Michael (Mike) Lasome
@milasome.bsky.social
Former Catholic Republican who came to his senses🤷♂️. Fifth-generation New Orleanian now retired in Maryland. Bluish-purple dot in a strongly red county🫤. Love animals, cooking, family, education & travel. Nerdy dad & ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ fighting the best I can. NO DMs!
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We'll miss your daily work, Walt!
"As I bid adieu to daily editorial cartooning after 45 years, here’s a look back at some of my favorites. It has been a tremendous honor to have been a part of your daily morning newspaper routine.
Best wishes to all -- Walt Handelsman"
"As I bid adieu to daily editorial cartooning after 45 years, here’s a look back at some of my favorites. It has been a tremendous honor to have been a part of your daily morning newspaper routine.
Best wishes to all -- Walt Handelsman"
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We'll miss your daily work, Walt!
"As I bid adieu to daily editorial cartooning after 45 years, here’s a look back at some of my favorites. It has been a tremendous honor to have been a part of your daily morning newspaper routine.
Best wishes to all -- Walt Handelsman"
"As I bid adieu to daily editorial cartooning after 45 years, here’s a look back at some of my favorites. It has been a tremendous honor to have been a part of your daily morning newspaper routine.
Best wishes to all -- Walt Handelsman"
Gee, not surprising!😠
More than 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody in 2025
That’s the most in over 20 years
That’s the most in over 20 years
December 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Gee, not surprising!😠
Unfortunately true. There are methods built into the "system" that are made available to assist some and not others, leading to them falling further behind. And that's just the way too many people want things to stay!
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Unfortunately true. There are methods built into the "system" that are made available to assist some and not others, leading to them falling further behind. And that's just the way too many people want things to stay!
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It can be difficult to explain how government-funded research has changed your day-to-day life because it’s so ubiquitous. GPS, the internet, the iPhone, solar panels, life-saving vaccines—the list is nearly endless
—Brian PJ Cronin
ANOTHER CHAPTER OF
TRUMP ADMIN's CONTINUOUS
SCREWING OF THE POOCH
—Brian PJ Cronin
ANOTHER CHAPTER OF
TRUMP ADMIN's CONTINUOUS
SCREWING OF THE POOCH
For the last OUT THERE column of the year, I wrote about how difficult it can be to explain what a disaster it is to cancel federal scientific research.
Out There: Hard Stop
What happens when scientific research disappears?
highlandscurrent.org
December 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It can be difficult to explain how government-funded research has changed your day-to-day life because it’s so ubiquitous. GPS, the internet, the iPhone, solar panels, life-saving vaccines—the list is nearly endless
—Brian PJ Cronin
ANOTHER CHAPTER OF
TRUMP ADMIN's CONTINUOUS
SCREWING OF THE POOCH
—Brian PJ Cronin
ANOTHER CHAPTER OF
TRUMP ADMIN's CONTINUOUS
SCREWING OF THE POOCH
LOL😆
In a galaxy far far away…there was a little known pot dealer named Harrison Ford.
You heard me…
Happy Holidays and G’night BlueSky. 😴💤
#Pinks #ProudBlue
You heard me…
Happy Holidays and G’night BlueSky. 😴💤
#Pinks #ProudBlue
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
LOL😆
This is genuinely frightening. If you don't understand what's wrong with this, you are most certainly part of the problem!
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This is genuinely frightening. If you don't understand what's wrong with this, you are most certainly part of the problem!
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America needs an Attorney General who:
1) will read a law,
2) understand what she is reading, and
3) comply with it.
That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?
1) will read a law,
2) understand what she is reading, and
3) comply with it.
That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?
December 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
America needs an Attorney General who:
1) will read a law,
2) understand what she is reading, and
3) comply with it.
That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?
1) will read a law,
2) understand what she is reading, and
3) comply with it.
That doesn't seem like too much to ask, does it?
“Empathy is the discipline of pausing long enough to imagine, ‘What if that were me? What if that were my child?’ It is not agreement with every choice; it is the willingness to feel another’s ache long enough to ask what love requires.”
December 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“Empathy is the discipline of pausing long enough to imagine, ‘What if that were me? What if that were my child?’ It is not agreement with every choice; it is the willingness to feel another’s ache long enough to ask what love requires.”
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Absolutely 💯 True......
December 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Absolutely 💯 True......
I'd probably be the "Cool Dad," except🤷♂️ on the furries😆. Merry Xmas & Happy Holidays all!
December 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I'd probably be the "Cool Dad," except🤷♂️ on the furries😆. Merry Xmas & Happy Holidays all!
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Know what’s worse than illegal migrants…?
Raping children and covering up for ‘em.
Raping children and covering up for ‘em.
December 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Know what’s worse than illegal migrants…?
Raping children and covering up for ‘em.
Raping children and covering up for ‘em.
I hear them sounding like Jon Lovitz as Tommy Flanagan, "Yeah, yeah... that's the ticket!"
What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.
December 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I hear them sounding like Jon Lovitz as Tommy Flanagan, "Yeah, yeah... that's the ticket!"
🤔 Hmm, valid point.
Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
December 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🤔 Hmm, valid point.
Yep, "self-censorship has become the norm." Right you are, Bari!
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Yep, "self-censorship has become the norm." Right you are, Bari!
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Don’t take credit for others’ work, Sean. Community note to the rescue again…
December 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Don’t take credit for others’ work, Sean. Community note to the rescue again…
Is there any wonder the administration is trying desperately to redact/remove everything that references Trump? It's not like it shows him as anything other than what he truly is🤷♂️
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Is there any wonder the administration is trying desperately to redact/remove everything that references Trump? It's not like it shows him as anything other than what he truly is🤷♂️
YouTube has apparently removed the video of the pulled 60 Minutes story on the immigrants sent to CECOT. This one is still active, though. Help this video go viral since they didn't want us to see it!
archive.org/details/insi...
archive.org/details/insi...
Inside CECOT | 60 Minutes : CBS News : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Sharyn Alfonsi's Inside CECOT for 60 Minutes, which was censored by Bari Weiss, as it appeared on Canada's Global TV app.
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
YouTube has apparently removed the video of the pulled 60 Minutes story on the immigrants sent to CECOT. This one is still active, though. Help this video go viral since they didn't want us to see it!
archive.org/details/insi...
archive.org/details/insi...
Just who are they trying to protect? As if we didn't know🙄😠
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Just who are they trying to protect? As if we didn't know🙄😠
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Why does this ridiculous, stupid, coke-addled nepo-baby of a nepo-baby brat have any say in U.S. foreign policy? What foolish, horrifying times we live in.
December 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Why does this ridiculous, stupid, coke-addled nepo-baby of a nepo-baby brat have any say in U.S. foreign policy? What foolish, horrifying times we live in.
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