“Today, many schools and libraries rely on books from companies like Scholastic Inc.—often filled with confusing, political, or even inappropriate messages for children.”

“Inappropriate messages” like slavery is bad, trans people exist, women are autonomous beings.

L. Louise Lucas tweet showing an image that says "I fill my bong with Republican tears"

Never change, L. Louise Lucas

I mean yeah, that was the whole thing. Marveling that black people use silverware is every bit as racist as claiming they don’t.

“Make the government run well and help people with it” should be good enough, given the alternative of “set everything on fire,” and it’s utterly beyond me why so many people act like it isn’t.

And I’m sick of the idea he’s perpetuating here, that Democrats, and very much only democrats, need to constantly be proposing New Deal-size ideas, but republicans never have to, they just have to show up.

And too online.

We need to crack down somehow on people using the party’s resources but shitting all over it for clout.

My favorite was the time he visited a Harlem restaurant with a largely black clientele, and came back and marveled that they, surprisingly, weren’t eating with their hands and shouting obscenities, and when people said that was really racist, he was like “no it isn’t! I said they DIDN’T do that!”

I try.

And sadly, not everyone can pivot to a second career as their cartoonist wife’s factotum.

We could have.

I stand by the substance of my reaction—“InfoWars is gay” is not a line I would ever have given any character for any reason, and it’s a bit insulting to suggest otherwise.

But maybe I still should have been nicer. He wasn’t trying to piss me off.

Well, thank you for that.

I do my best.

I sort of called someone out earlier because he said something about my work that I strongly disapproved of, and he unfollowed me, and I deleted my post and I feel bad now.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

It’s a really great song!

And if calling someone queer is a joke, then queerness is a joke. Even if you’re making fun of someone’s homophobia.

I know. It makes me not want to live on this planet anymore.

Oh, the fact that Stein is a Russian asset I think is indisputable. I think Putin was directly paying her.

I actually do use my iPad as one of my primary art tools and that STILL pisses me off

Agreed

I complained about it the way I complain about like having to get a colonoscopy.

I don’t WANT to, but that doesn’t mean I don’t understand why I need to. I’m an adult.

And the skies are gray

Hey remember when they were actually arguing that right-clicking was theft?

And this feels like that again.

“Have fun staying poor.”

Actually I do very well, I’ve sold millions of books…how’s your bored ape doing?

Oh, after the dotcom crash, I took ENORMOUS delight in stories of tech bros in Silicon Valley becoming homeless and having to live in their expensive sports cars.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”