they'll do it because they hate you. or the signup bonus. or they care more about clocking out and making the marvel movie on time more than your humanity. or they're in debt, behind on rent and can't risk it. you'll do it for one of these - we all already are! this is the foundation of our society!
perfect representation of the vicious asininity of our persecution and the banal mechanisms of its implementation: these regular-ass people, the staff at the dmv, dutifully inflicting whatever absurd degradation they're told, no matter how blatantly, cruelly pointless. would you do that? will you?
It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer.
In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)
Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
it’s burned into my brain that in the midst of his state getting ransacked and his citizens getting shot in cold blood, Tim Walz said he wanted ICE to carry out their enforcement at night when less people would be around. he likes tom homan because homan will do evil but in a quieter way.
the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing.
they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran.
for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation
ourselves a self
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier
really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying
Congratulations Substack on your new partnership with Polymarket!
And to those publishing on Substack, is this really the tool you want from the folks who take part of your revenue?
"This Cat Was Special"
This is my second favorite piece ever and I want more people to see it. This took MONTHS to make so I literally can’t afford to make this kind of stuff often. If you wanna see more of this idk, let me know or buy a print.
"it's a distraction" = "i don't feel personally affected by this". also we're all one medical emergency away from living on the streets if we aren't already there so who the fuck is even needing more 'distractions' at this point. they aren't distracting you they just want to kill everybody
Call your senators. Call your house reps. 5calls can make it extra easy and you can look up “Iran” as the keyword and find a script that will augment Celeste’s nicely.
Look, if I can call my California dem senators and leave shaky voicemails at 1 AM you can too. (Hopefully less shakily.) Love you.
Schumer, also, does not oppose the Trump administration's war with Iran. He just wants them "to be straight with Congress and the American people about the objectives."
There is no effective opposition to this war.
@RepJeffries on X: Donald Trump promised to keep America out of costly and endless foreign wars. He is now doing the exact opposite in the Middle East. Congress must vote on a War Powers resolution immediately. 28 Feb 26
While Republicans fully support Trump's war with Iran, Democratic leaders do not oppose it. There is no effective opposition.
Hakeem Jeffries is merely demanding that the administration "must explain itself to the American people and Congress" and "provide an ironclad justification."
Purity test is shorthand for “you care about the people I have already decided are expendable.”
It's not just driving. People won't be able to pick up prescriptions, start jobs, get public aid, board a plane, enter some government buildings, or vote. Their legal identification documents are essentially being revoked.
call me a bleeding heart but i do not think the state should have the power to invalidate trans people’s identities and effectively imprison them. if you can’t legally drive in KANSAS how the hell are you meant to get anywhere
Because many (most) trans people in Kansas aren't going to move, please also look for ways to support those staying and fighting the current regime there.
Sadly when a draconian anti-trans measure hits in a "red state," wider support pushes tend to forget those who aren't leaving.
An old painting I remembered and liked, weird little guys
It's obvious that a Wall Street financier would have his fingers in every single shit pie but genuinely Epstein pushed for microtransactions kind of broke my mind and if I hadn't been armored by class analysis I would have legitimately gone insane.
such a lovely thing to think about
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
A woman in a white coat and patterned skirt which pick her out from the snowy background
a good housekeeping cover depicting a young lady bent over fixing her skirt. She blends into the background tones and is highlighted by twining vines and the light between trees behind her
a lady with her hair up, perhaps a teacher or mother, reads a book in the light cast by a nearby window
His only formal artistic education came from 3 months of night classes at Chase College, and one of the reasons his work was so popular with editors was because his limited colors required fewer inks to print, and therefore the covers and ads were cheaper to produce.
#historyofillustration
A flapper in a bat costume with spread wings against a backdrop of sun rays
A woman and her collie in a forest of birch trees, their forms interplaying with the brown of the background
A well-dressed lady inspects several hats in a nicely-appointed milliner’s shop. She is picked out from the black background by the red buttons and detailing on her long coat.
A young lady poses in front of a beach umbrella, the shadow tones merging her figure with it.
C. Coles Phillips was an illustrator born in Springfield OH, a longtime staff artist at Life magazine & Good Housekeeping’s sole cover artist from 1912-14. He was famous for his “fadeaway girls,” figures which use the background color & negative space to fill in the blanks.
#historyofillustration
This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
A linocut print of two stacked dragons in black ink on a rainbow marbled sheet of paper
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Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.
This Brazilian woman hates AI
