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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

About halfway through this bad boy and Nat is truly cooking: Martian geology, fascism, cultural hegemony, Orientalism, Russophobia, the political utility of the superhero, and a comprehensive breakdown of everything that didn’t work for me in Superman. A MUST

Collective Action Comics Podcast @cacomixpod.bsky.social · 2d

I said I wasn't going to do one. Then I did one that's longer than the movie.

Please enjoy the review of Superman (2025). Get it wherever fine podcasts are sold.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

It's a chorus of utter mediocrities. Good times created soft men! And on some level, whether they know it or not, they project their self-loathing onto everyone else—the degraded society responsible for manufacturing people like themselves.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that gives me hope—or cope—is that the right has no skills or talents to speak of besides inciting fear and hatred and exploiting a system already designed with their interests in mind. Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Yarvin, Thiel, Musk? These are not invincible foes.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 3d

New Love is Blind season is filled with aspiring tech bro mutants. A dire omen

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 5d

it's not a very good comic, but the Conway Firestorm run has one of my favorite examples of this:

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 5d

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve hated him a long time for football reasons, personally. Incredibly irritating personality if he’s not on your team

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 5d

I for one am shocked that Travis Kelce isn’t the muse Taylor Swift needed to reach a new level artistically

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 5d

Very good! A little stiff with the ensemble dynamics (guess what: this Joker guy does NOT like jokes!), but Ollie’s fate was suitably unsettling and the “Justice League” rationale was very cleverly done.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d

This is how you know you’re watching the greatest film ever made.

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 18d

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 18d

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 7d

From Flex Mentallo #4 (1996), written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 7d

Winning all fifty states with my new We Are Going to Make Hell Real third party

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georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · Aug 8

Laser of the American Gladiators commands you "Call me communion, I'm that cracker with the juice!"

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 8d

Boy has this aged well.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 8d

Every major character in X-Men comics is a hypocrite at one point or another—some, like Charles Xavier, make a lifelong habit of it—and that can make for a more thematically rich text in addition to a more dramatically engaging one.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 8d

The prejudice and danger that mutants objectively face in the Marvel universe don’t erase issues like racial difference and the ability to pass, patriarchal dominance over women, class disparity and exploitation, the capacity of the oppressed to become oppressors themselves, etc.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 8d

Thoroughly enjoying how the new @cerebrocast.bsky.social episode on Quentin Quire underlines one thing that *does* work about the mutant minority metaphor, which is that a non-intersectional identity politics dooms you to repeat the crimes of your oppressors. New X-Men is third-wave mutantism.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 9d

I must speak my truth: it doesn't seem like the Xenomorphs would be that big of a threat to the Marvel universe. The X-Men were kicking the Brood's asses in the '80s.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 9d

Smiling through it all!
Can’t believe this my life

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 9d

One trope I’m always happy to see: an organized crime outfit (usually called something ominously generic like The Syndicate or The Organization) that represents the transition from street-level crime to big business.

Lee Marvin looking more imposing than the facade of a skyscraper in a promo image (or something) for POINT BLANK.

Stephen Root hires Woody Harrelson for a dangerous job in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.

Parker gets one step closer to payback in Darwyn Cooke’s comic adaptation of Donald Westlake’s THE HUNTER.

Bokeem Woodbine stands alone in a Kansas City office at the conclusion of FARGO Season Two.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 11d

I love a lounge lizard. Harry DuBois, Bryan Ferry, the Thin White Duke, a million different Steely Dan characters, Ben Gazzara in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, even that creep in Possession. One of neoliberalism’s best mascots, an absurd herald of decay

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 12d

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