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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h
“The Court’s order in the Washington cases is a significant setback for pro-voting groups that challenged the state’s redrawn map after the 2020 census as a violation of Section 2 for intentionally diluting the voting strength of Latino voters in the Yakima Valley region.”
democracydocket.com
With Voting Rights Act gutted, Supreme Court vacates discrimination finding against Washington map
The Supreme Court sent two redistricting cases out of Washington back to a lower court for new proceedings in light of its Louisiana v. Callais decision, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Ac...
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 1h
This sucks (and George Brett Olson's a funny dude).
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 7h
I forgot about this! I used to love (and was deeply terrified) by this book when I was a kid.
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 04/10/2026
“Not only are the songs not ones you’d associate with Ndegeocello — whose music has generally dealt with heavy topics and carries real gravity — but her interpretations entirely reshape any prior associations with them.” Meshell Ndegeocello Is Just a Soul on a Planet:
spinmagazine.com
Meshell Ndegeocello Interview: A Soulful Journey - SPIN
Join us for a fascinating Meshell Ndegeocello interview and learn what makes this Grammy winner so beloved in the music scene.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just about everything this administration does makes me incandescent with rage. But their fucking with special education takes me to a whole new level. progressive.org/latest/scape...
progressive.org
Scapegoating Special Ed
As the Trump Administration kneecaps federal agencies for sport, special education takes the latest hit.
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think the "AI as sentient threat" narrative is incredibly sticky - I think it comes from a century of sci-fi stories + the fact that ppl prefer outlandish conspiracy theories over mundane ones.
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not looking forward to the Roc Nation Data Center.
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The reality is that there are no silly culture wars happening in America. There are equality wars and justice wars and fairness wars. Democrats should try to win those wars—and the elections that involve them." 💯
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love this idea!
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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay, since we agree it is basically October, here's what I tell myself you've been waiting for: A new list of recommended streaming horror and horror-adjacent movies for you to watch in time for Halloween -- movies on Netflix, Hulu, Shudder, Amazon Prime, and more boxd.it/XbLjo
boxd.it
New Screams to Stream for Halloweam 2026
If you’re reading this in October, there's a better than average chance that you might be looking for something spooky to watch this month, so I'm here to help you out with suggestions of good movies ...
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is quite terrifying.
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It'd be cool to have one less thing to worry about (re: work, my son's education and the world). I can live without a semi-clever party trick that doubles as a tool for chaos and misinformation.
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I still need to catch up with both of these - the mixed reception is intriguing...
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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zoe Thorogood and her new husband Joe Whiteford are teaming up on VAMPIRE ON AISLE 6, an Image miniseries and accompanying EP arriving this December.
comicsbeat.com
Thorogood and Whiteford to team up on VAMPIRE ON AISLE 6
Zoe Thorogood and her husband Joe Whiteford will team up on the Image miniseries and accompanying EP Vampire on Aisle 6, which tells the story of a recently turned vampire trapped in a superstore until the Sun sets.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The idea that you can easily separate 'economic' and 'cultural' issues is nonsense. It’s very expensive for transgender Americans to move to blue states so they can live freely. It’s harder to buy a house in a neighborhood with rising home values if you are Black." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
newrepublic.com
Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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Dystopian Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hello Portland! I will be at Books with Pictures this Saturday at 1pm for Day of Dredd, hope to see you there! @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social
The Day of Dredd Oct 3rd

The newest Judge Dredd storyline, Judge Dredd: The New Future, kicks off in 2000 AD's milestone issue #2500. In it, writers Arthur Wyatt and Rob Williams, with artist Henry Flint, explore what happens when fascism clashes with utopianism, and how the better world that's possible draws both nearer and farther away. This follow-up to the team's groundbreaking Judge Dredd: A Better World is a ferocious thriller about the aftershocks of an attempt at political reform that didn't work out the way anyone hoped
It's set in the Mega-City One of 2148, but it's also distinctly ripped from the headlines.
2000 AD's milestone issue#2500 releases Sept 30 and celebrates that big round number by introducing all new storylines at once (where usually, the weekly magazine interweaves ongoing and new serials). It is an ideal time to pick up the new issue, subscribe to the continuing series, meet one of the writers, and pick up goodies for the international celebration of The Day of Dredd, all at your favorite local comic shop, Books with Pictures. Join us!
ARTHUR WYATT
Writer, Judge Dredd
TALK & SIGNING
1:00 PM
BOOKSE PICTURES
— Comics for Everyone —
1401 SE Division St Portland OR
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
And when I say bad behavior I mean no, you should not be fucking your students and I mean that broadly. Not a student in your department, not a recent graduate, not even a student in another department. Not someone you’re mentoring. Some of the men who like to talk about me have done these things
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor said, "People died for the right to vote. But people also died for democracy and justice and inclusion, and voting does not necessarily secure that. When people say that, they ignore the most important factor in creating progress in the United States: social movements..."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never forget that Frank Oz believes the stress of dealing with Disney's initial, relentless attempts to buy his creations is what killed Jim Henson. "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick," he told The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
theguardian.com
Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’
He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of?
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
apnews.com
https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
just want to say that when a politician campaigns on/publicly states transphobic positions it will actually be reflected in policy and is not some sort of 4d chess electoral rhetoric move
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This was really good - a frustrating and enlightening read.
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very bad news.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s about to be Kol Nidre, meaning it’s my last moment online to tell you: preorder NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC #1 by tomorrow! The link below explains how if you don’t know! I will not be able to respond to questions here! This is going to be an unmissable series about the horrors around us!
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Yale Divinity School @yaledivinityschool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
גמר חתימה טובה We wish you a meaningful Yom Kippur.
We wish you a meaningful Yom Kippur.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Agreed (also, we need to bring blogs back).
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AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 14/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The future of Mega-City One starts here! First look at the opening four pages of Judge Dredd: The New Future from 2000 AD Prog #2501, including @henryflint.bsky.social's absolutely bonkers 25-panel opening page. @robwilliams71.bsky.social @arthurwyatt.bsky.social 🤯 Preview:
aiptcomics.com
Exclusive: Behold the first four pages of ‘Judge Dredd: The New Future’ (from ‘2000 AD’ Prog #2501)
Mega-City One changes this October.
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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Alan Moore is one of the greatest comedy writers in comic book history. I’ll prove it to you! I’m reading Alan Moore’s Future Shocks today, with art from Ian Gibson, Brendan McCarthy, Dave Gibbons, Bryan Talbot, John Higgins and many many more. Let’s change the false narrative around Moore >>
The cover for Alan Moore’s Future Shocks
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "The barbarian is in the White House, and we're seeing the consequences of that"
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Transgender people deserve to have a nice life. That is the entirety of the argument. If you disagree, you’re saying that you do not believe in liberty or justice for all.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
CDC pauses testing for rabies and other serious infectious diseases
Disease tracking is also temporarily halted for mpox and other common viruses, such as Epstein-Barr and varicella zoster.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A sneak peak at my next big fat ambitious feminist book project katemanne.substack.com/p/the-author...
katemanne.substack.com
The Authority of the Body
A feminist moral philosopher’s manifesto—and a sneak peak at my next book project
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
💖😭💖😭💖😭💖
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I get that he’s running for an office, but he’s wrong. It’s not silly at all when an entire political movement tries to prevent a category of women from playing women’s sports.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
the way to understand a piece like this from schmitz is that he lives in an urban, cosmopolitan millieu and the popularity of country music is a novelty to him. and so to explain it, he has to fit it into his volkish conception of america, whether or not that makes any actual sense.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
People are on here talking wild reckless to trans people. And it is very annoying because trans people have done everything they needed to do. They educated the public about candidates who were against civil rights. They pointed people towards viable alternatives. They came through in primaries.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More efforts at killing higher education in the United States. Good luck filling any of the specialized medicine training programs. And basic science? The engine that drives everything? This is bad. I’d argue even worse for businesses.
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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 12/09/2026
A multi-billion-dollar federal program that helps schools and libraries afford broadband internet is under review by the Trump administration, leaving education officials and advocates worried about potentially significant cuts. ncnewsline.com/2026/09/12/r... #ncpol #nc @stateline.org
ncnewsline.com
Schools, libraries sound alarm over potential changes to federal internet program • NC Newsline
A multi-billion-dollar federal program that helps schools and libraries afford broadband internet is under review by the Trump administration, leaving education officials and advocates worried about p...
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This was amazing. You should read it now (and reflect on its lessons).
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ah, the days when we thought Osama was a real-life Cobra Commander.
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TJPW @tjpw2013.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The special art visual for the main event of WRESTLE PRINCESS Ⅶ on October 3, illustrated by legendary manga artist Go Nagai, is complete! 🎨🔥 #tjpw #tjpwWP7
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm looking forward to reading this - I'm having a very hard time w/ the MSM coverage of 9/11 this year.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Timnit is being shy and not telling you guys to PREORDER HER BOOK ABOUT THIS www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
simonandschuster.com
Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have never been more people making comics and never been fewer outlets covering them. It’s a real problem
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Jamaal @jamaal30.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good thread on the KKKs.
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