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In February, I wrote about graphic artist Todd Alcott's fantastic propaganda posters for the fascist oligarchy, but his newest project is so amazing, I just have to bring these to… Read the rest of the article: Get your Enemies of Democracy trading cards! Collect 'em all!
Wednesday night, after Trump announced his bizarro tariffs, @shannonwatts's Instagram account pointed out that Ferris Beuller's teacher delivered a lecture on how Republicans during the Great Depression tried to use… Read the rest of the article: Ferris Bueller's teacher schools Trump on tariffs
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Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was abducted by masked plainclothes federal agents near her off-campus apartment building in Somerville, Massachusetts. In a letter to the Tufts… Read the rest of the article: Masked "federal agents" abduct Tufts student (video)
Get the new book that explains it all. "IT'S THE GREAT STORM, TOM THE DANCING BUG!" collects all Tom the Dancing Bug comics from 2020-2023 (and more!)! Now accepting orders right HERE!… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: The N-word is back!
A story highlighting Hall of Fame baseball player and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson's military service has been deleted from the Department of Defense website, in a Stalinesque excising of… Read the rest of the article: Trump's Department of Defense disappears Jackie Robinson
According to France's research minister Philippe Baptiste, a French scientist who arrived in the U.S. on March 9 to attend a conference was denied entry and expelled after American authorities… Read the rest of the article: French scientist denied entry to US after a search of his phone revealed messages critical of Trump
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After I posted this week about Steve Martin's meta 1979 alt-trailer for his movie The Jerk, I was alerted on BlueSky by Nom DePlume to this fantastic meta alt-trailer for… Read the rest of the article: The meta 1984 trailer for "This Is Spinal Tap"
There is a standard trailer for the 1979 movie The Jerk, starring Steve Martin. But I just discovered an alt trailer that is unusual, clever, and meta. It features Martin… Read the rest of the article: The 1979 trailer for Steve Martin's "The Jerk"
I recently rode the "Jurassic World VelociCoaster" roller coaster at Universal Orlando's Island of Adventure, and it's a groundbreaking ride with multiple inversions that tops out at 70mph. It's the… Read the rest of the article: Universal Orlando's VelociCoaster ride is an innovative roller coaster that reaches 70mph
Elemind, a startup founded by MIT researchers, has developed an electroencephalogram (EEG) headband that emits acoustic stimulation aligned with people's brainwaves to help them fall asleep faster. Link to an… Read the rest of the article: MIT's acoustic stimulation headband may help you fall asleep
On this week's episode of the excellent podcast "Disney Dish," Disney journalist and entrepreneur Len Testa (Touring Plans) describes a Maya Archaeology conference he recently attended, "Maya at the Mouse,"… Read the rest of the article: Planned "Tropical Americas" land in Disney World places emphasis on authenticity
When baseball hat company New Era released a new line of "Overlap" hats, bearing a Major League Baseball team's logo overlapping with its home city/state, it must have thought it… Read the rest of the article: "Vulgar" Texas Rangers ball cap pulled from sale
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British cartoonist R.E. (Becky) Burke has been in ICE custody in Tacoma, Washington since February 26. She had been on a planned four-month backpacking trip in North America, but when… Read the rest of the article: British cartoonist R.E. Burke, detained by ICE, "simply wants to return home to her family"
Journalist Gary He has authored McAtlas: A Global Guide to the Golden Arches, a huge, gorgeous book about the amazing array of different forms and menus of McDonald's restaurants around… Read the rest of the article: McAtlas documents, analyzes, and celebrates the international multiformity of McDonald's
Last week, Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, changed its admission policy on its sensational new ride, EPCOT's "Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind." Previously, one could only experience the… Read the rest of the article: You can now queue for "Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind," one of Disney's best rides
