Oh noes! Billionaires might leave California if we force them to pay their fair share of taxes! Good riddance. Like we'd lose any money from them as they don't pay taxes now. Yes on #Prop40!
@notintheface.bsky.social Almost time for your annual October tradition!
I still find it amazing that the dusty old unlamented Comics Code Authority actually put an artist's *style* on their banned items.
Thoughts for the day: Why does the "bad seed" logo for Batman look like it says "bird seed" to me? So much work was put into the new Legion of Super-Heroes that I think this has become my current favorite series after only one issue. It's just... *right.*
Hey Kelly, did you catch this tribute in the new Legion of Super-Heroes #1? @kellythompson.bsky.social
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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Late for #TopShelfFriday, but here's a recent acquisition, the 1960s version (1970 printing) of Classics Illustrated "The Last Days of Pompeii" with art by the one and only Jack Kirby!
Coyote vs. Acme Steelbook (4K UHD + Blu-ray) up for preorder on GRUV - $37.95 (extra discount w/ code FIRSTGRUV15) buff.ly/7c8snm5 Walmart buff.ly/AcCXalA #ad
In shops this week! A variant and the main cover for Superman/Batman/Weird Al: World's Weirdest one shot!
Direct from Canada, the latest trilogy of volumes from RAID Press, KLAATU-BARADA-NIKTO: THE GORT PREROGATIVE, nearly 500 pages of stories from a wide assortment of creators.
Rush Blue Öyster Cult Fish Tori Amos Sarah McLachlan Genesis Whitesnake Naked Barbies Erykah Badu Roberta Flack George Duke REO Speedwagon Kiss Bill Miller
Jere from Buffalo.@jeredolan2.bsky.social · last mo.Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Iron Maiden Metallica Ozzy Ice T Dio Stryper Obituary DRI Flogging Molly Kreator
Is someone systematically taking out Muppets guest stars? RIP Jaye P.
Why force yourself to contemplate a horrible truth when you can simply pretend it isn't true? - Steve Darnall, Marvels (novelization), 2026
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For anyone interested, @humblebundle.com has EC classics available in their celebration of 50 years of @fantagraphics.bsky.social 40 volumes available!
Humble Comics Bundle: The EC Comics Artists Library by Fantagraphics
Celebrate the artists begins EC Comics’ greatest hits in this 40-comic collection! Pay what you want and support Freedom to Read Foundation!
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social I hope you enjoyed your time in office; progressives are not only correct, but they are winning, asshole. Pay fucking attention.
I want these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane! 3rd Samuel 8:18
Sleestak@sleestak.bsky.social · last mo.What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law Center ineligible for donations, jeopardizing tens of millions of dollars in funding. A source told ProPublica the charity has never gotten an explanation as to why it’s been cut off.
Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities
A quarter of all individual giving in the U.S. is made through donor-advised funds. A ProPublica investigation reveals how these high-stakes decisions to cut off funding often leave charities, donors ...
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IATSE Local B-192 is currently engaged in a fight to get living wages for the employees of Universal Studios, some of whom are living in their cars. Please consider signing/sharing this petition to support them. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ta...
TAKE ACTION NOW: Universal Studios theme parks made $2.4 billion last quarter but push their workers into HOMELESSNESS
Universal Studios theme parks made $2.4 BILLION in revenue in the second quarter of 2026—a 2.7% increase—but are refusing to negotiate a living wage with IATSE Local B-192 members. While Universal…
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