The GOP's sticking with Max Miller and confirmed Todd Blanche. Trump is losing to Iran so badly he can’t even make a coherent argument about the war. The ankle monitoring of Haitian immigrants is grotesque. (And Tim shares some history...on bananas.)

The amazing 'Walfisch Blitzbank' Whale-Mobile, 1920's, which advertised house hold cleaning products. Although it is described as 'Grotesque' in the caption, it is really quite wonderful.

**In the heart of the jungle, a terrified man sits beside a bound, grotesque humanoid creature with leathery skin, wide eyes, and elongated limbs. The creature appears disturbingly lifelike, as if pulled from the depths of undiscovered wilderness. Is this proof of a hidden species finally captured or an elaborate local hoax designed to shock the world?** #JungleCreature# #CapturedCryptid# #HiddenSpecies# #MysteryBeing# #AncientMysteries# #ViralHoax# #TruthUncovered#

The pillar-biter is a late Gothic carving on the choir screen of St Bavo Church in Haarlem, Netherlands created in the early 16th century. The figure grips a column and bites into it, his face twisted into a grotesque expression, with a rosary hanging from his belt. In Dutch, a pilaarbijter referred to someone who displayed extreme religious devotion in public while behaving hypocritically in private. A Southern Netherlandish proverb summed it up bluntly: “He who is a pillar biter in church, shits devils in his own house.” The image served as a moral warning against exaggerated piety without genuine virtue. Though rare, the motif also appears in a few other churches and in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1559 painting called Netherlandish Proverbs. #archaeohistories#