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Will Caron

@willcaron.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, social justice advocate. New editorial cartoons every Sunday in Honolulu Civil Beat. Commissions open. Portfolio & Shop: willcaronhawaii.com Subscribe for Free: patreon.com/WillCaron

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 14h
Mass working-class mobilizations taking place in Spain right now against evictions. These same conditions and problems are happening here. We can learn from these struggles.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h
Brutal scenes coming out of Lochiel, Arizona tonight. Border Patrol is moving a truck with a land defender locked to it while firing off pepper balls and tear gas: instagram.com/reel/DeODKqCt_BS/
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 7h
animals-crushing-pumpkins season is actually so important to me. spiritually www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyVBE2hL/
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h
"When the AI Bubble Bursts, Big Tech Will Be Scarier Than Ever" The AI bust will be a crucial moment in the history of capitalism. Big tech is organised – we need to get organised enough to resist. From @graceblakeley.substack.com for @zeteo.uk:
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When the AI Bubble Bursts, Big Tech Will Be Scarier Than Ever
The AI bust will be a crucial moment in the history of capitalism. Big tech is organised enough to benefit from the concentration of power that will follow – we need to get organised enough to resist.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17h
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Poet Etc @poetetc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Myanmar workers in Malaysia striking to protest junta leader Min Aung Hlain's state visit - in the midst of a targeted deportation campaign against Myanmar people in Malaysia - is a pretty astounding display of courage. english.dvb.no/myanmar-work...
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Myanmar workers in Malaysia call for strike ahead of Min Aung Hlaing visit to Kuala Lumpur - DVB
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You guys should check out this bridge I've got for sale.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Which is of course nonsense. As is them flying around the long side of the globe to get to an American city.
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."
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rowan finn 🐚 @bigoldeels.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
man the video in this article of the tree going down is just fucking agonizing
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Let There Be Irony | Will Caron
My latest editorial cartoon, "Let There Be Irony," captures a moment that every HECO ratepayer will recognize. A HECO representative stands
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Let There Be Irony" HECO promises to "shed some light on the situation." The lights immediately go out. My new cartoon on the utility that can't keep the power on but can always find a way to raise your rates. 💡🔌 #art #cartoon #digitalart #editorialcartoon #illustration #climatecrisis #energy
My latest editorial cartoon, "Let There Be Irony," captures a moment that every HECO ratepayer will recognize.

A HECO representative stands before a room of frustrated customers at a community meeting. She's calm, professional, reassuring: "Don't worry, we're going to answer all of your questions. We're here to shed some light on the situation."

Then—THUNK. The lights go out. The room goes black, save for the cartoonish whites of the audience's eyes floating in the darkness. "Ah," the woman says, recognizing the irony of the moment.

It would be funny if it weren't so painfully true.

East Honolulu residents have been living through a slow-motion reliability crisis for years. In just two weeks, there were 146 outages within a one-mile radius of the Hawaiʻi Kai Shopping Center, adding up to 58,232 "customer-impacts." By comparison, the same radius around Civil Beat Plaza in Kaimukī saw 60 outages but only 379 customer-impacts. That's not a weather problem. That's a grid problem.

And HECO knows exactly what the problem is. The utility conducts root-cause analyses for every outage. It has detailed, specific answers. It just won't share them.

When Civil Beat requested the last 10 root-cause analyses for East Honolulu outages, HECO executives said they were preparing for a hurricane and couldn't immediately provide them. After the storm passed, they still couldn't provide them—and wouldn't say whether they ever would. As a private company, HECO isn't subject to open records laws. It's regulated by the Public Utilities Commission, which can require disclosures, but so far, that hasn't happened.

Meanwhile, the company is asking for a rate increase that would add about $11 to the average Oʻahu residential bill by 2028. That's $11 more per month for a utility that can't reliably keep the lights on and won't explain why.

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PacifistCell @peacefulbrevard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is SO COOL! And it's free. Popular Information is releasing PaidForBy.info, a web app that gives you unprecedented insight into who is really sending you mail — and who is paying for it. All you have to do is take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's not the power company we deserve. Just the one we're stuck with. My latest #cartoon in @civilbeat.bsky.social. Blog post coming tomorrow 👨🏼‍💻 www.civilbeat.org/2026/10/will...
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Will Caron: Let There Be Irony
Politics, policy and public affairs as seen through the eyes of our political cartoonist.
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They changed the fucking seal so there's no olive branch anymore and only the bundle of arrows, which is actually called a Fasces, which is straight up where the word Fascist comes from.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Economists have destroyed society btw
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
*nods in fucking dipshit*, just as the Nazis were famously defanged through a series of lunch dates
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You've made the Nobel Prize into a fucking joke.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For one, it didn’t fit the nyt narrative, which ascribes moral equivalency to transphobic extremists and trans ppl like myself who speak up for civil rights. A little background on the nyt history of transphobia and my own close-up view assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People? - Assigned Media
An analysis of its coverage reveals a pattern of misrepresentations, deceptions, distortions, the exclusion of trans voices, and the endorsement of contempt.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Assigned, of course, got the real story, and got it right, a week before the Times. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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doll ☾ @moonlit-petals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
every day i live with the knowledge that, unlike my cis peers, if im ever sent to a federal prison i will almost certainly be raped and tortured
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was like "oh wow you don't usually see a dual where Jackie is the bigger fighter," and then Jackie started dancing with him and I was like "ohhh I see why they did that now"
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The part where he juggles his head around like a basketball in a hoop is so hilarious.
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"...the idea that people (in my case, children) are darned forever by their crimes." What crimes did the child (you) commit? It's not the same situation at all.
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
90 fucking dollars? Lmao. How many more billions does the pedophile-in-chief need for the Epstein War?
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Absolutely vile. Good god @usatoday.com, this is so unbelievably shameful. Some opinions are absolutely unfit for print.
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Chris @exnerd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"When asked if customers will be able to opt-out of this, [Amazon] told Bloomberg, “We haven’t thought about that.”" Hey @murray.senate.gov why should Amazon get to violate WA's 2-party consent recording laws and go all Peeping Tom to even record the inside of my house through my front window?
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why because he said so? That's not accountability. It's just what you want to hear.
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Children raised in Christian households aren't guilty of committing any crimes though. They're victims. They are not even remotely in the same rhetorical category as Geller anyone else guilty of committing sex crimes. Your entire comparison is ass backwards.
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We want accountability. That's the only way rehabilitation can actually happen. Sex crimes ruin victims' lives. Perpetrators are allowed to go about their lives as if nothing happened, as was the case here until this news came out. That's not accountability. The accountability is happening now.
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cw rape The Geller stuff gets a lot more clear when you see it in the context of the rehabilitation Deshaun Watson happening at literally the same time because you get to see two different groups of people, one nominally leftist the other right wingers, argue for Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks Gavin Newsom!!!
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really? Cause it's exactly what I was expecting. The entire AI field is made up of people with brain damage from exposure to message boards.
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Hawai‘i Appleseed @hiappleseed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What would it take to make the bus free for everyone in Hawaiʻi—not just our keiki, but every resident who needs a ride? #FareFreeTransit #WeekWithoutDriving #KeikiRideFree #Mobility #Transportation #PublicHealth #ClimateAction #EconomicJustice #PeopleFirst #Hawaii hiappleseed.org/blog/the-bus...
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The bus could be free for everyone—here’s how we pay for it — Hawaiʻi Appleseed
What would it take to make the bus free for everyone in Hawaiʻi—not just our keiki, but every resident who needs a ride?
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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artdecade @artdecade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the guys that did this? YOU pay for their free health care
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Actual image of the supporters of privatization:
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Two Smiling Clowns
Alt: Tim and Eric as clowns laughing like crazed dipshits
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Artful Dodgers | Will Caron
In my latest editorial cartoon, Ed Case, Josh Green, and Derek Kawakami—three of Hawaiʻi's most powerful establishment politicians—are dress
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They've got the money, the name recognition, and the nerve to skip every debate. My new #cartoon on Hawaiʻi's Debate Dodgers—and why "showing up" should be the bare minimum. ⚾ #art #digitalart #editorialcartoon #illustration #politics #darkmoney #democracy #HiPol #Hawaii #elections #baseball
Ed Case, Josh Green, and Derek Kawakami—three of Hawaiʻi's most powerful establishment politicians—are dressed in Dodger blue baseball uniforms, "Debate Dodgers" scrawled across their chests in the team's iconic script. They're not swinging bats, though. They're performing elegant ballet moves, gracefully evading their challengers, who are dressed as football players, lunging and diving, trying desperately to tackle them.

Jarrett Keohokalole goes for Case. Gary Cordery charges at Green, whose spinning leg goes "bonk!" into the Republican gubernatorial hopeful's head. Daniel Anthony and Della Belatti both try to tackle Kawakami at the same time, from opposing directions, but he leaps out of their grasp and the two "bonk!" heads. The Dodgers keep dancing, untouched, unbothered, gliding past every attempt to force a confrontation.

The image is silly, but it's also an indictment of how elections are conducted by powerful candidates in Hawaiʻi—and increasingly, across the country.

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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Energetic Clown Performance at Theater Arts Circus
Alt: Clowns dancing in a circle
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Will Caron @willcaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You seem like a good dude. Hope your health continues to be well.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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