Trump’s Deadly Narcissism

“Great news: the President may visit next Tuesday.”

 According to a new Quinnipiac poll, a majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump is unfit to be president. That’s pretty remarkable. But you have to wonder how much higher the number would be if people really knew what’s going on. For the trouble with Trump isn’t just what he’s doing, but what he isn’t. In his mind, it’s all about him — and while he’s stroking his fragile ego, basic functions of government are being neglected or worse. Let’s talk about two stories that might seem separate: the deadly neglect of Puerto Rico, and the ongoing sabotage of American health care. What these stories have in common is that millions of Americans are going to suffer, and hundreds if not thousands die, because Trump and his officials are too self-centered to do their jobs.
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Tom Price Seated Between Two Screaming Babies on First-Ever Commercial Flight

In an experience that he called “traumatic” and “horrifying,” the departing Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Price, was seated between two screaming babies Friday night on his first-ever commercial flight.
Price, who was flying from Washington, D.C., to his home in Georgia just hours after resigning from his Cabinet position, reacted with alarm after discovering that the airline had assigned him a middle seat between two passengers holding inconsolably shrieking babies on their laps. Moments after making his terrible discovery, Price urgently called for a flight attendant and reportedly told her, “There are babies on this aircraft. That can’t possibly be allowed.”
 After informing Price that babies were, in fact, permitted on commercial flights, the attendant instructed the former Cabinet secretary to fasten his seatbelt and ignored his request to be served a free glass of Dom Perignon champagne and beluga caviar with toast points. According to witnesses on board, the two babies flanking Price screamed non-stop for the entire duration of the flight, except for a brief period during which one of the babies vomited on Price’s Armani suit.

 The Borowitz Report

 

Sebas Velasco ,FestiWall in Ragusa, Italy

The title of the mural is “Il Suonatore Gino”, who made a homage to the vibrating sounds of Ragusa and its people. Well known for his breathtaking pieces, Sebas decided to portray the image of Giorgio “Gino” Nobile, the owner of Magic Music, which is the only vinyl record store in the Italian city.

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Fake News

Peter Saul’s surreal acrylic paintings have reflected, challenged, and parodied the status quo for the past six decades. In a new show at Mary Boone Gallery in New York, titled “Fake News,” Saul tackles the era of Trump in a new collection of paintings that rethink pieces of art history in the process.

 

Corozal, Puerto Rico

Irma Maldanado stands with her parrot and dog in what is left of her home after it was destroyed by Hurricane Maria.
 Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

 

Barcelona

Students wave pro-independence flags while standing over an air vent as they demonstrate against the Spanish government’s attempt to stop Catalonia’s self-determination referendum.
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

 

A Gust of Wind

Marc Johns

 

Amy Crehore

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Birthday Present

Rodion Kitaev

 

It's Nice to Meet You!

The inflatable is activated when a motion sensor detects the presence of another person.

 It deactivates and falls to the floor as the person walks away.
  Alicia Eggert

 

All dolled up

Sex dolls have many uses – including recreating The Last Supper and subverting the male gaze. Grace Banks’ new book showcases the artists using feminine figurines to explore politics, gender and identity.
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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner – a life in pictures

The man behind the controversial magazine has died aged 91. 

Hugh Hefner founded Playboy magazine in 1953. 

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Zach Urbina

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I’ve forgotten how to explain.

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How to Finish

Incidental Comics

 

Peanuts @itsPeteski

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The Swimmers

Emma Hartvig

 

Scuba Diving Magazine's 2017 Underwater Photo Contest Winners

Grand Prize Winner
 Greg Lecoeur

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After while, crocodile.

Jimmy S.

 

Tranquillity

Khine Mon 

Today is the 510th birthday of Guillame Rondelet.

His theater in Montpellier, France, was part of France’s oldest medical school, where the cutting-edge science of anatomy was practiced for public consumption.
Rondelet and his contemporaries hoped that anatomy would lead to new knowledge which would help create a better, healthier world.
 The practice of publicly viewing dissections stretches as far back as 1493, according to historian William Brockbank writing in the journal Medical History. Then, an Italian physician named Alexander Benedetti wrote that “there must be guards to restrain the eager public as it enters,” and two people should stand at the door to take entry fees. “The outstanding personalities and authorities of the town were invited to be present.”
 Renaissance anatomical dissections had a number of theatrical elements, according to historian Giovanna Ferrari writing for the journal Past & Present: beyond the fact that the places where they were held were called dissecting theaters, spectators had to buy a ticket to enter. Inside, they could expect to hear a musical performance while watching the show, a dissection that had been carefully choreographed and included a number of different roles, from dissector to assistants, who Benedetti wrote “must not mind horrors or faint in the presence of a corpse.”
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Cross Stitches For The 21st Century

Cross stitches have been long overdue for an update, and that’s exactly what they’ve gotten.

 

Drawings on Antique Maps by Mark Powell

Powell finds inspiration from artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Samuel Bassett, Anthony Micallef, Richard Hamilton, etc. Most of the time, he draws elderly people on antique documents stating that it's a natural pairing as "both have an untold history upon the face of it." In an increasingly digital age, Powell wants to save as much as he can in the way of maps, envelopes, postcards, etc and give them new life.

Guedelon Castle project

In France, people are building a castle from the 13th century using only medieval building techniques and materials.

Michel Guyot and Maryline Martin started Guedelon Castle project in 1997, and its completion is expected around 2023.
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Portland cement is a key ingredient in one of the world’s most common materials

David Saylor, a businessman and co-owner of a cement business in Allentown, Pennsylvania, received the American patent for a new and improved form of cement on this day in 1871.
Called “Portland cement” because it resembled the finished stones of Portland in England, where it was first manufactured, this kind of cement is important even today. Portland cement is a key ingredient in concrete, which is today the second-most-consumed material in the world.
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