Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
"Elegante y muy cabrona." I labor at the word factory for Alta, WaPo, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW and others. https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
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Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
In three weeks reporters will have to wear these into briefings.
Lord.
It's like you think he can't fit anymore in — and then he fits some more in. George Washington is rolling over in his grave.
Jerry Nadler and the Democrats (and Congress's) generational issue. www.pbump.net/o/democrats-...
If we were a civilized European country this would be a comedy skit with puppets and I would bring the popcorn.
Imagining Steve Miller trying to hold him upright while Karoline Leavitt splashes water on his face in a desperate attempt to make him look lively
It’s insane
Whoops. Here's the link for the Peña poster: americanart.si.edu/artwork/huel...
Amado M. Peña, Jr., Unidentified, "¡Huelga! Texas Farmworkers Union," ca. 1977
Crowds surround Chinese laborers as they lay the last rail of the first transcontinental railroad, by Andrew Russell, 1869. portal.museumca.org/catalog/8e67...
Gordon Parks, "American Gothic," Washington, D.C., 1942. www.icp.org/browse/archi...
Since Labor Day isn't supposed to be about sales: Arthur Rothstein, "TVA Workers, Fort Loudon, Tennessee," 1942. In the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu/artwork/tva-...
Ivan Albright, "Fleeting Time, Thou Hast Left Me Old," 1945
He instantly made anything he was in better. He will be missed. 💙
People splicing footage of Filipino government nepo babies dancing and showing off their wealth against footage of the flood disasters.
Filipino Tok and Indonesia Tok right now are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
La Décapitation de saint Georges, Bernat Martorell, 1430
But I thought I saw him at Panera.
"PragerU says it is trying to fight cultural amnesia with patriotic history. The Founders Museum instead suggests a nation with light brain damage." news.artnet.com/art-world/wh...
Also, a show about Latino youth movements being replaced with one about salsa music. hyperallergic.com/1037811/smit...
"Trump’s age, his visible health problems, and the White House’s cagey answers raise real questions about transparency and capacity. Yet the institutions that pride themselves on holding power to account have largely looked away," @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
Timeline cleanse
True my RBF would not photograph well on the daily
Apparently the soundtrack of Les Miserables could be heard in the Rose Garden, so … alive.
Inspector convening White House staff: “My job is to determine which one of you murdered the President.” Pan to room: *JD Vance awkwardly holding a couch pillow.* *Kristi Noem nervously rubbing gun barrel.* *RFK Jr. swigging raw milk.* *Stephen Miller crouched in corner gnawing on a deer’s femur.*
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
I'm sure I could convince people he was my dad and he's 10 years younger than me.
A friend of mine just informed me that Joni Ernst is only a year older than us and all I gotta say is hate will age TF of you.
bwahahahaha
This is your periodic reminder to live your life so the entire internet isn't planning week long benders and a second baby boom when you die
Correction: 2 hours
The Culture Journalist podcast has a really interesting episode devoted to AI and the enshittification of the internet. Journalist John Herrman describes it as something akin to "an ecological collapse." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Make America Dumb and Boring Again. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
In my next work contract I will specify that I can't start work until I've watched at least an hour's worth of Cardi B trial videos.
"These Christian-themed videos are part of a larger barrage of propaganda," @cmonstah.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/3HUGlAq
A detail from Bellini’s “St Jerome in the Wilderness,” c. 1450, spotted at the Getty in 2017.
How your email found me.
These are the words of a lunatic who does not belong in government, much less as our nation's top health official. It is dangerous to allow him to oversee ALL federal health research and public health infrastructure. It is never too late to do the right thing. Fire RFK Jr.
“I feel like Dad is saying: ‘I have taught you this language. Now speak it.'" www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
He is so bad!
Maybe we just need to rename our country the United States of Palantir & Goop.
Her expressions are priceless. Her face when the lawyer asked about her hair!
Oh I am looking forward to reading this!
This is my Roman Empire.
