Elana Levin
@levin.bsky.social
Digital & narrative trainings @NewMediaMentors.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
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Batman: Caped Crusader with Leslie Lee III of Struggle Session
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Half the time when Leslie Lee would come on my podcast (or vise versa) we would disagree on whether the film, comic or tv show in question was good.
But his take was always eye opening and he would show me something I hadn’t perceived before. Most recently re the Batman Caped Crusader show.
But his take was always eye opening and he would show me something I hadn’t perceived before. Most recently re the Batman Caped Crusader show.
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okay but what if you stay here and have to suffer. or if you actually go to hell for being annoying debbie. things to consider
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
okay but what if you stay here and have to suffer. or if you actually go to hell for being annoying debbie. things to consider
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My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀
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Getting a COVID shot used to be as easy as grabbing a coffee, but now it’s more like solving a government puzzle blindfolded. If you’re still confused about who can get what and where, you’re not alone—and this video spills the tea on why it’s all so messy.
A Patchwork of Protection: Understanding Vaccine Confusion in America
Getting a COVID shot used to be as easy as grabbing a coffee, but now it’s more like solving a government puzzle blindfolded.
thedrdery.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Getting a COVID shot used to be as easy as grabbing a coffee, but now it’s more like solving a government puzzle blindfolded. If you’re still confused about who can get what and where, you’re not alone—and this video spills the tea on why it’s all so messy.
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Since we are talking about pies...
MR. FLIP (1909) is often listed as having the first cinematic pie in the face but I found evidence of pies being deployed as early as 1901.
MR. FLIP (1909) is often listed as having the first cinematic pie in the face but I found evidence of pies being deployed as early as 1901.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Since we are talking about pies...
MR. FLIP (1909) is often listed as having the first cinematic pie in the face but I found evidence of pies being deployed as early as 1901.
MR. FLIP (1909) is often listed as having the first cinematic pie in the face but I found evidence of pies being deployed as early as 1901.
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If you
wake up tomorrow
and need to travel
I hope that you
will take care
and travel safely.
And if you
wake up tomorrow
and feel unwell
I hope that you
will take care
and not travel at all.
wake up tomorrow
and need to travel
I hope that you
will take care
and travel safely.
And if you
wake up tomorrow
and feel unwell
I hope that you
will take care
and not travel at all.
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If you
wake up tomorrow
and need to travel
I hope that you
will take care
and travel safely.
And if you
wake up tomorrow
and feel unwell
I hope that you
will take care
and not travel at all.
wake up tomorrow
and need to travel
I hope that you
will take care
and travel safely.
And if you
wake up tomorrow
and feel unwell
I hope that you
will take care
and not travel at all.
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Is this how like every kid who watched looney tunes thought nimrod meant idiot
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Is this how like every kid who watched looney tunes thought nimrod meant idiot
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Day 50: Hannah Jadagu - My Love (2025, USA, NK✅)
Breathy dream pop, but fresh and interesting, with cool multi-tracked vocals. #TheTwen2ie5
I'll just squeak in on the HM list deadline - thanks everyone for making it so hard to narrow down!
Breathy dream pop, but fresh and interesting, with cool multi-tracked vocals. #TheTwen2ie5
I'll just squeak in on the HM list deadline - thanks everyone for making it so hard to narrow down!
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Day 50: Hannah Jadagu - My Love (2025, USA, NK✅)
Breathy dream pop, but fresh and interesting, with cool multi-tracked vocals. #TheTwen2ie5
I'll just squeak in on the HM list deadline - thanks everyone for making it so hard to narrow down!
Breathy dream pop, but fresh and interesting, with cool multi-tracked vocals. #TheTwen2ie5
I'll just squeak in on the HM list deadline - thanks everyone for making it so hard to narrow down!
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Abraham, a physician who is not board certified in any specialty & has made a career as an extremely partisan politician, is now #2 at CDC.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
BREAKING via @jeremyfaust.bsky.social: The CDC's internal email server now lists Louisiana physician Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, as the agency's principal deputy director -- "an irresponsible choice," according to one public health expert.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...
Opinion | Top Ivermectin Prescriber Now in CDC's Second Highest Position
Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, has a questionable public health track record
www.medpagetoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Abraham, a physician who is not board certified in any specialty & has made a career as an extremely partisan politician, is now #2 at CDC.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
So chuffed would be an understatement!
