"Rather than help people they’d sooner see the poor and uninsured die and decrease the surplus population. After all, they have money and world-class healthcare — they’ll never have to worry about being part of the surplus. "
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., bringer of plague and death
“Make America healthy again you say? So open up thousands more hospitals around the country especially in rural areas or towns where private equity is buying them up and stripping them f…
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"The Toddler is much more worried about the Ukraine hitting Russian targets than the aggressor in the war attacking the Ukraine."
Anyone who says the Toddler has made the world respect us is repeating a lie
Maybe they believe it, maybe not, but a lie it is. Take for example, Jared Kushner. It’s bad enough the president sends his son-in-law, with zero diplomatic skills, to negotiate in the Middle…
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The next day, Trinidad police arrested a supporter of Combs for misdemeanor disorderly conduct after he displayed a “fuck bad cops” placard outside city hall. That charge was also later dropped.
Aaron Cynic@aaroncynic.bsky.social · 6d agoIncredible headline here (among other things)
"They mean the fantasy ideal of “family” in their heads: husband working, wife at home with lots of (white) kids, girls growing up carefully groomed to be submissive handmaids, preferably not doing anything Manly like playing competitive sports. And nobody ever gets abortion or birth control."
Undead sexist cliche: Republicans support the family
Republicans and right-wingers have been presenting themselves as advocates for “family friendly” policies since the 1980s. Or I supposed the 1970s, when they presented women’s lib…
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"The assumption women are driven not by rational argument but by things like “social status, popular consensus” is an Undead Sexist Cliche, a variation of the cliche that women are too emotional to think rationally."
Undead sexist cliche: women are sheeple
This is an idea that I’ve seen in multiple different forms, most recently here. This is kind of funny, given the Toddler in the White House devotes endless posts on Truth Social to proclaimin…
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Newsflash: not every "classic" villain deserves a revival.
It's a crazy thought, but maybe some super-villains deserve oblivion ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
A couple of months ago, I cited Flash #209 and Batman #234 as the beginning of what would become a Bronze Age trend — writers using supervillains again rather than “realistic” or …
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"We’re in a war and we’re losing. The economy is starting to reel from the effects of the Toddler’s tariffs. There are wildfires all over the country. But the ballroom is what’s important to him. Well, that and posting non-stop memes online. "
The deranged self-indulgent Toddler president
“Just as Trump so often comes across as a racist’s idea of a black man — lazy, stupid, hyper-sexualized — he also manifests as a misogynist’s idea of a woman, spending two hours a day on his …
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"As I’ve said before, contemplating the reality of sexual abuse and assault is like living in a Lovecraftian horror — accepting the true nature of reality feels insane. "
“If my own country won’t protect me, who will?” — rape and institutional betrayal
Elsie Dominguez, a member of the Merchant Marine, says she was raped by a naval captain in 2021. When she told her superiors she was “discouraged from reporting, dissuaded from seeking medica…
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I couldn't have told Steve Ditko was an objectivist from most of his Silver Age work. This one, though ...
Steve Ditko's final concept for Marvel: an armored objectivist hero called Iron Rand! ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
Okay, I made that up. But I’m sure anyone nerdy enough to hang out here at Atomic Junk Shop knows Steve Ditko was a devout admirer of Ayn Rand’s Objectivist …
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Case in point: a while back, Mamdani announced the creation of a tech office to improve government services. For people who cover govt and tech, this was a legitimately big story. Mamdani even held a press conference and made staffers available for comment. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”
What PIT Crew says about how he is governing, and tech in government
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"we have to keep talking about these rapes over and over and over because otherwise we accept the implicit framing that it’s somehow okay or that there’s some kind of non-legal statute of limitations on holding someone accountable for rape. In other words we normalize it. We normalize rape."
The Trouble With Normal Is It Always Gets Worse - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Earlier today, Paul discussed this LOL Nothing Matters post by Kevin Drum, arguing it was OK that the media was substantially under-covering E. Jean Carroll’s credible rape allegations because nothing...
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Theocrat Doug Wilson, Confederacy sympathizer and professional misogynist, thinks America is both a "creedal nation" based on belief and one where your ancestry determines your Americanness. As described at the link, Mamdani's worldview is closer to the ideals of the American creed than Wilson's.
Zohram Mamdani is better for America than Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson is a slimy Christian theocrat who think women should lose the vote and that marital sex means men conquer, women submit. He thinks race relations in America were best under slavery and …
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Wilson insists that he'd have fought for the Confederacy but totally not for slavery. Dude, there's no difference. But I'm sure he knows that.
Hegseth's Pastor Would Have Fought For Confederacy - Joe.My.God.
MEHDI HASAN: “You said recently to a local news channel that you would’ve fought for the South in the Civil War, for the Confederacy, which lest we forget had 3.5 million people enslaved, had a consti...
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In Republicans' fantasy world, "the uneducated man sees the simple common-sense truth that blacks are inferior, women belong in the kitchen, rape is an attack on men; the elites are out to deny all that with their … facts."
The rottenness and folly of so many of the “elite”
Right-wingers have been sneering at elites for years. The “pointy-headed intellectuals” who had the ridiculous idea Jim Crow segregation wasn’t righteous. The conviction that smal…
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The Phantom Stranger, new and improved!
Stranger in the mirror: the "definitive" Phantom Stranger arrives ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
I put quotes around “derivative” in the title because as I’ve written about before, definitive is a subjective term. Someone like me who grew up with Silver Age Mort Weisinger …
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" Months after filing her sexual assault lawsuit, she and her legal counsel were gobsmacked to find out that the Department of Labor (DOL) determined post-investigation that the rape occurred within her job duties and had to be pursued as a worker’s comp claim " Hulk want to smash now.
Exclusive: Navy Sexual Assault Survivor Forced to File Workers' Comp Claim After Alleged Rape by Captain Exhausts Legal Options
Elsie Dominguez was allegedly raped by her captain while asleep on a ship. She told Military.com she's out of legal options after a multi-year battle.
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Imaginary Republicans "know how to manage the economy, believe in a strong defense and a tough-but-fair legal system. They’re battle-experienced veterans who support the military, unlike the Democrats who all protested the Vietnam War and spat on the troops." And too many voters think they're real
We could use some imaginary Republicans right now
Back in 2004, writer John Rogers mentioned how much he missed Republicans: “Sober men in suits, pipes, who’d nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatis…
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"Who divides work, who assigns authority? Who wields power, and to what ends? What check is there on that power, besides a self-avowed commitment to ‘virtue’ and ‘self-restraint’ —terms that are much more slippery in practice than in theory?” — quoted from Kristin Kobes DuMez
Organization and corruption, the role of women, Natalie Harpe and Very Serious People: it’s a mini-posts Monday
The Amateur Athletic Union was enmeshed in a child sex-abuse scandal 15 years ago. It pledged to put reforms in place but according to Pro Publica did jack shit. You will be shocked, shocked to lea…
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Sharing, as I'm one of the authors. Two stories of mine, "Obolos" and "Backstage With the Hypothetical Dead."
Wandering Grove Press@wanderinggrove.bsky.social · 4w agoHello, everyone! Wandering Grove Press is BACK with our second anthology! This year's theme is "Escape," and we have thirteen great stories for you by seven fabulous authors. You can register now for a 10% discount code and purchase reminder on publication: fractalsedge.net/become-the-s...
As Carney said, US promises are now written in pencil. Even if they agreed to everything, it wouldn't gain them any good will.
Speculation about Homo sapiens magi, DC's magic-using branch of the human race.
My Secret, Entirely Head-Canon History of Homo Magi ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
If you’re wondering how Homo magi, something Gerry Conway came up with in 1979, fits into my Silver Age reread — well, Superboy #175 (cover by Neal Adams) came out in …
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There's something to be said for having a consistent creative team on a comic book series.
Continuity: it matters behind the scenes too ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
There’s no question a lot of the Bronze Age was solid gold. Steve Englehart’s Avengers. Tomb of Dracula. Starlin’s Warlock and Captain Marvel. Plus less spectacular but solidly entertaining books such...
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"Which is the way it always works with the current president: he’s a double-crossing rat and even if you give him exactly what he wants — well, once he’s got what he wanted, he’ll want more."
Where the elite meet to grovel
In 2020 and 2021, Tina Peters was an election-denying Colorado election official. She broke the law by plotting to tamper with election machines. She was convicted, jailed, then recently pardoned b…
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What's that phrase, that sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil?
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · last mo.This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”
