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రితేష్ Writer and Critic. (He/They) Bylines at Vox, PanelxPanel, Polygon Local Biryani connoisseur, Comics oddball, and Football freak. My work/contact info: https://riteshbabu.net/

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Chinese ICE Detainee Dies by Suicide at Pennsylvania Detention Center A Chinese ICE detainee died by suicide at Pennsylvania’s Moshannon Valley detention center in Pennsylvania, a private jail run by GEO Group.

This man’s suicide is the result of taxpayer-funded state violence. And it’s bigger than merely abolishing ICE.

We need to abolish immigrant “detention centers” (read: prisons).

theintercept.com/2025/08/07/i...

11.08.2025 04:51 — 👍 103    🔁 37    💬 4    📌 0
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Support Nicky Rodriguez Send a tip to Nicky to help her keep making comics & stay afloat!

fuck so i thought my cloud storage already renewed but it DID NOT UNTIL TODAY so it would be soooooo snazzy if u bought something or sent a tip or something like that lol pls and thank u 🥲 💖

09.08.2025 18:24 — 👍 12    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza will not sleep tonight, mourning its shining lantern and the lion of its battlefield. By God, we weep as if our own brother has been martyred.
‏Anas Al-Sharif the voice of truth you were her melody when they tried to silence every song, her tear when the river ran dry.
‏And today, they have.

11.08.2025 03:08 — 👍 122    🔁 55    💬 5    📌 2

Yeah, you'll see this soon lol.

11.08.2025 03:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These people are being starved to death and we still get these mealy mouthed "oh it's so complicated"

Debate how complicated it is when you're burning in hell!

10.08.2025 23:06 — 👍 120    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 1

Real

10.08.2025 23:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Jesus fucking Christ dude

10.08.2025 22:50 — 👍 29    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0
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"Until our last breath": Journalist Anas al-Sharif on Documenting Israel's Genocide in Gaza Every Day for 11 Straight Months The Al Jazeera correspondent has refused to leave northern Gaza, even as Israel has threatened him and killed his colleagues.

"Until our last breath": Journalist Anas al-Sharif on Documenting Israel's Genocide in Gaza Every Day for 11 Straight Months

(September 2024)

By @Sharif Abdel Kouddous

www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

10.08.2025 21:41 — 👍 88    🔁 43    💬 1    📌 2
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“Maybe the world won’t act, maybe the world won’t help us but there might be a motive to stop this war—every time I document a massacre or event or bombing, I think that maybe through this bombing or this image that the war could stop and this war would end...”

10.08.2025 21:41 — 👍 159    🔁 90    💬 4    📌 5

They killed anas. I cant believe it.

10.08.2025 21:25 — 👍 311    🔁 81    💬 9    📌 2
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

10.08.2025 21:09 — 👍 5960    🔁 4540    💬 63    📌 124
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The Israeli military just killed him.

(Look at the photo caption)

10.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 834    🔁 418    💬 14    📌 18
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

10.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 22595    🔁 4734    💬 454    📌 461

Anas Al-Sharif gone just like that...

Fuck the US and Israel now and forever.

I will only know true happiness of the heart when neither of these fugazi Settler-Colonial projects exist.

They exist only to bring genocide and horror into this world, time and time again, generation after generation.

10.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
Wolf howls are heard by a group of people in the mountains, we then pull back to see their camefire.

Then time passes, the sun rises, and we cut to a tree with a bird, which then flies away. 

From Shirato Sanpei's Legend Of Kamui

Wolf howls are heard by a group of people in the mountains, we then pull back to see their camefire. Then time passes, the sun rises, and we cut to a tree with a bird, which then flies away. From Shirato Sanpei's Legend Of Kamui

Magnificent.

10.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
3 panel page by Shiraro Sanpei, from The Legend Of Kamui

3 panel page by Shiraro Sanpei, from The Legend Of Kamui

These are breathtakingly crafted comics made with such patience.

Shirato Sanpei man, just unbelievable.

The work breathes and flows as beautifully as I've ever seen in a comic.

It's so alive.

10.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Scorsese with glasses praying, gazing, looking slick, then laughing. He's enjoying prime cinema

Scorsese with glasses praying, gazing, looking slick, then laughing. He's enjoying prime cinema

This is one of those things that's so good that you read it, and then you have to get up and walk around a bit to get the energy out of you.

As you stare into the distance and shake your head while grinning, because gawddamn.

10.08.2025 18:54 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

10 pages into Shirato Sanpei's LEGEND OF KAMUI, and this is the real fucking deal.

Instant impact.

A magnificent 8 page opening sequence with no words that takes you along nature and systematically casts man as a ragged animal no different to any other.

Brilliant.

10.08.2025 18:43 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Yeah, it's all addiction mechanics nonsense. Best to be rid of it altogether. Terribly unambitious and insular landscape.

Far more worthwhile and ambitious, and more stylistically varied, fare out there that are more deserving of that time/energy. Makes for a more satisfying experience in the end.

10.08.2025 18:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Listen, if you wrote on every undeservingly gassed up book on year end lists, you'd never stop. Best not to concern yourself with that imho.

You do your own thing. That's good.

10.08.2025 18:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My dear friend Adham was injured while seeking aid and needs our support more than ever 💜 He's suffered the loss of many close friends, can we rally behind him to offer support?

Please share and donate. Adham means a lot to me and I don't want him to suffer alone 🙏

08.08.2025 13:39 — 👍 16    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 0
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Urgent Help & Hope for Gaza Mother I am Najwa Abu Ishaq from Gaza. I suffer from an endocrine disorder, and I’ve lost both my husband and my home to war. Please, I need your help to rebuild my life and live in peace. —Najwa

My dear friend Najwa and her family continue to endure unconscionable hardship and loss 💜🙏 Please donate and share. Support her and her sons so they can survive the horrors of the ongoing genocide

08.08.2025 17:06 — 👍 12    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

🫡🫡🫡

10.08.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I understand the former impulse, tho let me try and talk you out of the latter impulse lol.

Your time and talents are better served on other, much more deserving material that most others won't give attention to.

10.08.2025 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The perspective choice here is the unbelievable hubris of a massive ad campaign BEGGING to catch a ban.

10.08.2025 17:40 — 👍 304    🔁 73    💬 11    📌 1

8 months into the year, I'm quite content with my comics reading this year.

A much more curated in-take compared to last year, while being far more varied and broader all at once.

Ditching the entire DM landscape aside from Ram V comics was the right move, too.

10.08.2025 17:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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My face maps the landscape of hunger; every crease tells the story of nights that passed without food.
This pallor is no coincidence—it is the mark famine leaves on the body.

Send a gift to me and my family ⬇️🫂🕊️.
gofund.me/69f962fc

10.08.2025 16:42 — 👍 29    🔁 37    💬 4    📌 18

Yeah, very sad. Somehow Ireland got sold to US tech without the majority of Irish people being aware of it.

10.08.2025 16:52 — 👍 156    🔁 39    💬 6    📌 1

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