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I wrote that book about 'Josie and the Pussycats.’ Husband to Cali, Dad to Daniel, Sammy and Charlie. Publisher - ECV Analog • News Editor - The Beat https://emeraldcityvideo.net https://ko-fi.com/russburlingame

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 10d

My buddy @zdroberts.bsky.social is making an important documentary, and he needs preorders to get it over the finish line. Please support his work if you can!

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This is How It Ends* - If You Let It.

Nazis march in the streets. Billionaires run the gov't. Constitution shredded. This is how it ends. | Check out 'This is How It Ends* - If You Let It.' on Indiegogo.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Administration pulled "Ponies" by Kij Johnson from curriculum at Otsego Public Schools (MI). They gave no reason why the story that's been used for years and years was suddenly pulled...but given it's a story about authoritarianism, we know damn well why.

www.mlive.com/news/kalamaz...

Parents, teachers upset after school district removes dystopian book from curriculum

Parents and teachers voiced concerns at Monday's school board meeting about the removal of "Ponies," a 2010 Nebula Award-winning story about authoritarianism.

www.mlive.com

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 2h

On one hand, if you're overly genre/media-savvy you could point to very early superheroes killing their adversaries which (as I understand it) was partly curtailed because creators didn't want to have to reinvent the wheel for a baddie every issue. But on a moral/ethical level, it's a good question.

Dan Membiela @danmembiela.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve heard the question, “why do some superheroes have a no-kill rule,” a lot.

I don’t think I’ve heard very much about, “why should any superhero have to kill?”

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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 2h

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@repmcgovern.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

Let's up the ante....

Every day that Republicans keep the government shut down, add another demand.

Stuff like, demand Congress take back power of the purse & tariffs & 👇

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h

"We are facing a clear and present authoritarian danger.

Don’t Democrats need to demand that provisions curbing the administration’s authoritarian moves need to be attached to legislation funding the government?"

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-rule-o...

The Rule of Law vs. The Rule of Trump

A crisis moment in the defining debate of our time.

www.thebulwark.com

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D.J. Kirkbride @djkirkbride.bsky.social · 2h

If you’re at #NYCC2025, stop by @valentinebarker.com’s table to say hi and buy some great art and comics!

Valentine Barker | NYCC D-45 @valentinebarker.com · 2h

All set up and ready for NYCC 2025!

Come say "hi" and maybe bring caffeine? Table D-45 in Artist Alley!

A photograph of a table set in a comic convention's artist alley! It features an array of color full prints and a standing banner that reads "Valentine Barker".

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 2h

I mean, he was a failure in his first administration and it did very little to impact the rise of right-wing extremism.

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🎶🤘🏻Heavy Metal June Cleaver 🎶🤘🏻 @juneclever.bsky.social · 15h

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2h

actually we would be better off as a country if the obama administration had prosecuted the bush administration. ditto biden to trump. we're in a mess in large part because democrats were too chickenshit to do the right thing.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3h

“What we don’t want to become the norm is where people think, ‘OK, there’s a new administration, now everyone in the old administration gets prosecuted. That’s an incredibly dangerous cycle where nobody wins.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Experts fear impact of deepening polarization and perceived political prosecutions

Reforms enacted after Watergate to bolster public confidence in the impartiality of prosecutions are proving dated and ineffective, legal experts warn.

www.nbcnews.com

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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 2h

at least when deputy director gordon cole was in fatuated with a 20-year-old shelly johnson he left it at learning to speak a little bit of french

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so damn proud of this series. I really think it occupies a unique space on the shelf. I hope now that it’s all collected more folks give it a shot.

My mean mug holding a copy of INTO THE UNBEING PART TWO.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 2h

This is kinda stupid to do, isn't it? She's already lied and lied. She's not going to tell the truth about Trump. She has no incentive to, and every reason not to.

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3h

ALERT: House Oversight Committee Democrats ask panel's chairman to "immediately schedule" deposition with Ghislaine Maxwell

Now that Supreme Court has rejected Maxwell's appeal in her criminal case

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3h

Ban this anti-human tech from your life.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 3h

I definitely see that value for some people. For me, it's kind of like when I didn't watch the presidential debates or the State of the Union and people couldn't understand why. It boils down to: why would I watch him when I know absolutely everything that comes out of his gourd is unhinged lies?

Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 3h

I don't follow Aaron Rupar. I don't necessarily WANT to block him, but it seems like everyone on this platform constantly reposts his shit into my feed.

I get it -- he's prolific, and it's perfect for quote-dunking. Still, I feel like Rupar offers context-free clips, basically reposting propaganda.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 19h

Hegseth is a Christian nationalist who wants to eliminate those who don’t agree with his totalitarian vision.

Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump

The secretary is a Christian nationalist who wants to eliminate those who don’t agree with his totalitarian vision

www.theunpopulist.net

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 3h

DAVID LYNCH for Vulture, 2018. Photo by Sandro Miller

An abstract David Lynch photograph taken by Sandro Miller in 2018

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SoFlaGazpachoPolice @krlcomm.bsky.social · 4h

GOP = Gang of Pedophiles

CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 17h

Another MAGA pedophile

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 3h

I once wrote a 20-page paper on John Winthrop’s journals in four hours while coming down from an acid trip and not only did I get an A, the professor encouraged me to pursue Early American literature in grad school. AI can eat shit.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 14h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 4h

Read!!!

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 3h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 3h

When I was a kid, I foolishly thought vampires were real.
Then I grew up, became wiser, and learned the proper term was “venture capitalist”.

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Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverraswriter.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 3h

A familiar face is showing up in an unfamiliar role for @skybound.bsky.social's Energon Universe.

TRANSFORMERS rolls out the red carpet for another iconic '80s property in the Energon Universe

In the latest issue of Robert Kirkman's TRANSFORMERS, a familiar face shows up...in a surprising role as ally to the Autobots!