s rock n’ roll mancave shimmers like avgas spilled on a flight deck. Entertaining Naval Aviation in Art & hoary USNA lore don’t offset even two seconds’ worth of […]

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Ward Carroll at the mic, recording an episode of his video podcast, from a cozy mancave and practice space. His memorabilia from service as a U.S. naval aviator, and his guitars and amplifier appear behind him. He sits in a black gamer’s chair lined with red piping, and is dressed in a dark ballcap and a navy blue, pullover hoodie with a silkscreened imprint of a Gloucester fire department at the upper left chest, in white.
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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🇺🇦 Victory is the best diplomacy.

Слава Україні!
Two square graphics with rounded corners, at left UA blue and yellow national colors on a black background arranged vertically: “Fuck Putin - left fist of resistance with raised middle finger - Stand With Ukraine”. At right, against a backdrop of UA blue-over-yellow national colors, “We Stand With” (yellow on blue), “Ukraine” (blue on yellow). Sláva Ukrayíni! Слава Україні!
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱.

https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/chatting-with-ai-jesus-what-could

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/12/christian-ai-chatbot-jesus-god-satan-churches

🖼️ Lindsey Bailey/Axios
Painting of Jesus teaching while seated on a rock, surrounded by followers. The followers and the scene are rendered in black and white, while Jesus is in color, dressed in robes of red and blue. In the photo illustration, he holds aloft in his right hand a smartphone. Both his head and the smartphone appear to have halos.
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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“We’re not going to go after every single issue. We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights.”
- Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Feb 2025

“Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to […]

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Image of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer speaking to the press at the US Capitol Wednesday, June 21, 2023. The minority leader’s hands are open and held wide from elbows bent at his waist.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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“𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽
A list of individuals and charities you can support to help people in Gaza

This page will evolve.…]” • [https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/ways-to-help

📷 Mohammed Nateel
Undated color photo that accompanied UNICEF reporting of early February 2025. In a landscape of rubble and collapsed/collapsing buildings, dozens of people make their way along a cleared roadway, some on bicycles, on motorbikes, and in all the horrific urban devastation, only a couple of cars. The people are dressed for cooler weather, and the sky above the horizon of destruction is overcast.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Shevlin Park. Bend, OR.

📷 FlyBend
Color image outside Bend, Oregon. In the foreground, a stand of western larches in shifting fall colors, at the horizon a ridge of volcanoes; stratovolcanoes Broken Top, South Sister, and Middle Sister; shield volcano North Sister. Above the peaks is a dusky yellow sky colored by wildfire smoke.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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“DeJohnette shared a kinship with Helm, the famed drummer of The Band, and another Grammy-winning Woodstock neighbor.

Helm welcomed DeJohnette to sit in at one of his famed Midnight Ramble house concerts and the two performed side-by-side on separate drum kits […]

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Undated photograph of Jack DeJohnette, seated in an upholstered armchair, and dressed in denim pants and a long sleeve dark blue, zippered crew neck shirt. Behind him is a sun room with dark paneled walls, plants, an easy chair, and a wide, light-colored oriental rug.
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The ghost of Reagan has left the building.

📷 Fox 5 DC/via YT
06 November 2025 a male guest at a WH presser has a medical emergency. Our idiot fiend chief executive stands at the Resolute Desk like a complete boob, offering no leadership or help. Standing behind him is Commerce Sec’y Lutnick looking blankly at the camera. To the rear at image center, the stricken man is attended by others in the Oval Office. At image right a press corp photographer captures the scene. On the wall beyond a temporary podium and the scramble to help the ailing guest is a portrait of Ronald Reagan.
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🇺🇸 ⏰ Eat Heavy

Portal

📷 Morven Drumthwacket
A suburban street at dusk in early November, a large maple tree is illuminated beside a streetlight with a glowing reddish cast. The tree has been pruned to allow phone, data, and electric power lines to pass through the center of its branches, and has the appearance of a huge donut made of autumnal red leaves, through which the dark blue, early evening sky can be seen. In the foreground, a front yard with a portable john and scattered leaves on the ground are bathed in faint red light. At right an American flag hangs on a pole from a porch.
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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“…it's hard to say exactly…my best guess is that a
child born today is more likely to die of Al than to graduate high school.…] • [https://youtu.be/3df6rcsd2eY

📷 The Lincoln Project
Rick Wilson (right, interviewer from The Lincoln Project) sits down with Nate Soares (left) — executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author (with Eliezer Yudkowsky) of the New York Times bestseller IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES. Standard split-screen video podcast view, talking heads in tightish frame, images at bottom edge of each show a protruding professional microphone. Nate Soares is dressed in a white open-collar shirt against a light background that suggests a living room, Rick Wilson is dressed in a blue open-collar shirt against a dark, paneled background that suggests a so/ho.
November 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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An exchange of flatus.

📷 CBS News
Wide color still image of 💩47, president of the United States being interviewed by action news figure Norah (Norah The Funnel) O’Donnell at Mar-A-Lago, surrounded by temporary lighting and associated video production equipment.
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Jack DeJohnette, RIP

🔘 John Abercrombie, Jan Hammer, Jack DeJohnette - Timeless • https://youtu.be/9khSUIMjBuk

📷 Javier Etxezarreta/EFE/dpa
Color photo of drummer Jack DeJohnette in a grey, long sleeved crew neck shirt, playing at a drum kit. Against a black background, his right hand is raised and the drumstick he holds casts a motion blur across his face.
October 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Nobel Peace Prize 2026

https://www.gocomics.com/pedroxmolina/2025/10/20

🖼️ Pedro X. Molina
Political cartoon depicting 💩47 in the cockpit of a jet fighter releasing excrement on a rendering of the American flag drawn in the shape of the lower-48 continental U.S. The cartoon references the president’s 28 October 2025 No Kings rally weekend post depicting himself, via realistic AI-generated video, doing the same to No Kings protestors. To the right of the image, the cartoon reads: “AND SO, WITH A VIDEO OF HIMSELF WEARING A CROWN AND BOMBING HIS OWN COUNTRY'S CITIZENS WITH EXCREMENT, TRUMP LAUNCHES HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE 2026 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.”
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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❌👑 No Kings, Vermont State House, Montpelier, VT

Convict is a C-word.

📷 Anon
A protestor at the No Kings rally at the Vermont State House, Montpelier, Vermont in a russet-colored hooded jacket holds a protest sign aloft. Around her are several signs and two visible American flags, and she is seen from the back, a silver butterfly hair pin gathers her red hair. Beyond her in the background are the massive columns on the front of the State House. Her sign, in black marker on red corrugate, with a cartoon rendering of the 47th president’s face and hair in white and yellow, reads: “I’d call him a c’nt but he lacks warmth and depth”
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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❌👑 No Kings, Morristown, NJ

I made my song a coat.

📷 Morven Drumthwacket
Protestor at the No Kings rally, Morristown, NJ, 18 October 2025. A woman wearing a grey overcoat decorated with small poppets made of wooden posing mannequins, each outfitted in contemporary street clothes, each identified with a single sticky-note sheet, the identities are aggrieved victims of Trump and the Republican Party. Four of these can be seen from the front: • A figure on her right shoulder in camouflage fatigues holds a “No Kings” note. • A figure in a miniature turtle neck sweater holds a “I’m losing my health insurance” note. • A figure dressed in a blouse and skirt and a brilliant fuscia-colored curly wig holds a “Disabled Trans Person” note. • A figure, semi-tucked under her left forearm, awaits re-affixing of his/her “Former Federal Worker” note. The protestor holds a roll of 3/4” blue painter’s tape in her right hand, for field repairs to keep the notes attached to the poppets. Protestor at the No Kings rally, Morristown, NJ, 18 October 2025. A woman wearing a grey overcoat decorated with small poppets made of wooden posing mannequins, each outfitted in contemporary street clothes, each identified with a single sticky-note sheet. The identities are aggrieved victims of Trump and the Republican Party. Seven of these can be seen from the back, at or just above waist height: • The back of the camouflaged figure on her right shoulder has a “No Kings - We love our Democracy” note. • A figure in a dress, pinned to the back of the coat’s upper left arm holds a “I want the right to read literature” note. • A figure in a blue denim skirt holds a “Green Card holders” note. • A mahagony-stained mannequin in a white top and black pants holds a “Black Women” note. • A figure in a fuschia curly wig holds a “Working Moms” note. • A figure in a red & white horizontal-striped top and blue running pants holds a “Research Scientist” note. • A figure in an orange & black jack-o-lantern sweater, pinned to the back of the coat’s upper right arm holds a “The Fearful” note. Across the back of the coat hand-drawn in red, blue, and black marker reads: “We March For YOU The U.S.Constitution MATTERS”
October 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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❌👑 No Kings, Morristown, NJ

Billionaires Are Afraid Of Us

📷 Morven Drumthwacket
Panorama of the crowd at the No Kings rally, Morristown, NJ, 18 October 2025. At extreme left a protestor holds a yellow sign that reads: “Billionaires Are Afraid Of Us” In the center, seen from the back, two protestors are dressed in inflatable costumes of bright blue and bright pink. Other signs in the crowd read: • You can’t spell HATRED without RED HAT • Democracy doesn’t fear protests, dictators do • Grab him by the subpoena • No one is illegal on stolen land • OUR LOVE is stronger than YOUR HATE • I like my democracy neat. No ICE! • Protect Trans Kids - Get out of kids’ bathrooms you absolute freaks
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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❌👑 No Kings, Morristown, NJ

You can’t spell Trofim Lysenko without RFK.

