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Nothings Monstered
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The name is a joke from Shakespeare

This account is for whatever I feel like posting about. Mostly pictures that strike my fancy, posts about politics, disability, art, literature, et cetera

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Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle — Albrecht Dürer, 1493
February 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM
February 14, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Jack Laycox, 1970s
February 14, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Walter Schnackenberg, 1949
February 13, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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A little history for your Friday before the long weekend. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
What It Means to Be a White ‘Race Traitor’
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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The only real change about ICE in Minnesota is that the press stopped covering them. That's all.

It's still very bad.
February 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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gift article
Opinion | Now We Know What All Those People Got From Epstein
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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Yay!

Federal Funding to Resume for Gateway Tunnel.
By Patrick McGeehan.

"Federal funding for the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel between New York City and New Jersey ... will begin to flow again on Friday, lawyers for the Trump administration told a federal judge."

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
February 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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"wages have been flat for decades" is an extremely simple, obviously true concept that explains about 80% of all handwringing op-eds and for some reason they just won't say that
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Left out the best part. "You can go peacefully fuck yourself'" Kid is a legend.
bsky.app/profile/gigi...
February 13, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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What’s the equivalent of a bail fund for a kid about to get suspended and how do I contribute
February 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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People really need to understand that the primary process is where you cement power. When standard Republicans started to get primaried for Tea Party fuckos, things went downhill fast.
We have the chance this year to not only take back the House (or if we're dreaming, even the Senate), but to primary the hell of a lot of D losers and shift the party significantly to the left. We have the chance to lean on ALL of our reps to actually do something.
February 13, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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i dream of a press that was made for the moment instead of a press made in the mindseye of billionaires 😭
you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election
February 13, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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rod dreher is not that interesting. he is a guy very clearly filled with self hatred tied to repressed feelings related to his gender and sexuality, and rather than deal with them, he blames “modernity” and “secularism” for why he’s unhappy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
#til that in 1782 George Washington gave his approval to a plan to kidnap George III's son Prince William who was serving in the Royal Navy and living in NYC.

The plan leaked, William was assigned bodyguards, and the plan stalled.
February 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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On her birthday: Mary of Burgundy, painted (posthumously) by Michael Pacher in around 1490. Wonderful pure profile, beauty of the line.
February 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Since Presidents' Day is almost here, this is my #TopShelfFriday selection.
February 13, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Star Flagg: Undercover Girl
February 13, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Asako Yoshihama
February 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM