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“We could hear them laughing.” Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility. #OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

All set up at A2CAF at the Ann Arbor District Library until 5pm— come say hi and get some books!

@natepowell.bsky.social’s COMICS ARE READING poster is always a big hit at New York Comic Con!

New batch of commissioned illustrations ready to send out! I have 3 more to finish in this round, and have had a total blast doing these— I’ll open up more commissions early next year. Special thanks to the people requesting X-Men characters.

I finally hit the limit and cancelled my long-running WaPo subscription. I’ve done two opinion pieces and a full-length book review for em. But they’ve really shit the bed with their overt rightward embrace & outright purging of left-leaning and Black voices in their opinion & analysis.

Tonight I’ll be doing a live comics reading from my book FALL THROUGH as part of a benefit for @bamfzinefest.bsky.social — it’s at the Orbit Room (107 N. College, Bloomington) from 6-8pm with several other writers of all kinds. See you there!

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

The history teacher is going to be stuck on “why didn’t the Biden admin punish sedition and why was a seditionist even allowed to run for president again” for a long, long time…Americans stopped believing they had a functional government long before they started believing they had a fascist one

New MINOR ARCANA variant cover— issue & release date tbc! Always a delight to contribute to any of Jeff Lemire’s creations— we’ve been making comics in a similar vein for the past two decades, and it’s wonderful to see him carve out a space for his vision & creative sensibility to thrive.

TMNT commission!

- We need cheaper printed black and white comics for the love of god - Comics for adults could do crazy numbers if they actually had support, pubs are leaving money on the table - Prose authors shouldn't be hired to write comics based on prose chops alone - Cartoonists should be paid 700x more

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Magik commission— Illyana, ruler of Limbo. Shoutout to the little acorn from her origin story! ⚔️👹⚔️

Back in 2016, I interviewed the late, legendary Congressman John Lewis for @salon.com about his brilliant graphic-memoir series "March," co-written with @natepowell.bsky.social and @andrewaydin.bsky.social, who also joined the interview. His answer to this question sticks with me.

Highly recommended for shadow season: NOCTURNOS, the excellent, hushed, impressionistic new graphic novel by @lauraperezgranel.bsky.social from Fantagraphics!

Magik commission— Illyana, ruler of Limbo. Shoutout to the little acorn from her origin story! ⚔️👹⚔️

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

"For no kingdom can maintain itself by force alone. Force does not work the way its advocates think in fact it does. It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary. On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of the adversary." -James Baldwin

No US troops invading US streets, committing violence & repression on us all. Our military has engaged in ominous precedents to these operations even in this century— notably Project: Metropolis in 2003.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Pittsburgh this evening— I’ll be discussing my work & path as a cartoonist at the Mt. Lebanon library at 7pm. Please spread the word— see you there!

OPINION: "Delta State canceled classes, postponed its centennial events and opened its chapel for prayer. These gestures matter. But prayer without accountability is insufficient. Mourning without answers is not enough," Malone writes.

About to add graywashes and a touch of color to my story for @appalachiacomics.bsky.social — a collaboration w/ Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist Dr. David Easterling.

This Wicked Witch of the West piece by @natepowell.bsky.social is always a crowd pleaser at shows!

Coming up on Monday in Pittsburgh!

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.

Good heavens! @jesselonergan.bsky.social - this is mind blowing out-of-this-world work! Inspiring use of the grid in relentless innovation - really blown away by it page after page. Bravo!! 1/2

I wrote about Trump's new executive orders targeting "antifa" and how they are paper tigers that rely on preemptive compliance in order to achieve their goals. www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons. snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Make it crystal clear for everyone in your life.

Fascism is extremism. Anti-fascism is not. We’re living in a period of reality inversion and moral inversion.

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).

Another big move in Trump terror memo that must be explicitly named: expanding from “antifa” to “anti-fascist,” then naming state monopoly on violence—that’s the wonk term for its armed forces—as immune from charges of fascism. To call a cop a fascist, this says, is itself a crime.

Pittsburgh! I’ll be discussing my work next Monday, Sept. 29th at the Mt. Lebanon library at 7pm— signing to follow. Please spread the word, and I really hope to see you there!

a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

Pittsburgh! I’ll be discussing my work next Monday, Sept. 29th at the Mt. Lebanon library at 7pm— signing to follow. Please spread the word, and I really hope to see you there!

Big IF, but if Pritzger or Walz wins in Nov 2028, first thing he should do the following January is become a signatory to the International Criminal Court and have everyone arrested and tried in the Hague. Just an enormous purge. Fascism is a cancer and it needs to be irradiated.

Among the many serious blunders of the Biden administration is not dealing quickly and decisively with the fascist element in Congress and having Trump immediately thrown in irons. Garland slow-walking the investigations knowing full well they'd be erased if Trump won again was unforgivable.

He’s right to say it, and he’s right to say it *now*. But this isn’t doomerism. Trump has not already stolen the 2026 elections. He has not already consolidated power. He couldn’t even get a comedian fired. We can, and therefore must, continue to exercise our rights defiantly.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It makes a VERY DARK & morbid sense that they’d be pushing this & that would be a twisted goal in addition to all the gaslighting. They deeply want a figurehead for their cause and now they’ve found a dead patsy and his blonde, blue eyed cultishly Christian aryan wife as their twisted gold standard.

Totalitarian.

Translation. ‘We’re too chickenshit to call out Kirk for the white supremacist he was.’

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis