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Richard Melendez

@richardmelendez.bsky.social
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"That's my secret, Cap. I'm always hungry." Writer, editor, comic geek, pizza snob/whore. Opinions are my own.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All that money and still can’t afford a spine
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Richard Melendez @richardmelendez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have to say, as a Mets fan, watching the Yankees get swept by the Rays brought me great joy. The significant other is a Rays fan, so double-joy in our household tonight.
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Richard Melendez @richardmelendez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well, well, well... apnews.com/article/welf...
apnews.com
Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white
A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 07/10/2026
senatebankingdemocrats.substack.com/p/new-warren...
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NEW: Warren Launches New Trumpflation Tracker
New dashboard will be updated monthly for Americans to see how much more they are paying in Trump’s economy
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 07/10/2026
Senate Banking just launched the Trumpflation Tracker. The affordability crisis is not a “hoax” like Donald Trump says. See for yourself how much more you’re paying because of Trump’s failed economic agenda
Trumpflation Tracker. Cumulative inflation since Dec. 2024: 5.2%, approximately $3,388 more for the average household. Real wage growth since start of Iran War: -0.7%. Wages aren’t keeping up with Trump’s inflation. 30-year mortgage rate up from 5.99% before the war to 7.6%, or $4,330 more per year for a typical household. Household debt, Q1 ’25 to Q2 ’26: +$56B. Families going into more debt just to get by. Total cost to American borrowers of Trump’s broken promise to cap credit card interest rates: $94.9B. Share of each extra dollar of income going to household debt: 52¢. Take-home income up $109/month since 2022; debt payments up $57. Cost of Living Basket Since Dec. 2024: Electricity +12.7%, approximately $222 more for the average household. Rent +5.1%, approximately $256 more. Gasoline +43.7%, approximately $758 more. Groceries +3.7%, approximately $211 more. Child Care +7.6%, approximately $852 more. Health Care +14.6%, approximately $929 more for average family coverage.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/10/2026
Beautiful mama Squirrel of the Day for October 6, 2026 #sqrlpix
black mom squirrel in oak tree
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 06/10/2026
Just to be clear, I am epically angry about this. I see people screaming about how terrible archive customer service is because it took it them a few days to get back to them and meanwhile they are dealing with hundreds of people like this.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 06/10/2026
Quick shout-out to the guy who was talking to one of our patron services chatbots and calling it "shitbot" and constantly insulting it even after it asked not to, even though, in actual point, we don't use patron service chatbots and the stream of abuse was aimed at an actual person.
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Shannon Wheeler @shannonwheeler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're really living in evil times, this fucking shithole country has thrown everything good into the toilet and flushed it. So depressing
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
... she also has a British passport and decided she had to leave the USA immediately. She told her husband, "I hope you are coming with me, but I need to leave this country NOW." So, they went.
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We just found out a friend of my wife, a really successful musician, just moved to England suddenly. It was because his wife, an American citizen but partly of Asian extraction, was swept up in an ICE raid on an Asian grocery. They let her go, but...
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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My comment:
I am deliberately holding off on updating to OS 27 because I do not want the AI features that are built in to that update. I have been using Apple products for over 30 years and I am perfectly capable of reading my own email. Your AI product is invasive and creepy, takes up too much space, and will interfere with the work that I do on this computer. Please make AI an opt-in feature and not a mandatory part of the update. I vastly prefer to use the most updated OS, for security reasons if nothing else, and I am NOT happy about this.
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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just sent Apple a comment explaining that I am NOT updating to Mac OS 27 because AI is now built into it and cannot be avoided. If you're having the same problem, here's where you let them know: www.apple.com/feedback/mac...
apple.com
MacBook - Thank You
Apple wants to hear from you. Send us your comments and feedback about MacBook.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so incredibly massively fucking tired of this
Three National guard soldiers walking through a metro station
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Andy Schmidt @andy39a.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey folks, BOOM! is looking for a new editor! Please spread the word! smrtr.io/Cbm2b
smrtr.io
Editor, BOOM! Studios Open to Remote (Open to Remote)
Company Description: Penguin Random House is the leading adult and children's publishing house in North America, the United Kingdom and many other regions around the world. In publishing the best book...
