Calvin Hobbes 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦♏️
@calvinhobbessf.bsky.social
Secular humanist, man of science, animal lover, Boxer dad, LBGTQ+, progressive, he/him. 🚫 DMs. Don’t care about your business advice, or crypto, or seeing your pix, or giving you money.
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Wish we could ban social media for kids in the US. It will never happen under this administration since they’re in the pocket of Big Tech.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Wish we could ban social media for kids in the US. It will never happen under this administration since they’re in the pocket of Big Tech.
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Story on the left: July 2018. Story on the right: today.
Here's an idea: maybe stop enacting policies which visit profound harm on farmers and then you won't have to spend billions of dollars to bail them out. I suppose that's a radical plan, but it may just work.
Here's an idea: maybe stop enacting policies which visit profound harm on farmers and then you won't have to spend billions of dollars to bail them out. I suppose that's a radical plan, but it may just work.
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Story on the left: July 2018. Story on the right: today.
Here's an idea: maybe stop enacting policies which visit profound harm on farmers and then you won't have to spend billions of dollars to bail them out. I suppose that's a radical plan, but it may just work.
Here's an idea: maybe stop enacting policies which visit profound harm on farmers and then you won't have to spend billions of dollars to bail them out. I suppose that's a radical plan, but it may just work.
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If telling troops they must disobey unlawful orders is sedition, you’re gonna have to hang all the military academy instructors, boot camp drill instructors and training manual authors, along with every member of congress that authorized the UCMJ by voting yes on the most recent NDAA.
December 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If telling troops they must disobey unlawful orders is sedition, you’re gonna have to hang all the military academy instructors, boot camp drill instructors and training manual authors, along with every member of congress that authorized the UCMJ by voting yes on the most recent NDAA.
Are you sure he didn’t mean “minors”?
December 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Are you sure he didn’t mean “minors”?
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“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“Goal: to ensure survivors did not end up in U.S. judicial system where courts could force administration to show evidence justifying military campaign in the region” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
“Hegseth is coming back to finish us off…then brag about it…then deny it…then blame one of the admirals…then run and hide in his new Pentagon makeup room like real men do.”
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“Hegseth is coming back to finish us off…then brag about it…then deny it…then blame one of the admirals…then run and hide in his new Pentagon makeup room like real men do.”
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“Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery" along with Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
This would also give him control over Paramount ( CNN, CBS)
CORRUPT!
#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
This would also give him control over Paramount ( CNN, CBS)
CORRUPT!
#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
After Trump Vow to Intervene, Kushner Linked to Paramount's Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. | Common Dreams
"The correct option is neither Paramount nor Netflix buy Warner," said one antitrust advocate.
www.commondreams.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery" along with Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
This would also give him control over Paramount ( CNN, CBS)
CORRUPT!
#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
This would also give him control over Paramount ( CNN, CBS)
CORRUPT!
#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
Republicans love to call Dems “snowflakes”. Meanwhile, they clap like trained circus seals as their weak and pathetic leader receives a participation trophy just because he whined and complained like a spoiled toddler.
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"If you can’t get anyone to take your pleas for a Nobel Peace Prize seriously, apparently the next best thing is to extract an award from a soccer league known for fans who punch the hell out of each other in the stands."
"If you can’t get anyone to take your pleas for a Nobel Peace Prize seriously, apparently the next best thing is to extract an award from a soccer league known for fans who punch the hell out of each other in the stands."
He's a peacemaker, damn it
Our needy 'leader' finally gets a peace prize, plus a whole peace building
fightthefire.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Republicans love to call Dems “snowflakes”. Meanwhile, they clap like trained circus seals as their weak and pathetic leader receives a participation trophy just because he whined and complained like a spoiled toddler.
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At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.
“Kill them all”
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Kill them all”
Republicans and rightwing media and social media are heavily invested in misinformation and conspiracies because it’s the only way they can win elections.
December 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Republicans and rightwing media and social media are heavily invested in misinformation and conspiracies because it’s the only way they can win elections.
Because Americans have been demanding that vehicles be less fuel-efficient so they can spend more money on gas.
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards
At the White House this afternoon, President Trump said he was terminating "ridiculously burdensome" fuel economy rules. It's part of a series of changes relaxing or eliminating rules promoting cleane...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Because Americans have been demanding that vehicles be less fuel-efficient so they can spend more money on gas.
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
🤣😂🤣 Amazon can’t even meet their 2-day delivery promise most of the time.
www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-...
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Amazon Is Testing 30-Minute Deliveries in Two US Cities
The super-fast deliveries, however, will not be free, even for Prime members.
www.pcmag.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🤣😂🤣 Amazon can’t even meet their 2-day delivery promise most of the time.
www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-...
www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-...
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"… in the present instance, it was perfectly clear to the accused that killing defenceless people in the life-boats could be nothing else but a breach of the law. As naval officers by profession they were well aware …."
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"… in the present instance, it was perfectly clear to the accused that killing defenceless people in the life-boats could be nothing else but a breach of the law. As naval officers by profession they were well aware …."
I’m surprised his stunt with ICE didn’t turn everything around. 🙄
In case you’re in the mood for some good news . . .
November 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I’m surprised his stunt with ICE didn’t turn everything around. 🙄
Many judges said the politicization of judges, the Supreme Court’s expanding use of emergency dockets and sustained criticism from the Trump administration have pushed the courts and democracy to a fragile tipping point...
www.joemygod.com/2025/11/wapo...
www.joemygod.com/2025/11/wapo...
WaPo: Retired Judges Say Rule Of Law Is Unraveling - Joe.My.God.
The Washington Post reports: When the White House blasted a federal judge as “partisan” for dismissing the criminal cases against former FBI director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letit...
www.joemygod.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Many judges said the politicization of judges, the Supreme Court’s expanding use of emergency dockets and sustained criticism from the Trump administration have pushed the courts and democracy to a fragile tipping point...
www.joemygod.com/2025/11/wapo...
www.joemygod.com/2025/11/wapo...
Yet another drug trafficker to be pardoned by Trump. More proof that his war with Venezuela isn’t about drugs. It’s about oil.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving US sentence after drug trafficking conviction
President Donald Trump said he will grant a pardon to former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking an...
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Yet another drug trafficker to be pardoned by Trump. More proof that his war with Venezuela isn’t about drugs. It’s about oil.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...