In 1985, at the height of popularity for the faddish baby dolls, the Cabbage Patch Kids, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman debuted a subversive line of trading cards, the Garbage Pail Kids.
Art Spiegelman on Maus and free speech: ‘Who’s the snowflake now?’
Day: February 5, 2022
Leonard Peltier has COVID, 46 years in prison! Hospitalize and free him now!
Delta asks the Justice Department to put unruly travelers on a ‘no-fly’ list
Tucker Carlson is not anti-war
Tucker Carlson has a reputation of being the only anti-war cable news host, but he is just a better propagandist.
Tucker Carlson is not anti-war
Attack of the Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers!
CJ Hopkins
They rolled up on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill like one of the plagues in the Book of Revelations, honking their infernal air horns, the grills of their tractors grinning demonically, the sides of their dry vans painted with blasphemies like “FREEDOM TO CHOOSE,” “MANDATE FREEDOM,” “NO VACCINE MANDATES,” and “UNITED AGAINST TYRANNY.”
Attack of the Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers!
Israel: ‘80% of serious COVID cases are fully vaccinated’ says Ichilov hospital director
Donetsk: Ukraine moves 150,000 troops, rocket launchers, NATO arms to Donbass front line + Ukraine to ban servicemen from leaving country starting February 20
Smedley Butler Wasn’t Kidding, by David Swanson
by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
February 4, 2022
Smedley Butler is generally left out of U.S. history. If you bring up a guy who prevented a Wall Street coup against FDR, you do real damage to the tale of peaceful respect for government from the beginning of time up through January 6, 2021. If you mention the scandal that erupted when he recounted how Mussolini had run over a little girl with his car, it’s hard to leave out the U.S. government’s friendly relations with Mussolini.
Smedley Butler Wasn’t Kidding, by David Swanson
Previously:
Why Smedley Butler left the imperialist front despising ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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