David Rose in 3:AM Magazine: "To understand both, we have to examine, as in all criminal activity, the matter of motive. For the motive in avoiding or distorting familiar conventions is that of epistemology." www.3ammagazine.com/3am/dark-mat...
"The incoherence of these explanations is symptomatic of an administration that equates critical questions with treason." www.equator.org/articles/the...
Mr. President, sir,
"images of bloody knives, hooded criminals, fists and frightened women" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
My origin story? I was named after Robert Wagner's character from the TV show Hart to Hart.
It was a psyop probably yesterday right.
Vallotton, Le crime châtié. MCBA, Lausanne.
Blahgonia.
Gnocchi.
Been seeing the craziest facial bandages every day in Geneva this winter. Spooky shit.
Its not that incompetence in and of itself is disqualifying obviously or that theyre magically going to fail, but the number and spectrum of fights they've picked at once would require extremely competent management at the best of times, and that many enemies pushing successfully at once...
Sorry but these clowns cant even redact files they have full total control over, they've literally broken the law withholding the files but cant even get their shit together enough to not immediately spill the beans like they dont have what it takes to hold this shit
Successfully fusing the old soap into the new bar...the Power of Change. The Power of Truth.
Collage-like image including: image of devil with hands up, heart, shooting men, and snowman with fire underneath him
Snowman in circular frame with fire below him
David Wojnarowicz, "Four Elements," 1990, from collection of the Walker Art Center, which is closed today as part of today's general strike in Minneapolis. I'm nominating the detail at right as prime candidate for new anti-ICE iconography walkerart.org/collections/...
"It can feel kind of slapstick, until you remember that they will destroy someone’s life today, and that they can kill you." www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
next person to try and add AI to my daily life is losing a finger
A work by David Wojnarowicz, "Untitled (Hujar Dead)," 1988–1989, which includes b&w photos of Wojnarowicz's lover Peter Hujar dead in a hospital bed, collaged with other elements.
"the thin line between the inside and the outside is beginning to erode and at the moment I’m a thirty seven foot tall one thousand one hundred & seventy-two pound man inside this six foot frame and all I can feel is the pressure all I can feel is the pressure and the need for release"
Sweet Tulsa bookshop. I miss it. bsky.app/profile/thep...
"the hideously exemplary figure for the end of American exemplarity" www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Great run of reading comedic novels so far this year:
Barthelme, The Dead Father
Hannah, Ray
Ross, Oreo
Everett, Grand Canyon, Inc.
"...people find themselves more alone than they used to be, before the enigma of the two times of their lives. No social value any longer underwrites the time of consciousness." -John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Looks like the waning empire is at it again (more waning).
They are extremely unpopular, unable to significantly expand their forces (they are already poaching local police for ICE and reassigning significant percentages of FBI/ATF toward enforcement), lacking in organizational resilience and one bum ticker/blood clot away from total movement collapse
Barry Hannah, Ray: "The land is full of crashing jets, carbon monoxide, violent wives, and murderous men. There is a great deal of metal and hardness."
used to be cowards and dullards would fall back on saying 2 things can be true. but today I’ve seen people pushing 3 things… 4… Nick Kristof listed 5 simultaneously true things. we are experiencing an 8-blade razor epistemological situation here.
Get your war on 3: ok I hate to act like a fucking dumbass but are we at war? I mean, did we ever officially declare war? Declare war? Who's got time to declare war when there are so many bombs to drop
Can’t wait for the hectoring, alpha-posture essay thread from our sweaty little piggy VP tomorrow