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FL Surgeon General: It’s Up To Parents Of Unvaxxed If Children Should Attend Class During Measles Outbreak

FL Surgeon General: It’s Up To Parents Of Unvaxxed If Children Should Attend Class During Measles Outbreak

And this scammer con artist who has been accused of falsifying the results of a “vaccine injury risk” study along with being debunked by the large medical organizations, is taking the political way forward rather than protect the children by telling parents the best thing they can do is get their child vaccinated.  If you are anti-vaccine think about this, the only children at risk are the unvaccinated!   What does that tell you!   Hugs.  Scottie

February 21, 2024 Crackpots, Science

 

The Daily Beast reports:

While measles cases are popping up across the country, nowhere has been hit as hard as Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, just west of Fort Lauderdale. There, a single case reported Thursday spiraled into a half-dozen infected students by Tuesday evening. John J. Sullivan, a spokesperson for Broward County Public Schools, said the school underwent a deep cleaning and was safe for vaccinated students to continue going to class this week.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo wrote a letter Tuesday that urged the parents of unvaccinated students to keep them home until the school is confirmed to be rid of measles entirely. He said the infectious period would likely be over by March 7, and that the district would provide materials to keep the students learning while they’re physically away from school.

Read the full article. According to school officials, around 11% of the students have not gotten the traditional childhood vaccinations. Ladapo, as most of you surely know, is infamously anti-vax and has been accused of falsifying the results of a “vaccine injury risk” study.

 

ECarpenter  JoeMyGod3 days ago

Measles is mainly airborne – a “deep cleaning” is theater, not protection. A sane state would forbid unvaxxed kids at school, but of course a sane state would have no unvaxxed kids except for the very rare ones who can’t tolerate or respond to vaccinations.

John Conley3 days ago

Not only is Ladapo’s letter to parents full of very bad advice (like deferring to parents to decide whether or not to expose their unvaccinated children to a virus that can be deadly, or allow those children who may already be infected to spread it to others at school), it’s appalling that nowhere in his letter does he urge the parents of unvaccinated students to get them vaccinated. How does this guy still have a medical license?

band  John Conley3 days ago

The Florida Board of Medicine “consists of fifteen members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.”

https://flboardofmedicine.g…

AtticusP 3 days ago

The surgeon general is supposed to be a public safety officer.

What the hell is this guy doing in this position?

TallyDink  AtticusP3 days ago

MAGA loving Ron DeathSentence.

Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgia  AtticusP3 days ago

The answer is…(drum roll)…Florida!

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  AtticusP3 days ago

As much damage as he can, while he grifts,

mikeiver  AtticusP3 days ago

Collecting a no show paycheck.

emjayay  mikeiver3 days ago

Two or three of them. He got a couple university positions in the bargain for an income of around $430,000.

JoeMyGod Mod3 days ago

As I mentioned in an earlier post, this outbreak is in Weston, which is ranked a few slots below Palm Beach as Florida’s seventh-wealthiest city.

JoeMyGod Mod JoeMyGod3 days ago

In January 2024, Weston home prices were up 90.9% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $3.1 million.

Robert Conner 3 days ago
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Almost like science never happened except that: He. Knows. The. Science. And. Chooses. To. Ignore. It.
 
Makoto 3 days ago

“until the school is confirmed to be rid of measles entirely”

I’m curious, since he doesn’t trust scientists to say what will help fight measles, who does he trust to say the school is confirmed to be rid of it? An exorcist?

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Makoto3 days ago

He’ll bring the pink-haired prophetess in. If she doesn’t know, no one does.

stretchdad  TnCTampa3 days ago

And they’ve already decided that childhood diseases are no big deal. Never mind that measles can cause encephalitis, blindness, sterility…

Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️3 days ago

Natural Herd Immunity did this…

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Of course there is no natural immunity to something your immune system hasn’t contacted, so naturally, this happens.

It is said the sheep follow the Shepherd…
Yet no one discusses that it is the Shepherd who eats the sheep.

