checking in on the president of the United States

It's a work night for me but I've delayed this too long. The 2025 Year in Review and 2026 goal setting stream is live now. I have a presentation for it, come through www.twitch.tv/flesk_39

The fact that Scott Adams was a very successful cartoonist, but torched his legacy by going full racist close to the end, makes me wonder what would happen if Rowling died in the near future. I wish I thought transphobia was as scandalous to people as racism. Both should be legacy destroyers.

A medical emergency came up that landed my dad in the ER again, and we added that to the total to the gofundme, I'm sorry to bring it back up but we really do need the help www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

ICE agents are fucking stealing and selling peoples’ PHONES

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Hola, #PortfolioDay. I'm Miguel, a designer and digital illustrator (I also blog and do interviews but that's for another day). My specialty is #Fortean themes: The weirder, the better! My personal page: absurdbydesign.com

Too cute

Punk cat socializing with locals and forming a real sense of community (commission)

Resist! #iceoutforgood

Live your life in such a manner that headline writers don't feel inclined to include "disgraced" in your obit hed.

A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

Update — Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like:

Listen I don’t take credit for much as a Canadian, but I will absolutely let us take credit for this. Jack Daniel’s and other whiskey companies been panicking hard since we took their shit off the shelves lmao

This visibly gets to him so people should keep doing it.

Miku Kitsune

Trump vows more land strikes on Venezuela: "We're gonna start hitting them by land too" (I think this is really just an old talking point his brain hasn't updated yet)

Trump: "One of the reasons they're doing these fake riots-- I mean they're just terrible. It's so fake. 'Shame! Shame! Shame!' You see the woman. It's all practiced. They take hotel rooms and they all practice together. It's a whole scam. We're finding out who's funding all this stuff too."

this is wildly illegal and the courts will rule it such, but congressional democrats should be thinking long and hard about the terms under which they will agree to continue funding this government

I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.

I’m fucking crying

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

They're raiding apartments and going door to door in neighborhoods. #minneapolis #fuckice

The thing that sticks out in my mind with Scott Adams is that, looking back over Dilbert as a whole, there is this moment in the middle of the strip's existence where it's like a switch got flipped. The characters went from office survivors and incompetents to downright spiteful and hateful.

The waste fraud and abuse is coming from inside the house.

New video! (That was quick...) youtu.be/58rtTgrLtC4

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

It was still a time in which print newspapers were the primary news source, and for me at least, reading the comics and arts section during breakfast was my morning routine before school

Adams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing office culture from the '90s until a controversy in 2023. n.pr/49SOnVG

News you can use! "Apparent squirrel convention" www.newscentermaine.com/video/life/a...

It's just internet-poisoned wannabe influencers, all the way down

That last paragraph really nails it, it’s not the budget that was the problem, it’s who the show was answering to that became the problem.

"About 2,000 people including security personnel have been killed in protests in Iran, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, the first time authorities have acknowledged the high death toll from an intense crackdown on two weeks of nationwide unrest" www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Excerpt from D&D today: Group: ZOLGO WHY TF DIDNT YOU CAST DISPELL MAGIC Me: He has trauma from that spell. Zolgo: Yeah, I got hit with Dispell Family

If you haven’t seen Star Trek: Prodigy yet, you can buy an entire 20 episode season for less than $10 digitally right now. 🖖

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it. Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.

Typography will have to wait until later but our little cardboard hoarder is done

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People really do not understand how out of control Minneapolis is right now. I spent almost 8 hours today on the street in different parts of the city and saw everything from tear gas and pepper balls being used to fully marked ice vehicles roaming and pointing out people to camera crews onboard.

make some noise

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Calls for civility are often weaponized by abusers, by bigots, by those who would oppress you. If it is considered impolite to speak out against dishonor, then it is time for a true warrior to be rude.

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed into an enormous Bug-type.

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