Clif Ganyard

And this is a real thing! Of all the things reading can be, first it has to be pleasurable, and entertaining, and engaging, otherwise people will do something else with their time. And pleasure reading begets more reading, or at least, more than the reading that feels like dutiful homework.

About That Japan Deal Arithmetic has a well-known globalist bias

An instant post about that Japan deal. It's basically a joke
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YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios RUNNING SCARED (1986) | Official Trailer | MGM

Just a reminder that once upon a time they made a buddy cop film with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines in the lead, with Jimmy Smits, Joey Pantoliano and Dan Hedaya in supporting roles, and IT WAS PERFECT.

'Coming from Krypton didn't make you Superman - Martha and Jonathan did.'

I'm very proud of having written this. (Art by Axel Giménez and Ronan Cliquet.) #Superman

American newspaper clips from 1940, “Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis Claim. Plus, my Vanity Fair story: Can Superman Win the Culture War?

The right-wing backlash against #Superman has happened before.

Here’s my @vanityfair.com report w/ the full history —starting with April 1940, when the official SS newspaper attacked the comic book hero & its creators.

Plus, that time Superman fought the KKK…

🔗 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

Jack Kirby's prescience working overtime.

Media literacy is absolutely crucial when looking at anything coming out of a fascist regime.

It is imperative that we actively and critically engage with info and media right now. There's an impulse to react as fast as possible but we have to resist it in order to actively read their propaganda.

George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck to Be Telecast Live on CNN If you can't afford a ticket to the Broadway play, be sure to tune in to CNN.

I'm very excited for this and impressed that CNN is trying to democratize Broadway by broadcasting and streaming a live play, especially one so politically charged about the importance of strong journalists standing against McCarthy and his modern acolytes. playbill.com/article/good...

When A.I. gets too smart, irrationality might be humanity’s last competitive edge.
#CalvinandHobbes #ExistentialUpgrade

The Hungarian Model MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Attn: Middle and high school teachers, librarians, etc: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2025 Belfer National Conference for Holocaust Education will take place June 23-25. It is free, virtual, and focuses on ELA and social studies. Please come! Register now: ushmm.org/2025BelferShare

The fantasy that someone with all of that power would give their all to help others and to be kind.

The Battle of Lexington, Part One THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON was a fan comic book produced by Kurt Busiek and Scott McCloud while in High School. Never published anywhere, it featured an enormous battle between different Marvel super …

The legendary Battle of Lexington, by high school students Kurt Busiek and Scott McCloud.

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1. Some years back I was taking a cab in Chicago and the taxi driver, discovering I was a writer, complained that all his young son wanted to read was comics. I made the point to him that reading comics was reading, and that his kid was taking pleasure in reading and at his age, that's important.

Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.

We are in a constitutional crisis right here and now
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

Springtime for Scammers Financial predation now has friends in high places

Why they really shuttered CFPB paulkrugman.substack.com/p/springtime...

February 9, 2025 On Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order “protecting Second Amendment rights.” The order calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to examine all gun regulations in the U.S.

February 9, 2025

Sabotaging the Pax Americana Trump and Musk are making us distrusted, friendless and weak

Losing moral authority, trust and respect. What could go wrong? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/sabotaging...

Thanks, Alastair!

"Black Paradise" from DC Power: A Celebration #1 (2023)
art: Darryl Banks and Hi-Fi. letters: Andworld Design.

"Universal Beings" from the Milestone 30th Anniversary Special

art: Atagun Ilhan, ChrisCross, Dexter Vines, Juan Castro, Norm Rapmund and John. letters: Andworld Design

People have asked about the books behind my wargaming course. So here’s a “shelfie” of many of them.

What would you recommend as a starting point for someone interested in using games to teach history?

The Dollar and the Trade Deficit What will Trump do when his favorite obsession goes the wrong way?

Remember the "twin deficits"? They may be back paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-dollar...

Welsh government responds in Klingon to UFO airport query Klingon was the chosen language for the Welsh government in its response to queries about UFO sightings at Cardiff Airport.

Dome news stories you just have to reblog. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-33479808

Star Trek’s Cold War While America was fighting on the ground, the Federation was fighting in space.

"In space, all warriors are Cold Warriors." My look at Star Trek and the Cold War:

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"Fetch!"
(Throws stick with super-strength precisely 1.25 light-hours away)
(Checks watch)
"That'll hold 'im".

The Beat’s 50 Best Comics of 2024 This year's Best Comics of 2024 list contains a staggering 50 titles, making it the largest year-end comics list that we here at The Beat have published since all the way back in 2020. This perhaps speaks to how strong a year 2024 was for new comics and graphic novel releases, with our list of staff favorites containing an exceedingly wide range of publishers, genres, creators, and distribution channels.

The Beat’s 50 Best Comics of 2024

This year's Best Comics of 2024 list contains a staggering 50 titles, making it the largest year-end comics list that we here at The Beat have published since all the way back in 2020. This perhaps speaks to how strong a year 2024 was for new comics and graphic…

journalists really should have a gilded age/progressive era historian on speed dial for the next few years. it will help a lot!