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THE FORGED VOLUME 4 TP arrives! 144 pages of your favorite heavy metal muscle mommies kicking ass and having each others backs as the Empire closes its ranks around them. Let your finest local retailer know you want one when it drops like specially calibrated Scimitar issue ordinance AUGUST 12!

We are very excited about this one too!

not NPR, but "Today, Explained" had an episode like that a couple years ago where they broke down the song pretty extensively along those lines

My problem with the World Cup at this stage—every time!— is that I understand so deeply why every team’s fans want them to win. I feel it so hard.

So I was kind of rooting for Mexico for reasons of my own but seeing England advance takes me back to 1990 and what the national song meant to me and my friends at the time. So World in Motion.

So I’ve been hunting unsuccessfully for the NPR program that did a long spot/full episode a couple years back on the worldwide love for ‘Country Roads.’ Throughline? Radiolab? It was terrific. All about a universal sense of yearning combined with a deep understanding of it as an American song.

Are you a writer looking to troubleshoot a sticky project, learn a new medium, bring joy back to your writing practice, push past a block, or come back from burnout? I'm opening my books to a handful of new coaching clients! (1/)

They KNOW. They KNOW we all hate them, that's why they have to LIE about what they are or hope we just never find out!

Shel Silverstein's Tree That Sets Appropriate Boundaries

This is what they come out of the gate with? You fucking MORONS. You fucking complicit MORONS. Bringing a water pistol to trench warfare, nevermind all the other problems with this.

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I'm not being flip here. If these folks can get 50 years for making a zine about Emma Goldman, then the 1st Amendment no longer exists. All of us are in danger.

There were cartoons in American newspapers showing Megan Kelly's great grandparents as drunken rapist apes. I can't speak for anyone else, but any Irish-American who buys into this betrays their own blood. Every immigrant is my brother or sister in spirit, and this attitude is our enemy.

Stephen Miller says ‘America’s doors are closed fully to asylum seekers’ after Supreme Court rulings www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Happy #makeaterriblecomicday I had to draw this.

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If the popularity of all these cool new leftist candidates is a sign of things to come, then it's fine that centrist liberals will drop out of politics & take their vanishing swing voters with them. There aren't many of them anyway. They can spend more time with their Republican besties

First they came for fucking everybody and everybody was in jail so there wasn't any everybody to care.

I am thinking about politics. And Superman. Kindness and decency are feeling pretty punk rock right now.

Young people make a thing, adopt a thing they like: a music style, ripped jeans, slang, whatever. Elders howl about the decline of civilization right up until they can repackage whatever it is and sell it back to the general population as the New Thing Everyone Loves. The dilution of rebellion.

Hey all, we’ve got to change our political strategy right f’ing now! Some cranky old man named Carville says he doesn’t like how we’re voting!

#Parapsychologist out now by @takisoma.bsky.social @marks22 with art by @cattifer.bsky.social#Parapsychologistis an unlikely psychologist whose patients are nothing but supernatural whilst juggling his work and family- #bigfoot #Nessie #Ghosts and more fun coming from @Comixology https://a.co/d/0fCPi5w7

Another grim night for establishment Democrats, who face increasing pressure from leftist upstarts who continually rise above their station to challenge their betters

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Haymarket 2.0

“The Israelis and their American supporters, fully aware that Trump is out for a separate peace, have entered a deeply satisfying season of lamentation now that the war they have for so long sought to manufacture is the fiasco I told them for decades it would be,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social

I would rather have an inefficient space program than a trillonaire nazi

This was excellent.

A thing I like about Bluesky: plenty of funny people, but the ratio of earnest passion to ironic distance is more to my taste than anywhere else.

Watching comics fans argue about the correct reasons to hate transphobic bigot John Byrne is the most narcissism of small differences I’ve seen in years. Can’t we all just drag his lousy ass?

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To celebrate migrating book sales to a self-hosted ecommerce site, I’m offering 10% off site-wide*: aperiodical.net with code OPENING. You can find every book I’ve written in ebook or print form, plus letterpress- and giclée-printed limited editions. *Excludes bookmarks and subscriptions.

I’ve loved The Replacements since I first heard them in maybe ‘87 or 88’? They are very good at one of my personal favorite sub genres: profoundly longing for better than whatever this is while spotlighting the best of right now.

Morose about the Semiquincentennial for Reasons, I’ve wanted to feel something good despite it all. @gregrucka.com showed me the first episode of the Ken Burns Baseball doc and it was a good start. Makes room to think about the passage of time alongside one symbol in a broad cultural context.

"They were in for a rude awakening with the response and it wasn't just from the gay community. It was from the Northern California community that supports the gay community." Five minutes of Mike Krukow worth listening to: www.sfgate.com/giants/artic...

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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore spoke with Hugh Ryan about his new book MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER NINETIES AND BEYOND: www.foglifterjournal.com/my-bad

“Transformative Mediation gave me more than skills; it gave me confidence, purpose, healing and a second chance at making a difference. It changed my life."

Building shields. Using Signal to track ICE vehicles. Writing articles about confrontations with ICE. Posting for mutual-aid contributions. Federal prosecutors have indicted 15 people in Minnesota for these and other acts that harmed no one.

A vampire that’s not Dracula

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

Theaters are renowned cooling shelters on hot summer days and therefore deserving of PCEF monies

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

The Shack offers community-funded recreation programs out of a small building in Sellwood Park.

Evol House was a band, a BBS, a record label, a zine collective, all run out of a farmhouse on the edge of town. Now the bank is tearing it down. There's the first NEW Incredible Doom story in over a year on my Patreon Tuesday, June 17. 32 pages.

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