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Parker

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Writer of BATMAN/SILENT KNIGHT RETURNS all December long! And then the ZOOTOPIA comic in January! Join me in the fight against Motion Smoothing, heroes. In between missions I cease to exist https://www.jeffparkerwrites.com

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 14m

if they drink the water from out this way, it won't take that long

Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 19m

William Goldman warned everyone years ago to not let the actors get you alone and start blowing up their part

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 21m

I have an ugly pet theory that Leto fills what one might call an "Epstein" function in Hollywood because surely they don't need him for drugs

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 23m

he's really good! I like the holding the arm shot especially

Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 5h

the writers (and everyone) knew it needed the right tone to pull off all it does, I don't think Snyder would understand what tone is or why it's important

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 5h

like, as you say the opener is good, and I like the prison break and every scene with Patrick Wilson, but Snyder's inability to understand the material is baffling. The tv show however, I thought I was going to hate and then got absorbed

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 5h

sure you may question how Portland responds to fascism, but you must admit is a Response

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 5h

all his needle drops are so on the nose you can't not wince. My least favorite thing is Veidt doing a villain delivery of what is made clear to not be a villain line, the actor is miles off with the characterization

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 7h

I like to hear good things still happen. Great, even!

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Gabriel Hardman @gabrielhardman.bsky.social · 8h

The Ed Asner Family Center auction is live. Here’s my contribution for this year. I’m always happy to help. Please bid! comics.ha.com/itm/original...

Drawing of Spider-Man by Gabriel Hardman

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 10h

I choose to think Platner scratched a chalkboard to get everyone's attention before getting up and talking

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 10h

Senators need to be out there catching pepper balls in the head so media will be forced to cover it, and they'll probably find they suddenly have a desire to act more

Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 12h

is it Suicide Girls?

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 17h

me, thinking about my crimes forever

a bad guy who Stardust froze for eternity so he could think about his crimes somehow. I like that Fletcher Hanks made it a rare silent panel

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 17h

now that's a humdinger of a cliffhanger ⚡

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 17h

I thought I remembered him saying he picked the name because of her since his wasn't going to work

Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 17h

I really think everyone liked the cabinet arcade game and thinks the original movie must have done well

Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

with a mysterious knowledge of criminals and their plans

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time

Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

!!!

Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

I admit I too keep thinking of that

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

not even a little bit

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

he's wealthy, he can afford some shoes with platforms and hidden arch boosts

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

everyone at comiccon needs to step it up now

Ben Coleman @ohcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

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