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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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More on freedom, birth control and employer coercion
In comments, Sebastian writes: You’d have to squint pretty hard to get the idea that freedom from state coercion is a general organizing principle of progressivism […] See for example recent progressive discussions about the state forcing employers to provide … Continue reading →
Posted in Economics and the like, Health Care and Related Issues, Libertarianism
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Health care and non-compete agreements
[Written by Kay Olson, and crossposted from The Gimp Parade with Kay’s kind permission]. Two years ago this week I got caught up in a legal dispute that briefly threatened my life. Obviously, I’m still alive, but a version of … Continue reading →
Posted in Disabled Rights & Issues, Health Care and Related Issues
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Pain Medication Comments That Annoy Me
The Agitator is essential reading, one of the best political blogs anywhere. Still, Radley Balko sometimes uncritically parrots libertarian tropes. Government Evil! Liberals Stupid! For instance, today he posted this libertarian boilerplate: Alternet publishes article calling for government monitoring of … Continue reading →
Posted in crossposted on TADA, Health Care and Related Issues, Whatever
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We Are The 99 Percent
Hey, you busy? Not doing much? You feel like sobbing like a baby? Then read the We Are The 99 Percent tumblr. It’s just a collection of personal stories from people who have worked hard within this cruelly rigged system … … Continue reading →
Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Economics and the like, Education, Health Care and Related Issues
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It’s Not My Business
It should come as no surprise — though it should shock anyone with any decency — that the Tea Party fanatics would applaud the idea of letting the uninsured die: ‘Let Him Die’: Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers This is … Continue reading →
Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Economics and the like, Health Care and Related Issues
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Dudley Clendinen on dying and on choosing not to extend his life
Writer Dudley Clendinen is dying of Lou Gehrig’s Disease, or “Lou” as he calls it. He’s written an excellent short essay about the experience of dying, and on his decision to not extend his life. Here’s a sample from his … Continue reading →
Posted in Health Care and Related Issues
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Computer Decides That The 4th Circuit Will Decide In Favor Of Individual Mandate
In other news, a computer’s random selection of judges — two Obama appointees and a Clinton appointee — has pretty much guaranteed that the 4th circuit court will say that the individual mandate is constitutional. (Our judiciary is now so … Continue reading →
Posted in crossposted on TADA, Health Care and Related Issues, In the news
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Political Cartoon: Health Care and Freedom
[spoiler]The scene: A woman in casual business wear addresses the reader directly. Panel one Woman: i’m TRAPPED in my job, because my kid is sick, and if i change jobs there goes my health insurance! Panel two Woman: i have … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Health Care and Related Issues
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Are Leftist Solutions Solutions If They’re Not Politically Viable?
In comments, I wrote: Barring some truly enormous increase in the amount of taxes Americans are willing to pay — the costs of medicare et al are going to increasingly crowd out other things that I think we should also … Continue reading →
Posted in crossposted on TADA, Elections and politics, Health Care and Related Issues
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You can’t talk about the debt without talking about rising medical costs
Via Andrew Sullivan, I read this article by Anne Lowrey trying to make the deficit understandable by putting it in terms of a household budget. For our purposes, let’s use $60,000 as the government’s income and $85,000 as its expenses. … Continue reading →
Posted in crossposted on TADA, Economics and the like, Health Care and Related Issues
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