Anyone in any capacity who served for any length of time in the Trump-Pence administration should never be called “heroes” and never be allowed to serve in government for the rest of their lives. A pox on every one of their houses.

In today’s Republican Party the disease is coexistent with its being. It is a carnival of chaos, cruelty, moral damage, cowardice, and the betrayal of the American Experiment. The party is irreparably damaged, stripped of its masks, laid bare for its lies. Today’s Republicans are a party of traitors possessed by a demonic force & inner demons that abandon human ethics, revel in intensity, isolation, delusional power, and sends itself - uncaring, willingly, thrilled - to history’s guillotine, broken faith and soulless graveyards.

Astonished that all of these people, including Pence & everyone involved, knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was treachery & the illegal overthrow of the American Experiment, and not one of them came forward to authorities. Morally damaged mediocrities and cowards all. They all toyed with overthrowing the government of the United States from the day of the election, up to and even after January 6, and not one Republican reported it before or after. Ever.

"What I Saw in Robert Gober’s Mirror."
"I do not know if the past few years have done this to others but I wonder if many of us have become some worst version of ourselves in our extended isolations. For me, I know that beyond this, lies nothing." vulture.com/2022/01/robert… @vulture 2. Together these windows anthropomorphize into American lives fortressed behind walls and glass. I projected the inhabitants as white families. I felt an atavism of the occupants inside, people who imagined themselves in danger, looked down on, humiliated, aggrieved, vengeful …

1. Art and money have always slept together. One of the jobs of an artist is to take rich people’s money & make art it says is against the values of Republicans and rich people to keep making their work. All good.
This relationship is now become kinkier BDSM & profligate. 2. First, we have our very own Murdoch, James, son of Rupert, being a co-owner of Art Basel. (The art would claims “This is the good Murdoch” much as it did “the good Sackler”). No matter, Art Basel outs out an activist journal.

1. The fishy Da Vinci that the skim scamming skels at @ChristiesInc fobbed off on as a “genuine" Leonardo & fetched them a cool $430-million was just "downgraded" by the greatest painting museum in the world, The Prado to "attributed works, workshop or supervised by Leonardo.” 2. I have no degrees but anyone who looked at this inert thing could see it was visually dead, compositionally backward, never anything the world’s most famous artist would paint just as a young stud named Michelangelo finished the David, challenging the da Vinci’s supremacy.

Welp, after I took ten-thousand tons of incoming from tut-tutting so-called experts in academia & self-described “connoisseurs” for stating the obvious fact that the Salvador Mundi was not a Leonardo - Prado museum downgrades the $450m auction bogusity. 🤠 theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/11/pra… 2. Thank you @nymag for standing behind me in 100 fishy law suits and lying curators. Case of “The The Idiot Art Critic vs. the Fishy Da Vinci” solved. (And I got lucky.)
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How did I know? Just looked! And follow the provenance and it becomes instantly apparent.

A book proposal: “The Weakest Men in the World: An Account of the 250 Most Trump-Enabling Republicans who brought American Democracy to the Edge of Collapse.”
A recounting of complicity of those who sold out their country, including media figures. Ghost writer needed. Call. Pick a character: Write 1200-2000 words. Just the facts and the lies. Keep it simple.

1. Dear Whoever Sent Me the Thing called a “French Press” Glass Thingy:
Huge thank you! I am not sure what this is or how to use it or how it will make enough ice-coffee to go into my Big Gulp cup, but I will now try to figure it out.
Do you buy deli-coffee and heat it on stove? 2. There seems to be a squiggly metal plunger thing in it, however. Do you put deli-coffee into it & it does something? What is this? What does it do?
Huge thank you for a thing that really looks good!
I thought it was like a Fantasia/Alice in Wonderland figure, hat or a Man Ray

One thing that shocked me in NFT world was that I assumed criticism would be as welcome there as elsewhere in all creative spheres. Tough but important. I was very surprised, however, at how anathema that was to so many in this realm. I respect it’s rules, etc. Still surprised.❤️ A lot of NFT art comes from non “art worlders.” As someone who never went to school, has no degrees, was a long distance driver till 42, never wrote a word till I was 41 & very poor, I understand. Still, I value criticism. That’s just be me. I know it helped me a lot. Thank you.

Thank you for yr comment. I think being critical of something is a way of showing it respect. That could be someone’s NFT, the Mets, Giants & most of all my beloved art. I ❤️the idea of NFT. I judge on a case by case basis. I ONLY don’t judge ABBA & F1 driver Lewis Hamilton.

https://twitter.com/beaniemaxi/status/1384224752819052550

As I wrote: This began as a lark & response to the Beeple - but, as I wrote, it turned into something much more complicated, mysterious, awful, humbling & wonderful. Like life. For me NFTs are just part of the whole ball of wax - another way to get a handle on a bundle. Thanks. X

1. Our NFT for charity just sold for $95,625!
Thank you @KennySchachter
Thank you tech-wizard @Pointblue22 - portion of his proceeds will be donated to Asian American Hate foundation.
Thank you @SuperRare.co
Over countless nights & days at @memorialsloankettering since 2014.. 2. Time spent at MSK in awe of the generosity, spirit and love there - we always wanted to really give back. We never had a moment of fear or unease through all of it. Never once asked “How long?l “What are the percentages?” Or ANY future-based question. ...

Someone asked me “How do you write about a painting.” Here’s a very typical example of some of the steps I take to do this. Then I panic and start writing as hard as I can. You? I need the information in my head organized onto one flat surface the same way that paintings are organized. Things slip into place and then become movable pieces that can be moved to mean different things. Things in relation to one another. I think of it as thinking the flesh.

I am trying to organize a show of all Pro-Trump art. I am writing an article about this work. Please post any examples here. Thank you. - Jerry Saltz @NYMag

Trumpist Republicans ordering sandwiches at a Subway Sandwich in Raleigh, N.C. The United States of Resentment and White Rage.

1/3. Now, as the Angel of Death walks among us let us look back to just 17-days ago in the epically mismanaged handling of closing down of all flights to America from Europe. And then it was announced that Lumpy “misspoke”. Here are airports everywhere. 2/3. There were no extra TSA workers, screeners, CDC inspectors. Under Trump and all Republicans, America is a failed-state with a pathological liar at its head.

1/20 Thread: PSA By James Robb, MD Pathologist/FCAP via Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital: What I am doing for the upcoming COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. 2/20
"Dear Colleagues, as some of you may recall, when I was a professor of pathology at the University of California San Diego, I was one of the first molecular virologists in the world to work on coronaviruses (the 1970s). I was the first to demonstrate the number of genes...