Despite what I think about the rest of the book I still think this is one of the best moments in Spider-Man comics in the last 20 years, if not the best.
Part of the reason populists hate experts, is bc it robs them of their Zoroastrian style of politics of good (the people) vs evil (elites). Once someone shows up and says that something is objectively true, it robs them of the prime motivation for their involvement in politics.
In the old USSR, people could be arrested for photographing bridges, tunnels, etc. A repressive and paranoid regime assumed the photographers must be spies and saboteurs. Americans laughed at such petty tyranny. Nothing like that could happen in their free country! Until now.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is quickly turning into the Lincoln Memorial Arresting Pool ... TMZ DC witnessed the latest bust firsthand, and the guy who got led off in cuffs gave us a piece of his mind. 🗣️
Ok we are getting conflicting information here. Texas
Marshal told me yes, but National Guard told the Swedish media that if she touches it again, it will be her last time🫠🫠
"Vote Blue No Matter Who" until it's James Talarico, Zohran Mamdani, Cori Bush, Graham Platner, Janeese Lewis George, or Abdul El-Sayed...
And what exactly do these candidates all have in common?
They don't take AIPAC money.
The World Cup fans falling in love with America aren’t in the places MAGA controls ... they’re in New York, LA, Seattle. Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston, the cities Republicans have spent a decade calling dangerous, godless hellholes that apparently the entire world wants to visit.