"Regine Olsen, Kierkegaard's Pal". Is that a thing that could work?

Conservatives: the problem with liberals is that they don’t get what it means to be an American. Also conservatives: if you want to know what an American is like, picture an evil vampire chasing people out of America, which is a blood-drenched castle, if the Supreme Court does not nullify the 14A.

Even on the 4th of July, Vance can’t bring himself to express gratitude for the ideas and ideals - expressed in the Declaration - that have made 250 years of Americans possible. Sheesh, would a simple ‘thank you’ to our better angels kill him?

Stars and Stripes Forever - 10" record cover illustrated by Ed Sorel, 1954. #wardsmorguefile

Our Constitution bans foreign emoluments and names bribery as an impeachable offense. Another case where the problem isn’t the Constitution.

Remember like last week when that guy said there are secret good arguments against the 19A, proving there are no liberal intellectuals (and no you can’t see the arguments she lives in Canada.) Yeah, now he’s saying the 14A is empirically false. Also everyone knows it. No, he’s not taking questions.

Special Snowflake Spenglers, each bearing up under the weight of insight into the decline of liberalism, each thus siding with Trump more in sorrow than anger, each disallowing himself the luxury of any illusion. Each cursed with Cassandra-like vision due to: they elected a black guy!

Ah, our ‘now laws’.

The Retconservative Legal Movement in action! Originalism as reboot culture. Don’t like the lame hero? Rewrite the hero’s origin story so ‘better angels of our nature’ are more grimdark - flawed antihero - what have you. screenrant.com/best-superhe...

By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.

Hugo Pratt, watercolor

Yeah, I think a lot about this because I've covered elections for so long. Even in 2018, an insurgent candidate needed the MSM in a way he/she doesn't now. A long, substantive Hasan stream does you much more good than a cable hit where you are asked the same 4 questions.

The explosion of MAGA rage at birthright citizenship ruling confirms again that MAGA is really a movement for ethnic cleansing. As we discuss on the pod, it's telling that sealed border and end to TPS/asylum don't sate MAGA. They want dramatic ethnic purges. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

JD Vance says his faith makes him averse to “low wage foreigners”

Background paintings from Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios Pieces by Scott Wills, Jenny Gase-Baker and Nadia Vurbenova-Mouri

Olaf Gulbransson comic page, 1900s...

lol. lmao

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

"We made you president again and we're turning a blind eye to your self-enrichment to the tune of billions of dollars. Shut up and stop complaining that we're not protecting you from a $5 million judgment."

In retrospect, understandable "The Water-Babies" sold better. But I'm curious.

OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

Opinions at 10am.

I love Mel Brooks, but I hate being "that guy" to say that Ward Kimball beat him to it - Ward added an extra finger to each hand at his Disney Legends induction ceremony (it was at the brand new Disney/MGM animation studio in Florida, 1989).

It's not just transparently outcome-driven, it's openly picking and choosing at the buffet of implications. You lay down a rule, to suit the Republican justices, AND you decide, by fiat, which implications of that rule, were it to be followed, shall follow.

Went book-and-comics hunting this morning. Found good stuff.

Samuel Beckett's "Toy Story".

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

2016 conservative: racism is so terrible it is a slur to imply that normie cons could be motivated by racial animus. 2026 conservatives: racial animus is so commonly expressed by normie cons that it is a slur to imply that expressions of racial animus could be evidence of racial animus.

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

Channeling my inner Lang Shining with all my might, painting with lapis pigment on silk. 😤

Karl Alexander Wilke (1879-1954)

And legally the SC is laboring to work out what you might call a doctrine of 'structural non-racism': even if no kidding these actual actors are actually openly seething with racial animus, if there's a possible world in which someone favours an analog policy for non-racist reasons it's not racism.

For years, the anti-immigrant go-to line was that they were anti *illegal* immigration, because they believed in rule of law and had compassion for immigrants who "did it the right way." Now, from the White House and Supreme Court on down, it's openly anti-rule-of-law and anti-nonwhite-immigration.

"Stay, lady, stay Stay with your man awhile Until the break of day Let me see you make him smile"

In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.

Edward Hopper

clarence thomas sincerely believes that black people were better off under segregation and that forbidding segregation is a violation of the right to property

Is this your first time printing a photograph in a book? Rutgers University Press: Yes, but I'm confident.

little demon, france, 15th century

The Supreme Court ALSO gives Trump another pass on racism, declaring that his horrific and bigoted comments against Haitians are actually not evidence of racism and that the plaintiffs cannot show evidence of racial bias, essentially plugging their ears and letting Trump spew filth as policy.

'I wear the chain I forged in life ... I made it point by point, and column by column; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it, and also this is erroneous hyperboleee, " wailed the doomed spirit, as it faded out behind a paywall.

Snap! Toad catches butterfly between thistle & morning glory. Contrast between beauty & cruelty typical of Otto Marseus van Schrieck, whose day is today.

Are they trying to keep people out or … ?

"Narratives" Can you even hear yourself?

This is Bluey. He just came over to say hi. Wants to know what you're doing all the way up there. 12/10 valid question (IG: blueychi)

I don't know who needs to see this, but I found this size chart of Cartoon Network characters from 2003 when I was working at Primal Screen. These modelsheets were important for when we'd do promos or IDs featuring all the diff characters together, like in live action scenarios. #wardsmorguefile

Leonid Soifertis (1911-1996)

Nothing screams "We're too late" than an event tackling coping with the Extreme Heat, being cancelled due to the Extreme Heat