E. J. Barnes, Illustrator
@ejbarnesart.bsky.social
Comics, cartoons, folk music, history, democracy, forteana, history of alchemy and the occult, and green things in general
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Insurers follow the data. The data that underlines their bottom line, but it's the data that helps us, too.
Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer.
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
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Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
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Insurance coverage of hepatitis B vaccine won’t change, industry and officials say | CNN
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to t...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Insurers follow the data. The data that underlines their bottom line, but it's the data that helps us, too.
Thank you to ALL the staffers at @massmice.bsky.social who kept exhibitors and visitors happy!
it is so rewarding to be a MICE staff member to make sure everyone has a good time and is well taken care of… i hope all exhibitors a safe travel home and a fun time counting the big monies made this weekend. i congratulate all other guests on their library additions @massmice.bsky.social 🩷🐭
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Thank you to ALL the staffers at @massmice.bsky.social who kept exhibitors and visitors happy!
The priority is to stop current abuse. And there's so much abuse to be stopped. This is why changing the system that enables is is always a game of catch-up.
"Say I tell you 'My father is choking my brother.' What do you say to that?
"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
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"How does a culture of abuse end?
"What is our part in ending it?"
www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-...
Cult(ure) of Abuse
How do we deal with a culture of abuse? What is our part in ending it? How do we deal with an abusive cult of millions?
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December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The priority is to stop current abuse. And there's so much abuse to be stopped. This is why changing the system that enables is is always a game of catch-up.
Ah, so that's it.
Every right-wing oligarch, podcaster, hack, Russian apologist, paid influencer, and bot has been activated in a coordinated manner to attack Europe after the EU fined Musk.
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ah, so that's it.
Britain's Labour party is throwing poor and working-class immigrants -- the majority of those seeking asylum -- under the omnibus.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Britain's Labour party is throwing poor and working-class immigrants -- the majority of those seeking asylum -- under the omnibus.
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Happy birthday to the incomparable Jack Davis!
One of EC's mainstays, and the artist on the infamous "Foul Play" from Haunt of Fear in 1953. This one sent Dr. Wertham into a rage.
In the 1960s & 70s Davis became one of the most sought after magazine cover illustrators. I used to collect them!
One of EC's mainstays, and the artist on the infamous "Foul Play" from Haunt of Fear in 1953. This one sent Dr. Wertham into a rage.
In the 1960s & 70s Davis became one of the most sought after magazine cover illustrators. I used to collect them!
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happy birthday to the incomparable Jack Davis!
One of EC's mainstays, and the artist on the infamous "Foul Play" from Haunt of Fear in 1953. This one sent Dr. Wertham into a rage.
In the 1960s & 70s Davis became one of the most sought after magazine cover illustrators. I used to collect them!
One of EC's mainstays, and the artist on the infamous "Foul Play" from Haunt of Fear in 1953. This one sent Dr. Wertham into a rage.
In the 1960s & 70s Davis became one of the most sought after magazine cover illustrators. I used to collect them!
How does making people who have a national health service pay more help people who don't pay less?
The UK reached an “agreement in principle” with the U.S. to raise its spending on prescription drugs.
This outrageous giveaway to Big Pharma does nothing to lower prices for American consumers.
It's just another example of the Trump admin trying to disguise a bad deal as a win.
This outrageous giveaway to Big Pharma does nothing to lower prices for American consumers.
It's just another example of the Trump admin trying to disguise a bad deal as a win.
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
How does making people who have a national health service pay more help people who don't pay less?
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts's benefit Art Sale starts tomorrow and runs through this Sunday -- and two pieces of mine are up for sale! Art can be viewed online in advance and purchased online during the sale. Sales benefit Museum School programs 50%--100%. smfa.tufts.edu/events-exhib...
Art Sale | School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Tufts University
Discover 2,000+ works from nearly 600 emerging and established artists — alumni, faculty, students, and friends of SMFA at Tufts — at New England’s largest public art sale, now in its 47th year!
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December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts's benefit Art Sale starts tomorrow and runs through this Sunday -- and two pieces of mine are up for sale! Art can be viewed online in advance and purchased online during the sale. Sales benefit Museum School programs 50%--100%. smfa.tufts.edu/events-exhib...
