How to read the first amendment and how to talk about it with Erika Heidewald

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Wednesday March 15, 2017 · 5:05 PM PDT

2017/03/15 · 17:05

Up until a few weeks ago, I’d never heard of Erika Heidewald. I like to listen to all the CanadaLand shows. Jesse Brown has a great perspective which I find is helpful in looking at American media. Also, it helps me learn about a country that isn’t America and that outside perspective helps. The Imposter is a surreal arts and culture show with interviews which feels like dream and I enjoy it so much I ensure I can listen to it uninterrupted. Finally there is Canadaland Commons which is the political show. This show has had a problem because the talent keeps getting hired away. (Which is really frustrating because just as I find the show’s new rhythm, there is a hiatus and then a new set of hosts steps in.)

On the first episode with the new set of hosts, one of them quotes this tweet from Erika Heidewald.

According to her bio, Erika Heidewald is an actress, YouTuber, and activist. She also helped found The Rose Resistance, who you should follow, which amplifies good journalism and reposts good articles to take down Donald Trump.

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Wednesday March 08, 2017 · 5:14 PM PST

2017/03/08 · 17:14

Ursula K. Le Guin on what revolution means.

Last week I went crazy and decided to learn how to make a design look like an old record. To do this, I made 4 vintage designs of an album inspired by 2 Tone Records, Kraftwerk, and the work of Peter Saville. It was a blast.

I didn’t want to stop. Hell, I want to make more album covers! (Hire me!) So for this week’s image, I continued the experimentation. This isn’t bad. I was keeping it simple but I want to try to incorporate some of my past layouts into an album cover and make it look like an old record with the ring wear.

Being that it’s woman’s history month, I chose Ursula K. Le Guin for this week’s image. One day I think I will read one of her books. Maybe the Dispossessed which this quote is from. I will take suggestions if there is one I should read.

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Wednesday March 01, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/03/01 · 17:05

Today is the first day of Woman’s History Month, so I want to focus on the women in the White House a bit.

But before I do, I want to make sure you know Lauren Duca. She’s a super talented writer for Teen Vogue and she has been doing amazing work during the campaign and beyond. She has found her voice and made Teen Vogue a magazine I would read. She also humiliated Tucker Carlson on FOX News because of this tweet.

Now, instead of posting the whole video labeled as “Tucker Carlson destroys SJW” (Which didn’t happen. Carlson was humiliated and none of his punches landed.) I give you the Majority Report’s video of it:

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Here is part 2:

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My favorite part is not clipped in the Majority Report, but when she said “Oh, Honey,” it is the inspiration for my calling conservatives “cupcake” or “baby-cakes” on Twitter.

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Sunday February 26, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/02/26 · 17:05

I always liked Bill Paxton. He’s starred in many movies and TV shows that I have watched over the years, from the punk in Terminator, to his brilliant roll in True Lies to his new show not starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Training Day. (He was also in Commando. A movie I like way more than I should, which also stars Ahnold.)

I woke up this morning and checked Twitter and saw he was trending. I saw he passed away. His work was never as personal to me as, say, David Bowie, but he had something special. He was always fantastic in whatever he was doing, and he was a Texan. We Texans always support our actors and creative types. Y’all don’t know how big Rip Torn is in Texas.

Bill Paxton might have been an actor, but there was something important that we all can learn from him.

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Wednesday February 22, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/02/22 · 17:05

I wish Maxine Waters was in the Senate or at least one person followed her lead, because she is what our country needs.

Maxine Waters is a representative from California, one who I deeply respect because she has no f*cks to give. She isn’t perfect (I look at actions when I judge an elected official.) but when she speaks I usually agree with what she says.

And the way she is standing up to Trump, she’s a leader. She should be in Diane Feinstein’s seat. Then, just maybe we could have began laying the ground work for Trump’s eventual impeachment.

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Wednesday February 15, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/02/15 · 17:05

The past two weeks, I’ve written about how we must disrupt. The vote is coming up soon on my city becoming a sanctuary city. The racists are out, with insane leaps of logic, like “What are the other side of the facts?” “I can’t believe you said ‘White People!’” and my personal favorite, someone tried to compare the Stasi to “Mexican immigrants.”

Because obviously East Germany’s secret police are the exact same as an undocumented immigrant.

I wanted to make an image that ties why I’m fighting for a sanctuary city status to who’s going to lose. 100 years from now, I hope we can look back and see Donald Trump as Millard Fillmore. Sean Trainor is a professor at the Department of History and Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. He wrote an incredible article on the parallels of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the modern Sanctuary Cities.

