Clever cartoon but I also really love the color schemes here
Objectively, it's far more troubling that they're banning Toni Morrison and David Levithan and Art Spiegelman and any books that even hint at representing the right's Horsemen of the Apocalypse
But there's something so completely batshit about banning _Calvin and Hobbes_, a comic strip so family friendly that it ran uncensored in the most conservative newspapers in the country for more than a decade
https://pen.org/magic-tree-house-author-calvin-and-hobbes-among-hundreds-of-tennessee-book-bans/
WSJ reporting on Elon forcing companies to advertise on X lest he block their mergers
"A lawyer at advertising conglomerate Interpublic Group fielded a phone call in December from a lawyer at X. The message was clear, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation: Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else."
Obviously it's extortion, but could this be the most effective antitrust measure we've seen since Lina Khan?
A friend visiting in-laws texted from The Villages today. For those who don't know, The Villages is a retirement mecca in Florida and is one of the country's biggest Republican strongholds. For years the lawns and golf carts were decorated in Nouveau Maga. I'm sure it's still solidly red, but the enthusiasm for advertising one's Trump support seems to be waning.
Perhaps the spell is breaking and fewer people are making MAGA a load-bearing part of their identity
So given that Elon went full nazi after the market close, I wonder...
Will all the hedge fund managers who demanded that their alma maters doxx the students who signed ant-iIsrael protest letters (to ensure they couldn't get hired anywhere) ASLO be selling their TSLA stock at the open tomorrow?
Or is what's in their portfolios not subject to the same rigorous ethical and moral standards as their hiring practices?