Calvin and Hobbes panel: Calvin looks up at his dad, who is putting on a bike helmet and about to go on a ride Calvin's dad: "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!'"
His plans are measured in centuries
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
This illustrates an imp point that we are trained to ignore in our society: the ways that policies are implemented (or not) determine their impact, rather than the abstract values they purport to embody.
To be left dead by attacks is the natural state of the Middle Easterner, while in the Western culture (also Israel somehow) being killed is a major taboo.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
RFK Jr googling "if you hit a pedestrian do you get the meat"
You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.
Full stop.
"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name
We have to stop this.
theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...
31 years ago today, Krusty the Clown first mentioned saying “the quiet part loud,” an expression which has since gone on to widespread usage.
#TheSimpsons episode “A Star is Burns” first aired March 5, 1995.
We've said it before and we'll say it again: the more money billionaires pour into elections, the richer they'll get.
The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.
Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.
Letting Fetterman score clean dunks like this is a threat to national security
new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
It’s Friday
BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.
Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...
Larry Summers to resign from teaching appointments, relinquish university professorship over Jeffrey Epstein ties
Ten years of debunkings, fact-checks, and explainers. Every one of them has been counterproductive at best and, at worst, helped make him more powerful. There’s a reason for that. And once you get it, life makes far more sense.
Trump doesn’t lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated.
should i get the backup lion, chief?
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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If you threaten to kill one person that’s a TOS violation. If you threaten to kill a million people that’s discourse.
I try to explain to my students Ferdinand Kronawetter's coining of the phrase "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools" in his April 1889 speech in Vienna. Now I can just show them this Elon Musk tweet.
every border implies the violence of its maintenance
Cartoon by
Monte Wolverton
