Tom O’Leary

@tomoleary.bsky.social

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My apolitical blog of art images, mostly comic book art, is tomoleary.blog (which is really Tumblr).

Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution. But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again. RFK
In the last analysis, defendant has been stalling this case for years. A jury unanimously concluded that he sexually abused and defamed plaintiff and awarded her damages accordingly. The judgment on that verdict has been upheld on appeal. En banc rehearing has been denied. The Supreme Court has denied certiorari without dissent. It is time for him to "do equity" and pay the judgment. SO ORDERED. Lewis A. Kaplan US District Judge July 8, 2026
The simple step of the courageous individual is to not take part in the lie. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"I DO NOT KNOW IF WECAN BUILD A BETTER SOCIETY. I DO NOT EVEN KNOW IF WE WILL SURVIVE AS A SPECIES. BUT IKNOW THESE CORPORATE FORCES HAVE US BY THE THROAT. AND THEY HAVE MY CHILDREN BY THE THROAT. I DO NOT FIGHT FASCISTS BECAUSE I WILL WIN. I FIGHT FASCISTS BECAUSE THEY ARE FASCISTS." CHRIS
They've arrested more people for touching the peeling paint at the Reflecting Pool than they've arrested from the Epstein files.
Librarians are there: To help, aid, assist. To teach, collate, enthuse. To catalogue, index, arrange, organize. To find, discover, promote, display. To interest, intrigue, amuse and amaze. To instill wonder. To help children, adults, old people, the underprivileged, the rich, the poor, those with voices and those without. To protect resources, to archive them, to store them, to save them for the future. To provide differing viewpoints, to engender thought, conversation, research, fun. To provide the best answer possible, to match the answer to the enquirer, to provide just enough information without overwhelming the user, but enough to always help. To better a local community, a company, a school, a college, an organization, a country, the world. Google is there: To make money.
The fact that this administration wastes our money like a bunch of goddamn maniacs makes it all the more egregious that Elon Musk's "DOGE" used government efficiency as a pretext for cutting programs that conflicted with their white supremacist worldview.
"SO IT'S JUST BEING REALISTIC TO SAY THAT MAGA WILL TRY, SOMEHOW, TO PREVENT VOTERS FROM HAVING THEIR SAY. WILL ICE TRY TO PREVENT BLUE DISTRICTS FROM VOTING? IF THAT FAILS, WILL THEY REJECT THE RESULTS, IN A MIDTERM VERSION OF JAN. 6?" CALL ME ALARMIST, BUT REMEMBER: THE ALARMISTS HAVE BEEN RIGHT, AND THE PEOPLE TELLING US TO CALM DOWN HAVE BEEN WRONG, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. - NOBEL LAUREATE PAUL KRUGMAN
Blue damselfly resting on green leaves with shadowed wall behind.
They killed a one-year old. They killed a one-year old over a pack of diapers. They killed a one-year old over a pack of diapers they thought were stolen. No diapers are worth more than a one-year old's life. They killed a one-year old over a pack of diapers. They killed a one-year old.
The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr. Donald Trump Jr. is who yall thought Hunter Biden was.
The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what's to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn't have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine. -Penn Jillette
PROJECT 2028 / Overturn Citizens United / Codify Women's Right to Choose / Term Limits for SCOTUS / Get Rid of the Electoral College / Outlaw Gerrymandering Nationwide / Return Fairness Doctrine in Media / Universal Healthcare for ALL / Ban Stock Trading While in Congress / $ Cap Congress Salary - 1.5x Median Income of Their District / $ Tax Billionaires Out of Existence / $ Tax Unrealized Gains Used as Loan Collateral / $ Tax Mega-Churches / Raise Federal Minimum Wage to $20/hr Let's take our country back.
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don't fit because they're scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.
Pink flower buds against a blue sky
Blue and green confetti blur a shot of Sam Darnold after he led the Seattle Seahawks to Super Bowl LX champs.
Person holding handmade sign that reads The President of the United States and the dumbest motherfucker on Earth should be two different people
For Alex Jeffrey Pretti Murdered by I.C.E January 24, 2026 by Amanda Gorman We wake with no words, just woe & wound. Our own country shoot ing us in the back is not just brutal ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people e you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.
A dark bull with Bonehead Tariff on his side as he plows through a china shop breaking jars named Employment, Commerce, Shipping, Transportation, Industry and Foreign Trade.
A mass of tangled Christmas ornament hooks in a ball.
Image of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump from People magazine with this text: Jeffrey Epstein Called Donald Trump the Worst Person He'd Ever Known and 'Dangerous' in Newly Released Email
“Grandmama, Wednesday & Pugsley baking bat cookies...”
Selfie of a white-bearded man wearing a t-shirt with an image Krypto from the Superman movie and on his lap is a small, black, long haired dog.
A trio of diners look at the painter of the painting with this text: that feeling when you go out for a quiet meal and some fucker at the next table starts painting you
Pitcher begins his windup on the mound, which the broadcaster has expanded beyond its zone.
Closeup of red, fragrant flower.
Two small dogs, one white one black, play.
Two 16lb dogs rest after vicious binky carnage
Bicolor lily against patio tiles
Small black dog smiles for the camera.
Dead sapling sits under concrete.
Fern-like plant grows out of a drain spout high on a wall.
Small black dog lies comfortably by my leg.
Beautiful pink-red flowers overwhelm green leaves on an unidentified plant.
Bruce Springsteen: "There's some very weird, strange, and dangerous shit going on out there right now. In America they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now. In America the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening right now. In my country they're taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers. They're rolling back historic civil rights legislation that has led to a more just and plural society. They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom. They are defunding American universities that won't bow down to their ideological demands. They are removing residents off American streets and without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons. This is all happening now. A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government. They have no concern or idea for what it means to be deeply American. The America I've sung to you about for 50 years is real and regardless of its faults is a great country with a great people. So we'll survive this moment."
Small black dog looking out a window.
Next to man wearing a red MAGA cap is a woman wearing a pink and white cap that reads Sorry About My Husband.
WE HAVE A SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WHO HATES TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS. WE HAVE A SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION WHO HATES PUBLIC TRANSIT. WE HAVE AN ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO HATES THE CONSTITUTION. WE HAVE A SECRETARY OF STATE, THE SON OF NATURALIZED CITIZENS, A FAMILY OF REFUGEES, ON A CRUSADE TO EXPEL OUR COUNTRY OF BOTH. WE HAVE A HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY, AN IMMIGRANT GRANTED THE PRIVILEGE OF LIVING AND WORKING HERE, A MAN WHO HAS MADE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AFTER THE GOVERNMENT RESCUED HIS BUSINESS FOR HIM, WHO IS LOOKING TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS TO FUND TAX CUTS FOR HIMSELF. AND WE HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO CLAIMS TO LOVE AMERICA, BUT WHO HATES OUR MILITARY SO MUCH THAT HE CALLS THEM LOSERS AND SUCKERS, AND WHO CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO DELAY HIS GOLF GAME TO GREET THE BODIES OF FOUR FALLEN US SOLDIERS. GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER
Small black dog naps next to owner’s leg.
Meet Dante, the newest member of our brood. The shelter gave him that moniker and I approve of a 15-pound black dog named Dante.