William Burg

I always think of my friend Ground Chuck who was 1 of 3 kids thrown from a truck bed and the only survivor, but traumatized for the rest of his life by the memory and survivors guilt.

It's not a flex; GenXers express our grief through sarcasm. Maybe it was the leaded gasoline. Our horrors were less immediate but more omnipresent: nuclear war, AIDS, the Moral Majority. 24/7 news and watching the Challenger blow up live (which I did) was new. Also, drinking from the hose was gross.

The absence of young people in protests against Mr. Trump’s authoritarianism matters, and not just for crowd counts. The No Kings protesters look like, and in many cases are, the same people who protested during Mr. Trump’s first term in office. But older people with signs are old news in the attention economy. As a result, the No Kings protests have had less effect on our politics than, say, the smaller Tea Party protests during Barack Obama’s first months as president, which helped spark a backlash before the 2010 midterm elections. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/opinion/boomers-protest-trump-gen-z.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k8.ui6r.Ag1dMthOacrp&smid=url-share

If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.

Female Parliamentarians in Iran in the mid 1970's, dressed in dresses and hairstyles similar to styles popular in the USA at the time

If you think women here can't be forced backwards...

These are women in Parliament in Iran in the mid-1970's.

Their decline feels familiar.

A reaction to women having too many rights.
A fear of what was happening to traditional family.
A desire for younger wives.
A closing of the fist.

#Pinks

which makes me wonder if someone has rendered skele-Trump rotting on life support in the Golden Throne, absorbing the lifeforce of millions of social media posters, vs. the WH30K "Thin Elvis" big-golden-shoulder-armor look. And who plays Horus in this analogy?

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

source for all - Adbusters Fall 2024

i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine

"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people

It really is just simple geometry.

You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.

Back in 1986, I offered to run "Paranoia" for a group of airmen at a local Air Force base. They refused to play, stating that being given insane, contradictory, and sometimes suicidal orders, issued equipment that didn't work or blew up, and led by incompetent maniacs was too much like their life.

and for which we are all enormously grateful!

3 locomotives against a cityscape

a close up of a woman 's face with short hair looking at the camera . ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with short hair looking at the camera .

Not sure why they're making a sci-fi movie reference but they are making me visualize a universe where I had 10 middle fingers

Biiig sandwich

More biiiiiiig sandwich

The Corti Special, from Corti Bros. grocery store in East Sacramento. Magnificent gourmet gut bomb/food coma inducing lunch. They choose the meats, you choose the rest.

Federal court blocks new Texas congressional map for 2026 The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump.

Breaking: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms.

Vampire spring: sacrifice & resurrection. Catholic aesthetic

Vampire summer: stifling southern gothic. Anne Rice we love you.

Vampire fall: everything dies & we celebrate it. Not just for witches bitches

Vampire winter: cold darkness & mausoleums. 30 Days of Night

I’m not elaborating further

The reason why socialism is no longer taboo in America is that our elites have successfully rebranded it as “any attempt by the state to function beyond semi-random violence“ while trying to combat it.

I like to call him "Josef Gerbils."

watching these two Christian Nationalists have a conversation and see if you can spot the part where I spit coffee all over my screen.

Scottish Wildcats were, until now, creatures unknown to me. Turns out, they look exactly how you would expect a Scottish Wildcat to look like...

"...it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a river." - Brent Toderian

Really liked this quote and I can imagine it being useful going forward, so I'm posting it for posterity

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers. Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

The Reauthorization of Federal Transportation Programs Offers Policymakers an Opportunity to Improve Effectiveness, Environmental Sustainability, and Access Federal policymakers should consider three strategies to guide deliberations around reauthorization and improvement of Americans’ quality of life.

Suffice it to say, this proposal would be the opposite of what is needed for US transportation policy.

Federal transportation spending has been ineffective, inefficient, and bad for the environment. The Trump proposal would worsen those problems.

US needs a complete rethink of transport policies ⬇️

Look, Vance knows this is false. He doesn’t actually believe it. He has said this outright. For fascist filth like Vance, factual correctness is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it is symbolically correct. It’s vice signaling. Does it accurately represent your imagined fears?

let's, as the kids apparently say, gooooooooooo!

so...ban cars on those routes?

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.

At best, you can irritate a couple of their staffers.