Dave Thomer
@davethomer.bsky.social
I teach kids about history and I hang out with my family. Still brainstorming on the profile pic and header. He/him
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Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
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FYI: the great comics artist Tom Mandrake is on here and his timeline is a nice mix of wild, intensely rendered pen & ink drawings and photos of the fox that hangs out on his porch.
I'll post some Swamp Thing teasers tomorrow. Today, just know foxy can nap comfortably in zero degrees. She loves our deck regardless.
February 1, 2026 at 2:13 AM
FYI: the great comics artist Tom Mandrake is on here and his timeline is a nice mix of wild, intensely rendered pen & ink drawings and photos of the fox that hangs out on his porch.
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As @jenniferkates.bsky.social reminds me, it was Dan McQuade who was at Hannibal Burress's October 2014 show at the Troc when he said “You rape women, Bill Cosby,” happened to be recording it, made it go viral, and from then on no one ever could forget or deny who Bill Cosby was.
Hannibal Buress on Bill Cosby: 'You're a Rapist'
Comedian Hannibal Buress called Bill Cosby a rapist in a bit at the Trocadero on Thursday night. Cosby has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women.
www.phillymag.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 AM
As @jenniferkates.bsky.social reminds me, it was Dan McQuade who was at Hannibal Burress's October 2014 show at the Troc when he said “You rape women, Bill Cosby,” happened to be recording it, made it go viral, and from then on no one ever could forget or deny who Bill Cosby was.
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as democrats, if we want to get immigration numbers back up to a reasonable level, we're going to have to do more than just go back to "the way things were." we're going to have to provide a real, reliable, fast pathway to CITIZENSHIP.
The central failure of US immigration policy over my entire adult life is that it has always put xenophobia over facts. This is the result. And if we were talking about facts, this one would be setting off all our alarms. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
U.S. Population Growth Slows Sharply as Immigration Numbers Plunge
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:22 PM
as democrats, if we want to get immigration numbers back up to a reasonable level, we're going to have to do more than just go back to "the way things were." we're going to have to provide a real, reliable, fast pathway to CITIZENSHIP.
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The central failure of US immigration policy over my entire adult life is that it has always put xenophobia over facts. This is the result. And if we were talking about facts, this one would be setting off all our alarms. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
U.S. Population Growth Slows Sharply as Immigration Numbers Plunge
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The central failure of US immigration policy over my entire adult life is that it has always put xenophobia over facts. This is the result. And if we were talking about facts, this one would be setting off all our alarms. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
January 28, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Psssst. My fellow dudes. Just a reminder that it's okay to not know everything. And it's okay to find out that maybe you're wrong about something you thought you knew. Criticism is not the end of the world. It's just a chance to maybe learn more stuff. And that's pretty cool. Just saying.
a rainbow colored shooting star with the words " do you know " in the background
Alt: a rainbow colored shooting star with the words " The more you know " in the background
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Psssst. My fellow dudes. Just a reminder that it's okay to not know everything. And it's okay to find out that maybe you're wrong about something you thought you knew. Criticism is not the end of the world. It's just a chance to maybe learn more stuff. And that's pretty cool. Just saying.
This piece from @joshtpm.bsky.social is a reminder that while the human capacity to say & believe things that fly in the face of reality is vast, it is not infinite.
Almost everyone has a line they can't bring themselves to cross, and they may not know where it is until they step close to it.
Almost everyone has a line they can't bring themselves to cross, and they may not know where it is until they step close to it.
The Pro-ICE Primal Scream Chorus Fragments and the Underbussing Begins
Everywhere we’re seeing signs that ICE, the White House and its virtual...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:17 AM
This piece from @joshtpm.bsky.social is a reminder that while the human capacity to say & believe things that fly in the face of reality is vast, it is not infinite.
Almost everyone has a line they can't bring themselves to cross, and they may not know where it is until they step close to it.
Almost everyone has a line they can't bring themselves to cross, and they may not know where it is until they step close to it.
This is a very good thread that highlights something important about the effort to correct injustice.
When injustice has been around a while, people get used to it. It usually takes something new and dramatic to cause the kind of discomfort that makes lots of people ready to change the status quo.
When injustice has been around a while, people get used to it. It usually takes something new and dramatic to cause the kind of discomfort that makes lots of people ready to change the status quo.
One of the lesser-discussed campaigns of the civil rights era was the one MLK led in Albany, Georgia, in 1962-1963.
The sheriff there, a man named Laurie Pritchett, was radically different from most sheriffs of his time and place. He actually studied the civil rights movement and took it seriously
The sheriff there, a man named Laurie Pritchett, was radically different from most sheriffs of his time and place. He actually studied the civil rights movement and took it seriously
January 27, 2026 at 2:40 AM
This is a very good thread that highlights something important about the effort to correct injustice.
When injustice has been around a while, people get used to it. It usually takes something new and dramatic to cause the kind of discomfort that makes lots of people ready to change the status quo.
When injustice has been around a while, people get used to it. It usually takes something new and dramatic to cause the kind of discomfort that makes lots of people ready to change the status quo.
I bet 1989 was the start year for a lot of folks. My brothers and I started at the spinner rack at the B. Dalton's in our nearby mall and started getting rides to a local comic shop by that summer.
Exile and Batman Year 3/Lonely Place of Dying were great starts.
Exile and Batman Year 3/Lonely Place of Dying were great starts.
#FourComics that made me fall in love with comics.
1989 was the year I became a weekly presence at my local shop, Central City Comics in Columbus, Ohio. Thus, that year’s over-representation here.
1989 was the year I became a weekly presence at my local shop, Central City Comics in Columbus, Ohio. Thus, that year’s over-representation here.
January 23, 2026 at 4:31 AM
I bet 1989 was the start year for a lot of folks. My brothers and I started at the spinner rack at the B. Dalton's in our nearby mall and started getting rides to a local comic shop by that summer.
Exile and Batman Year 3/Lonely Place of Dying were great starts.
Exile and Batman Year 3/Lonely Place of Dying were great starts.
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As I remind my students every year, *even taking Bush v. Gore as given*, we'd be in that world if Palm Beach County had a competent graphic designer working on its ballot layout.
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
As I remind my students every year, *even taking Bush v. Gore as given*, we'd be in that world if Palm Beach County had a competent graphic designer working on its ballot layout.
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Dr. King in March, 1965 at Jimmie Lee Jackson’s funeral— a 26 year old Army veteran hunted & murdered by police during a nonviolent protest in Marion, AL, whose killing directly inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery march four days later.
(from March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and myself)
(from March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and myself)
January 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Dr. King in March, 1965 at Jimmie Lee Jackson’s funeral— a 26 year old Army veteran hunted & murdered by police during a nonviolent protest in Marion, AL, whose killing directly inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery march four days later.
(from March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and myself)
(from March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and myself)
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‘Cleave’ can refer to splitting something apart.
‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things.
…what?
A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’
‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things.
…what?
A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’
January 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM
‘Cleave’ can refer to splitting something apart.
‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things.
…what?
A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’
‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things.
…what?
A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app Thanks for the belated bday wish. :) (It's weird - I can't seem to reply to you - Bluesky tells me the post is deleted. But I can see your posts fine.)
January 2, 2026 at 5:08 AM
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app Thanks for the belated bday wish. :) (It's weird - I can't seem to reply to you - Bluesky tells me the post is deleted. But I can see your posts fine.)
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app I crossed the 50 line a couple of months ago. Realizing I was about to cross the line was more of a change than the actual crossing.
"You're about to turn 50, Dave. If you don't start doing something different now, when are you going to?"
"You're about to turn 50, Dave. If you don't start doing something different now, when are you going to?"
January 1, 2026 at 10:19 PM
@ebonyteach.blacksky.app I crossed the 50 line a couple of months ago. Realizing I was about to cross the line was more of a change than the actual crossing.
"You're about to turn 50, Dave. If you don't start doing something different now, when are you going to?"
"You're about to turn 50, Dave. If you don't start doing something different now, when are you going to?"
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New comic. Merry Christmas! 💚🌟❤️
December 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
New comic. Merry Christmas! 💚🌟❤️
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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‘Solstice’ comes from a Latin word that means “sun standing still.”
December 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
‘Solstice’ comes from a Latin word that means “sun standing still.”
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
It had not registered in my mind that Rob Reiner isn't just responsible for THE PRINCESS BRIDE but also THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION as a producer. And he was by all accounts a good person as well. What a blessing to have been in the world at the same time as him. What a heartbreak to lose him.
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It had not registered in my mind that Rob Reiner isn't just responsible for THE PRINCESS BRIDE but also THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION as a producer. And he was by all accounts a good person as well. What a blessing to have been in the world at the same time as him. What a heartbreak to lose him.
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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.