Anthropocene Tourist

There’s a reason Dr. King's historic August 28, 1963 rally was called “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” As he warned the nation, "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." Real freedom requires economic freedom for all.

Consistent with White House qualifications apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Bone spurs, Biden, bumbling apnews.com/article/trum...

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

He doth protest too much. “US ambassador Mike Waltz accused France of voting for a human rights chief who had been "lecturing" democratic countries while "cozying up to the world's worst oppressors", without elaborating on what he meant.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

In this fraught moment in America, @hcrichardson.bsky.social quotes the one military expert who was inarguably also an expert on civilian life: Allied Forces leader, Army general and 34th president of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower. What are we doing? open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Evidence! Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Deciding to be primitive

POCAN: I think the problem is you're talking to rich people. Maybe this will help. Who pays tariffs? LOEFFLER: 80% of tariffs are paid by foreign countries POCAN: Okay. That would be like me saying I have long flowing red hair. It's complete BS. Small businesses pay tariffs.

Monsters. What they are destroying we will never get back.

One more algae ridden pool away from irrelevance www.npr.org/2026/07/10/n...

If only these money grubbers could make the connection between climate change, bad air, and fewer good days for golf. www.npr.org/2026/07/09/n...

He was just seeing what his tax dollars had gotten him on top of a war, concentration camps, and a UFC fight. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The questions that we should all ask ourselves regardless of which religion, political affiliation, set of beliefs, ideals, we align with. Challenge = growth and progress. Looking away leads to harm and irrelevance.

Patriotism asks you to fight for values and an ideal. Nationalism asks you to fight for a person or group. There's a difference, and it matters.

Cartoon by @chrisbritt.bsky.social

Free summer meals for kids are available across #NewYork through #USDA’s Summer #Food Service Program. Meals are served at #schools, parks & community sites, sometimes take-away or delivered in rural areas. Find sites via state tools or USDA hotline 1-866-3-HUNGRY. www.mynbc5.com/article/new-...

"As for my popularity, being your friend has certainly not helped it, nor does it depend on my relationship with you," Expecting an inelegant, rambling response between Big Macs in 3, 2, 1… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Disturbing part is that he may think it really happened. Time for another acuity test. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reality TV moment at the G7 apnews.com/article/trum...

An MOU is not a peace treaty or even a contract

Hold on.... This is getting ridiculous

I didn’t know that being a podcaster qualified you for so many things. Maybe that’s why everyone has a podcast.

2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a

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Could there be a low that's too low even for the GOP - Grifters Over People party?

Trying to cash in before his approval completely tanks. GOP basically giving him a blank check. apnews.com/article/trum...

Anyone else worried that the rambler in chief might start talking about DoorDashing a Big Mac when pressed about Taiwan?

Concentration camps are expensive www.wusf.org/politics-iss...

Trying to save Spirit Airlines and while not putting any energy into lowering healthcare and fuel costs is a sign that human intelligence is overrated. Well, at least some humans who want to live in a bunker under a ballroom.

Future anthropologists will wonder why people wanted to look like they are in a wind tunnel after being stung by bees. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

A work of art to cut through the daily madness

This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.

Here's a moonshot challenge: develop a vaccine against the self-aggrandizing effects of power. A big prize offered for it.

War crimes are morally and legally wrong. But they also don’t win wars or get us beyond politics. Insofar as there is a logic to this it is to provoke the Iranians and then act shocked and go for a coup domestically. See my essay "The Next Coup Attempt" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment

Tuesday is a good day to pull the lever on the 25th & stop someone who is threatening genocide.

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

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When we go high, he goes lower

Need a clean background check for most jobs except anything related to the White House

He's missing the point. Might be the fumes from all the years of Sharpies is catching up. apnews.com/article/trum...