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Should white nationalist libertarian plutocrats have major power in the federal government?
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- Untitled September 6, 2024A Concise History of Keeping The Immigrants Out Transcript and blogpost (featuring Becky’s thoughts on drawing this #PoliCartoon and some of her research photos): https://www.patreon.com/posts/concise-history-111121390 If you enjoy our cartoons, a $1-3 pledge really helps there be more! patreon.com/barry
- Untitled September 6, 2024Weird headline: "Harris ran her office like a prosecutor. Not everyone liked that." I mean, duh: No boss in a highly stressful job is liked by "everyone." But the article isn't anti-Harris. Goofy headline aside, it paints Harris as a tough, smart, knowledgeable and engaged boss. archive.ph/WZmJ9 https://archive.ph/WZmJ9
- Untitled September 6, 2024Trump lies about his sanctions record. No President has ever used sanctions more, and Trump never once lifted sanctions. (Sanctions are awful under Biden, too, but Trump is even worse on this issue.) https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/trumps-sanctions-lies
- Untitled September 6, 2024You‘ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? (Probably I'm dead meat, but at least my kidnappers/murderers are certain to be caught.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled September 6, 2024I saw the author of the book on the left claim that the poster on the right, for a Netflix documentary, is a rip-off of the book cover. And... How? Why would anyone think that the one on the right ripped off the one on the left? They're entirely different images, moods, and layouts.
- Untitled September 5, 2024Or imagine having bigots take my cartoons and relettering them to be "bigotry yay!" cartoons. But I don't have to imagine it, because it's happened at least a dozen times. I still think copyright law is way too all-encompassing and should be, not abolished, but scaled way back. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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If everyone demanded a jury trial, the system would crash
All of this short article by Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow) is worth reading, but here’s a highlight: No wonder, then, that most people waive their rights. Take the case of Erma Faye Stewart, a single African-American … Continue reading
Posted in crossposted on TADA, Prisons and Justice and Police
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Link farm and open thread: Noseface edition
Above: A drawing from my sketchbook. Click to see it bigger. I highly recommend this long article on corruption in US politics by Ezra Klein, reviewing a book by Larry Lessig and talking about the problem with money, lobbyists and … Continue reading
Posted in crossposted on TADA, Link farms
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Why Immigration Hasn’t Hurt Native Wages In California
The Economist’s Wil Wilkinson reports on new research from California (the state with the most immigrants). If it were impossible to tell immigrants and native workers apart — had they no differences that matter to the job market — an … Continue reading
Posted in crossposted on TADA, Economics and the like, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc
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An Increasingly Rare Open Thread
Sorry I’ve been so inactive on “Alas” lately. It’s a pretty simple math: 10-12 hours a day spent working on Hereville means less time (and, probably more importantly, fewer spoons) for blogging. My deadline for this books is August 6th, … Continue reading
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On “After-Birth Abortion” and the “woman? what woman?” argument
Academics Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva have been getting headlines (and, horribly, death threats) for publishing a paper arguing that infanticide is morally identical to abortion and so should be allowed. I read about the paper via Jack at Ethics … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, crossposted on TADA
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Ten Responses To The Phrase “Man Up”
I loved this video of Guante performing: A transcript of the video is available on Guante’s website.
Posted in crossposted on TADA, Men and masculinity
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Political cartoon: See Sue Run
[spoiler] PANEL 1 See Sue (Illustration of small white girl in pigtails running. This is Sue.) See Sue run. PANEL 2 See Sue run to public school. (Illustration of Sue running towards brick building.) Go, Sue, go! PANEL 3 See … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, crossposted on TADA, Economics and the like
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9th Circuit Court Rules That California’s Proposition 8 Is Unconstitutional on narrow grounds that won’t apply outside California
[I know Myca also posted about this, but I think my post provides some additional information, justifying the overlap. –Amp] You can read the ruling (in pdf form) here. On a first glance, I think there’s an aspect to this … Continue reading
Posted in crossposted on TADA, In the news, Same-Sex Marriage
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Washington State Could Have Marriage Equailty Law Within Weeks
From KIRO TV today: Washington’s Legislature has enough votes to legalize gay marriage with a statement from Democratic Senator Mary Margaret Haugen Monday who said she will support the measure, becoming the 25th vote needed to pass the bill out … Continue reading
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