The right are so obsessed with the idea that leftist agitiators on are secretly being paid is simply because their movement is being secretly financed. They also can't imagine why you would take a position that you weren't being paid to take, since they have no actual principles beyond self-interest

Bill Bramhall/New York Daily News Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Thursday, April 30, 2026.

When I think of peak Cohen Brothers, the movie that comes to mind is the 1987 film Raising Arizona.

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

I've blocked so many writing scam emails coming from gmail addresses that my email client has begun to automatically route gmail addresses into my spam folder, a fact that should alarm Google and should motivate those of you with gmail accounts to get your own domains and use that for email.

Truly insane that we’re being asked to tolerate this.

North Koreans are told daily how "Dear Leader" loves them, as they sit down to a dinner of grass and dirty water.

Traffic calming hack: ride slowly in front of a robot car so no one else can pass you.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The most hilarious thing about this is you don't have to give it ANY context at all, and everyone still knows what it's for.🤣

People focus too much on the binary of dictatorship and democracy, we are still going to live in a country with elections and peaceful transfers of power a decade from now, it'll just much more corrupt and poorer and less functional and more violent and less fair by every metric.

everyone else is already spying on me, why do i care if it's some chinese guy or some dickhead in silicon valley

this is very rapidly becoming the standard American opinion, and our lawmakers have absolutely not figured this out yet

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

In the United States, the two most shoplifted items are baby formula and disposable diapers. I suspect it’s similar in the UK. That says it all about how things are for average people.

You know what nobody seems to worry about anymore? Static cling. It was this huge societal problem from the '60s through the '80s—every 3rd or 4th TV ad was for a product addressing the scourge—that seems to have just gone away. What happened? Why the long silence?

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

Totally. I saw a post somewhere suggesting that we take everything over $999,999,999, give them a plaque saying "Congratulations, you won capitalism", and name a dog park after them. I like that idea.

I have so many questions.

"I didn't mean to fall out of bed after sex" by Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth #poem #poetry

Let's be clear we didn't lose the plot - the current administration is actively and intentionally sabotaging clean energy in general (which includes electric cars) and gleefully letting China and other countries lap us with this technology. This is the intentional destruction of US innovation.

A man in a cell, clean and safe, but not spacious. His physical needs are met. Fresh food and water, medicines, clean clothing and sheets. No phone. Only two words are ever said to the man. Every query, belligerent demand, shouted imprecation, wheedle and whine is answered with: "Quiet, Piggy."

I would be fine with data centers so long as the companies firmly agree to use 100% renewable energy resources and make it water neutral (this is possible) I don't understand why we don't use NIMBYism to leverage these requirements in localities

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only one. You know what's unnatural now.

My kids enjoy Go Fish. In this game, if someone asks you for a card, you can lie, saying you don't have it, wait a turn, then ask them for the same card, claiming that you just drew it. There's no point in playing Go Fish with someone willing to lie. This is a post about debating conservatives.

Pretty soon Americans will be able to hop up to Canada and witness a wide range of EVs that are more full-featured, perform better, and *are cheaper* than any EV available in the US. Because, uh, energy dominance or something.

I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

GPS satellites move at 1/100000 the speed of light, causing their clocks to tick slower by 7 microseconds per day, and orbit at a height that makes their clocks tick faster by 45 microseconds per day. Two relativistic effects, both at the 1 part in 10 billion level, both essential for GPS accuracy 🧪

Sky News: Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist. Greta Thunberg: See you all at the next climate strike :) news.sky.com/story/human-...

Hungary's Magyar envisions "an emboldened bloc of Central European nations led by like-minded right-wing leaders whom he believes share a cultural outlook, economic interests and conservative views on everything from migration to energy policy." Sigh. Same old shit. www.politico.eu/article/pete...

Trump shuts down the investigation into his own 'assassination' attempt. #MAGA why would he do that? Think hard on that, I'll wait.🤔

Finally got around to watching Forevergreen. I asked my wife why my daughter was crying and she said, "Watch this." Watch it when you have 13 minutes. If you cry you're a big baby! Not tough like me, who did not cry.

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

What he says…

"Apps are not the crowning achievement of civilization. Therefore, let us give absolute power over our civilization to people whose only qualification and achievement is designing apps."

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

it’s almost like all of that shit was providing a permission structure for truly evil people to ruin our lives and kill us in the pursuit of power or maybe we were just being irrational mobs of hysterical woke demons or whatever

Haha 🤣

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

We should automate boring drudgery like the creation of visual art, music, film, and games so humans can focus on more meaningful and fulfilling activities such as ride-share driving and food delivery.

Bought an ebook for my kid and tried to download the epub file to put onto an e-ink reader. Got "The exported ACSM file is protected and must be opened with Adobe Digital Editions." I used LibGen to get an unlocked copy. I gladly pay for books but won't be told what software we can use to read them.

Dr Assal Rad— "Real life vs The Onion"

"Frustration with women who are educated, financially independent, and accustomed to basic courtesy and respect." Fixed it for you, economist.com.

"frustration with equal rights for all"

“Frustration with modern dating” feels like an awfully charitable phrasing for what’s motivating these guys

I mean, if there were actually such a thing as an Antichrist, wouldn't this be kinda obvious?!?