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Andrea Horbinski

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Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Bay Area. Preorder MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 now! 日本語でOK She/her. Bay Area. linktr.ee/ahorbinski

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · Sep 3

MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY comes out October 28 in North America, so this is your last chance to save on your preorders at Barnes & Noble!

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mangas-fir...

"...“...a vivid ode to the variety and depth of an enduringly popular art form” – Publishers Weekly. Middle of the image shows a book cover with three comics images horizontal, a boy and Betty Boop, a girl and boy looking scared, and an adult man being harassed by an old-fashioned telephone. "Barnes & Noble members use code PREORDER25 for 25% off through Friday, September 5!"

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

“Arrogant” poster has 730 followers, “appearance” poster has 529, and both are clearly right-wing Republicans, as are “too angry” and “kooky”! What are we doing here

Random commenters on social media platforms Bluesky and X have now begun opining that they've always had issues with Porter. Some cited her "arrogant" attitude and her appearance. Some claimed she always seemed too "angry" to be trusted. Some called her "kooky." Even her whiteboard wasn't immune.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

The premise of this piece is only the second-most-frustrating part of it. The most frustrating part is that it’s seemingly entirely based on bluesky and twitter posts.

The Katie Porter Criticism Is Descending Into a Misogynistic Free-for-All

A video of the California gubernatorial candidate has gone viral. The response to it is concerning.

www.glamour.com

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 19h

@bikeeastbay.bsky.social Comms Manager Chelsey came up with this inspired graphic explaining the upcoming Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Trail closures, to make space for a car breakdown shoulder every week for the next 3 years starting Oct 27th.

More info: BikeEastBay.org/RSR

"ATTENTION
WE HAVE REDUCED PUBLIC ACCESS TO THIS ESSENTIAL CONNECTION, IN ORDER TO PRIORITIZE CARS AND THEIR DISRUPTIVE AND FREQUENT BREAKDOWNS. IF HAVING FREEDOM TO MOVE MATTERS TO YOU, PLEASE ONLY RIDE YOUR BIKE DURING THE DESIGNATED POSTED HOURS.

MON - WE ANTICIPATE CAR CRASHES
TUE -MORE CAR LANES = MORE CARS ON THE ROAD = WHAT COULD GO WRONG
WED - THE BRIDGE ISN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR PEOPLE ON BIKES, TOO
THU - NOBODY BIKES TO WORK ANYWAY; 2PM BIKE LANE OPEN
FRI - BIKE LANE OPEN
SAT - BIKE LANE OPEN
SUN - BIKE LANE OPEN; 11 PM CLOSED"

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

The precursor of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was the Congressional Medal of Freedom, which was established in 1945 to honor civilians who aided the fight against fascism in WWII.

from wikipedia, a bronze medal with an image of Columbia crowned with stars and an eagle headdress over the word Freedom, with a red ribbon and a bronze palm.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

Remember: You can't force a site or service to treat minors differently than adults without requiring EVERY USER to establish whether they're an adult. Which is, inherently, a deanonymization mandate, because to verify age, you must verify identity.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

Because marginalized people are the ones whose speech is most often disapproved of, the burden and consequences of deanonymization laws falls extremely disproportionately on them, and always will. No one should ever support mandatory age verification, ever.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

apnews.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19h

Gavin Newsom is a shitheel who should never be president, but the legislation he vetoed was unconstitutional, poorly written, both underinclusive and overexclusive, a severe privacy infringement for adults, and would have done nothing but cost California lots of money in court (to lose)

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 19h

ICE has been shooting unarmed protestors in the head with pepper balls but sure, cold naked people on bikes are the most threatening thing.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 22h

“How big of a difference the missing balloon data made, though, may never be known. The best way to determine that would be to run computer models with weather balloon data fed into them and without it, in what is known as a data denial experiment — impossible to do without the data itself.”

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 1d

I was trying to describe BILLY BAT to a coworker and maybe I should have just called it "Pynchonesque."

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Gov signed SB 71, making permanent @scottwiener.bsky.social's CEQA exemptions. For much of our transit priority, protected bikeway, Slow Street, etc work, CEQA process would have taken longer and cost more than project itself, and done nothing for environment.🙏
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...

Wiener Introduces Legislation to Continue CEQA Exemption for Sustainable Transportation - Streetsblog California

“We’re excited to see Senator Wiener continue his leadership on active transportation with SB 71, which makes permanent a bill he authored to exempt biking, walking, and public transit plans and proje...

cal.streetsblog.org

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 1d

Living in Japan, the legal requirement to have one's papers on hand at all times was something we thought was ridiculous. We had no idea the States had the same law on the books.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Since the Alien Registration Act of 1940, every noncitizen has been required to carry their documents with them at ALL times. That applies to every green card holder, every tourist, every foreign student, etc...

No admin in the modern era has EVER tried to enforce this law.

(e)Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

Declaration of Independence: "For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever."

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 3d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 14d

"They will experience the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence." is @democrats.org message, they just don't know it yet.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 3d

Someone please show Peter Thiel
how those young people in Nepal used the One Piece flag as a symbol
to organize literally burning down their oligarchy

A protestor hanging the one piece flag on the gates of the Nepalese palace of Singha Durbar as they burn it to the ground

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Ada!!

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 3d

First the basics: The vast bulk of physical and sexual violence in our society is *not* perpetrated by strangers, but by people who know each other. Obscuring this fact is a critical feature of copaganda in the news. People are shocked to hear it. Why?

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 3d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

“London hits 'historic' clean air milestone 184 years early…a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality.”

Quite a leadership achievement for @london.gov.uk’s government! While nations talk, (some) cities act. And get results.

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

www.mylondon.news

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Just arrived! Andrea Horbinski’s “Manga’s First Century.” Can’t wait to dig in!!! #manga #BookSky

Book cover of “Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989” by Andrea Horbinski. The cover shows three different styles & genres of early-to-mid century manga.

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