Laurence Ballard
@laurenceballard.bsky.social
Don't like bullies, busybodies, name-takers, list-makers, or self-selected moral scolds. “Den sterkeste mannen I verden er den som står mest alene.” - En folkefiende, H. Ibsen https://bio.site/LaurenceBallard
www.advocate.com/politics/nat... “…decorated service members are subjected to proceedings ordinarily used to remove troops accused of drug abuse, domestic violence or theft.” #Republican pigs at work.
Decorated transgender troops endure closed-door hearings with foregone conclusions in Pentagon purge
Trump’s Pentagon is using secretive separation boards to remove service members whose records prove they can do the job.
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Todd Blanche Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
It Wasn’t a ‘Civil War.’ It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o... “Civil War” is no name for a war waged by slaveholding traitors against the USA to hold Black Americans in human bondage. Now 165 years since the war, we should be honest about how we hold its memory.
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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www.joemygod.com/2026/08/airl... Thank gawd. This obnoxiously entitled peacher is just lucky we normal passengers can’t open a window at 35,000 and chuck chatty Cathy out.
Airline Bans "Sky Evangelist" For Annoying Passengers - Joe.My.God.
The Washington Post reports: Florida evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith, a trend that was featured in a recent Washington Post article. On Thursday, ...
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Dwindling Munitions Support editorial cartooning—follow my work and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com
Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.
DENZEL WASHINGTON: “What’s the definition of a ‘Hollywood actor? I don’t know what ‘Hollywood’ means. I’m a Stage actor who does Film.”
Acting status The Contrarian by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
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*Also remember Trump initially had Mike Pence do these briefings until he realized how much press his VP was getting. Then Trump took them over.
paulpro@mariopro.bsky.social · last wk."The President has turned his coronavirus briefings into an odd varitey show. Here's a close-up of his cast of characters" @anntelnaes.bsky.social offers another wonderful illustration TRUMP: “I wanted to always play it down I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic”
Munitions by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
Munitions
We've run out
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Trump attacks the Smithsonian for not portraying history the way he sees it anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-orde...
Our AI Future Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
Half of Americans say they’re having trouble paying for gas and groceries. Their president and the ruling Republicans don’t seem to care much, much less be willing to do anything about it.
🔴 This week’s comic now up on @dailykos.com - 🦆🐕 Lucky Ducky gets even luckier! - www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Tom the Dancing Bug: Lucky Ducky gets a new mission!
Cartoon by Ruben Bolling.
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France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
Where is the lie? "And why the distraction from Rand Paul who is a nut and the left"
Truly. Nobody has the right to gatekeep a fellow New Yorker from attending this. Stop with the racist bullshit, already.
www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/... Moral busybodies: Nobody died and put you in charge. Mind your own business; keep your phones in your damned pockets.
The Horrible Rise of the Makeout Police
A year after the Coldplay incident, another couple is going viral for PDA.
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www.alternet.org/bears-ears-t... Trump: “You can’t do anything. You can’t go hunting. You can’t go fishing. You can’t do anything. You can virtually not even walk on it.” Hogwash. All this pig does is lie—from his marriage vows to the Presidency.
Most Utahns wanted to protect their history — but Trump had other plans
A majority of Utah’s residents opposed shrinking Bears Ears National Monument before President Donald Trump drastically slashed its size last week, according to multiple polls conducted over the past ...
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Trump ripped up NAFTA, replaced it with USMCA, then ripped that up too. Markets have little reason to trust this president's signature. So Canada should judge any deal by whether it serves their interests now. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/should-canada-answer-trumps-tariffs
www.advocate.com/opinion/rich... Trump’s sloshing sack of ambulatory lipids sez wot?
Richard Gere told the truth about USAID. Trump’s bully answered like a schoolyard bigot
White House communications director Steven Cheung reaches for a juvenile, 40-year-old sex fiction to criticize an actor’s defense of USAID, writes John Casey.
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Distraction clown Hill Times by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
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