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AKA Cangal_39 Thornback, Antifascist, Bad Crip "Make it accessible or burn it down" - GP She/Her Dogs ♥

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? By me and @mikelawred.bsky.social Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

Panel 1

The year is 2024. A WOMAN and a MAN sit at a table in a coffee shop, looking at their phones.

WOMAN: The Supreme Court says no official act by the president can be a crime! Can we call it fascism yet?

MAN: Of course not. Don’t be hysterical.

Panel 2

The year is 2025. The WOMAN and MAN stand outside in snowy weather; the woman is pointing to something on her phone.

WOMAN: ICE invaded Minneapolis! Masked government agents are kidnapping people! Can we call it fascism now?

MAN: No! It’s bad, but let’s not exaggerate.

Panel 3

The year is 2026. The WOMAN and MAN sit on a park bench. She reads from her phone.

WOMAN: The White House says it’ll eradicate “Antifa militants” and ignore civil liberties. Can we call it fascism yet?

MAN: Enough with the doomerism!

Panel 4

The year is 2030. Armed, armored government troops stand nearby. The WOMAN begins to speak, but the frightened MAN stops her.

WOMAN: Can we—

MAN: Shhh! Do you want to get us arrested?

Cangal 😷@cangal.bsky.social · 9h ago

In Gaza City, a funeral for 112 family members takes place 3 years after their deaths www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

After 3 years of searching for remains of 112 relatives, families in Gaza City finally lay loved ones to rest | CBC News

Nearly three years after more than 100 of their relatives were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, surviving members of the Abu Sharia and Hasayna families say they're relieved to be able to ...

cbc.ca

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h ago

@hurwitz.bsky.social called it:

Can opposing data centers help progressives win?

A Sunrise Movement cofounder says the issue unites people across the aisle. He’s not the only one.

motherjones.com

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h ago

The voters have spoken: Data centers suck.

This data center foe just won his Democratic House primary in Michigan

Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawerence will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in November.

motherjones.com

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 11h ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Cangal 😷@cangal.bsky.social · 10h ago

RIP One of the true greats of journalism. Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92

Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson, who covered everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during 35 years as chief anchor of CTV National News, has died. He was 92.

ctvnews.ca

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · yesterday

ThisIsFine.Gif

The growing risk is not just to Ellison and Oracle, but to the U.S. economy itself.
The A.I. boom has been driving the entire U.S. economy. Since the release of ChatGPT, A.I.-related stocks have been responsible for as much as 75 percent of the returns of the S&P 500, and data centers now account for a vast majority of America’s G.D.P. growth.

Oracle and the other hyperscalers also now dominate the debt and equity markets, and investors and analysts are increasingly asking whether the huge investments being made in A.I. are sustainable and will ever return the promised profits.

Americans are more heavily invested in the stock market than ever before. By one estimate, an A.I. crash could wipe out $20 trillion in American wealth — far more than the dot-com crash in 2000 or even the 2008 financial crisis.

Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 2d ago

New from Andrew Joseph Pegoda: In an attempt to overcomply with Texas law, the University of Houston will eliminate over 100 women's studies, gender and sexuality courses from the core curriculum. It won't be enough to appease extremist Republicans.

University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed

College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.

texasobserver.org

Chris Kluwe, Candidate for Assembly District 72 @kluweoc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Don't let the midterm creep up on you. Register to vote now by following a few simple steps. Check out the link in our bio to complete your voter registration! #oc #ca #GOTV #vote #ad72 @chriswarcraft.bsky.social

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · yesterday

This should be much bigger news

Screenshot of article text:

But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots-and anyone else within hundreds of miles-unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain.
There were no survivors.
The accident marked the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the United States. But it was just one of a string of recent disruptions across the world. The skies are more

Gail Waldby ❌👑@gailwaldby.bsky.social · 2d ago

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · yesterday

I like the concept of sufficiency being added here because it does open the door for a discussion of CripTax. CripTax is, basically, when it costs a Disabled person more to live at the same or equitable level of comfort as a non-Disabled person.

