Colson Whitehead

An Amazon listing entitled: “Flymind Safe Keychain Set for Girls with Personal Safety Alarm, Hand Sanitizer Holder, Whistle and Pom - Rating 4.5” There is a circle of images surrounding an image of the keychain itself. Those images are captioned anticlockwise as follows: “For students For gifts For women alone For elderly For outdoor sports For potential murder” All the images are stock photos apart from “For potential murder” which is an unsettling illustration of a wide-eyed face being gagged by a hand from behind.

Was just browsing handy keychains for my daughter and this took a dark and unexpected turn.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Charles the First

Charles the First, 1982
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5061

It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

A time-aged photo of a bowling team posing behind a display of bowling balls and pins. From left to right, we've got a long-haired white guy making a 'hell yeah!' face and probably hearing REO Speedwagon in his head. Then there's a pretty girl with straight long hair in a pink shirt very consciously doing a posing for a photo face. Then a black guy in a blue polo to prove everyone here is cool, next to the oldest dude on the team with longer hair and a 'stache in a peach-colored bowling shirt. Then a girl with a cute bob and sunglasses in a floral shirt, and finally there's Ed who there isn't a lot to say about. Below the ball display is a wooden sign with tracks for placing movable plastic letters. In the top left it reads 'REDONDO BCH.' and top right is '1975' and between those is the mysterious phrase 'MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TODAY'.

An Artist of Caped Crusaders Emerges From the Shadows

Noce to see Klaus Janson get a gallery show in NYC, and my pal George Gustines write about it in the NYtimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/a...

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

The only one who could ever reach me /

Was the son of a…

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

"Vibe was 100 percent scanned page by page, issue by issue on Google Books. & then I don't know what happened, but it just disappeared one day." defector.com/lost-recipes

Coming July 21, friend! Thanks for reading!!

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

Cover for report "New Developments in Meat and Meat-Packaging Technology" from Arthur D. Little, Inc. Illustration of a cow marked with dashed butcher-cut lines, centered within a white outline of the state of Iowa.

Tina Weymouth and Grandmaster Flash by Laura Levine 1981 🖤

Escape From New York (1981) Director John Carpenter

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

Bob Power, Engineer and Producer Who Excavated Hip-Hop's Low End, Dead at 73 Bob Power, the celebrated engineer and producer who worked on classic albums by A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, the Roots, and more, has died.

The great music engineer and producer Bob Power has died. An absolute legend, producing records for Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Roots, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, and on and on.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Frame #8558 from E89 Space Oddity (Part Two)

MONOPOLY Finally the day came when a monopoly owned everything in the world So it went looking for its stockholders to celebrate But they were all owned by it they were all dead they were someplace Their photographs hung in elevators which went up and down up and down carrying nobody Everyone else was in bed doing the exercises to get in shape for noon Hey the monopoly said lets uncork the Empire State Building and get blotto Silence The monopoly scowled All it wanted was a little good-fellowship, like you get in the highrise apartment-buildings Then the sky got awful dark Gee And everyone was in bed frantically doing those exercises that prepare us for death Exercises known as “fucking” “kissing” “caressing” Everyone was unaware that they had been bought Or that the earth was about to sell them to the moon For a little light

Bill Knott

A comic panel of Uncle Scrooge thinking "what a horrible fate to befall the world!"

tldr THANKS SUCKA

THERAPIST: and this one?

ME: that looks like you kissing my mum.

THERAPIST: what about this one?

ME: also kissing my mum. and groping her a little. why are you showing me these?

THERAPIST: I thought you'd be happy for us.

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures

A screenshot from a scam website targeting authors that claims to work with Zadie Smith and Colson Whitehead both of whom are Black people but the photos of them are AI generated generic white people

Well today in AI scams targeting authors. I received an email claiming to want to include my book in a book club. Not only do all the photos of authors they claim to work with look AI generated but look at @colsonwhitehead.com and @zadiesmith.bsky.social and then look at these photos

tough to come up with a better story about the ignorance and hubris of mankind than “b-list tv news host becomes Secretary of Defense,” but then we get the story “b-list tv news host becomes Secy. of Defense, plugs AI system directly into military systems, has it select targets”

D1548.0.1
Amulet
has control over weather.

The thing you have to understand about the 80s is that the Harlem Globetrotters could show up in anything at any time and nobody would bat an eye.

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.