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A woman stares at her cell phone, wide-eyed as if in shock. | Ocusfocus | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: What'd I Say?

Charles Oliver | 4.30.2025 4:00 AM

bb2 | Illustration: Peter Bagge

Brickbats: May 2025

News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.

Peter Bagge and Charles Oliver | 4.29.2025 6:00 AM

A prosecuting attorney addresses jurors in the jury box during a trial. | Photographerlondon | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: True Colors

Charles Oliver | 4.29.2025 4:00 AM

A woman against a white background holds a card with a black 'X' over her mouth. | Vladimirfloyd | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Red Card Penalty

Charles Oliver | 4.28.2025 4:00 AM

A little girl lies in bed looking at a tablet (an iPad or something similar). | Kuprevich | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Stealing My Own Stuff

Charles Oliver | 4.25.2025 4:00 AM

A man wearing all white with his hands cuffed behind his back, against the backdrop of the Thailand flag. | Michael Edwards | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Come at the King

Charles Oliver | 4.24.2025 4:00 AM

A sparse, dark prison cell with only a bed and a toilet. Moonlight streams through the barred window. | Fernando Gregory | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Locked in Here With Me

Charles Oliver | 4.23.2025 4:00 AM

Graffiti in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood, depicting a serpent with a tiger's head, surrounded by lotus flowers. | Maximoangel | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Forget It, Jake…

Charles Oliver | 4.22.2025 4:00 AM

A tent underneath an overpass in Los Angeles. | Stevehymon | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Handholding on Homelessness

Charles Oliver | 4.21.2025 4:00 AM

One teenage girl whispers a secret to another, who appears shocked. | Antonio Guillem | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Betraying Secrets

Charles Oliver | 4.18.2025 4:00 AM

An apartment building in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. | Volodymyr Kyrylyuk | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: No Vacancies

Charles Oliver | 4.17.2025 4:00 AM

An AI-generated image of a red British phone booth on the surface of the moon, with the Earth in the background. | Lusimila | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Up, Up, and Away

Charles Oliver | 4.16.2025 4:00 AM

A Montreal school bus sits at a red light in snowy conditions, with cars on one side. | Marc Bruxelle | Dreamstime.com

Parking tickets

Brickbat: Bus Stop and Go

Charles Oliver | 4.15.2025 4:00 AM

A sad little girl sits in a car seat in the back, bundled up. | Reana | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Needing a Boost

Charles Oliver | 4.14.2025 4:00 AM

A protest outside a Tesla dealership in New York City, with a cardboard cutout of CEO Elon Musk. | Cpenler | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Getting Charged Up

Charles Oliver | 4.11.2025 4:00 AM

Wooden peg people standing around, with one holding a protest sign with a red question mark on it. | Andrii Yalanskyi | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Unfree Speech Zone

Charles Oliver | 4.10.2025 4:00 AM

Yard sign with an arrow that says "Vote Here" | Calvin L. Leake | Dreamstime.com

Higher Education

Brickbat: Flipping Out

Charles Oliver | 4.9.2025 4:00 AM

Close-up of a security officer's waist with his hand on his handcuffs, outside a school. | Simone Hogan | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Like Being Back in School

Charles Oliver | 4.8.2025 4:00 AM

A male police officer sits in the drivers seat of his patrol car, holding a coffee and donut, while a female officer leans in his open window. Both are smiling. | Nomadsoul1 | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: To Observe, not Report

Charles Oliver | 4.7.2025 4:00 AM

Shot looking up at the Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis. | Joe Sohm | Dreamstime.com

Government abuse

Brickbat: Unforeseen Effects

Charles Oliver | 4.4.2025 4:00 AM

facial recognition | Lex Villena; Midjourney

Facial Recognition

Brickbat: Never Forget a Face

Charles Oliver | 4.3.2025 4:00 AM

Police cars parked outside a convenience store. | Msphotographic | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Injustice Is Blind

Charles Oliver | 4.2.2025 4:00 AM

A parked Toyota Prius Hybrid with a Los Angeles Parking Enforcement decal on the side. | Kilmermedia | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Back End Costs

Charles Oliver | 4.1.2025 4:00 AM

A prison guard patrols outside the cell of an inmate in an orange jumpsuit. | Anna Kosolapova | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: From Officer to Inmate