I was obsessed with this when it came out, so much so that my friends made fun of me for it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So chuffed would be an understatement!
“YOU WILL BE CHUFFED!”- a Kerrang or Metal Hammer review. which is how my husband first saw the word “chuffed” as a teen. He assumed it meant “blender setting🤘🏻”
Napalm Death - Fear Emptiness Despair (Full Album + Bonus Tracks) (Official Audio) - YouTube
Napalm Death CD/vinyl/merch: https://bit.ly/2NJjLdH Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2IXwkDw Apple Music - https://apple.co/2H6CKyt Deezer - https://bit.ly/2TAuht4...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“YOU WILL BE CHUFFED!”- a Kerrang or Metal Hammer review. which is how my husband first saw the word “chuffed” as a teen. He assumed it meant “blender setting🤘🏻”
He’s right
If I were *today* to pull together a single 14-track album like the other ones, it would be
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Back in the USSR
Blackbird
Revolution #9
Happiness is a Warm Gun
I Will
Mother Nature's Son
Cry Baby Cry
Honey Pie
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Piggies
Julia
Martha My Dear
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Back in the USSR
Blackbird
Revolution #9
Happiness is a Warm Gun
I Will
Mother Nature's Son
Cry Baby Cry
Honey Pie
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Piggies
Julia
Martha My Dear
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
He’s right
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Today's vinyl is the final part of the mono box, the triple-album Mono Masters set of non-album tracks, including "The Inner Light", which I always hear as a duet with Sweep the dog (and now so will you).
The Beatles : The Inner Light (Mono)
YouTube video by BLUE JAY WAY
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November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Today's vinyl is the final part of the mono box, the triple-album Mono Masters set of non-album tracks, including "The Inner Light", which I always hear as a duet with Sweep the dog (and now so will you).
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When the lap isn’t positioned in a way that’s big enough to fit yourself on but you really wanna be on the lap so you’re going to make it work.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
When the lap isn’t positioned in a way that’s big enough to fit yourself on but you really wanna be on the lap so you’re going to make it work.
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It’s true. Only place in America Democrats ate shit that night—and they really did, it wasn’t close—was the place our state party chair calls home, and where the exact kind of Democrats he likes were running. Makes you think!
I'd just like to point out this is happening because MAGA pig Bruce Blakeman defied national trends and cruised to reelection thanks to the incompetence of New York/Nassau Democratic Party chair Jay Jacobs, who opposed Mamdani with far more vitriol than he opposed the Republicans
This rocks, whole communities are self-selecting themselves out of relevance because a nice man was democratically elected
www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc...
www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc...
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s true. Only place in America Democrats ate shit that night—and they really did, it wasn’t close—was the place our state party chair calls home, and where the exact kind of Democrats he likes were running. Makes you think!
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The focus on bars and restaurants is always interesting, because those are so supremely optional activities anyway. If you’re broke you can’t go to restaurants either, but no one accuses you of being in a poverty cult. There’s a very middle school anxiety about someone refusing to fit in to it.
February 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The focus on bars and restaurants is always interesting, because those are so supremely optional activities anyway. If you’re broke you can’t go to restaurants either, but no one accuses you of being in a poverty cult. There’s a very middle school anxiety about someone refusing to fit in to it.
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I’ve said this before, but Covid could be eradicated tomorrow and I still physically could not “go back to normal.” I couldn’t start running again at the gym, or do 14 hour days on set, or run around Disneyland anymore. Normal is gone to people with LC, that’s not a cult, that’s a disability.
February 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I’ve said this before, but Covid could be eradicated tomorrow and I still physically could not “go back to normal.” I couldn’t start running again at the gym, or do 14 hour days on set, or run around Disneyland anymore. Normal is gone to people with LC, that’s not a cult, that’s a disability.
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Oh I see Zickgraf wrote the “Covid conscious people are crazy” article he’s been threatening. Happy Thanksgiving Ryan, this year thanks to long Covid-caused MCAS, my Thanksgiving feast will be a plain baked sweet potato. Hope yours is tinged with the seasoning of being a horrible person.
I don’t know, I thought after Long Covid effectively ended my chance at a directing career, ruined my health, my energy, my ability to eat a lot of foods, and my body, it would seem pretty obvious why I don’t want to get it again, even going so far as to sacrifice (the horror!) bars and restaurants.
