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An Anti-Trans Argument that's Identical to an Anti-Choice Argument (and why it's wrong)
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Cancel Culture, Mimi, Jimmy, and Cowards At The University of Tennessee
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Cartoon: The Post Office Is Dying!
If you like these cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps (plus, just as a matter of philosophy, I love the idea of earning a living through small donations from … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., In the news
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Cartoon: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If you like these cartoons, help make them happen by supporting my patreon! I don’t think there’s anything I can say about Justice Ginsburg that her many admirers haven’t said this week. She was an amazing woman, and the world … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, In the news, Supreme Court Issues
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Cartoon: Looters!
Help me make more cartoons by supporting my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps. I usually post my cartoons on Patreon a week or two (or more!) before I post them in public (like on “Alas”). It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, In the news, Media criticism
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Cartoon: Ten Reasons We Want To Kick Out The Dreamers
If you like these cartoons, please support them at Patreon! A $1 pledge really matters to me. I do a fair number of cartoons about immigration, because it’s an issue that drives me up the wall; the anti-immigration position seems … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc, In the news
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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
Posted in Cartooning & comics, In the news
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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
Posted in In the news, Korea, White Privilege
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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
Posted in Bigotry & Prejudice, Cartooning & comics, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc, In the news
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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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