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
"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!!
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.
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
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.
Great piece. Will Hermes’s “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire” is a history of NYC popular music that includes the salsa movement, left out of other accounts because Spanish.
NYC in the snow, skyline behind high snow drifts. AP photo.
Big gap-mouthed deep sea fish, with jagged teeth that look like the NYC skyline.
New York City used to have an iconic, elegant skyline. Now it's all jagged and lacks harmony. It looks like the sharp jagged teeth in some weird fish's mouth. Ugly and unwelcoming.
I’m very honored you picked them up, WG! Thanks for all the inspiration over the years!
I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.
Hear me out: Clifford the Big Red Dog was almost certainly euthanized at a relatively young age due to hip dysplasia and honestly? Everyone in town was secretly relieved.
Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.
