@nothingsmonstrd
The name is a joke from Shakespeare This account is for whatever I feel like posting about. Mostly pictures that strike my fancy, posts about politics, disability, art, literature, et cetera The Bronx one-legged juggler // he
One of the biggest threats to America is indeed religious fundamentalism but it’s white Christian fundamentalism. You don’t see the NYT demanding every Christian politician answer for the sins of their co-believers.
These people will say that they want different things than either party — but when the parties claim to want different things you say that results are all that count.
If you take a broad enough view that you can argue that there are no meaningful differences between the major political parties, then how can you deny that there are no meaningful differences between you and them?
If everything is the same, you are, too.
TIL Trump didn't bother to refill the strategic petroleum reserve last year when oil was dirt cheap. what can you even say www.ft.com/content/d546...
GOP congressman from Tennessee Andy Ogles posted on Ex-Twitter on March 9: “Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
“Pluralism is a lie”
That really is the consensus on the Right: It’s all a lie, no one actually wants it, it’s all just a conspiracy orchestrated by globalist elites, it destroys the nation.
It’s the one thing that unites all the factions on the MAGA right: A rabid disdain of pluralism.
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Karl Marx on the American Civil War:
🇺🇦 During a counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces reclaimed more than 400 km² of territory. And restored control over nearly the entire Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/ukraine-rest...
B&W photo of Johnny giving the finger to the photographer, who said he wanted to get a picture for the warden
Johnny Cash, San Quentin State Prison — Jim Marshall, 1969
color photo of JJ in a white leather jacket and black leather pants. Hair teased up in almost a hair metal style. hands on hips, giving the camera a fierce look
Joan Jett, 1980s
An old man sitting in his yard while a little boy whittles on his peg leg. ad for tobacco
b&w photo of the man seen in profile, one hand on the back of his neck, his hat pushed down low on his forehead. He's wearing a ring with a crescent moon and star on it.
Malcolm X, Chicago - Eve Arnold, 1961
Cover of Para Todos magazine. a woozy flapper with a hand to her head staggering amidst a forest of cocktails taller than herself
José Carlos, 1927
i say this to my students a lot and am always surprised when they find it discouraging rather than exciting. no one cares as much as you do whether you write that book! you can write it however you want!
Two-Fisted Tales #34 (1953). The cover shows a close-up shot of a pilot on a WWI era biplane and in the background we can see another plane on fire and going down.
Cover by Jack Davis.
also "it won't be endless" is pretty disingenuous, sure one day american civilization will collapse and the sun will envelop the earth and eventually there will be the heat death of the universe, it is likely the war will be over by then
meanwhile hegseth saying "this is not endless or protracted" is hilarious. no one ever wants a middle east war to be "endless or protracted" but that's how middle east wars have worked for invaders since time immemorial. welcome to the party, pal. no, not that kind of party you lush.
ooh wow you destroyed so much of their conventional weaponry and navy, tell me again how iraq and afghanistan and vietnam worked
iran is more or less the size of like half of europe combined, is led by fanatics, and controls the flow of oil out of the middle east. you guys couldn't even "defeat" *minneapolis*
just glanced at the tv and ol' drunken haircut pete is gesturing wildly and man, some us city is getting obliterated in the next few weeks huh
City of Chicago rat control poster WARNING TARGET: RATS picture of rat in crosshairs
watercolor painting of a half-dozen alligators in a swamp headed your way. Actually, it looks like they might just be basking in warm sunshine and feeling too lazy to eat you
Everglades Alligators - Winslow Homer, ca. 1900
b&w photo of a flower
Poppy - Robert Mapplethorpe, 1988
b&w photo of the same Nazi now scowling and rigid in his chair. He looks at the photographer with visions of murder in his head
Joseph Goebbels (after finding out Eisenstaedt was Jewish) - Albert Eisenstaedt, 1933
b&w photo of a smiling cheerful Nazi propaganda minister happy that his party has taken power. He's relaxed and leaning back in his chair
Joseph Goebbels - Albert Eisenstaedt, 1933
color photo of the writer wearing a brown pinstripe suit. He's 41 years old, and his face seems remarkably smooth and unlined for a man who'd lived what he'd lived through, but the eyes are distant and sad.
Chester Himes - Carl Van Vechten, 1948
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
This in response to the hundreds of thousands of people who have died as a result of Trump and Musk’s attack on USAID is clear evidence of the exact same kind of brain poisoning that produces, eg, JK Rowling. Winning an argument with the strangers in your phone becomes more important than human life