Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear recently ordered a statue of noted American traitor Jefferson Davis to be removed from the state capitol. And as workers took the statue down, they discovered… Read the rest of the article: Bourbon time capsule discovered underneath a statue of Jefferson Davis in Kentucky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGcGXXCRrow The recent Sesame Street seminar on racism has caused quite a stir on the Internet, thanks in large part to a scene in which Elmo's father, Louie, explains why people… Read the rest of the article: A dark fan theory explores the illicit affair between Elmo's mom and his Uncle Jack
Emily aka Angsty X tried to teach her 8-year old how to use Photoshop. She figured that the best way to do this was to introduce her to a few… Read the rest of the article: When 8-year-olds redesign famous band tees
The first season of the DC Universe Original Doom Patrol TV series was truly wonderful in all the weirdest ways. Ostensibly about a group of "superheroes" (kind of) who are… Read the rest of the article: The new trailer for season 2 of DOOM PATROL brings the SeX-Men to HBO Max
Who among us hasn't used a pair of parentheses to draw a butt? Swedish graphic designer Viktor Hertz has taken this idea one step further with Butt Types, a visual… Read the rest of the article: The Butt Types: a bootyful typographical project for parenthesis in different fonts
Republican Senators including Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley have invoked the death of retired St. Louis Police captain David Dorn as proof of some kind of awful epidemic of anti-cop… Read the rest of the article: A US Air Force Sergeant linked to Boogaloo Bois charged with killing police officer
Sugar Heist is a fun-looking new card game from YouTube comedian/animator Alex Clark and TV writer Zach Craley (Heroes Reborn, Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, and Spider-Man) with a simple goal: trade… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting Sugar Heist, a delightful card game about stealing candy from babies
The New York Times has a new report on the aerosol distribution of toilet flushing: Scientists have found that in addition to clearing out whatever business you’ve left behind, flushing… Read the rest of the article: Wear your mask in the bathroom so you don't get coronavirus from poop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1tOfRV1Zaw&list=PL1zBiNTq3EZCD6s3GIUFt5G1ZOMdQbu2J&index=11 Self-proclaimed white nationalist and alleged domestic abuser Richard Spencer has been bogged down in a civil lawsuit for his part in helping to organize the "Unite The Right" rally… Read the rest of the article: Noted white nationalist and guy who got punched in the face Richard Spencer is "financially crippled" from lawsuit
Warwick Davis made a very brief cameo in The Rise of Skywalker, once again donning the visage of galactic champion Wicket W. Warrick. (Warwick's real-life son played the other Ewok.) But… Read the rest of the article: Ewoks without fur are absolutely terrifying
To be fair, it would not be wholly inaccurate to describe the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone as an autonomous anarcho-syndicalist collective. But sadly, strange women in lakes and handing out… Read the rest of the article: Fox News confused a Monty Python sketch with the Seattle CHAZ activists
Wow. So inspiring. Now make it real. From the official video description Vimeo: defund12.org | Black Lives Matter FIND WAYS TO DONATE DIRECTLY TO BLACK FOLX: nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-for-black-lives-matter.html An Ex-Cop Speaks Out: medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
Virginia Oliver is the oldest licensed lobster fishing person in the state of Maine — and, her local Rockland Historical Society suspects, possibly the entire world. She began lobstering in… Read the rest of the article: 100-year-old "Lobster Lady" gets a film about her unusual life
This is a really powerful (and painfully relevant) poem by Morgan Harper Nichols. I think it works even more profoundly in the carousel of images, as embedded in the Instagram… Read the rest of the article: "Engage in the long, faithful work,” a beautiful graphic poem about learning anti-racism
On Thursday, June 4, 2020, a 22-year-old activist named Kennedy Mitchum reached out to the publishers of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to express her frustration with their definition of the word… Read the rest of the article: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism."
There's been a lot of news lately about taking down monuments to terrible people, or renaming buildings that were christened after them. In related news, there's still a statue of… Read the rest of the article: This children's book about Oliver Cromwell is like playful colonialist violence for kids
On June 12th, 1970, Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the San Diego Padres while he was high out of his god damn gourd on… Read the rest of the article: Today is the 50th anniversary of Dock Ellis's legendary baseball no-hitter on LSD
On Friday, June 5, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a 30-day ban on police using tear gas. By Sunday night, the police had already broken that rule. Come Monday, the… Read the rest of the article: Seattle activists have established a 6-block autonomous zone around an abandoned police station
An anonymous writer on Medium — identifying themself only as Officer A. Cab — has written an impassioned but scathing piece about the complicity of modern policing. This writer, claiming… Read the rest of the article: How every police officer becomes complicit in a terrible system
I once wrote a children's book (that I never actually published or did anything with) about the origin story of the emu, which I hypothesized as being the offspring of… Read the rest of the article: These emus have apparently discovered dark magic rituals.