 
 

Oklahoma Schools Chief Rants About Latest Ranking Of US Presidents: Our Kids Will Learn That Trump Is Great

Oklahoma Schools Chief Rants About Latest Ranking Of US Presidents: Our Kids Will Learn That Trump Is Great

It is a cult, the party of tRump, the maga thugs.   This guy is a white supremacist Christian nationalist who wants to turn public schools into church right wing indoctrination camps, force everyone to live by his church doctrines, and teach racist stereotypes are real facts to children.  Slavery was good, blacks are violent, bringing them to the US to learn Jesus was a good thing for them, type shit.   The problem is the governor who got elected is the same and proclaimed the state a Christian state dedicated to Jesus, meaning anyone of a different faith or atheist don’t matter and can just leave or go to hell.   He sees nothing wrong with the idea of the governor pushing his god / church doctrine on everyone.   So this is who hired the trash above, and tried to give him two high level state jobs to push Christianity.  Hugs.  Scottie

February 21, 2024 Christianists, Trump cultists

 

“Guess who’s last? President Trump. This is a great example of the radical woke college professors and what they’re trying to teach our kids. They want to tell our kids that every conservative president was terrible and every left wing president was amazing. In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office. And not based on what a leftist, woke college professor says makes a great president.” – Oklahoma education superintendent and avowed Christian nationalist Ryan Walters.

Walters recently hired Chaya Raichik of Libs Of TikTok infamy to help oversee Oklahoma’s public school libraries. He is widely expected to run for governor when Gov. Kevin Stitt is term-limited out of office.

 

clay 3 days ago edited

“In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office.”

Because how well the country’s doing was a sign of God’s favor of our president? Dipshit believes there are no business cycles, no outside factors, so transition time or costs.

Ash  clay3 days ago

That doesn’t augur well for Bush, Hoover or Trump. Obama, FDR, and Biden are evaluated, in part, on how well they rescued the economy from the ditch

clay  Ash3 days ago

What, like historians are going to pay attention to when the store shelves were actually empty, when housing construction ground to a halt?

Gustav2  clay3 days ago edited

A comment on a conservative site:

“Don’t read any book on the early history of the United States first printed after 1920.”

(((GC))) – End the filibuster!  clay3 days ago
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(That said, presidents absolutely can make things better or worse!)

Paddycakes2001  clay3 days ago

The economy created fewer jobs in Trump’s first 3 years than in Obama’s final 3 years.

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Ross3 days ago

Hey, Ryan!

Even Republican historians put Trump at the bottom of the list.

another_steve 3 days ago

“In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office.”

That’s funny. In his MAGAt circles, I thought that presidential greatness is based on how many pussies you grab ’cause you’re a star and they let ya.

liondon#traitortrash3 days ago

Trying to talk facts to a cultist…

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Porkie 3 days ago edited

In a more topical vein how about teaching OK students not to murder kids in the bathroom

Uncle Mark – fermented for ‘24 3 days ago

“What the hell do a bunch of elitist libtard historians know? I only read one book…the Bible, and it tells me all I need to know. We’ll have much better historians in the future, after we finish burning down all the libraries.” 🙄

Stuart  Uncle Mark – fermented for ‘243 days ago

First they came for sociology, but I did nothing because I am not a sociologist…

Halou 3 days ago edited

How many people died because he was too lazy to lift a finger to tackle a pandemic? Not like he even needed to do any work to that end since there is a whole bureaucracy of government to follow any directives given to them. Just say “do this” and it’ll be done, but even that is too much for him.

How many people died because he had already said “It’ll be gone by spring” and stuck his stupid-ass flag in it like a land claim? Wouldn’t want to admit he was wrong about something, thus you all have to die horribly.

How many people died because the areas first affected by the pandemic voted more for Hillary in 2016? Urban areas like New York, may as well have been independent countries given the absolute lack of aid provided by the federal government.
Likewise when Puerto Rico was struck by a hurricane and they were more or less left to fend for themselves. How many died there waiting for relief that was never even sent?

This is why Trump is the worst. An ugly bastard child of malice and incompetence. Where past presidents could be defined as one or the other, he alone is both.

VodkaAndPolitics 3 days ago

“presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office.”

Sir, We had a damn plague.

kaydenpat 3 days ago

Conservative historians also ranked Trump in the bottom five so go ahead and teach OK kids another lie. You’re already teaching them that the Tulsa massacre had nothing to do with race.

muttpupdad  kaydenpat2 days ago

And that the land never really belonged to the Native Americans.

TrollopeReader3 days ago

Great if you love Putin !!

JackFknTwist – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ  TrollopeReader3 days ago

Exactly, – this is Putin swill being fed to Republicans.

April Smith 3 days ago edited

BTW, Ryan Walters has the blood of that non binary 16 year old kid on his hands. The one that was killed a few weeks ago at the high school in the Tulsa suburb of Owasso. Apparently just for being Trans.

All that inflammatory anti Trans garbage that spews out of his mouth egged on all the hated of anyone different.

JCF  April Smith3 days ago

Nex Benedict.

Ash3 days ago

Anyone arguing that the economy performed well during the Trump years is seriously delusional about how they ended.

 

West Virginia GOP Passes Deranged Bill That Could Put Librarians in Jail

https://newrepublic.com/post/179132/west-virginia-republicans-house-bill-librarians-jail

 

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West Virginia GOP Passes Deranged Bill That Could Put Librarians in Jail

State Republicans are taking the war on books to the next level.

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The Republican-controlled West Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill that could see librarians facing jail time.

House Bill 4654 passed the chamber Friday by a vote of 85–12, along party lines. The bill would remove criminal exemptions for schools, public libraries, and museums that distribute or display “obscene matter” to a minor, even if the minor’s parent or guardian is present. Any employees of those institutions found guilty of giving minors obscene matter can face fines of up to $25,000, up to five years in prison, or both.

The incredibly short piece of legislation gives no indication of how the new rules would affect paintings or sculptures that feature nude figures, or books that include descriptions or definitions of sexual conduct. Obscenity laws are incredibly hard to enforce, because definitions of obscenity still largely come down to individual interpretation.

As a result, there will likely be more reports of obscenity, made by people who are either more conservative or just nervous about accidentally breaking the law. And since libraries and public schools often operate on very tight budgets, they are unlikely to have the budget to fight a surge in lawsuits.

“It is going to cost our counties and our librarians when these matters go to the court system,” House Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle told The Parkersburg News and Sentinel. “Because this is still vague, I’m scared.”

“This is a very dangerous bill.”

House Minority Whip Shawn Fluharty warned that the legislation could inspire many lawsuits over books that staff members don’t even realize are problematic. “The librarians on staff might not know if a book has obscene matter in it or may or may not have shown it to someone, but because it was in the facility and it was sitting on a shelf, it could still be prosecuted,” he said.

The bill has now been sent to the state Senate, which the GOP also controls (along with the governor’s office).

Republicans across the country have increasingly sought to ban books, claiming they are protecting minors from seeing inappropriately sexual content. But most of the books being pulled from shelves tend to discuss race, gender, and sexuality.

Seemingly innocuous texts have also gotten caught up in the fray. School districts in Florida have pulled the dictionary from library shelves for including definitions of sexual conduct and have drawn over children’s picture books.

WV House Approves Bill That Could Jail Librarians

 

jugomono 3 days ago edited

JFC!!! The main reason I’m alive today is that I figured out I was gay and OK from library books! I was 14 so I guess I was a minor. 50 years ago!

Elagabalus  jugomono3 days ago edited

Me too. The book that saved me was entitled “Society and the healthy homosexual” by George Weinberg. That book was my lifeline to sanity.

Ninja0980  jugomono3 days ago

That’s why the bigots want those books outlawed.
They want LGBT kids to hate themselves.

Darreth  Ninja09803 days ago

Apparently, they’re not getting enough of that outward and inward hate in church.

Todd20036 3 days ago

Obscene = LBGTs exist

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kal61678  William3 days ago

“They tried to make me learn stuff!”

Makoto  William3 days ago

Death by a thousand papercuts and/or learning. Definitely something some worry about more than the proliferation of overpowered guns.

Tor 3 days ago

This is war. Librarians, traditionally, have been among the most trusted people in the US. It’s another move to undermine American institutions.

Elagabalus3 days ago edited

Obscenity is in the eye of the beholder and they all know that; they just can’t help themselves from pushing the envelope as far as possible.

Darreth3 days ago

As soon as a society erodes enough to jail librarians for books that have been on their shelves for decades that society will not last.

Swamp Yankee  Darreth3 days ago edited

Exactly, but since there has been precious little resistance, they’re gonna keep on doing what they do.

coram nobis 3 days ago

There’s also the inclusion of museums in there, and “obscene matter” could encompass, say, the entire Italian Renaissance in paintings and statuary — never mind Mapplethorpe. Even the religious stuff has full nudal frontity, and that includes the madonna-and-child school.

AyJayDee2 3 days ago

Good lord, what’s next, book burnings? Oh wait, they already had those too.

 

Let’s talk about West Virginia and books….

Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik Threatens to Sue Critics Blaming Her for Partial Role in Teen’s Death

A 16-year-old non-binary student in Oklahoma named Nex Benedict died following a physical altercation they had in a school bathroom with three students that bullied them since 2023. Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik is now being accused of sharing indirect responsibility for the hate crime for the fact that she helped cultivate a toxic climate of anti-LGBTQ+ hate at the school by targeting one of the school’s pro-LGBTQ+ teachers that lead to a “scandal” that rocked the small town. We’ll break down the details in this video.

Florida House Approves Chaplains For Public Schools, Bill’s “Tongues-Speaking Exorcist” Sponsor Celebrates

Florida House Approves Chaplains For Public Schools, Bill’s “Tongues-Speaking Exorcist” Sponsor Celebrates

Since the 1980s religious leaders in the Christian faith have tried hard to take over state governments, force their church dogma into public schools, and now enshrine religious doctrines in federal laws.   The religious right wants the words Christian to be a legal way to disregard any law or rule they don’t like, giving Christians special privileges they deny any other religion.  I don’t understand their absolute delusion that the US was to be a Christian theocracy?  I don’t understand how they think forcing their religion on everyone is better than democracy?  Hugs.  Scottie

February 22, 2024 Christianists, Education

 

Florida Politics reports:

Bipartisan legislation that could put religious figures in your child’s classroom passed the House by an 89-25 margin, after a spirited debate in which one of the sponsors called herself a “Holy Roller” and said she “casts out devils.”

HB 931, sponsored by Republican Rep. Stan McClain and Democratic Rep. Kim Daniels [photo], would “authorize volunteer school chaplains to provide support, services, and programs to students. Daniels also said the separation of church and state was “intended to keep the state out of the church.”

“I am the opponents of this bill’s worst nightmare,” Daniels continued. “I cast out devils, I pray in tongues, I’m a Holy Roller. But nobody on this floor can ever say I tried to convert you. Jesus is too good to push down anybody’s throats.”

Read the full article.

Rep. Kim Daniels, who claims to be an exorcist by trade, first appeared on JMG when she declared that children’s dolls are sometimes possessed by demons.

Prior to her election as a state rep, Daniels led the campaign to defeat Jacksonville’s LGBTQ rights ordinance.

Her bill to place “In God We Trust” signs in all Florida classrooms was approved in 2018.

In 2019, she authored an ultimately failed bill to force Florida schools to offer separate elective courses on the Old and New Testaments.

Daniels, who claims the title of “apostle,” earned national attention last year when an old video was surfaced in which she declared, “I thank God for slavery.”

In the Christian network video below, she explains that her primary role in life is as a “demon buster.”

 

Todd20036 16 hours ago

Demons never infected atheists

Canadian Observer  Todd2003615 hours ago

True as far as that goes, but I have encountered a few cats being raised by atheists that I have a few doubts about. 😉

San_Ban  Todd2003614 hours ago

I know! We’re immune to all sorts of ailments that afflict the religious.

666 and 999 16 hours ago

Are the kids going to be learning something like this from them???

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rednekokie 16 hours ago

I am so very grateful that I received my education before the absolute crazies took over.
I can only weep for those attempting to get an education in this day and time.

Wintercat  rednekokie16 hours ago edited

I grew up in the South Florida of the 80’s and early 90’s. I went to a very progressive elementary school that had open classrooms and self-directed learning and a media center that showed immersive media from all around the world to make kids worldly, kids from many nations and every race, teachers that were openly homosexual and it was known they had a same sex spouse and that was fine. We were taught about the Rosewood Massacre and the truth of the Seminole Wars, the latter even under the locally built chickee hut on the playground.

It is now a completely unrecognizable place to me, and I never want to return even for a visit.

Damned_at_Random  rednekokie16 hours ago

My granddaughter is in Pensacola. My daughter had to sing a release to give her access to the middle school library.

I really wish they would leave that asylum

Oklahoma LGBTQ teen did not die from trauma, police say

Let’s talk about Oklahoma vaguely….

What Beau is referring to is an N.B or transgender teen who was brutally assaulted in a girls’ bathroom.    Notice that the attacks on trans and non-binary people in bathrooms got much worse at the urging of right wing hate preachers / politicians.  Notice it is the rhetoric is always that trans people will hurt your daughters, but the facts show that is wrong.  It is the trans people being hurt by cis people.  For needing to use a toilet.   I did not post the quote but in the first article it mentions Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, is facing intense scrutiny over his ties to Chaya Raichik, the figure behind the far-right Libs of TikTok hate account, and for their outspoken stance against transgender rights.   Hugs.  Scottie

The grandmother, Sue Benedict, told The Independent that her child had been the subject of months of intensifying bullying that began earlier in 2023 after Oklahoma’s Republican-led government banned transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity.Benedict told their grandmother that they and another trans student had fought the other students in the bathroom, according to the Independent. The teen told her they’d hit their head on the floor.  “Nex did not see themselves as male or female,” Sue Benedict said. “Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”  https://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-transgender-student-dies-allegedly-125629309.html

Nex Dagny Benedict killed Oklahoma non binary student beaten classmates bathroom Owasso High School
Nex Dagny Benedict killed Oklahoma non binary student beaten classmates bathroom Owasso High School
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What is nonbinary?

