Fire Kash Patel?!! Don't be ridiculous! Trump would no more fire Kash Patel than he'd have Jeffrey Epstein murdered, or give Ghislaine Maxwell a sweetheart deal, or help Bolsonaro evade prison, or be Putin's mouthpiece...

Trumplican? I see no reason to create a new name. TRAITOR is fine.

FYI: The CDC is now a subdivision of QAnon...

Just for comparison's sake...

Fair warning: I have the artist. I have the resources. I have the time. Details to come, but, unless there's some severe change between now & then, I'm launching a Kickstarter comics project sometime early Spring. (Format may change, but staring down a 64 pg one shot at the moment). /1

I have very few complaints about Bluesky... but it needs to double the allowed number of characters per post, & add an edit function. Like tomorrow. (Okay, okay, by Christmas. A wonderful present for all us users.)

This is crazy, sad & priceless, exemplary (in the worst sense) of Trump-branded marketing scams: "BREAKING: Trump’s “Made-In-America” MAGA phone scam explodes as delivery date passes WITHOUT A SINGLE SHIPMENT. /1

Interesting that Trump is now claiming El Salvador's running a "Terrorist Prison Camp" for the USA, when it has always very obviously been a concentration camp for "illegal aliens" (tho' we don't know for certain b/c there was no due process to establish their status* or alleged crimes)...

Typical Trump behavior: word has it he wants to fire all the people who deliver bad economic news to him, like it's THEIR fault. On the bright side, he reportedly also plans to fire Pam Bondi & Kash Patel, b/c they're too embarrassing even for him... Hopefully, the list doesn't stop there...

Currently: highest unemployment rate since 2021. (But don't worry: Trump assures me $2/ gas is right around the corner...)

The key accomplishment of Trump's 2nd term: make any aspect of our government that was the envy of the world - including (especially?) the presidency - an international laughing stock...

Reminder: knowing how to schmooze when face-to-face does NOT make someone (of any gender) "a nice guy"...

I'm wondering if Kegseth is hell-bent on going after Mark Kelly because he outranked him. Small men do that kind of thing.

Not that it's funny, but Trump's term really has become an Orwellian sitcom. He makes an absolute policy statement, gets pushback, then makes a totally different statement that's suddenly what he'd decided on all along...

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Notice how no one ever uses the word "nonconformist" anymore, & if they do they usually put snark on it. Nobody wants that, they only want conformists; they just quibble about the parameters. Conformism is tribalism, & tribalism is for suckers.

To the extent Trump even has an economic philosophy, it's that the rest of the world NEEDS the USA & we don't need them so we get to call the shots. But they don't, we do & him playing chicken w/our economy is just convincing them to make other arrangements that don't include us... /1

If Pete Hegseth - like any other federal official, elected or appointed - cares about ANYTHING more than defending the Constitution, he declares himself unfit for his job & needs to step down immediately.

Rumor is hordes of GOP members are SO pissed off with Trump constantly treating them like his serfs (&, I'd guess, constituents treating them like monsters) they're considering following MTG's lead & resigning. FINALLY, if inadvertently, serving their country...

VIRTUE SIGNAL WARNING: I stay off social media on Sundays. Just for the hell of it, nothing to do with religion.

"Timothy Snyder: Russian invasion is on a world war scale, but Ukraine alone is fighting it, keeping us in a 1938-like historical moment" #BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe. Stand With Ukraine 💙💛 #You'reNotAlone

So, I chatted with Ronald Fleming about the 15-year-old @crazy8press.bsky.social and, of course, the current Thrilling Adventure Yarns campaign over at @kickstarter.com (60% funded and rising). If you're still on the fence about the campaign, check it out. fantasticcomicfan.co...

Coincidentally, next week I’m going to start a serialized “how I make comics” feature on my Patreon, and it goes into my ridiculous career path, to start with.

Wow. The wrestler Sting's son looks so much like him it's ridiculous...

Today's mystery mail: Conversations With Denis Kitchen, ed. Kim A Munson (University Press of Mississippi, $25), a collection of interviews with a largely ignored but pivotal figure (full disclosure, sort of a mentor) in comics history. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/C/Conv...

Happy JFK Assassination Day!

Hey, so if folks are interested in Black economic thought, may I suggest the Review of Black Political Economy? It's a journal that features lots of Black policy and economic research. It's existed since 1970. The work in this journal is under cited, but shouldn't be. #econsky #blacksky

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@jordanharper.bsky.social Heh. Remember I asked if your next book is a fantasy novel? Turns out Kindle's shoving some other Jordan Harper, whose first volume of a romantasy trilogy is about to be published, at me b/c I bought The Last King Of California through them... & it's still trying...

Nice of MTG to complain that the gov't no longer works as a reason she's quitting The House in Jan, since she did everything in her power to make sure it didn't work...

Now that the press is going on about how Mamdani walked all over him, expect Trump to start vengeance-tweeting at 4AM sometime this weekend...

On the "trumped"-up subject of trans athlete superiority in sports: (This one's worth reading.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Now that the Alt-Reich is trying to panic maintain that 15 year old girls are actually women who are perfectly legal to "have sex" (ie rape & molestation) with, how much further will they go when the focus starts falling on any 13 & 14 year olds involved?

Not that I'm expecting it, but, following this weird co-appearance with Mamdani, it'd be funny if Trump starts embracing liberal causes now b/c he thinks it's his road back to popularity after his horrific week...

Really, anyone NOT see Hegseth's hand in trying to normalize white supremacist hate symbols in the military, starting with the normally ridiculously innocuous, frequently overlooked Coast Guard? It's a logical extension of "anti-wokeness," which was NEVER about combating "divisiveness"... /1

Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start

The Congress has deliberately made itself irrelevant. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

JD Vance was hand selected by Jeffrey Epstein's collaborator Peter Thiel, he's a replacement part incase Donald Trump doesn't make it his full term. Not a real politician or serious person, just a stand in for a South African billionaire and an Israeli-Russian pedo network.

Trump's the architect of crazy nonsense economic policies driving most Americans further into debt & toward poverty, & he enabled lots of idiocy to destroy Americans' health & safety, & he has unleashed kidnapping thugs on the public... /1

Considering the directions he's been treading the past few months, Trump ought to be careful about calling for restoring the death penalty for treason. He's only a Supreme Court decision away from something like that coming back to pretty seriously haunt him...

It'll be interesting to see how many MAGAs are stupid enough to "generously donate" to Trump's "anti-impeachment fund" w/o realizing a) Trump's been (illegally) raking money in hand over fist since he regained office & b) Dems just don't have the numbers to impeach, so there's no impeachment threat.

South Park really isn't that far off reality on Trump and Vance.

Swiss businessmen gave Trump an engraved gold bar worth more than $130,000. Then he agreed to cut tariffs on Swiss imports. bit.ly/4oV46sG

Now can we do a discharge petition to abolish ICE/CBP, the terrorist, kidnapping, human-trafficking criminal organization that has repeatedly defied federal court orders, violates Constitutional rights, and violates human rights ON A DAILY BASIS? Where is the nationwide outrage here? WTAF?

This story is begging for more attention

It has gotten to the point where you can't even be sarcastic about Trump caught lying AG-GAIN!!! w/o people interpreting it as shrugging it off. So let me rephrase: /1