Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
06.03.2026 18:00
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons
We're in court today asking a judge to block a new Kansas law that invalidates the IDs of transgender people and allows anyone to sue a person they suspect of being trans for using public restrooms.
This law has been wreaking havoc on trans people and we're demanding an immediate end to it.
Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.” www.wired.com/story/jack-d...
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
He doesn’t care about you. He never has.
Karoline Leavitt says American boots on the ground in Iran are "on the table"
Why not both?
Live music options in NYC, March 1976
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
NOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
Americans watched as federal agents killed two Minnesotans.
Now their families have to watch Kristi Noem continue to lie about it.
www.nbcnews.com/video/noem-a...
Over a month has passed since we demanded information about the Minnesota children held in federal detention facilities. We have not received a response.
We will not stay silent while Donald Trump and Kristi Noem imprison children.
www.fox9.com/news/gov-wal...
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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Jesus. F*cking. Christ.
This is now giving me poser worries, since my three favorites are daydream nation, dirty, and experimental jet set, lol. Apparently, I’ve got some listening work to do!
oopsie there goes $270+ million, literally vanished into the air
“Three U.S. jet fighters were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, U.S. Central Command said. The six crew safely ejected from the F-15s.”
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Soooooo good.
Gas could reach a national average above $3 per gallon for the first time this year, as analysts anticipate crude oil prices will jump next week.
Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:
"At the precise moment when music was becoming synthesised and digitised and sampled, Tom Waits insisted on its traditions of heavy lifting. 'Anyone who has ever played a piano,' he liked to say, 'would really like to hear how it sounds when dropped from a 12th-floor window.'"
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
Trump administration officials declined to affirm states’ authority to run elections during a private meeting with state election chiefs Wednesday, according to an election official who was on the call. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.
Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
"From his discographic beginnings in the downtown New York scene in the late 1970s with Material and Massacre, and working with, among many others, Brian Eno, Ginger Baker, Laurie Anderson, Fred Frith and John Zorn, Bill Laswell has created his own musical universe."
