As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:
🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano
✏️ by @newrepublic.com
This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food
34 countries allow mail-in voting, most of them in Europe. Every single state, red and blue, allows mail-in voting, though a few require an approved excuse. It was never an issue until Trump lost and needed a scapegoat.
Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.
We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.
Everything is for sale.
This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society.
And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.
Everything’s fine
Have we finally moved on from "avocado toast is destroying society" then?
Is it "effortless" or is it just "lazy"?
Just finished Robin Givhan's Virgil Abloh book. The chapter on sexism in sneaker culture is 🔥🔥🔥🔥.
So ban the rapey men from the pool/Senate. That would be doing them/us an actual favor.
More baseball hats behaving badly:
Imagine how often women are excluded from important work events for this same reason with no explanation.
In a recent lecture on mourning dress, I talked about how world leaders now symbolically perform mourning on behalf of their nations, instead of whole countries going into mourning together. That's why not even Fox News can defend Trump's baseball hat. He wore a blue suit and tie to a papal funeral!
Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.
“.. no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept.”
@washingtonpost.com #J6
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space
I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.
Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.
Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
Remember Marie Antoinette had a play-acting village behind Versailles where she and her courtiers could pretend to be dairy maids and what have you? The whole world is the Trumposphere's play village where make believe rules
Four images, three of patterned and colourful weaving designs and one of the head and shoulders of a white woman in a monochrome photograph
The work of Gunta Stölzl (1897– 1983), influential German textile artist and designer who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop #WomensArt ##WomensHistoryMonth
Worn #onthisday in 1968 in Bergdorf Goodman's "import show" in New York, NY. Nina Ricci's "heavily beaded white linen evening gown with red and green sequin flowers" was "the most expensive fashion" per the @nytimes.com; it "clinked and clanked as a model pranced through the salon in it." #OTD 📷MCNY
A long printed cotton dress with tight sleeves and bodice and a repeat printed in a green, pink and red motif against a cream background
A closer detail of the pattern covering the 1840s cotton dress with a complex design of stylised florals
An engraving from the 1840s that shows a calico printing workshop with the large expanse of cotton that was able to be roller printed in longer lengths
Cutting edge technologies are always at the heart of textile manufacture. In the 1840s that involved roller printing, the process that replaced wood block textile prints with a faster method and more complex patterns. I do love an #1840s printed cotton @ngvmelbourne.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
I got married a few years later and ordered long gloves that never arrived. It was such a blessing in disguise and my arms look amazing in every photo.
"Suggested for you" and it's my own damn book.....
