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Rachel Gluckstern

@rgluckst.bsky.social

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Full of very useful information regarding things like the different colors of Kryptonite. Editor and music appreciator. Wears black. It saves time. She/her/hers. www.superstareditor.com

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Rachel Gluckstern @rgluckst.bsky.social · Sep 16

A refresher introduction for new followers or people going, "Now why do I follow this person again?":

Hey, y'all, I'm an editor with a specialty in comics and graphic novels. I spent ten years in the Bat-Cave and have done all kinds of cool things since then.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 12h

a woman asked me today what the frog costumes are about, and i told her, it was to generate images like this

CarpinSanDiego @carpinsandiego.com · 12h

Im dead 😂😂😂

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Res Ipsa Pedicure (Rawdney Dogerfield) @resipsamanicure.bsky.social · May 13

Fun fact: live scorpions may be sent through the USPS for medical research and antivenom production purposes, but they must be contained in a puncture proof box labeled “live scorpions” inside another box labeled “live scorpions.”

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 13h

During the '17 Women's March, I tweeted "I marched today for women because when I needed them most to, women marched for me." Gay rights, feminism, abortion, anti-war, pro-education, conservation, clean water, against drunk driving, etc. Women have always been at the forefront of resistance & change

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 13h

I think it's kind of nasty and reductive to refer to mature women who marched today as "wine moms and grandmas," even when it's said in admiration or support

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 19h

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16h

my hot take is today is about showing maybe millions of people how it’s fun to say fuck the government

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15h

reposting with alt text bc i love this

a crowd of what looks like older people sitting at a No Kings Rally, there's a barricade in the background with even more people standing behind it holding signs. In the center of the image is an old woman, wearing a turtle neck and a sweater over it. She has glasses on with the darker sun lenses flipped up. She's holding a sign that reads: "GRANTIFA. Grandmothers against fascism!"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 19h

No Kings Chicago

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h

Toni Morrison was raising children & working as an editor in the civil rights movement, she said what can I do from where I am & the time I have, she decided editing important Black work was her contribution to the struggle.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 4d

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

us06web.zoom.us

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Elizabeth Svoboda @svobodster.bsky.social · 20h

One thing I always hear from heroism experts is that doing small courageous things equips us to do big ones later on.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

My mother-in-law was nervous about wearing her #NoKings gear to the airport for her flight this morning, but she got *lots* of compliments. Even the TSA agent told her, "I like your shirt."

My mother in-law, wearing a "We the People" shirt at the airport, standing near an American flag.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 20h

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Rachel Gluckstern @rgluckst.bsky.social · 20h

Shout-out to @comicscovers.bsky.social for posting this cover recently.

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Rachel Gluckstern @rgluckst.bsky.social · 20h

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J. Jonah Jameson is pointing a gun at a werewolf who has thicc thighs and quite the badonkadonk. The werewolf is howling and holding the hair of an unconscious blonde woman. Plot twist! Man-Wolf is J. Jonah Jameson Jr.!

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 21h

No King but King Swiftie

Flavor Flav holding a King Swiftie Shirt

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatable frog has gone global. Today’s #NoKings #NoTyrants rallies in Japan, Australia, Spain, and Germany.

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Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social · 1d

Since this article is making the rounds again, I guess this is a good moment as any to plug my book (despite me feeling super weird about self promotion), as I describe these dynamics in (some would argue) excruciating detail.

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Rachel Gluckstern @rgluckst.bsky.social · 1d

Bought myself a ticket to see Jon Bernthal in Dog Day Afternoon next March. I'm sure theater purists are unhappy with all the recent stunt castings, but honestly, Jon Bernthal as the spiritual heir of Al Pacino feels absolutely correct.

Rachel Gluckstern @rgluckst.bsky.social · 2d

31 werewolves.

A guy wearing a yellow shirt and sitting in a wheelchair is shooting at a naked werewolf, who has an exceptionally sculpted butt. This werewolf doesn't skip glutes day. Art by the late, great Bernie Wrightson.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

GUYS

GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC

GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU

OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Rachel Gluckstern @rgluckst.bsky.social · 2d

I have been hoping that RFK Sr. haunts his son every Christmas for what he's doing to this country, and I wouldn't mind if this year JFK tagged along and told Jr. here to keep his name out of his bonkers mouth. Hell, get Joseph Kennedy to haunt him too. He's destroying the Kennedy name, Joe!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."