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Phil Wrede
@pizzarat.net
· Oct 16
Only one promo image for today's toy comic, because I think it's a pretty good one
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9NEWS has obtained a copy of the Trump DOJ's request to take custody of Tina Peters.
Colorado's Department of Corrections redacted a large portion of the request, claiming its disclosure would be "contrary to public interest."
Colorado's Department of Corrections redacted a large portion of the request, claiming its disclosure would be "contrary to public interest."
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
9NEWS has obtained a copy of the Trump DOJ's request to take custody of Tina Peters.
Colorado's Department of Corrections redacted a large portion of the request, claiming its disclosure would be "contrary to public interest."
Colorado's Department of Corrections redacted a large portion of the request, claiming its disclosure would be "contrary to public interest."
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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The new rules on visas turns off the tap of students from other countries coming to Colorado for college.
Trump administration policy makes a dent in number of international students on Colorado campuses
The new rules on visas turns off the tap of students from other countries coming to Colorado for college.
www.cpr.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The new rules on visas turns off the tap of students from other countries coming to Colorado for college.
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A healthcare system where we hope someone wants our autograph
James Van Der Beek is selling autographed and unsigned 'Varsity Blues' jerseys to raise money for his cancer treatment and to support for other families: 'Endlessly grateful for all of you.'
James Van Der Beek dons 'Varsity Blues' jersey to raise money for cancer treatment: 'Endlessly grateful for all of you'
James Van Der Beek is selling autographed and unsigned 'Varsity Blues' jerseys to raise money for his cancer treatment and to support for other families: 'Endlessly grateful for all of you.'
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A healthcare system where we hope someone wants our autograph
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First, an earthquake hit Alaska. Then it was a typhoon. People turned to public radio for lifesaving information. Sen. Lisa Murkowski tried to get her colleagues to understand the importance of stations.
They voted to defund public media anyway.
They voted to defund public media anyway.
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
revealnews.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
First, an earthquake hit Alaska. Then it was a typhoon. People turned to public radio for lifesaving information. Sen. Lisa Murkowski tried to get her colleagues to understand the importance of stations.
They voted to defund public media anyway.
They voted to defund public media anyway.
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Source for that second quote. This isn't energy policy based on lowering prices for consumers. It's energy policy based on pandering to coal producers who can't compete against renewables without government subsidy and market distortion. cowboystatedaily.com/2025/10/27/w...
Wyoming, Basin Electric Take Step Toward First New Coal Plant In Over A Decade
Wyoming and Basin Electric took a step Monday toward building the first new coal-fired power plant in more than a decade. Adding a second unit to the Dry…
cowboystatedaily.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Source for that second quote. This isn't energy policy based on lowering prices for consumers. It's energy policy based on pandering to coal producers who can't compete against renewables without government subsidy and market distortion. cowboystatedaily.com/2025/10/27/w...
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Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league?
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league?
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
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I look forward to this list every year. If you’re a non-tenure-track historian who has published work this year, this is a great opportunity to promote it.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I look forward to this list every year. If you’re a non-tenure-track historian who has published work this year, this is a great opportunity to promote it.
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"I want Clooney to come in The Pitt as a patient, be an absolute nightmare for one episode, then run off into the night shouting about how he’s Batman."
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"I want Clooney to come in The Pitt as a patient, be an absolute nightmare for one episode, then run off into the night shouting about how he’s Batman."
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Engage base to carry message, create clear moral quandary to convert the conflicted, and expose opposition for the true outliers they are. BRAVO to @ndlon.bsky.social for brilliant giving media something to talk about:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Engage base to carry message, create clear moral quandary to convert the conflicted, and expose opposition for the true outliers they are. BRAVO to @ndlon.bsky.social for brilliant giving media something to talk about:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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the fact that mlms are legal here and that the chairman of the board of the heritage foundation is the daughter of one of the amway founders should be informative to more people, i think
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
the fact that mlms are legal here and that the chairman of the board of the heritage foundation is the daughter of one of the amway founders should be informative to more people, i think
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Federal law requires furloughed workers be granted backpay.
Seasonal employees across our national parks were asked to stay available during the federal government shutdown. It is not only against the law to refuse to pay them, it is cruel.
Seasonal employees across our national parks were asked to stay available during the federal government shutdown. It is not only against the law to refuse to pay them, it is cruel.
Some Park Rangers Are Still Owed Pay After the Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Federal law requires furloughed workers be granted backpay.
Seasonal employees across our national parks were asked to stay available during the federal government shutdown. It is not only against the law to refuse to pay them, it is cruel.
Seasonal employees across our national parks were asked to stay available during the federal government shutdown. It is not only against the law to refuse to pay them, it is cruel.
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
mine would probably be some combination of
fugitive
candyman
ferris bueller
i am a fugitive from a chain gang
thief
judas and the black messiah
high fidelity
john q
medium cool
planes trains and automobiles
blues brothers
fugitive
candyman
ferris bueller
i am a fugitive from a chain gang
thief
judas and the black messiah
high fidelity
john q
medium cool
planes trains and automobiles
blues brothers
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
a man with a beard is talking on a cell phone while wearing a plaid shirt .
