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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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i get that people want to sit with their friends when they go to fun things. but saving like ten spots for people who haven't shown up yet in a theater with open seating is barbaric

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i wasn't happy with the style so i just did a major overhaul. hopefully i didn't break everything. unimportantbird.com

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the atlantic would like you to believe that trump's influence on culture is somehow responsible for "not like us." smh

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

come up with silly names for elon if you must. but muskrats are perfect bois and do not deserve to be associated with him

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 8 days ago • 250 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

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BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 10 days ago • 365 comments

Conservatives cancel government projects, not because they don't work, but because they do.

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every news story about Musk and Trump taking a chainsaw to federal programs includes some sentence like: "But ending the Make Food Less Expensive initiative might undercut the White House's promise to lower grocery prices." weird! it's almost like we have no reason to trust their promises

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

i can't lie, i think the sacco/spiegleman comic about gaza is mostly a failure. but i do think it speaks to the limits of what self-effacing autobio comics can actually accomplish

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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

submitted 13 days ago • 1192 comments

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

submitted 13 days ago • 640 comments

this book is kinda weird. and not even in a bad way. it's just written in a strange style

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i've been building a brand new website from scratch because i think it's cool when people have cool personal websites. and i'm finally kicking the tires on actually blogging there. the design is very much a work-in-progress but here's a new thing i wrote: unimportantbird.com/posts/2025/0...

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i feel like having to spend eternity with your most devoted and zealous subscribers would be an appropriate punishment for every dude who has ever started a substack

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

i'd love to think that more awareness about DOGE accessing people's personal data would enrage the public. but a decade of nonstop privacy scandals in Silicon Valley hasn't been enough to get people to abandon their products yet

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this is some of the saddest shit i've ever seen

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it's remarkable how much of modern conservative politics is driven by losers whose main goal to force everyone else to say that they are actually sexy and cool

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 15 days ago • 148 comments

I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction

submitted 16 days ago • 287 comments

conservative writing about this moment is quite literally bad fanfiction. they are writing fantasy stories about what they believe DOGE is doing

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INCREDIBLE mini-grant news! Thanks to the generosity of @iamdavidbrothers.com, we will have TWO more mini-grants to award for this year's Comics Criticism Mini-Grant!! Make sure to get your applications in by the end of the month: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The Musk lackey operating as Treasury's fiscal assistant secretary is still "currently" working as CEO of a software company. "...bosses are simultaneously running private companies while also running parts of the government that affect their businesses." By @telliotter.bsky.social

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Gee I wonder why so many more parents are flirting with anti-vaxx beliefs, Emily. Could it be the anti-vaxx adjacent messaging in your own article about this phenomenon? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 17 days ago • 71 comments

fake nerd boys are an existential threat

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illiteracy is a genuine problem

submitted 17 days ago • 135 comments

"Nearly twice as many children and young people who read comics in their free time told us that they enjoy reading compared with those who didn’t read comics in their free time (58.6% vs. 33.1%)." literacytrust.org.uk/research-ser...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

i'm playing Deus Ex for the first time. i'm trying to complete missions without killing anyone and i just now realized that the police baton is a non-lethal weapon. only took me twelve hours of playtime to figure that out

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I really hate when, the moment a controversy breaks about someone, people rush to say, “I always knew!” or “I always hated their work.” It’s this weird performance of purity, like they need to prove they were never tainted by liking the wrong person. It’s like… people can have liked terrible people.

submitted 20 days ago • 104 comments

migratory birds are so cool

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'Safety first' when sacking Rome.

submitted 20 days ago • 74 comments

NBC [Feb 12] -- Now that NCAA has bowed to the federal new policy of excluding trans women, the Dept of Ed is calling for the NCAA (and the Natl Federation of State High School Associations) to reverse all past awards given to trans female athletes. [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

if i'm honest with myself, i can admit that YouTubers who read a few books and watch a few publicly available news clips and then call their work "investigative journalism" is only a minor problem in the grand scheme of things. but oh my god it annoys the shit out of me

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our wannabe tech overlords definitely see this as a feature not a bug

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You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" Adolf Hitler

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Matt Taibbi using an MST3K background for his ugly humorless podcast is a hate crime against me personally

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