Recurring🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Read 1 more reply. If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle. Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile. Matt Davies @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social

7/ I guess I understand that as people get older, they get more set in their ways. I have a lot of set-in-old-ways traits myself, for sure. But music is such a wonderful medium for connecting with other people, sharing thoughts & feelings... why would anyone voluntarily drop out of following it?

my wife picking up her pill box this week, "Fuck, it's only Tuesday"

Started an Olivia Dean radio and now I'm listening to Don West. I better not be headed to Bob Seger radio. "Wouldn't you be more comfortable. . ."

not the point at all but that Obama coffee table book over Rep Brown's shoulder is worth it, the pics are full of love an joy

researching The Who is hard. It's hard It's very, very, very, very hard, so very hard It's hard It's very, very, very, very hard, so very hard It's hard

maître d'!

when I was a kid my mom's boyfriend cracked open the electric meter and would turn it around on the weekend so it ran backwards to cut our electric bill. Pretty sure that's why our house caught fire from an electrical short. Asshole. Anyway, we were broke, not poor. www.youtube.com/shorts/pFFmm...

I picked up a print by Christi Belcourt a while back and now a couple friends also have one. Definitely see an original in person if you have the opportunity.

"mandating body cameras, visible identification and no masks for ICE agents, as well as requiring judicial warrants so agents can’t just enter homes or cars without permission" these are the least useful reforms from the lists that are out there, current D leaders are useless

unfortunately, I'm going to have to vote for good ol' Sherrod Brown again, not that he'll end up on judiciary if he gets back to the Senate but you know what I mean. We are not having a competitive primary in the OH Senate race.

subscribing

"One year into the second Trump presidency, it’s not just blue America where people are readying themselves for disaster." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

'Red on the Cuillins' by Pam Carter, painter who was known for her Scottish landscapes #WomensArt

those guerrilla tactics are a huge strategic error

my Rep and I'm proud!

ht Krugman www.youtube.com/watch?v=erCq...

Cannot emphasize this enough, federal judges only do this when they're extremely distressed

There appears to be a widespread category error being made, where people who regard themselves as being in a decades-long ongoing war with the government seem to think Minnesotans have now joined the war and should fall in beside (or perhaps behind) them. But that’s not how most of US see it.

100 percent. Watching snotty lefties trying to gatekeep *protesting ICE* is nausea inducing.

ICE prep in Springfield, OH. "Carl Ruby, pastor of Central Christian Church in Springfield, said many parents have also signed power-of-attorney documents, giving trusted friends or relatives legal authority over their children in case they are detained or deported."

Clark County (Springfield, OH) went 64% for Trump in '24, Hennepin went 70% for Harris. Population density is 348/sq mile vs 2,081. If Springfield ends up looking anything like Minneapolis something very dramatic has happened. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/deport-...

FYI, Kristi Noem’s full initials are K.L.A.N.

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.

This is what it means to put white bodies on the line to help brown bodies. I hope I can do as well if called.

truth

just wrapped up the new Mel Brooks documentary 99 Year Old Man! and am so full of all kinds of emotions

this isn't Stancil's point but he's sure showing how the distribution of moron's is pretty steady across the political spectrum

Barry Blitt, man

Five fave 70s films Being There Network Animal House All That Jazz The Last Waltz Today's list anyway

one more admission that ICE is clearly a paramilitary militia. The presidency cannot have this at their disposal.

DeWine has tried to help out the Haitian community in Springfield in the past. Let's assume that's still his preference. It's a sad irony that he'd have greater freedom of motion today if he hadn't ignored the OH Supreme Court and gerrymandered the state so hard.

Cleveland.com | Plain Dealer editorial board with Gov Mike Dewine www.cleveland.com/opinion/2026...

Gov. Mike DeWine expects federal immigration agents to follow the state’s law-enforcement practices if they come to Ohio. “Our people follow those rules,” DeWine said during a Wednesday meeting with the editorial board for Cleveland.com | The Plain Dealer. “We expect ICE to follow them as well.”

whoever is beating up on Wil Wheaton, congrats on all your success

4. This is the 2025 Playbook: take away legal status abruptly to create an excuse for mass deportation. This is reckless. It’s cruel. And because Trump’s ICE is involved – it’s a public safety threat. I signed my name to an amicus brief to block this move in federal court. 5/5

this broke my will, I went ahead and signed up for a 6 month oyster and other seafood CSA type thing I had been trying to not think about most of the day

it can start with sports talk radio callers

“We lost all trust,” a current ICE official added. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.” Agreed

The auditor of the state of Ohio, who is running to be the state's next attorney general, wrote an oped this morning that the Columbus Dispatch published on how Renee Good is to blame for her death. The subheadline alone is already chilling. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Rhodes then missed a term as governor due to term limits but returned to the office in '75 and finally retired, from the governor's office, in '83. Way to go Ohio.

Yeah, that kind of day. Mavis Staples radio here.

not sure what it's like anywhere but in Cleveland this is the gentlest winter storm I can remember. No wind. Light powdery snow slowly falling. And falling. And falling. So it's adding up but there's no drama.

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures." - The Declaration of Independence

Beautiful Strangers - Mavis Staples open.spotify.com/track/3JCNSJ...

I could write a book about my journey away from the 20th century Ohio diet

Just voted No on funding ICE and CBP. I will not support another cent for agencies that continue to terrorize our communities, commit abuses, and escalate violence.