Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd)

Today was March 11th, I hope the color of your energy was amber today

Whole thing should get moved to a different country, and the Olympics should follow suit. Not that they ever will.

Iran's sports minister: “If any other country were to host the World Cup and did even one-thousandth of what they did, the international community would definitely take action and take the hosting rights away from that country.”

He's absolutely correct!

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Will certainly trust your recommendation, thanks for the suggestion!

I really loved that movie but always felt like I was the only one who ever saw it, let alone heard of it

Good on you for this focus, Justin.

Jam or ketchup or ritual sacrifice remnants?

Cannonball's solo got first place in her dance competition, and Torpedo played very well in her soccer game, so I'm just one proud dad tonight

What is a trainstorm?

(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)

True Art

It's not a work day that involves being a professor, I'll tell you that much

Took me way too long to realize the numbers are page numbers, and not the age you are at that stage of life

Be grateful that your face isn't in each of your comics and your readers can watch you age in real time

That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers – as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers – Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating. This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education: Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.

The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. “Jay” Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the school’s entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. “They were just ‘salt of the earth’ citizens,” he later wrote. “They were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.” Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield. Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangers’ job was to stop black students from enrolling. As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students. That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.

The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium. When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions: Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks? Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light? Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Most of their trans coverage for the past decade, and if you aren't aware of that, then one could argue you're willfully ignoring or openly supportive of their coverage on it

Priorities, priorities

The world is bad and a certain government in particular is awful, but Cannonball placed third today in her first ever competitive dance solo, and Torpedo's team won their first indoor soccer game this season, so everything is bad but there were some nice moments today, for us, at least

I remain ever thankful that I switched into Mr. Curry's "America Since 1941" elective a month late in my last semester in high school

Well...

So you support the killing of school girls in an elementary school? In what possible way does that serve anyone's interests? Do you even hear how monstrous this sounds?

Do some goddamn more than just this, Senator

If anyone in a position of power actually ever stood up to these monsters. Anyone.

New thing will not be new STW but will certainly have elements of it. Students are helping me and they seem very excited about it as well!

That's really kind of you, thank you! Pretty sure I made that comic with my tongue ridiculously stretched out, and then started teaching as a professor within days.

I love when people's favorite examples of creative work are ones that the creator appreciates but would never have come up with themselves as their top works. It speaks to something about the human connection on both sides of creative work, something that soulless AI-generation can never understand.

A trusty, old, six foot tall, heavy as hell, real slate chalkboard

Cleared out the space in front of it for the first time in 8 years. We're gonna do a thing.

A bipedal red fox paints a rainbow across the sky. They have a determined look on their face. To the right of the rainbow are segments of text from newspaper articles about grim news for LGBTQIA+ folks, especially trans folks. On the left, there are flowers on the ground, with butterflies flittering about. The discouraging words are illegible faint smudges. Artist: BriarhideIllust

Persist against all odds

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Fun fact: Mark's sister has ALSO appeared in a different Dropout series - as the acting Provost of Bucknell that answered an email from Ryan Creamer in his Smartypants presentation!

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten