🟢 LIVE! Today is the day I beat the last Divine Beast. I hope. www.twitch.tv/16BitEric

Since Black Friday has no meaning anymore, might as well get my sale started! Take 20% off ALL signed comics, books, and original art in my online store with the code BLACKFRIDAY through this weekend! Get some of that holiday shopping done! ko-fi.com/jodyhouser/l...

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

November 24, 2025

Has anyone else reacted to all of the *everything* by going hardcore into making stuff? I'm learning to work with leather, and have been making these tiny TN-style journals for 2.5" x 4" notebooks. Need to figure out where/how to list these for sale (most of this batch already sold in a FB group.)

Asking a question of anyone who has served (thank you) in the military. If you received an order that you suspected was illegal, how would you go about determining if it actually was. Were you given training on how to do that?

From my FL pov, this seemed like a relatively calm season, but it some respects, no it wasn't:

RIP Jimmy Cliff www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHx...

Giving amnesty to the Russian for their massive war crimes should be an immediate non-starter in any peace agreement...

Watching Trump gush over Mamdani after their meeting today was one of the most amazing things I've seen in a while...

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

In this Trumpian era, America’s moral compass — its capacity to separate right from wrong, and to pride itself doing (or at least trying to do) what is honorable — seems to have vanished, along with the norms on which that authority has been based. robertreich.substack.com/p/honor-and-...

Today at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT. Free registration: www.mobilize.us/edfaction/ev...

“—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Congress finally stood up to Trump. Hoping that they follow through with the will of the people. Release ALL of the Epstein investigation files.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

I can only imagine how the news media would have handled anything this incredibly unhinged from any other president. Are we doomed? www.youtube.com/shorts/GUYKF...

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I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.

I bought gas & groceries today, but couldn't find the lower prices Trump keeps talking about. Maybe I'm going to the wrong places because I didn't need to show an ID...

Was reminded today of Rocky Bleier, the definition of toughness, wounded in combat, told his football days were over, but came back to help win 4 super bowls. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_B...

How the hell can this happen? A guy rang my doorbell at 9:45 last night, having been given the wrong address for whoever he was looking for. It never occurred to me that I should shoot him before figuring out why he was there. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

This is one of the most terrifying torments imaginable.

It’s driving me crazy how the news media doesn’t challenge Trump when he claims tariffs are bringing in money from other countries. That is an absurd lie. Tariffs are by definition a tax levied on American importers when they buy foreign goods. Americans pay tariffs. ((1/2)

Over half of the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom are facing (or recently faced) federal investigations into wrongdoing — including violating workers’ rights or misleading consumers. They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts. Follow the money.

I still have signed copies of the new #CriticalRole comics available in my online shop! A perfect holiday gift for the Critters in your life! ko-fi.com/jodyhouser/s...

This week's full moon, known as the Beaver Moon, will be a #supermoon. It will reach full phase a few hours before perigee (its closest approach to Earth). As the closest super moon of 2025 it will be the brightest as well. (via @rtphokie.bsky.social)

Nearly 8 in 10 Americans agree that spending by wealthy donors and corporations in our elections gives rise to corruption — including majorities of Republican and independent voters. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. We must overturn Citizens United.

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

The first earlier standard time #sunrise over Biscayne Bay was nice. (end of #daylightsavingtime)

@gottalaff.bsky.social This is how I've felt since the day Trump oozed down the escalator with hired actors cheering him on... www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur

Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.

Is it Thursday yet? Because I have BRAND NEW signed Critical Role comics in my shop! I have both the standard trade and deluxe hardcover for Vox Machina Origins IV, newly released! I also have JUST ONE of the new Mighty Nein Origins boxed set with all 8 graphic novels! ko-fi.com/jodyhouser/s...

"Bovino wants the community to see him as an occupying military commander. Going out of his way to look like the driver of a military operation is part of the attempted subjugation. This is how fascists behave during the consolidation phase of their drive to power." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Your daily reminder that Trump absolutely can fund SNAP through contingency funds. He absolutely can prevent 42 million Americans — including 20 million children — from going hungry next month. He is choosing not to. Don’t let him lie his way out of this.

Trump’s speech yesterday to American troops — seeking to justify the use of lethal force against anyone suspected of acting illegally, domestic or foreign — is his clearest statement yet about what’s really motivating him. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-just-announced-his-police-state

Every time Trump uses the words “I’m allowed”, every rational American should think, regardless of that, is it something that should be done. Pardon for monster Ghislaine Maxwell? Killing people in boats suspected of running drugs without proof? Those are wrong. Doesn’t matter if “allowed”.

Amazon also contributed to the new "ballroom" on the White House. I doubt any of those 14,000 people, who now have to find a new job, will ever ever get invited there...

Also, don't forget that he is lying. What he said is totally false!

If you are able to, please contribute to your local food bank this week

Ignoring science for money is not only stupid, it's destructive. Now the people of Jamaica get to suffer the consequences...

Trump accuses AOC & Jasmine Crockett of being “low IQ”. I’m not a gambler, but if it was possible to put the 3 of them in a room taking a standard IQ test, I’d wager heavily that each woman would beat Trump by 20+ points, because I only bet on sure outcomes.

The oligarchy at work - government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Assigning a number to pain is relative. My back is hurting. Two years ago, I would've probably called it a 7, but after what I went through with my myeloma last year, now it's more like a 4...

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Just one more absurd lie: www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...