Iris Brewster

The best graphic novels of 2025 Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco return; plus Black Country cowboys, vengeful gods and an angling classic reimagined

Yvan Alagbé's Misery of Love is one of the best graphic novels of the year according to The Guardian's James Smart.

This follows the Washington Post's list. Get your hands on "a work whose achingly allusive charge grows stronger with repeat readings."

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

Suddenly, Jamaica | Henry Louis Gates Jr. Jamaica Kincaid’s commanding, irreverent work immerses her readers in a black world without explaining or defining its blackness. This seems to be a major departure in the history of African American ...

Not so long, long ago, in our very own galaxy:
"At Cambridge(...) Wole Soyinka, the future Nobel Prize laureate from Nigeria, had been denied a visiting appointment in the department the year I arrived, ostensibly because African literature was not English literature."
Henry Louis Gates @nybooks.com

The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.

From the latest New York Review of Books (a good subscription): www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

José Andrés nails it

The resistance is active in DC—you’re just not looking closely enough It's not massive protests on Pennsylvania Avenue, but happenstance hecklers and Nextdoor posts.

"There is plenty of backlash—it’s just a grittier and less organized form of it, carried out by Washingtonians with cellphone cameras and some spare time."

Miss her!

"Patriotism is the love of the country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good." C. BOOKER

Beware California voters!

😅😅😅😅

MAGA is losing their mind over this meme

This is my country. I was born and raised here. I said the Pledge of Allegiance in grade school — and still say it at baseball games and veteran luncheons. I served in the military and earned a Purple Heart for it. I raised my children to be good Americans. Don’t ever try to take my country from me!

We’re better off when we lift others up rather than keeping people down. I trust science. I believe that our children are way smarter than they’re given credit for. I try to give more than I get. I know that we must always try to do better. I am an American.

Not a hot take but a call to action. This is how it’s done.

YouTube video by The Burns Sisters - Topic I Am A Patriot

I Am A Patriot.
I Hear The True Sound of Liberty.
I Am American.
youtu.be/88q9FVQltOA?...

I am an American. My roots run deep - back to the Mayflower according to family legend - but the great thing about being an American is that everyone, from the first settler to those who became citizens today, is equal. You are all every bit as much Americans as I am. So stay strong!

Trump targets the Smithsonian again, says it focuses too much on how bad slavery was U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday he will pressure the Smithsonian Institution - a premier museum, education and research complex for U.S. history and culture - to accept his demands, just like he did with colleges and universities by threatening to cut federal funding.

Trump targets the Smithsonian again, says it focuses too much on how bad slavery was reut.rs/4mTQxbu

Oh Well….
Zelensky decided to wear a suit, after all.😅

Justice department drops cases against LA protesters after officers caught making false claims

Immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several LA protesters they arrested, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.