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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 18h

You mean “please ignore the hill of dead trans people we’re standing on”

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 18h

At this point im starting to wonder if hearing the words “purity test” are a dogwhistle because the most shit opinions in the universe will almost always immediately follow it

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 18h

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 23h

Every single time a decision about K-12 or college education is made with "career readiness" at the forefront, we are doing harm to students, our mission, and society at large.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 1d

Now available from the nypl, @halschrieve.bsky.social new teen vampire novel get it while it’s hot share.libbyapp.com/title/11442310

Fawn's Blood

Vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist.The librarian and critically accl...

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 3d

BRB making a hit list to be opened after my death.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 8d

!!!!

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 8d

Have you considered looking up Mehdi Hasan.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 10d

The new issue of World War 3 Illustrated, "The Right to Live in Peace," guest edited by Mohammad Sabaaneh, is out now and I have a short comic in it www.akpress.org/the-right-to...

The Right to Live in Peace

www.akpress.org

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 12d

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 11d

I love this campaign! Is there a way to sign up to participate?

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @ NYCC WB-19 @libcomix.bsky.social · 11d

Perfectly themed for this month! Follow the story of a queer library worker searching for love online, artistic validation in New York City, and the perfect book in Checked Out by Katie Fricas
#LibraryCardSignUpMonth #CreatorsGetCarded #LibComix

Katie Fricas holding her book Checked Out and a Brooklyn Public Library card

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 12d

Do you ever teach layout classes for non college students?

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":

I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence

👇Here's the whole poem

For Assata
New Brunswick Prison, 1977

In this new picture your smile has been to war
you are almost obscured by other faces
on the pages
those shadows are sisters
who have not yet spoken
your face is in shadow
obscured by the half-dark
by the thick bars running across your eyes
like sentinels
all the baby fat has been burned away
like a luxury your body let go
reluctantly
the corners of your mouth turn down
I cannot look into your eyes
who are all those others
behind you
the shadows are growing lighter
and more confusing.

I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
who war and weep
sometimes against our selves
in each other
rather than our enemies
falsehoods
Assata my sister warrior
Joan of Arc and Yaa Asantewa
embrace
at the back of your cell.

By Audre Lorde

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 12d

Netanyahu had fewer attendees than an 8am panel at the MLA.

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Hal Schrieve - preorder Fawn’s Blood 🩸 out sep 16 @halschrieve.bsky.social · 12d

galleybrag.substack.com/p/galley-bra... i talked with Ezra Kupor on Galley Brag about identity labels, children’s literature, fascism and librarianship 🤓

Galley Brag #20

Librarian Hal Schrieve (author of FAWN'S BLOOD) on the limits of online identity labels, earnestly transgressive children's literature, and what lesbian vampires can teach us about solidarity.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 13d

What’s the problem with that site? I seem to have missed whatever the convo was.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 14d

*sigh* give me UBI and I swear I’d do free comics every day for everyone.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14d

“In June, which is Pride month and the most recent month for which data is available, that shot up to 23 arrests. Attorneys and advocates say the arrests have continued escalating in the months since, with the Legal Aid Society tracking 20 public lewdness arrests in a single day in September.”

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 14d

A crackdown on gay cruising inside the Penn Station bathroom by the federal Amtrak Police has landed one person in ICE custody. Amtrak Police, unlike the NYPD, are not bound by local sanctuary protections. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/24/a...

New Cruising Crackdown by Feds at Penn Station

Amtrak Police turned a person arrested inside a Penn Station bathroom directly over to ICE.

www.thecity.nyc

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 16d

Was one of them to send me your comic plz

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 16d

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Egypt's President Sisi pardons high-profile Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, al Qahera news says

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned high-profile Egyptian-British activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a lengthy imprisonment and repeated hunger strikes that prompted international pleas for his release, Al Qahera news said on Monday.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 19d

Y'all anecdata.substack.com/p/theory-of-... (by @emializh.bsky.social )

oh god i have to call someone in 1 minute and don't have time to alt text. great art is wise but only a hack creates a true portrait of the era! hacks are master of the degraded media environment! hacks are sincere!

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 22d

yeah that's what I was wondering re: the no life without parole comment.

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 22d

What about the federal charges?

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 26d

Okay apparently according to Reddit there is a wholesale business outside of Chattanooga that imports them and sells them as fake antiques? Which also makes me wonder how many of the racist cast iron figurines at the same booth are also fake antiques…

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