BlueSky + Underwater UFOs + A McNightmare + Honestly, Shut The Penn Museum Down At This Point + The War On Books + The Last Showgirl + Gavin Newsom + Tyson v. Paul

Follow @culturework on BlueSky, duh. (Substack is still the only place I publish regularly, but let's change that!)

I try to use the top half of the newsletter for life updates, but, I gotta be real with you…. ain’t nothing new going on over here. Maybe next week I’ll leave the house and have something fabulous to report back to y’all. Until then…

Isn’t she just an angel.

Someone should re-write that book about the Uraguyan rugby team but replace it with these bozos and have them all eat each other. Why do I think Don Jr would come out on top???

• A Mc-Fucking-Nightmare Blunt Rotation (TDB)

• So Aliens Live In The Ocean? Do We Still Have To Pay Rent? (ABC)

• AfroTech Is For Lovers! (TT)

• When He’s Right, He’s Right (Variety)

• The Harris Campaign Definitely Didn’t Pay Oprah Paid $1M (Yah, They Did) (The Daily Beast)

• Where’s Liam Payne’s Rolex? (Page Six)

• Introducing Voodoo Spiritual Supreme: Ms. Terri Joe (culturework)

• John Krasinski Is, Technically, Alive, Yes (HungUp)

• The Penn Museum Is Still Hoarding A Teenager’s Remains (TheArtNewspaper)

  It’s been over a year since I first wrote about the fight to get the Penn Museum to return the remains of 12 year old Delisha Africa. In 1985, she was killed alongside several adults and four other children when Philadelphia police used a helicopter to drop a fucking bomb on their home.

  Goodbye August + RIP Jimmy Buffett + #ReturnDelisha + Messi <3 Hotel Strikers + Burning Man + My Oprah Defense

The war on books is here. It’s been here. It never left. This week over on TikTok, we discussed just how organized, tactical, and adamant white woman (conservative, or not) are in preserving a literary legacy that not only keeps them comfortable, but also protects them.

Lit Hub’s James Folta unpacks just exactly what has been unfolding since the election (read more here).

I hope my good sis is doing ok!

“I don’t whether to scream or cry.” — Unicef Spokesperson James Elder

A new acronym has had to be created to describe the child victims of the US-funded, Israel-actioned genocide in Palestine: WCNSF.

Wounded child. No surviving family.

• Polymarket + the election + the FBI

• Israel allowed aid into Gaza, and then set it on fire

• 200 environmental activists were killed in 2023

• Mexico sends crude oil to Cuba

• “AIPAC drove me out of congress” - Jamaal Bowman

• Israel defied US’s 30 day aid-blocking deadline because the deadline was a lie

• Twitch makes “zionist” a slur

• Utah NIMBYs would rather you freeze to death than have a warming center near by

• If you’re having trouble keeping up…

  

  @lukasbattleGood things are coming!

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Without a thought and without seeing anything more than this trailer, Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl is getting thrown right into my iTunes library alongside Showgirls, Swingers, ConAir, and Fear and Loathing. Watch the trailer here.