Aaron Kashtan
@aaronkashtan.bsky.social
"Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures." – Harvey Pekar
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Fox 9 MN reporter Paul Blume: "SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, 'The system sucks, this job sucks' to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep"
February 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Fox 9 MN reporter Paul Blume: "SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, 'The system sucks, this job sucks' to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep"
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BALDWIN: Is it true you ended longstanding practice of including external scientists as part of director search committees?
BHATTACHARYA: Senator, I've been working very har--
Q: Is it true?
BHATTACHARYA: We've changed the process so that there's no formal committee bc we don't have time for it
BHATTACHARYA: Senator, I've been working very har--
Q: Is it true?
BHATTACHARYA: We've changed the process so that there's no formal committee bc we don't have time for it
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
BALDWIN: Is it true you ended longstanding practice of including external scientists as part of director search committees?
BHATTACHARYA: Senator, I've been working very har--
Q: Is it true?
BHATTACHARYA: We've changed the process so that there's no formal committee bc we don't have time for it
BHATTACHARYA: Senator, I've been working very har--
Q: Is it true?
BHATTACHARYA: We've changed the process so that there's no formal committee bc we don't have time for it
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Imagine writing these words, in February 2026, regarding the most vicious McCarthyite of the modern era: "Bari Weiss Hates cancel culture"
February 3, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Imagine writing these words, in February 2026, regarding the most vicious McCarthyite of the modern era: "Bari Weiss Hates cancel culture"
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If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
Imagine writing these words, in February 2026, regarding the most vicious McCarthyite of the modern era: "Bari Weiss Hates cancel culture"
February 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
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This is incredibly disturbing
This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
This is incredibly disturbing
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The Whipple Building was named, at the suggestion of Walter Mondale, for Bishop Henry Whipple, an advocate of Native American rights, and not for Mr. Whipple, a bizarrely fixated grocer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B...
January 31, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The Whipple Building was named, at the suggestion of Walter Mondale, for Bishop Henry Whipple, an advocate of Native American rights, and not for Mr. Whipple, a bizarrely fixated grocer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_B...
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Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.
I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
I haven't read that massive Substack thing that Gaiman linked to in his whinge, and nor am I going to. If you need tens of thousands of words of rant and innuendo to embed your "shocking evidence" in, you don't have shocking evidence, you have a conspiracy manifesto.
February 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Gaiman is already suing one of his accusers. If he had any actionable claims against "There is No Safe Word", he would have sued New York Magazine and Lila Shapiro. The fact that he is instead pointing readers to some random substack article tells us all we need to know.
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@thomasgermain.bsky.social Are you aware that Google Books has effectively stopped working - the material is still there, but all search functions no longer seem to work, making fresh access impossible. Can't find any reportage on this but it seems a major story with huge implications..
February 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
@thomasgermain.bsky.social Are you aware that Google Books has effectively stopped working - the material is still there, but all search functions no longer seem to work, making fresh access impossible. Can't find any reportage on this but it seems a major story with huge implications..
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Lost in all the other news today . . .
More than 1,500 active-duty troops from Alaska & North Carolina had been on standby to deploy to Minnesota, but were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend.
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More than 1,500 active-duty troops from Alaska & North Carolina had been on standby to deploy to Minnesota, but were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend.
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Northern Command Tells N.C., Alaska Troops to Stand Down on Possible Minnesota Deployment
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Lost in all the other news today . . .
More than 1,500 active-duty troops from Alaska & North Carolina had been on standby to deploy to Minnesota, but were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend.
Gift link => archive.ph/js8AQ
More than 1,500 active-duty troops from Alaska & North Carolina had been on standby to deploy to Minnesota, but were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend.
Gift link => archive.ph/js8AQ
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extremely funny to do this with a 14 seat restaurant that’s been open for 75 years
February 3, 2026 at 12:53 PM
extremely funny to do this with a 14 seat restaurant that’s been open for 75 years
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The United States of America is rejecting Donald Trump. The movement of rejecting authoritarianism seems to have finally hit critical mass.
It's a nationwide, "F*ck NO!"
It's a nationwide, "F*ck NO!"
February 3, 2026 at 2:15 AM
The United States of America is rejecting Donald Trump. The movement of rejecting authoritarianism seems to have finally hit critical mass.
It's a nationwide, "F*ck NO!"
It's a nationwide, "F*ck NO!"
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i was about to say that markwayne mullin looks like what would happen if you gave sentience to a block of wood, but i actually think the wood would be more intelligent and perceptive
Markwayne Mullin: "I agree with what Lindsey is saying on defunding these sanctuary cities. We should pull our TSA agents out of their airports and not allow their airpot to be classified as international or even a regional hub. We should pull all of our aid."
February 3, 2026 at 2:31 AM
i was about to say that markwayne mullin looks like what would happen if you gave sentience to a block of wood, but i actually think the wood would be more intelligent and perceptive
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Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.
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Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.
February 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.
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A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
www.nrtoday.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
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CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
February 2, 2026 at 7:45 PM
CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: “the Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."
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You never start by assuming people who aren't Black actually have good will towards us or the desire not to be racist. They don't. Antiblackness is how they learned to do everything & rewarding. They have the desire not to appear racist. You just move pointing out how the world can harm you less.
February 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM
You never start by assuming people who aren't Black actually have good will towards us or the desire not to be racist. They don't. Antiblackness is how they learned to do everything & rewarding. They have the desire not to appear racist. You just move pointing out how the world can harm you less.
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Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
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Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
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"Do you have any advice you want to offer the rest of America for what we can do when our turn comes around?"
"Yeah, be like Minnesotans. Just be strong, be supportive, and hang in there. People will help support you."
#ComicSky
#Comicbooks
"Yeah, be like Minnesotans. Just be strong, be supportive, and hang in there. People will help support you."
#ComicSky
#Comicbooks
Retail Therapy, 'Fuck ICE' Edition: A conversation with Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books - The Comics Journal
Zach Rabiroff speaks with the Minneapolis retailer about where he, and his community, find themselves now.
www.tcj.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
"Do you have any advice you want to offer the rest of America for what we can do when our turn comes around?"
"Yeah, be like Minnesotans. Just be strong, be supportive, and hang in there. People will help support you."
#ComicSky
#Comicbooks
"Yeah, be like Minnesotans. Just be strong, be supportive, and hang in there. People will help support you."
#ComicSky
#Comicbooks
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Just NO. The responses are brutal.
Enough. He has to step down
Enough. He has to step down
February 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Just NO. The responses are brutal.
Enough. He has to step down
Enough. He has to step down
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University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 AM
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...