Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling

Sunday morning cartoons…

Looks like Elon’s gonna have to go back into the Grok machine and move the wires around again.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

Just keep saying "Zounds! My cell phone battery doth expire!"

In the 90s they colorized old movies to make them palatable to modern audiences.
MY IDEA: An AI company that inserts into older movies, the characters periodically saying things like "Oh, my phone's out of battery" or "I'm not getting any service" so that the plots make sense to modern audiences.

Of course what he means is that she should be grateful to white people.

No one is more contemptuous of their own country than Trump, Vance, and co. They despise its democracy, loathe its diversity, and have literally declared war on America’s own cities.

And we are also reminded on this anniversary that it’s important for famous comedians to accept millions from the Prince to perform for him and flatter him about his free speech principles.

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I don’t know! Maybe Substack algorithm knows nobody would hit it

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Tom the Dancing Bug A Busy, Busy Day in Washington, D.C.

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Lucky Ducky, in “Lucky Loopholes”
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Jimmy Fallon will keep his "head down" in late night's war with Trump: "We hit both sides equally" In an interview on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" promoting his new reality show "On Brand," Jimmy Fallon said that his plan on "The Tonight Show" is to "keep my head down and make sure the jokes are f...

I wrote on @boingboing.net about Jimmy Fallon keeping his "head down"
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“A lot of folks on your side are TOO.”

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

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tbc, I don't think any humorist has an obligation to be political.
But to do mild topical, "political" humor without a point of view in these times -- to make jokes about how Trump's skin is orange, and Bernie Sanders is cranky -- is to normalize Trump's regime and to be complicit with his fascism.

I regret to inform you that I pretty much called it.

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California car wash owner tackled, arrested for "impeding' ICE arrest.
Files a $50 million tort claim

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Cartoon titled "Mourning Monitor" features a soldier in camouflage holding a "Crybully" device, saying, "If you don't cry loud enough, I'm telling your boss." Gravestones behind him are labeled "Some Creep" and "Another Creep." The tone is satirical.

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Watch the clip below and then remember this is the audience that President Sundown is addressing

Erik Estrada clip h/t @franksantopadre.bsky.social

YouTube video by Sean R Hilarious Pictionary Fail Bill Maher Erik Estrada

2. The second is him getting punched in the face by Erik Estrada.
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YouTube video by Club Random Podcast Bill Maher Debates Seth MacFarlane on "The Virus" Vaccine

Just happened upon two Bill Maher clips in satisfying succession.
1. First is him claiming that people who have had Covid have "natural immunity," and so can't get it again. If people got Covid multiple times, he says that's because they were weakened by vaccines.
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You’d think that being rich would allow you to decline morally abhorrent financial opportunities.

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

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