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This cartoon is by me and R. E. Ryan. Transcript, comments, and a blog post about this cartoon are here, and I’ll also post the transcript in comments. I make a living because of hundreds of supporters pledging low amounts - $1-$3 - and that's just how...
by Barry Deutsch
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on Fri May 03, 2024 at 10:29 AM PDT
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Computer and mobile phone users worldwide remain at risk of financial fraud, romance scams, identity theft, and other harms perpetrated by malicious hackers, IT security experts warned earlier this month. Flaw-riddled software sold by famous vendors...
by Wilson Dizard III
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 08:17 PM PDT
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I did not comment on Black History month this year. I celebrated instead by reading “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” created by Nikole Hannah-Jones. Practically none of what I read was taught in several high schools and the few colleges I...
by 40ford
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on Sat Mar 23, 2024 at 03:34 PM PDT
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Could the 2024 CPAC conference be even more toxic, paranoid, hateful and undermining of the actual values of our nation’s Founders? I don’t think so. An Alabama judge who is happy to appear on a QAnon nutcase’s show has abandoned any pretense of...
by HJCV
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on Sun Feb 25, 2024 at 05:57 AM PST
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What happens in Florida doesn’t stay in Florida: Bill limiting DEI initiatives at Kentucky colleges amended to include free speech training This is the same shit that has been going in Florida under fascist Governor Ron DeSantis. And the Kentucky...
by Merlin196360
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 02:51 PM PST
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History was always my Dad’s thing—which I tried to ignore—,but he kept at it, never missing an opportunity to tell some old story he felt important. After his funeral, we went up on Author’s ridge in the cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, and we all...
by CorpFlunky
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 09:02 AM PST
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To understand where the Trumpers come from, you must factor in America’s real history as well as its fabricated one. American history as taught to the average working American has always been a Disneyland affair, dating back to 1776, when a progressive...
by psychusa
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on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 03:08 PM PST
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Reposted from My Substack By vast numbers, most Americans agree with the predominantly Democratic position that we should maintain a separation of Church doctrine and State governane — and yet we still have loud and vocal movements to restore prayer in...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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By now we’ve all been subjected to Nikki Haley’s fabrications regarding America’s past. “We’ve never been a racist country,” she insisted, even as she has acknowledged the racism she has personally experienced. “The intent [of America’s founding] was...
by Mercy Otis Warrens Ghost
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on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 11:45 AM PST
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In Iowa on 1/4, an ostensible POTUS hopeful/realistic veep wannabe claimed no small degree of solidarity among herself and some “Black friends” from her grade school days (see “’Painful’: Nikki Haley slammed for using ‘Black friends’ defense after...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 01:05 PM PST
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Via Rollingstone. Former South Carolina Governor and current presidential candidate Nikki Haley insisted on Tuesday that America has “never been a racist country,” before claiming she had experienced racism in her own life. Speaking to Fox News the...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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Ben Carson stumped for Trump in Iowa on Thursday. Sadly, he dashed any hope the man had gained wisdom since his unexpectedly long-lasting primary campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. A run that saw him win more votes and delegates than...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 10:10 AM PST
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The former guy recently claimed that Lincoln could have negotiated away the Civil War and that TFG could have done so if he’d been there. To start, let's compare the dates of Lincoln's election to office, the date he was inaugurated President, and when...
by jtg
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 11:38 AM PST
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Reposted from My Substack Another day, another stupid ridiculous fucking statement from Donald John Trump. Spouting nonsense every day is a regular occurrence from the great orange poltroon, but this is a whole new level of rank bullshit. Responding to...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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[NOTE TO READERS: Yesterday the US Supreme Court agreed to review the recent decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald J. Trump from the Republican primary ballot under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment (the “Disqualifying...
by dratler
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 01:18 PM PST
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Revisionist History Runs Riot because to the GOP and Tom ‘Future Guy’ Cotton, Trump is a necessary Evil like Bleach-Light-Covid-Camera-Television. As if Confederate soldiers weren’t fighting to achieve a separate and independent country based on what...
by annieli
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on Thu Jan 04, 2024 at 12:40 AM PST
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Link to Part 1 of this Diary — (Re-Post) About Those New Year's Resolutions — The Week in Editorial Cartoons, Part 1 As always, I’ll post more editorial cartoons in the comments section of the diary. Thanks for supporting this diary series. Sometimes,...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 04:03 PM PST
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When you’re running as many cons as the Republican Party it’s hard for its intended victims – the poor and middle class – to keep up with them. That’s why it’s important to look at two events in the news recently: Nikki Haley’s stupendous failure in...
by RickElia
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 05:29 AM PST
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Nikki made an icky………. This much we know. The thing that baffles me though, is that as a studied and (so far) successful pol, Haley could have side-stepped that question any number of ways. But she chose to answer it (IN A NORTHERN STATE) by attempting...
by AlyoshaKaramazov
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 05:19 AM PST
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Sometimes, at family events, I am grateful when someone behaves horribly. That takes the focus off of me and gives everybody something else to talk about. If Uncle Winthrop (not his real name. His real name is "Rodney") gets drunk and starts showing...
by daylin
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 10:37 AM PST
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