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Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

Conducting the orchestra

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

Love this so much

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

Elizabeth Banks

New Yorkers deserve affordability. In January, I sent a letter to Instacart demanding answers about their use of surveillance pricing. Now, we must pass the One Fair Price Package so everyone can pay the same price for the same product.

7. Even if Platner did not know the Totenkopf’s significance when he got the tattoo in 2007, he would have been told its meaning by 2009. An officer trained in identifying and weeding out extremist symbols would not miss a Totenkopf.”

Shame on Senator Tuberville: Keep New York City out of your bigoted mouth. This Jewish New Yorker is proud that we elected our first Muslim mayor. (2/2)

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

As a fan of chihuahuas may I suggest it’s by being so freakin cute humans will do anything for them?

Olympic highlight in this house.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

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Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Rockwell Kent, "Workers of the World, Unite!" 1937, from collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, which is closed today as part of today's general strike in Minneapolis collections.artsmia.org/art/54994/wo...

New York, 1969

Oh my god she uploaded a slow motion video and it's amazing. He's just like me fr running as best he can and still going backwards over and over!

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

Got my hot chocolate; settling in for the inauguration

now feels like a test of whether those who say they’re just antizionist and not antisemitic actually demonstrate that

George Michael hits #1 today in 1987 with “Faith”. “.. It was very much about having faith in yourself,” he said. “It wasn’t a religious song at all — it was about believing in yourself when everything around you is changing and people are questioning what you’re doing.” #RIP

"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare." - Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938

I have lived five blocks from this building for almost 20 years and never noticed it before. On the northeast corner of 46th St and Broadway, the I. Miller Building was a shoe store owned by Israel Miller. The 46th St side reads “The Show Folks Shoe Shop Dedicated to Beauty in Footwear.”

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY

They survived breast cancer. Now they’re fighting to make sure other women do too. Failing to extend the ACA tax credits will kill women. Full video on YouTube. youtu.be/lJ91SfEtNs0

Palate cleanser: Been training the pups to wear wag wellies, getting used to them one paw at a time. Someone crashed out at three, refusing to put his paw down while working on the peanut butter I’m bribing him with #chihuahuas #nycdogs

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Bravely checking out the (I think?) Ronald McDonald zombie for just a couple seconds #dogsofhalloween #chihuahua #nyc

"The dogs seem to enjoy basking in the warmth of the strong rays. One, a huge police dog, suffering from paralysis, seemed to enjoy the treatment just as much as he would a bone." The hospital is known as AMC today and now I'm doing a deep dive on Ellin Prince Speyer

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

Keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off Tish James, Donald Trump. Your cowardice is showing — weak men seek revenge on powerful women who hold them to account. But NY’rs don’t play. Our AG has been a fierce warrior for our rights, time & again. You better believe we’ll be there for hers.

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The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

oh wow, almost as if the whole thing was a blatant lie that was obviously cooked up from the start, and should have been reported as such by any responsible news organization.

Sept. 9, 1925: Two Americans are arrested and a third is sought in Germany for founding a Ku Klux Klan chapter. Their group had enrolled up to 400 members in rituals featuring both American and German monarchist flags and sought the "liberation of Germany” by elimination of Jews.

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...

Yes, RFK Jr is a monster. A cruel, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, conspiratorial monster. And it’s not surprising RFK Jr is where he is now. A cruel, ignorant, pathologically dishonest, conspiratorial monster chose him, nominated him. Vote in 2026 like your life depends upon it. Bcuz it does.

Real world test of "distraction" and "kitchen-table issues." If Democrats hurt themselves politically by talking about Trump's lawbreaking, rights violations, and threats to democracy, then Pritzker should see declining popularity, while approval ratings for Schumer and Jeffries should be rising.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."