Michael Tedder

I've always been proud that ANTICS has a strong tie to our communities, and I am excited to announce that on February 17, we will be partnering with the Immigrant Defense Project for a fundraiser show at Elsewhere Zone 1. I hope you can make it out!

Sal Buscema, Legendary SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN Artist, Has Passed Away Age 89 Comic book artist Sal Buscema, the legendary artist best known for his work on The Incredible Hulk and Spectacular Spider-Man, passed away just a couple of days before his 90th birthday.

RIP Sal Buscema, one of the very best comic book artists to ever do it. His run on Spectacular Spider-Man with J.M. DeMatteis was the stuff of legend.

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To be clear, this is a victory, which was won by ordinary people putting their lives on the line in the streets of Minneapolis while almost all their elected leaders kept quiet or made only muted criticism.

Another certified SVL banger.

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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

♥️

No Cap: SNL Just Killed Gen Z Slang Last night’s “Weekend Update” segment explained how the show benefits from making pop culture a little bit cringe.

For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about how Saturday Night Live uses New Slang to stay current while destroying it in the process.

I also got to use the term "dumb bitch juice" in The Atlantic, and included references to Young Thug and poppers. You're welcome!

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

When I saw it was 1996 week at P4K, I could feel it in my bones that this was on its way. I don't say this lightly: this is Jeremy D. Larson's masterpiece.

Same.

1) ICE must be disbanded and everyone involved in today's shooting must be held accountable.

2) You don't need to see that video.

3) Settings, select Content & Media, uncheck "Autoplay videos and GIFs.

The 7 Democrats who voted to fund Homeland Security amid ICE crackdowns

Primary them all.

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There is no bottom.

And in the end, the real Whiskey Friday With Tony Dokoupil was all the friends we made along the way.

I'm glad this little-known band is finally getting some attention.

So, be inspired by Zach Cregger and don't let setbacks get you down. (3/3)

The co-star and co-director Zach Cregger eventually re-invented himself as a horror director, and his film Weapons was a smash hit that just earned surprising (for a horror film) Oscar love. (Congrats, Amy Madigan) (2/3)

In 2009, the comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know released their film Miss March, which bombed terribly and received scathing reviews, with The AV Club calling it one of the worst films of the decade. (1/3)

In October 2024, if you said ICE would happily use children as bait, you would be told to stop acting hysterical.

Stupid, stupid rat creatures that hate fun.

Legit surprising that Jeff Smith's Bone never became a TV series. Seems like a no-brainer.

The political situation is so dire and awful that there's no space for us to grapple with the fact that A$AP Rocky's new single is a straight-up 2010 chillwave song. (Complimentary.)

What a dispiriting time.

I can't think of a bigger "telling on yourself" move than accusing someone of virtue signalling.

The world is so messed up that now Industrial Rock is making a comeback.

And, I'm overjoyed at this development, but at what cost?

"Time to go on social media, so I can fill up on despairing news."

(Half a second later)

"Ah, that's the stuff."

(Five minutes later)

"Why do I do this?"

(Listening to a promo)

"This guy can barely sing and clearly needs to go to therapy. I could not possibly love this album more."

No.

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm incredibly proud of what @tatianatenreyro.bsky.social and ANTICS' team of collaborators have put together for our latest issue, which is our best one yet.

DIY media isn't easy in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. But it's worth it, and I hope you will pick up a copy.