The title is my own because as far as I can tell the artist does not title the comics. For those who don't know the comic is mostly a comic diary and the characters are her actual family. It does have some political ones with fictional third parties being interacted with (maybe based on some experience) but this one is about the day to day. Their is hover commentary at the site.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/57752890

Walgreens is still closing stores in 2026. The company confirmed more closures are coming — and refused to say how many or where.

Sycamore Partners took Walgreens private in 2025 in a deal with an enterprise value of roughly $23.7 billion, financed with up to 83% debt — more than double the industry average of 41%. Senator Elizabeth Warren flagged the pharmacy-desert risk before the deal closed.

Sycamore never put a public answer on record. In February 2026, WARN filings showed 628 jobs cut: 469 at Deerfield HQ, 159 at a Houston warehouse closing June 1. The paper trail is there. The company just isn't talking.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50913906

Financial Times drops the bars

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73350952

Für die CDU Deutschlands ganz klar: Es gibt keinen Völkermord in Gaza, wir stehen an der Seite Israels und der Ukraine im Kampf gegen den Terror und Aggression.

Wir stehen für Freiheit und wollen uns verteidigen können, damit wir es nicht müssen. Daran wird sich nichts ändern

Wir stehen zur Meinungs- und Kunstfreiheit, doch auch hier gibt es Grenzen - mindestens aber muss die Kunst mit deutlichem Widerspruch leben

For Germany’s CDU, it is crystal clear: There is no genocide in Gaza; we stand with Israel and Ukraine in the fight against terror and aggression.

We stand for freedom and want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don’t have to. That will not change.

We stand for freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but there are limits here as well—at the very least, art must be able to coexist with clear dissent.

Funding for scientific research in the United States is at a record low after the Trump administration canceled billions of dollars in research grants last year, derailing work focused on diversity, climate change, and other hot-button topics.

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It shouldn’t have come to this, the scientists say. But here’s how it did. When Blumstein took over the marmot project from its founder in 2001, funding was relatively easy to come by. For more than a decade, the project received most of its support from the National Science Foundation, one of the country’s largest funding agencies. But when he tried to renew the grant for another 10 years, he was denied three times before the agency told him to stop applying.

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Long-term projects such as this one ask “some of the most important questions in our time,” Blumstein said, but have been among the first programs cut. It’s a hard sell, Blumstein continued, to justify the need for continuous, robust datasets, but such resources are invaluable when it comes to studying evolutionary processes that play out over generations and for generating sound science for policymakers and land managers. He’s watched their budget shrink with trepidation.

In reporting from 2023 that was resurfaced this week on social media, the publication Prison Legal News revealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour — far below the cost of a non-incarcerated worker the federal minimum wage. (And to be clear, that’s not the hourly wage paid to the inmate, which is capped at $1.50 in Arizona.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73253901

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/68907829

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/15368324

The frontman of British punk rap band Bob Vylan was denied entry to Germany, detained at the Berlin airport, and ultimately deported to the United Kingdom last month due to his pro-Palestine statements.

German federal police justified deporting the band’s vocalist on June 15, referencing a performance at the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2025 where Bob Vylan led a chant of “Death, death to the IDF,” or the Israel Defense Forces.

A police file on Robinson-Foster obtained by The Intercept alleges that he disseminated antisemitic narratives and Hamas propaganda that could “radicalise certain segments of the [German] population” and serve as “ideological justification” for terrorist groups or individuals. It also says that Robinson-Foster poses a threat to Germany’s public security and public order. Allowing him into the country would cause “considerable reputational damage” by creating the impression that Germany was making “no effort to prevent the spread of the propagated antisemitism and the associated calls to violence.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68645676

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50125188

🌎 Humanity is truly living its best ClimateCatch22 dream:

The hotter > The more ACs > The more Electricity consumption > The hotter

⛵ Meanwhile the rich take advantage of the rising water levels, MOVING onto superyachts & forever cruiseships (for one last journey).

⛽ Burning through a cool $1 million of diesel per refueling.

This is real, from the Samsung "Smart Things" app.