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In 1911, Wisconsin pioneered the income tax because a property tax on land was not sufficient when industrialization began producing most of the wealth.

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

Another cartoon from the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social - new issue out tomorrow. #football #WorldCup2026 #TrumpAdministration #ICE

What it’s like at the wall

it's a shame reptile enthusiasts can't use the term "herpetophile" just because of those other jerks

Jim Toomey's "Sherman's Lagoon" first appeared 35 years ago, on May 13, 1991. Here are the first four dailies. (They were dated for the planned debut date, but it ended up making its debut two weeks later than originally intended.)

They think you're stupid.

May I have the strength to be as furious and as totally irrational as @bencollins.bsky.social forever Here he is, in conversation with a colleague and friend @lindseyadler.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com, on the topic of buying INFOWARS flaminghydra.com/issue-548/

New Math. Newsday.com/matt

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. https://to.pbs.org/3Ogo4AX

One is Pluto's moon Charon. One is Earth's moon, the Moon (aka Luna) A little shift in perspective, and even the most familiar objects in space look surprising and new. 🧪🔭

By @loosepartsguy.bsky.social

This is not a normal statement or appearance by an FCC chairman. This is a would-be authoritarian lackey bragging about creating a Thought Police. Don’t be okay with this.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

If only... Operation Epic FURRY would be vastly preferable.

Colander-wearing Pastafarian strains the rules with Queensland driver’s licence photo

Trump officials say there's a 90% chance of strikes on Iran. He can’t without Congress. Rep. Thomas Massie & I have a War Powers Resolution to debate & vote on war before putting U.S. troops in harm’s way. I will make a motion to discharge to force a vote on it next week.

Did you know that strawberries are not berries, and are actually mammals?

Tonight other dumb napkin cartoon…

Evergreen.

Outlook for the new year ...

Redacted Centerville, SD

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

ha yeah

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

Out of the Closet Yates City, IL

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I mean when you phrase it that way sure

It’s only his first game, he’ll get it figured out. #sfgiants

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ouch.

From Buenos Aires to Bangkok, Montreal to Moscow, nearly every taxi driver in the world understands "OK." It's a gift from American English that's spread across the globe in less than 200 years.

“I didn’t vote for this”

My latest for NPR www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...

Always an Onion article.

I only need 5 minutes to complete my financial disclosures every year cause I own zero stocks. The same should be true for all members of Congress. We must ban Congressional stock trading.

Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed

#Map of Europe shows nothing but all the rivers. River density is highest in mountainous areas. Source: buff.ly/2JSW2t1

Rollin Kirby's prediction that the GOP tariff would knock out the US consumer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 6/22/1930.

"Tragic, just tragic. Thank God we've taught you better sense, Junior." Hugh Haynie on the rise of recreational drug use among youth, Louisville Courier-Journal, 12/4/1970.