MICE is this weekend! I'll be at Booth (table?) 31B. The show is FREE 11--6 Saturday and 11--5 Sunday, at Boston University's Fuller Building, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. It gets crowded, so pre-registration is recommended! www.micexpo.org
MICE | The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) is the New England area’s premiere event dedicated to the exciting and accessible art form of independent comics and graphic novels.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
MICE is this weekend! I'll be at Booth (table?) 31B. The show is FREE 11--6 Saturday and 11--5 Sunday, at Boston University's Fuller Building, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. It gets crowded, so pre-registration is recommended! www.micexpo.org
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Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
This is in France. Not the US. France. Is anti-antifa hysteria catching? bleedingcool.com/comics/comic...
Comics Artist Elena Mistrello Turned Away At French Border As Antifa
Italian comics artist Elena Mistrello turned away at a French airport for antifascist activism
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November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This is in France. Not the US. France. Is anti-antifa hysteria catching? bleedingcool.com/comics/comic...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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He was a baaad man.
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
He was a baaad man.
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"Those who would twist this moment to attack Afghan families aren’t seeking safety or justice — they’re exploiting division and endangering all of us."
Statement from the @afghanevac.bsky.social veterans on the DC shooting.
Statement from the @afghanevac.bsky.social veterans on the DC shooting.
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Those who would twist this moment to attack Afghan families aren’t seeking safety or justice — they’re exploiting division and endangering all of us."
Statement from the @afghanevac.bsky.social veterans on the DC shooting.
Statement from the @afghanevac.bsky.social veterans on the DC shooting.
Another reason not to fly.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Another reason not to fly.
An independent researcher has shown that the book's conclusion was, if not inaccurate, incomplete...even if its thesis remains robust.
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
Research based on recently unsealed records claims the book When Prophecy Fails leans on lies, omissions, and serious manipulation.
Research based on recently unsealed records claims the book When Prophecy Fails leans on lies, omissions, and serious manipulation.
It’s one of the most influential social psychology studies ever. Was it all a lie?
A classic book on UFO believers and their "cognitive dissonance" after aliens failed to land is called into question.
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November 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
An independent researcher has shown that the book's conclusion was, if not inaccurate, incomplete...even if its thesis remains robust.
So envious.
Must be nice
Breaking:
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
So envious.
And paid for.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And paid for.
TV already laid the foundation.
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
TV already laid the foundation.
This Sunday, 30 November, at 8 PM EST, I'm giving a FREE Zoom reading of Blaster Al Ackerman's Thanksgiving story, "Possums in the Drain." To get the Zoom link, please sign up on EventBrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/november-z...
November Zoom reading: “Possums in the Drain” by Blaster Al Ackerman
E. J. Barnes gives her November Zoom reading , a reprise performance of Blaster Al Ackerman’s Thanksgiving story, “Possums in the Drain".
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November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This Sunday, 30 November, at 8 PM EST, I'm giving a FREE Zoom reading of Blaster Al Ackerman's Thanksgiving story, "Possums in the Drain." To get the Zoom link, please sign up on EventBrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/november-z...
More or less, yeah.
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
More or less, yeah.
I hope you're not getting your coffee etc. from Starbucks right now. If you are, this is the reason supplies are running out.
I hope you will take your business someplace else...not because of the strike, but because of its goals.
I hope you will take your business someplace else...not because of the strike, but because of its goals.
Hundreds of Starbucks baristas and labor organizers blockaded Starbucks' largest distribution center in York, Pennsylvania, halting distribution of syrups, coffee beans, and other supplies to the entire northeast.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
This escalation is part of @sbworkersunited.org's ongoing strike.
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I hope you're not getting your coffee etc. from Starbucks right now. If you are, this is the reason supplies are running out.
I hope you will take your business someplace else...not because of the strike, but because of its goals.
I hope you will take your business someplace else...not because of the strike, but because of its goals.
I haven't given a rat's tuchis for sportsball in decades. This might change my mind.
Tonight there is a draft for a women’s pro baseball league and on Saturday I will watch the women’s soccer team I support play for a championship after their most successful season yet, surrounded by other diehard fans at a bar. I am living in a world 8-year-old me could have never imagined.
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I haven't given a rat's tuchis for sportsball in decades. This might change my mind.
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The Texas Observer has Them Damned Pictures, too. Lovely work, Ben -- give 'em hell.
From our magazine, the latest by Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent.
Read more from the November/December 2025 issue: www.texasobserver.org/issues/novem...
Read more from the November/December 2025 issue: www.texasobserver.org/issues/novem...
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Texas Observer has Them Damned Pictures, too. Lovely work, Ben -- give 'em hell.