Everyday in America we have this debate: WHERE in the constitution does it say police have the right to execute people for traffic violations?

Submissions for the 2026 Minicomic Awards are NOW OPEN through 1/31/26! 🎉 To submit your comic(s), register an account at mca.cartoonist.coop. Be sure to check out the full guidelines and FAQ before submitting.

it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does

Our country sucks, do some art for a good cause?

‘A free press is essential to a functioning democracy. It is the responsibility of Congress to defend this principle and to hold any administration accountable when it is threatened.’ Add your name. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

‘As the United States should have learned several times over (but it won’t learn this), decapitation of regimes is not the same as breaking the connection between the regime and the state.’ — @vladvexler.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/5JlADBG...

Last year, says @simonoxfphys.com, we get ‘the clearest signs yet on the economics of energy having fundamentally shifted. The world is pouring ever greater investment into renewables, batteries, and grid upgrades.’ Moreover, in ‘a colossal piece of good fortune … nebula.tv/videos/simon...

Please help if able. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... www.roaimmigration.com/press-releas... via @dorothymarketing.bsky.social

‘[T]o care about and tend to our dissolute knowledge systems can be to care for and tend to our own understandings … . It is to de-instrumentalize our understandings of one another and to assume a position of greater humility and responsibility, together.’ — @kissane.myatproto.social

Please help if able. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... www.roaimmigration.com/press-releas... via @dorothymarketing.bsky.social

i like @tldrnews.bsky.social’s ‘World Leader Leaderboard’ show, i confess a lot of interesting lighter-fare discussion — even if the political perspective only rarely aligns much with mine yet this year-in-review episode leaves a nasty aftertaste, and it’s worth dwelling on youtu.be/ulsgrnleLqI

not about me, but constant no-strings kindness to strangers part of why I like visiting NYC: tissue handed to crier, lifting front of stroller when stairs, foot holding wheelchair tire on train, paying for person behind who just realized is cash only. and then...gone, no thanks wanted. it heals me.

@lfelizleon.bsky.social: “When union leaders like O’Brien signal that immigrant workers are expendable, it erodes the power of the entire working class.” lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...

Help us clear the shelves before we have to inventory all these books! 20% off all in-stock books until the end of the year, in the store or online at redemmas.org/books (use the code BOOKSROCK at checkout)

spending some of Christmas @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social with Moira, Adrian and Andrew rss.com/podcasts/inb...

"Given who he is and how he is, Calvin’s story will be for many a much-needed balm in this time of agitation and dislocation. In it, readers may hear echoes of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning." —Bidish Sarma

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

listening to Tom Facchine interrogate Shadi Hamdi’s U.S.-led-liberal-order ideal on @thinkingmuslim.bsky.social pdbowman.studio/briefs/22-de...

thoughtful message / reception revisit — worth a listen

2025 has been a year of devastating disinvestment across arts and culture criticism. Join us in calling for $1/word as the minimum rate for book critics. nwu.org/join Illustration by @colleentie.bsky.social

Wrote a little piece on the work PODER Emma is doing in Asheville, NC around a resident-led research and development program for a green transition in affordable housing—figuring out how to make mobile homes in their co-ops more energy efficient and resilient: seedcommons.org/posts/giving...

last week’s @thegailyshow.org conversation with @jakewittich.bsky.social, lot of ground covered www.youtube.com/live/b4rGUoH...

I think every time we get mad at the New York Times we should give money to independent media (baltimorebeat.com/neighborhood)

Real solidarity looks like a stranger running toward danger to protect people who don't look like him or pray like him. That's the world JFREJ is fighting for, hand in hand with our partners across all lines of difference, all over this city. (8/8)

Our interview with @michaeldeforge.bsky.social on the intersection of comic and graphic arts & organizing Then re-airing a segment from @outlawpod.bsky.social about the TDCJ medical neglect of @freexinachtlinow.bsky.social (aka Alvaro Luna Hernandez) thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/12...

"Amazon already has some of the worst working conditions in the [US], but workers go through hell in order to deliver the holidays ... Amazon workers across the [US] are exercising their power by joining the Teamsters. Our new members at DBK1 will be crucial voices as we continue this fight."

Whenever I say “across the political spectrum,” I mean across the political spectrum.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Just saw people arguing that the shooting in Sydney wasn’t antisemitic because Chabad is a Zionist movement, and killing Zionists is fine. Fucking ghouls. Get fucked.

I posted my last Comics NEWS Digest of the year last night, check it out! devinwhitlock.substack.com/p/devins-com...

You can’t build an affordable city atop a regressive economy. That's the argument of my new @jacobin piece, which shows how Zohran can pair wealth taxes with a bold economic strategy on behalf of Gotham's working-class. Check it out here! jacobin.com/2025/12/mamd...

Interesting how enshittification leads companies to flip their entire mission statement. From upward economic mobility to gambling your way to bankruptcy.

‘Ballroom’ by @futurelandfill.bsky.social youtu.be/1vc6oKbH950

been listening to @leaypi.bsky.social a bit pdbowman.studio/quareidfacia...

On the newest episode of On the Nose, Antony Loewenstein and Rhys Machold debate the "Palestine Laboratory," and whether Israeli military innovation is, in fact, a myth. jewishcurrents.org/debating-the...

In the latest forum of @bostonreview.bsky.social I wrote about migration, social class and the causes of displacement around the world. You can read the essay, the responses and the response to the responses online here & also subscribe to Boston Review!

what to notice about Epstein and Israel — @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast with Arielle Angel, Noah Kulwin, Ryan Grim pdbowman.studio/briefs/2-dec...

‘Racism’s power to endure for so long in this country isn’t due to hate. … Racism isn’t about hate, it’s about indifference …. Racism is still here because it has utility as an organizing social framework for white Americans.’ nebula.tv/videos/fdsig...

The United States of America.

I found a big sign at the thrift shop with some live/laugh/love stuff on it, so I painted over that with my to-do list. Feel free to make it yours, too.

congrats! to @ilanaslightly.bsky.social and @thegailyshow.org on start of something good www.youtube.com/live/9YyvHdU...

‘Europe must accept that U.S. leadership is not coming back. … Waiting for Washington is self-destructive for Europe and damaging for Ukraine. … Stop running to Washington for rescue.’ — @vladvexler.bsky.social youtu.be/BQtHoTP-irQ

‘The collapse of philosemitism need not spell disaster for Jews …. [I]t is … a necessary precondition for the resituating of the struggle for Jewish liberation where it belongs, squarely among the fights of all the exploited and oppressed.’

We are supremely lucky and happy to work with our friends at @litvolunteerswinchesterarea Today we gifted them the comically large check (and a real one) for $11,560 from this past years #fcfcoversliteracy! Lets try to beat it next year!

This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide. open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?

Flaming J-- uh, November?