DC reveals its full slate of August 2024 comics and covers featuring Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and more Now, DC continues the alternate story of what would have happened if he had lived… Jason Todd, traumatized after The Joker’s near-fatal attack, struggles to step back into Robin’s shoes—while Batman ... 05/17/2024 - 5:03 am | View Link
DC Comics August 2024 Solicits & Solicitations, More Than Just Batman New York Times bestselling author and DC architect Joshua Williamson returns with a new creative team, including Carmine Di Giandomenico and Trevor Hairsine. Collects Green Arrow #7-12. JIM STARLIN ... 05/17/2024 - 12:18 am | View Link
The Next Batman Game Should Dig a Bit Deeper With Its Bat Family The Bat Family have become a prominent part of the Caped Crusader's video game outings, but the next Bat Family-centered game could use a shake-up. 05/15/2024 - 5:00 am | View Link
McFarlane Toys shows off Batman vs Bane 2-Pack and new Robin figure McFarlane Toys has announced a new Batman vs Bane 2-pack and a Tim Drake version of Robin. Batman vs Bane 2-Pack Available for preorder from Amazon and Entertainment Earth. Introducing Bane™, the ... 05/13/2024 - 5:30 am | View Link
Break the Bat with McFarlane's New Knightfall Batman Vs. Bane 2-Pack Knightfall tells the tale of the rise of Bane, who has orchestrated a deadly and daring assault on Gotham City's infamous Arkham Asylum. This releases some of the city's dangerous inmates, which leads ... 05/11/2024 - 12:52 am | View Link
Never mind that there's every reason to doubt that any of their story is true, Fox's John Roberts and Shannon Bream did their best to help the Alito's turn the story about their unacceptable behavior into another conservative victimhood fairy tale that's all about the neighbor.
Here's Roberts and Bream on this Friday's America Reports playing stenographers for the Alitos:
ROBERTS: Let's bring in Shannon Bream, anchor of Fox News Sunday and chief legal correspondent.
The day after Marge Greene's outrageous behavior, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to X to break down how Greene’s outburst overshadowed—and aided—what Ocasio-Cortez describes as a “microcosm of what authoritarians do on a larger scale.” Via the New Republic:
“AFTER the Republican Chair and GOP members broke official House protocol to allow MTG’s horrific opening silo of rhetoric, they THEN made another change to dispense with the legislative process,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X (formerly Twitter).
On this day in 1978, British rockers Dire Straits released their debut single, “Sultans of Swing.”
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Workers at a Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers union Friday, potentially stalling hopes of a rapidly growing organizing wave for autoworkers in the southern United States. Via CNN:
The result was a close outcome. Out of the valid votes counted, 56% of workers voted “no,” while 44% voted “yes” for unionization, according to Mercedes-Benz.
Wisconsin Republicans are so very confused about where they stand on ballot drop boxes, they don't even know their own position anymore. For decades, Republicans were all for drop boxes and wanted them in every county. Then when Trump lost in 2020 and blamed, in part, voter fraud because of drop boxes, the Republicans were dead set against them.