Delighted to learn that it’s legal to throw sandwiches at cops.

My tattoo artist is wearing a “No mistakes, just happy accidents” and hats off to her for making Bob Ross slightly menacing.

I think people also remember a time before ICE. People remember the Customs Service and the INS and while they weren't popular, "putting things back the way they were" (even if they behave differently) is a much easier sell

I feel confident in saying ICE is far less popular than the police, which we should also abolish, but which I’ll concede it freaks some normies out when you say as much. This is a safe position to take right now.

If I were going to soul-search about something in the Democratic Party right now it would be why good little centrist Mikie Sherrill is only polling at +6 in a reliably blue state.

Just sent the final bit of the From Hell chapter out to Patrons. Omnibus of the whole chapter coming in a few days, but I'm enormously proud of this fucker.

We hear a lot about freedom of speech. What about freedom of hearing? Speech is gatekept by capital & capital can say what it pleases, de facto silencing that which it does not want said. What about the right to hear? That is a right of the people. It is the right to hear all that they need to hear.

As if anyone needed any more motivation...

Just some of the most incredible sentences coming out of this trial.

Love to see Spanberger’s numbers if she had to deal with a spoiler candidate.

Say what you want about Dick Cheney, but I admire a man who can shoot someone in the face and then get an apology for doing it.

The Borad has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

Teen Vogue about to bleed subscribers like it pivoted to video.

This was considered peak Savvy Punditry And Strategy™ one year ago. Lessons for Dems & liberals: 1) stop thinking political pundits who've never worked on campaigns have any useful advice on how to win elections 2) just because something is published by an elite media outlet doesnt mean it's smart

I honestly wonder how much of Fetterman’s shittiness is ultimately because of the stroke.

Does anyone seriously think someone other than Harris would have won a speed primary?

The great mystery to solve is why Republicans lashed themselves to the mast of this very strange, very stupid person.

Apparently taking your psychological theories from Doom Patrol is a bad idea.

If you don’t know how to run against this effectively pick a different career. Come the fuck on. “He’s stealing your benefits while he demolishes the White House.”

The Democrats desperately need to 1) figure out how to run against an ambient disinformation machine, 2) make regulating the tech industry a central part of their policy platform, since it doesn’t fucking mater what you put there except inasmuch as there’s a right answer and they never take it.

It’s very strange to repeatedly see Democratic “strategists” observe that the party is widely seen as focusing on identity politics—in spite of the Harris campaign largely avoiding them —and concluding this is a problem with party priorities and not with losing voters to misinformation.

Next we’ll find out that men stopped being gay in the mid-80s.

Thinking about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” a possibly unique case of a band writing a new song for a Greatest Hits compilation and having it legitimately be their greatest hit.

The current shitshow is at least one of those moments where, after standing still for fifteen years, the world has revolved back around me and suddenly providing guerilla media literacy training is chic and important.

Give a man a hot take on music (ok more an incessant stream of them on every topic imaginable) and he’ll marry you. Provide a modest amount of help teaching him to become a critic and you’ll delightedly open Bluesky to find him raving about semi-obscure 70s gems for the rest of your life.

You can also access them for free without a sub if you read using archive.ph

Featuring the grand farce of the Miracleman rights, the 90s collapse of the comics industry, and the absurd spectacle of Alan Moore writing Violator vs. Badrock.

This was my reading of the proposed feature as well, although you can’t rule out the possibility that repeatedly being disliked will algorithmically disadvantage you.

Geoff Johns has never read or watched something that wasn't about superheroes - not since he read A Farewell to Arms in school and was sorely disappointed by the misleading title.

Let them eat shit, apparently

While the rest of the world feasts on Chapter 1, Patrons just got the penultimate section of Chapter 3, on From Hell. www.patreon.com/posts/142550...

Read it for William Blake’s thoughts on a minor Spawn character alone!

Happy halloween!

We never get trick or treaters, so my husband is handing out spicy takes instead.

This is one of the most extraordinary and heartbreaking tracks on Alex’s upcoming album, and the video slaps. Trust me, you want to clear a few minutes and appreciate this.

I keep saying billionaires who donate to charity are donating their workers' surplus value, but for some reason conservatives don't agree.

Featuring an excellent callback/supplement to the previous installment in the first paragraph:

The triumphant return of Last War in Albion, featuring the somewhat less triumphant Image Comics work of Alan Moore. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/chapter...

Even for David Brooks this is stupid, but at least revealing in its violent lack of imagination. To my mind, and I think this largely obvious, Trump is bitter proof that postmodernists were correct about how the world works.

People who want to insinuate that my confidence/arrogance and capacity for aggression are because I was “socialized male” or whatever really run aground on the fact that my sort of brash stubbornness is an even bigger outlier among trans women than it is among cis women.

Look, they only said they'd go as far as their soul, don't upsell them.

The War Between the Land and Sea is dropping on BitTorrent in December, I see.

I have what is very plainly an autistic cat—she misunderstands all feline social cues, hates any deviations from the familiar, and gets overstimulated easily. She’s absolutely perfect, and I’m very glad she won’t ever get rabies.

Friday, 10/31 Last War in Albion Book Four, Chapter One: The Way of It (Alan Moore at Image) eruditorumpress.com

Always a hoot to talk about horrible things with Ryan.

This, only with the added observation that any theory that betting markets have any predictive value is really shot to hell when the owners of those markets are actively running ads geared at getting people to place bad bets on likely to lose candidates.

This is an extremely good overview of the subject, and I'd say that even if it didn't quote me.

It is in fact a good time. And a good ocean of reverb.

I'll watch new Doctor Who if they transmit it, but this'd be fuckin' wild.

A thing that’s worth remembering is that the Democratic strategists writing reports like the one Morris is critiquing here are the exact same group of people who ran Harris’s losing campaign.