“Let me be very clear: Islam is not a religion,” Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, testified before the education board Monday. “It is a totalitarian theocracy, not unlike totalitarian systems of communism, Nazism and globalism.” Asked if he had ever visited a Muslim-majority country, Hall responded no.

No one should mistake that not only did the vast majority of these defendants do *nothing but show up to a protest* but several are trans women who will now spend the rest of their lives being tortured by the state. This was targeted. This was a show trial.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Murder Mystery On Train Not So Fun In Real Life https://theonion.com/murder-mystery-on-train-not-so-fun-in-real-life-1819569228/

This is written in a way that makes clear the journalist knows more than they are able to tell.

Thrilled to have my first piece in @comicsjournal.bsky.social: a review of Seth’s intriguing, evolving comics practice in Palookaville 25.

Today on TCJ I write at length about SETHPHEMERA, a recent collection of nonfiction writing by Seth which reveals—little by little, and largely incidentally—the philosophical underpinnings to Seth’s work, for better or for worse:

I have some incredible good news Izzy Aly, the Egyptian immigrant detained here by ICE for more than six months even as his GEO Group guards ignored his rapidly worsening kidney disease, is free and back home in Orlando Here's what I initially also wrote about Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

Upward by Vasily Kandinsky, 1929 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137920

I came on here to ask if something is a sign of adhd but then I got distracted and forgot what

We, as a nation, are collectively missing a great opportunity to get RFK Jr to drink from the reflecting pool.

According to a test I took on genius dot com I'm too smart to ever fall for confirmation bias

Bright Unity by Vasily Kandinsky, 1925 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137537

Iran is richer, their nuclear program is undeterred, the Strait will not be open soon, they are forever inclined to close it whenever they like, the regime is not substantially weakened, and the United States’s word is mud. The worst foreign policy choices on our part in 25 years.

Making Hay? Dark Horse Layoffs on the Heels of Union Recognition by Zach Rabiroff www.tcj.com/making-hay-d...

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

RIP, Jerry Moriarty

RIP Jerry Moriarty

The Kennedy Center board has filed an emergency motion to stay at the DC Circuit and it is bonkity-bonkers. For the first time, they say they amended the bylaws to strip all funding from the center if it removes Trump's name. No Trump KC, no money. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

rip jerry moriarty

This is a great read.

It’s crazy how many American adults on here haven’t figured out that the gun industry is selling a fantasy of empowerment in the same way that people who sell truck nuts are

Not good. www.ms.now/news/ohio-pr...

TCJ co-editor @cmautner.bsky.social brings back a 2006 interview he did with the late Marjane Satrapi (a full obit will run on the site soon).

Now on @comicsjournal.bsky.social: A 2006 interview I did with Marjane Satrapi

Lorenzo Mattotti on Fires, four decades later, in The Comics Journal. I haven't read the whole interview yet, but he mentions as inspiration the late Dino Battaglia, a favorite Italian cartoonist of mine whose work I only discovered about five years ago. www.tcj.com/fires-after-...

New Comics Journal essay on fake MADs of the 1950s. www.tcj.com/the-mad-pani...

The final article of our @pennstateuniv.bsky.social @pennlive.com 8-part series uncovers a second lawsuit for sexual abuse against the same chaplain at ICE’s Moshannon detention facility by 2 separate detained women. He still works there. An enraging must read. www.pennlive.com/news/2026/06...

Women have now come forward accusing the chaplain at Moshannon Valley Processing Center (the largest ICE jail the northeast) of sexual abuse. Is he a predator who prays? www.pennlive.com/news/2026/06...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Horn Players, 1983 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5213

Ongoing US airstrikes on Iran are targeting key Iranian facilities such as ammunition depots, command and control nodes and warehouses. -CBS News

I know every country has people like this in it, but I feel like we really excel in producing malignant narcissists who believe fully insane stuff, repeatedly violate the law, and are permitted to keep doing it. This man is on a mission to give America diarrhea. www.propublica.org/article/mark...

whale mouth, jolly golf, route 441, gatlinburg, tennessee, 1984

Then he fell asleep in the box

ever since i was a small boy i knew i wanted to charge the pepper grinder

Looks like New York is ready for some Knicks basketball!

You will never love anything as much as comic book artists of the 80s and 90s loved unsuspended and unsupported bands of spandex around women's limbs.

B R A I N S

He lives in a pineapple under the sea.

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Number 18 by Jackson Pollock, 1950 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137445

I wrote about MARS for The Comics Journal! www.tcj.com/mars-on-life/

"Listen. I don't like to preach, but here's some advice. You'll meet a lot of jerks in life. If they hurt you, remember it's because they're stupid. Don't react to their cruelty. There's nothing worse than bitterness and revenge. Keep your dignity and be true to yourself." - Marjane Satrapi

WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.

Tried to quickly get something up on Satrapi's passing.