I remain hopeful that we're on the cusp of a blowback that won't stop until sociopaths like this are stripped of everything and permanently barred from our societies.

Donald Trump in: "The Very Best Toothpaste" It has everything from toothpaste to golden eagle wings to a personal audience with Rudolph or maybe Randall Toothpaste, who invents all the toothpaste in the land. #art #illustration #comic #babyman #idiot

Will it be related to U.S. concentration camps, a military invasion of Mexico, or a nuclear test? Let's check in on the gambling app!

CASSINI (6) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKjKJ1

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

If the United States selected its leaders through a completely randomized national lottery, we would be guaranteed a more effective, more empathetic government.

The aurora just now stretching out over the Yukon River with the moon rising in the distance… 158 am AKST

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Current* conditions near Evanston, IL:

If you want to explore whether a company you buy from works with DHS/ICE, there is a real simple website to do that! www.usaspending.gov/search

Ooh! I've got one! What if we gave people small farms and they had to do all the work and give all of the resulting produce to their feudal lord? But they got to keep 2-3 onions that they could have for breakfast! Maybe we don't give them the farms, but let them live in a shack on them.

Seems relevant. (Also, Sarah Kendzior has consistently been way ahead of everything)

125 photographs of life in Palestine before the British Mandate, ca. 1896–1919: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-palestinian-life

YES

Over here manifesting French police raids through illustration. Elon Musk can't be removed from society quickly enough.

We live in a new era of abundance. We're spoiled for choice: Trump? Musk? Putin? Netanyahu? Thiel? Miller? bin Salman Al Saud? Murdoch? Bezos? Kushner? Zuckerberg? The pastor down the street who gleefully works for ICE?...

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space? Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭 youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps Processing: Simeon Schmauß

I worked for years in the red brick building at bottom left.

Here's a little 4-panel tale about old-timey animal-people who are done with oligarchy and kleptocracy and misogynistic, white supremacist babymen: #art #illustration #x #corruption

A TIMELY PARABLE: While the people scrounged what they could to survive, a wealthy merchant amassed so much treasure that, if he chose, he could transform the land into a happy, healthy paradise. 1/4

Wisdom continually bubbled up from the Simpsons primordial soup.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

It is looooooong past time to bring back old-timey, French-style parades with people like this as the guests of honor.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

It's been a horrifying run for humanity and I've struggled for years with how to react. How can I drop kids' art into social feeds sharing nonstop updates about the unrelenting heinous acts of powerful people? I've thinking about things all wrong. Stay tuned for a series of parables.

I lived in America for 40+ years, so I know first-hand what happens when government serves only oligarchs and frustrated citizens turn their anger on the wrong people. There is a better way forward than the horrific US model. The Greens offer that path through empathetic, non-corporate leadership.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Alternative angles of Harrison Reed great goal vs Liverpool

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

Going to say it again; unless you live in the middle of nowhere or otherwise have ZERO other options to acquire necessities, there is not a single good reason to support Amazon. In fact, it's morally wrong to use Amazon.

Love a good bird photo. Immediately thought of this.

1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

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A 10 minute walk from my last Chicago home. When ICE has been put down and disbanded there must be arrests, there must be trials, and there must be justice. Everyone involved, from the thugs on the ground to those at the very top.

From privatizing health care to whipping up fear of others to crap like this, the billionaire class is working overtime to turn the UK into US Shithole East.

#nokings no toddlermen rulers #notyrants no sociopathic morons #nomonarchs no compromised buffoons

You do you, of course, but I imagine there's at least one independent or at least alternate coffee shop in your neck of the woods. Time to let Starbucks die.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Many have been wondering what 1 person can do to reverse the seemingly overwhelming tide of authoritarianism. The cowards at Disney just gave us an opportunity. As an illustrator, I'll miss the original 101 Dalmatians. As a writer, Andor. It may seem silly, but we can't let this moment pass.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Andor Season 2, Episode 8 remains exceptional and very relevant.

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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft