Paul Schmelzer

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A pan flute made from eight gun barrels, with a black pistol grip beneath.
A spread of magazine profile of Alsa Bruno, singer for Brass Solidarity, with a photo of Bruno at right in winte gear with a bullhorn.
"Iran may not be thriving, but it is surviving. That distinction matters, because too much American strategic thinking is entrapped by the seductive belief that if the opening barrage is violent enough, the enemy’s coherence will unravel on schedule. Iran has spent decades developing the ability to deny that outcome."
A sign on a light post reads “ the first country. The Nazis invaded was their own.”
Bart Simpson at a school chalkboard repeatedly writing "I will stop talking about Epstein"
Donald Trump, two axe-handles wide, with trousers pulled up nearly to his nipples and a confused look on his face.
a treemap of stock market performance on April 4, 2025 showing nearly all red (losses)
A woman in a "Trump for President 2016" shirt looks at Jeff Koon's gold-gilded sculpture of Michael Jackson and Bubbles the chimpanzee.
drone view of the 2024 Art Shanty Projects on Minneapolis' Lake Harriet/Bdé Umáŋ
A screen capture of a website showing a grid of 9 newspaper covers labeled "Today's Front Pages"
Screenshot of a weather app showing a temp of -3 in Minneapolis today and a high of 48 projected for a week from Thursday