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Mo Ryan

@moryan.bsky.social

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 3d

Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz

Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.

www.chicagotribune.com

November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM

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Teen Vogue

@teenvogue.com

Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org

Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship?

From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...

www.teenvogue.com

October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾

@blackamazon.bsky.social

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

April 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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Megan Piontkowski illustration

@meganpiont.bsky.social

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!

California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State

Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hand holding small black and white hand lettered zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe"

hand holding open zine. Pages read: "S Size of group, A Actions/Activity, L Location, U Uniforms/Clothes, T Time/Date, E Equipment

August 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

this will make things a little better

Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · Aug 26

For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.

August 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM

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Bree Lundberg

@breelundberg.com

No amount of marketing advice or hustle culture bullshit about monetizing followers will fix the structural problems that make freelance art careers so difficult. Maybe spend more time asking why people can’t/don’t want to pay us? Why society can’t support us?

July 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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Mitch Dyer

@mitchyd.bsky.social

Wait, hold up —

Are you trying to tell me you DO NOT have to fire thousands of employees and destroy your definitive franchises and shutter studios every three months?

Stealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · Jul 5

To counter rising development costs, Nintendo is going to explore making games with shorter development cycles.

They are also making investments in their development teams to preserve the way they've always made games.

July 5, 2025 at 5:54 AM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

Where is the patronage today for art, tailoring, craftsmanship, and public buildings? Why are new elites so allergic to any sense of beauty?

I argue this is happening partly because people have associated crappy aesthetics with authenticity, intelligence, and virtue.

July 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM

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Iron Spike

@ironspike.bsky.social

I cannot fucking believe we are reposting Get Your War On in 20 fucking 25

Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Jun 22

I’ll repeat.

“Get Your War On” did we ever actually declare war comic

June 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM

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Diana Huh

@dihuh.bsky.social

hypernormalisation

June 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM

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NOLNIR ✨🌠💫

@nolnir.com

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇

a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"

June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM

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Max Berger

@maxberger.bsky.social

It’s very strange that this article on the staffing issues at Newark Airport doesn’t mention the fact that DOGE fired 400 FAA employees a few months ago, and union officials warned about exactly these kinds of shortages.

Newark Airport Had 3 Controllers on Duty When the Goal Is 14

www.nytimes.com

May 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM

cyndrekit.bsky.social

@cyndrekit.bsky.social

Ok, I gotta make an icon for my profile this week. This is embarrassing. 😅

May 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman

@josie.zone

TL;DR:

May 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM

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Jellybox

@jellybox.bsky.social

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL THE SUPPORT!

Let's keep the yaoi train ROLLING!

All extra funding will go to offsetting unexpected costs (like tariffs!), paying our crew and supporting the studio!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jel...

May 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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Robert G. Reeve

@robertgreeve.bsky.social

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead”

even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”

A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.

April 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Everyone should watch this. Then share it with anyone who thinks these tariffs are a good idea and won’t crush small businesses.

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIDAtyB...

April 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM

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Elizabeth Harper

@cadaverformosus.bsky.social

YOU GUYS.

A miniature train yard with working streetlights, industrial buildings in the background and parked train cars with graffiti and a train on the track, also with graffiti train cars

A close up of the previous scene with a little red car in the parking lot portion of the train yard. there’s a blue crate train car with white bubble tagging that says stash. In the background there’s a white train car with kos tagged on it with a red background

Miniature tagged train cars on a light wood display shelf.

April 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Cait✦May @ MCMLondon #N-19

@caitmayart.com

Feeling... rough. Lately.

Panel 1:
"I make art for a living."
Drawing character art on a tablet

Panel 2:
"It feels... Questionable right now."
Drawing interrupted by a news alert

Panel 3:
"So much horror and pain all around us... And it feels like it's getting worse every day."
Cait staring at her tablet while news alerts ping loudly

Panel 1:
"What the hell am I doing."
Cait takes off her glasses and rubs her eyes, the news alerts are louder and more frightening

Panel 2:
"I'm drawing pretty pictures while the world is on fire. While families are torn apart. While war and genocide become daily news. While my country is held hostage by bigots who want me and the people I love to die."
Cait holds her head in her hands, overwhelmed by pinging alerts

Panel 1:
"But I can't think that way. ...not every day, at least..."
Cait balls her fists, grimacing with tears on her face

Panel 2:
"I love what I do. And I work in entertainment - providing beauty and escapism for my audience."
She puts her glasses back on and picks up her tablet pen, sniffling

Panel 1:
"We need art in turbulent times. People need escape from the horrors. And if I can provide that - then I'm being helpful."
Cait starts drawing, but the pinging alerts are on the rise again.

Panel 2:
"I'm being helpful. I'm being helpful... I'm being helpful... I'm helpful... Helpful..."
She draws, trembling, as the alerts swell around her.

February 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM

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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲

@jodyhouser.bsky.social

FYI for folks doing GoFundMes after the LA fire and other natural disasters.

Elle Schneider @elleschneider.bsky.social · Jan 13

This is VERY important for anyone you know affected by the Los Angeles fires who is currently raising funds on GoFundMe:

FEMA does not cover expenses already paid for by other sources. So be careful with how you word your fundraisers—this has affected people who survived other natural disasters.

January 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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Kate Beaton

@katebeaton.bsky.social

Many who work in animation live in L.A. No doubt a great # of people who follow me are also fans of it. Here is a shared list of industry workers/friends affected by the fires, people who worked on some of your favourite shows and films, people who make things you love. airtable.com/appugwkqKAVG...