HUMAN TRAFFICKING by the tRump administration.

Believe it or not, anyone can have a disabled child. It is not a personal failing. It is not a thing people bring on themselves. Disability is normal part of being human. Society could do a better job of accepting this & set up communities in a way that acknowledges this fact of life.

When Reagan took office, he removed the solar panels from the White House that President Carter had installed. The next Democratic President needs to raze this goddamned "ballroom", restore the Rose Garden, and install a new solar array. #FuckFascism

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Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

‘Nuff said.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

President Donald Trump's airstrikes against civilian boats in international waters are raising the alarm of lawyers who work within the Department of Defense.

More fascist censorship from the party that claims to support "free speech."

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Sturm & Sutphin’s WATERSHIP DOWN adaptation wins French critics comics award James Sturm and Joe Sutphin’s adaptation of Richard Adams’ 1972 novel Watership Down was announced as the sixth recipient of the Association of French Comics Critics and Journalists' (ACBD) annual Prix Comics award

I feel like my favorite Robert Redford movie is the one that introduced me to him as a kid, ‘The Natural.’ What a great actor and an activist for the filmmaking and for the Earth.

Only one of these left. Then it's back to work on the migration. I'm hoping Ghost goes live at the end of next week, and that will be a complete wrap on Substack for me.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

In 2020, the LAPD met with AG Barr to discuss the protests in LA. A major chuck of the presentation was about Antifa's presence at the protests. The FBI evaluated 500 arrests and found none of them had ties to any Antifa "extremist" groups. Slides below, obtained FOIA, highlight the convo:

I have zero desire to mock the death of Charlie Kirk. I have immense desire to call out the hypocrisy of those who want Netanyahu to “finish the job” & kill every Palestinian while mocking them as they suffer genocide—then getting upset someone laughed at Kirk. White supremacy is a helluva drug.

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Countdown to school kids being taught slavery in the antebellum South was a myth begins.

For the umpteenth time: Today’s Republican Party does not believe in, and cannot handle, free speech.👇

Storm by Nick Runge #xmen

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

White Guy = Rogue, Mentally Ill, Acting on Their Own, We'll Just Never Know Why Everyone Else = Representative of their entire race, kind, gender, orientation, creed, religion, etc.

The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

“How the fuck can you be a ‘free-thinker’ if you’re all talking about the same three things?!” - Marc Maron, re: ‘Anti-Woke’ comedian bros.

As a sci-fi geek, I like the idea of robotaxis, tho' their implementation and impact are complicated and problematic. Case in point: it's frustrating that, once again, when it comes to transportation, disabled people — particularly wheelchair users — are left out in the cold.

rewatching this episode of the Twilight Zone where a man becomes obsessed with getting advice from a demonic fortune telling machine until he can no longer make any decisions without consulting the machine. for no reason in particular.

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LOL if Bill Clinton is wrapped up withEpstein related crimes, I would be delighted to see his dumb ass yeeted straight into a federal facility.

For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

Your dumb comics (no matter how dumb) can help someone through a difficult time. I got a clear and moving reminder of that in Portland from a reader I met outside of the context of the con. It's that kind of town. Don't give up. Keep making your dumb comics!

I'm glad Ezra Klein wrote this, and he's totally right on the path forward. Because of his positioning as an establishment-friendly centrist liberal, maybe Dem leaders will listen, which would be great.

Instead of trying to rein in Trump’s authoritarian urges, the justices have become his accomplices. Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump insisted the note did not exist, calling it a “fake thing.” Well, the note does exist. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The same Supreme Court that just acted overnight to unleash ICE raids that break apart families and brutalize people in LA, couldn't find the time in 2024 to fast-track Jack Smith's case against a sitting president for trying to overthrow our government. Their priorities tell you everything.

The conservative (and racist) Supreme Court justices have just endorsed Trump's secret police (I.C.E.) kidnapping and disappearing people with no due process, simply based on the I.C.E. thugs' racist presumptions of who looks like an undocumented immigrant.

I'm demanding the Department of Labor reverse its failure to protect federal contractors with disabilities, a violation of both law and basic justice. Rights and protections are not given nor handed down, we must stand and fight for them.

I concur. RKF Jr. fights like hell for quackery. Democrats need to fight like hell for science, health, and rationality.

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.

Take off that Cavalry hat, you draft dodger. You didn’t earn the right to wear it. Stolen valor at its worst.

Trump and his MAGA/GOP cronies are cosplaying as strongmen, fantasizing about being "warriors" while being afraid of anything and anyone that isn't a soft, milquetoast white supremacist. Who coulda guessed that when fascist authoritarianism came to the USA it would be so dumb and childish?

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Nothing like living in a country in which you’re more scared of the medical bill than the actual diagnosis.

Here is an old drawing of a mouse driving a shoe I drew for you in 2011.

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I don't want him to die. I want him to live for years, knowing he was removed from office for being a crook and a fascist, the laughingstock of the entire world, preferably in a prison cell.

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.