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BRING IT!!

CNN analyst Mark Preston said he thinks if former President Trump is jailed for violating the gag order in his hush money trial, there would be “civil unrest across the country” and it would help him in the polls.

Preston joined CNN’s Jim Acosta and others to discuss the possibility of Judge Juan Merchan putting the former president in a holding cell “for a few hours” after he has deliberately defied the gag order in the case, which was expanded to bar Trump from publicly attacking witnesses, prosecutors, court staff, jurors and the judge’s family.

“If that were to happen, first of all, I think you would probably see civil unrest across the country, certainly in some cities. That’s one,” he said, highlighted by Mediaite. “And two, politically, if I’m the Biden campaign, I don’t want to necessarily see him in jail, because that’s just going to get people more inflamed and more fired up.”

Preston and the other panelists pointed to the politicization in the case and particularly how Trump has capitalized on his ongoing legal battles. After surrendering at a Fulton Country Jail for his Georgia election interference case, Trump’s mug shot has become a symbol of resistance.

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lands i've made for magic the gathering 🌾✨ artist proofs are available on my shop !~ buy a wallpaper or leave a tip / twitter / instagram / shop 

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[ DREAMS. is happening on Kickstarter! 100+ artworks in 100+ pages. Ends May 2nd ]

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Meet Chica the giant Pacific octopus and dive behind the scenes with senior aquarist René! 🐙

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Bruh Tumblr featured me on their @artistalley page ;u;; It's an online space for artists to be featured and stylishly hawk their wares

Umm you can buy things here! I make all the prints myself!

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The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???

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C r e a t i v i t y

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I believe this is true of all art and creative pursuit. It is not the job of the artist to explain the point in the same way a comic should not ever explain a joke.

Just create your thing set it free on the world and hope people take notice and care enough to think about it at all.

On a scale from Couldn’t Care Less to Can’t Sleep at Night, how much does it bother you when someone makes it clear that they completely and utterly missed the whole point of something you wrote?

Millions of people have read my books. I know that everyone won't love everything. Lots of them won't even like anything.

And that's a good thing. It's good that different people like different writers and stories, not to mention foods and places. Imagine how dull it would be if we only liked the same things.

So it doesn't bother me at all.

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John Oliver is a national treasure.

Last Week Tonight, March 16, 2022

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This is objectively funny and alternately maddening that I never received such a commission.

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Ann Margaret on a Triumph.

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Universal monsters silly guys

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Wow sad

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

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I am an author and an artist —this is my first mystery novel, so I did a wee trailer. Hope you think about picking up a copy!

(Many thanks to Neil Gaiman, who very kindly let me send one to him, which is sort of the highlight of the whole thing, to be honest. Joy springs from knowing it lurks somewhere in his house).

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obsessed w/him actually

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So if you are conflating being an artist with anything other than the creative work you personally are generating then you are doing it wrong.

If you are not having fun then you are doing it wrong.

And if you got into art for something like fame, fortune, or glory then again you are doing it wrong.

Just create and enjoy the process.

on being an artist in 2023

the last half year has felt like a constant uphill battle and it still kind of does. at times it is hard to keep the worries at bay. I refuse to give up but man, the world has really shown what it thinks of creatives.

anyways, take care out there. keep the spark alive.