Alt: harrison ford in the fugitive starting to trim off his iconic beard
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
mine would probably be some combination of
fugitive
candyman
ferris bueller
i am a fugitive from a chain gang
thief
judas and the black messiah
high fidelity
john q
medium cool
planes trains and automobiles
blues brothers
fugitive
candyman
ferris bueller
i am a fugitive from a chain gang
thief
judas and the black messiah
high fidelity
john q
medium cool
planes trains and automobiles
blues brothers
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Chicago movies ranked:
1. Untouchables
2. Fugitive
3. Blues Brothers
4. Eight Men Out
5. Hoop Dreams
6. The Sting
7. Ferris Bueller
8. High Fidelity
9. Breakfast Club
10. Home Alone
11. Running Scared
Honorable mention: Backdraft, Road to Perdition, Mean Girls, Ordinary People
1. Untouchables
2. Fugitive
3. Blues Brothers
4. Eight Men Out
5. Hoop Dreams
6. The Sting
7. Ferris Bueller
8. High Fidelity
9. Breakfast Club
10. Home Alone
11. Running Scared
Honorable mention: Backdraft, Road to Perdition, Mean Girls, Ordinary People
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
a man with a beard is talking on a cell phone while wearing a plaid shirt .
Alt: harrison ford in the fugitive starting to trim off his iconic beard
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Chicago movies ranked:
1. Untouchables
2. Fugitive
3. Blues Brothers
4. Eight Men Out
5. Hoop Dreams
6. The Sting
7. Ferris Bueller
8. High Fidelity
9. Breakfast Club
10. Home Alone
11. Running Scared
Honorable mention: Backdraft, Road to Perdition, Mean Girls, Ordinary People
1. Untouchables
2. Fugitive
3. Blues Brothers
4. Eight Men Out
5. Hoop Dreams
6. The Sting
7. Ferris Bueller
8. High Fidelity
9. Breakfast Club
10. Home Alone
11. Running Scared
Honorable mention: Backdraft, Road to Perdition, Mean Girls, Ordinary People
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In no order:
The Fugitive
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Blues Brothers
Hoop Dreams
Chicago
The Untouchables
Home Alone
Eight Men Out
Backdraft
Uncle Buck
Wayne's World
The Fugitive
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Blues Brothers
Hoop Dreams
Chicago
The Untouchables
Home Alone
Eight Men Out
Backdraft
Uncle Buck
Wayne's World
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
a man with a beard is talking on a cell phone while wearing a plaid shirt .
Alt: harrison ford in the fugitive starting to trim off his iconic beard
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In no order:
The Fugitive
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Blues Brothers
Hoop Dreams
Chicago
The Untouchables
Home Alone
Eight Men Out
Backdraft
Uncle Buck
Wayne's World
The Fugitive
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Blues Brothers
Hoop Dreams
Chicago
The Untouchables
Home Alone
Eight Men Out
Backdraft
Uncle Buck
Wayne's World
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
a man with a beard is talking on a cell phone while wearing a plaid shirt .
Alt: harrison ford in the fugitive starting to trim off his iconic beard
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
i would like pritzker's list of his top 11 movies set in chicago
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
star wars discourse, okay, but i'm here for fugitive discourse
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This post I think correctly points out that the huge network of off-shore engagement accounts points less toward a concerted foreign effort to destabilize the US and more toward the observable fact that MAGA is a group of the dumbest idiots on the planet
"This has all been especially painful for X users who are, as a baseline, extremely racist. And they are now suffering through the psychic torment of learning that users, predominately from the Global South, are behind some of the bigger right-wing accounts on the site."
Republicans astroturfed themselves
Read to the end for a good Thanksgiving reminder
www.garbageday.email
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This post I think correctly points out that the huge network of off-shore engagement accounts points less toward a concerted foreign effort to destabilize the US and more toward the observable fact that MAGA is a group of the dumbest idiots on the planet
"'Cat dead, details later,' Charlie Brown"
“Repent, Charlie Brown!” said the Ticktockman.
I have no mouth and I must scream, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"'Cat dead, details later,' Charlie Brown"
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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next, Charlie Brown.
We’re going to need a bigger boat, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next, Charlie Brown.
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My take on the general idea of having for-profit companies involved in the field:
Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
My take on the general idea of having for-profit companies involved in the field:
some more great comics got delivered today
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
some more great comics got delivered today
we need another character to pick up the detective munch baton and make guest appearances all over the damn place
i vote for
i vote for
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
we need another character to pick up the detective munch baton and make guest appearances all over the damn place
i vote for
i vote for
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Some places in Colorado, including Denver, already print ballots in both Spanish and English for every election. But until the passage of SB 1, each city was left to decide whether to provide multilingual ballots—and many places chose not to do so.
Colorado Strengthens Access to Ballots in Spanish
The state adopted a Voting Rights Act to stand in for quickly eroding federal protections. Still, local advocates warn there’s much more Colorado can do to ensure multilingual access.
boltsmag.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Some places in Colorado, including Denver, already print ballots in both Spanish and English for every election. But until the passage of SB 1, each city was left to decide whether to provide multilingual ballots—and many places chose not to do so.