Important article, comics colleagues. Where we stand right now in this Book Ban culture war that shows no signs of abating. I've said this from the beginning: this began as a classic Comics Witch Hunt. When this started in Texas & Florida in 2021, My Friend Dahmer was one of the targeted books.

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

finally finalized the inks at least haha

First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at: —Nigeria—tonight’s strikes —Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr) —Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid —Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids —Caribbean—11 strikes —Eastern Pacific—20 strikes —Iran—3 strikes —Iraq—1 strike

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

no. furthermore, fuck no. you do not have to sacrifice your peace to appease someone just because you share dna. you just don't.

There are even more trans people in the future. You will meet them & marvel at the beauty of gender alchemy in an age of liberation. We will arrive there together by loving each other & destroying fascism.

There was one Jewish member of the UK cabinet when they voted to create Israel on top of Palestine. Here is the letter he wrote, vehemently opposing the Zionist project

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

THE GENOCIDE IS NOT OVER. Stand the fuck up people.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Exactly! Gen AI sucks the joy out of doing anything, developing mastery of anything.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

I can't believe this still needs to be said (and more loudly): Trans rights are human rights.

Are we EVER going to do something about this??

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers

Hell yeah let's get everyone free HRT

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

With most of America about to get huge increases in health insurance costs as the ACA subsidies expire, maybe it’s time to start raising the subject of Medicare For All again, because this horrific “market-oriented” system is unsustainable if the US wants to continue as a civilized country.

Thread, because this 100%. The moment the tech bros came in dicks swinging and screaming about how "we're gonna kill your jobs and you can't do anything about it," WHILE they were actively stealing from us, was the moment I became determined to burn GenAI shit to the ground.

I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Border Patrol conducts an arrest in the Burlington parking lot in Kenner as part of Operation Catahoula Crunch at 130pm today.

Do not be lulled into thinking that the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 has abated. The general situation of unrestrained spread continues to be alarmingly dangerous, with contagion, illness, and mortality rampant everywhere. Maintaining the utmost caution is still an absolute necessity. #COVID19

I feel like in general there's a big backlash against being visably different at all. Personal expression keeps being framed in terms of "regret" and "being ugly". Smells rather fascist again.

On November 26th, two elderly pro-Palestinian activists were among the dozens of people arrested in the UK simply for holding cardboard signs in support of Palestine Action.

Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.

“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Statement from Rep. Crockett on Threat at D.C. Office

Abolish ICE. Deny all those who worked for them any honors or employment in government ever again.

Anyway: pornographic art and performance is good, people have a right to the vast majority of their kinks, and it is ridiculous that consenting adults are finding those rights strangled by big tech and payment platforms

It's Trans Day of Remembrance. They won't ever be able to get rid of us, no matter what. No amount of hateful legislation can change the fact of our existence.

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Scoop: The Trump administration has quietly erased trans people, people of color and to some extent, the idea that some groups have more or different difficulties than others from the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. Why? Unclear! They wouldn’t tell me.

So just so everyone is clear about what this is : Mike Johnson and the executive branch are normalizing the claim that any kind of dissent that is fact based is treason and an executable offense to the fascist regime. This is the intellectual framework for the mass murder of your opposition.

This Trans Day of Remembrance, please examine your own impulse to annihilate trans women who have made you angry. Trans women live on a precipice and it doesn't take much for people we thought were friends to be calling for our destruction.

Condé Nast emptied out every single trans and Black journalist from Teen Vogue while clearing a six figure salary for a woman who slept with people she was covering while she mocked real concerns about their fitness Lord knows I need money but this is SYSTEMIC

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

a) If you understand the risks, you won't install it. b) If you DON'T understand the risks, Microsoft has instructed you not to install it. Therefore, c) under NO circumstances should you install Windows 11's agentic AI.

It can’t rain all the time

JFC, what a shitshow.

New from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public "Something doesn't sound right" www.404media.co/contractor-p...

St. Paul - eyes out