Basic Income Action ↗️@basicincomeaction.org · 2d ago

What actually counts as basic income? The most comprehensive definition — 7 tenets: universal, unconditional, uniform, individual, cash-based, periodic, sufficient. Read it here → basicincomeaction.org/about?tab=de...

Cangal 😷@cangal.bsky.social · yesterday

Interesting way of honouring your veterans, USA.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

Cangal 😷@cangal.bsky.social · yesterday

'War zone:' Bradley Creek wildfire destroys 230 homes according to initial estimate www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/...

'War zone:' Bradley Creek wildfire destroys 230 homes according to initial estimate

UPDATE 10:50 a.m. The Bradley Creek wildfire has torn through parts of the Okanagan Indian Band, leaving a path of devastation that Chief Dan Wilson describes as "a war zone."

castanet.net

Sue Gawley @suegawley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Librarians are heroes.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3d ago

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Barry Lyndon LaRouche @colfer.bsky.social · 3d ago

See also

Should it really be a crime to look at child pornography?
Rod Liddle
Tue 14 Jan 2003 09.12 GMT
& Share
wanted to look at some pictures of child pornography from the internet this week and then tell you all about them, but I couldn't because my stupid modem broke down. I'm not sure how the law or, for that matter, society will view my failure. The intent, clearly, was there. In mitigation I suppose I could say I was planning to do it all on your behalf and would gain no pleasure from the operation myself. That's what I could say. In which case perhaps the policemen should turn up at your house instead.

Nick Chainey @nlfg.bsky.social · 3d ago

Come on, Ben. This isn't about "disagreeing" He put this in print, FFS. bsky.app/profile/samo...

Sam@samomar.bsky.social · 3d ago

Here's some of his work

THE SPECTATOR

I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids. It seemed to me virtually impossible not to, and I was convinced that I'd be right in there, on day one. We're talking secondary school level here, by the way dabbled much below year ten, as it is now called. I just thought we ought to clear that up early on. At my old comprehensive school a few teachers were known to be schtupping the pupils; one of them, a female teacher who was extremely foxy in a Pot Noodle scuzzy kind of way - she copped off with some fifth-form lad, and another teacher (a man with a guitar and a and even then I don't think I'd have

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 2d ago

"speak no ill of the dead" is an ancient Roman superstition, not a moral principle I am not a bit worried about being haunted by the vengeful ghost of gutter racist/Child Sexual Abuse Material apologist/wannabe rapist/untalented writer Rod Liddle

Connie @bethechange1682.bsky.social · 3d ago

They’re using the same Covid playbook for everything now. “They had underlying conditions” All systemic problems are now being addressed through individual methods and if you get sick and die, it’s your fault.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 2d ago

The look everyone’s talking about can now be yours: show your support for trans youth now ➡️ hrc.im/transkidsbelong 🩵🩷🤍

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 3d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 2d ago

By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social #Policartoon

This cartoon has four panels, plus an additional tiny “kicker” panel under the fourth panel. Each panel shows the same man talking directly at the reader. He has neatly combed blonde hair with a full beard. His outfit says “rural salt of the earth by way of L.L. Bean.”
PANEL 1
The man is talking cheerfully to the readers. Behind him is a quaint small town street lined with stores.
MAN : I tink the best of America is in the small towns – the wonderful little pockets of what I call The Real America.
PANEL 2
The same man, but now he’s suddenly standing in front of an enormous pile of garbage. Rising up behind the garbage pile, we can see a group of ugly brown high-rise apartment buildings. A large plume of smoke (we can’t see from what) rises into the sky.
MAN: Elite liberals are destroying America with their terrible “New York” values. That’s why their cities are burnt-out shells!
PANEL 3
The man is suddenly much closer to the viewer, yelling, eyes bulging. Behind him we can see a chaotic jumble of big-city ills: A red-eyed rat, buildings on fire, a grocery cart filled with someone’s possessions in bags, a syringe, another pile of poop, and a person wearing a mask and a black hoodie who is about to throw a flaming Molotov cocktail.
MAN: DEM CITIES ARE DISGUSTING, RAT-INFESTED HOLES THAT NO HUMAN COULD LIVE IN!
PANEL 4
The man is suddenly on a bucolic, hilly farm. The man, no longer in tight close-up, is grasping his hands together and looking a bit upward, almost like he’s praying; he has a sad expression, and a single tear falls from one eye.
MAN: And why do coastal elite snobs say such hateful things about their fellow Americans?
TINY KICKER PANEL UNDER THE BOTTOM OF THE STRIP
Barry the cartoonist, raising a finger to make a point, is talking to the man from the strip. The man has a “I’m so above this nonsense” smug expression, eyes closed.
BARRY: Don’t you live in a coastal city? And didn’t you go to Harvard?
MAN: In my heart I’ve always lived on a farm.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Who am I to believe? TV stars or pediatricians?

