Up early for #hourlycomicday. Or #hourlycomicsday? #hourlycomicday2026

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Vance undermining the US Olympic Team would be too on the nose

"Make sure you use the picture where I look like I just heard someone call him 'Doctor Who' instead of the Doctor"

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

Good. May the same happen to everyone making GenAI apps.

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Here's the full comic, from January 2, 2000. It was the last strip that featured Peppermint Patty, arguably Peanuts greatest character. Schulz died six weeks after it was published. It's perfection.

Watching a Ted Talk for class. Teacher candidates have to watch so many TED Talks. This one is on "Grit." The speaker named it after "True Grit," which she referred to as a "somewhat mediocre western." Reader, I have never trusted someone less.

The Washington Post but it’s ‘The Traitors’

an alternative strategy we could consider is allowing people to go to college and retire and just having some immigration

"Look out of any window, any morning, any day...Maybe you'll find your shadow around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you" Punxatawney Phil Lesh

This is something really special, from one of my favorite science communicators, but also one of my favorite cultural commentators. Do yourself a favor and set aside some time to watch it. Your dishwasher will thank you.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Let's check in on the Twitter Files guy -- who insisted that the behind the scenes decision-making on content moderation was the most important issue of our time -- and see what he thinks about the publication of communications involving the most notorious sex predator of our generation.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

“I don’t know anything about it” says the guy who posted 3x about it on Friday and Saturday

Now for the rest of the babies they’ve shoved into that detention center.

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Silicon Valley is so pathologically devoted to devaluing others' labor that, even today, none of the tech bros have figured out that they could spend <1% of their budget on paying smart people to teach their writing bot how to write good. No no no, must be <0.0000001% or less.

OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in. *Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"

These people are rock brain idiots. Grand Theft Auto 6 has been in production for like a decade and these simpletons think AI can just make a game. Anyway, you reading this, yes you, you're smarter than all of Wall Street and the CEOs in this country.

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Everything about John Lennon is insufferable because they basically make a movie about Jesus but make John Lennon the main character. And no one has the guts to deal with with what kind of reactionary he would’ve been by now had he lived.

If only...

I don't want him to take any more brain scans. I want him to take a 9th grade Econ test live on camera.

my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.

Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."

Every law enforcement agency in America knows how to manage the car after an arrest at a traffic stop. The Trump DHS leaves them open on the road like that to terrorize the rest of us. A nationwide policy.

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Found out more about yesterday’s ICE activity outside of my son’s school. It was in view of the playground. Children spotted the attempted abduction first. They shouted for help. The whistle was the playground attendant.

It’s easy to forget since he’s still a high public official but Homan straight up took $50,000 in cash from undercover agents on camera and then nothing happened

I am having a hard time handling the news and parenting and—–earlier today we got a call from our son's school. When the phone rings midday; it's usually the nurse's office. "You'll have to come get your son; he has (insert ancient plague)."

He just wants his hat back. He just wants his backpack. Every day, our own son packs a special toy to keep in his backpack. It gives him a reason to get through the day, to leave and come home again: safe and happy. We have stolen this child's home. We have taken his hat and backpack.

I am having a hard time handling the news and parenting and—–earlier today we got a call from our son's school. When the phone rings midday; it's usually the nurse's office. "You'll have to come get your son; he has (insert ancient plague)."

This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked. The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.

We know they aren’t investigating this murder, of course, but they aren’t even pretending to investigate this murder.

I think about this post a lot.

If you're considering signing a graphic novel contract, look at the advance the publisher is offering and subtract 15% for your agent (if you have one) and then 30% for taxes, and then divide by the 5-7 years it might take you to finish the book, and then decide if the money is worth it.

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA