Tyler Cohen

Altho, second guessing myself as to whether “hope” is the right word—perhaps more accurately: reinforcing a sense of resilience, persistence, and solidarity

Like if someone is willing to throw a vulnerable group under the bus to get elected, they obviously don't have strong principles (or perhaps any principles) so why would anyone believe that it's part of a long-term strategy for anything but self gain?

And call Newsom BEFORE FRIDAY and demand he sign the bills for trans kids education and protection.

I open this app and spiral down. Last night I talked on the phone with a friend doing critical good work and she shared with me ways other people she knows are working in the edges and cracks of the oppressive regime to continue to help folks. That real world conversation is what seeded hope

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush? Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

keep calling and telling them to stand strong

the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents

we can get them to hold

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Great piece on joint hypermobility, which is common among people with Long Covid and related chronic conditions.

I’d add getting diagnosed can lend important insight into how to protect yourself. Better to know in advance than find out the hard way that, say, yoga could really mess you up.

If you are at #nycc and would like to meet up to discuss the position, I would also love that! DM me here and we'll find time. I'm most open Friday and Sunday.

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush? Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

Opponents of Project Marvel — a massive data center set for the majority-Black city of Bessemer, Alabama — want to know why the mayor and others have signed non-disclosure agreements preventing them from talking about it.

Hit me up if you have any questions about this gig! I’m still a part of CB/KCB but am focusing on other projects for a bit.

This is a great opportunity to take charge and shape the direction of a fast-growing and dynamic part of this Eisner Award-winning comix news site.

two men are sitting in a car with the words `` damage report ! '' written on the screen . ALT: two men are sitting in a car with the words `` damage report ! '' written on the screen .

Every faculty and staff meeting in higher education since the beginning of 2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

Highly recommended

New class: Raising and Drawing Our Kids Through Chaos is for anyone with young kids in their life who wants to make comics about navigating this difficult political era. www.crucialcomix.com/product/rais...

Thank you, writers/artists. Books are what get me through 📚👁️📚👁️📚💭

LN 260

Legalization Nation: Another state, another roll out that favors the same old multi-state corporations. This time Minnesota

Fuck Germany. This ALREADY HAPPENED HERE.

Ex. Black women could not be considered rape victims under the law because we werent considered women. This was proven during Jim Crow when 7 white men kidnapped & gang raped Recy Taylor in Alabama.

Black people have always lived under a dual state

My depression gets out of control sometimes. Sunday night was brutal. I took my overwhelming depression, a sticker design, and I turned it into a two-page short comic. And now I’m adding it to FEELING MESSED UP. The Kickstarter campaign is going on right now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dfw...

Getting diagnosed with hypermobility can help some people with Long COVID. Upcoming guidelines may make it easier. - The Sick Times Current diagnostic criteria for hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), a common comorbidity of Long COVID, are restrictive. The Ehlers-Danlos Society is developing new hEDS criteria that will be r...

Hypermobility is a common, overlapping condition with Long COVID. Upcoming guidelines may make it easier for people to be diagnosed with the syndrome.

A new feature by Margot Armbruster in @thesicktimes.org

thesicktimes.org/2025/10/07/g...

Vaccine disinformation/misinformation is as damaging as banning vaccines because it accomplishes the same thing i.e. fewer people get vaccinated as a result.
RFK. Jr's agenda doesn't need to explicitly take vaccines off shelves to meet its goals pseudoscience and misinformation are doing the job.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Text-based graphic with one photo. Text: New publication. Managing myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a new narrative. a chapter in a new Elsevier textbook written by coauthors from #MEAction, Mayo Clinic Rochester and the Bateman-Horne Center. “I was honored to co-author this chapter with colleagues from Mayo Clinic and the Bateman-Horne Center to give clinicians and researchers the tools they need to better recognize, study and treat ME/CFS.” Jaime Seltzer, Scientific Director, #MEAction Photo: Jaime Seltzer (white woman with long, dark hair) wearing glasses and cream blazer and red top slightly smiling.

Stellar new work from @grachstephanie.bsky.social, @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social, @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social's Bell and Yellman & @raviganeshmd.bsky.social in the Elsevier text 'The Scientific Basis of Fatigue'! The book has chapters on #MECFS, COVID, Parkinson’s, stroke, and multiple sclerosis.

Blur tools for Signal Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...

PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data.

You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly.

More on this feature here:

https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

Ode to butterbutts.

"Part of how these terms persist is as a site of fracture. Not only are we trying to encompass an unencompassable thing, but we can't even agree on what it is we're trying to approximate when we say 'science fiction'"

Must-read @dongwon.bsky.social essay:

www.publishingishard.com/surgery-with...

Student threats to academic freedom.

This is a growing problem. And it's hard to talk about, but we must. Some of this work is educational -- Helping students understand that being met with fierce criticism of their ideas is college life.

It's our job as professors.

Feeling unsafe on campus.

This is a common claim by right-wing students at present. What they mean is they don't like learning about left-leaning ideas. But college is about being intellectually challenged; that's the point.

Hearing ideas you dislike poses no physical threat.