On the 250th Anniversary of the accepted official beginning of the US, let's doff our hats to our best Founder, Thomas Paine. 1/

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Ugh I'm so tired... gotta think of interesting Wolverine facts. Uhm... did you know Wolverines have...teeth? -yawn- yeah that's a cool fact huh?

Sizes not to scale #absolutebatman @ssnyder1835.bsky.social @nickdragotta.bsky.social

this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997

Floyd Gottfredson

New Jersey has now instituted a curfew which allows them to arrest any protestors who don’t leave www.threads.com/@hereswhykev...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Kill Trump's Authoritarian Ideas, Bernie's Correct.......

A limerick. Based on a true story.

BOTD in 1939, Denny O'Neil, one of the Mount Rushmore of Comic Book Writers! Pictured below at TerrifiCon ™ - Connecticut's Terrific Comic Con at Mohegan Sun 2018. 13thdimension.com/paul-kupperb...

I love when humans respect animals

Horror upon horror truthout.org/articles/lac...

There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today

@srznsk.bsky.social Is the “No Future” graffiti from Cyberpunk 2077 a reference to the Sex Pistols’ song “God Save the Queen”? I hope you don’t mind my asking, I just revisited Never Mind the Bollocks and couldn’t help but wonder about a connection.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Can’t have public health insurance but I can help pay for needless death and destruction 🤷

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

ICE agent: “I fired 5 shots. She had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys.” 😳

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

Name them shame them

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

#AlexPretti was murdered by the federal government and #ICE was the murder weapon.This fascist regime’s only growing more violent in proportion with how slippery its grasp on power becomes.They will fall. Democracy will prevail. There will be justice for #Renee and #Alex and every victim of #ICE.

Jonathan Pie 🇬🇧 "Yes, 'Flag shaggers', I went there. These people are not patriots." #cdnpoli Even Britain isn't safe.

Pah! What do THEY know!

this is a great thread about CDC protest, check it out. I appreciate the info. Also this photo, I must admit, made me a bit teary. There are so many people who took government jobs to do good, to help. I know one incredible person at the CDC & she's just ... well, shellshocked would be an upgrade.

A cover of "Ballroom Blitz," but it's by a large ska band, and by the time the singer finishes asking the last member if they're ready, three minutes have already gone by.

I really wanna know what this lil dude's deal is

This is what it's all about

Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.

More reporting like this, please:

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sadly I have seen things like this (nightly, for almost an entire summer). There's still plenty of writing on Hong Kong 2019 and Portland 2020 for lessons, but keep in mind *they're doing the same* to learn how to better harm you

This is a good visualization of when people say that AI saves them time.

I recently read Madman Adventures, @allredmd.bsky.social’s three issue follow-up to the first Madman mini-series. A thread.

Be like Superman.

Mamdani: We are reminded no matter how strong our gun laws are in this state, we are only as safe as the weakest laws in this nation.

"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them." A five-year-old child.

Put this in the dictionary under: Journalism under a coverage ban, imposed in this instance by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

crazy how soft on crime this guy is when it comes to sex criminals, weird coincidence

I recently re-read @allredmd.bsky.social’s original three issue Madman series: The Oddity Odyssey. A thread.

Several anti-trans bills with sweeping implications are moving through Congress rapidly, with provisions that would fully ban gender affirming care for undocumented immigrants, federal workers, and more. Written by @thefreeradical.org, edited by @madycast.com & @davidforbes.bsky.social Thread 🧵