I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

"Conflates answers [or outcomes] with learning" - this a is perfect distillation of the shift in how higher ed's value is perceived, and something we need to keep fighting against, particularly in the age of AI.

exactly what @pbump.com said: "fuck outta here" (with alt text added...)

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Like so many of us, I *clearly* remember watching the violent attempt to overthrow democracy, live, in real time & unedited on TV after reading, hearing & seeing months of clear, intentional steps toward that goal on this day.

Man. Whew.

I could read those two sentences a thousand times and still not fathom how we’ve come to this place where any of this is acceptable…

It's a difficult challenge to write useful alt-text for comics, particularly compositions that do things mine do - but I do quite enjoy it. Did this in full for the 2-page comic I made as foreword to book on teaching Unflattening (forthcoming fall!) & describing just this quintet of panels, wowza!

Comics studies folks—the submission window for the Comics Studies Society prizes is now open! See below for prize categories and submission details here: comicsstudies.org/prizes/

Let me be very clear: tomorrow morning and EVERY DAY THIS WEEK, call your Reps and Senators whether Dem, Republican or Independent. Express your outrage at Trump’s imperial and illegal actions against sovereign nations. TELL THEM to convene. To hold up everything. Hold up $. 202-224-3121

"If you don't call me cool and give me my lil award I'll kill as many people as possible out of spite" really does appear to be the driving animus of everyone in this administration and its adjacent oligarchy.

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

What Denmark said with alt-text. And yeah, wild that this hasn’t ended the administration for good… calls to impeach should come from all corners and now

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

This bit of news — at least 40 dead— appears around the 27th graf of the NYT story. Which is a really bizarre choice. (And we find out a few grafs down that several US soldiers were injured)

From visual journalism to reportage and resistance, here are the 10 must-read comics of 2025 selected by ChannelDraw. Reality, politics, memory, and truth—told through powerful graphic storytelling.

Paging through print edition of @theonion.com w/my boy (and having to explain to him that it’s all not real) and impressed with this powerful (non)ad on banned books featuring @redgoldsparks.bsky.social ‘s important graphic novel Gender Queer. Wish all our news media could call things out like this…

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Our state @scottwiener.bsky.social's strong call for impeachment with alt-text added...

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

I'm seeing a lot of posts to call your reps but little on actually how. 5calls.org is a great site where you can put in your zip code and get numbers for your house representative and two senators. You also can get a script if you're like me and stumble over your thoughts.

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

“We are going to run the country…it has to be judicious, because that’s what we’re all about.” This from the criminal Trump, after illegally attacking Venezuela. An infuriating disgrace.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

Jack Smith's deposition must be bigger news "There is no historical analog for what..Trump did..[H]e was free to say he thought he won..He was even free to say falsely that he won..But..he was not free to..violate federal law and use knowingly false statements..to target lawful government function"

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

What does my just finished chapter look like from 10,000 feet?! It started by looking out & looking in, wrested with something from nothing, & led to the birth of the stars giving rise to all that makes us possible. Fun to see black/white contrast all at once a first time... #Nostos #Unflattening 2

Latinx Comics: Past, Present, and Future Frederick Luis Aldama and Miguel Ángel Hernández share a unique, word-drawn essay on the persistence of Latinx creators. muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic... @projectmuse.bsky.social #comics #ComicStudies #representation #stereotypes #decolonization #LatinxCreators

This is our experience - the car stays put. And if cities made the effort to make more safe, car-free routes for bikes (which costs like nothing to create) even more would join in and get us all out of this devotion to cars…

It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".

The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.

Each year, I make a point of grabbing a font or three from the fine folks at @comicraft1992.bsky.social! in truth, I use a single font for 99% of my lettering, & occasionally a second one for small bits, & hand letter other sorts of things - but I am ready! (and always tell my students & you!)

This is the way…

After 3+ years, I have FINISHED this chapter on the origin of the universe!! A circuitous journey that has led to our home, in which that history of the universe is carried (and in all of us). This page recaps key moments & points forward to the next chapter - Life. Onward... #Nostos #Unflattening 2

Great recs from @ryandunlavey.bsky.social for your shelf & learning from!

La revista Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language & Literature acaba de publicar un número dedicado al cómic: “Lectura en vinyetes: La intersecció entre el còmic i l'educació literària” revistes.uab.cat/jtl3/index

"Between the administration and the opposition are actual opposites of principle: among those committed to inclusion and those to exclusion; truth and lies; kindness and cruelty; the protection and destruction of systems that in turn protect the climate or public health."

I agree with this. Trumpago delenda est. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

& so, as I finally come to the close of this chapter that has taken me 3yrs to research & draw, I'm recapping some key moments encountered along the way - from virtual particles popping in & out of existence to the ignition of stars & all they've forged. It's been a journey. #Nostos #Unflattening 2

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

I am founding a not-for-profit website where independent comic creators and small publishers can easily sell their works to libraries, plus provide other services. Called (for now) the Comics Librarian Commons, this will be an online hub bringing independent creators and librarians together.

Comics critics! You have just a few more days to apply to the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

A final batch of figure drawing tips for 2025. Following up on hands, we investigate what happens when we stick 'em in our pockets... (1/3)

Always grab a few fonts each year and send to my students to put it on their radar…