A nonbinary person experiences their gender identity and/or gender expression outside of the binary categories of “man” and “woman.” Other words may be used by nonbinary people to describe their gender more specifically, including agender, bigender, demigender and pangender.

Some nonbinary people call themselves transgender and consider themselves part of the transgender community, while others do not.

“Nonbinary is an umbrella term that encompasses many different ways to understand one’s gender,” according to GLAAD.

What is transgender?

Transgender describes a person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

A person can be transgender without having gone through a transition — the process in which a person brings their gender expression and/or their body into alignment with their gender identity. A transition can include a social transition, legal transition and medical transition.

What is cisgender?

Cisgender refers to a person who is not transgender, and whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/20/what-is-nonbinary-transgender-cisgender-gender-term-etiquette/72669303007/

 

Texas School Board Member Resigns After Helping Evangelical Film Crew Sneak Into High School [VIDEO]

Texas School Board Member Resigns After Helping Evangelical Film Crew Sneak Into High School [VIDEO]

I posted on this the other day.   I was outraged about the sneaky way it was done and how if a left leaning group was to do this, the right would lynch someone.   So it is appropriate that I post the follow-up.  Hugs.  Scottie

February 19, 2024 Christianists, Education

 

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports:

A Keller ISD school board member announced on Facebook Sunday she will resign from her position. In a post from her now-deleted page, Sandi Walker wrote she decided to resign as a trustee after prayer and conversations with friends and family. Walker added she was proud of what the board had accomplished in her nearly two years as a member.

Walker was one of two KISD trustees who issued apologies amid controversy about an Evangelist film crew from the Netherlands who was allowed into a school and filmed students without the district’s or parents’ consent. The district confirmed this happened on Feb. 9.

The superintendent says the film crew assured them no students or teachers would be visible in their final product. The district says its lawyers have “directed the film crew to destroy all footage it collected or return it to Keller ISD.”

Read the full article. My first post on the incident is here. The evangelical network that hired the film crew recently produced a documentary titled “God, Jesus, Trump.”

 

April Smith a day ago edited

I bet it was a conversation with an attorney was the real reason to bail.

And how do we know 100% of that all video footage was destroyed. They’ve shown they can’t be trusted. Anyway, I’d still sue them and the school district.

P.S. Maybe this religious freak with come up with a Bible verse that covers being sued into the stone age.

Buford a day ago

Fascinating how she prayed over the decision to resign, but she apparently didn’t bother to pray over the decision to commit this offensive act in the first place.

Maybe there’s a lesson for her in there, somewhere…

Karl Dubhe IV  Buforda day ago

I’m sure she did. Her ‘god’ told her he was cool with it. I suppose ‘he’ changed his mind, or something.

Darreth  Karl Dubhe IVa day ago

She very easily had a ‘feeling’ that Jesus was talking directly to her, so she responded with her gut.

And now she’s going to find out exactly how that failed mode of being is going to bankrupt her. The lawsuit will be expensive.

B Snow  Karl Dubhe IV21 hours ago

Any action, no matter how criminal or heinous, is okay if you’re doing it for Jesus. See: murdering women’s healthcare providers.

Stoned and loving it a day ago

why is it Jesus only tells them they fucked up after the fact?

David Snyder a day ago

It’s nice to see parents standing up to the Christian Groomers.

Gigia day ago

The evangelical network that hired the film crew recently produced a documentary titled “God, Jesus, Trump.”

So they let insane people have access to children without their parents’ consent. It’s no wonder the parents are upset.

B Snow  Gigi21 hours ago

That thing where conservatives are outraged that strangers have access to children:

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Houndentenor a day ago

This was illegal. Most HS students are minors. You can’t put them in tv or in a movie without parental consent. This is a legal mess for the school that has only just started.

Anastasia Beaverhousena day ago

Let me re-write this. I got caught. I fucked up. I should have never been elected with my Jesus ideology. I’m not sorry in the least.

RexDaddy a day ago
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“The Jesus made me do it!”

Cel a day ago

No apology whatsoever, typical “good christian”.

RomanHansa day ago

Why do they always have to shove their goddamn idiot lifestyles in our face?

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Nic Peterson21 hours ago

GOP: Trans persons will sneak into school and rape our kids!

Highmore  Nic Peterson18 hours ago
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Against the law to teach the truth about history

Thanks to Ten Bears for the link.   Hugs.  https://homelessonthehighdesert.com/2024/02/18/firstday-no-flight-fight/

Doonesbury Comic Strip for February 18, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/02/18