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Steve Asbell - FLAP YOUR HANDS is out now!

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Author/Illustrator of FLAP YOUR HANDS: A Celebration of Stimming! (Lee and Low, 24) 😺 Cartoonist of Stimmy Kitty comics 📚 Featured at 2024 National Book Festival https://www.steveasbell.com

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Steve Asbell - FLAP YOUR HANDS is out now! @steveasbell.com · Sep 2

To represent sensory overload and regulation in FLAP YOUR HANDS, I used hatchmarks of six colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green and blue.

I was making a picture book about stimming, but I didn’t want to show what it looks like. I had to show what stimming FEELS like. 🧵

Photo of Wacom tablet, showing my color palette and process drawing FLAP YOUR HANDS

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

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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Chipmunk Whisperer 🌴🥥🏝️ @chipmunkwhisperer.bsky.social · 2d

Pastor David Black, First Presbyterian Church, being pepper-sprayed outside ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

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Steve Asbell - FLAP YOUR HANDS is out now! @steveasbell.com · 5d

Assuming this is a Mac, (?) the shininess is from the material being smoothed by use, and keyboard covers can break the glass when the laptop is closed.

Source: I have a MacBook and lurk the subReddit.

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Inkgrid | Edel-Art @inkgrid.bsky.social · 5d

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 7d

This shutdown happened by design.

title : This government shutdown didn't happen by accident. it happened by design.
4 frame comic. we see Russell Vought, Curtis Yarvin, Russell Vought again, and the White House. Text reads :
russell vought is the director
of the u.s. office of management
and budget and the key architect
of project 2025. the nyt called
him "the man behind trump's push
for an all-powerful presidency."
project 2025 includes a roadmap
to achieve curtis yarvin's butter-
fly revolution, in which the
neo-reactionary leader advocates
for replacing non-partisan gov't
employees with loyalists, seizing
control of public assets and
centralizing power in a small
group of elites.
what vought aimed to do
was create the conditions
in which he could strip bare
what he calls the "unelected
fourth branch of government".
back in february, he instructed
agencies to prepare for mass
layoffs on sept. 30th.
this shutdown will give Trump
the power to bypass Congressional
oversight: Trump can just declare
which areas are considered
essential services, and ignore the
1974 law that prevents presidents
from withholding federal dollars.

this shutdown was the goal
all along.

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Steve Asbell - FLAP YOUR HANDS is out now! @steveasbell.com · 8d

I see so many of them where I live. I bet they migrated from up north.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.

We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

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Steve Asbell - FLAP YOUR HANDS is out now! @steveasbell.com · 21d

TW for some scary transphobia, but yet again have to share Erin’s reporting because it’s absolutely crucial.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21d

1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people.

Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them.

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Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People

Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 21d

Workplace cartoon where the sender says: AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote.

And the recipient says: AI makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23d

FWIW, when I left the Post, Karen checked in on me. She's been a consistent friend of mine and I miss working with her. She risked her life and career to stand up after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24d

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Steve Asbell - FLAP YOUR HANDS is out now! @steveasbell.com · 24d

Clever Fox planner is my fave. When I remember to use it.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26d

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun.

Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found.

WSJ owes a full retraction and apology.

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Press Conference: No "Transgender" Or "LGBTQ" Symbols Found At Kirk's Shooting

Yesterday, several media outlets claimed or strongly implied that "transgender symbols" were found at the scene of the gun used by Charlie Kirk's shooter. This turned out to be false.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 27d

The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.

CNN. The initial report, also called a bulletin, typically include all information gathered in an investigation so that agents anywhere will know what is being collected - but the information is not always correct.
The ATF bulletin said that agents found engravings that they interpreted as
"expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology" on ammunition inside a weapon believed to have been used in the murder of Kirk.
Two law enforcement sources told CNN that agents quickly ran an initial search on one of the markings, including a series of arrows, which analysts initially interpreted to be a connection to the transgender community.
That information remains unverified and is still being investigated.

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Steve Asbell - FLAP YOUR HANDS is out now! @steveasbell.com · 27d

This ATF report is precisely why yesterday’s events were so terrifying to me.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 27d

NEW: @nytimes.com: a senior official said the report from ATF saying the rifle that killed Charlie Kirk "expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology" had not been verified by ATF, did not match other summaries, and might turn out to have been misread
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

A screenshot of a news story by Glenn Thrush and Devlin Barrett saying
"According to a preliminary internal report circulated inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal and local officials recovered ammunition with the rifle that appeared to be engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

But a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information."

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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · Jun 14

Guy at my rally: “comparing DT to a king makes me feel bad for KINGS. At least kings can project some ✨MAJESTY✨ - has anyone ever seen majesty out of this guy?” 😂 #NOKINGS