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Submissions for the 2026 Minicomic Awards are NOW OPEN through 1/31/26! 🎉
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January 1, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Submissions for the 2026 Minicomic Awards are NOW OPEN through 1/31/26! 🎉
To submit your comic(s), register an account at mca.cartoonist.coop. Be sure to check out the full guidelines and FAQ before submitting.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
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January 8, 2026 at 4:23 AM
it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does
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Our country sucks, do some art for a good cause?
Sending out some blanks for #FCFCoversLiteracy tomorrow! Would you like to join us for an awesome charity auction?
January 7, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Our country sucks, do some art for a good cause?
‘A free press is essential to a functioning democracy. It is the responsibility of Congress to defend this principle and to hold any administration accountable when it is threatened.’
Add your name.
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Stand with NewsGuild-CWA journalists and demand news, not slop!
Unionized journalists across North America have come together to sound the alarm: Media companies are implementing artificial intelligence in ways that damage the credibility of the journalism on whic...
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January 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
‘A free press is essential to a functioning democracy. It is the responsibility of Congress to defend this principle and to hold any administration accountable when it is threatened.’
Add your name.
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Add your name.
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Israel just shot up a university in Palestine, wounding students.
Just thought you should know.
Just thought you should know.
January 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM
‘As the United States should have learned several times over (but it won’t learn this), decapitation of regimes is not the same as breaking the connection between the regime and the state.’
— @vladvexler.bsky.social
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— @vladvexler.bsky.social
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Live Q&A: INITIAL REACTION TO TRUMP VENEZUELA RAID
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
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January 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
‘As the United States should have learned several times over (but it won’t learn this), decapitation of regimes is not the same as breaking the connection between the regime and the state.’
— @vladvexler.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/5JlADBG...
— @vladvexler.bsky.social
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2025: climate tipping point or turning point?
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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January 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
‘the country with the highest emissions, China, is the country that has recently driven that economic shift.’
Yet ‘I am scared of … the impact of warming we are likely to see in the coming decades,’ he continues. ‘You should be scared …. But as well as being scared, you should be angry.’
Yet ‘I am scared of … the impact of warming we are likely to see in the coming decades,’ he continues. ‘You should be scared …. But as well as being scared, you should be angry.’
January 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
‘the country with the highest emissions, China, is the country that has recently driven that economic shift.’
Yet ‘I am scared of … the impact of warming we are likely to see in the coming decades,’ he continues. ‘You should be scared …. But as well as being scared, you should be angry.’
Yet ‘I am scared of … the impact of warming we are likely to see in the coming decades,’ he continues. ‘You should be scared …. But as well as being scared, you should be angry.’
Last year, says @simonoxfphys.com, we get ‘the clearest signs yet on the economics of energy having fundamentally shifted. The world is pouring ever greater investment into renewables, batteries, and grid upgrades.’ Moreover, in ‘a colossal piece of good fortune …
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Simon Clark — 2025: climate tipping point or turning point?
2025 was grim. But the headlines are not all negative.
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January 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Last year, says @simonoxfphys.com, we get ‘the clearest signs yet on the economics of energy having fundamentally shifted. The world is pouring ever greater investment into renewables, batteries, and grid upgrades.’ Moreover, in ‘a colossal piece of good fortune …
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URGENT: ICE Detained a Sick Father — His Family Needs Help Now
Around 6 am CT on Monday, December 29, 2025, two immigrant parents with legal work authorization and who have diligently followed immigration processes were detained by ICE in the Hyde Park neighborho...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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‘[T]o care about and tend to our dissolute knowledge systems can be to care for and tend to our own understandings … . It is to de-instrumentalize our understandings of one another and to assume a position of greater humility and responsibility, together.’
— @kissane.myatproto.social
— @kissane.myatproto.social
Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
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Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
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January 1, 2026 at 2:38 PM
‘[T]o care about and tend to our dissolute knowledge systems can be to care for and tend to our own understandings … . It is to de-instrumentalize our understandings of one another and to assume a position of greater humility and responsibility, together.’
— @kissane.myatproto.social
— @kissane.myatproto.social
Please help if able.
