Derrell Durrett
@derrelldurrett.bsky.social
Ex physics. Software. Life-long observer of the public morality. Devoté of Poe's Law.
Potentially voluble.
Boulder Colorado
Born at 318 ppm CO2.
Potentially voluble.
Boulder Colorado
Born at 318 ppm CO2.
Pinned
AOC: “It should be our mission right now to make sure that all people have health care!"
Housing, food, health care, and education.
For all.
That should be a guarantee to all Americans that America makes.
For all.
That should be a guarantee to all Americans that America makes.
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Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
Ukraine's anti-corruption bodies searched the residence of Yermak, Zelenskyy's Chief of Staff, as part of Ukraine's biggest corruption scandal.
Yermak is still set to lead Ukraine's negotiators in the ongoing peace talks.
Ukraine's anti-corruption bodies searched the residence of Yermak, Zelenskyy's Chief of Staff, as part of Ukraine's biggest corruption scandal.
Yermak is still set to lead Ukraine's negotiators in the ongoing peace talks.
Антикорупційні органи прийшли з обшуками до Єрмака
Національне антикорупційне бюро і Спеціалізована антикорупційна прокуратура вранці 28 листопада прийшли з обшуками до керівника Офісу президента Андрія Єрмака.
hromadske.ua
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
Ukraine's anti-corruption bodies searched the residence of Yermak, Zelenskyy's Chief of Staff, as part of Ukraine's biggest corruption scandal.
Yermak is still set to lead Ukraine's negotiators in the ongoing peace talks.
Ukraine's anti-corruption bodies searched the residence of Yermak, Zelenskyy's Chief of Staff, as part of Ukraine's biggest corruption scandal.
Yermak is still set to lead Ukraine's negotiators in the ongoing peace talks.
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President Trump pledged to “permanently pause migration” from certain countries in social media posts, hours after announcing one of the National Guard members shot near the White House had died of her injuries.
Trump vows immigration policy changes after guard member dies of injuries
The president said he would halt migration “from all Third World Countries” in social media posts following the death of National Guard member Spec. Sarah Beckstrom.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
President Trump pledged to “permanently pause migration” from certain countries in social media posts, hours after announcing one of the National Guard members shot near the White House had died of her injuries.
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It isn't a plan to end the war. It's a plan to let us regroup so we can invade again.
The plan to end the war in Ukraine doesn’t ensure peace—it ensures profits for Trump’s inner circle.
RDI Founder @garrykasparov.bsky.social on Steve Witkoff, Russia’s friendly deal, and privatization of power on a global scale.
RDI Founder @garrykasparov.bsky.social on Steve Witkoff, Russia’s friendly deal, and privatization of power on a global scale.
Diplomacy for Sale: How Witkoff and Co. Cut a Deal with Russia
A Moscow-friendly deal that sells out Ukraine exposes how Witkoff and others are reshaping diplomacy for profit.
www.thenextmove.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It isn't a plan to end the war. It's a plan to let us regroup so we can invade again.
Ugh. I was hoping we'd manage to beat down this threat to democracy before they made much progress in the direction of tearing this country's multicultural heritage limb from limb.
But it seems as if they're leaning into it with all possible force.
But it seems as if they're leaning into it with all possible force.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Ugh. I was hoping we'd manage to beat down this threat to democracy before they made much progress in the direction of tearing this country's multicultural heritage limb from limb.
But it seems as if they're leaning into it with all possible force.
But it seems as if they're leaning into it with all possible force.
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Trump is an instinctive bigot, but he doesn’t have the attention span to be an ideologically committed white nationalist. He also craves approval from everyone (e.g. his Mamdani meeting). That’s why Miller’s role as Trump’s white nationalist whisperer has been so important. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Trump is an instinctive bigot, but he doesn’t have the attention span to be an ideologically committed white nationalist. He also craves approval from everyone (e.g. his Mamdani meeting). That’s why Miller’s role as Trump’s white nationalist whisperer has been so important. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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In 2005 Duke undergraduate Stephen Miller wrote this piece framing multiculturalism as a form of unpatriotic segregationism. He has always been a maladjusted white nationalist who doesn’t understand what the US is. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Stephen Miller wrote this piece for the Duke student newspaper TWENTY YEARS AGO. You won't find a single talking point in here that a) wasn't already a stale Limbaugh-esque talking point in 2005 and b) isn't also the cutting edge of GOP messaging about universities today.
