Are you mad about guns? MAD Magazine has been pretty *ticked off* about them for decades! Here's a thread of some highlights. "The MAD Gun Owners And Other Small Bores Primer" nailed it way back in 1965. Written by Larry Siegel with art by George Woodbridge. (1/X)

It's impossible to make a "slippery slope" argument against this administration because they spend all day greasing up the slopes themselves.

Want some fall-themed graphic novels? Start with Pumpkinheads. @rainbowrowell.bsky.social and @faitherinhicks.bsky.social created the pumpkin patch of your dreams and then they set their protagonists loose to play in it. Invitingly autumnal colors by @worstwizard.bsky.social make it a cozy delight.

Putting together a new bookcase means new opportunities to arrange books. Note Pictured: Malcolm Gladwell, whose books have been banished to the box in the back of the closet with the works of other garbage like Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, and Scott Adams. #booksky

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Reminder for those in the back: No honest man need fear cartoons. …or comedians.

Putting together a new bookcase means new opportunities to arrange books. Note Pictured: Malcolm Gladwell, whose books have been banished to the box in the back of the closet with the works of other garbage like Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, and Scott Adams. #booksky

Funkytown has become so gentrified. I’m not even sure if I want you to take me there anymore.

Trump thinks the First Amendment is “Freedom of the Pres.”

The Kimmel "suspension" isn't just about silencing criticism from comedians, it's also a strong indicator that Disney will be sacrificing the integrity of ABC News to appease the endlessly needy ego of Trump.

You can tell that satire is important because corporations are trying to silence the satirists. Thin-skinned fascists and oligarchs fear being ridiculed because making fun of powerful people is one of the most accessible forms of opposition. Once the powerful make it taboo to mock them... (1/X)

Can’t wait for the first ever Everyone’s Favourite President Awards 2026

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." — Mark Twain

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs. The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

You can tell that satire is important because corporations are trying to silence the satirists. Thin-skinned fascists and oligarchs fear being ridiculed because making fun of powerful people is one of the most accessible forms of opposition. Once the powerful make it taboo to mock them... (1/X)

Reposting this in light of Disney/ABC joining the Cancel The Critics game. #Kimmel

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

We're marching down a road where you're only going to be able to consume media that Trump likes. Not only will that mean the silencing of journalists and satirists, but it also means the end of entertainment because Trump doesn't actually *enjoy* anything other than being praised.

An early screening of Wicked: For Good for Amazon Prime members is the perfect option for Wicked fans who think the Wizard is the hero.

A reminder for people who listen to centrist think tanks: - In 2012, VP Biden took a political risk and spoke out in support of gay marriage. - That went okay, so Obama followed suit. - Voters who'd previously opposed marriage equality were inspired to change their minds. Leaders need to LEAD.

Paramount+ knows that they're losing subscribers over their decision to cater to the whims of a fascist, but they're intentionally not collecting data on it because they don't want to have to acknowledge the consequences of their capitulation.

As a child, Chuck Schumer would dress as Neville Chamberlain for Halloween. "Trick or treat... just kidding I would never trick anybody. And please don't give me any candy now. I will stand here politely to see if there's any left next week."

Tell me you don't respect comic books without telling me you don't respect comic books. This article about an operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Kavalier & Clay never mentions the name of any illustrators who worked on the show, nor does The Met's website. playbill.com/article/tran...

Please stop asking Faith about AI and let her make comics. Because we don't need AI, but we do need more comics by Faith.

An early screening of Wicked: For Good for Amazon Prime members is the perfect option for Wicked fans who think the Wizard is the hero.

If you haven’t watched Quiz Show yet, it’s stunningly good.

At this point they’ve swept so much under the rug that the rug is touching the ceiling.

We tried to claw our way out because social media is hell. But, like all the damned, we were dragged back—this time to hawk a print mag. The American Bystander #31 Cover by @tbtoro.bsky.social. Ships October 2025. Preorder here: theamericanbystanderstore.com/products/iss...

Every presidential candidate should be legally required to be less like Nathan Thurm than the current one.

No, Trump did NOT write a "sexually" suggestive letter. He wrote a letter about raping children. That is the only accurate way to describe it. Any other description is cowardly, complicit, and unworthy of being called journalism. Shame on you, @apnews.com.

Do you hate JK Rowling and her fellow self-appointed bathroom monitors? Then enjoy this preview of my new parody of "Everybody Poops" or --better yet -- go read the whole thing online at the link below. Art by Marc Palm. #transrights online.americanbystander.org/nobody-poops/

They say that porn helped drive early adapters to emerging technologies like the VCR and the internet. AI is different that that. Sure, there's AI porn out there... but AI is proving most appealing to people who get off on something else: Fascism. (1/X)

No, Trump did NOT write a "sexually" suggestive letter. He wrote a letter about raping children. That is the only accurate way to describe it. Any other description is cowardly, complicit, and unworthy of being called journalism. Shame on you, @apnews.com.

I would share the repulsive birthday greeting Trump made for Jeffrey Epstein, but Trump’s illustration qualifies as child pornography. The very existence of the letter is a crime.

The Supreme Court right now: ❌ Using race conscious admissions in colleges to account for systemic and societal racial discrimination. ✅ Using race explicitly to determine who masked federal agents will snatch off the street to throw into concentration camps.

Our Supreme Court is a wreck, now they’re okay with racial profiling. The Court has lifted restrictions on immigration-related stops by federal agents in the Los Angeles area, which amounts to blatant racial profiling. Agents have been stopping people solely based on their appearance,

This police station will develop your photos in one hour.

Former advocate for domestic violence survivors here. Look at how he leans in to yell at her. How angry he gets that she dares to question him, has the audacity to do her job. Everything he does and says in this interaction SCREAMS abuser. 1/2

You can learn more about negotiating from the Pigeon books than you can from The Art Of The Deal.

We should begin renaming the worst preventable diseases after the monsters responsible for this. "My grandma died of Andrew Wakefield and my uncle is quarantined with a bad case of RFK Jr."

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?

"Erase Me" is an urgent song not just about being trans, but also about gender in general. Quinn Christopherson performance is bursting with Joe-Jackson-Meets-Jack-Antonoff energy. Plus the mid-song snafu may be the most perfectly serendipitous mistake you've ever seen. youtu.be/xoFlHMG6Wfo?...

I read the comments section on an article about Warwick Davis reprising his role as Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter series. Not surprisingly, there was a large overlap between people who are not bothered by JK Rowling's transphobia and people who are bothered by a black actor playing Snape.

I do not understand people who think the Democratic nominee needs to be the first party member they see with half a spine. They're like aliens who land on a random field and instead of saying "Take me to your leader" they just point the nearest cow-tipper and say "You're in charge now."

AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."

Hey, does anybody remember that two-word phrase that whipped up all the anti-Obamacare tea partiers in 2009

Some products can only be found at national chains, but it's hard to find retailers that DON’T support fascism. This is a First World/Third Reich Problem.

If all we do is give our children active shooter drills and expect our teachers to be human shields we have failed them. It’s up to us to do the work to stop the shootings from happening in the first place. It’s up to us whether we fail our children or not. I know what I choose.