Honestly, not giving up much here…

If you are involved in the arts in any way, you should know about Fall of Freedom. Let’s do something about this, together www.falloffreedom.com

“Memphis resident KeShaun Pearson states, ‘We are breathing dirtier air, experiencing higher rates of asthma, and our children are spending more time in emergency rooms due to the misguided ambitions of billionaires who don’t see us as human.’”

The US has now vetoed six UN Security Council cease fire resolutions since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

not sure how else to use this place right now except check everything 3x before sharing, post more indie news outlets from all over, 'de-escalate all conflict that isn't with the enemy'

Activists in Seattle just sent us this update from the Tesla showroom in South Lake Union. This is the heart of Seattle's tech core, blocks from Amazon HQ and Google's Seattle campus. We can win. We are winning. Keep pushing. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

It’s not a double standard this *is* their standard. Speech for them not for us. Violence for us not for them. The sooner we understand this the better.

Apropos of nothing, I finished this stunner of a book by Gretchen Felker-Martin a couple days ago. Perfect ending!

A real privilege to be interviewed by Ian Thomas for @comicsjournal.bsky.social. Such incisive, probing questions: Ian got me thinking about comics and how I approach the medium in ways I hadn't before.

love this superb interview with my pal/collab johnny damm!

Really interesting interview about the technique and theory behind Mr Damm's collage comics.

New interview in @comicsjournal.bsky.social! Really loved having this conversation with Ian Thomas, which was challenging in all the best ways. And it's amazing to be featured in the The Comics Journal, which I've been reading since I was a teenager. www.tcj.com/comics-are-t...

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Brussels today. Almost a quarter of a million people on the streets marching for Palestine, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. This footage was captured by freelance photojournalist, Wahaj Bani Moufleh 👏

𝗡𝗢𝗪: F*** Trump, F*** ICE!” Hundreds are chanting in Chicago as they march through downtown, protesting ICE and the possible deployment of the National Guard.

Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.

Not saying that abolitionists have all the answers but I AM saying that we had a clearer understanding of the extant problems and were asking the correct questions.

For reasons, I am going to share that we published a good children's book in April called "Prisons Must Fall." www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

Letting Google set the narrative about the environmental costs of "AI" is like letting tobacco companies set the narrative about the effects of second-hand smoke by measuring the health effects of sitting through one neighbor smoking one cigarette.

NEW: In what appears to be one of the largest expansions of surveillance in IL history, we found hundreds of new Flock license plate readers—all paid for by AG Kwame Raoul's office in the last 3 years. Issues with Flock Safety's data sharing practices are mounting. Will our sanctuary status hold?

We mapped all of the grant recipients, the amount they were awarded by year, and how they spent the funds.

@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social first reported on this pattern in May. It's a familiar tale: corporate backed media worked in tandem with police to gin up fears of mass theft rings. Prosecutors jumped onboard. In CA, hundreds of millions of dollars are now promised to cops to protect retail interests:

And let’s remember that the ORC crimewave was a thoroughly debunked lie. (I wrote a comic book on this subject.)

The bad faith and bad info and bad laws and bad funding re: retail theft continue to pay negative dividends Nobody made IL choose this path

surprise i just dropped a new article! i had a lot of thoughts about how people don't know how to engage with fiction, which ties into chatgpt delusion & book bans among other things. big thanks to @cxorlando.bsky.social for telling me to write about it when i posted a throwaway insta story

To be clear, what NOLA Councilmembers are proposing isn’t just facial recognition —they already have that. They want to run facial rec *on everybody at all times* without warrant or suspicion of a crime. This is without precedent in the US & and an almost unfathomable assault on the 4th Amendment.

“Today, we’re announcing a public safety emergency,” Trump says Currently up on the Department of Justice’s website: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

Particularly proud of this figure I found for Jeff Bezos and his ranting about how we need space travel in order to begin polluting on other planets. Uncanny, right?

For Silicon Valley's OG technofascist, Peter Thiel, I found this Vincent Price type to pair with his claim that Trump and his tech allies are the "ragtag Rebel Alliance" from Star Wars. (No offense intended to the great Vincent Price.)

I chose to depict Sam Altman as this figure from a story on the Emperor of the Moon, who in the original story was scheming to destroy the earth by making it into a sun to power empire. Seemed appropriate...

‪"With publishers + libraries at odds over e-book licensing’s long-term expense, hold times, and ethical concerns,... Briet invites publishers" — including PM Press, Punctum, Sideshow, Silver Sprocket — "to sell their e-books to libraries outright, providing universal, perpetual access."

Here's Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaking on why we need "a new Manhattan Project" to develop "AI for the battlefield." (I think I found the perfect figure, if I say so myself.)

A thread of the various "characters" of Technocrat Tales, which pairs sci-fi comics with direct quotes from tech billionaires. Let's start with Mark Zuckerberg, depicted as a burning man to go along with his quote about the importance of "masculine energy."

Consumer tech 🤝 carceral tech 🤝 military tech

A thread of the various "characters" of Technocrat Tales, which pairs sci-fi comics with direct quotes from tech billionaires. Let's start with Mark Zuckerberg, depicted as a burning man to go along with his quote about the importance of "masculine energy."

There’s a lot of competition for most dystopian tech headline of the day or week, but this is definitely a front runner.

Citations! Ever wonder about the original comics I use pieces of in my work? I’ve now begun the process of citing the comics on my website—with links to scans of the original comic books. Bask in the wonder of old pulp comic bookery! johnnydamm.com/citations/

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

Just got my copy and I’m so jazzed to read and share with friends. It makes the insanity accessible. Loved the Sam Altman drawing contest on the back cover!

Read this thread, buy this comic, spread the word. Technofascism explained in a way that non-nerds can understand. So so good.

ICE and BP are heavily targeting people in their vehicles right now. You can’t attempt to use your rights if you don’t know what they are. Knowing them may protect you against a forced abduction, search, or seizure when being pulled over. Here’s what to know. lataco.com/car-ice-rights

A sitting U.S. lawmaker just told 2.3 million Palestinians to “starve away,” brushing off their agony as a hoax and spewing Islamophobia. This is an open endorsement of genocide and collective punishment - a war crime.

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

wrote about Silicon Valley’s plot against everything thetechbubble.substack.com/p/this-silic...

During two of the year's biggest news events, Politico reporters watched in surprise as management installed an AI bot atop the homepage—openly violating a deal with staff. It promptly made embarrassing errors and violated editorial standards. No corrections were issued.