Jack Womack

Jack Womack

@jwomack.bsky.social

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Replying to @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

One of The Masses cartoonists I wrote about in my book! Drew some political cartoons you should check out. Sloan stomped away from the magazine in 1916 during "The Artists Revolt" against the editor Max Eastman. Gave up cartoons & leaned into paintings like this, as one of the Ashcan School.

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A label that cartoonist colleague Art Young gave to Sloan and the others, as a put down! Sloan quit the mag before my story got rolling, so he only makes a cameo. This cover cartoon is by Sloan. he was good, but his greatness lay in painting for sure.

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That RFK clip is ghastly, but it's totally consistent with the Islamophobia that has been coming out of this administration, including Trump's rhetoric about Abdul El-Sayed. They are all in on the hatred of Muslims because it's a formula that has worked before.

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Tonight in Mississippi, Trump becomes another nightmare for his security team as he walks past his predetermined left side stage exit (near the row of flags), and unexpectedly walks to the right, going behind the stage. Security scrambles.

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The sleeper issue that could decide the U.S. Senate race in Texas: The race between Ken Paxton (R) and James Talarico (D) has revolved around the issue of government corruption, a top voter concern just behind the economy. 🎁Gift article: wapo.st/4zTDqgX

wapo.stThe sleeper issue that could decide the U.S. Senate race in TexasThe race between Ken Paxton (R) and James Talarico (D) has revolved around the issue of government corruption, a top voter concern just behind the economy.

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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I guess someone's mad about getting picked last.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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The unfettered racism coming from the highest levels of the American government are only going to get exponentially worse over the next two years

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Replying to @hilzoy.bsky.social

And while he didn’t win a Nobel Prize, let’s not forget Steve Jobs.

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But wait, there’s more …

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

Besides the whole saving the knowledge of antiquity and the numerals and the science and the exquisite art, it's pretty easy to google Arab Nobel prize winners

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Replying to @normative.bsky.social

As many have noted, the Acton ad was a massive political own-goal from which even many Republicans recoiled in disgust. You can’t really explain Trump & Vance doubling down as any kind of rational electoral strategy.

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The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Seeing how little coverage that house report that added another rape accusation to Trump's tally got today, I looked back on just the front page Benghazi stories (there were many, many more inside over these months).

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Replying to @schooley.bsky.social

Also you can track the evolution from the Republicans trying to weaken Obama to the shift to target Clinton.

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Replying to @schooley.bsky.social

Given the number of foreign policy catastrophes of this administration it's really incredible to scroll through the NYT archives at the staggering number of pieces that were published about Benghazi over the span of Obama's entire 2nd term, as if there was never a bigger White House blunder.

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One thing omitted from story below: A POLITICO reporter was excluded from today's hearing at request of Khan Suri's lawyers due to the "nature" of the testimony, including DHS cross-examination of Khan Suri's wife. DOJ judge allowed the selective exclusion. thehoya.com/news/khan-su...

thehoya.comKhan Suri Awaits Deportation Ruling After Trial ConcludesAn immigration judge will now decide whether Badar Khan Suri can remain in the country, as the Supreme Court considers a parallel case challenging his 58-day detention beginning in March 2025.

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Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

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No. And then yes. It doesn't fit 'the narrative' they've created! bsky.app/profile/josh...

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

This is how agenda setting and narrative work. Notice how the frame, in graf 4, shifts to "just eight days before Election Day". So instead a focus on the 50-page report, we get 6 grafs w/most of them tying report to Dems trying to win an election. Fascinating stuff! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

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Replying to @bcdreyer.social

If you'd like to be the second (or third, or fourth, or etc.) person to be blocked for responding "Actually, it's Backpfeifengesicht," knock yourself out. Preferably via a self-induced haymaker.

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Anwar Sadat (President of Egypt) won a Nobel Peace Prize. You know who didn’t.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK in Michigan: "Mike Rogers was talking about the Muslim Brotherhood. That's something I can talk about…Islamism, which is the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, took over…That's why you don't see any Muslims, any Arab Muslims winning the Nobel."

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It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Civilian Suffering Was Goal of Russian Strikes in Ukraine, U.N. Panel Says The assaults on infrastructure, which cut off heat and power on bitterly cold winter days, amounted to a crime against humanity, investigators said.

nytimes.comCivilian Suffering Was Goal of Russian Strikes in Ukraine, U.N. Panel Says (Gift Article)The assaults on infrastructure, which cut off heat and power on bitterly cold winter days, amounted to a crime against humanity, investigators said.