An Arch Too Far: Trump's Vanity Monument and the Dishonoring of Arlington National Cemetery How the President's Arch Turns Hallowed Ground Into a Backdrop

The first sentence of this is perfection.

SYSTEM OF IRAN YouTube video by Andre Antunes

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Album cover for Tiger Jaw's Lost on You. Featuring the song Light Leaks Through

I guess all you can do at the moment is appreciate what beauty there is left in the world

Do you know how EXTREMELY FUCKED UP SHIT HAS TO BE for me to be reposting Tucker Carlson positively???

Chase DeLauter truly is not from this planet.

Picture of Anna O. Law's book "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship"

Congratulations! My copy arrived this evening. Excited to start reading.

2026 -- Academy awards Best pic. 1. The Secret Agent 2. Sinners 3. Train Dreams 4. Frankenstein 5. Sentimental Value 6. Marty Supreme 7. Hamnet 8. One Battle After Another 9. Bugonia 10. F1 Best Director -- Ryan Coogler, Sinners Best actor -- Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent Best actress-- Jessie Buckley, Hamnet Best supporting actor-- Delroy Lindo, Sinners Best Supporting actress -- Amy Madigan, Weapons Best animated -- K-pop Demon Hunters Best Documentary -- My Perfect Neighbor Best Documentary Short -- All the Empty Rooms Best International -- The Secret Agent

2026 -- Academy awards Best pic. 1. The Secret Agent 2. Sinners 3. Train Dreams 4. Frankenstein 5. Sentimental Value 6. Marty Supreme 7. Hamnet 8. One Battle After Another 9. Bugonia 10. F1 Best Director -- Ryan Coogler, Sinners Best actor -- Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent Best actress-- Jessie Buckley, Hamnet Best supporting actor-- Delroy Lindo, Sinners Best Supporting actress -- Amy Madigan, Weapons Best animated -- K-pop Demon Hunters Best Documentary -- My Perfect Neighbor Best Documentary Short -- All the Empty Rooms Best International -- The Secret Agent

Some of my choices (and rankings of best picture noms) for the #Oscars tonight

#AcademyAwards

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Comparisons/analogies allow us to venture, clumsily and often in darkness, into greater understanding. As an American, to grasp what is happening in Iran, in contradistinction to its diaspora, you have to rely on available conceptual parallels. Think about the Cuban diaspora in the United States.

Evangelical Podcaster Bro: liberals always misinterpret the line “swords into plowshares,” clearly the real meaning is to remind men to be careful when sheathing their sword so that they don’t cut their dick off. This line also makes it clear that women shouldn’t have credit cards. I am very smart

But yes things are much more peaceful and collegial, so I think that may have something to do with it

UMC pastor here in West Ohio. I would say the opposite is true for us. There hasn't been much on it at all. Our clergy session was focused on it (I think back in 2024?) but not much beyond that.

I have a daughter with lissencephaly so I thank you for posting this but most of all for listening to that father.

Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole...

Now and Then www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Record cover of a man kneeling next to a warthog with a sword. The song "Twice" by Bilmuri

Legend

How Polarization Tore a Hole in America’s Mainline Churches What happened to America’s religious moderates, and why does it matter to our country’s future?

How Polarization Tore a Hole in America’s Mainline Churches newrepublic.com/article/2051... via @newrepublic.com

As a father of a disabled child this one just hurts too much...I hurt so terribly for this father and family

ICE Denies Detainee's Request to Attend His Son's Funeral, Attorney Says Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker of his son, Wael Tarabishi, 30, who died on Friday, Jan. 23, from complications related to Pompe disease.

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael.

On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition.

ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

America vs. the World President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

"Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was, and he has weakened America’s ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."

I am so disgusted to learn from the NY Times article today about Jonathan Ross that we were both students at Anderson University, a Christian college in Indiana, in 2006...

The Gen Z “Religious Revival” Isn’t Real YouTube video by ReligionForBreakfast

youtu.be/UdsPPxaGVUs?...

He donated a large sum in the past year for the first time. Don't know if IU made a big deal about it though!

Lol at Bluesky people all in for the Indiana Hoosiers after going after Mark Cuban a week before 😂

I acknowledge these are click bait headlines but we need to recover the type of discourse where something can be good/average...and that is ok.

I always appreciate your lists. I don't fault anyone for having not much metal but glad to see deafheaven made your list! (blut aus nord had probably the best metal wise imo). Rosalia was definitely aoty for sure no doubt

I recently read this and it recognizes the same dynamics using sociobiology and neurobiology.

Please read, subscribe, and all that: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/last-minut...

Revisiting this and wow just wow it still holds up so well after all these years.

#metal #metalsky #alternative

90s Christian ska band Five Iron Frenzy has updated their facebook cover photo to say “Fighting Christian Nationalism since 1995.”

they have awoken the christian ska dragon

Abuse is a function not an aberration of patriarchal systems. It doesn't always take the form we commonly associate it with but it will take whatever form necessary to structure/maintain power for (certain) men.