Derrick Rowe
@derrickrowe.bsky.social
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Eagle Scout, Lutheran, Past Commander SUV Camp 19, Adjunct at Alvernia, furry. MLitt (Research) student at University of Glasgow in @UofGwarstudies.
Eagle Scout, Lutheran, Past Commander SUV Camp 19, Adjunct at Alvernia, furry. MLitt (Research) student at University of Glasgow in @UofGwarstudies.
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Lets do something fun for the festive season: What would you like me to post?
1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The system map for my railroad
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite locomotives in my HO collection
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite items in my HO collection
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite fife tunes
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1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The system map for my railroad
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite locomotives in my HO collection
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite items in my HO collection
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite fife tunes
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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the irony is that "gentrifier" is a pejorative mostly used by people who are demanding legal reforms grant them permanent rent of some kind for either 1) doing nothing, 2) doing the unnecessary, or 3) owning land, or being located in a certain place -- ie, people demanding to be made gentry
the reaction from the TWU President:
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
the irony is that "gentrifier" is a pejorative mostly used by people who are demanding legal reforms grant them permanent rent of some kind for either 1) doing nothing, 2) doing the unnecessary, or 3) owning land, or being located in a certain place -- ie, people demanding to be made gentry
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Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
December 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
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Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
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Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...
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My painting CALIFORNIA POPPIES
Doors close tonight!
Learn to paint stunning landscapes like this.
Doors close tonight!
Learn to paint stunning landscapes like this.
December 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My painting CALIFORNIA POPPIES
Doors close tonight!
Learn to paint stunning landscapes like this.
Doors close tonight!
Learn to paint stunning landscapes like this.
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The problem with this piece, like all the other pieces, is that the missing hed, dek, & lede is that all of this was wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. This is how you normalize lawless authoritarianism - treat like just another story in our politics. “Transformation” is lazy euphemism.
This WaPo piece weaves together an incredibly powerful story about the way Trump has devastated government and the dedicated people who wake up every day to serve the public. wapo.st/4b14KAy
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
wapo.st
December 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The problem with this piece, like all the other pieces, is that the missing hed, dek, & lede is that all of this was wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. This is how you normalize lawless authoritarianism - treat like just another story in our politics. “Transformation” is lazy euphemism.
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This is just gutter white nationalist agitprop from Stephen Miller. A good time to read our deep dive into Miller's ideological fanaticism (see below)
December 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is just gutter white nationalist agitprop from Stephen Miller. A good time to read our deep dive into Miller's ideological fanaticism (see below)
Don’t forget to vote in my poll!
Lets do something fun for the festive season: What would you like me to post?
1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The system map for my railroad
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite locomotives in my HO collection
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite items in my HO collection
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite fife tunes
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1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">The system map for my railroad
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite locomotives in my HO collection
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite items in my HO collection
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/fDQuHr/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">My 5 favorite fife tunes
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December 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Don’t forget to vote in my poll!
Libertarian talking points, but leftisty.
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Libertarian talking points, but leftisty.
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The screwworm outbreak predates the current administration, & USDA is still fighting it in partnership with Mexico & Central American countries. DOGE remains as pernicious as ever but this simply isn't their doing
December 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The screwworm outbreak predates the current administration, & USDA is still fighting it in partnership with Mexico & Central American countries. DOGE remains as pernicious as ever but this simply isn't their doing
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Trump crash economy
“.. based on the data we have to date; it looks like manufacturing is experiencing more of a slump than is generally recognized ..”
@deanbaker13.bsky.social
cepr.net/publications...
@deanbaker13.bsky.social
cepr.net/publications...
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Trump crash economy
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When you see Republicans using grants for weird sounding animal experiments as a justification to cut research funding, this is what they are using
By combining 8 different nanobodies isolated from alpacas and llamas following immunization with snake venom - this research team has produced an antivenom that not only protects against 17 different snake venoms but also protects from tissue local damage, a major problem associated with bites.
Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites
Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent cocktail.
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
When you see Republicans using grants for weird sounding animal experiments as a justification to cut research funding, this is what they are using
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I don’t think you can blame “profit driven private equity” for refugees arriving in the US without housing lined up.
Yeah no it is your responsibility as a poster to make sure you don't post sentences like "lots of people moved to the US without setting up housing" if what you really mean is "recent immigrants are being priced out of housing by profit driven private equity"
The latter properly places the blame.
The latter properly places the blame.
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I don’t think you can blame “profit driven private equity” for refugees arriving in the US without housing lined up.
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honestly, “it’s because they’re still mad about the New Deal” is a pretty good guiding hypothesis for a lot of stuff
The standard story was that 1950s religious revivals were about contrasting America with the godless commies of the USSR, but I found material that hinted at an older well funded campaign that reframed the revival as a corporate pushback against the New Deal.
So I followed that unexpected thread!
So I followed that unexpected thread!
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
honestly, “it’s because they’re still mad about the New Deal” is a pretty good guiding hypothesis for a lot of stuff
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Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
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Nothing that Lonnie Bunch does, in response to the Trump administration's demands, will matter because this has nothing at all to do with a legitimate review of museum programs and exhibits. This is about politics pure and simple. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review
It is not clear on what authority the administration could withhold Smithsonian funds, as President Trump tries to purge “woke” content from cultural institutions.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Nothing that Lonnie Bunch does, in response to the Trump administration's demands, will matter because this has nothing at all to do with a legitimate review of museum programs and exhibits. This is about politics pure and simple. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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imo the actual threat to capital-A America is not the Trump administration but that the Trump administration's behaviors will not be disincentivized enough
flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken
flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken
Stuff like this will obviously be very easy to undo and clearly will be undone, like it would be totally non-controversial even with the most milquetoast new Dem POTUS you could imagine, but it is genuinely just Not Good when even the basic names of institutions start ping ponging every 4-8 years
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
December 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
imo the actual threat to capital-A America is not the Trump administration but that the Trump administration's behaviors will not be disincentivized enough
flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken
flip-flopping back and forth between breaking things and fixing things every 4-8 years means eventually it'll stay broken
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The mistake we made was allowing the media to normalize this shit. Journalism is supposed to be the watchdog against this sort of evil and it failed miserably thanks to its corporate ownership
December 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The mistake we made was allowing the media to normalize this shit. Journalism is supposed to be the watchdog against this sort of evil and it failed miserably thanks to its corporate ownership
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I've a copy of the US Constitution which I have reshelved with my fiction books
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I've a copy of the US Constitution which I have reshelved with my fiction books
I literally had a “radical leftist” unironically tell me on here it was Biden/Harris’s job to break the law, launch a coup, and disappear their political opponents. I didn’t really continue the conversation beyond that, because how can you explain to that kind of person their solution is bad.
I really don't care what Joe Biden did or did not do. I'm making a point about the responsibility of voters to keep the fascist party out of power.
December 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I literally had a “radical leftist” unironically tell me on here it was Biden/Harris’s job to break the law, launch a coup, and disappear their political opponents. I didn’t really continue the conversation beyond that, because how can you explain to that kind of person their solution is bad.