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URGENT: ICE Detained a Sick Father — His Family Needs Help Now
Around 6 am CT on Monday, December 29, 2025, two immigrant parents with legal work authorization and who have diligently followed immigration processes were detained by ICE in the Hyde Park neighborho...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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it exposes, for one thing, the perpetual deficiency of insight of a global affairs journalism hung up on Euro-Atlantic-centric story — as many YT commenters complain
it also just says (still less intentionally) so much about the deep moral degration to which our politics of top dogs subjects us all
it also just says (still less intentionally) so much about the deep moral degration to which our politics of top dogs subjects us all
December 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
it exposes, for one thing, the perpetual deficiency of insight of a global affairs journalism hung up on Euro-Atlantic-centric story — as many YT commenters complain
it also just says (still less intentionally) so much about the deep moral degration to which our politics of top dogs subjects us all
it also just says (still less intentionally) so much about the deep moral degration to which our politics of top dogs subjects us all
i like @tldrnews.bsky.social’s ‘World Leader Leaderboard’ show, i confess
a lot of interesting lighter-fare discussion — even if the political perspective only rarely aligns much with mine
yet this year-in-review episode leaves a nasty aftertaste, and it’s worth dwelling on
youtu.be/ulsgrnleLqI
a lot of interesting lighter-fare discussion — even if the political perspective only rarely aligns much with mine
yet this year-in-review episode leaves a nasty aftertaste, and it’s worth dwelling on
youtu.be/ulsgrnleLqI
Who Won 2025: We Rank the Major World Leaders
YouTube video by TLDR News Global
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December 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
i like @tldrnews.bsky.social’s ‘World Leader Leaderboard’ show, i confess
a lot of interesting lighter-fare discussion — even if the political perspective only rarely aligns much with mine
yet this year-in-review episode leaves a nasty aftertaste, and it’s worth dwelling on
youtu.be/ulsgrnleLqI
a lot of interesting lighter-fare discussion — even if the political perspective only rarely aligns much with mine
yet this year-in-review episode leaves a nasty aftertaste, and it’s worth dwelling on
youtu.be/ulsgrnleLqI
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not about me, but constant no-strings kindness to strangers part of why I like visiting NYC: tissue handed to crier, lifting front of stroller when stairs, foot holding wheelchair tire on train, paying for person behind who just realized is cash only. and then...gone, no thanks wanted. it heals me.
December 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
not about me, but constant no-strings kindness to strangers part of why I like visiting NYC: tissue handed to crier, lifting front of stroller when stairs, foot holding wheelchair tire on train, paying for person behind who just realized is cash only. and then...gone, no thanks wanted. it heals me.
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@lfelizleon.bsky.social: “When union leaders like O’Brien signal that immigrant workers are expendable, it erodes the power of the entire working class.” lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...
The Teamsters Have a MAGA Problem. Here’s Why.
Militancy without politics isn't enough. We need a social reconstruction of class and politics with unions at the center.
lowerfrequencies.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
@lfelizleon.bsky.social: “When union leaders like O’Brien signal that immigrant workers are expendable, it erodes the power of the entire working class.” lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...
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Help us clear the shelves before we have to inventory all these books!
20% off all in-stock books until the end of the year, in the store or online at redemmas.org/books (use the code BOOKSROCK at checkout)
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December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Help us clear the shelves before we have to inventory all these books!
20% off all in-stock books until the end of the year, in the store or online at redemmas.org/books (use the code BOOKSROCK at checkout)
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spending some of Christmas @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social with Moira, Adrian and Andrew
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From the Vaults: Andrew Sullivan, Part 1 | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Happy Holidays from In Bed with the Right!!! Unfortunately, the festive season has gotten away from us and the two remaining episodes on our schedule are absolute monsters (the two-hour final (!) inst...
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December 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
spending some of Christmas @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social with Moira, Adrian and Andrew
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"Given who he is and how he is, Calvin’s story will be for many a much-needed balm in this time of agitation and dislocation. In it, readers may hear echoes of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning." —Bidish Sarma
Fighting for Relief - Bidish Sarma - Inquest
A new memoir details how Calvin Duncan became one of the nation’s foremost experts in post-conviction relief, helping hundreds incarcerated in Louisiana to fight for their rights, even as he sought his own freedom.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Given who he is and how he is, Calvin’s story will be for many a much-needed balm in this time of agitation and dislocation. In it, readers may hear echoes of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning." —Bidish Sarma
Hamid, not Hamdi — with apologies to Shadi and Sami both
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hamid, not Hamdi — with apologies to Shadi and Sami both
listening to Tom Facchine interrogate Shadi Hamdi’s U.S.-led-liberal-order ideal on @thinkingmuslim.bsky.social
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pdbowman.studio | 22 dec 2025: Muslim citizenship, U.S. hegemony — Tom Facchine with Shadi Hamid
paul bowman at work and play
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December 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
listening to Tom Facchine interrogate Shadi Hamdi’s U.S.-led-liberal-order ideal on @thinkingmuslim.bsky.social
pdbowman.studio/briefs/22-de...
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