“Where might I have gone if, instead of a middle-aged Hobbit enamored of his pantry, I had embraced a girl who lost three homes before choosing the open road?”
— @amalelmohtar.com on discovering Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT – via @npr.org
#kidlit #fantasy 💙📚
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EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social
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Colorful vintage illustration of a small brown wren perched among flowering branches.
Black-and-white nineteenth-century illustration of two women known as the Wrens of the Curragh walking together outdoors, wearing shawls and long skirts.
The song “Hunting the Wren,” performed by Lankum & featured on the #PeakyBlinders film soundtrack, draws on Irish folklore about the tiny birds.
The name also appears in history: the Wrens of the Curragh, women who once survived on Ireland’s plains.
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I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am
what if everyone was a wizard and a liar and a sick opportunist (thought bubble above my head) and gay (another separate thought bubble)
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
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She is youtu.be/Mz6KJFyjdg4
JK Rowling and her team "protecting women and girls" by inviting convicted sex offender Epstein to the opening of her Harry Potter play.
It certainly is an interesting approach to child protection.
Newly Released Epstein Doc Has 'Harry Potter' Fans Furious With JK Rowling
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JK Rowling Called Out After Inviting Jeffrey Epstein To A Children's Play — Years After His Child Sex Conviction
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Somebody emailing Jeffrey Epstein to see if he could help set up a meeting with JK Rowling. He appears to have ignored the question.
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@hehimta on twitter quote tweet update: jk rowling has somehow (despite maritime law) wiped over a decade of port logs/etc, her boat is completely delisted. strange behaviour. @hehimta on twitter oh tweet BREAKING A just watched in realtime as jk rowling's superyacht samsara was completely removed from marinetraffic and other services, not just AIS off; the entire vessel...
Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara.
What is she hiding?
Oh, JK Rowling was in DEEP with Epstein.
An email exchange between jk Rowling and Epstein with some matching tweets showing the same signature
Oh they're pals
Fun Harry Potter and JK Rowling Facts For Potterheads! Prince Andrew, photographed with underage girls with Jeffrey Epstein, was invited in 2025 to the set of the new Harry Potter show years after his implication with Epstein.. JK Rowling once described Lolita as a "tragic love story" in an interview. JK Rowling's team directly invited Jeffrey Epstein to the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Epstein was at least seen to be connected enough to Rowling for folks to go to him to be connected with her. Rowling once accidentally replied to a twitter post by a child's mom with hate speech copied into her clipboard. Rowling has used her Harry Potter money to aid in the legal expenses of white supremacists because she agreed with their transphobia as well as successful judicial attacks on children by the UK supreme court.
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths
'I am their voice'
NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
these men are afraid of finger guns
Residents are searching the parks because ICE is dumping heavily injured detainees in the middle of the parks; three confirmed, five unconfirmed, one with a skull fracture and open head wound.
#FuckICE #Pinks #ProudBlue #Detainees #Resist #Minnesota
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
I have done so little For you. And you have do little For me. That we have good reason Never to agree. I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.
In a lot of ways, I'm really lucky. I work from home. I write and draw books. I still experience a lot of the same normal creative issues. I'm burned out. My current project frustrates me. But a few things in my routine have changed. Me: Hey, mom. Are the cousins okay? How's grandma? And your sisters? Me: Oh, good. Yeah. Okay, that's good. I'll call you later. Watching Bob's Burgers on repeat while I work.
![My friends check in from time to time.
Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch.
Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay?
Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay.
I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left.
I’m worried all the time.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cb6uhto6bwvcx4anaq55konv/bafkreiejn4yr42v63dgduydsv6fnjqqci2yfdwj6sishctyicaqfyrcouy)
My friends check in from time to time. Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch. Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay? Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay. I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left. I’m worried all the time.
Very little in the news feels encouraging. Headline: Mayor Kaohly Her says she was told to carry a passport amid ICE operations in Minnesota St. Paul Mayor elect Kaobly Her says her office received reports of federal agents going door-to-door asking where the Asian people are. KARE11 January 16, 2026
And it makes me feel utterly untethered from reality when I have to live like this and just get back to work and draw my stupid little cartoons. Nothing else feels real or important right now. But my neighbors are doing such a great job staying engaged and finding needs to meet. Text: I'm running to Costco and picking up some canned goods to run to the food shelf. Let me know if you want to donate anything. Text: I'll throw in for some canned goods! Text: Me too! Text from me: What's your Venmo? I can contribute.
Things continue.
#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Magic can happen anywhere
I knew this guy at camp who ate his t-shirt on a dare
My hotel gives away free shampoo
Nothing is too wonderful to be true
8th circuit gives ICE go ahead to use force against peaceful demonstrators, a decision which will immediately lead to injury.
i just don't believe that immigration enforcement should have a $100M marketing budget. sorry
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
Happy New Year friends! If you’re so inclined, join me in paying attention to the first bird you see on the first day of the new year, something I started doing 6 years ago
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May this be a year of justice.
guy who pronounces ".png" as "dot pinge"
