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I consciously choose to focus most of my comics on long-term social justice issues, rather than commenting on current news stories. But sometimes it feels impossible not to comment. There’s a supporting blogpost and transcript about this cartoon here;...
by Barry Deutsch
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on Thu May 09, 2024 at 07:53 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I live reasonably close to Columbia University. Over the years, on my daily walks, I’ve often wandered through the gates of its...
by TomDispatch
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on Fri May 03, 2024 at 05:43 AM PDT
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Fee Cost Tuition $65,340 Mandatory Fees $3,060 Average Room and Board Cost $16,800 Books and Personal Expenses $3,742 Total $88,942
by Alan Singer
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on Wed May 01, 2024 at 01:56 PM PDT
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The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts, � an ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun May 05, 2024 at 11:59 AM PDT
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A recent TikTok post from Joy-Ann Reid pointed out that the police and university leadership reaction to the student/professor ceasefire protests is our path to fascism. Fascism: Police reaction to student ceasefire protests Watch Politics Done Right...
by Egberto Willies
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on Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 01:14 PM PDT
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The language police have become mall cops. It’s been a week with police riots at colleges across the US: Emory, GOP photo-ops in NY, and everywhere there are Clint Eastwood central administrators yelling “GET OFF MY LAWN”. Darn that intersectionality...
by annieli
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on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 02:41 PM PDT
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As Israel’s genocide against Palestine continues to escalate, students from universities across the United States are leading campus protests en masse and demanding their respective schools divest from corporations and institutions linked to Israel’s...
by VPSReports
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 04:29 AM PDT
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Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 pm�— in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers ...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 05:57 AM PDT
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When I see a car with bumper stickers that let everyone know that the car owner fawns over all police, I wonder if that car owner is sincere or if those bumper stickers are simply being used as a tactic to butter up the police so that they won’t write...
by Perlinator
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 07:32 PM PDT
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A cartoon by Clay Jones.
by Clay Jones
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 03:50 PM PDT
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Cartoon by Tom Tomorrow. As always: if you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, Sparky’s List! You can get it in your inbox or read it on Patreon, the content is the same. And...
by Tom Tomorrow
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on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 04:59 AM PDT
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Late afternoon Monday last week, New York police officer Jonathan Diller was no doubt looking forward to going home to play with his little boy before bedtime. Then, while dealing with what seemed a routine matter, the 31-year old was shot and killed....
by Alan Austin
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 03:46 AM PDT
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A cartoon by Clay Jones.
by Clay Jones
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 04:55 AM PDT
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If you are like me, you will need mental health breaks to maintain your sanity this year. For my part, I am starting my day with a great song, working alphabetically by song title (note: this does ...
by libertarianheretic
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
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My neighbor across the street has an outlet on her front porch. She uses it to plug in her Christmas lights in the winter, and her lawnmower in the summer. In November Nicki, another neighbor, was using it to charge her phone. Nicki works at the...
by MeJean
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 02:22 PM PDT
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Let’s start with a somewhat disturbing punishment: The parents of murderous school shooter Ethan Crumbley have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter, first the mother in February, now the father. The case was prosecuted by Oakland County...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 05:05 PM PDT
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Hollywood came to a grinding halt today. Not for the 2024 Oscars ceremony at Dolby Theater— but for a pro-Palestine protest that marched on the Oscars. Activists chanted in support of Palestine and demanded an immediate ceasefire and end to Israel’s...
by VPSReports
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 07:08 PM PDT
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I’m sure that America’s police are as sickened by mass shootings as the rest of us, if not more so. They have to actually deal with these senseless tragedies time and time again. Nevertheless, many (if not most) police officers tend to vote for the...
by Perlinator
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on Wed Feb 14, 2024 at 06:13 PM PST
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by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector
Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody did not remember the Miranda warning when he forced Marion County Record newspaper staff out into the nearly 100-degree heat ...
by Kansas Reflector
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 01:59 PM PST
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NOTE: I have been accused of plagiarism and violating the rules of the road on Daily Kos, and I have been told to edit this story in two hours. Otherwise, my breaking of the rules of the road would be reported to the Help Desk. In all honesty, I did...
by Merlin196360
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 10:05 AM PST
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