Tuesday Cartoons: Need to escape.
Posted: December 2, 2025 Filed under: just because 9 Comments
Hello, that is a picture of Stonehenge a couple of days ago. From the facebook post:
Sunrise over Stonehenge — 07:49 AM, November 30, 2025 ☀✨
This morning, the world aligned in perfect harmony. At 7:49 AM, the rising sun slipped through the ancient stones of Stonehenge with breathtaking precision, igniting the horizon in gold and carving a luminous path across the frosted earth. 🌅This beam of light is no trick of the eye — it’s the sun lifting over the horizon at the exact angle its builders anticipated more than four thousand years ago. They placed every stone with intention, crafting a monument that greets the solstice sun with a spectacle that still feels almost otherworldly.
An ancient design meeting a new dawn.
Human hands and cosmic timing working together across millennia. 🌍✨
Innit beautiful?
The news is so fucking depressing. I’m just posting cartoons and memes.
The White House Christmas decorations are out:
Yes, that is a plastic picture of Trump’s mugshot. So damn tacky.
Here is the updated on the Hegseth fiasco:
It is just sickening.
That is all I can do for now?
Be safe out there…
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Let’s pretend it’s still the 1980’s. I had this haircut and thought I was Louise Brooks. Good times. (Posted by Beata)
Oh yes please! And I loved that band as well…
so that way you know:
https://www.threads.com/@lavishtantrums/post/DRvyCUwjGok
When protesters march against you through the New Orleans rain, you have well and truly awakened the spirit of Bulbancha where truth and justice reign. ✊🏻
Fuck this asshole Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/02/congress/thune-abortion-language-health-care-00672635
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that while bipartisan discussions are ongoing around the fate of soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies, abortion restrictions are a major sticking point.
“There are conversations that continue, but as you know the Hyde issue is a difficult and challenging one on both sides,” Thune told reporters.
The fight over the so-called Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortion, has been looming over any potential deal to extend the enhanced Obamacare tax credits. And GOP lawmakers, not to mention a cadre of influential anti-abortion groups, quickly noticed the White House’s framework was silent on the issue.
The White House ultimately held off on releasing that framework as it faced a mountain of GOP criticism from conservatives who felt caught off guard that Trump would back a two-year extension of the subsidies — even when paired with new income caps and other restrictions.
The Senate is expected to vote next week on a proposal from Democrats to extend the ACA subsidies, but Democrats haven’t yet detailed what bill they will put on the chamber floor.
Republicans are separately working on a potential counterproposal that would come from Sens. Mike Crapo and Bill Cassidy, chairs of the Senate Finance and HELP Committees, respectively. GOP senators also have yet to decide whether they’ll roll out that plan in time for a vote next week, though, and the substance remains in flux.
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said Monday night that while efforts to reach a bipartisan agreement persist, many lawmakers believe they are ultimately headed toward a failed vote next week. Some senators are already looking at Jan. 30, the next government funding deadline, as the real cut-off for a health care deal.
“I don’t think we’re close to a 60-vote threshold yet,” Thune said of bipartisan health care talks.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/11/30/jazz-in-the-air-trouble-on-the-horizon-new-orleans-braces-for-an-unwelcome-arrival/
“Jazz in the air, trouble on the horizon: New Orleans braces for an unwelcome arrivalIce agents are set to move into the city in a concerted sweep of immigration enforcement, with the aim of removing some 5,000 undocumented people.
“The Big Easy”: as with so much about New Orleans, there are conflicting stories about who gave the city its seductive descriptor but the nod usually goes to Betty Guillaud, the gossip columnist for the Times-Picayune in its print heyday.
No easy thing, running the gossip page in a city as driven by society and glad-timing as New Orleans was in the 1970s and 1980s and when Guillaud died in 2013, the Times-Picayune had this to say about her modus operandi: “She fired up one of her pencil-thin More cigarettes, slipped off an earring, picked up the telephone, and waited for someone to answer, which was her cue to announce, ‘Hello, dahling, this is Betty Guillaud,’ in basso-profundo tones reminiscent of Lauren Bacall, and start asking questions in a style that masked bluntness with southern charm.”
If the depiction seems slightly over the top, then it’s in keeping with the exuberance of the city itself. New Orleans is a small, intoxicating city with a colossal reputation and its constant flow of tourists can easily be overwhelmed by the too-muchness of it all: too much southern and creole fare, too much jazz, too much river, too much booze, too many baroque cemeteries, too many ghosts, so much fun and history and, it sometimes seems, too many crises for any one city to withstand. Yet it does.
It’s used to outsiders arriving and instantly falling in love with it. “In New Orleans you could almost see other dimensions,” Bob Dylan wrote in Chronicles, Volume 1. “There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again. Chronic melancholia hanging from the trees. You never get tired of it. After a while you start to feel like a ghost from one of the tombs, like you’re in a wax museum below crimson clouds.”
It seems unlikely that the endless hordes roaming Bourbon Street year round, all day and all night, have that sensation – or maybe that’s precisely how they feel. But regardless, the good times determinedly roll in what has been a touchstone year for New Orleans.”