I honestly don't know what to say.
I haven't removed the background to prove that this is, in fact, actually real. THE BEANO, 2025-04-26. Yes, I know that's the future, but that's the date on the issue.
For USians, this is very much a childrens' comic.
Democrats are simply not doing enough to combat Trump. And don't sit there and say this is Kamala Harris' fault, that's racist, oversimplified bullshit. She tried, you let her down.
Anyway. One thing that did make me laugh was the naming of this bill.
Mark Pocan introduces "ELON MUSK Act" to try to stop Musk’s government-destroying rampage
Obviously there's a ton more going on but I can speak with conviction about what's happening in my own back yard - a friend pointed out recently that if Trump really wants to rout all queer folks from the systems of the Federal government, God help him when he tries it with tech.
There are plenty of 'quite good' people in tech. The few absolutely stellar engineers I know? The ones who quietly keep things together and at a level where 'quite good' can do the rest?
All queer.
All of them.
It seems reproductiverights.gov is down and I'm hearing it's intentional rather than a technical issue. Wow.
It's certainly not returning DNS. It comes back with NOERROR and an empty record rather than NXDOMAIN, but all of .gov seems to do that for records which don't exist.
Also points toward intentional shutdown.
If you need any information from it, the Internet Archive snapshot from 14th January is available. Until they come for that.
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