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February 13 – April 4, 2026

February 13 – April 4, 2026

A spotted creature is rolled across gravel. Another is placed on a dinner plate, then cradled in two palms. These were meant to be cows but emerged instead as balls of tissue and organs enclosed in hair coats. Their name, amorphous globosus, derives from the Greek and Latin for “formless sphere.” I watch videos of formless spheres for the same reason that I watch videos of miniature horses: I am in search of purity.

Amorphous globosus is a nonviable creature, incapable of development or growth. It’s more easily understood by its missing parts: a head and limbs, a mouth and genitals. Occasionally, it’s given a useless heart. It’s continuous; a sphere at infinity with the weight of a water bottle. Within it are more ineffectual formless spheres, fluid-filled cysts in lieu of functioning organs. At a threshold of never having lived yet never having not, amorphous globosus is hard to categorize. Neither a tumor nor fetus, it’s relegated to an anomaly: a fetal monster. Amorphous globosus is often buried in the dirt like a dead animal.

Driving by a cattle ranch, I envision a herd of formless spheres. Low in pasture grass, their short hair ruffles in the wind. One hundred thousand calves are born every day. One in thirty-five thousand are born as formless spheres, about three per day, over one thousand per year. At this moment, last year’s one thousand formless spheres are decomposing. They are contributing to new grass, soon to be eaten by cows, bringing about new formless spheres.

Georges Bataille wrote that we call a thing formless in order to undermine it. Those given the designation, he claims, will get squashed, “like a spider or an earthworm.” But formless is a misnomer on arrival, and a formless sphere is an oxymoron. I think amorphous globosus is an ideal form: animate yet inanimate, parasitic yet harmless, geological yet doughy, static yet reactive.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery told the BBC about the Battle of El Alamein

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ADMIN COMMENT

The DHS shutdown battle heated up on Saturday as President Donald Trump threatened to send “brilliant and patriotic” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to the nation’s airports to do security and relieve TSA workers, who are starting to rebel after going without pay since February 14.

The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security began on midnight that day, as Democrats refused to provide more funds until Republicans agree to various reforms related to deployment, training, and management of ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. The intrusive and violent conduct of federal agents in Minneapolis—where they killed two US citizens and assaulted and detained many more—fueled widespread outrage and contributed to the recent ouster of former Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem.

TSA officers require two to three weeks of academy training and months of on-the-job training. ICE agents would have none of that.

Democratic lawmakers also seek to curtail ICE’s rampant use of surveillance technology and ensure the rights of states and lawmakers to investigate alleged human rights abuses at the immigrant detention centers the administration has set up.