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I’ve got a new batch of original artwork available at @athenaeumcomicart.bsky.social — pages from March, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Black Hammer, Fall Through, Scholastic, and the Wicked Witch of the West! www.athenaeumcomicart.com/shop?Categor...

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Working on demo pages for what will likely be the next collaborative nonfiction book.

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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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Now that’s a page, mf’ers. (pats self on back)

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John Lewis would’ve turned 85 today. I hold so much love and gratitude for his friendship, collaboration, and stubbornness. Today Dem lawmakers might pay tribute to him— I encourage you to question whether they are guided by the concepts of “necessary trouble” and “finding a way to get in the way.”

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Happy Birthday, John Lewis. Your life and legacy continues to inspire! Thank you for everything. Thank you @andrewaydin.bsky.social and @natepowell.bsky.social for making his lessons powerfully accessible for us all. @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social #GoodTrouble www.pbs.org/newshour/cla...

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Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

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Rachel and I, approaching 20 years of togetherness this year, taking our only day off work in months to get loud. ❤️‍🔥 Photo by very dedicated local photojournalist Jeremy Hogan/The Bloomingtonian!

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Cartoonist Leslie Rogers would have been in his 20s when he drew this cartoon for the Chicago Defender. He died about a decade later, but not before launching the long-running Black comic strip Bungleton Green (which was continued by Jay Jackson and others).

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Tomorrow! Thursday, Feb 20th we’ll be discussing Run, March, and our work with the late, great John Lewis in a virtual event through the New York Public Library at 2:30pm ET. Register & get more info here: www.nypl.org/spotlight/fr...

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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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The scene in “Gender Queer” that these people object to specifically is one about modeling good sexual consent, BTW. It is literally a young person telling another young person that something makes them uncomfortable and their partner listening to them.

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"They want the country to collapse. A depopulated, partitioned US is easier to exploit and control. To them, the state is just something to sell. They do not care if the buyers are foreign or domestic." -- THEY KNEW (2022)

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hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

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Because so many educators & librarians have been interested: my “The Language of Comics” poster is in my shop for cheap. Comes with the comics issue of Scholastic Art mag & digital resource guide to the issue. Thanks, and spread the word! www.seemybrotherdance.org/shop

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OK, this is important, comics folk & fans. CARE ABOUT THIS! The Trump Junta is banning books from libraries on military bases. His goons are purging shelves of any books that push “radical indoctrination” of kids. What IS that? Whatever they say it is. All of MAGAland will then ban these books.

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again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost

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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

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No, we are not.

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This is literal white supremacy. This is Trump and the Republican Party.

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Dept. of Hiding in Plain Sight: Disbarred Trump consigliere John Eastman's 2006 report for Heritage Foundation laying out a legal attack on birthright citizenship that goes far beyond children of undocumented persons to establish a president/king's power to take citizenship away from... anyone. 1/

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A powerful free online comics resource to help students understand how our government is supposed to work - www.cartoonstudies.org/css-studio/c...

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seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

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I’ve been on this beat 24 years, have spent too many hours with Trumpists—their elites & their everyday people—and those who came before. Thomas is absolutely correct. This isn’t overstatement. We all need to step up to the scale of this.

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Can attest to this as a gal with 4 challenged books. They just get disappeared

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At the stonewall monument rn

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In private or incognito mode you can fill it out ♾️ until they change it back. (Click NO for was this page helpful at the bottom)

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Happy love day to all the open-hearted freaks. ❤️‍🔥 Fascists have no souls, no capacity for love or compassion— we will bury them with our humanity. (panels from DIANA, the most feelings-saturated book I’ve made so far— out next year)

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All brush. Inks in progress from DIANA— just 75 pages to go.

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Re-upping this essay, now that Linda is finally up for confirmation

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Pure thievery by the richest people & corporations on earth.

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The intertwined effort to destroy both Medicaid and the Department of Education will be life-shattering for a majority of Americans, and its damage will be perhaps most acutely felt by people with disabilities in this country. (1/x)

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It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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“How many of us have to come forward tonight to ask that you simply make us feel a little safer?” resident Olivia Scanlon said.. You don’t have to change your personal beliefs. You don’t have to be gender diverse.. You just have to exercise an iota of empathy.”

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As a 14 year old in January 1993, I created a character for two panels to voice our opposition to ethnic cleansing— slow-roll genocide. Forced removal of millions of Palestinian people from their own land is just that. (Panels from DOA issue 3, written by Mike & me, hurriedly drawn by me.)

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I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.

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Getting more concerned the party is betting on backlash to save it. You have to give people something to vote for, not just against. The old ways are dead.

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The only way I can interpret the GOP's actions is that they are 100% certain they will never face another democratic election again. They hit the shore and burned their ships.

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