Preventing children and an entire population from receiving medical care and aid is tantamount to mass murder.

I like to think he’d appreciate how many people are quoting his famous elongated expletive

Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”

Colored a festive @cliffchiang.bsky.social

A lot of Third Doctor love in the air at the moment. Here's a homage to the great Countdown/TV action strips I did back in the day #doctorwho

The current big drama in the increasingly stupid western comic book world: DC released cult classic title Warlord on a (more expensive) paperstock that matches original newsprint, giving a more accurate coloring. Collectors are review bombing in outrage because they think glossy = more expensive.

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

This is about elections.

U.S. could block asylum on public health grounds under Trump regulation reut.rs/4pY83x9

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

this is big, and it’s wild that it needed to be crystallized into law. the 2022 anti-homeless craze that afflicted blue state govs and mayors was (and is) so callous and murderous.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

extending lab leak to the spanish flu is fucking wild, tbh

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Let’s remember that if you reside in: New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, or Washington- come January 1, 2026 Medicare patients will be piloting a prior authorization program that not only utilizes AI as a decision maker, but that also gives vendors financial incentive to deny services…

Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.

“'The bottom line is that removing the 935,000 Venezuelans and Haitians would cause the entire economy to contract by more than $14 billion,' said Michael Clemens, a professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum... cc @piie.com

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Hohoho! I drew this year's holiday card for my art rep, Felix Comic Art. I wanted the recipients to get something that looked like a piece of vintage original art, but also couldn't help poking some fun at Felix's love for Dark Knight Returns.

Everyone should read this week’s WSJ story on Trump selling pardons. It’s some of the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen—you can literally corner him at one of his lame parties and walk away with a pardon. How is this not the biggest story in the country?

Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .

Delete that shit right now friends.

Setting aside the many MANY MANY MANY ethical issues around digitally puppetting the dead and constructing unauthorized facsimiles and theatre in court... An AI avatar cannot be held liable for perjury and cannot be relied upon to represent an uncompromised source. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.

This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient. The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

The DOJ lawyer who cleared the way for this abortion ban is Josh Craddock, a fetal personhood devotee who believes the 14th Amendment requires states to ban abortion. He also wants to revive the Comstock Act: ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

when some people choose between a weekly injection or daily pill to regulate their hormones so as to align their body with their desired appearance i guess it's no big deal

1. New federal rules were released last week banning gender affirming care for youth at hospitals nationwide. Those rules don't go into effect until public comment, months from now. But it appears Sec. Kennedy is using an arcane process to try to implement them immediately. Our latest story.

2025: America watches Canadian bootlegs of journalism about US concentration camps. Nothing is for sale, everything is for rent. Computers will take your job but will be worse than you at it. You make less than ever but can gamble on your credit balance. One racist ket addict gets paid $1 trillion.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it

Trump's DOJ is trying to overturn D.C.'s ban on assault weapons ... while claiming to be SO concerned about crime in the District that it must flood our streets with National Guard troops. I think a president worried about D.C. crime would not be trying to arm criminals with especially lethal guns?

Bloomberg Analysis: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access." GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I received a commission request to combine several, let’s say…big-boned heroes into a group called “The Rotunda.” The person requesting wanted them rushing out a door. He included, “I was thinking it might be insensitive, but since I am on the rotund side myself, it’s probably ok.” Fair enough!

"If the standard for airing a story becomes, 'the government must agree to be interviewed,' then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from being an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state." Sharyn Alfonsi

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"

got my adhd upgraded to ad4k

"GenAI will be here forever" is the same implicit threat as "Microplastics will be here forever"

The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE. www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...

I honestly still can’t believe they did this it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried

As the fascist Project 2025 promised, RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recs for most childhood vaccines, leaving it "to doctors and parents." RFK's anti-vaccine policies will result in predictable outbreaks & resurgences of deadly diseases. We will all suffer the consequences. This is Structural Eugenics.

I feel like this should be bigger news? Trump says he’s effectively done with his legislative agenda, the White House then begins to panic over the midterms, and now there are rumors of a much bigger focus on “law and order” heading into 2026. The implications are pretty dark.