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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s video of the incident

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 1d

I just ordered mine, can’t wait

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

“LET’S DO THE FUCKING NEWS!”

Frank Booth, a villainous character from David Lynch’s movie, Blue Velvet. Frank is a middle-aged white dude in a leather jacket, holding an oxygen mask to his face.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

haha his little cardigan. lil picardi-cardi. picardigan.

jean-luc picard from TNG wearing a starfleet uniform in cardigan form

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 1d

NOOO

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 1d

Hey buddy if you haven’t been following things very closely you’d see that the TV landscape is being gutted. This kind of thing reminds me of the better times.

Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 1d

I did not know that

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I appreciate this. TV needs more of this. Let’s have fun again. Seriously things are so bad in the industry and everywhere. Let’s all turn on stuff at night together and go “that was insane” and then surprise there are 20 more episodes and the characters don’t remember being in orbit.

9-1-1 poster with Angela Bassett in FUCKING SPACE!

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Aaron Campbell @aaroncampbellarts.com · 2d

Been working on this for quite some time, but it is finally finished. Cover quality Shadow commission

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Graig Kreindler @graigkreindler.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1945, bar owner William Sianis bought tix to the WS for himself and Murphy, his pet goat. Sianis became so upset when the Wrigley Field ushers asked his guest to leave, he placed a curse on the Cubs, claiming they’d never win a WS again. Here’s my painting of the ol’ place.

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 2d

Golden gun no oddjob used to represent the kind of social contract we championed in this country

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 2d

Is this you wanting to strangle me

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 2d

The classics.

Iron First sits on a shelf of Shakespeare and Homer.

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 3d

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

there's a picture of her with the front of her shirt just soaked in blood. imagine trying to crack an 84 year old woman's skull and body slamming an 84 year old vet leaning on a walker.

is this the warrior ethos we've heard so much about?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 4d

Mega Man comic

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 5d

Take it from Alex. This one is available at all FINE comic shops…

Alex Firer @alexfirer.bsky.social · 5d

I can't overstate how much I loved Kid Maroon Vol 1, whatever genre of noir that Roger Rabbit lives in, that mix of absurd and noir, this exists here. Complete with a Barthleme like biography of a fake cartoonist.

It's... very good! By @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social and @victorsantos.bsky.social!!

Kid Maroon | Volume 1 | Vault Comics

Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer meets Encyclopedia Brown in the hard-boiled detective adventure KID MAROON, where big city crime and corruption can only be cracked by the Kid – or can it? “Crimeville’s ...

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 5d

Everything is great

THX 1138 is tortured in a limitless prison by faceless cops

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 5d

That’s right!!! Anyway yes, we must talk more about this legacy

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 5d

Have we not talked about this?? My family’s been season ticket holders since 1953. I have got some stories of trial and tribulation!!!!

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 5d

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