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People Who Escaped Authoritarian Governments Share How They Knew It Was Time To Go Know the warning signs.

It's important to know the warning signs.

(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right." PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

So, the so-called President who “accidentally” sent Abrego Garcia to an El Salvadoran gulag doesn’t “have the power” to bring him back, and the President who imprisoned him there doesn’t “have the power” to send him back?

So who the fuck does?
The Care Bears?
Batman?
What the actual fuck???

Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.

We've gone from "America is back" to "it costs you nothing to lose money" in only 3 months

Jean Marsh
July 1, 1934-Apr 13, 2025
90 years old
Queen Bavmorda, Willow 1988
Mombi, Return to Oz 1985
Tales From the Darkside 1985
The Changling 1980
The Eagle Has Landed 1976
Dark Places 1974
Doctor Who 1965-1989
Magical World of Disney 1961
Twilight Zone 1959

I have lived through unstable economic and political times before. Tariffs and isolationism are breeding grounds for fascism. We are at strong risk of repeating history.

Photo of Torres at his drawing table.

A black and white pinup of Uncle Creepy from Creepy magazine.

The splash page for "An Eye for an Eye," his first solo story for EC Comics. The Comics Code Authority spiked it so it didn't actually get published until 1971.

A parody of the Love Boat called "Lust Boat" from Mad magazine.

Today is the 93rd birthday of Angelo Torres, born April 14, 1932. The last surviving artist to do work for EC Comics, he is probably best known for his several decades with Mad magazine.

He almost put enough gold stuff in the White House to make it look like the Kremlin. Not quite, but he’ll get there.

Thanks to everyone for coming out to C2E2, a great show as always ! Here are more sketches from the show !
@archiecomics.bsky.social

Always great to see multi talented Phil LaMarr at C2E2! @phillamarr.bsky.social

Interesting isn't it that people like Cody Balmer, who sets fire to the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania gets their legitimate due process under the law but Albergo Garcia, who committed no crime gets none. This is America now.

I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.

Will be fascinating to watch submersible technology experts become U.S. treasury and bond market experts in the coming weeks.

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

In an Instagram post, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries backs a ban on stock trading for members of Congress:

Nothing to see here but Florida's royal family laundering public funds into the royal family's campaign slush fund. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

cartoon: Mrs Slocombe speaks to Captain Harlock as Mr Humphries looks on "Excuse me, Captain Harlock? Are you free?"

Cartoon: Are you being served?
Sometimes I feel bad that I seem to have no grand stories to draw, no epic scenes, no transcendent imagery. And then I'm giddy that I can have a silly idea and bang it out in a half hour. Each to our own strengths I guess. The world has room for both :) Enjoy!

This is no longer left vs. right.

It’s democracy vs. autocracy.

Everyone must pick a side.

We choose democracy.

Join us on 4/19.

Now I see why they only let Vance write press releases in the Marines.

If two presidents colluding on TV to resurrect and profit from kidnapping and slavery in the middle of Passover isn't antisemitic I don't know what is.

After a Pesach arson.

We are in hell.

Shapiro arsonist struggled with arrests, foreclosure – and left a violent trail online Cody Balmer, the man charged with the attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro, used social media to repeatedly post anti-government sentiment and memes that seemed to advocate for violent acts.

Before Cody Balmer, the man charged with the attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro, stopped using social media in Summer 2023, he repeatedly posted anti-government sentiment and memes that seemed to advocate for violent acts.

JD VANCE BROKE THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY!!!

These clowns can't do anything right.

We’re sending the guy with 0 felony convictions to a horrible prison in El Salvador and keeping the guy with 34 to run the country?

Insane.

UPDATE: Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg, turned himself in to State Police on Sunday afternoon and admitted to “harboring a hatred” toward Gov. Shapiro, according to the criminal complaint filed Sunday.

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A green alien has captured Wilma underwater and Buck is swimming to her rescue. He and the alien are both wearing glass breathing helmets.

Another plate from Frank Frazetta’s Buck Rogers Portfolio (1975).

Democrats Should Seize Trump’s Tariff Flop The economic chaos is giving the opposition party a prime opportunity to push back against autocracy.

It’s been less than two weeks since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day,” and the president has already literally melted trillions of dollars in American wealth. The majority of the country believes Trump’s tariffs hurt the US economy, while…..

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So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?