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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Republicans Launch Major New Attack on Michigan-Based Overseas Voters Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a sweeping new lawsuit in Michigan that seeks to eliminate a state law that protects voting access for U.S. citizens living abroad. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"If the President orders soldiers to do it, it's not illegal."
From the Nixon Chapter of the TrumpLaw Code of Military Justice.

We’re Led by an Administration of Liars Trump insisted Comey be prosecuted for supposedly lying to Congress—but his own administration is full of officials who lied to Congress.

Lying under oath? Seriously? The case against Comey is as hypocritical as it is weak and incompetent. From Trump on down, this is an administration people who got their jobs by misleading and outright lying to Congress. My latest at @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

ICE Operation "Charlotte's Web" is over: What we know The CBP operation ended, but ICE will continue normal enforcement as Mecklenburg Sheriff McFadden pledges transparency and trust.

Over 30,000 students walked out of school last week to protest the MAGA regime’s white supremacist power grab, and their effort scared ICE, the modern day slave patrols into, retreat!!

www.newsweek.com/charlotte-ic...

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.

I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.

“By the way—every case you ever brought is dismissed. You’re not a lawfully appointed prosecutor so it’s weird saying that but just letting you know."

6 people have died from a nationwide listeria outbreak.

31 babies have been hospitalized with botulism from contaminated baby formula.

Instead of firing crucial FDA employees & attacking the agency, Trump should be hiring more experts to crack down on these dangerous outbreaks.

When such a big percentage of GDP is being propped up by AI companies and their investors, that means that a tiny handful of people getting fabulously wealthy are accounting for the bulk of the economic benefits while everyone else is getting screwed. That’s Trump’s economy.

Folks forget that the ACA *was* the compromise position. It was never full on heal reform so much as health insurance reform, but it was what the political reality of the time permitted.

That said, Medicare for all, and let the shareholders answer to God.

AND it axed countless research, library, and museum grants! THOUSANDS of student jobs lost and children prevented from learning ~humanities~

Always remember that Elon Musk isn't disliked because he's awkward and unfunny. Plenty of awkward and unfunny people have friends. Elon Musk is disliked because he is destructive and cruel.

PANEL 1: MATTIE encounters a GUY, sitting on the floor. On the other side of her is a big metal box with a glowing screen. She gestures at it. MATTIE: Huh. What's this? GUY: I had an AI duplicate made of MY voice and mannerisms. And it's handling everything. PANEL 2: The GUY, counting off his fingers. GUY: So instead of like, the hard work of my relationship to my partner, or human connection really, or having any ideas or doing anything creative, my time is freed up! PANEL 3: MATTIE looks down at the guy quizzically. MATTIE: Free tto do what? PANEL 4: The GUY kind of lies down on the ground. GUY: Well, I've been kind of sitting here. GUY: Let me know if you want a discount code to get your own!

free to do what | patreon.com/lubchansky

Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit.

You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.

YouTube video by People Make Games The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".

PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

I pretty much ignore illegal downloading because there is nothing I can do about it, and erotic books get pirated at rates that would break your brain.

But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.

“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”

Stamps featuring Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

A panel from SAPPHIC VAMPIRE NOIR showing a sharp nail slicing into a neck with SLK written out in blood

Getting a snack, y'all want anything?

From SAPPHIC VAMPIRE NOIR which will be revealed with its proper title and details next month!!

From me, @laurenknight.bsky.social, @jpjordan.bsky.social, @longtalljodie.com, and @cerealpancake.bsky.social.

TRUMP: globalize the intifadata. you’re hearing it more and more. globalize the infante. it’s a beautiful term. i think i may have just coined it. i’m not sure. but you’re hearing it more and more.

If I hadn’t already agreed to come back to Marvel for some projects, this would’ve done it. These beautiful collections are among my personal fave moments and FILLED with gorgeous art on every single page. I’m so glad these are out for the holidays. #marvelomnibus

I cannot properly describe the joy I feel in announcing that my friend ROGER LANGRIDGE (@hotelfred.bsky.social) is writing, drawing and lettering MUPPETS NOIR, starting in February! @dearbhlala.bsky.social's on colors, Declan Shalvey's done a variant cover & I get to edit the whole thing.

Dude waltzed in there with the same playbook EVERY FOREIGN HEAD OF STATE uses to effortlessly flatter this guy into submission. He's an immense political talent but it's also NOT THAT HARD.

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

this is like that scene in office space where the consultants end up loving peter

In Star Wars #10, the final issue from me, @philnoto.bsky.social & Luke Ross - The New Republic stand on the very brink of war!

Will our heroes and the Nagai forces be enough to prevent the end of everything?

Actually the question that occurs to me is "will you nominate him anyway even after years of people telling you they won't vote for him if you do, and then when you lose as you were warned you would, will you blame not yourselves but the people who warned you."

The final issue of GREEN ARROW, out next month from @christophcondon.bsky.social, Montos & co. is, and I don’t say this lightly, a masterpiece.

A heartfelt, thoughtful meditation on what superheroes mean, and the perfect way to cap off an epic run.

There’s still time to preorder, so go do that.

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.