S. Preston Duncan

Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

This is the most infuriating shit I've read all day

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels. By Matt Novak Updated October 15, 2025

started / going

Not teenagers.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

No coincidence we haven't heard a damned thing about the PB in awhile

If you're not an American and you follow me, just know I appreciate the risk of allowing Americanism to infiltrate your feed. I'll do my best to act here against my national character as consistently as possible.

And no, this isn't strictly political. We're a generally insufferable people.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Thank you 🙏

A nursery mural of trees, blue sky, clouds, birds, and a Peter Rabbit character with a pipe in the foreground. Also a mushroom and badly rendered stag.

I painted this mural in the nursery and didn't actually finish it. Figured it would be at least a year before my son even realized it was there. He just stares at it every time I change his diaper. He's a bit over two months old

This year has been musically defined by Gregory Alan Isakov, Róis, Kristeen Harvey, and Joshua Burnside. Not a bad soundtrack

I'm not on a side and I don't fly any flag.

I stand for human dignity and the sanctity of life. For creativity and the notion that love (yes, love, godammit) is the animating force of existence. I stand against anything and anyone that seeks for their own greed at the expense of life or liberation

I'm afraid I have lost faith in poetry.

This has happened before. This has all happened before.

For your vibe, check out Caoine by Róis.

I'm not a fan of Spanberger but Christ, Earle-Sears is absolutely batshit.

Only on my better days. Or my worst ones.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

"and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Imagine that

Fatherhood is a strangely blissful existential crisis. All my life I have worshipped at the altar of romantic love and redefined family. And here is this thing I've never felt. In every atom of my body. Vibrating.

A bag of 440 Thompson's Punjana teabags.

My mother-in-law has returned from Ireland with the motherload.

I am not in my heart of hearts a city person. But I saw a video of a street performer and I desperately want to be dancing in Dublin right now.

Oh I agree. I use Procreate to make designs that I then carve into leather. I'm not trying to demonize digital art at all. AI "art" on the other hand... It's like a McRib vs Pappy's Smokehouse

Digital art is the fast food of expression. It's cheap, it's easy, it's convenient. There will always be a place for it. But the fast food explosion directly resulted in the gourmet, slow food, locavore movements. I think we'll see the same with art.

Don't let the terror become normal. Don't let the screams settle into routine. Don't let it stop hurting. Don't go numb.

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

I've never been able to shake
the feeling that existence
the existence of everything,
everything,
is so strange.

Iron and Wine always reminds me of opening shifts at a coffee shop where I worked once upon a time. They never really get old.

Well. Now that I've finished it, that was a terrible time to reflect on the relativity of demons and priests.