Dave has been *relentless* in his federal courthouse coverage of the fallout of DHS cases against Chicagoans. Much of his reporting is done at great personal cost. Please support him today:

I am 43 and I don't make a living in comics anymore largely because I want the freedom to say things like this without trading it for my livelihood. That's pretty fucked up. (cont'd)

No, really, @washingtonpost.com, I am the one who is sorry to see you go. Farewell to what was once my go-to, trusted news source. I'm sorry that you had to die in darkness.

The person who drives me around should be able to afford to live near where I live. They shouldn't be in poverty, but if they are I should be confronted with it. It should not be made easy never to consider that person's life, much less imagine that person does not exist.

The right wing media ecosystem saying "well it wasn't quite rape" are just repeating Epstein's advertisement. He made it seem like those girls just appeared and were willing as if 16 year old models just fall out of the sky interested in 50 year old men. That's part of the sex trafficking service.

Can't I get a robot to do the death march for me? That sounds exhausting

Talent is a myth designed to suppress the working class, to stop us asking why so many aristocrats have incredible skill at things that take thousands of hours of practice. "Don't ask why you have to work three jobs to survive while they have incredible artistic success. Trust us, it's innate."

The scheme to replace underpaid gig drivers in America with even more severely underpaid gig drivers in even poorer countries is bad. Americans should drive themselves or pay someone a living wage. Disabled Americans should have access to taxpayer funded services that pay drivers a living wage.

all investing has risk

just circling back on this.... Mitch still in there?

A critique does not have to be sophisticated to be correct. So much of this century’s disingenuity and smarm is powered by the delusion that the correct answer must be complicated or counterintuitive. See, e.g., discourse around Israel or gun control.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

What if robots could do all the things that make life living for us, so we could just march joylessly towards death as cogs in the machine?

I tallied all the hospitals and health systems that have stopped providing gender-affirming care to young people in the last year (so you don't have to) This includes nine that have stopped providing hormones and puberty blockers since the beginning of the year. www.statnews.com/2026/02/05/h...

Making art for its own sake, even if you kind of suck at it, is good actually. If there was a magic machine that I could tell to make these things for me, I simply wouldn't value them, even if they would be of much greater quality than what I make myself.

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

"can't believe the nazi klan people are racist"

Trump market tested his campaign with Birtherism and inaugurated his run calling Mexicans “rapists and murderers.” There’s no new information in the latest outrage. But there is further confirmation that commentators who denied racism was Trumpism’s central motivating factor should be shunned.

Cowardly and racist is an amazing combination. We all know that wasn't a staffer and that he meant that shit. bsky.app/profile/leba...

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

new Clippings strip up at @assignedmedia.org. this month, we're looking at the life and times of Albert Cashier, soldier for the Union Army. why am I thinking about the Civil War this month? oh, y'know. no reason. check it out here: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new... #comic #lgbtqia #trans

odd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts

You probably woke up this morning and thought "did I miss my chance to buy dash cams for folks in Minneapolis because we live in actual hell?" And the answer is no, no you did not.

This is a really good formulation of the problem a society allowing people to become wealthy and powerful enough to make themselves everybody's problem:

They're Abrego-Garcia-ing a child -- punishing him because his very existence is inconvenient to them. It's gutter bigotry and petulant sadism all the way down.

He’s been credibly accused on consorting with the most prominent pedophile of our lives. He can barely speak coherently and doesn’t seem to know what’s going on in his own administration. He’s running around threatening to start illegal wars. He was right about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.

Can you imagine the NY Times giving anyone else such an excuse? Would NYT write: "It was unclear if the mugger who stole the lady's purse knew that the money was intended as a gift for her grandson." "It was unclear if Hitler knew that his tanks were rolling into Poland."

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

I’m so fucking tired of internet radicals commenting on the most successful nonviolent resistance campaign in the US for over a generation. Go play video games, jerkwads.

I've been working with some of these women. They're very clear on what happened to them and it's very well evidenced. They have been denied justice for far too long.

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Just, in some deep way, the kinda people who sign up for this.

Started writing a post about jt. Was about to type the alt text & said no. Fuck this. I don't want to amplify his racist bullshit.

One of the first things I learned in my first job in journalism is how many pig ignorant motherfuckers with the right connections run things.

When mom and dad force you do do an extra-curricular activity but that activity is fascism.

I don't want to see a racist image posted by a president we already know is racist. I don't care if it's a new low, there will always be new lows. I want to see and hear about ordinary people's resistance to ICE. I want to see and hear new ways we can gum up the works or destroy the machine.

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

sure you might have seen my name in the big pdf that got released titled “list of draculas currently operating in the united states.” here’s why that’s NOT a big deal:

I once got in a Slack debate with the editor-in-chief of a publication, a woman, who believed that for society to benefit from genius men those men's abuse of women might need to be tolerated. I argued that the loss of contributions of the women they abused could easily be worth 10x their own.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:

the idea of epstein files as a moral panic is absurd but i do think the fact that all this is getting aired out and yet there seems to be little in the way of reprocussions for these folks...that's probably not good!

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Holy shit woke up to the fact that NJ Dems might have just nominated a socialist to the NJ-11. I mean I voted for her and she will be my rep if this sticks but even at the polling place I was doubtful and HERE WE ARE. It’s been a long time coming, but a change is gonna come. 😭

The fact that mainstream media stopped covering ICE kidnappings in LA isn't because ICE stopped kidnapping (they didn't) Or ICE slowed down (they have actually increased their tempo) Or that resistance to ICE slowed down (it never stopped, it grew) It's the "political showdown" that stopped.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

There... aren't any trans characters on any current Netflix shows. The number is already zero.

It's one of the things about "men and women can't be platonic friends" discourse that drives me nuts. If I couldn't be friends with anyone I might be attracted to because the sexual tension would be too much, I just wouldn't have ever made friends.

My brave political opinion is that if you are a 50something politician you should not focus on getting the Teens to like you. Needing to be liked is a weakness, and the Teens can smell weakness, and will eat you alive.