The excuses that Graham Platner apologists are coming up with to wave away his many years of reprehensible behavior are starting to sound a lot like the crap Trump cultists say. The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend, or even someone I want as my ally.

This is literally a bit from the cartoon “Adventure Time,” in which the villainous Ice King rebrands himself “Nice King” to trick all the local princesses into trusting him. Satire is dead and buried.

Nobody ever likes to talk about how Professor Ludwig von Drake was the first Disney character to be admitted to the United States under Operation Paperclip.

I can’t imagine anyone arguing that progressives should have ignored the bigotry of segregationist Strom Thurmond or the Red Scare antics of Joe McCarthy just because we didn’t live in those Senators’ states. The character and judgement of other states’ Senators directly impacts ALL Americans.

This is like giving the American public a 50% stake in Big Tobacco. It just creates a perverse incentive for the government to help an inherently toxic and destructive business model succeed instead of questioning whether it should exist at all.

I don't want Collins to win this race either, but if Platner makes it to the Senate he's going to be the worst candidate Democrats have put in power since Fetterman. No one can claim they didn't know what kind of human garbage Platner was after the Nazi tattoo story broke.

“Now witness the firepower of this FULLY ARMED and OPERATIONAL ballroom!”

Well I see SOMEONE hasn't been watching classic Twilight Zone episodes. This was literally the central premise of "To Serve Man."

Why do I get the impression that Trump imagines himself watching this fight from an elevated throne, waiting for the climactic moment when he gets to give the "thumbs down" sign as the victor holds a blade to his defeated opponent's throat?

A germ-theory based approach to protecting public health sure had a good run but it looks like the kooks are putting Pasteur out to pasture.

"In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it." —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

I've been a fan of Robbie Conal's guerilla poster art since the 1980s; he has a delightfully grotesque portraiture style that emphasizes every pore and wrinkle. I think RFK Jr. may be the first one I've seen where the caricature is less visually disturbing than the real thing.

MILLION DOLLAR IDEA: A “Sound of Music” remake in which the Von Trapp family hatches a plot to burn down the mansion with all the Nazis inside a-la “Inglorious Basterds.” During the “Goodbye, Farewell” number obviously.

These fucking ghouls are getting EXACTLY what they voted for; it's not like Trump ever made any real effort to pretend he respected their Christian beliefs. They wanted a President who would hurt all the people they didn't like and that's exactly what they got.

If he really believes this, then one would think he would support efforts to reign in the government’s power to wage war without the consent of congress or kidnap you off the street without a warrant or whatnot.

Loved “Project Hail Mary,” a faithful adaptation of a story based on the delightful, fantastical premise that the nations of Earth would unite around a common cause and actually listen to science experts if the fate of our planet depended on it.

This is the kind of car I imagine the “Visible Man” would drive.

A friend of mine was bummed out that he broke an old hammer he inherited from his dad, and I cheered him up by explaining that any tool that breaks after a lifetime of honorable use gets to hang on the peg boards of Valhalla alongside Mjölnir.

Don’t let society convince you that you need to get a “beach body” this Spring. Every time I’ve found a body on the beach it was bloated with decomposition and pecked by seabirds anyway.

Creating a stricter code of conduct for this agency will do nothing given that they have proven time and time again that they won’t follow laws or guidelines that are already on the books. Dismantling ICE entirely is the only solution. Schumer isn’t rising to the moment.

These idiots are so bad at metaphors. I'm no nautical expert but I'm pretty sure you could turn around even the largest ship in under an hour. Also, he's saying we're on the freaking TITANIC now? That's not very reassuring!

Jesus Christ, this is like a politician making an appearance at Kent State University in May 1970 just to talk about football. YOU ARE NOT RISING TO THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY, MADAM.

As the saying goes, “Don’t threaten me with a good time.”

I’d say we are at the “General Ripper from the movie Dr. Strangelove” level of government malfeasance, except that’s kind of unfair since the President in Dr. Strangelove recognized General Ripper was a nut and did everything in their power to stop him.

Everyone knows that if there's one thing Trump has been consistent about it's putting the needs of indigenous communities above those of fossil fuel companies. /s

As a group, prosecutors are not known for being lefty soft-on-crime types. When they start quitting en masse in protest because they don't believe someone should be prosecuted for a crime then it's time to wake the F up.

I remember when the nation collectively decided that Mitt Romney was too out-of-touch to be a President of the People just because he had a car elevator in his home and owned a special dancing horse competing in the Olympics.

Apparently, all those accusations that Trump was building himself an incredibly gaudy private palace were off the mark. It is now clear he intends to build himself an incredibly gaudy private FORTRESS.

I finally got around to reading Asimov's "Foundation" (1951). I don't want to be too critical since all writers are a product of their time but I find it amusing he imagined thousands of years of social changes but couldn't conceive of a universe where women were more than 1950s housewife tropes.

This is about as dark as it gets but I continue to be impressed by all the brave Americans who continue to hold ICE to account by continuing to follow them, protest them and record them even as doing so increasingly carries threat of arrest and even murder. Fuck ICE forever.

Getting “Homestar Runner” flashbacks. Though I can guarantee that even Strong Bad would make a better leader than anyone in this administration.

Ugh, as both an educator and an artist I cannot express how disappointed I am that the President of my union would post this kind of AI slop ripping off the hard work of actual creators.

Nancy Drew and the Maltese Falcon both entered the public domain today, so I guess that means I can finally publish that fanfic novel I’ve been working on.

Never underestimate the power of angry people in large groups and inflatable animal costumes.

I've never seen a greater illustration of the difference between a Producer an actual creator. This man can't even wrap his head around the idea that a brilliant artist like Bill Watterson cares more about preserving the integrity of his work than about getting rich through licensing agreements.

Alternate headline: "Americans aren't eager to waste their money and generate even more e-waste just to enrich billionaires who want to force-feed them gizmos crammed with unwanted AI garbage."

A movie that takes place where you’re from

Just once I want someone to remind Trump that he WAS one of those Democrats for most of his long friendship with Epstein and regularly buddied around with the other Democratic Epstein associates he's accusing.

Didn’t take long to vindicate my “don’t bother praising MTG for her new criticism of Trump, she’s still a thoroughly vile human being” stance.

We are probably only weeks away from Trump confidently proclaiming that no one knows where the sun goes at night.

Because individuals bargaining with giant corporate entities famously experience better outcomes than collective bargaining efforts against giant corporate entities.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

@padilla.senate.gov please tell us that you aren’t considering voting in favor of any deal to reopen the government that doesn’t include an iron-clad guarantee of continued funding for the ACA.

@schiff.senate.gov I hope very much that the rumors you are currently in negotiation to reopen the government in exchange for “a promise of a vote” on the ACA are false. Democrats need to hold the line on protecting the ACA. We will remember what our leaders did during this moment in history.

For the life of me I don't understand how Tesla thinks keeping Elon around is a net benefit at all, let alone a benefit worth more than the entire Gross Domestic Product of Switzerland.

One of the reasons this is such a funny cover from the New York Post is that they've been simultaneously trying to frame Mamdani as both a "Jihadi" and a Soviet-style communist even though those groups were mortal enemies (and neither was known to march in Pride parades).

The big downside of tonight's elections is that having a progressive mayor running New York City is going to mean that none of the storylines in the second season of "Daredevil: Born Again" are going to make sense anymore. Did you even CONSIDER the harm that your votes might do to MCU continuity?

My kiddo went all in with her Halloween costume this year: Vi from “Arcane: League of Legends.” (I may have helped a bit with the jacket and gauntlets) #Arcane #Vi #Cosplay

Someone watched the 2008 sci-fi dystopian film "Sleep Dealer" and said to themselves "exploiting poor people to remotely operate robots? BRILLIANT!" ("I wrote the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale," etc…)