National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

deciding on what to work on for next month

The University of Arkansas's law school just withdrew the appointment of its new dean six days after hiring her because conservative politicians complained that she filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of transgender students

We're so tired but we do really like da movies

Oh hell yeah, imagine my delight when seeing that one of my fav new podcasts @daniellamazzio.bsky.social’s Michael Shannon themed “Hand Me The Mike” has a new episode today, but also my wonderful friend @soberrabbit.bsky.social is the guest! Go check that out where you listen to such things!

You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+

eventually you learn that you get better at drawing not by learning how to draw the head at a weird angle but by learning how to work around ever having to draw the head at that angle

what's my dream job? it's gotta be delivering strategic communications through multiple channels.

I’ve seen several Godzilla flicks in the theater over the past few years and you can feel, viscerally, that we are all praying for Godzilla to rise from the sea and give us what we deserve

Did two pleasant hangs with artists tonight and mostly what we wound up talking about was chronic illness, lack of access to healthcare, low wages and lack of benefits at our jobs. After a rainy day of schlepping rainily, I took a car home and the driver and I got to talking about -- wait for it --

Good morning🖤

Sometimes you win cool things from being a tremendous nerd on @letterboxd.social. Thanks, Letterboxd and Mubi! Go see The Mastermind and any Kelly Reichardt movie, really.

This is fucked

I don't post on here as much because I'm struggling to stay afloat but here, it's dangerous out there. Take these:

Perhaps Billy Corgan, Vince Vaughn, and Jeremy Piven could broker a call to get ICE out of Chicago.

A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.

That Platner guy and his campaign feels designed to make me feel insane. So it's like absolutely everything else

funniest thing about this crew is that they claim membership in an elite group of sage truthtellers with superior bullshit detectors who are now pretending to be shocked that history's most infamous liar tricked them into campaigning for him

Oh well, maybe their horrific schemes won’t work

Scabby’s at the Google construction project to redevelop the Thompson Center.

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RFK Jr: The cure for sodomy is quite simple: exercise and organic foods. Our conversion camps have a 100% success rate. Hakeem Jeffries: More lies from the ruckus boys. You had to cook the books to get that number.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.

All of these people could ride the convention circuit gravy train forever due to their previous projects. Not one of them is in an "I need to pay my mortgage" situation. Nobody is hard up here. This is really disappointing.

How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me

Hey @cta, a 54 Cicero North bus driver told me Grace isnt a stop anymore. I told her that's cool but if "Grace" shows on the bus screen when I take said bus, simply taking the street sign down isn't the best way to let people know. It *had* been a stop for four years.

Let's not forget that this all started when The IT Crowd had an episode in which one of the characters physically assaulted a trans woman, and the trans community said "dude what the fuck" which was, apparently, a bridge too far.

As a sick person, I would like to be perceived less by RFK Jr and the MAHA movement. Never did I think I would be more unhappy with chronic illness becoming more of a topic of conversation.

R.I.P. Scott Thompson! Loved Buddy Cole. Liked Hannibal! Ah well, we're all mortal I guess!

Teaching my haters the true meaning of compassion, which they hate

This this THIS. People think they've gotten away without long-term impacts, but - 5 years later - we are seeing noticeable patterns showing up already. As this continues, we're going to find out what 8, 12, 15 infections looks like. And it will be an immense butcher's bill. Please, please MASK UP.

Thanks so much, Gene! Hope your events have been going well this summer! I'll have this back in stock at Howling, along with a new comic, later this week! 🐰✨

Minor gripe in the greater scheme of things but: remember when bandaids worked? No brand now seems to cut it. And by cut it I mean "bandage a wound."

DIY > AI

Ah yes, the 50 bus. It's coming in Due, 9 minutes, 20 minutes, Due, 15 minutes...

Happy birthday to @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social, who looks particularly gorgeous on #TheLastDriveIn tonight! Funny, smart, encyclopedic knowledge of horror? 10/10. 🦇✨

i think it's good that we don't have free insulin because if we did then we wouldn't be able to afford to keep throwing fighter jets into the ocean

Jeff Bridges opens up about his battle with Covid/Long Covid, and states he thinks he got the virus in a healthcare setting where he was receiving chemo for cancer. If the rich & famous can’t get healthcare workers to mask… what chance do the rest of us have? Masks in healthcare now!

i’m practicing a rare alcoholism management technique known as ‘reverse fourth stepping’ where i make a searching and fearless moral inventory of all the times i was right about everything

Today! Bring a mask and your notebook and come draw from 2-4 pm at @howlingpages.bsky.social, grab a bite to eat next door, then there's a comics reading at 6. Make a day of it!

Still looking for coloring work! Dm me or email [email protected]! #comics

Hyped to be exhibiting in @cakechicago.bsky.social!! Second time! See y'all in June. Also: I did the silly trend. #NoAI

This is correct. You do to nazis what the people of Italy did to Mussolini. They were right to do it and they set an example.

about 90% of culture war grievances is literally just people with nothing happening in their lives getting mad that other people are not as unhappy as they are

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i can't believe they ruined a beautiful sentence like "Katy Perry launched into space"