Not so mild?
Hospitalizations
exploding among Utah infants, children with COVID-19's omicron strain
For kids under 5, the omicron variant is not so
"mild," one pediatric expert says.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

Covid was- overwhelmingly- not a threat to children. Hence why (generally) we don’t vaccinate them now.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

Why would the good people of Wisconsin want to buy data centers from an Albanian

Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 3d ago

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 2d ago

look, if fear of having everyone on the internet celebrate your death by bringing up every bad thing you’ve done is what it takes to stop people being cunts while they’re alive, i say let’s give it a go

Cangal 😷@cangal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Greece battles massive wildfire as hot, dry summer maintains its grip on Europe www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

Greece battles massive wildfire as hot, dry summer maintains its grip on Europe | CBC News

A record-breaking hot and dry summer tightened its grip on Europe Monday, as water-dropping planes swooped over a major wildfire in Greece, firefighters in France sought to stabilize a blaze in Proven...

cbc.ca

Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 3d ago

You're Not Fat, You're Beautiful By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry

Transcript of Cartoon
Panel 1

A fat woman is shopping in a clothing store, flipping through dresses on a rack and looking annoyed. A thin woman beside her, trying to be reassuring, touches her shoulder. A little lightning-bolt like zap emanates from the thin woman.

FAT WOMAN: Why don’t they make nice clothes for fat women?

THIN WOMAN: You’re not fat! You’re beautif—

THIN WOMAN: AAAAGH!

Panel 2

A city skyline. Lightning-bolt like "zaps" are emanating from two different places in the city.

VOICE 1: You’re not fat, you’re bea— Ow!

VOICE 2: You’re not fat, you’re— GHAAAAH!

Panel 3

A hand holds up a phone showing a nervous looking TV news anchor.

NEWS ANCHOR: Scientists are baffled by a sudden plague of minor but extremely painful shocks whenever anyone says… uh… never mind.

Panel 4

Two women sit at a cafe table. One looks at her phone, talking to the fat woman from panel 1, who smiles contentedly.

FRIEND: You had one magic wish you could have used on anything, and this was your choice?

FAT WOMAN: No regrets.

Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d ago

Fascists will gleefully take from you your ability to accurately describe a thing as experienced. They will poison your language so you cannot talk about your experience in general and of their violence in specific. Given this, why would I comply by accepting their poisoned meaning of words?

Cangal 😷@cangal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wine and Emily Watkins are the opposite of fun, and I'd ban them for anyone.

The Guardian
The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I'd ban them for anyone over 12
Emily Watkins
Get your balls, pucks, Scrabble boards and packs of cards away from me - all I want is space to be together, ideally with a coffee or a glass of wine
Sat 1 Aug 2026 09.00 CEST
Image includes a photo of Emily Watkins with harsh red lipstick and ratty-looking long hair.

Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 3d ago

remember how Riley Gaines’ swimming coach raped a bunch of her teammates? then when her career path became TV Nazi she defended him and he claimed he was being targeted for standing up against trans women in sports? anyway she cares deeply about women and girls being safe.