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In his piece for Foreign Policy published Feb. 24, Swanson wrote that Iran would not capitulate after a bombing campaign, but rather escalate and “target global oil flows and international shipping, sending energy prices up and creating a serious political liability for Trump.” And indeed, Iran has made scattershot attacks on energy targets and others across the region, as well as throttling passage through the Strait of Hormuz by threatening attacks on ships.
Loomer post noting that a government expert on Iran was part of the Iran negotiations.
This guy sounds smart. Laid out Iran's moves with incredible foresight. Too bad he no longer works as the National Security Council’s director for Iran b/c some online nutjob does not like him and that is enough to get experts shitcanned from government these days.
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ANEL 1 Illustration shows Alamar, a dark-skinned man wearing overalls and a hardhat, standing behind a partly built brick wall holding a brick in one hand and a trowel in the other. CAPTION: Alamar came to the United States to find work. Alamar is a brick mason. He works hard and is very productive. PANEL 2 Illustration shows Alamar continuing to work on the wall, while a woman nearby wearing a hardhat checks something off on her clipboard. Behind Alamar, a man walks up carrying a box. Behind that man, a large truck has pulled up. CAPTION: Because Alamar is so productive, people in related jobs, like brickmakers, site supervisors, and truckers, have more work to do. PANEL 3 Illustration shows Alamar, no longer wearing a hardhat, buying groceries from a cashier. CAPTION: All those people, including Alamar, spend money in the local economy, on things like groceries and movies and diners and gas and clothes. All that spending creates more jobs. PANEL 4 Illustration shows Alamar back at work on the wall. Next to him, an angry bald man is yelling. CAPTION: That’s why Americans welcome Alamar with friendship and open arms. ANGRY BALD MAN: GO HOME, YOU *@%#! JOB-STEALER!
Welcoming Alamar
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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, all showing a woman in her thirties in a modest but nice apartment. PANEL 1 The woman pulls back a curtain, looking at the darkness outside. CAPTION: "Negin" - not her real name - lives in Tehran. NEGIN: The situation is so frightening it's hard to describe. Smoke has covered the city. I have severe shortness of breath and burning in my eyes and throat, and many others feel the same. PANEL 2 Negin turns away from the window and speaks directly to us. NEGIN: I ask those who have the ability, especially foreign media, to reflect on this situation. What are people supposed to do under these conditions? PANEL 3 Negin speaks angrily. NEGIN: If someone has a problem with the Islamic Republic government, that's one thing - But not with us, the people! This is no longer just a human rights violation. PANEL 4 Negin sits on the sofa, slumping and looking down. NEGIN: It is truly anti-human behavior. A footnote below the cartoon says "Dialog quoted from "Dark Like Our Future," The Guardian, march 8 2026."
Tehran
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There's an unwritten social contract that Republicans have simply broken with. They don't consider Democrats to be fellow citizens; they might not even consider us to be human.
Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years
Maine’s signage is on point.
Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East.
KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS
I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them
We need to correct this BS by Stephen A. Smith because it keeps coming up.
Lia Thomas was ranked Men's 63rd EISL and 20th at UPenn the year she was on HRT but still required to compete on the Men's Team.
Pre-HRT she was ranked Men's 4th EISL and 2nd at UPenn.
She was NEVER mediocre.
I don't think she's a Nazi, I think she's just legitimately bad at recognizing antisemitism.
Folks did try to.
The emoluments case went to SCOTUS who delayed it for so long that by the time Trump lost in 2020 they didn’t make a decision because they claimed it was moot.
The Roberts court is the most shameful since Dred Scott.
Early 20th c political cartoon depicting suffragettes as dowdy middle-aged women
In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.
#NoKings from the arctic in Utqiaġvik, Alaska the northernmost city in the entire USA!