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 05/10/2026
Such a thoughtful exchange. It may have brought my blood pressure down a bit... paradoxically, I grow more confident that there's a way forward together
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gavin newsom with a creepy dead eyed smilethe smiler from Transmetropolitan
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
ms.now
Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everything is getting more expensive, but if you want something to exist, you have to spend money, recommend it to others, and say a prayer if/when private equity buys it. Restaurants, indie ice cream shops, movies, news outlets, clothing, art, music, live comedy, food banks, mutual aid orgs, etc.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 05/10/2026
Getty Images now bragging, 'always AI free'
gettyimages page with pop-up reading 'amazing imagery, always AI free'
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tomorrow they’re holding a funeral in Springfield for the Haitian college kid Pierre Damas Bel who killed himself. On the same day in nearby Dayton Ohio suburb President trump will be there holding a fun little rally, not far from the body of the student his policies appear to have, you know, killed
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Albumism @albumism.com · 03/10/2026
Radiohead released ‘Kid A’ 26 years ago on October 2, 2000 album.ink/radioheadkida
album.ink
Rediscover Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ (2000) | Tribute
To truly immerse yourself within Thom Yorke & crew’s fourth studio adventure, plug in and tune out the distractions of the outside world, as it pushes you further into the inner sounds.
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Richard Melendez @richardmelendez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My take: What we're poised to experience is not a blue wave but rather an anti-Trump wave. This isn't a sudden surge of Democrat converts. We're seeing disillusioned and angry Independents, Republicans, and former MAGAs trying to oust Trump, which happens to align with the aims of Democrats.
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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 02/10/2026
Today is Ramona Fradon's 100th Birthday! She was one of my absolute favorites, both as an artist and a person. I got many commissions from her over the years. She was always amazing. You can see my Ramona Fradon collection on Comics Art Fans www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom....
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
reporting is hard. but sometimes you're doing a story and somebody puts their trust in you and shares their story with a level of care and detail and you try to reflect that back at them as best you can and idk its really just a very lovely human thing that happens sometimes.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
They really can’t make a case for why people would want these in their community except to invoke some scary foreign other and an undefined need to “win” in a way they can’t connect to the quality of life to the average person but only shareholder value.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and the environment, saying ‘our nation can’t afford to lose’ the race for AI dominance.”
theverge.com
Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Nothing drums up support like fearmongering.
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Richard Melendez @richardmelendez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mazzucchelli is an unsung treasure. Year One and Born Again are hugely influential and still unlike anything in American comics before or since. And then decades later he hits us with Asterios Polyp, miles apart from his previous works.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026
it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals
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Richard Melendez @richardmelendez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watergate was once the poster child for high crimes. So much so that appending -gate to anything was shorthand for scandal. Admittedly, Watergate now seems quaint by today's standards of malfeasance and corruption in government, but it was still widely accepted at as a shameful turning point.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Fetterman was the only Democrat to help Republicans block reporting on Americans killed in the West Bank. Apparently, his devotion to Israel includes shielding it from basic accountability. American lives deserve better than this disgraceful damn sellout. ws.newrepublic.com/post/216017/...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Timeline is doing weird things again
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026
i am such a broken record on this but it's a good thing to - know how to write your own emails - know how to find food you can make/eat - discover travel destinations - communicate directly w/your health care providers without just capitulating to whatever "AI" says/does
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off Fuck off #AIslop #graphicnovels #graphicnovel
publishersweekly.com
Novvel.co Produces Graphic Novel Adaptations with AI Assistance
The Singapore-based startup says its AI-powered platform can halve graphic novel production time and cost. “This is not a self-driving car,” notes CEO Anumeha Bisaria. “It’s more like handing ...
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theonlyjunedoe @theonlyjunedoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't really have words. She is a really good person, full of family and humor, a wonderful spirit. They are tearing families apart. Neighborhoods. The stealing and vanishing. I don't know how they sleep or live with themselves. I really don't.
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theonlyjunedoe @theonlyjunedoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can't stop crying. And I am so raging mad. FUCK ICE.
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theonlyjunedoe @theonlyjunedoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE took my friend and neighbor, Alma. Didn't tell anyone. Left her car in a random parking lot. She was about a mile from our homes. She had her uniform on, going to work. We were single mothers after divorces at the same time.We watched out fo each other in this what we could afford neighborhood.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CAKE recommends…
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/09/2026
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Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
People sometimes ask me the Big Racebending Question, about whether it’s important to any superhero’s story that they’re white. The only hero who I think should always be white in any adaptation is Green Arrow, as his narrative is about unlearning his assumed privilege.
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Richard Melendez @richardmelendez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It hits different if you sing "The White House" to the opening theme of "The Love Boat"
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Old enough to remember when the internet was, like 70% this
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