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'out of the three mass shootings today'

Remember Anne Frank...!

maybe a bit of a hot take: but the same goes for PCs. You can play a chaotic murderhobo in a party of goody-two-shoes and still be respectful of everyone's enjoyment of the game *as a player*.

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Stunning from issue one to issue done. Loved each and every story this will be the title I grumble about being the greatest and queerest to the youths when I’m a crotchety old man nerd.

Far too many USians do no know that immigration issues are *civil* matters, not criminal; undocumented immigrants have committed *misdemeanors*, and CBP/ICE/DHS often brutalize and kill them for what, in other contexts, would basically result in a fine. Think about why you're okay with that.

The kink community has done tremendously under-appreciated work on the communication of both desire and consent and the creation of safe spaces.

I'm not a Christian and have no real stake or opinion in Christian theology ... except: I've seen more than a few conversations where LGBTQ+ people asserting their human rights has been labeled "anti-Christian". Now the President has designated "anti-Christian beliefs" as indicators of "terrorism."

The quietly efficient lynchpins of important systems are often only noticeable when they stop working.

#AvengersAcademy contains some of my absolute favorite storytelling at the present, and while I'm so sad to see it go for the time being, I wanted to celebrate some of the achievements from the run (thanks to Sam Stone for the assist on this one!): www.marvel.com/articles/com...

The criminal Trump regime’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful. Here’s a thought. Focus on protecting the people he is threatening there and elsewhere. (See how easy that is? I’ll take my DNC consulting fee now.)

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

They will later be fully vanquished into my tummy. 😋

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

I just spent a week in Portland. The city was busy with tourists and locals enjoying late summer. A prosperous downtown. Factually, there is no observable evidence of a city needing military intervention. A reminder that this is not normal. Please pay attention.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

Reminder that I still have commission slots open, and bills breathing down my neck.

The President has declared war on an American city and American citizens. Portland isn't "War ravaged" (and wasn't even at the height of protests under the last Trump regime) but it soon will be if the real domestic terrorists running the U.S. government have their way. "Portlandia" as casus belli.

Good thing Stephen Miller isn’t prone to overblown hyperbole. Otherwise, he might sound like a pathetic political hack with an axe to grind.

On might even say “committing the sin of empathy.”

Expanded my close read of today's Trump Terror Memo, with help from @audiosand.bsky.social & and unnamed federal-adjacent employee. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/rubber-glu...

Is now a good time to remind folk of the "Three Sentence Review"? #BookSky We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked. (Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)

"You get a transgender! And YOU get a transgender ... EVERYONE gets a transgender!" Also, I'm pretty sure the Republicans control all three branches of government and have armed soldiers in the streets. If they can't keep their own gov't open, why should Democrats help them in exchange for nothing?

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Ah, yes, Republicans … the party of accountability. 🙄

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Even though it’s bullshit the media is running COMEY INDICTED headlines which is how Republicans win messaging every time. They’re hoping most people won’t know the difference between this and a real indictment and the media helps them by not plainly saying “Trump Forces DOJ To Indict” in a headline

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

driving to the port of Los Angeles to move my tariffed goods from a tariffed crane to my tariffed truck made of tariffed steel on a tariffed road. Joke administration. Bastard policy of Franz Kafka and Oren Cass.

More of this, please.

Creating fictional content (visual or written or otherwise) about dubious or non-consenting situations is nowhere near the same thing as real life assaults, and censoring fiction that depicts it should not be considered even remotely acceptable. It's not "glorifying" anything to create it.

“Hurm. Wormtongue’s voice is hard to make out sometimes, and so different sometimes, but I hear. I hear a lot of different things. A lot of different names.”

Just as in his first term, Trump is using state socialism to benefit the people he screwed over after they voted for him to prevent socialism.

On the brink of a federal gov’t shutdown? Not at ALL ominous…

“It’s important to understand that while we don’t know the shooter’s motive and the investigation is ongoing, we’ve made up our minds about the narrative that is most advantageous to our regime.”

"Efficiency!"

25 Years Ago yesterday, the animated series STATIC SHOCK hit the airwaves, introducing the Milestone Comics hero to the world. When I wrote THE SHADOW CABINET, one of the moments I knew had to be in the book was to have the comic book version say the line the animated version became known for.

c.org/tbx4jhDT5S Don't know if this'll work but it's worth a shot

Unfortunately, no claims made by the Patel-led FBI or the Bondi-led DOJ can be considered credible.

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

For all his obsession with aristocrats and robber barons, I do think Julian Fellowes’ shows demonstrate that the continued wealth and success of both is largely owed to tremendous dumb fucking luck.

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.

OH so “too soon to politicize this tragedy” only applies to issues of GUN CONTROL. Got it.