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In 2005 Duke undergraduate Stephen Miller wrote this piece framing multiculturalism as a form of unpatriotic segregationism. He has always been a maladjusted white nationalist who doesn’t understand what the US is. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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The premise of All in the Family was that the moral arc of American culture could bend toward justice as long as we tapped into our fundamental human decency (Edith) and the idealism of young people (Meathead and Gloria) so as to gradually drag scared reactionary bigots into the modern world.
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The premise of All in the Family was that the moral arc of American culture could bend toward justice as long as we tapped into our fundamental human decency (Edith) and the idealism of young people (Meathead and Gloria) so as to gradually drag scared reactionary bigots into the modern world.
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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What I always find fascinating about comments like this is that they have been made about literally every immigrant group throughout American history: Germans, Irish, Miller's Jewish ancestors, etc.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What I always find fascinating about comments like this is that they have been made about literally every immigrant group throughout American history: Germans, Irish, Miller's Jewish ancestors, etc.
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I have volumes of ugly tracts about how Jews, Germans, Finns, Hungarians, Poles, and "Papists" can't possibly acclimate to American life because they are hereditary degenerates.
What I always find fascinating about comments like this is that they have been made about literally every immigrant group throughout American history: Germans, Irish, Miller's Jewish ancestors, etc.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I have volumes of ugly tracts about how Jews, Germans, Finns, Hungarians, Poles, and "Papists" can't possibly acclimate to American life because they are hereditary degenerates.
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social draws a knife. And shivs the ICE boys with it.
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social draws a knife. And shivs the ICE boys with it.
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We’re getting taxed twice because he enacted the tariffs. Tariffs are a tax.
Say it with me - tariffs are a tax.
So, now he claims he’s going to rid us of one of the taxes we pay? Oh. Ok.
Say it with me - tariffs are a tax.
So, now he claims he’s going to rid us of one of the taxes we pay? Oh. Ok.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
We’re getting taxed twice because he enacted the tariffs. Tariffs are a tax.
Say it with me - tariffs are a tax.
So, now he claims he’s going to rid us of one of the taxes we pay? Oh. Ok.
Say it with me - tariffs are a tax.
So, now he claims he’s going to rid us of one of the taxes we pay? Oh. Ok.
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AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
sure jan
sure jan
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income reut.rs/4p65j0l
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration may slash income tax completely over the next couple of years because of government revenue generated from tariffs.
reut.rs
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
sure jan
sure jan
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The *open and obvious alliance* to be precise. Part of the July Crisis was that Sir Edward Grey failed to establish boundaries with the Germans or clear lines of our responsibilities to the French.
An unappreciated fact is that the truly game-changing invention of the post-WWII world is the alliance, and its demise will make everyone worse off.
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The *open and obvious alliance* to be precise. Part of the July Crisis was that Sir Edward Grey failed to establish boundaries with the Germans or clear lines of our responsibilities to the French.
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You have to wonder when it’s going to sink in with the media intelligentsia that Donald Trump has no fucking idea what he’s doing.
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
You have to wonder when it’s going to sink in with the media intelligentsia that Donald Trump has no fucking idea what he’s doing.
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So maybe y’all should leave so we can get back to having a civilized society
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
So maybe y’all should leave so we can get back to having a civilized society
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Helen Thomas would have bitch-slapped Trump all the way back to Queens.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Helen Thomas would have bitch-slapped Trump all the way back to Queens.
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“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
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as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
as always, transphobia consumes your entire personality until there is nothing left but deeply offputting garbage
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absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
absolutely harrowing description of adx supermax in colorado boltsmag.org/death-row-cl...
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I think it most likely the Dim Philby leaks came from Russia. But if they came from Europe it’s a clever way to tell the US that Europe has started going it alone on intel.
Keep in mind one of most important points of leverage is intel sharing.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/26/t...
Keep in mind one of most important points of leverage is intel sharing.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/26/t...
The Dim Philby Leaks - emptywheel
The release of transcripts showing that the Ukraine "piece" plan that Trump claimed to be his own was in fact simply the Russian plan could have the same effect the discovery of Mike Flynn's back chan...
www.emptywheel.net
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I think it most likely the Dim Philby leaks came from Russia. But if they came from Europe it’s a clever way to tell the US that Europe has started going it alone on intel.
Keep in mind one of most important points of leverage is intel sharing.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/26/t...
Keep in mind one of most important points of leverage is intel sharing.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/26/t...
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This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...