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, plus a tiny fifth "kicker" panel underneath. All panels show the same scene. Two men are sitting at a bar, nursing beers. The first man is wearing a purple zip-up jacket; the second a green t-shirt. PANEL 1 "Purple" looks suspiciously at "Green" as he asks an unfriendly question; Green replies angrily. PURPLE: Why do you guys hate immigrants so much? GREEN: That's unfair! Conservatives have nothing against immigrants! PANEL 2 Green lists off items on his fingers. GREEN: We're only against immigrants who sneak across the border, because they're lawbreakers. Oh, and ones who overstay their Visas. PANEL 3 Green looks up a bit, concentrating, as he continues his list. GREEN: Plus those here legally as refugees... Student op-ed writers... Those brought here as kids... Latino guys with tattoos... Harvard students... Ones who are only "American" cause they were born here... People who criticize Israel... PANEL 4 GREEN: But other than that, when have conservatives ever gone after law-abiding immigrants? TINY KICKER PANEL UNDERNEATH THE COMIC GREEN: These people should just use the legal pathways to immigration! Which we're closing! CHICKEN FAT WATCH "Chicken fat" is an old-fashioned cartoonists' term for unimportant but fun details in comics. PANEL 1: On a shelf below the bar, a mouse is guzzling beer. PANEL 2: There's a framed picture of Sam Eagle (from the Muppets) on the wall. A highway route sign on the wall says "Route 65 ½." Fry and Bender, from the TV show Futurama, are sitting at a table. PANEL 3: Green is still counting points off on his fingers. To facilitate that, he now has nine fingers on his right hand. PANEL 4: The drinking mouse has passed out.
We've Got Nothing Against Immigrants, Except the Immigrant Ones
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I once read an argument that the biggest change caused by Claremont's influence was making multi-issue story arcs, rather than single-issue stories, the norm in mainstream comics.
I don't know if that's true or not, but the person's tone seemed very certain.
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ANEL 1 Illustration shows Alamar, a dark-skinned man wearing overalls and a hardhat, standing behind a partly built brick wall holding a brick in one hand and a trowel in the other. CAPTION: Alamar came to the United States to find work. Alamar is a brick mason. He works hard and is very productive. PANEL 2 Illustration shows Alamar continuing to work on the wall, while a woman nearby wearing a hardhat checks something off on her clipboard. Behind Alamar, a man walks up carrying a box. Behind that man, a large truck has pulled up. CAPTION: Because Alamar is so productive, people in related jobs, like brickmakers, site supervisors, and truckers, have more work to do. PANEL 3 Illustration shows Alamar, no longer wearing a hardhat, buying groceries from a cashier. CAPTION: All those people, including Alamar, spend money in the local economy, on things like groceries and movies and diners and gas and clothes. All that spending creates more jobs. PANEL 4 Illustration shows Alamar back at work on the wall. Next to him, an angry bald man is yelling. CAPTION: That’s why Americans welcome Alamar with friendship and open arms. ANGRY BALD MAN: GO HOME, YOU *@%#! JOB-STEALER!
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Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks.
The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.
If I were a superhero comics artist, I'd NEVER design a lair like that. Unless I could blow it up on the next page, so I never have to draw it again. :-p
Unspoken: "except for Palestine."
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If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.
That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
The Jerusalem Post @Jerusalem_Post Opinion: The only way Israel can govern the Gaza Strip without becoming an external oppressor of “another people” is to remove “the other people” from the confines of the Gaza Strip itself.
There's a word for this
Federal agents unleashed tear gas on anti-ICE protesters after both of the last “No Kings” rallies, on June 14 and Oct. 18.
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Cartoon showing the head of Netanyahu with his brain exposed. Instead of a normal brain, we see a giant soldier crouching in Netanyahu’s cranial cavity, with the words ‘Total victory’, written on his helmet. Below the soldier are much smaller Palestinian victims, being crushed, with the words ‘compassion’, ‘humanity’ and ‘proportionality’ written on them.
Inside Netanyahu's head. Cartoon from 2024.
#Israel #Netanyahu #empathy
Israel is using the Gaza playbook of mass destruction on Lebanon, laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
The Lee/Kirby/Ditko Marvel comics definitely reinvented superheroes.
Decades later, Watchmen and Dark Knight (which came out concurrently, I think) reinvented it again maybe.
I think you could argue Peanuts reinvented newspaper gag comics.
We need to know how much energy data centers use – and if YOU are subsidizing the costs of Big Tech companies.
Making this data public is the bare minimum.
