Shawn Gilmore

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Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.

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A number of NST elements are present in the key scenes explaining how the aliens coordinate in Independence Day (dir. Roland Emmerich, 1996): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

NST #982: Independence Day (1996) — The Vault of Culturewww.vaultofculture.com A number of NST elements are present in the key scenes explaining how the aliens coordinate in Independence Day (dir. Roland Emmerich, 1996).

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Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole nuclear secrets, is old, forged electoral certificates, was convicted of 34 felonies, committed fraud, is literally on the Saudi payroll, sent a mob to hang his VP but the opponent is also old.

In this chat, we suggest a distinction between covering something (NYT does great reporting on Trump's autocratic plans), and *crusading.* The latter is wholly different: It uses saturation coverage to alert readers that they should be alarmed. That's just not happening w/r/t Trump's unfitness.

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We! Never! Stopped! Getting! COVID!!!! What the actual SHIT is this headline?????? There has never been a time, in the last 4.5 godforsaken years, when we didn't have people getting COVID!!!

A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.

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"And the cause of liberal democracy in Europe, which did NOT die..."

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Live footage of America’s Sunday morning political shows:

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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The “gag strip,” a short comic strip common in newspapers, is sometimes viewed as a simplistic form of humor. Yet gag strips are considerably more complex than they’re often given credit for, due in part to comics’ unique representations of space & time. 1/12 #ComicsStudies

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"Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted." @rcalo.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

American academic freedom is in perilwww.science.org Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermi...

The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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The White Cat, fairy tales translated by Marie Catherine La Mothe, Countess d’Aulnoy in 1698. This version was published in 1847 but unfortunately the illustrator is identified only as “J.W.”

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Everyone watching any Bond movie: this is utterly unrealistic, no one would stand there and say exactly how they were going to do some awful thing, the Incredibles even made a joke about monologuing. Everyone experiencing reality: Oh. Oh, I see.

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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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This but unironically.

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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Since 2019 I've liked to remind you that we should work to break up not just ICE, but abolish the entire DHS. It's a post-9/11 reactionary agency that needs to be destroyed. www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/o...

It’s time to break up the Department of Homeland Security | CNNwww.cnn.com David Perry says the bigotry under investigation at the Border Patrol, the overreach at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the terrible conditions in border facilities show an DHS, it’s time to d...

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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🚨 New today on Shelfdust! 🚨 @annapeppard.bsky.social explores the ecstasies of Jimmy O: shelfdust.com/2024/07/03/s...

Shelfdust’s Column, Jimmy Olsen: Issue #1shelfdust.com The Ecstasies of Jimmy O By Anna Peppard I don’t get off on transforming into a giant turtle to violently blaze through the upper atmosphere before crashing with a SPLOOSH and a concrete-cracking KE...

I went out of my way to acquire the “Penguin Readers” adaptation of Seven, which comes complete with questions for school children…

I really really really want to start collecting weird x-men children's books, because the ones I have seen are absolutely batshit. (FUN FACT! THERE IS AN EARLY READERS ADAPTATION OF DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. THE COMIC.)

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This Middle Dutch manuscript (ca. 1400) shows how parchment warps when exposed to intense heat—in this case, during a WWII bombing raid. No longer readable as a book, it's still a powerful historical source. Universitätsbibl. Kassel, 8° Ms. theol. 15: orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image...

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Thanks to @archive.org, who has assembled a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published on MTV's website, you can search the MTV News archive via the Wayback Machine. variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Repository of 460,000 Articles Launched by Internet Archive After Paramount’s Content Takedownvariety.com After Paramount pulled MTV News offline, the Internet Archive assembled a searchable index of 460,575 pages previously published at mtv.com/news.

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Mark your calendars! The International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) is coming to San Diego in April 2025.

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The part that really guts me is how blatant it is Once they got Roe v. Wade overturned and the Democrats didn't do anything about it they realized they can do ANYTHING and aren't even trying to hide that they're stripping the country for the copper wires

I hate this piece of shit.

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

Nancy gets it

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I swear I don't get any kick backs for reposting this but the underlying issue is the media has a bias against protest especially liberal protest. It's called the protest paradigm and its been documented for more than 40 years at this point. Link in next skeet.

Crickets who where? Just because nobody organized a pussy hat march in front of your house on Saturday morning when you didn't have anything better going on doesn't mean people aren't and haven't been holding sustained protests in the streets, at city councils, and at fascists' houses for years