Category Archives: In the news

Cartoon: The Post Office Is Dying!

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Cartoon: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Cartoon: Looters!

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Cartoon: Top Ten Reasons We Take Kids From Their Parents At The Border

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Cartoon: Our (Shit)Whole Immigration Policy

A new cartoon on Spliter today! If you enjoy these cartoons, and you can spare it, please support my Patreon! A $1 pledge means a lot. This is definitely a strange month for me! Normally four out of four cartoons … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Ten Reasons We Want To Kick Out The Dreamers

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Cartoon: Run Them Down

This cartoon appears today at The Nib. If you like these cartoons, please support them at Patreon. Even a $1 pledge means a lot to me. Transcript of Cartoon Panel 1 shows a white man wearing a collared shirt and … Continue reading

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It’s Gross to Use Otto Warmbier’s Tragedy to talk about White Male Privilege

Otto Warmbier was a 22-year-old American who, early in 2016 was convicted by a North Korean court of stealing a poster. He was put in a North Korean prison, until he was returned to the US in a coma on … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Muslim Ban

IF you like these cartoons, please support them at my Patreon. This is another one inspired by current events (as I’m sure you’ve already figured out). The point being made – that folks favoring the Muslim ban because of terrorist … Continue reading

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Goodbye to SEK

Scott Erik Kaufman, a writer at Salon and other outlets, and a blogger at Acephalous and Lawyers Guns and Money, has passed away. I was never lucky enough to meet SEK, as I thought of him. But he was an … Continue reading

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