My variant for Storm: Earths Mightiest Mutant 2 This is very much stylistically in line with the Black Cat cover, hopefully I can turn this into a series of sorts.

Sure, I’ll bump my unpopular opinion but also use the occasion to promote that Delroy deserves this Oscar ex post facto for his performance in DA FIVE BLOODS. I also need to see NOPE again for its rewarding onion skins of entertainment and insight.

Minneapolis is the capital of the U.S. right now. Random middle aged aunties on the ground there are showing more physical and moral courage in one volunteer shift than Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have in their entire lives combined.

Some of how they trained, and how this is a leaderless diffuse movement of ordinary people is described here, which is the best piece I've read about what's happening in Minnesota. Equal parts inspiring and enraging: bsky.app/profile/clar...

Any elected Republican with an ounce of integrity would leave the party. Not one in Congress is leaving because they're all cowards or fascist bootlickers or both. (*Though Massie has been doing some good from the inside).

We need a new journalism. No more horse race reporting and assumption of good faith where there clearly isn't any. There is a gulf between what Republicans say and what they do and the mask has fully come off. They hold no American value but white power and tax cuts for the rich. That's the frame

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

I got fooled by someone who is famous for being a conman until it was too late. Here’s why that’s actually smarter than seeing it coming:

Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that she believes Noem is attempting to "mislead the American public” about the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old protester in Minneapolis.

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...

FWIW, Jesus was not only supremely compassionate, red text JC was also much funnier than anything associated with the Babylon Bee. As being both fully God and fully human, He knew how to poke fun at our foibles but also never punched down.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

His gun was holstered and legally registered. He never brandished it or even reached for it. The gun was inconsequential. Yet agents put ten bullets into him. Don’t let them blame his gun. Don’t let them blame Alex. This was a murder.

Children die in school shootings and it’s “not the guns”. Mass shootings claim lives multiple times a year and it’s “not the guns”. Kyle Rittenhouse shot 3 people during a protest and it’s “not the guns” ICE kills Alex Pretti, and suddenly it’s his fault because he “had a gun”

1. Wasn’t at a protest 2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down 3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight bsky.app/profile/atru...

I wasn't sure they could top "Christian poet and mother" but they moved on to "VA ICU nurse"

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

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If you’ve ever thought about getting rid of your Ring products or disconnecting from Amazon in general, now would be a good time… techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...

ICE Heavy weight Pushing Till Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop. Broken branches birth light. Remember your roots, trees.

This is the sane response. your players and traveling citizens will not be safe now do the olympics

Good. More of this.

Can’t believe Bill Kristol is lapping the entire Democratic Party leadership, embarrassing for them

No way - this is my personal favorite of his too.

Whilst Stanley Kubrick's ‘The Shining’ and Jim Henson’s ‘The Muppet Show’ were filming next door to each other at Elstree Studios, Danny Lloyd got to visit and hang with Kermit in 1979.

The rich don’t open coffee shops. They own parking lots and warehouses, and sleep just fine.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

This is who Stephen Miller called a “domestic terrorist” today. Listen to Alex Pretti in his own voice.

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

Feels like it should be a pretty big deal that a Trump supporter physically assaulted a Democratic congressman

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Minnesota.

Philando Castile informed the police that he was lawfully carrying. He was killed.

THIS IS A THING? I live in NY and had no idea HELL YEAH

A second American citizen has been killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis, and DHS is blocking any independent investigation. When will my Republican colleagues speak out against this chaos? This can’t continue.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

my gut tells me american politics are about to shift radically within the next few days, as this rubicon crossing event occurs with both sides heading toward snowstorm-induced isolation and online algorithms

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

This is unsustainable. But this isn't the first time this has happened in the U.S. It happened in the Jim Crow South too. That was unsustainable too but it lasted nearly a century. The arc of the moral universe doesn't bend on its own. We're the ones who bend it & more Americans need to speak out.