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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 8h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Soak @gpc.bsky.social · 8h

My mom's hometown

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Nov 11

squad goals

newspaper clipping from Friday August 9th 1985 reading

Naked Witches
Salem, Ore.
police say about 150 nude women fondled each other and joined in a ceremony involving the display of symbols associated with satanism at a state part, but no laws were broken.
associated press

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 8h

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Pete Quily @petequily.bsky.social · 8h

CADDAC’S ADHD And Substance Use Disorder Peer-Led Support Groups

ALL provinces and states should have these ADHD SUD support groups like gov diabetes SG's.

20-40%+ of people with SUD have ADHD

Only 5% of adults have ADHD

adultaddstrengths.com/2023/06/10/c...

#ADHDAwarenessMonth

CADDAC’S ADHD And Substance Use Disorder Peer-Led Support Groups - Adult ADD Strengths

Check out CADDAC's new ADHD & substance use disorder peer-led support groups. Seeking peer support facilitators with lived experience. Training provided

adultaddstrengths.com

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Soak @gpc.bsky.social · 13h

Trump turned on the spigot and sent all our water to California!

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Soak @gpc.bsky.social · 13h

It's true, I've seen it myself!!!

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Soak @gpc.bsky.social · 13h

In my early 40s and trying to fit a mild trip into my schedule like it's a colonoscopy.

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Soak @gpc.bsky.social · 14h

Kris Murray would be proud

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 15h

Genuinely Poor

Reposting because I've added a kicker panel. Thanks to @schraubd.bsky.social for the suggestion!

Read more cartoons! #PoliCartoon
Help us make more! patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows two men: A not-wealthy looking man with shaggy hair and some stubble, and a bald man in glasses, wearing a business suit and tie. Each panel shows them at a sidewalk with grass growing in the background.

PANEL 1

Shaggy is wearing a wrinkled collared shirt and jeans. Necktie is wearing a gray suit with a tie with a dot pattern.

It’s bright daytime. Shaggy, with his back turned to Necktie, is looking at and poking a smartphone, and, in the helpful way people so often do in the first panel of my cartoons, talking aloud to himself. Necktie is turning to look at, and yell at, Shaggy.

SHAGGY: I can’t find a job and I’m out of money… Time to google “food stamps.”

NECKTIE: Food stamps are for people who are genuinely poor. If you were poor, you wouldn’t own a smartphone, would you?

PANEL 2

A caption says “one week later.”

From the light, it appears to be early evening. Shaggy is wearing a plaid shirt and Black pants, and has a backpack; Necktie is wearing a pinstripe suit and a tie with horizontal stripes.

Shaggy is looking worried and has a hand on his chest; Necktie is sternly talking to, and pointing at, Shaggy.

SHAGGY: I sold my phone, but now I’m out of money again.

NECKTIE: So sell your car. No one who owns a car is poor.

PANEL 3

A caption says “one month later.”

The same two men, on a similar patch of sidewalk. Shaggy is sitting on the curb, slumping. Necktie looks very cheerful.

SHAGGY: Now I’ve got no money for food, no phone for job hunting, and no car to get to a job!

NECKTIE: Excellent! Now you’re genuinely poor!

PANEL 4

The same scene, a moment later. Shaggy, looking hopeful. Necktie grins.

SHAGGY: So now you’re okay with me getting food stamps?

NECKTIE: Nope!

TINY KICKER PANEL UNDER THE CARTOON

Shaggy is talking to Barry the Cartoonist.

SHAGGY: So how do I get food stamps, anyway?

BARRY: Call them for an appointment, then drive to their office to apply.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14h

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 19h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Soak @gpc.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not a horse, I'm a hornless unicorn

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Soak @gpc.bsky.social · 16h

Oregon rules.

Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 16h

The Hamptons have some of the best beaches in the world. Just look at a map: a thousand miles of free, clear ocean for the Gulf Steam to run up, giving you warm and clean water on beautiful sand. If you're not a billionaire you can only experience them at one hotel that's $1,000/ night in the summer

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

New England can only dream of California’s bold “eat my ass and hair” approach to rich sociopaths trying to keep people off the state’s 100% public beaches.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
www.kremlin.ru/events/presi...

Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией

www.kremlin.ru

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David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 19h

A few other notable Dr. Seuss political cartoons:

Cartoon: Two men stand on a platform with an intertwined beard. One says "America First" and the other wears a swastika. A circus manager announces to the crowd:

Caption: And on this platform, folks, those most perplexing people... The Lads with the Siamese Beard! Unrelated by blood, they are joined in a manner that mystifies the mightiest minds in the land!

Cartoon: a woman with an "America First" sweater reads to two children from a book entitled "Adolf the Wolf"

Caption: and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones... But those were FOREIGN CHILDREN and it really didn't matter.

Cartoon: A man with a "Profiteer" emblazoned coat sells umbrellas during a flood to people taking refuge on rooftops. A swastika can be seen in the torrential rain.

Caption: Beware the man who makes a fortune in a flood!

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 1d

artwork of some guy hunched over looking at like a bird thing, orange high-relief terrain with starry sky and gigantic skull in background. caption over skull reads actual deadly diseases, caption near guy reads RFK Jr looking for penis autism

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

🤷‍♂️

itep.org/trump-tax-la...

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 19h

man if there isn't actual real shit in the epstein files the house republicans are doing a great job of acting like there are

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 21h

UNREAL

Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

EISMAN: Tesla’s earnings “are down 60% from 2022 through 2025. And the stock is slightly higher. ..

“.. it’s a cult.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 21h

Great day for a dump in the pool

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h

Hear me out: What if it's both the hoarding and the havoc?

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Soak @gpc.bsky.social · 1d

I don't give a shit if the rest of the album is field recordings from Daft Punk's toilet bowl. 'Something About Us' is one of the greatest love songs of all time.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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