If you've read MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY, I would really appreciate it if you could leave an Amazon review. Yes, Amazon is terrible but the algorithm needs more ratings for better visibility. I never look at the page so please be honest. www.amazon.com/Mangas-First...

MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY is an Eisner nominee!!!!! It's nominated in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category alongside some other great books. Thank you so much to the nominating committee, and congratulations to all the nominees!! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

Hell yeah

I'll be at the Mill Valley Public Library on August 6 with the incredibly cool and amazing Angela Hennessy if you want to catch me live! Details (and registration) right here:

HELL YEAH you love to see your friends get recognized for their hard work! Andrea is a meticulous researcher and a great writer and this book is so dang good.

MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY is an Eisner nominee!!!!! It's nominated in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category alongside some other great books. Thank you so much to the nominating committee, and congratulations to all the nominees!! www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

A guy bought Buzzfeed today for $20m cash. In 2021, it was valued at $1.5 billion.

This starts in just under 90 minutes! The full conversation won't be rebroadcast so don't miss your chance to hear it!

"In my fantasy, if we lived in a city with money that didn't all go to the police department, the city would eminent domain that little lot and just turn it into a little bird sanctuary.” @nuala.bsky.social interviewed Meghan Long, the photographer behind the Night Herons of Oakland IG account.

Next up: my conversation about One Piece and protest iconography with Greg Sholette for the Forum on Life, Culture, and Society! Free tickets for the online event at 7pm Eastern on Monday, May 11 available now! folcs.org/upcoming-eve...

Next up: my conversation about One Piece and protest iconography with Greg Sholette for the Forum on Life, Culture, and Society! Free tickets for the online event at 7pm Eastern on Monday, May 11 available now! folcs.org/upcoming-eve...

My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #UrbanTruth

Manga's First Century is 40% off in the @ucpress.bsky.social spring sale! www.ucpress.edu/books/mangas...

help saoirse move out of florida if you can ❤️ she has done so much and deserves to live somewhere safe

The most data-dense, and therefore unfortunately least readable, long section of Wealth of Nations is Smith pointing to the transition discussed in this thread and saying “you guys don’t believe me but this is happening RIGHT NOW.” A few years later, Malthus said: yeah, I still don’t believe it.

even by 2026's depraved standards, what's happening here is particularly gross

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Also really funny that Richard Dawkins refuses to acknowledge that trans women are women but thinks "Claudia" is an entirely new form of life because it called him smart

Currently on Caltrain heading from the South Bay toward SF, and the train is packed. That would’ve been unthinkable a couple years ago pre-electrification, especially on a Saturday night when headways were once per hour or longer. Frequency matters!

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

a key to understanding the reactionary right, for me, is the realization that there are pleasures in cruelty "and no you are not immune." there's something in the human soul that delights in having someone to look down on--or at least, the capacity for this exists in us

It seems to me the people of Washington, DC are going through a much more deranged version of the Trump Presidency than the rest of us

turns out that every moms for liberty school board type is so viscerally unpleasant on a personal level that they get thrown out at the next opportunity maybe something to consider the next time one of them is running for office somewhere

At a time when good news is harder to find, UCS’s John Rogers brings us four examples of impressive progress in renewable energy, how they came about, and what to watch for next. 🌱⚡Read his blog:

Manga's First Century is 40% off in the @ucpress.bsky.social spring sale! www.ucpress.edu/books/mangas...

Here's the real conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, more crashes, more noise, more air pollution, more social isolation — and less space for everything good our streets should be giving us. buff.ly/EkbQBlk

I really enjoyed talking with Nathan Hopson about MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. The episode is available now! newbooksnetwork.com/andrea-horbi...

Free shipping still available on Bookshop through the end of this weekend!

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk at the SFPL today! If you missed it, you can snag a copy of Manga's First Century with free shipping on Bookshop this weekend, for Independent Bookstore Day. bookshop.org/a/117815/978...

The Trump administration had no problem relying on Dr. Rachel Levine’s expertise — and properly naming her — in explaining its marijuana moves today, despite maligning the trans doctor who worked in the Biden administration in other contexts. At Law Dork, I explain:

A good overview of what Dems were able to accomplish w/r/t forcing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's abduction onto the national agenda, beating back ICE in places like Minneapolis, and driving Trump's approval on his "best" issue into the toilet. Recall that some pundits advised Dems *not* to do any of this.

You can register for my event at the SFPL next Saturday on Eventbrite! www.eventbrite.com/e/author-tal...

Oh wow. This could be really good. (Who wants to bet they're going to ditch the weird Tezuka character names?)

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Need to start a 🧵 highlighting Trump admin officials confronting the reality that other countries have agency.

Revering 'the heartland' as the one true America for my entire life (and I'm sure long before) has had pretty shitty results, let's give the coastal elites a shot

Halvemaansteeg, Amsterdam in 1979 and today. Now a bicycle only street.

DEATH TO SLIPLANES

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

And we're done for the week! All of California YIMBY's new bills are through first house policy committees with minimal amendments: AB 2074, AB 1903, SB 1014, SB 1116, and SB 1117! @cayimby.bsky.social is a machine for passing pro-housing legislation. Let's revive the California Dream! 🏘️💪

Good.

Delete your fucking X account. It's worthless and it funds one of the biggest bigots on the planet. Get the fuck off.

God I love stories like this. 'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.

whoever coined this should be given a ticker tape parade