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@ianvg.bsky.social
Artist, writer, father, socialist, amateur comic creator and occasional chaos magician. Free Palestine 🚫No AI or NFTs🚫
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What an incredible convergence of two of my special interests.
Jack Kirby, with Chic Stone, tells a tale about Jack Ruby’s murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, from May 1967’s Esquire magazine. I had no idea at all “46 Hours & 36 Minutes In The Life Of Jack Ruby” existed. It’s amazing what you can turn up while trawling through old archives.
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
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I gathered a few resources you can use & take action with to protect your communities from ICE: stopicetoday.com
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Replies are once again proof that nobody actually reads the article.
OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...
The US has never been a moral leader in the world. Immoral maybe. We've got no leg to stand on and never have. Less focus on who our adversaries are and more focus on international cooperation. Can we please get someone running for office who doesn't frame foreign policy as us vs them for *once*?
Yet another example of Trump shooting the US in the foot. Our abdication of moral leadership in international institutions like the UN, WHO, G20, and ICC only serves to allow our adversaries the opportunity to expand their influence on the world stage while we suffer. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
I should pitch "I'm a Socialist, Here's What Republicans Need to Do to Win" and see if any outlet will run it.
The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Uh, sure, the Lourve is less relevant, but one of these is considerably more important than the protests and I'm pleasantly surprised the NYT is actually reporting on it.
The NYT app the morning after the biggest wave of protest rallies in America in a generation They buried the story between other headlines, opting not to use a photo too.
Interesting thing I've noticed recently. They used to act like the Democratic party was pushing things on voters, but now they are acknowledging that there is a base that wants left wing policy because it's growing and becoming harder to ignore. Now if only the Democratic leaders would notice it.
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
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About to be the family that owns TikTok.
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Not a professional or anything, but I definitely found that trying to draw comics more than just drawing single images is 1) more fun, 2) has taught me a lot about comics, and 3) helped me improve my drawing anyway.
This is why, if you're wanting to do comics, it's far more important to practice drawing comics than it is to practice drawing. The drawing comes with time and you get the time by getting opportunities to make comics, you get those opportunities by demonstrating storytelling.
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When someone views politics as a team sport instead of about actual policy and governance then differences don't matter because all they care about is graph having more blue than red. But if you don't stand for the same things we stand for, then what is the point of having you in government?
if democrats can't even pretend to uphold basic platform planks like 'equal rights for minorities' then what is the point of the party? they are losing because too many of them it's good, actually, to betray their base by capitulating on basic party principles for some non-existent centrist voter??
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Virginia Giuffre died by suicide earlier this year.
President Trump said his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ended after Epstein poached young female workers from his Mar-a-Lago Club. Trump confirmed one of them was Virginia Giuffre, one of the most outspoken victims of Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring.
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War took my home, my job, my future but not my truth. I’m Farah from Gaza, still standing, still holding on. Your support keeps me going. goget.fund/3ZHHG3C
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Evil Superman as a version of the character is bad. "Evil Superman" as a trope is fine, but mostly it's because it's not actually Superman. Kal-El being "evil" has been done well once, and that was because it was a critique of how Superman was portrayed at the time and done by a comics legend.
Even just personally, the zero sum thing doesn't work. I'm gonna get more back in taxes, but I guarantee I'm not gonna get enough to offset the costs of my healthcare plan when those cuts take effect. The fact that this is also happening to facilitate TWO ethnic cleansings is sickening.
This quiz going around is a great example of how the NYT launders right wing talking points through the zero-sum lens. I care that millions of *other* people will get tossed into poverty—or concentration camps. The fact that *I* might get a SALT break is not an equivalent effect on the country!