Aaron Kashtan

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

We're all fucking doomed. These are the stupidest people alive, and they're running the show.

The person Senator Markwayne Mullin is talking about here died in 1989.

Ruhollah Khomeini is NOT Ali Khamenei

Jesus Christ, someone get me an aspirin.

I remember once on the old Comic Book Resources forums, I wrote a post criticizing a comic by Brian K. Vaughan, and then guess who responded to it?

The king is a thing.

The King is mad

The War Powers Resolution needs a complete overhaul because it's obviously failed, but at the end of the day, there's no procedural trick around having a Congress that's willing to stand back and watch a president flagrantly break the law and the Constitution and do absolutely nothing about it.

“Of course,” Astrid says with great professionalism. “There are many wonderful women-loving-women stories to choose from. Do you have any other parameters for me to narrow the search for you? Do you like stories set on the high sea? In the Old West? Or maybe with a speculative element, you know, like—” “Like in Barbarella?” Gus Anderson’s eyes light up. Astrid has only the vaguest impression of a young Jane Fonda in a skimpy outfit on the Barbarella movie poster, an image that serves the male gaze as its raison d’être. “Comparable titles in the sense that these stories are also set in the future, or in space, or sometimes both,” she says firmly. “Would you like some recommendations?” “Absolutely.” The old man sounds giddy. “Bring them on.” Astrid writes down This Is How You End the Time War and Gideon the Ninth for him, and then personally takes him to the stacks to retrieve The Stars Are Legion, by Kameron Hurley. “There isn’t a single man in this book. Everybody on this planet is a woman.” “Oh, my!” Gus Anderson, his head probably brimming with images of thousands of chicks making out with one another for his delectation, checks out the book and leaves happily.

A fan messaged me about this passage from Sherry Thomas's book, "The Librarians," in which a librarian has an annoying older male patron ask her for some woman-on-woman sf😂

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

I write reviews of every comic I read, and sadly, it's much easier to review a comic I hated, compared to a comic that was just average.

And you have a cat box for it to sit in.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

He's a monster assembling his own axis of evil who want to kill babies in their quest for wars of real estate. He needs to be impeached the second you can do it.

One very minor silver lining: this war is incredibly unpopular across the political spectrum and it is extremely unlikely that we will see the kind of civil society mobilizations on par with the post-9/11 hysteria.

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Congratulations. You harassed a married staffer until she submitted to your perversions leading to her suicide and still kept your job because the Republican Party stands for nothing except the acquisition of power. Congrats, Tony. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I listened to the whole Hegseth statement on X.

"Our enemies' wicked ideologies" is very clearly talking about left-leaning professors and not Russian or Chinese ones -- it's a shocking and blatant effort at ideological control.

Who is "the enemy"? Are we at war now? And if so, with whom?

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

thehill.com/policy/defen...

I voted for Veleria Levy because I saw that Tucker Neal had dropped out and endorsed her. Also, Tucker Neal is very young and inexperienced.

I just voted in the primaries today, specifically so I could vote against Nasif Majeed.

in The NC primaries that are on March 3 the primaries do matter. there are democrats in very blue districts who vote to override Stein's vetos and give the republicans an effective super majority in the state house.

Tweet from Ashton Pittman • @ashtonpittman.bsky.social Americans who can't afford beef a year into President Donald Trump's second term "have so many proteins to choose from,"U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, said in response to a question about steep food costs. www.mississippifreepress.org/americans-wh...

Tweet from FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. .. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

The Republican midterms platform: "here's what you can eat now that you can't afford hamburger"

"...the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a 'categorical pledge' were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week."

30ish years ago, Jesse Helms sponsored a similar bill to the one that Mary Miller is offering up now, trying to limit what information about sexuality and gender available to young people in schools & school libraries.

I wrote my exp as a school librarian for a comp zine and share it here.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

I think we need to take a step back and acknowledge the absurdity of House Republicans targeting their Epstein investigation on HILLARY CLINTON (who says she never met him!) while ignoring DONALD TRUMP (who Epstein described as his best friend!)

These are not serious people or good faith actors.

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

so yes, you can transform a CBS or a CNN into right-wing slop, and yes that will have an impact, but it is also true that americans will have access to a large universe of other information AND they will continue to build new venues for telling stories about the world and sharing their views…