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I started work on this 2021 cartoon on November 28, 2006. (Or at least, that's when my computer tells me this file was created). I had the idea and wrote a bunch of panels, but I wasn't happy with them, so I left it in my folder of unfinished cartoons....
by Barry Deutsch
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on Mon May 06, 2024 at 10:44 AM PDT
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by Michael Strickland Update. The Mississippi Governor was called out: Update. Thank you DRo: The Untold Herstory Grace Wisher was a free African American woman who was indentured as a child to the famous Star-Spangled Banner flag seamstress, Mary...
by The Book Bear
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on Sun May 05, 2024 at 01:01 PM PDT
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By Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Thursday a measure restricting curricula for educator preparation programs and courses, essentially removing theories ...
by Florida Phoenix
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on Sun May 05, 2024 at 02:59 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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April 27, 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the end of legalized racial oppression in South Africa — known officially as “apartheid.” However, most people still don’t know the name of an important anti-apartheid hero — a man named Dimitri Tsafendas;...
by ClareXanthos
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on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 01:47 PM PDT
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A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
by Pedro Molina
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on Sat Apr 27, 2024 at 03:50 PM PDT
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This week, Texas Gov. Abbot and other Texas Republicans are talking about banning trans and gender nonconforming people from teaching. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested that he wants to end transgender and gender nonconforming individuals from...
by Barry Deutsch
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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… … … … SPOILER ALERT! You know that opening scene in The Letter, that movie made in 1940, where some man comes stumbling out onto the veranda of a bungalow after a shot has been fired, with Bette Davis coming right behind him, pumping him full of lead...
by disinterested spectator
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on Sat May 04, 2024 at 05:54 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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I haven’t been closely looking into conservative claims of an ‘immigration crisis’ on the Mexican border. I know the situation is a mess, but after 20+ years of immigration panic, I have no confidence that they have any concerns that I would share, or...
by AChris
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 01:43 PM PDT
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I discovered this story because of this video between Dr. Rashad Richey and Journalism Student Juan Villasmil on the issue of CBS new policy on DEI.
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by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 09:12 AM PDT
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I posted a meme showcasing the acknowledged two-tiered justice system, most of it divided by class and race, that has always existed in America. A follower on one of my social media threads gave me considerable pushback from the meme. It seems some...
by sepiasiren
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 03:38 PM PDT
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This story was first posted by maggiejean on 4/15. Story number 12 in the overnight news digest. www.dailykos.com/… An Ohio man was charged with murder after shooting a Black ride-share driver in an unprovoked attack, following the most recent string...
by Kevo2007
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 01:59 PM PDT
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This is one of my personal favorite cartoons I've ever created. The little mini-panel at the end still makes me giggle.
by Barry Deutsch
40 comments
on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 11:13 AM PDT
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America has a long history of creating second-class citizens. In 1807, New Jersey removed the vote for women and free people of color. In the 1820s and 1830s, the Court decided that Native Americans no longer owned their land, once it had been...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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One of the many things I’ve learned here on DK is that there is a rule (of thumb)�about asking a question with your title.� Basically the rule says you already know the answer to the question.� ...
by rflctammt
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 07:11 AM PDT
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Here’s how I first heard of O.J. Simpson: I was eight years old, and I’d never watched a football game before. My parents were white middle-class left-wing intellectuals, and disdained spectator sports. I was at my friend Kenny’s house. I knew Kenny...
by YellowDogBlue
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 02:08 PM PDT
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Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, the right-wing fraudsters who orchestrated a robocall campaign targeting Black voters in seven states during the 2020 election, have agreed to pay $1.25 million in a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James....
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 06:32 AM PDT
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Reposted from My Substack. Biden-Harris HQ @BidenHQ Trump calls for mass detention camps and rounding up millions of Latinos, saying it will be larger than a 1950s military operation called “Operation Wetback” 7:38 AM · Apr 4, 2024 “We’re going to have...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 09:11 AM PDT
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Black-majority Newbern, AL hasn't had local elections in 60+ years, a federal suit might change that All of us here at dkos are fighting to protect and strengthen our democracy, especially with this year’s high-stakes national elections. But the fight for democracy is also going on at the state and local level, and I wanted to lift up an appalling...
by davidkc
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 11:01 AM PDT
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