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Brandon T. Snider

@brandontsnider.bsky.social

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Supergirl's Family Vacation (May 2026), Golden Girls: Love is Golden (Dec 2025), Rube Goldberg & his Amazing Machines, Avengers: Infinity War: The Cosmic Quest, Dark Knight Manual, Marvel & DC books, Mad Libs, I'm an actor too! SAG-AFTRA 🏳️‍🌈 cootiekid.com

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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · May 16

The cat is out of the bag. Supergirl's Family Vacation drops in 2026 from DC Comics! I can't wait for you to see what we've cooked up. More details soon.

Supergirl’s family vacation from DC Comics- on an alien world Kara Zor-El hangs onto a ledge for dear life while Jon Kent grips her back. Kara is holding Natasha Irons aka Steel with her other hand. They are being chased by mysterious people

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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 30m

Tfw Ra's al ghul's powerful arms push harder, pressing the Batman's head deeper into the swirling pit

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Nir Levie @nirlevie.bsky.social · 37m

A pre-show commission picked up at NYCC.
For Nightwing’s origin, I referenced Degas’ Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, Paris — a nod to the Flying Graysons.

#Nightwing #DCComics #ComicArt #Degas #NYCC

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1h

Sooooooo we’re all pretty sure these comments were surfaced by the Dem establishment right?

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 3h

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

"His vision reflects both compassion and common sense."

Samra Brouk and Jo Anne Simon — Chairs of the Mental Health Committees in the NYS Senate and Assembly — endorse our plan to address the mental health crisis with real, evidence-based solutions.

Mamdani offers real solutions for mental health

Our mental health system is running on fumes. For too long, it has been underfunded and shaped by politics rather than evidence. As chairs of the Senate and Assembly Committees on Mental Health, we…

www.nydailynews.com

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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 7h

The radiators are hissing. FALL HAS ARRIVED.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

Say it!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 7h

Panel of the villain Ra's al Ghul holding Batman down with a weapon. They are in a strange and precarious position. The caption: Ra's al ghul's powerful push harder, pressing the Batman's head deeper into the swirling pit

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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💀 SKELE-TONY 💀 @evsybaby.bsky.social · 14h

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume

Actually, my favourite was the time I dressed as the doll from the Saw movies and went clubbing but there are no photos of that outfit.

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Joanne Starer @joannestarer.bsky.social · 14h

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume.

I was Inappropriately Sexy Howard Hughes. Complete with jar of pee (margaritas).

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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.bsky.social · 17h

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume.

This was the last big project my gramma ever made for me a decade ago

A person in a gray dinosaur costume poses playfully, showing a fierce expression with a wide-open mouth that has sharp teeth. The setting appears to be indoors, with a bed and other items visible in the background.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

The CFPB is one of the most staunch financial watchdogs for the American people.

The agency has returned at least $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.

It's no longer protecting consumers now...BECAUSE THIS REGIME DOESN'T WANT IT TO!

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 22h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · 1d

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V. Murr @vmurr.bsky.social · 1d

This.

"Regardless of what you think about any individual person, food assistance should not be predicated on meeting your personal definition of deserving. People shouldn’t have to perform feats of social worth to get food; in our incredibly wealthy society, people should just get food."

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a day.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 1d

The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

One, these are people well over 30 with high-ranking professional jobs.

Two, white kids having a "Nazi phase" is not normal. Any kid who has one is a morally deranged freak due to **** parenting. Stop being racist against your own people just because you personally are spiritually substandard.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 1d

Cuts to federal digital equity funding are already having impacts. The services and resources that would have been funded are critical for communities nationwide.

ALA President Sam Helmick on the power of getting patrons online: "You could see lives change"

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