Charles Oliver | 3.31.2025 4:00 AM

Men dressed as gunfighters to reenact events of the Old West, in Tombstone, Arizona. | Crackerclips | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Uncollegial Behavior

Charles Oliver | 3.27.2025 4:00 AM

A "TRUMP: Make America Great Again" sign is attached to a tree along a rural road. | Andrew Cline | Dreamstime.com

Presidential Candidates

Brickbat: Lawn Sign Litigation

Charles Oliver | 3.26.2025 4:00 AM

A girls' basketball team in uniform listens to their male coach. | Mbr Images | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Unsportsmanlike Conduct

Charles Oliver | 3.25.2025 4:00 AM

bb1 | Illustration: Peter Bagge

Brickbats: April 2025

News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.

Peter Bagge and Charles Oliver | 3.24.2025 6:00 AM

A semiautomatic pistol with an orange lock around it. | Kbiros | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Gunned Down

Charles Oliver | 3.21.2025 4:00 AM

A green pipe with a water meter on it. | Xiaomin Wang | Dreamstime.com

Local Government

Brickbat: Dragged Through the Mud

Charles Oliver | 3.20.2025 4:00 AM

A brunette woman looks at her cell phone with concern. | Antonio Guillem | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Up in Smoke

Charles Oliver | 3.19.2025 4:00 AM

A scientist's gloved hands place a swab into a test tube, as for DNA sample collection. | Shawn Hempel | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Permanent Record

Charles Oliver | 3.18.2025 4:00 AM

A restaurant patron fills in the tip portion of their bill. | Rtdeleon04 | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: To Insure Prompt Service?

Charles Oliver | 3.17.2025 4:00 AM

Firefighters stand near a bulldozer as fire burns on a hillside. | Erin Donalson | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Burn, Baby, Burn

Charles Oliver | 3.14.2025 4:00 AM

A man wearing gloves and earmuffs fires a pistol at a firing range. | Svetlana Day | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Run for Your Life

Charles Oliver | 3.13.2025 4:00 AM

U.S. quarters encircling a Massachusetts state quarter. | Radomír Režný | Dreamstime.com

Local Government

Brickbat: Masshole Mayor's Money

Charles Oliver | 3.12.2025 4:00 AM

Close-up view of a bunch of bullets loose in a container. | Bricbricanderson | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Let's See Some ID

Charles Oliver | 3.11.2025 4:00 AM

A doctor in blue scrubs speaks to a patient, who is concealed behind a divider, in a doctor's office. | Aleksey Satyrenko | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: First Do No Harm

Charles Oliver | 3.10.2025 4:00 AM

A worker's hand holds a time card as they punch the clock. | Alexey Stiop | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Double Time

Charles Oliver | 3.7.2025 4:00 AM

In an extreme closeup, a stylus prepares to mark "Dislike" on a YouTube video. | Dimarik16 | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Mommy and Daddy Issues

Charles Oliver | 3.6.2025 4:00 AM

Two identical semiautomatic pistols, laid across one another. | Kbiros | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Evil Twin

Charles Oliver | 3.5.2025 4:00 AM

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass | Ted Soqui/Sipa USA/Newscom

Brickbat: Government Transparency

Charles Oliver | 3.4.2025 4:00 AM

A child's hand reaching into a cookie jar and pulling out a brownie. | Irina Berenshteyn | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Start Over From Scratch

Charles Oliver | 3.3.2025 4:00 AM

A prison guard sits at a desk in a guard station, surveying camera feeds. | Rebekah Zemansky | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Ratcheting Up

Charles Oliver | 2.28.2025 4:00 AM

Three candidates for city council sit on a stage, with one speaking into a microphone. | Sheila Fitzgerald | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: The Public's Right To Know Nothing

Charles Oliver | 2.27.2025 4:00 AM

Two police officers in neon "POLICE" vests stand at a building's entrance, in front of closed doors. | Katarzyna Bialasiewicz | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: The One Time Cops Didn't Knock Down the Door

Charles Oliver | 2.26.2025 4:00 AM

A man in a suit, in the driver's seat of his car, puts his hand to his head as he sees police lights through the back window. | Andrey Popov | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: A Public Concern

Charles Oliver | 2.25.2025 4:00 AM

A woman's clasped hands hold a rosary with a crucifix, signifying that she is in prayer. | Zts | Dreamstime.com

Brickbat: Thinking Too Loudly

Charles Oliver | 2.24.2025 4:00 AM

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