A.G. Pasquella

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Apparently slicing them like that makes them cook faster!

It’s been a while since I had a street dog, but they often cut ‘em like that

I’m with you, though: if I’m the one cooking them, I’m just gonna grill ‘em & eat ‘em

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

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United States - 643k

Meet Tim Dunn: the ultraconservative billionaire pastor spending millions to protect his oil – and elect Trump The Texas fossil fuel mogul has poured nearly $30m to drive the state legislature to the far-right, and now the evangelical Christian wants to spread his ideology to the federal government

It’s not impossible. But she’ll have to carve her way through the Texas Oil Billionaires and their money💰

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State Rep. Gina Hinojosa wins the Democratic primary for Texas governor and will face current Governor Greg Abbott in the general election.

By the way, Democrats have now flipped 27 legislative seats in Trump 2.0.

Republicans are still stuck at zero.

Even in 2017-18, the GOP managed to flip a few. This time, just a goose egg, despite several good chances.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

By doing this, Paxton is hurting urban GOP voters who are more friendly to Cornyn, but he is also hurting Black voters in the Democratic primary.

This is a preview of the sorts of things you may expect him to try to do in a general election.

me: starfish

Scientist: not a fish

me: jellyfish

Scientist: not a fish

me: seahorse

Scientist: fish

Multiple counties in TX have different polling locations for Dems and GOP. Reports all over the place of no lines at GOP polls and 4hr+ lines at Dem polls (w broken machines at some). Texas isn’t red, it’s stolen.

Trump helps MAGA influencers flee Middle East war zone on private jet Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dogwalker Sarah Daither, former lobbyist Jay Footlik, and others managed to escape on a private plane thanks to the White House.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

A weird red and brown Easter egg-shaped thing called “Spooky Meat”

This is an item in a point and click adventure game I’ve been playing

I wish more of the public understood that Premillennialism has driven GOP support for Israel over decades. Bibi/Israel's' Right Wing has used this to maintain US support across party lines.
Conservative Protestants through white Christian Nationalists support a Israel to bring on the end times ⬇️

The Texas Supreme Court getting involved here is dirty, dirty, dirty

This is the weirdest World War ever

It really is amazing that Ken Paxton is running for Senator instead of rotting in prison

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The race has been called by Cook Political. Texas State Rep. James Talarico will be the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas.

Republicans have caused total chaos in Dallas County. It's instructive.

Whether or not Trump attempts some sort of executive order to nationalize election administration, Republicans have an endless number of paths to create absolute mayhem in November.

Looks like Matt's' original comic, except instead of moving through the panels, he steps out and walks above them to the last panel...

constraint is zero gravity - so we see matt and Jessica and the house floating in zero gravity

this one is drawn in the style of Giovanni De Luca and using the now-called "de Luca effect" where multiple images of the same character appear in a single panel

this one is drawn in the style of family circus, complete with the dashed line for the movement of Matt through the comic

bonus 3/2: a couple ones from past terms... These are so good - show off things we learned in class and bring students' own experiences and ingenuity to them always!

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for but all the objects, lines, etc are made of distorted versions of a drawing of Matt Madden!

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for but in addition to Matt doing the looking there's a ghost following him around and yelling at him!

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for all in the style of Megg and Mogg by Simon Hanselman

an 8 panel comic where a person is looking for something in the refrigerator and can't remember what he's looking for but the entire comics page is made with one single, continuous line

In which my intro Making course adds a new page/constraint to Matt Madden's brilliant 99 Ways to Tell a Story. This first one "ALL Matt" just blew my mind, and some really smart/inventive/skillful approaches here. We do it every term & Ss always come up w/things I've never seen before... 1/2

This deserved a loop. Pete Hegseth smashing his own nuts with a skateboard. Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and ...

Master tactician Pete Hegseth reveals his Iran strategy

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Supreme Court Declines Case on Granting Copyright to AI-Created Art A piece of AI-generated art is still the subject of a prolonged legal fight, 14 years after its creation.

Tiny bit of good news here!

"AI creations cannot bear copyright" is a really excellent middle ground between corporate AI maximalism and activist calls for banning the models.

If AI generated stuff can't be copyrighted, this substantially reduces corporate demand.

And you're right about the mystery. It took me several days of bouncing around like an emotional pinball before I was like, OHHHH

Last time I had one I said to my buddy, "it feels like there's a rat in my brain!"

All the jitteriness and agitation of hypomania except without the creative drive, mixed with the bleakness and despair and darkness of depression: UGH!

Luckily for us, it will pass. Hang in there!

UPDATE: there’s an entry about the rat hole of Chicago!!!!!! This book is incredible!!!!!!!!!

us military.... innocent children

Beat me to it! 😄

But surely they can just shitpost through it, right?

Right?