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Christopher Quirk

@christopherquirk.bsky.social
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Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader. It's true. Some writing as well. art: christopherquirk.net words: christopherquirk.net/writing + freelance Vermont + Brooklyn

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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As was foretold by Teiresias...
theguardian.com
Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026
World’s most prestigious prize for literature goes to Canadian poet known for genre-crossing works including Autobiography of Red
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're less than an hour away from today's "Broadview Six" hearing. You can follow me here for live updates, but the @chicago.suntimes.com will also have up-to-date coverage here: chicago.suntimes.com/live/broadvi...
chicago.suntimes.com
'Broadview Six' case returns to court as judge weighs sanctions against feds: Live updates
U.S. District Judge April Perry is set to hear arguments Thursday over potential consequences for prosecutors in the politically charged case.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Former DOJ prosecutor dropping a bomb into the Broadway 6 sanctions case as judge considers whether/how to punish DOJ for some extremely egregious misconduct. Lookout.
emptywheel.net
Sheri Mecklenburg's Mic Drop - emptywheel
When Sheri Mecklenburg told Andrew Boutros she wanted to intervene in the Broadview 6 proceedings, which will make it far harder for him to scapegoat her, he threatened to fire her. So she quit. And ...
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've got a painting (one of the new In Medias Res series) in the Yellow Chair Salon "Community" exhibition at Art Cake in Brooklyn, closing this weekend. Very fine core sample of art in NYC that I'm happy to be a part of. Please check it out if you're in the area! 214 40th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232
artcake.org
Yellow Chair Salon Open Call: Community — Art Cake
Yellow Chair Salon is pleased to present Community, an exhibition celebrating the artists who make Brooklyn and the greater New York metropolitan area one of the most vibrant creative communities in t...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Excuse me? "[T]he Department and USCIS are directing assigned personnel to make false claims, using Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from DHS data, on state government websites by affirming that they are the voter or have been authorized by the voter to obtain the desired state voter data.”
talkingpointsmemo.com
Whistleblower Claims Fed Agents ‘Likely’ Broke State Laws in Pursuit of Trump’s Conspiracy Theories
Agents Instructed To ‘Misrepresent Themselves’ Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise!...
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Annie Dillard has died. I recently read her "Holy the Firm," a very interesting kind of long essay I learned of from Simon Critchley's "Mysticism," another excellent book.
Image is a quote by Annie Dillard from "The Writing Life": "Examine all tings intensely and relentlessly...Do not course over it, as if it were understood, but instead follow it down until you see it in the mystery of its own specificity and strength."
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a clear, balanced, and informative take from one of our most knowledgeable AI researchers. If you're interested in learning what's under the AI hood, I highly recommend Melanie's book, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Guide for Thinking Humans." Great intro for a lay reader (i.e. me).
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.
ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop. Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community. Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered. Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
At this instant in 1945 (8:15 AM August 6, local time), Little Boy—a 15-kiloton, uranium-fueled atomic bomb—destroyed Hiroshima, killing (per official US military estimates) ~70,000 men, women, and children, incl. 12 American POWs. Independent estimates later maintained ~140,000 people were killed.
A color photograph of a damaged Iras wristwatch with a leather band on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, its hands frozen at 8:15 AM.A photograph of a shadow of a person living in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, who was killed as they climbed the steps of the Sumitomo Bank building while using a cane, leaving behind only their shadow imprinted on the steps (because their body and cane momentarily blocked the light from the intense thermal flash, burning away everything on the steps that was not in shadow).A color photograph of a damaged and partially melted child’s tricycle on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Shinichi Tetsutani, who was one month shy of turning four years old, was riding this tricycle, playing with his best friend, a girl named Kimi, 1,500 meters away from where the Little Boy atomic bomb exploded overhead. When found in the wreckage of his house, he was still grasping the red handlebar grip from his tricycle. Severely injured and burned all over his body, calling out, “Water, I want water,” he died that night. Shinichi’s father buried him in the backyard with his favorite toy, and his best friend Kimi, so he could ride it and play even after death. Forty years later, in 1985, Shinichi’s father, Nobuo, decided to rebury his son in the family’s gravesite. Unearthing the backyard grave with Kimi’s mother, Nobuo rediscovered the tricycle and donated it to the museum.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Riveting account of prosecutorial malfeasance exposed.
notus.org
DOJ Agrees to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Reporters
Government admits “mistakes” in probe of sources for articles about Air Force One security concerns.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is a huge lead.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Fun fact: Joseph Heller was originally going to call it "Rule 27."
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Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR) @fabrizioromano.yopro20.com · 06/07/2026
Vini Jr 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 Erling Haaland. 🎩 Beautiful to see these scenes. 👏🏼 @IliesPeeters 🎥
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Cape Verde people.
youtu.be
CESARIA EVORA - Sodade. Live In Paris at Le Grand Rex, April 2004. (HD).
YouTube video by ingoleg oleg
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Quote from George Bernard Shaw set on a colorful moiré background: "I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can."
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
For magnificent Igor's birthday, two of his assessments of the compositions of Richard Strauss. 1) Asked by an interviewer what specifically he did not like about Strauss' work: "I do not like the major works, and I do not like the minor works." 2) "Great music but who wants to listen to it."
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Cape Verde has a center back named Borges, a Venn diagram worthy of Simon Critchley.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 14/06/2026
Sir Ian McKellen.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I love this city.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
June lineup (with thanks to McNally Jackson Books).
Three books arranged on a quilt: Why Machines Learn, the elegant math behind modern AI, by Anil Ananthasway; Agnes Martin, her life and art, by Nancy Princenthal; and A World Appears, by Michael Pollan.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
From the Broadview 6 grand jury presentation.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I'll be at J&M Studios in Brooklyn today from 1-5 with some new work up. Please stop in you're in the area!
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Quote by James Baldwin on moire background: The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wow. I cannot *wait* for the story of what the DOJ did to get these indictments.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I very happy to have been invited to show some work at the Spring Open Studios at J&M Studios in Sunset Park Brooklyn. The event is Fri 5 June (6-9pm) and Sat 6 June (1-5pm). The studios are at 201 46th St in Brooklyn. I'll have some of the new In Medias Res paintings. Hope to see you there!
Save the Date image for Spring Open Studios on June 5-6 at J&M Studios
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Stretcher day is a good day.
Four large painting stretchers wrapped for delivery on a sidewalk next to an open elevator door.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“We will not go back.”
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“Which side are you on, boys? Which side are you on?”
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Devastating line of questioning from Sen. Warren.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
hyperallergic.com
Co-Working Meets Art at Brooklyn’s Newest Experimental Space
Art hangs on cubicle walls and utility closets at The Gallery, an exhibition space housed in a former guitar string-maker’s office.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A good reminder. Speaking of which, learn more about and join the May Day collective action here: indivisible.org/campaigns/ma...
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm an artist who writes stuff. This one is about doubt, pretty much unavoidable in the creative process. It's short. I know you're busy.
christopherquirk.medium.com
Doubt
In art and creation
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump. – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living. apnorc.org/projects/few...
"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living"

– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76

"The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Break out the palinka, people. A smashing victory. What a day.
nytimes.com
Hungary’s Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Election Defeat
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Futurism @futurism.com · 09/04/2026
This is catastrophic.
trib.al
Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Democrat wins by 4 in the city of Waukesha. Waukesha, people. "Allen has been one of the most conservative Republicans in the Legislature since his election 2014. Halvensleben was the preferred candidate of the Waukesha County Democratic Party."
wtmj.com
DECISION WISCONSIN: Waukesha has a new mayor, Common Council President Alicia Halvensleben
WAUKESHA, Wis.-- Common Council President Alicia Halvensleben will serve as Waukesha's next mayor. The city of Waukesha held its first open-seat mayoral
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
An important read from Timothy Snyder.
snyder.substack.com
The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
LISTEN. Thank you, Cecellia Wang.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you have lost the C-SPAN or youtube audio on the Supreme Court arguments, the SC feed is running.
supremecourt.gov
Live Oral Argument Audio Live Oral Argument Audio
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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 29/03/2026
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today's the day people. Feet in the street. Find a location near you:
nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"This is the way we win." Feet in the street. See you tomorrow. www.nokings.org
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The meaning of meaning in art came up recently in an interesting conversation. I have always attributed a lot of the conundrums that come from the question to a category error. I wrote a bit about it here: christopherquirk.medium.com/the-meaning-...
Abstract painting with dual colorful forms on a grey background.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I could have done without that, frankly.
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Christopher Quirk @christopherquirk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (who isn’t Indiana Jones)
Anita O'Day in a fetching large, round black hat with white feathers. She's sporting matching white gloves and standing at a microphone on stage. Screen cap from the movie Jazz on Summer's Day, filmed at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island in 1958. It's a super film and O'Day turns Sweet Georgia Brown inside out and outside in again during her set.
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