Nate Powell

drawing I did for fun based on a cover from a 1948 Fritzi Ritz comic

Fascism has a shallow playbook, and so Kirby speaks to past and present with this stuff.

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.

But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.

But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.

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Excited to share our newest project: a comic about the many ways Cleveland has played a central role in our democratic experiment! You can read more and see the full art here: clereviewofbooks.com/cleveland-la...

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I’m available for a handful of commissioned pieces, if anyone’s interested in some original artwork! Most of the spots have already been snagged, and I have just 4 remaining— holler at Sean at @athenaeumcomicart.bsky.social but don’t sleep on it. (Bonus enthusiasm for any X-Men related requests!)

This would be a superior gift.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

if anyone wants to get me a "yay Danielle survived a brain bleed and brain surgery" present this would be a good one.

I’m available for a handful of commissioned pieces, if anyone’s interested in some original artwork! Most of the spots have already been snagged, and I have just 4 remaining— holler at Sean at @athenaeumcomicart.bsky.social but don’t sleep on it. (Bonus enthusiasm for any X-Men related requests!)

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

61 years ago today, a group of 600 peaceful protestors began a 54-mile march from Selma to the steps of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery— in response to the police murder of 26-year-old Army veteran Jimmie Lee Jackson during an attempted march in Marion, AL two weeks prior.

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She was our roadie on the Boomfancy/Abe Froman mini-tour which led me to become your roommate!

It seems bizarre to try and square the desires of evangelicalism and MAGA and fascism and all those related sects, but the key to doing it is to finally wrap your head around the fact that their purposes are inherently self-destructive because they are, and this isn’t exaggeration, death cults.

This is exactly how I explained his cult following to my kids when they were 5-6 years old, and it’s absolutely true:

These shitty people want an authority’s *permission* to be proudly shitty.

Violent attacks by AL State Troopers stopped the Selma march after less than a mile— but I want to underline that these fascists also deputized dozens of overt white supremacist thugs armed with guns, whips, horses, clubs, and cattle prods.

These fascists gleefully terrorized their own community.

H.R. 7661 would harm so many publishers, authors, and readers. Only the smallest sliver of human experience would make it onto shelves. If you think kids deserve the world, you are against this bill - please read this article and call your reps.

Is this the same Russia who is reportedly feeding intelligence on US forces to Iran, which Hegseth smugly asserted was not a big deal?

We are pigeons in a Skinner box.

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

What we’re up against now is not new— and it’s essential that we all understand that the state of Alabama was acting as a fascist force of suppression. Many of the troopers & deputized thugs were ALSO Klansmen.

The unheard call for federal troops was as protection against these actual fascists.

What we’re up against now is not new— and it’s essential that we all understand that the state of Alabama was acting as a fascist force of suppression. Many of the troopers & deputized thugs were ALSO Klansmen.

The unheard call for federal troops was as protection against these actual fascists.

Roadside white supremacist onlookers were eager for violence, including audible calls for murder. I included a Nazi salute in my rendering of the scene for MARCH because the American Nazi Party was present as counter-protestors & hecklers on multiple occasions during the Selma movement.

Violent attacks by AL State Troopers stopped the Selma march after less than a mile— but I want to underline that these fascists also deputized dozens of overt white supremacist thugs armed with guns, whips, horses, clubs, and cattle prods.

These fascists gleefully terrorized their own community.

All of these organized protests were in service of guaranteeing and protecting voting rights for Black Americans— and through this, protecting the voices of all of us through the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, then gutted by the Supreme Court in 2013.

61 years ago today, a group of 600 peaceful protestors began a 54-mile march from Selma to the steps of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery— in response to the police murder of 26-year-old Army veteran Jimmie Lee Jackson during an attempted march in Marion, AL two weeks prior.

Why comics creators must fight the proposed censorship of H.R. 7661 H.R. 7661 could restrict federal funding for schools over LGBTQIA+ and sex education content. Here's what's at stake and how to fight back.

Why comics creators must fight the proposed censorship of H.R. 7661

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Bernard Lafayette crossed over yesterday at age 85– one of young John Lewis’s closest college friends, entering the sit-in movement & first arrested together, working in SNCC & SCLC, a Freedom Rider imprisoned at Parchman Farm, a voter registration organizer instrumental to the Selma movement. 🖤