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Wednesday February 08, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/02/08 · 17:05

I don’t have the time to make one of these for each of Trump’s picks for ~~dismantling America~~ his cabinet. However, watching Democrats actually standing up to Betsy DeVos, that’s kind of cool.

Especially since the Clinton wing of the party is for DeVos’s policy.

But first I just have to say, I don’t know if I’ve ever read a piece by D. Watkins before, but he is someone I will pay attention to now. The Salon piece I got this quote from is good. I look forward to making one of these for him without a cross-eyed white woman on it. (I suspect she has a lazy eye. As one of my friends said about his lazy eye you don’t notice it in person, but in photos, you can see it. I don’t want to eye-shame her, just saying it’s a picture of a cross-eyed white woman.)

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Wednesday February 01, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/02/01 · 17:05

This was a hard choice creatively. I didn’t want to start Black History Month with the modern face of old school racism, but I did want to make his face known so when baristas are serving him hot coffee, they know whose lap they should spill it into by accident.

Not that I’m suggesting they should.

Imani Gandy is a sometimes co-host of TWiBPrime and writer for the indispensable Rewire.news. I have made a metric ton of these posters featuring her words, and she is the inspiration for why I started Black Feminism Week (This year, July 2nd-6th).

Also, if you are in Western Massachusetts tomorrow there is an opening of Direct Action Comics, which will be featuring APB Artists against Police Brutality, an anthology I am a part of. I will be at the opening which is 4-6pm at Herter Art Gallery on the campus of UMASS Amherst. For more information, check out their Facebook event.

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Wednesday January 25, 2017 · 5:06 PM PST

2017/01/25 · 17:06

Warren Ellis with a quote from his great comic Transmetropolitian

It’s hard to believe that Transmetropolitan, one of the most important comic book series ever, came out 20 years ago this year, and yet it is even more relevant now than when it came out.

Warren Ellis created a science fiction comic about a drug addicted, profanity spewing journalist (inspired by Hunter S. Thompson) named Spider Jerusalem, set in a post cyber-punk world. It was the greatest political satire ever in comics, and in the 5 years it ran, every panel lead to the brilliant conclusion.

That book helped me through the Bush years and now I am telling everyone to read it now! Warren Ellis has also written many comics and a few novels. Planetary is one you must read. RED was even turned into a movie (Kind of, it has the same name as his book and if you squint, a similar plot, but the comic was a violent condemnation of the reactionary plutocrats who aren’t qualified to be in positions of power that Bush put into office.)

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Wednesday January 18, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/01/18 · 17:05

I am sick.

Sadly, I am keeping this short, but here is today’s image.

Elizabeth King is a writer for The Establishment, a website you should follow, as well as other places like Bust, The Atlantic, Bitch, Jezebel, TIME, Vox, and The Washington Post. She’s someone you should follow.

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Wednesday January 11, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/01/11 · 17:05

Sometimes I fantasize what the world would have been like if Oscar Wilde had a twitter account. The twitter wars he’d have, the hashtags…especially in the age of Trump. What can I say, I have a rich fantasy life.

However, we do have great stories, essays, plays, and poems, not to mention the closing argument of his trial for committing homosexual acts, which have preserved some of his wit and personality. There are also some biopics. My personal favorite is the Stephen Fry reading of said closing argument:

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I, for one, would love to see a tweet storm from Wilde railing against Trump and his swamp monsters he’s trying to install in power. However, he is of another era, and even though, it’d be fun to see, we have many witty people on Twitter who, in a small way, are feeding into what Oscar Wilde would do today.

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Wednesday January 04, 2017 · 5:05 PM PST

2017/01/04 · 17:05

I’ve been wanting to make one of these of Carrie Fisher for a while. As great as her books are (According to my wife who tells me all about them) we could never find a quote that worked. Honestly, I’m not that happy with this one, but it feels like a good bye to me. Not as funny as her:

“What you'll have of me after I journey to that great Death Star in the sky is an extremely accomplished daughter, a few books, and a picture of a stern-looking girl wearing some kind of metal bikini lounging on a giant drooling squid, behind a newscaster informing you of the passing of Princess Leia after a long battle with her head.”

But that didn’t work with my composition, and honestly, I like tweeting these at the conservatives after they do something terrible.

I find it therapeutic.

Which Carrie Fisher would approve of. (She was a great advocate of people dealing with bipolar disorder. I would be remiss to forget to mention that in here.)

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