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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

The most important political thread of our time.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

This is literally directly across the street from an elementary school.

Map showing the school directly adjacent to where the tear gas canister was thrown.

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Marnie Galloway @marniegalloway.bsky.social · 5d

I’m tabling at Pretty Good Fest tomorrow! 11am - 6pm, Chicago Athletic Association (12 S. Michigan). Come say hi! www.prettygoodfest.com/index.php

Pretty Good Fest: Oct. 4, 2025

A comics and small press festival in Chicago for cartoonists, small press publishers, book artists, and zine-makers. Saturday, October 4, 2025 from 11am-6pm.

www.prettygoodfest.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit.
1) Plaintiff is natural born.
2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants.
3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property.
4) He showed Real ID both times.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alec Longstreth @aleclongstreth.bsky.social · 8d

Yay! Isle of Elsi Book Three is a "Project We Love" on Kickstarter (and has already cleared 1/3 of the funding goal!)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lon...

Thanks, everyone for your support of this project!

#kickstarter #projectwelove

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 9d

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 10d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Michael Tisserand @tisserand.bsky.social · 14d

“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.”

— Linus Van Pelt

A letter from Charles M Schulz about democracy and protecting minorities

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 13d

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

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Marnie Galloway @marniegalloway.bsky.social · 14d

I’m really cooking on these pages that no one will see for a few years

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14d

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 17d

Please be patient with cartoonists, we have to figure out how to draw so many different kinds of chairs

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 20d

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.

Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21d

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 22d

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"

Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 22d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Marnie Galloway @marniegalloway.bsky.social · Sep 8

New minicomic prize from the Newberry Library, supporting minicomics that engage with or are inspired by medieval culture/art/books! Spread the word! www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize

Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

www.newberry.org

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Sep 4

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Aug 26

(after putting googly eyes on my box fan) WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT??

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sure, they're seen as childish, a lesser art form, and few appreciate them. But at least they're difficult to make.

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · Aug 11

For the Monday crowd.

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · Aug 4

The Beat won an Eisner but we're not resting on our laurels! We are still looking to fill three roles at @comicsbeat.bsky.social:

• New Editor - you live and breathe the news and clench your jaw when someone beats you on a story.

The meeting: a statue of two men having a job interview or other business meeting, surrounded by briefcases and lunch, but in a very odd 70s kind of vibe. Photographed at Baltimore Convention Center.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · Aug 11

NANCY by Olivia Jaimes, where Nancy says Cartoonist is the best type of artist

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · Aug 6

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Laura Weiss @lauralew105.bsky.social · Aug 5

WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research

Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.

www.statnews.com

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