Arthur Durkee

NEWS FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!: ‘ANTIFA THE CAT’ RIDING INTO BATTLE ON THE BACK OF A DRAGON MADE OF FLOWER. - WITH A PHOTO OF THAT SCENE ( ACTUAL PHOTO FROM THE PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL)

Good riddance, either way.

Although it reminds how much right wingers ate prey to their own projections: he’s incapable of understanding that Dems wouldn’t treat him exactly the way he treats them. In truth, they wouldn’t.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

The world’s #wind and #solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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This is literally the best and only reason I’ve ever heard to call the suicide hotline. I don’t use the hotlines myself, because I know the script and I’m too smart for them. So it pisses me off. I just grit my teeth till the feeling passes.

But this, this is brilliant.

Even the liars on the right admit that all they do is propaganda.

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So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.

This is an excellent thread full of good recommendations.

one prescient moment i remember from a national governors association meeting years ago was a governor talking about how he’d come into office and been warned by one of the state’s senior transportation officials that Uber was going to a catastrophe for congestion, that it’d hurt drivers, etc

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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I understand this. Do you?

ICE raiding the Superbowl is what could start the civil war that MAGA says they want, but they won’t get the type of civil war they envision. Because you don’t raid the biggest capitalism sports event of the year and get the timid compliance and fear you expect.

Only a handful of figure drawings lately, because of too much life drama. I want to do more. Currently obsessed with figures in or near water, done in pencil to explore shading, reflection, ripples, and lighting.

A screenshot of an X post by Gavin Newsom (@GavinNe ..., 1 day ago) listing the last three government shutdowns: October 1, 2025 under President Trump, December 22, 2018 under President Trump, and January 20, 2018 under President Trump, with the comment "Almost like there is a pattern here." The post includes a profile picture of Gavin Newsom speaking.

Gavin Newsom with the receipts!

Moopsie!

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I no longer know what it will take for you all to look up from your lattes and Pay Attention.

Okay, that’s all true, and in these days of just trying to survive to make your art AT ALL, “being famous when you’re dead” isn’t a helpful hint. I have a lifetime of awards and kudos for my stuff, yet I’m still homeless, broke, and have no prospects, because no one wants my art except for free.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Actually it’s a BIG thing on the macro level because it reflects the loss of community and shredding of the social net, a symptom of how extremism uses the atomization of the individual to destroy resistance. Community is HOW we overcome the shitshow, but we all think we’re alone and powerless.

One of the worst truths to confront yourself with is that there often really is no reasoning with bigots. They have irrevocably decided that they are entitled to have perfunctory ideas about who they want to other, and its their reality. To change their minds is to change the laws of their world

And 20 years of those of us who pay attention to history telling you it would be like this, and you telling us we were overreacting. So fuck you.

Among other weird things about this Tilly Norwood situation, it’s surreal being a trans woman and watching anti-trans conservatives defend the use of an AI-generated “actress” that would take away work from women in Hollywood. It’s almost as though they never really cared about women.