Brigid Alverson
@brigidalverson.bsky.social
Comics journalist, library fan, ally. I vote. Support trans youth! Pronouns: She/her.
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If they bail out AI, we've got to see another Occupy, but on a scale a thousand times bigger.
As a minimum response.
As a minimum response.
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
If they bail out AI, we've got to see another Occupy, but on a scale a thousand times bigger.
As a minimum response.
As a minimum response.
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Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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According to today’s WSJ, over half of GDP growth is represented by dumping money into the Mauna Kea volcano. Stopping this may anger the volcano gods, so we must press on.
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
According to today’s WSJ, over half of GDP growth is represented by dumping money into the Mauna Kea volcano. Stopping this may anger the volcano gods, so we must press on.
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I want to know who is calling James Carville up and asking him to share his opinion
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I want to know who is calling James Carville up and asking him to share his opinion
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The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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I absolutely mean to high horse it. You have failed, morally and ethically, if you give Lizza money, he's no Saint either, just another bland sleaze stumbling his way through the morass, drinking it up as he goes. Spend your money on the people whose good stuff you see on this site all the time.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I absolutely mean to high horse it. You have failed, morally and ethically, if you give Lizza money, he's no Saint either, just another bland sleaze stumbling his way through the morass, drinking it up as he goes. Spend your money on the people whose good stuff you see on this site all the time.
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So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So I’m getting into my truck at the grocery store and a voice yells “Hey! Young lady!”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
I am 48 so I did not turn, but then I see wild waving out a truck window. Old man straight off Duck Dynasty, full camo, beard to his sternum. He says “Your bumper sticker! Read books, punch Nazis?”
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Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Important to understand that shame has no power over these people, because they feel no shame over doing things like promoting Nazism, but sufficient "noise" in the form of media attention and complaints from embarrassed Republicans can have some effect on policy.
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wapo.st/4rdDQew
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Important to understand that shame has no power over these people, because they feel no shame over doing things like promoting Nazism, but sufficient "noise" in the form of media attention and complaints from embarrassed Republicans can have some effect on policy.
wapo.st/4rdDQew
wapo.st/4rdDQew
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The Harvard Crimson kids are kicking ass on this Larry Summers story.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The Harvard Crimson kids are kicking ass on this Larry Summers story.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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All I want for Christmas is a machine claiming online that my intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields. Full stop. And world peace. Nothing more. Thanks, Santa!
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
All I want for Christmas is a machine claiming online that my intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields. Full stop. And world peace. Nothing more. Thanks, Santa!
Today at Good Comics for Kids, @jcaleb.bsky.social reviewed Go-Man, a new, Japanese-inspired but very American, graphic novel for kids by @hamishsteele.bsky.social
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Go-Man: Champion of Earth | Review
In cartoonist Hamish Steele's new book, lonely little boy Tobi becomes a giant, kaiju-fighting superhero. In addition to being a lot of fun, this is also a metaphor.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today at Good Comics for Kids, @jcaleb.bsky.social reviewed Go-Man, a new, Japanese-inspired but very American, graphic novel for kids by @hamishsteele.bsky.social
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goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2025/11/20/g...
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I mean the thing that Summers resigned over is directly admitting that he was pressuring students into sex (while making racist little jibes about her!) in an email to his notorious paedophile buddy. I do wonder how one could not be incredibly embarrassed to run this kind of pedantry in this case.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I mean the thing that Summers resigned over is directly admitting that he was pressuring students into sex (while making racist little jibes about her!) in an email to his notorious paedophile buddy. I do wonder how one could not be incredibly embarrassed to run this kind of pedantry in this case.
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i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff
Larry Summers' wife accepted a donation from Jeffrey Epstein In 2015, long after his 2008 conviction for having sex with a minor (i.e., raping a minor). And he made numerous visits to Harvard post-2008. Not to mention being Summers' wingman in 2019.
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Larry Summers' wife accepted a donation from Jeffrey Epstein In 2015, long after his 2008 conviction for having sex with a minor (i.e., raping a minor). And he made numerous visits to Harvard post-2008. Not to mention being Summers' wingman in 2019.
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
Today I wrote about the comics artist Louis Small, Jr., known for his work on Vampirella and fondly remembered for his enthusiasm, his kindness, and his support of young creators. I never met him, but I wish I had.
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R.I.P. Louis Small, Jr.
'Vampirella' Artist, Co-Creator of 'Codename Knockout'
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November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Today I wrote about the comics artist Louis Small, Jr., known for his work on Vampirella and fondly remembered for his enthusiasm, his kindness, and his support of young creators. I never met him, but I wish I had.
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Also:
5. If you run out of ideas, just do “Days of Future Past” again or another “Crisis.”
6. You have so much to add to “Watchmen.”
7. No matter what year Batman is in you can always find an earlier one to explain.
8. Batman and Superman go to war with each other. Evergreen.
5. If you run out of ideas, just do “Days of Future Past” again or another “Crisis.”
6. You have so much to add to “Watchmen.”
7. No matter what year Batman is in you can always find an earlier one to explain.
8. Batman and Superman go to war with each other. Evergreen.
Eternal comics truths, from a 2006 article in the Hackensack, NJ, Record:
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Also:
5. If you run out of ideas, just do “Days of Future Past” again or another “Crisis.”
6. You have so much to add to “Watchmen.”
7. No matter what year Batman is in you can always find an earlier one to explain.
8. Batman and Superman go to war with each other. Evergreen.
5. If you run out of ideas, just do “Days of Future Past” again or another “Crisis.”
6. You have so much to add to “Watchmen.”
7. No matter what year Batman is in you can always find an earlier one to explain.
8. Batman and Superman go to war with each other. Evergreen.
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Yes, excited for the statements from each of the people who were so concerned with minor plagiarism allegations that they forced Claudine Gay out of Harvard's presidency about how the Summers/Epstein mess doesn't rise to that level
Still no word from Bill Ackman?! Elise Stefanik?
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yes, excited for the statements from each of the people who were so concerned with minor plagiarism allegations that they forced Claudine Gay out of Harvard's presidency about how the Summers/Epstein mess doesn't rise to that level
Eternal comics truths, from a 2006 article in the Hackensack, NJ, Record:
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Eternal comics truths, from a 2006 article in the Hackensack, NJ, Record: