He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

The dreaded Floor Pi

OMG I thought I was the only person in the world who photographed these

Fred Rogers with a big old timey cassette player smiling at the camera captioned always record the police because they are fucking liars

PSA

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Machado presenting her Nobel prize to Tr*mp

This is the face of someone who knows she has just sold her soul

Worth every second

I 🖤 Tom Lehrer

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

The Gilded Age didn’t end because rich people were sick of it

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

There are dozens of videos out there showing thousands of Venezuelans in Venezuela demonstrating on behalf of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chavismo, and its current representative, Maduro. But western media only shows you smaller celebrations by Venezuelans outside of VZ. This guy breaks it down.

Please can we phase out the term “pro-life?” Because they aren’t. Call it what it is: forced birth.

It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:

• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).

• Sex criminals.

• War criminals.

Yay!!! Thanks for the update Lynn, and keep up the good work, Glenn!!!

Education - Letterform Archive Education is central to the Archive’s mission. At the core is Type West, a postgraduate certificate program in type design available in-person in San Francisco or online worldwide.

The deadline for Type West is extended to November 14! If you want to learn type design in a deep way without leaving your current job, there’s no better way to do it. letterformarchive.org/education/

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FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!

Haha I had the exact same thing ! Mine is probably in the dustbin of history now, alas.

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Of course you know Ben Zotto, Glenn! Small world!

I signed up to phonebank/get out the vote for Zohran Mamdani, and so can you! ✊

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Awwww sorry to hear this. Hugs!

Two-page spread from the book showing two illustrations in green at the top of each page. Hand holds the book in front of a bookcase with printing-related titles and items. The title on the left-hand page is A Press That Lasts Centuries. Left-hand page illustration is Dance of Death (15th century woodcut) showing skeletons dancing with printers as they take them away. Right-hand page shows a common press, like those used from Gutenberg to the early 1800s.

Bookmarks printed in red and black with large type reading Tutivillus (top) and Printer’s Devil (obscured beneath top bookmark, which is placed at an angle) [digital preview of printed item]

Line drawing of man speaking into wax recording apparatus, his mouth inside a tube as he holds a lever to rotate the wax drum

I’ve launched the standalone site for purchasing Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a cloth-bound hardcover book, which is paired with the ebook. You can also buy the ebook by itself, snag the unabridged audio edition, and add letterpress-printed bookmarks. (tems ship around July 20.) sixcent.info

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens

What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

Not enough random capitalization to be believable

Just FYI, check out Simon Smith’s Letterform Lecture on the history of music notation!

@notpetebest.bsky.social love yr new profile pic!

😂 and yes!