J’espère que ces monstrueux “truc” n’arriveront pas de si tôt par ici.

And remember: Orshansky was only trying to define “too little.” She was identifying crisis, not sufficiency. If the crisis threshold—the floor below which families cannot function—is honestly updated to current spending patterns, it lands at $140,000.

What does that tell you about the $31,200 line we still use?

It tells you we are measuring starvation.

Cardboard sign held by a masked person features text: "Judging a demonstration by its most violent participants but NOT judging a police force by its most violent cops is the language of the oppressor." Two raised fists are drawn on it. Nearby people stand outdoors.

There are certainly risks to Apple if it were to do more to stand up for the LGBTQ+ community, but those risks pale in comparison to the increasing threats trans and other people in LGBTQ+ community face in the U.S. and around the world every day. It’s time for Apple to step up and do more than wallpapers and a watch band.

Indeed.

Une mise en perspective intéressante. À la fois pour sensibiliser à ces enjeux (surtout aujourd’hui), mais aussi pour mieux appréhender la toile des interdépendances technico-geo-politiques.

The nasty little secret of American democracy is that we don’t count all the votes. Nor let every citizen vote.

C’est dingue.

Wildfires continue to ravage parts of Los Angeles, California, with at least 11 people dead, thousands of homes, businesses, schools and churches leveled and more than 150,000 people still under evacuation orders. The Palisades fire – which continues to burn – already ranks as one of the most destructive in the city’s history. The second largest blaze, the Eaton fire, to the east, has destroyed homes and lives in and around Altadena, which neighbors Pasadena, home of the Rose Bowl. Meanwhile, smaller fires rage on but are more contained.

I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.

Trois juges ont invalidé hier le principe de neutralité du net aux États-Unis. Le dossier n’en finit plus de trainer, au gré des gouvernements. Mais avec la décision rendue, une Cour suprême conservatrice et le retour de Donald Trump au pouvoir, la neutralité du net ne devrait pas revenir de sitôt sur le tapis.

La seule véritable catastrophe consiste à jeter l’éponge. Ne le faisons pas, où que nous soyons. Tou·tes, à notre échelle, nous devons résister, par la pensée, la parole et l’acte.

The truth is that our nation, great though it is in so many ways, has a horrific history of political violence and a seemingly innate obsession with firearms. Four presidents have been assassinated in office — Lincoln in 1865, Garfield in 1881, McKinley in 1901, and Kennedy in 1963 — all by gunshots. Three more — Roosevelt, Reagan (who nearly died), and now Trump — have been wounded by gunshots.

So here is what the Democrats should do. Tomorrow morning Chuck Schumer should put on the floor of the Senate a law mandating strict background checks for all gun purchases. Perhaps tie it to a reinstitution of the 1994 assault weapons ban that Republicans allowed to expire in 2004. Give it a name like the “Anti Political and School Violence Act”. Make Republicans shoot it down. Make them say, as Trump himself did after a school shooting massacre in Iowa this year, that we “have to get over it, we have to move forward.” It’s not just an outrage when your right-wing authoritarian hero gets his ear nicked by an assassin’s bullet. It’s an outrage when anyone is shot by a nut with a gun.

Make them say it. See how that flies.