ffs

This is what was always especially egregious about Bush v, Gore -- not only did they invent a doctrine out of thin air to hand a presidential election to their preferred candidate, they explicitly refused to apply it to any other case (including the very election whose result they were upholding!)

"I voted for him because he would be good for my farm" is the public lie to cover for the fact that they love him for his hate and bigotry. Nothing matters more to Trump voters than that. They want to see the people they hate suffer and he delivers.

Today in the neoconfederacy www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/toda...

The post-Dobbs Republican pivot to healthcare

I guess until we figure out how to make my website be alive again I will be posting comics over here www.jephjacques.com/comics and on my patreon www.patreon.com/jephjacques

My weekly post.

Just to be clear, SCOTUS demonstrated that it was an existential threat to constitutional democracy and the rule of law quite some time ago. The major change this week, with Caillou, is that a large bump in the number of Democratic officials willing to say it. Something I wrote back in 2022 👇

Dancers on a Plane https://www.wikiart.org/en/jasper-johns/dancers-on-a-plane-1981

Dreher, summarized.

Year after year

Somehow a professional sports front office is poaching from @defector.com's business team, so I need to hire a new Director of Revenue. Apply here: apply.workable.com/defector-med...

The cut to SSI for families who also rely on SNAP was not the Social Security Administration’s idea, even though that agency runs the SSI program. Instead, it was initiated by top White House and DOGE officials last year, ProPublica has learned.

Everything's worse in Texas.

Still Life with Five Bottles, 1884 #vangogh #vincentvangogh

Only two dozen?

I don't know, that sounds a little woke.

What Trump is doing isn’t even about the harm and cruelty done to immigrants, it’s also about funneling huge sums of money to the worst people on the planet, thus crowning new permanent elites who love fascism and will use their wealth to escape accountability www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

LOL

Jesus Christ

Sick fuck.

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

I'm beginning to think that Republicans don't really support democracy.

100%

No U.S. distributor would touch this documentary so now we're giving you free access May 1-4. Including interviews with historian Heather Cox Richardson, Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Harvard professor Steven Levitsky. www.democracyundersiegedoc.org/signup

ffs

Anyway, an important thing to realize is that right-wing nostalgia for Antebellum Plantation Life and tech guy fantasies about Explosive-Collar Apocalypse Bunkers are the same thing. A vision of an ideal society for sadists where they are granted unaccountable power over helpless people.

This isn't gestapo. They actually believed their hate. This is fascism-as-farce. (A minor detail: They stripped the man & drove him to a court in Greenbelt, MD, created during the New Deal as a kind of low-key utopian town planning project for low-income workers.) www.science.org/content/arti...

This is one reason the various Trump voter focus groups are so incoherent. Their actual reasons for voting for him are so tied up in a resentment they won't articulate to themselves, not without letting more racism & sexism out than they're willing to do in a polite setting

The amazing and immensely valuable Aaron #Rupar

Do your part in observance of World Press Freedom Day Support a free press, free speech, and editorial cartoonists!

Freedom trucks LOL

Great.

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

READ: One month after her release from ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia remains determined to challenge injustice. In an interview with Mondoweiss, Kordia discusses her arrest, the stories of the women she met in detention, and her Palestinian identity. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/ive-...

The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good has been quietly relocated to a different state and allowed to resume work.

Sick fucks

“You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.” Alan Watts

He is destroying democracy the right way.

I've done around 30 of these and this is the first one to really fuck me up. My guy got his removal order >20 years ago but couldn't be deported and has remained law-abiding ever. ICE already did their Gestapo act on him once and now they detained him again, this morning, without notice. Disgusting.

Wait, so they're NOT free speech absolutists?