Mark Zepezauer

4 frame comic. a street journalist, off frame, asks someone with long hair exiting the subway : miss! do you think it's fair for biological female athletes to be forced to compete with transgenders? she replies : that's not a question. every year, new studies show that trans women have no inherent athletic advantages over cis women. science and research have settled this already.* *a meta-study published this month in the british journal of sports medicine reviewed 52 studies with 5252 trans athlete participants. https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/198 what's unfair is how female athletes, cis or trans, must endure constant, unrestrained sexual misconduct throughout their formative years to simply get a shot at competing at an elite level. just last month, a report* showed that 88% of surveyed u.k. elite athletes of the int'l women's sports collective reported sexual misconduct, and 40% reported sexual abuse. 93% of the time, perpetrators were cis men. *"Women’s experiences of sexual misconduct working in UK elite sport," summary report by Lindsey Simpson, 2026

That's not a question.

TUSD will treat unidentified immigration officers as intruders, superintendent says TUSD Superintendent Trujillo says schools will lock down and treat unidentified individuals as intruders if anyone claiming to be a federal immigration officer refuses to show proper identification.

oooh, proud to be a Tucsonan

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Department of Homeland Security must provide 'constitutionally adequate healthcare' at ICE detention center, judge rules — Los Angeles Times A federal judge also required an external monitor be appointed to ensure compliance, including through review of medical records and on-site inspection and interviews with patients and staff at the Ca...

You’d think that would go without saying.

And yet

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Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Another Deadly Consequence of Trump’s Deportation Campaign We just got new evidence of how much we stand to lose by getting rid of people from “shithole” countries.

oh, if facts mattered

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How to spot an AI linocut Last week I spotted a linocut of a crow which was shared in a Facebook group made up of people who make linocuts.

oh FFS

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Lost in Translation | Cartoon by Daniel Boris

oh geez

a friendly reminder

Tav Falco’s Panther Burns: Behind the Magnolia Curtain — Pitchfork Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit a cult 1981 garage rock record steeped in Memphis ...

some excellent music writing there

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Hey Tucson! If you’re not watching the Superbowl, come on down to the nearly deserted Park Place Mall and check out some of our latest prints!

#Tucson #printmaking #linocuts

linocut print of a chuckwalla

sometimes I do artwork

nobody could have predicted this

aw hell yeah

Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap' The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow.

move along nothing to see here

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some well-turned phrases herein

IF FACTS MATTERED

It wouldn’t be Grammy night without a bunch of cranky old farts in my feed complaining they haven’t heard of any of these people

YouTube video by Kyle Matteson Bruce Springsteen + Tom Morello - The Ghost of Tom Joad

Bruce Springsteen makes me proud to be an American.

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Ice Out Tucson. 1000’s. Many young people.

ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

it behooves us to consider worst case scenarios

counterintuitive, depending on your priors

‘25 Top Thirty by Mark Zepezauer on Apple Music Playlist · 30 Songs

15 favorite songs & 15 favorite albums from last year:

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YouTube video by DirtyProjectorsVEVO Dirty Projectors - Break-Thru (Official Video)

I really like the Dirty Projectors

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Nine DAs are coalescing to work on prosecuting federal agents for 'overreach':

—L. Krasner in Philly
—J. Creuzot in Dallas
—M. Moriarty in Minneapolis
—L. Conover in Tucson
—S. Descano in Fairfax (VA)
—R. Fatehi in Norfolk (VA)
—S. Morales in Portsmouth (VA)
—P. Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington (VA)