Brad and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary today, September 14, 2026, in New York City. Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
Matt Faulkner He/Him
@mattfaulkner.bsky.social
Making art and writing words for books since way back. Also, I like plain spaghetti. Butter and salt, of course.
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
I think you need this drawing! The first Blue Sky friend to respond will get this 9"x12" black ink drawing called JOY! Cost: $125 (shipping and tax included in price) Blue Sky message me and get this into your home! #joy #bringthejoy #penandink
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I think you need this drawing! The first BlueSky friend to respond will get this 8.5"x5.75" pencil character study page of Pierce, the hedgehog hero of Kris Remenar's new book- Story Time for Pierce! Cost: $150 (shipping and tax included in price) via Venmo Message me here
Participants in our National Advocacy Institute for youth and our broader community joined us to honor our collective fight to build a more perfect union and to uplift key individuals' contributions. Our honorees included Bruce Springsteen and Colin Kaepernick for their tireless, powerful advocacy.
Bruce Springsteen honored alongside Colin Kaepernick by ACLU
Bruce Springsteen accepted an ACLU award and reflected on activism. See what he told the crowd.
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A big thank you to Houston Mayor John Whitmire, who says his office “will not rest” until there is a thorough and independent investigation into the fatal shooting of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado by ICE.
Whitmire joins push for independent probe of Salgado shooting by ICE
Whitmire's announcement comes two days after he said there would be no city-directed probe of the deadly shooting.
houstonchronicle.com
"All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.' " – The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King 1968 art from WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT FREEDOM illustrated by Matt Faulkner publ.d by Philomel/Penguin&Putnam get your copy here: www.abebooks.com/Big-Deal-Fre...
Did somebody say Rabbit! Rabbit! (Better late than never.)
MY NEST OF SILENCE a graphic novel/novel mash-up about an American family imprisoned because of their race. About a sister who refuses to talk until her brother returns. About a brother who fights for the country that has imprisoned his family. by Matt Faulkner publ.d by Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
Lawmakers in DC: hear us roar! 📢 Nurse leaders took the fight to #AbolishICE to the streets of our nation’s capital today — because our patients and communities deserve care, not terror!
This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.
Reminder this guy is still doing the worst possible stuff to our most vulnerable
Update: Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, came to America seeking safety. Border Patrol left him alone in the cold outside a closed coffee shop. He was found dead five days later. His death has been ruled a homicide.
Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
Medical examiners have ruled that the death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, five days after Border Patrol left him at a Buffalo, New York, doughnut shop, was a homicide.
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SPRINGSTEEN IN MINNEAPOLIS: “This is still America… and this reactionary nightmare and invasion of American cities will not stand.” 🇺🇸 (From ablackpolitical)
No Kings. Saturday, March 28th See you on the street. art from ELIZABETH STARTED ALL THE TROUBLE by Doreen Rappaport illustrated by Matt Faulkner publ.d by Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Out on the corner this morning sharing Renée Nicole Good's name and memory. Today's Poem: Different Names by Hafez Shirazi b. 1325-1389 I am in love with every church and mosque and temple and any kind of shrine because I know it is there that people say the different names of the one God.
MY NEST OF SILENCE by Matt Faulkner "At times heartbreaking and other times hopeful, this story of the power of family and ugliness of hate is a first purchase for any library and a must-read for students who enjoy historical fiction or graphic novels." ―School Library Journal, STARRED Review
Will the ICE agents at the airport be masked? What a welcoming sight! Eat your heart out Statue of Liberty. We ask Again: why would anyone come to the World Cup here? 🇺🇸
I think staffing airport screening stations with incompetent, anti-social vigilantes who murder strangers isn’t ideal.
“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” — Tupac said it years ago… and here we are. The Pentagon is now asking for an additional $200 BILLION for this war. We always find the money for war. But when it comes to housing, healthcare, or feeding people? Suddenly it’s crickets.