Niki de Saint Phalle

Mona Lisa and me

#westminsterabbey

#vintage paperbacks The Skull of the Marquis de Sade by Robert Bloch

Wow, what a team up!

I was mildly amused when I learned that Tim Burton would be directing a remake of Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, but I got excited when I discovered that Gillian Flynn would be writing the screen play.

I just discovered Scavengers Reign on Max and devoured the whole season. It’s the best new science fiction I’ve seen in a while.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Republican follies:

If I were a young woman in a red state, I’d be terrified of getting pregnant. A serious difficulty could mean I might not get the care I need to save my life.

To the [DeSantis] campaign’s surprise, the message that “I’m just like Trump, but awkward, shorter and less interesting” did not seem to catch.

—Politico

Jeff Sharlet explains the rising threat of Christian fascists and why they see Trump as their leader.

Yes, of course he’s going to start calling her Nimarata. That’s the most predictable play in #Trump ‘s book.

There’s a growing sense among foreign diplomats that moral or national security arguments don’t work on the American far-right.

Time to put this seditionist on trial.

In his speech at the Mother Emanuel, Biden mentioned the Lost Cause, which refers to Southerners who refused to accept the outcome of the Civil War. He then accurately called the election denialism of MAGA Republicans the Second Lost Cause. The first brought Jim Crow; what will the second bring us?