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Oh I see Zickgraf wrote the “Covid conscious people are crazy” article he’s been threatening. Happy Thanksgiving Ryan, this year thanks to long Covid-caused MCAS, my Thanksgiving feast will be a plain baked sweet potato. Hope yours is tinged with the seasoning of being a horrible person.
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I'd just like to point out this is happening because MAGA pig Bruce Blakeman defied national trends and cruised to reelection thanks to the incompetence of New York/Nassau Democratic Party chair Jay Jacobs, who opposed Mamdani with far more vitriol than he opposed the Republicans
This rocks, whole communities are self-selecting themselves out of relevance because a nice man was democratically elected
www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc...
www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc...
NYC suburb makes major security move by city border after Mamdani victory: 'Talks like he's pro-criminal'
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said that he is directing cameras and security technology be installed along the New York City border in light of Zohran Mamdani's victory.
www.foxnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I'd just like to point out this is happening because MAGA pig Bruce Blakeman defied national trends and cruised to reelection thanks to the incompetence of New York/Nassau Democratic Party chair Jay Jacobs, who opposed Mamdani with far more vitriol than he opposed the Republicans
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Nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens hospital are pushing back against the hospital giant using Ogletree Deakins, a notorious anti-union law firm.
UPMC confirmed that they have been working with Ogletree Deakins for more than a decade.
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/24/u...
UPMC confirmed that they have been working with Ogletree Deakins for more than a decade.
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/24/u...
UPMC hired powerful anti-union law firm to thwart Magee Women's Hospital elections
Ogletree Deakins, known for representing the textile manufacturer at the center of the real life Norma Rae story, had been hired to break UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital nurses and nurse practitioners.
keystonenewsroom.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens hospital are pushing back against the hospital giant using Ogletree Deakins, a notorious anti-union law firm.
UPMC confirmed that they have been working with Ogletree Deakins for more than a decade.
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/24/u...
UPMC confirmed that they have been working with Ogletree Deakins for more than a decade.
keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Grateful to say Ancestral Recall ( @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social ) has once again been named one of @comicsbeat.bsky.social top comics to buy this week! Issue #4 is out tomorrow and so grab yourself a copy, and if you missed any of the previous issues, you can pre-order the trade 👇🏾
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Grateful to say Ancestral Recall ( @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social ) has once again been named one of @comicsbeat.bsky.social top comics to buy this week! Issue #4 is out tomorrow and so grab yourself a copy, and if you missed any of the previous issues, you can pre-order the trade 👇🏾
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Who writes the best John Constantine?
Jamie Delano and Paul Jenkins are my personal favorite runs, but those are from decades ago. Who's been doing good work with ol' Conjob recently?
Jamie Delano and Paul Jenkins are my personal favorite runs, but those are from decades ago. Who's been doing good work with ol' Conjob recently?
a man in a trench coat and tie is dancing in a dark room
ALT: a man in a trench coat and tie is dancing in a dark room
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Who writes the best John Constantine?
Jamie Delano and Paul Jenkins are my personal favorite runs, but those are from decades ago. Who's been doing good work with ol' Conjob recently?
Jamie Delano and Paul Jenkins are my personal favorite runs, but those are from decades ago. Who's been doing good work with ol' Conjob recently?
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Have you considered not being chronically ill?
That people should just stop being unhealthy is also their pandemic plan.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/bhattacharya...
sciencebasedmedicine.org/bhattacharya...
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Have you considered not being chronically ill?
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As a family with a bag full of shank bones in the freezer, and an occasional eater of canned cranberry sauce, I love this.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
As a family with a bag full of shank bones in the freezer, and an occasional eater of canned cranberry sauce, I love this.
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Texas Young Republicans are calling upon TX lawmakers to pass a law allowing Governor Abbott to put blue TX cities into receivership. They say the State Leadership Initiative (SLI)—co-founded by Nate Fischer of New Founding — suggested the idea. New Founding partner Nathan Halberstadt loves it. 1/
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Texas Young Republicans are calling upon TX lawmakers to pass a law allowing Governor Abbott to put blue TX cities into receivership. They say the State Leadership Initiative (SLI)—co-founded by Nate Fischer of New Founding — suggested the idea. New Founding partner Nathan Halberstadt loves it. 1/