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Untitled, by Cy Twombly, 1990, 📸 by Dan Sheridan // @Inphosports

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

Nate Silver should also start claiming Eric Adams has a 140 IQ

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

I sometimes confuse Joe Sacco and Joe Sarno. This is nobody's burden to bear but my own.

Look, I'm no genius, but I'm pretty sure that if you gave me $100 billion to create something, I could come up with something better than a Sega Saturn video game.

Crappy's Galesburg, IL

Obama's going to release his 2026 playlist while Trump is carpet bombing Chicago.

I want a leader who runs the government like a business. Specifically like the worst family-owned business imaginable. A pet store where the tropical fish have all somehow contracted gonorrhea. A failing adult bookstore run by two feuding brothers who keep trying to blow up each others' cars.

His Yeelen is one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen

To my mind, there's only one choice for the new Bond.

The state of the world is incredibly despairing, but on the bright side I've been eating a massive amount of L's in my personal life, too.

based on the estimates, more federal employees have probably been (illegally) fired in the last ~week than coal jobs have been lost over the past 60 years

Boy, Ganz is firing on all cylinders on this one. He might be the essential chronicler of Trumpism.

Straight fire here from Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Democratic Party. "If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?” (thx @guyoron.net)

Post a female character that you love

I might try to pitch a piece working toward a theory of the mid film.

Tome poll: What should I read next? Middlemarch or The Recognitions?

Bemused walked so Literally could run.

With all the brave public anti-administration statements coming from former Scalia clerks and lifelong members of America's Neofeudalism Institute, I'm begging the Democrats to remember that more than one of you can talk at once about more than one thing at once, and people can then report on that.

The world is an endlessly fascinating place, and if you are curious you will discover something wondrous about it. Just today, for example, I learned that the 1984 Paul McCartney film was adapted into a video game for the Commodore 64.

You ever just stop and think about Warren Ellis' absolutely cataclysmic desktop?

scientists are calling it "saturday 2" and some are hailing it as the next great innovation in calendar technology

While the Valentine's Day orgy is on break for lunch I just want to say I hope everybody else's is going as well as mine.