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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 5h

When I was a kid, you didn’t have to dial the area code within the area, so it was only seven digits. And in my suburban neighborhood, there were only two three-digit prefixes. So you really only had to remember four digits.

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 11h

Finally! I’ve broken through the glass ceiling for old, white men hoping to work in animation.
Be sure to tune in. As I tell all my lovers, this might just be the best 20 seconds of your life.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 14h

No wonder Trump loves Columbus so much. Columbus was a psychopath who profited off government contracts, stumbled into wealth despite being proven wrong, was obsessed with gold, persecuted and tortured non-whites... and died of congestive heart failure.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump signs a proclamation: "We're calling it Columbus Day. We're back."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Join your fellow patriots at a location near you 👉
nokings.org/#map

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote on @boingboing.net about a beautiful new book package celebrating the GOAT comic strip, "Peanuts." I think fans of the strip will absolutely love it.
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boingboing.net/2025/10/13/b... @abramscomicarts.bsky.social @evanier.bsky.social

Breathtaking new book package celebrates the GOAT comic strip: Peanuts

Abrams ComicArts has just released a huge new prestige book celebrating the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. The Essential Peanuts is 336 pages, and filled with comics, but…

boingboing.net

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 1d

Okay fine. We’ll keep it Antifa. But only if I get a better parking spot and if you promise to stop microwaving fish sticks in the Antifa break room!

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 1d

Guys, we’re switching to being Antiki. So when they come looking for Antifa, we’ll say, “Uh, who??” Pass it on.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2d

PTA said in an interview that del Toro kept asking him to make sure he doesn’t unconsciously take on DiCaprio’s energy in any takes. He wanted sensei’s energy to be totally different from Bob’s.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2d

I guess they’re right. The way to open a dialogue with the people of Saudi Arabia is to accept millions of dollars directly from the country’s murderous crown prince to perform jokes for him about topics that meet his approval.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2d

Saturday morning cartoons….

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

📣 IT'S THE LATEST TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEW!
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😜 Comedy in Olde Riyadh
🚎 Brain Twisters
🇫🇷 3-panel Napoleon biography
🏈 The Aaron Rodgers Rule
🌱 Hey, Kids! Sell Wagner Seeds!
AND MUCH MORE!
Our pledge to you: free, and no charge👇
open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...

🌞 Greetings from Olde Riyadh

Tears of a clown

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, so no harm. DHS can just lie about and arrest any reporter they want and then release them without charges when they feel like it.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

You can read the Tom the Dancing Bug Review on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/10-10-...

10/10/2025 - The Tom the Dancing Bug Review | Ruben Bolling

Get more from Ruben Bolling on Patreon

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

I would suggest not. We are Americans fighting for our country, and it is our country.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone do what they want, “you be you,” but my humble hope is that as many people as possible carry American flags to the Oct. 18 rally. That will make for the images that will most infuriate the Republicans and best sway the moderates.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic
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SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX, feat. the comedy stylings of Lester the Jester in Riyadh, and more!
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Brought to you by the heroic Inner Hive, including longtime member Richie Snake and new member Karl O.
🐑🥫🕑 bit.ly/theInnerHive
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

📣 IT'S THE LATEST TOM THE DANCING BUG REVIEW!
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😜 Comedy in Olde Riyadh
🚎 Brain Twisters
🇫🇷 3-panel Napoleon biography
🏈 The Aaron Rodgers Rule
🌱 Hey, Kids! Sell Wagner Seeds!
AND MUCH MORE!
Our pledge to you: free, and no charge👇
open.substack.com/pub/tomtheda...

🌞 Greetings from Olde Riyadh

Tears of a clown

open.substack.com

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 3d

This week's comic is now up on @contrariannews.org .
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Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Lester the Jester and more!
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contrarian.substack.com/p/tom-the-da...

Tom the Dancing Bug

Super-Fun-Pak Comix

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a paying subscriber to The Washington Post, this is what you get.

If you are a free subscriber to Democracy Docket, this is what you get.

Support independent, pro-democracy media. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 4d

(h/t @pulmyears.bsky.social)

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 4d

This guy sounds awesome! He knows about TikTok videos and babies in placentas! Someone should put him in charge of our country’s medical policy!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-compl...

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 4d

Unprecedented crime in Chicago in 2025 that justifies the invocation of the Insurrection Act?
Trust Trump

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