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THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration

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MUSIC HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to American Delta blues musician and singer-songwriter Robert Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) ❝The blues is a low down achin' chill.❞

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Here's one of my best friends (who, before being illegally fired, was the data scientist at NEH) showing just how much money NEH could distribute back out to US taxpayers based on their lifetime contributions. Get ready to make it rain with thousands of pennies y'all!

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public health.

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Today is the birthday of artist Everett E. Hibbard (May 8, 1909-Nov. 5, 1998). Most remembered by comic book fans for his work at All-American/DC Comics during the Golden Age.

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BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

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Today is the birthday of Kazuo Koike (May 8, 1936-April 17, 2019), writer of Lone Wolf & Cub, Lady Snowblood, Crying Freeman, Samurai Executioner, Path of the Assassin, & more.

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More than 100 staff members have been fired from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Today is the birthday of French artist Jean Giraud, aka Mœbius (May 8, 1938-March 10, 2012).

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no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks

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it's cartoonist day. yeah, that's so

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Update: the WaPo lost a cartoonist with three Pulitzers rather than let her make fun of Jeff Bezos.

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And also... for only the 2nd time, a graphic novel has won a Pulitzer! FEEDING GHOSTS, the debut book (!!!) by Tess Hulls. Wow.

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Need another measure of just how corrupt and incompetent the Trump administration is? Hegseth still has his job.

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It's (and I'm not making this up) National Cartoonist Day. I will accept gifts and tribute.

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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

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NEW: @documentedny.bsky.social reports on yet ANOTHER case of a young man with no criminal record in any country who Trump imprisoned without trial or due process in El Salvador on March 15 — Ángel, an UberEats driver living with his childhood best friend in the Bronx when he was arrested.

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Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again. Bravo

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Happy Star Wars Day folks. #maythefourthbewithyou

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The @warriors post season continues! Photos: Buddy Hield leads Golden State Warriors past Houston Rockets in playoff Game 7 www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/04/p...

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"What does this button do?" #Maythe4th

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Last year, James Cartlidge was on a panel with Marc Dolgin and Christine Tomlinson on "The Rise of the Roguelite" talking about their upcoming book and it is now OUT: www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-... Thank you for the shout-out in the book, James; just ordered. It was a pleasure to have you all!

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At leat seven people have died while incarcerated by ICE since Trump took office, including three in April: Brayan Garzón-Rayo, a 27-year-old man from Colombia who lived with his family in St. Louis. Nhon Nguc Nguyen, 55, from Vietnam. Marie Ange Blaise, a 44-year-old citizen of Haiti.

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But your million dollar inauguration donor Tim Cook needed tariff relief for Apple?

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May the Fourth be with you. Attack the Death Star every day. (bit.ly/theInnerHive)

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A certain person asserted that there are only "about ten" people who actually make a living full-time in comics - that is, a living comparable to money you would make at a day job. This is absurd, of course. colleendoran.substack.com/p/ehnope

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55 years ago today. Kent State. May 4 is never about Star Wars in these parts. Please take a moment at 12:24 this afternoon and remember... because a repeat of something like this is closer than you know.

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I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

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I am so angry & upset about this. I worked with the ATF to create this memorial wall. Jaime, and some others from Parkland, were on this memorial wall. Where is Jaime's picture now? In the trash? If you are someone who voted for Trump, you voted for this. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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From my forthcoming book: "Among the many fallacies common among DC pundits, politicians, & journalists, the idea that Republicans will somehow 'snap out of it' has to be one of the most persistent and tedious. These are seasoned political observers, all waiting for a pivot that will never happen."