Lessons to learn from this to minimize the Feds’ legal justification: Don’t put your hand in the back part of your pants like that. Keep them visible. When asked to step back, take some measurable step back. Consult with local legal advocates regarding contours of lawful protest. Be careful.

Out now! A love letter to the friendships forged at the gaming table 💖💖

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2 TV personalities, 1 a draft dodger, called our military leadership away from their real jobs around the world, at unnecessary great expense, to lecture them on culture. People that have way more military intelligence & experience, including combat.

President bonespurs needs to be told that those are not “his” generals. They serve all the US, including democrats. But he only has incompetent, spineless sycophants who wouldn’t dare tell him the truth. The silence of the generals should be a clue, but Trump is too vain & ignorant to get that.

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.” Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

No Democrat should vote to keep the government open unless ACA funding is restored for the millions of Americans at risk of losing health coverage next year. Remember that this funding is on the chopping block because Trump and Republicans want to give the richest Americans a giant tax cut.

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Happy Stanislav Petrov day! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

I listened to Trump's address at the UN for a while, but the lies, displays of ignorance & narcissism, and insults to friends went from embarrassing to depressing and I had to stop. Some fact checks: www.politifact.com/article/2025...

Trump claims to have lowered grocery prices. Went to the store today - not my experience. Especially coffee & beef. Probably due to illegal tariffs on goods from Brazil…

Health insurance costs are about to rise by a record amount. This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024. Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Can someone please explain to the guy speaking at the United Nations that he did not end 7 wars and everyone knows he is a liar. Oh, he does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. And please, ask him about the EPSTEIN files.

Good news, moron convicted on all counts. I just want to reiterate this was a deranged individual, not part of any group or rational ideology. Do not be blaming groups. Instead lets find common ground. www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n...

Uh, I think I’d like a second opinion.

We have real enemies. Putin, Xi, & Kim want nothing more than the destruction of the US. Our president calls these guys friends and then says he “hates” his “enemies” who are fellow Americans that happen to be political opponents. This should be unacceptable to all real Americans.

Just a few of the Writer Art sketch cards I've drawn at #EdmontonExpo. I'll be in Artist Alley at P26 the rest of the weekend, and have a Star Wars panel tomorrow! Hope to see you at the show!

Read @anntelnaes.bsky.social too! anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-canari...

New week's cover of The New Yorker, "Remote Control," by Barry Blitt.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance. Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna. See how this works?

The overwhelming majority of people living in this country are good & decent. We all (I count myself in there) condemn any political violence. Those individuals that commit ideological violence are rare. There are way more lottery winners.

(1,2) Gun violence affects all of us. Decent and important Americans are getting shot and killed every day. Bullets don't care if you are Republican or Democrat. If people who love Charlie Kirk want to honor him, they should join me to pass The Charlie Kirk Jaime Guttenberg Gun Safety Act.

They should acknowledge the reality of gun violence in America. Stop the inciting language implying his gun violence murder was more important than any other. My beautiful daughter was just as important as Charlie. Let's work together to stop the next one.

My experience of political violence (since JFK) is that the vast majority of attacks are made by individuals that are not part of any organized group. It's almost always done by a deranged individual who acts entirely on their own. Stop blaming groups. Only that one person should be blamed.

I had a lot of Tijuana Brass albums - so glad to see Herb Alpert is still around: www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

'If my story can help someone ... I have won': 9/11 survivor leaves finance to become a nurse www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

The kind of inspiring story we need today (free to read): wapo.st/3VcD6Yf

The 2nd amendment is a single sentence: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Probability & statistics is a difficult & misunderstood branch of mathematics. (Ok, quantum mechanics is way worse, but not going there.)

When my oncologist prescribed just 1 of the 4 drugs to fight my cancer, the speciality pharmacy told me I qualified for a grant that would help with the over $9K a month cost for just that drug.

Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead. Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for

During his first term, Trump launched so many failed "Infrastructure Weeks" that it became a running joke. Now he's taking credit for infrastructure projects he opposed. His whole life, Trump has taken credit for things he inherited — starting with his own personal fortune.

I subscribe to GoComics and Non Sequitur is #1 in my daily list. Highly recommended.

Getting a vaccination isn't just about reducing your chance of getting an infection. It' s more importantly about reducing the chance of you spreading that infection to someone else for whom it could be more serious. Think about others, not just yourself.

RFK Jr. says we can’t trust “experts” because they’ve been wrong in the past. But the alternative is to trust crackpots like him who are wrong all the time, not just once in a while. I’m going with the experts and so should all rational people.

Just learned that September is blood cancer awareness month. The ribbon color for multiple myeloma is burgundy.

My Labor Day story. The summer of ‘72 after my 2nd year of college, I got a job on a road construction crew putting in a storm drain system in my home town (www.town.boonsboro.md.us). It was over $3 an hour, so it helped with the following year’s tuition.

Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Only 12 hours left for the Trans Lifeline fundraiser in my store! I'll be donating 100% of the profits of ALL Valiant Comic sales through midnight! A great time to check out Faith if you've been meaning to! You can also take 15% off all Valiant Comics with code LIFELINE. ko-fi.com/jodyhouser/l...

If I was to claim I could look at children & see “mitochondrial challenges” or differences between vaccinated & non-vaccinated, I would be referred to psychiatric care, because that's insane. Our HHS secretary is saying things like that and Trump is fine with it. We are truly in an idiocracy.

Today's shop update: A bunch of Star Wars variant covers and one of my early anthology projects, Rise: Comics Against Bullying! Less than 36 hours left for the Trans Lifeline fundraiser!

If you want to be good at something, you have to be willing to be bad at it first. And you can be bad at something and still have a lot of fun doing it. (Also, I'm tempted to keep this Abstract Hair Padme... it's the best one I've done of her so far).