I believe this is what the kids call performative
Meanwhile in Argentina. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
👀 www.bbc.com/news/article...
It is so hard to be the cat.
OMG I want to rub that little loaf's belly
This is my song of the summer.
I looooove em dashes
Moreover Myriad Backward sentences with lots of clauses because I’m a native Spanish speaker
They can get those chip bags with their bayonets.
We do this every damn time but it's so annoying.
I love how your cable bill can just magically go up by 50% overnight for no reason other than the cable company thought it was a good idea to just start charging you more.
My rolls salute your rolls! 🫡
A good jam from @arunadsouza.bsky.social on the fluid state of South Asian identity in locales like the Caribbean and Africa. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/a...
On YouTube, videos claiming Trump-world figures bested their antagonists during micro-interactions are generating thousands of views and a flood of supportive comments—and they’re all completely fake.
I get into DHS’s White Christian Nationalist aesthetic in my latest for @postopinions.bsky.social. (With gift link!)
“These Christianist ideas find their contemporary form on DHS’s hyper-caffeinated social media feeds, where videos that quote the Bible imply that seizing undocumented immigrants is a spiritual calling — a crusade, one might call it.” wapo.st/4mzFvZh
“It’s an example of another government deploying what the researchers call ‘Politically Salient Image Patterns,’ which, as they put it, ‘serve to influence, demean, manipulate, and motivate various audience segments.’” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet, we must write it down, if for nothing else, then for the sake of those who will come after us.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Our government is torturing this man.
As the Trump Administration threatens the Native arts ecosystem through defunding, I have a look at how the de Young's revamp of its Indigenous art galleries helps put the voices of California Indigenous communities front and center. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/a...
Same
The food photos are so devastating. This bowl of gravy:
Definitely need the Cracker Barrel coffee pot ornament.
I have no idea what is happening here. It’s from the Cracker Barrel “Horse” collection.
This shirt is from their Palm Beach collection. If you are Latino and wear this everyone will definitely think you are the waiter.
Cracker Barrel sells clothes! A tank dress from their American Heritage Collection:
#ArtButMakeItPolitics
It's an occupation.
Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.
From the perspective of how he would rule, yes. But he also doesn't attract the same cult following, so not sure how long he would last?
Congestive heart failure TikTok is now a thing.
“In a contemporary society colored, or rather made creatively bland, by the homogenizing factor of social media, one yearns again for such an original artist who had the balls to stick two sequined fingers up to accepted norms.” hyperallergic.com/1033670/leig...
I got it in East LA
Love a freak summer rainfall in LA in which everyone is like WTF
Got my first today!
Whether it's Zohran Mamdani opening city-run grocery stores or Eric Adams handing potato chip bags filled with cash to reporters, both candidates have provocative ways of getting food to New Yorkers.
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I just opted out. Only takes a minute.
This is the older show, not the new one — just so you know. But hopefully I'll see you at the performance anyway!
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
Here's the story I wrote about it: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Just bought tix for Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol at CAP UCLA on Sept. 27. Do yourself a favor and GO. The last time this Mexican theater collective was in LA, I saw their piece "Tijuana" and was so thoroughly and completely blown away, I STILL think about the performance. cap.ucla.edu/event/centro...
Every time I see Trump waiting for Putin, I think about the staged amphora 🏺 photo of VP allegedly discovering (he didn’t, it was planted) the ceramic while scuba diving in the Kerch Strait. lol. Ancient history is always a prop to these men. www.theguardian.com/world/2011/o...
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Leonora Carrington, "Self-Portrait," c. 1937-38, in the collection of the Met. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Made it to Friday.
Live footage of me at my desk:
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More and more, he resembles an old t-shirt that has been through the dryer a hundred too many times. I won't even get into the hat.
Towards the end of my time there I would get zero engagement snd get called a dumb cunt regularly. No thank you.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
Eli
Classical chanclas! news.artnet.com/art-world/fl...
Kelsey Atherton 