🚨The last time Senator Wyden raised the alarm this urgently, it was in March 2013 when Wyden asked DNI Clapper in a public hearing about the NSA surveilling the phone records and emails of every American. Three months after that hearing, the first Edward Snowden mass surveillance story dropped.🚨

Fanbase Press' upcoming Middle Grade series, SHRUB, features...well, a shrub...on a cross-country adventure exploring the various ways that we allow grief to take “root.”

By @shaneport.bsky.social & @andyalvesart.bsky.social

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It's like we made a Golden Retriever the general manager of an Arby's and then were surprised when we came back and the restaurant was on fire and all the roast beef was gone.

Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) synchronize thousands of abdomens in a wave to repel hornets from their nest

Who doesn’t like shrubbery? Check out the prelaunch campaign for my upcoming comic with the award-winning @fanbasepress.bsky.social

NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes?

LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else

N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help?

LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

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Another great shrubbery preview. This one from @noethematt.bsky.social at the @graphicmedicine.bsky.social

Smash Pages just published an exclusive sneak peek of Shrub where you can read a few pages from Issue 1...

Exclusive: Fanbase Press announces Kickstarter for Graphic Medicine series SHRUB Fanbase Press has announced the Kickstarter for a middle grade Graphic Medicine series, Shrub, which explores various expressions of grief.

A Shrub exclusive from @comicsbeat.bsky.social

Some exciting news for my debut comic seeing with @fanbasepress.bsky.social !

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

Fascism cannot produce art that lives because living art relies on unqualified engagement with an other, a challenge to the self. Fascism can only ever conjure an ever more atrociously gilded mirror reflecting back faces that refuse even the realities of time.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

That’s what I’m talking about!

Let’s just skip 3 and get right to Muzzle 4!

It’s weird when the president of your country is also the world’s worst writer of fascist fan fiction.

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol and ICE Raid Almost 20 L.A. Communities, Almost 30 Total in SoCal in Record Numbers

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I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

“If Minnesota falls, everything falls. We’re done as a nation.”

Fury. Grief. Anguish. Locals on the frontlines of Trump’s attack on Minneapolis are speaking out following the killing of another one of their neighbors. We’re on the ground with @samveep.bsky.social tracking the aftermath.

I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

The battle against fascism was always a general strike, not partisan gerrymandering.

Power to the people, not whoever politicians decide gets a voice.

Also hate "this is not about politics." Sorry people, you have to GROW UP. EVERY DAMNED THING IS POLITICAL. Everything. The word people are searching for is PARTISAN.

And I fucking hate the caveats especially "NO CRIMINAL RECORD."

People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.

Happy MLK Day!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

National favorable rating via Gallup:

AUGUST 1966: 33% 👍 to 63% 👎
AUGUST 2011: 94% 👍 to 4% 👎

“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably