Abortion, Adoption, and Abduction
With the Supreme Court poised to eradicate reproductive freedom, and ICWA on the docket, will America’s indigenous parents be incubators for wealthy white adoptions?
If United States democracy were a stock, I would short it.
I’m sorry to be a downer, but all indications show a bleak future for the American people and our government.
“A Storm is Coming”
I assume the New York Rangers’ marketing staff don’t know the significance of language about “The Storm,” and they aren’t intentionally trying to appeal to the QAnon crowd. Even so, it seems strange to use lightning as the motif for a playoff hype video when there is a rival team in the conference called The …
Elon buying Twitter is a good reminder about platform ownership.
Online platforms are not owned by their users, and that’s something the users working to make them special must remember.
I have left Twitter.
I have heard good arguments to stay, but ultimately I neither like or trust Elon Musk, and I won’t be part of his empire.
Rob Liefeld’s Anatomy (X-Men Reread)
The Krakoan era of X-Men comics (sometimes called “The Hickman Era) has revitalized my favorite comic book franchise. Inspired by that run, and by Connor Goldsmith’s excellent CEREBRO podcast, I have been re-reading all the X-books starting around the Australian Outback era in the late 1980s. I’m up to the line-wide relaunch in 1991, which …
“Jugendverführer and Jugendverderber”: The Republicans borrow another strategy from Nazi Germany.
I suspect you’re as tired as me of hearing how today’s Republican fascism parallels European fascism in the early 20th century. Nevertheless, the recent surge in anti-queer rhetoric from the US Right requires a brief lesson in history. Ideas about defending masculinity and the traditional family, and about protecting youth from indoctrination, were key to Nazi …
Brandon all the time
Full disclosure: I’ve been trying to improve my color work, and found some artists on YouTube who are really helpful. When I set out to draw this one, I thought “I think I’ll challenge myself artistically.” Kids: Don’t ever do that. this took me like ten days, and if you look close you can see …