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Bob Staake, “Reflecting Pool,” November 17, 2008.

Me at my performance review

Vivek Ramaswamy and his hair were on Fox & Friends this morning defending his vile attack ad

This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Chilling in Central Park

Gladys

Rowan

Elbert

Baby Ralph

As Trump boasts about how much money the fossil fuels industry is making from the war on Iran, his personal holdings in oil and gas are now worth between $22.5–$81.6 million, up from $12.6–$46 million at the end of 2025. He's personally profiting from the war, just as he said in the campaign rally.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer doesn't make political endorsements, but they're making an exception in the governor's race this year: "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

A report released Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on President Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein included new details from a young Swiss woman raped by Trump in an Atlantic City hotel room in 1993, whose meeting was arranged by Jeffrey Epstein. time.com/article/2026...

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

vivek's hairstyle kind of looks like dessert at the cheesecake factory

On this Election Day, don't let others speak for you! VOTE! 😺🇨🇦👍🗳

America https://www.wikiart.org/en/rufino-tamayo/america-1955

Credit: Varvara Isupova (b. Ukraine, 2008-). Felix with Luigi with ballistics, september 2026, oil on canvas. #ukrainianartist #meninart #dogsinart #animalsinart #dogsky #artsky #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #chien #toutou #artcontemporain #mansbestfriend #canine #homemaintenance #perro

The Family https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1387/

Girl Attacked by a Strange Bird http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79119

Paisaje con luna https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43989/

Philip Whalen

'Paisaje panorámico holandés con Haarlem al fondo' Creación de 1654. Técnica: Óleo sobre lienzo. Dimensiones: 150 × 203 cm. Ubicación: Galería Nacional de Dinamarca (SMK), Copenhague, Dinamarca. Autor: Philips Koninck (neerlandés, 1619-1688) #arts #paintings

Gordon Onslow-Ford, A Present for the Past, 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1125033

Franz Kline, White Forms, 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135402

Landscape with Rain by Vasily Kandinsky, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137820

What a disgusting pig.

Trump’s crowd in Michigan looks on in bewilderment as he decries the fact that Michael Whatley is doomed in North Carolina

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Alan Reynolds, Composition July, 1952 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135006

Georges Braque, The Table (Still Life with Fan), L'Estaque or Paris, fall 1910 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137112

I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.

Shin Yoshiwara, from the illustrated book "Picture Book of Amusements of the East (Ehon Azuma asobi)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/33383/

#COTD Buddy is a sweet guy with a huge purr! He was found surviving outside and after being vetted, he was diagnosed with FIV. His rescuers knew he needed a home that understood his medical needs and now he’s found his forever home at BCR! Read more: blindcatrescue.com/cats/buddy2....

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

This really should be turned into a campaign commercial by the Democrats, after first flagging Trump's heavy investment in fossil fuels companies and then posting his massive income from mysterious crypto sources last year.

This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

Obama's Michigan rally for Abdul El-Sayed was clearly the campaign event of the 2026 campaign. Obama's magic was shining through. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

course was a natural habitat worth protecting, and kept right on running the club. Forbes estimates the write-off could land around $825mn. He has done this at least five times since 2005. New York's attorney general concluded that two of those appraisals were inflated. In Doral, he claimed a

Trump doesn't pay taxes. So why should you? Trump pulled in $1.4bn from crypto grifts in 2025, plus more than $200mn from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500mn. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the

Vivek just released a new ad with Acton’s estranged mother that cut out the part where she claimed Acton lied about living in a tent after proof came out that she did live in a tent, so basically the bitter old hag is now just saying Acton lied at 12 about being sexually abused.

In a focus group of 10 Trump voters asked about the Ramaswamy ad, exactly one was moved to be supportive of Ramaswamy based on the ad, and that one was moved by the mother's claim that they lived in a tent was a lie (in fact it was true, and Ramaswamy has now cut that passage from the ad.)

Maarten Wolterink

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José (Zez) Vaz, Cybertruck Man