⁨I'll be tabling at the Lone Star Zine Fest, for the Festival Beach Food Forest, on Saturday from 1 - 4. Come say hi! This event is free and runs 12-6 both Saturday & Sunday. lonestarzinefest.org

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

I interviewed Greta Thunberg a couple of years ago and have never stopped being impressed with her since. She's the real deal. Love and solidarity to her and everyone else kidnapped off the Sumud Flotilla. Free Palestine. ✊

Caving to what the developer described as “pressure from the Trump administration,” Apple has removed an app that allowed users to report and track ICE operations in their area to alert people in the community fearful of being swept up in President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” crusade.

Growing up, mom often mentioned living in West Germany, contrasting their "papers please" culture with the freedom people in the US had to be anywhere we pleased (except behind the steering wheel) without the need to carry ID. Seeing us slide into that sort of system bit by bit is heartbreaking.

EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries. www.everylibrary.org/i_believe_in... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Fascinating study. Note that this is 1 in 10 adults. Factor in children and the percentage of non-driving Americans is much higher. Cities and towns need to account for their mobility needs too.

Another entry in the annals of offensively bad #Texas maps. Spotted at Leopard Lounge in Austin TX.

I just keep remembering when that leader in South Africa was insisting HIV didn’t cause AIDS a couple decades ago and how sorry I felt for anyone living in a nation run by someone so insane. Welp

The latest from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social "This episode is a true movement memo — a series of messages from the front lines in a moment of intense state violence and federal occupation." truthout.org/audio/raids-...

“Rather than ‘predictive’ policing, it’s simply, ‘predictable’ policing. [It] will always drive against those who are already marginalised.” Featured story from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: A massive tower looming over Juárez is the site of a troubling new surveillance system.

After quoting Hitler twice last week while saying "words aren't violence" - "Author JK Rowling has criticised police for not prosecuting a Kent mum who made a video about the murder of Charlie Kirk." www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/jk...

The fix is in. Get your COVID vax THIS WEEK, friends. Do not wait if you can avoid it.

I've accumulated a crew of brilliant folks in my life; one of these stars - among the most culturally astute and expressive in prose, @whogivesafocal.bsky.social - is launching a #newsletter showcasing her independent #writing & #journalism. Get in early: whogivesafocal.ghost.io/in-a-world-o...

they’re removing the height limits on the beers

#Comics and #Metal nerds: I've just been reminded of a longstanding curiosity of mine: is there any connection between #GWAR (the band) and the #Watchmen street organization GWAR (Gay Women Against Rape)?

"Everywhere I go, I atomic-breathe new life into the local economy. Construction booms, therapists thrive, sales of I SURVIVED GODZILLA T-shirts skyrocket. A thank you would be nice. Maybe even a Nobel Prize?"

Smash that motherfuckin subscribe button I guess whogivesafocal.ghost.io

This graph says it all. Induced demand is real, and the reverse is also true: if we don't expand highway capacity, people make choices other than sitting in worsening traffic jams. $10B for transit instead, please.

The number of posts and mentions I've seen about the new airpods' translation function are really revealing a weird strain of xenophobic paranoia. Nobody's speaking their first language just to get away with talking about you within your earshot 🙄

This is happening PURELY because they know it's BS, resent literally everyone laughing at their idiocy for it back in 2020, and now have the power to make it policy. Caligula's horse is in the Senate, and now its dewormer will be in some poor kids.

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby

The ICE agent with a "SEND ME" patch who was reportedly racially profiling drivers in Washington DC is Jason Christopher Perez of Austin, Texas. Additional footage I received matches pictures from social media of his arm tattoos. And an ICE email address with his name appears in a data breach.

THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.

"Standing inside a grocery store" also means "a driver might kill you" such a frikkin sad pointless tragedy www.king5.com/article/news...

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning

Just a heads up that @haymarketbooks.org's summer sale ends Friday. You can currently get 40% off all books, including my book with @prisonculture.bsky.social, Let This Radicalize You.

New from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and me: Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight. The slept in jail; are banned from Capitol grounds for a year. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/h...

And here's an estimate that 5 people have been arrested at the Texas House building.

There's a current Texas state rep. (Nicole Collier) locked in the House chamber because she refused to sign this permission slip. Because in Texas there's nothing we love more than FREEDOM!

My mom is temporarily unable to drive, and therefore feels very isolated. While talking to her tonight, she said my niece wanted a lemonade stand, which would never work at my folks' place. I tactfully avoided noting how very related these two problems are.

“The 85th percentile should not be the Holy Grail or the Bible.” but that’s how speed limits are still set, by clocking how fast the 15th-fastest car out of 100 is going, and rounding up. It's junk science and it’s helped normalize the deadliest roads in the developed world.

Join us on Wednesday (8/20) for our next reading group, on Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com! Wednesdays at 7pm eastern for six weeks

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” — Antonio Gramsci

You won't beat the fascists by strategically sacrificing marginalized people. Anyone with any fucking sense of history would understand that.

Strange but true!

Imagine a scenario where two teachers making $55k each don't qualify for a rent-stabilized apartment but one guy making $99k does. It's a recipe for resentment, the kind borne of the Democratic obsession with means testing everything.

the trump strategy is to repeatedly announce extremely inflammatory decisions to rile people up to disguise the slow burn brutality of previous extremely inflammatory decisions that have moved into a stable loop of being drawn out back-and-forths to be as painful or uncertain as possible

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

STUDY: “This study examines electric bicycle mode choice and which modes they replace.” “43.1% of electric bicycle trips & 63.2% of EB mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available, highlighting their substantial potential to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions.”

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

Some of y'all know, but now all y'all do: I have, just today and not without a heap of anxiety, enrolled in UNT's online Master of Science in Information Science program. Tps & tricks for managing school in the midst of *gestures generally* as well as assorted well-wishes accepted below 👇🏻

I do wonder if parents who liked Rambo, Police Academy, RoboCop, etc., also enjoyed the Saturday morning cartoon spinoffs that utterly missed the point of the proper they adapted?

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More dates for The Cartoonists Club tour are live with ticket links! Come see @scottmccloud.bsky.social and I in Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Santa Cruz in October! kids.scholastic.com/kid/books/bo...