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.

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Why does Iran cost $1B a day? Because we throw 50 times as much money at the military as they could ever even BEGIN to need, and they’ve learned there is no reason to be efficient.

Complete and utter disrespect for these servicemembers and their bereaved families. What a scumbag.

Drumpf is one disgusting POS.

I just had the awful feeling since Saturday that our military was the one that bombed that Iranian school & killed all those young girls! And now that it’s been confirmed, I’m more passionate than ever that Trump needs to be brought up on war crimes as soon as we can impeach & remove him!

#inners

Republicans won’t even act when a school full of AMERICAN children is killed. They sure as hell don’t care about this.

If the government dropped a bomb that took my kid from me, I wouldn’t be thinking about politics or strategy. I’d be thinking about who did it, and how far I’d have to go to make them feel what I felt. People act surprised when the world gets more dangerous, but this is exactly how it happens.

Ah, we’ve already won, he says. So, “Mission Accomplished” then, I guess?

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:

Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down

Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace

Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs

Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

At least $7.2 million in taxpayer funds has been spent on LEGOs through Arizona's school voucher program, new public records obtained by 12News show 12News uncovered the spending -- including one family spending $30,000 on LEGOs -- after suing Superintendent Horne and Treasurer Yee to obtain ESA public records.

Since 2022, AZ taxpayers funded $7.25M in Legos that individual families kept for themselves.

Every AZ K12 teacher could have spent ~$125 on purchases *for their whole class, present & future* w those "take my toys & go home" Lego sets.

[And yes, my code for this analysis was straight bananas.]

I know that hard work got you there, but you’re still a lucky man.

Marco Rubio on why we needed to bomb Iran: “listen, let me explain to you guys this in simple English, okay? Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

Okay Marco. And what do we do if another country, say, I dunno, the United States, for example, were run by religious fanatic lunatics?

I hope he does as well for the Tigers as he did for the Mets.

Of course it's 'Code Name: Diamond Head.' A classic.

Their guy said he'd pardon the J6 insurrectionists--and then shockingly did it.

I haven't heard any potential Democratic candidate promise to pardon everybody arrested for protesting ICE.

That'd go a long way toward showing me they're opposition and not just controlled.

If the Senate can't act even now, then this is definitely an institutional issue. i.e. The Senate as configured is useless.

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

Wow. He can't even admit that Russia is helping Iran. Even when Fox News brings it up.

This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.

Once again, the press should be ashamed for chasing this nonsense and even giving it coverage. Trump says something outrageous and they treat it like credible news instead of calling it what it is: bullshit. They never learn.

After everything they put Joe Biden through,

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks with reporters. (AP / Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

AOC: “That’s one reason he must be removed from office - if the Epstein files have such a hold on Trump & this admin that they are willing to plunge us & risk world war in order to save themselves politically - that is the definition of someone who cant make objective decisions for the American ppl”

Someday he'll fire RFK Jr. too, because he's a savvy politician, and RFK Jr. is viscerally disgusting to the human sensibility. When he does - and he will - public health will have to grapple with the fact that it was doable, and we could have tried harder, sooner

“Markwayne is… respected, he’s honest and he’s competent.”

I find it very difficult to believe he is any of those things. What is wrong with you, @welch.senate.gov ?!

CNN's Kasie Hunt: Do you expect the confirmation of Markwayne Mulling to be bipartisan?

Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT): "Well, Markwayne is -- he's respected, he‘s honest and he‘s competent... people respect Markwayne."

Hunt: "Hmm, interesting."

We should abolish the United States Senate. It serves no purpose.

“Death and destruction from the sky, all day long.” 140 men drowning in a torpedoed battleship was “quiet death.” Iran has been “gifted death from America.”

Hegseth gets off on killing people. He's a psychopath.

And of course now he’s the DHS secretary.

I keep thinking about voter intimidation. People may not want to go to a dropbox or fear they need a passport, so they won't vote at all. I feel like we need to start training for ballot collection or make Know Your Rights cards, election style.

And don't come at me w/ "midterms aren't happening".

They shouldn’t trust us. Our vapid population has proven twice that they are willing to elect a stupid, immoral, corrupt criminal who ignores America’s responsibilities to its people and to the world. Why wouldn’t they do it again?