Profile avatar
duncanmurrell.bsky.social
Stories: fiction, journalism, magazines. Tattoos: dragons, snakes, firebirds. Punk: Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Minutemen. Job: book editor. Harper’s, The Oxford American, Guernica, The VQR. Some track and field content.
179 posts 82 followers 174 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 21 Comments 29

This is an object lesson in what caving to Trump gets you. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yeah, well, can AI do *this*?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Lutnick doesn't know the cloud is hard drives, too, because nobody has explained it to him.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This may seem political -- because Preyer and Kotis are right-wing tools -- but I'm going to guess this is as much about development officers and fundraisers having a territorial battle.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The bait and switch is in: “The Secretary of Defense has prioritized making sure that we don’t have ships named after people who honorably served but don’t fit his 1980s action hero vision of what they should look like.” All while Republicans gut care for Veterans and Military Families.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

RIP Edmund White

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We're going to have to drive to JazzFest, y'all.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, that's just what we need from our weather forecasts: imaginary hurricanes invented by confused computers. Thanks DOGE, you outdid yourself.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 Why am I marching with @unite4vets.bsky.social on D-Day (6/6)? Because when America sends its sons and daughters to war, our government has a responsibility to care for them when they come home. Because our federal employees are patriots who deserve respect (1/3 are vets).

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Morale is sinking in the VA as workers fear looming cuts. “The veterans now check in and ask us how we are doing” “There’s some cracks starting to show” “Fearful, paranoid, demoralized” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

This devastatingly sad, and plays on a universal, truth that has been the basis of so much art, music, writing, and philosophy for millennia: we are *all* fundamentally alone. But it ignores the cultures we created to overcome and connect. This is the human struggle, and they want you to give up.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

submitted 17 days ago • 1237 comments

Guy prefaces his "you can use 'you're' and 'your' interchangeably" take with "Professional writer here 👋," as if that matters. Your being ignorant shows you're being ignorant, whether or not you're paid for it.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

submitted 22 days ago • 312 comments

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

submitted 31 days ago • 959 comments

🔥 Sen. Tammy Duckworth isn’t having it: Hegseth just gutted a vital military program—one Trump signed into law—because he didn’t even know what it was. Called it “feminist.” Every combat commander supports it. He’s not a SecDef. He’s a liability.

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

And by all means, remove “Veteran” from “Veteran’s Day” while you’re at it. Why not just deport veterans, we’re only suckers and losers.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

What do these clowns have against veterans? It's psychotic. They don't have one clue about how those wars were won. This is a slap in the face of all U.S. veterans who served in wars that didn't have such clear outcomes. Draft dodgers don't get to say who's worthy of honoring.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s VA quietly ended a key program that helped Veterans avoid foreclosure. Now thousands are at risk of losing their homes—with no replacement in place. Just more proof that Trump has zero respect for those who’ve served. MORE: www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n...

submitted 36 days ago • 26 comments

Why is he now insisting on cosplaying as Joe McCarthy and resurrecting the Red Scare. Communism? What communism?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Doug Collins wants to fire tens of thousands of VA workers, calling it “efficient.” But the private Veterans Community Care Program he’s boosting? It costs more and delivers less. Privatization isn’t efficiency. It’s a scam. 🔗 bit.ly/fund-the-va #FundTheVA #VeteransDeserveBetter #StopVCCP

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments