Patrick A. Reed
Pop culture historian and journalist, DJ, Hip-Hop And Comics guy. Curator of Jack Kirby: Heroes And Humanity, Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing, Marvel: Universe Of Super Heroes/Earth's Mightiest Exhibition, Eight Decades Of Archie, and other projects.
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedThey have made clear that it was never just about illegal immigration: they hate all immigrants.
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedThe word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring
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- Reposted by Patrick A. Reedthe Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedThey were never going to get to their stated deportations goal with due process. So they're phasing it out. (Part 2)
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedNEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedTrump has posted on Truth Social about 65 times in the last 90 minutes, including a video he posted at 8:44 PM PT describing election fraud lies that shows racist AI images of Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys at the end. I’ve confirmed this is real and watched it myself. 25th Amendment now.
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedMy entire generational cohort of female editors--who were pretty numerous--is gone from DH. Many of them no longer work in the comics industry. This is not exceptional. I cannot emphasize how exceptional this is not.
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedI’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.
- Some good news: TWO NEW @tedleo.bsky.social + THE PHARMACISTS TRACKS. tedleo.bandcamp.com/album/februa...
- Reposted by Patrick A. Reedembarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedChild at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedJust like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedThey’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
- Reposted by Patrick A. Reedthis regime is unrelentingly evil
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedHere is a thing: There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To. (cont'd)
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedYou have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.
- Reposted by Patrick A. Reedworth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedIsaac Asimov was a founder of modern science fiction. His work and ideas inform almost everything. He was also a serial sexual harasser, something confirmed by multiple first-person accountings from members of East Coast fandom.
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedOne would hope that media outlets eventually understood that many of their readership woes stem from having no standards for conservatives. But the reality is that management prioritizes right-wing propaganda over profits, so they're not going to change.
- 👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedI think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedAll these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedTo everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedBREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedBREAKING: Virginia Democrats have unveiled their plan to pick up four more seats in Congress, giving the public their first look at a map meant to counter President Donald Trump’s gerrymandering gains in GOP-controlled states. www.democracy-docket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedSwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedQuick reminder everything they say is a fucking lie. We are facing a major healthcare crisis due to the occupation. Pregnant people are regularly missing care & do face an impossible choices. Occupying agents ABSOLUTELY enter hospitals for enforcement purposes and have since they arrived.
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedThis level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
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- Reposted by Patrick A. ReedThank you!!! Since we launched this race for Congress yesterday, we’ve raised over $600K from 30,000 donors — and we’re just getting started.
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