I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

STUNNING: Nearly a year since President Donald Trump took office, his education department’s Office for Civil Rights has not entered into a single new resolution agreement involving racial harassment of students, we found.  @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @megomatz.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social

This blew up as much as my frog illustration did. Is there print interest? I feel like I keep making prints of stuff, and people DO keep buying them, but it's honestly hard for me to gauge that sort of thing. Some stuff I work on for months and it languishes in the shop.

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

Most weak-kneed phrase in journalism right now? “Critics say…”

There is actual racial discrimination occurring and people are suffering but sure, let’s focus on the musings of a bunch of elite white men posting from their elite positions about how they are the primary victims of racial discrimination in this country. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

President Trump has every right to change the name of the Kennedy Center. But if a future Democratic president tries to change the name back, that would be completely unconstitutional. by John Roberts

As a white male I can guarantee you that the white males (and to a certain degree, white women) complaining about this are actually upset that they are being treated the same as every other candidate and that being white is no longer their superpower.

While I don't (and have never) rubbed shoulders with the rich/powerful/influential, I can tell you as a middle-aged cisgendered male that I have NEVER been discriminated against because of that. And although I may never know for sure, I wouldn't be surprised if others more qualified than I lost ...

Seriously? This is transphobia writ large. It isn't about medical science, "protecting kids" or any other bullshit excuse. It's about trying to erase trans people from being able to exist in public. I'm a middle-aged cisgendered white male and this is nothing short of outright hatred of "other".

All in the name of "protecting kids" 24 hours before we learn exactly how close Donald Trump was with Jeffrey Epstein

It never was.

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Tell your Senators and Rep they need to support this bill on unmasking ICE and displaying clear ID here:

A hill on which I will die: Calvin and Hobbes is one of the great pieces of 20th-century American literature in no small part because it was never turned into anything aside from a comic strip. Leave it be.

Every major medical group supports gender-affirming care. Congress should listen to healthcare experts, protect trans rights, and stop playing politics with children’s health. I voted NO on this anti-trans bill.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

Trump and Republicans claim they want to "protect children." But they've rolled back child labor laws and environmental protections, blocked gun safety reform, and spread lies about vaccines that save children from deadly diseases. Hello?

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

Gotta love New Orleans

@shayan86.bsky.social If you should start a national sign-up sheet for that, I'd be second on the list.

he can name everything after himself like DC is his own personal failed casino. it doesn’t matter. the moment he’s outta power it all comes down. i’ll show up with a chisel and pry that shit off the building myself.

Don't remember the source for this so, if you know, please add it in a reply. All I remember was something along the lines of "modern-day Joseph & Mary" (sorry, no alt text).

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

It's that they think they're allowed to be evil and not face public scorn.

THIS:

Vaccination is not just a personal health decision. It is part of duty to others.

That part

This is an important read by a researcher who has investigated the many deceptive and harmful practices of unregulated pregnancy centers in the US. It's astounding what these fake clinics are allowed to get away with.

"At just 2 weeks old, Feleena Owens was struggling to breathe. The newborn was coughing so badly, her skin turned a sickly gray-blue color. Her face contorted as she tried to gulp air. 'I think the longest she would stop breathing was about 10, 11 seconds,' said her mother."

MS Republicans are being very quiet today about that "BIG" speech last night by President Grandpa Sundowner Bananapants. You'd think media outlets in the state would be asking them for their thoughts on his ... "address".

OMFG. Any white male who files a complaint alleging this is a pantywaist.

This is getting lost in the news cycle, because everyone moved on from the Jimmy Kimmel story. But this is bad. As you could see in videos of Carr threatening Kimmel, he clearly relishes the idea of being a fascist henchman. He cannot wait to censor more people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...

Only idiots and assholes support Trump.

And guess what? The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!

The ACLU of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against ICE, Noem, and other DHS officials. Susan Tincher, who had her wedding ring cut off by ICE agents, is one of the plaintiffs in the case.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

"we have to keep them away from the children" why? because children aren't inherently bigoted and you need time to plant fear and disgust in their brain?

A hero, someone we can all look up to

How dare they steal our oil and hide it under their country!

A day after 15 people were murdered in the antisemitic attack at Bondi Beach in Australia, the Trump administration enacted a policy which could permit the use of swastikas and nooses If this story seems familiar, that’s because it came out previously and they denied it, then gaslit us about it

I generally avoid commenting about the physical appearances of others but ... damn ... this was funny.

I don’t understand how a guy with 360° peripheral vision can’t catch anyone.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

The Constitution guarantees your right to follow, record, protest, and notify others about the agents and what you see. These are core First Amendment rights, and DHS has clearly ordered its agents to threaten and violate those rights. cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

“But the gays and the transgenders are perverts who want to abuse our kids!”

democracy 🤝 capitalism the feedback loops don't work when the institutions get taken over by people who've achieved escape velocity from the incentives

'Tis the season for the annual sharing of one of my all-time favorite storylines: Jasonezer Scrooge! (1/3) foxtrot.com/jasonezer-sc...