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He/him. Composer. Author. Editor. Publisher. Illustrator. Progressive. Lapsed academic. Runner. Dad. Husband. NJ-born, LA-formed, PNW-based. pjce.bandcamp.com/album/breath-of-fire / yellowbikepress.com / andrewdurkinauthor.com
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The take I needed to hear tonight!

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

"With glowing hearts we see thee rise / The True North strong and free!" Cheers to my Canadian friends. Thank you for tonight's good news!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly. Thus, an important juxtaposition with today's arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is ICE's being forced by court losses to restore SEVIS status for thousands of foreign students. As the regime weakens, they'll lash out more. The best response to that will be to increase the pressure more.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Remember: reading is fundamental, even when (maybe especially when) the world is chaotic. Here's something I recently finished. A collection of short stories that somehow managed to be surreal, disturbing, comical, charming, intriguing, and uncanny all at once. Recommended!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

this site should not be a place for you to wreck your mental health. if it does that, you should not feel bad about leaving. having a hole to shout text into that sometimes has information about politics and sometimes is for making friends is good but sometimes, it's also bad

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

A reminder that performance IS an action. If it quickens the pulse, it serves a purpose. It's not the winning move, but it's a move in a winning direction. And especially when faced with mass demoralization, it MATTERS. Thank you, @booker.senate.gov.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

submitted 44 days ago • 235 comments

More portrait practice. From an unknown reference.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Mister Rogers never misses

submitted 130 days ago • 190 comments

Recent portrait practice.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

"The loudest voices . . . are saying that what the Democrats need to be doing is . . . repairing their brand. This is wrong . . . There is only one issue today in American politics: President Trump’s hacksaw attack on the American Republic. The only available position is opposing it."

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

This administration is not operating anywhere near reality.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Recent portrait practice. From an unlabeled reference photo.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Now reading. "Cheerfully dystopian" may be just what I needed.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

$10/year is a steal for a publication doing such vital work.

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

The additional benefits of choosing Team *We Do Not Throw People Under Buses* is that this is also the side that has fun, creates excellent cultural production, dresses well, and has luminous skin. I have no idea why one would choose the alternative.

submitted 55 days ago • 16 comments

Currently reading. Almost finished, actually. A brisk, creative, poignant, and timely story. (Alas, I wish it wasn't so timely.) Another winner from Forest Avenue. Highly recommended.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I'm grateful for this context. I was skeptical of the original story, but irritated enough to share it to FB. An easy St. Patrick's Day post. But misinformation is unhelpful even when it favors the side you agree with. Maybe especially then. I edited my post accordingly. A reminder to GO SLOW.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

This morning's portrait practice: Saoirse Ronan. Unfinished, but I need to give my eyes a rest and come back to it fresh.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 60 days ago • 3109 comments

We're now at 17 senators listed in our new cloture tally. Significantly a number of senators who were in doubt are now in the hard no category. So Dems are getting close to locked in. talkingpointsmemo.com/senate-clotu...

submitted 61 days ago • 113 comments

If this is real - and we should verify it is - we all really HAVE to demonstrate we have Senate Dems' backs. Next week is congressional recess. If this holds, be ready with a loud and enthusiastic THANK YOU if you have a Dem Senator. This is how we build a unified opposition party.

submitted 61 days ago • 79 comments

Tonight's portrait practice: Chiharu Okunugi.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

A brilliant new album from Mogwai. Recommended!

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Such an important point. Describing an administration action using the administration's framing ultimately serves the administration's goals. There are always larger framings—the rule of law, the Constitution—that are far more relevant and thus crucial to the reporting.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

You find more and more of these stories once you start paying attention. I share this one because it is also relevant to the publishing industry. Book Island makes exquisite picture books with great art.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight's portrait practice: Michael Shannon.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

A second German tourist is being held in a detention centre after having her Visa revoked by the U.S. It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks. The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore

submitted 64 days ago • 163 comments

Canada’s next prime minister, Mark Carney, used his leadership victory speech to warn Canadians that the U.S. “president” wants to “destroy our way of life.” “America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Carney said in his victory…

submitted 64 days ago • 230 comments

Tonight's portrait practice: Emilia Clarke.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

A crucial qualification of a great piece. Renee DiResta points out how political narratives are shaped in the digital world. Republicans use that for the worst ends, but it can be used for good. Digital activism matters because of how much of our discourse occurs online.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about how Trump is destroying American democracy, along with eight crucial lessons about how to counteract it, drawing on my 14 years of studying brave pro-democracy opposition movements in authoritarian regimes across the globe. We’re in serious trouble, but there’s still hope.

submitted 68 days ago • 51 comments

Recent portrait practice: Michaela Coel.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Knowledge is power. Lack of knowledge is tyranny.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight's portrait practice: Chadwick Boseman.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Post-election I kept hearing the complaint that Democrats need to “meet voters where they’re at.” No. We need to make voters better.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Especially in a culture for which "just asking questions" has become a reliable back door into autocracy. I'm nobody special, but I agonize far longer than I should over every stupid little thing I post to the internet. I recommend more of that writerly anxiety to figures at "major" publications.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments