Derek Litvak (He/Him)
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Black historian doing Black historian stuff. Views and opinions only belong to me and the voices inside my head.
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I guess here on Bluesky it's controversial to note that the Democrats, once the majority across this country, were reduced to national minority (in stages, from 1968, to 1980, to 2016) by moving left.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
But if you'd rather think I'm just making Trump's point...well, whatever helps you cope.
I'm questioning this statement, "the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do.)"
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
Who is this *public* you speak of? Wouldn't the left be a subset of it?
This feels like the current Trump regime's feelings that Democrats aren't real Americans.
Thinking about the Jill Lepore “students got difficult in 2016” thing: there’s a point for all of us when “youth opinion,” such as it is, no longer feels intuitive. It happened for me in the last few years. To understand where they’re coming from, you might have to do a little research.
I love how some people think it is so implausible that all the major political donors from both parties are child rapists when there are headlines like this in major news outlets and no one bats an eye.
Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself With Young People’s Blood
The Silicon Valley billionaire reportedly sees blood transfusions as the pathway to radical life extension.
www.vanityfair.com
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute
Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom
The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.
www.forbes.com
Hakeem Jeffries will reportedly endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor today
After a lengthy wait, Jeffries to endorse Mamdani
The powerful Brooklyn Democrat plans to endorse the democratic socialist Friday afternoon.
www.politico.com
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
NEW: Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings.
Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings
Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
Multi billionaire conducts months of historical and theological research into the Antichrist. Discovers, shockingly, that one thing the Antichrist would definitely do is tax billionaires. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
Residents of a small New Jersey town mourned the deaths of the 17-year-old friends as a third teenager was charged with hitting them intentionally at 70 miles per hour.
2 Teen Girls Were Run Over on Their Way to Get Ice Cream. Was It Murder?
Residents of a small New Jersey town mourned the deaths of the 17-year-old friends as a third teenager was charged with hitting them intentionally at 70 miles per hour.
nyti.ms
Lol
The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.
Welp: Texas A&M President Mark Welch just stepped down after pressure from Republicans over a video of a professor who taught about transgender people in a children's literature class
