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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 18h

“It may look confusing to outsiders, but what we’re trying to do is avoid making precedents that a Democratic government could also use.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 15h

It’s just a mean puppy!!!

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Panini Cómics España @paninicomicsespana.bsky.social · 3d

En el marco de la New York Comic Con, DC desveló ayer los diez títulos con los que relanzará en USA la línea Vertigo en 2026

James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno y Jordie Bellaire continuarán THE NICE HOUSE BY THE SEA con un segundo arco a partir de febrero.

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 17h

They’re an Eggslut ripoff in style so we can still get The Genuine Article in LA, but even an Eggslut ripoff is very welcome when you’re at JFK at 6am

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 17h

I recommend coming through early sometime for the Shake Shack breakfast sandwiches you can only get at the airport

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 19h

If only Giovanni da Verrazzano had not left his power washer on the dock in Madeira

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 19h

The outside of this NJ Transit train has very clearly not been washed since it was operated as part of the New Netherland Transit system

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 21h

ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

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Rosemary V-O @hirosemary.bsky.social · 1d

Cover for the newly announced series The Crying Doll, the latest collaboration between Mariko Tamaki and myself, coming from Vertigo in 2026!! 🪆🩸

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 1d

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

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

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 1d

I know, I know, it’s serious

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 1d

Nothing more Harvard than for these professors to think the solution is “inform the New York Times” rather than “give the students lower grades.”

NYT push alert reading: Harvard's Campus Culture
Students who skip class and fail to do the reading still get high grades, a group of professors say. Now, they are trying to change the culture.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 1d

It’s real, and it’s spectacular.

BOOM! Studios @boom-studios.com · 1d

JUST ANNOUNCED AT #NYCC: Erica Slaughter's heading to the Louisiana swamps in 𝗦𝗪𝗔𝗠𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗦 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗡!

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 2d

To win the Harvey Award AND announce you’re going to fight the whole DC Universe with a handheld circular saw within hours of each other… a truly bonkers comic-book flex. Congrats to the great @patrickhorvath.bsky.social!

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 2d

Final award! Book of the Year presented by Nellie Kurtzman! It goes to Beneath the Tree where Nobody Sees. This announce is met by cheers and the closest thing to a standing ovation of the night. And Horvath is on hand to accept! "It's insane how awesome IDW's support for this book has been." #nycc

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 2d

That Samantha Strong is *sublime.* Comic books are a delight.

Scott Snyder (NYCC Booth #H-44) @ssnyder1835.bsky.social · 2d

New challengers are approaching DC K.O. this February...

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AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 2d

We're at the Gotham City panel at #NYCC. Announced: Sirens: Love Hurts. The girls are real; they fight and get pissed off, talk about each other behind their backs, but they're still all friends. The book has something for everybody. It will make you want to go party and get married.
#NYCC #comicsky

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Scott Snyder (NYCC Booth #H-44) @ssnyder1835.bsky.social · 2d

Absolute Catwoman.
Che Grayson. @bengalart.bsky.social.
Six issues coming in 2026.

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Deniz Camp @denizcamp.bsky.social · 2d

BLEEDING HEARTS! My new creator owned book with @StipanMorian, Matt Hollingsworth (goat), Hassan Otsmane Elhaou (Nope), coming from VERTIGO COMICS! (that has a nice ring, doesn't it?)

So...what it about? (6 page preview below)

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 3d

Comics shops numebrs in 2025: ComicHub sales are up 27% in August! Incredible growth rate. Comics and GN sales have gotten closer together a trend that hasn't happened in a long time both growing.

IN 2025...new comic buyers are flocking to store collectors being replaced by readers.

#nycc #icv2

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