📷 Morven Drumthwacket
Protester in yellow headband and yellow sweatshirt holds a handwritten sign up for the camera at the No Kings rally, Morristown, NJ, 18 October 2025. The sign reads: “Our Best Hope is that Trump is taking Medical Advice from Robert Kennedy Jr.” She is walking behind another protestor in a sandwich board that reads, in part, “Unpaid…Unafraid”
October 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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❌👑 No Kings, Morristown, NJ

Fight like a Ukranian.

📷 Morven Drumthwacket
No Kings rally at the municipal building, Morristown, 18 October 2025. Protestors near the flagpole at the entrance to the building, crowd is facing away listening to the speaker who is obscured by signs in the picture foreground. Signs in the crowd read: • With Liberty and Justice for ALL • Hands Off! Democracy, Human Rights, Healthcare, Social Security - Impeach Trump! Deport Elon! • When Tyranny Becomes Law 🇺🇸 Rebellion Becomes Duty • 🇺🇦 Fight Like A Ukrainian • No Kings Defend Democracy • No Kings Dictators Fascists • Hands Off 🇺🇸 Our Democracy • Are we a nation of states? What is the state of our nation?! • Trump supporters - take your head out of the sand! When it suits Trump-he’ll come for you too! In the foreground, a woman wears the US flag as a shawl.
October 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽

“…or, maybe it’s Nietzsche.”

⏯️ https://youtu.be/Md5l8esK8iY

📷 LegalEagle
Female presenter in business dress, two bookcases in the background, describing the craven behavior of the online platforms criticized in the video. A fake quote from Sun Tzu scrolls open at the bottom of the frame. To comic effect, The presenter offers an alternate attribution for the quote to Frederick Nietzsche. "It's okay as long as the guy next to you is debasing himself more than you are." - Sun Tzu
October 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Civil Rights Act of 1964

https://online.americanbystander.org/civil-rights-act-of-1964/

🖼️ Chris Shapan
Humorous photocollage depicting an early 1960s vinyl, ‘Long Playing’ record cover, showing President Lyndon Johnson in black and white, signing the legislation into law. Album cover copy reads: AUDIO FIDELITY DES 7030 STEREOPHONIC THE INCREDIBLE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 AN ON-THE-SPOT RECORDING OF THRILL-PACKED MOMENTS FROM THE ACTION-PACKED SESSION! Copy overlaid on the black and white photo: PRESIDENTIAL SIGNING CEREMONY WASHINGTON INCLUDES TITLES I THROUGH XI TITLE I: Bars unequal application voter registration requirements! TITLE II: Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce!* AND IX MORE! Copy depicting the sound of pen on paper: Skritch! Skritch! *Exempting private clubs without defining the term "private".
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗺 𝗟𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗥𝗙𝗞.

Is RFK Jr bringing back “gold standard science”?

https://youtu.be/5APQk_YOvpU

📷 Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson
Color screen grab from the YouTube video “Is RFK Jr. bringing back “gold standard science”? “ Dr. Dan Wilson stands in a white room, a bookcase behind him to his right. To his left a very busy print of blue, green, and yellow single-and-multi-cellular shapes cascade in a kind of circus, hung on a white, near wall behind him. He is dressed in a dark blue tshirt with bold white u&lc lettering on the front that says “This is what a SCIENTIST looks like.” He is holding a wireless mic up to his mouth with his left hand.
October 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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USA

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/sep/13/usa/

Forever let us hold our banner high.😐

🖼️ Clay Bennett
Political cartoon of a realistic rendering of the Great Seal of the United States of America, with the bald bagle holding a long strip of yellow “CRIME SCENE” tape (replacing the motto “E Pluribus Unum”) in its beak.
October 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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🇺🇸 ⏰ Eat Heavy

“…he was introduced to surfing by a neighbor, the Rev. Earl Comfort, pastor of the Manahawkin Baptist Church. The two began to make custom surfboards out of foam and fiberglass in the pastor’s garage.

When Mr. DiMenna told his father that he wanted […]

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Image of the original Ron Jon Surf Shop on Long Beach Island, Ship Bottom, New Jersey in 1961. Single story white building with large Ron Jon logo in white, black, and red, painted on the side. Two vehicles can be seen parked by the building, an early 60s/late 50s station wagon, and a repainted/repurposed late 50s Cadillac hearse.
September 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Quadruple Wetdown, Parsippany, NJ, 20 Sept 2025

Tower 6, Parsippany District #6; Engine 34, Lake Parsippany District #3; Engine 15, Mount Tabor District #1; Tower 11, Mount Tabor District #1

📷 Morven Drumthwacket
Four new fire engines in a wetdown celebration in Parsippany New Jersey. Against a clear blue sky, a giant US flag is held aloft by the extended tower ladders of two participating NJ municipal fire companies, a crowd in the foreground looks on as each new fire truck is doused. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetdown
September 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM