small brain: "the elves frown upon human-elf relationships because they are hidebound reactionaries" large brain: "any elf that has sex with a human under the age of 100 is a disgusting pervert"

Waiting for Josh Johnson…

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

A young person just commented on one of my Avatar comics: "it's like fanfiction but a book." 💀💀💀

“INSPIRATIONAL & IMAGINATION” At the @americanwritersmuseum.org in Chicago and came upon a friend’s book cover! @gwillow.me G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen!

Good thread. This administration drank its own KoolAid and believed the Fox News/Newsmax fantasy about what the rest of the country is like. Echo chambers are dangerous — especially for the occupants.

#Teaser Any #Thundercats or #Oz fans out there? Some side projects I did when a recent script was late. #Pumyra watercolor for an upcoming kepyr.org auction to help refugee children, and an "Elphaba" Wicked Witch of the West + Elphaba ship for DIBS on March 7 at www.theseventhcornergallery.com

The Right’s vision of white Christian patriarchal domination is indeed deeply rooted in U.S. history. To counter it, we should take heart from that other American tradition, that boldly democratic promise of egalitarian pluralism. Make MAGA un-American, finally.

I was born after the 60s Civil Rights fight, assassinations, during the Vietnam War. I hoped, and still hope, MLK Jr is right: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Our US aspirations vs the injustice we live with, via German historian of the US Right, Thomas Zimmer.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Roses are red, And your hair is bright neon, You thrilled me when you said, “Viva La Revolución!!!”

I have mixed feelings about the Mills campaign but as a long-time Susan Collins hater this ad was made for me personally

Great series! Had to get my 49ers gn blessed.

Shout out from editor Joe Illidge! As an IP Coach at illuminousideas.com Joe gives #TopTen top marks. #AlanMoore fused the roving camera of #HillStreetBlues w a superhero team, then added the setting. @zandercannon.bsky.social was the captain who steered the visual storytelling & tone #DreamTeam

RFK Jr. snorted cocaine off the toilet seat the right way. by Ezra Klein

Last time this went around my answer was “transferring a phone call for Elton John” but this time I’m gonna go with “seeing the same movie as David Byrne twice in a week.”

Jim Zub: "...The original comic artists have better construction, more nuanced and confident line work, and they actually created the damn work themselves." Screenshot from the Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein Flickr account.

The number of people who have tried to get me to talk about 3D printed guns on here lately is super weird. Idk if you're feds or clueless or clueless feds, but even if I was stupid enough to engage? I've never touched a gun and never will. Your self-implicating princess is in another castle.

On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Remember that Anne Frank died from typhus in a concentration camp, not poison gas.

I’d campaign my ass off for her. I don’t agree with every choice she’s made in every circumstance. But just that she comes from a working class background and has not let four terms in Congress swing her to the middle says a lot about her integrity. She’s also a great communicator.

A 45-year-old man has been charged with two counts of assault after getting into a fistfight with a group of Texas teenagers who were protesting Immigration Customs and Enforcement. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/05/m...

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Live thread from Wed press conference of Marimar Martínez & her lawyer. She's the Chicagoan who survived the Border Patrol ramming her car & shooting her 5 times. They justified shooting by claiming she rammed them, and other lies exposed in video, incident reports etc. Chi Sun-Times' Jon Seidel.

Insight filled thread on small town folks’ terror of Big Cities like New York and… El Paso TX, pop 680K. By Amanda Marcotte, senior politics writer at @Salon.com.

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The racist crash outs from white celebrities who are no longer relevant (or good) has been astounding. Bud, people haven't stopped caring about you because you're white. It's because you suck now. New white celebrities are made every day.

While I'm so pissed it was renamed, I'll be so happy when it truly is a memorial to TWO dead presidents.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"

Author & organizer Kelly Hayes: “…I encountered someone who said that explaining to people why the hats ‘weren't helpful’ was ‘exhausting.’ Friends, if this is how you are exhausting yourselves, you aren't doing the movement any favors. I am tired, too, but more fruitfully so…” kellyhayes.org

These people are idiots. Also, he must have got the message that Benito is a huge part of a big Trumpy corporation that his family does a lot of business with.

In short, badmouth Puerto Rico and I will punch you so hard your glottis will fall out and run away and join the circus.

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

Unidos somos América.

There’s only one channel on US television showing the Super Bowl. Watch a different one. Or crash a watch party for the wings and beer and read a trashy book until everyone cheers or groans!

Here is the spirit of the “neighborism” that is resisting Trumpism: Solidarity with those targeted by the regime is imperative. For we bear responsibility. We are not just all at risk. We are all implicated.   Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign: “Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”

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The Super Bowl is a prominent pat of American culture that we enjoy in many different ways, from getting together with friends to watch it to announcing publicly that we will not be watching it and don‘t even watch football at all.

ICE all over Northside this morning. Almost like they need to get their shift in before the Super Bowl.

I see people have found this again. don’t forget to make fun of that guy at the Super Bowl party who has a problematic race fetish

Primary every Democrat who won’t fight to abolish ICE. Every one.

German historian Thomas Zimmer on why MN neighborly love is winning & why MAGA can't see it. Trump & Stephen Miller can't believe "real" Americans protect their neighbors bc of love. The whole MAGA worldview would be a lie! Maybe a little more violence will make the "paid protesters" quit…

I don’t really care about sportsball and I’ve misplaced my reading glasses, but I was told it was important to do Superbowl prep. Did I do this right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nuthin' beats superhero comics for pure escapism! Canadian comics genius Ty Templeton, putting a mirror on the border.

at the end of the six months, only one of you will have written a book

Man, Sienkiewcz is so fucking good. And there's nobody in the business who's worked at such a high level for so long

These statues really brighten my day, and I really need that in 2026. Reminder that Melissa Sue Stanley's sculptures are intricate little statues, not CGI or digital slop. They're beasts she hand carved from polymer clay and painted. wowxwow.com/shop/imperma...