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Derek Miller
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Theater historian. Little League coach. Cruciverbalist.
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These are, and always have been, just straight up murders. Everyone must be held accountable.

No legal blah blah. No "but National Security!" No "just following orders."

These are murders.
November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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They want the names of everyone who attended a listening session or filled out an online survey?? So much fascism.
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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The credulity from @nytimes.com is absolutely mind-blowing. Of course it was this asshole who called ICE! Who else would have done it? Why that one spot?
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Not sure if this made it into any of Wolff's books:
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Epstein advising Michael Wolff on how Woody Allen should respond to 2018 stories accusing Allen of molesting Dylan Farrow.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Here are Epstein and a NYTimes reporter expressing bafflement that @nytimes.com has not contacted Epstein during the 2016 campaign, nor pursued the many leads Epstein gave to Thomas (in other emails) to pass on.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Here he's chatting with Steven Bannon about ... something crypto?
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Here's Epstein messaging his (eventual) estate trustee about the financial plight an ex-girlfriend of "Bill" who's the "richest man in the world." (So, presumably, Gates.)
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Is it known that Trump was scheduled to be deposed in a Jane Doe lawsuit involving Epstein and Maxwell in August, 2009? @pbump.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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(From today's Times updates.)
The language of the bill states that “any senator whose Senate data, or the Senate data of whose Senate office, has been acquired, subpoenaed, searched, accessed, or disclosed in violation of this section may bring a civil action against the United States if the violation was committed by an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or of any Federal department or agency.” Because the provision is retroactive to 2022, it would appear to make eligible the eight lawmakers whose phone records were subpoenaed by investigators for Mr. Smith as he examined efforts by Donald J. Trump to obstruct the results of the 2020 presidential election. Each violation would be worth at least $500,000 in any legal claim, according to the bill language. The bill would also sharply limit the way the government could resist such a claim, taking away any government claims of qualified or sovereign immunity to fight a lawsuit over the issue.
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Uh.
A spending package expected to be approved as part of a deal to reopen the government would create a wide legal avenue for senators to sue for as much as half a million dollars each when federal investigators search their phone records without notifying them. The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight G.O.P. senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith, the former special counsel, into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The provision would make it a violation of the law to not notify a senator if their phone records or other metadata was taken from a service provider like a phone company. There are some exceptions, such as 60-day delays in notification if the senator is considered the target of an investigation.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Somehow or other we must get into the Government men who can match our enemies in fighting spirit, in daring, in resolution and in thirst for victory. Some 300 years ago, when this House found that its troops were being beaten again and again by the dash and daring of the Cavaliers, by Prince Rupert's Cavalry, Oliver Cromwell spoke to John Hampden. In one of his speeches he recounted what he said. It was this: I said to him, 'Your troops are most of them old, decayed serving men and tapsters and such kind of fellows.'…You must get men of a spirit that are likely to go as far as they will go, or you will be beaten still. It may not be easy to find these men. They can be found only by trial and by ruthlessly discarding all who fail and have their failings discovered. We are fighting to-day for our life, for our liberty, for our all; we cannot go on being led as we are. I have quoted certain words of Oliver Cromwell. I will quote certain other words. I do it with great reluctance, because I am speaking of those who are old friends and associates of mine, but they are words which, I think, are applicable to the present situation. This is what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Leo Amery's 1940 speech in the Commons, which basically forced Chamberlain out of office, is worth revisiting:
What I would say, however, is this: Just as our peace-time system is unsuitable for war conditions, so does it tend to breed peace-time statesmen who are not too well fitted for the conduct of war. Facility in debate, ability to state a case, caution in advancing an unpopular view, compromise and procrastination are the natural qualities—I might almost say, virtues—of a political leader in time of peace. They are fatal qualities in war. Vision, daring, swiftness and consistency of 1150decision are the very essence of victory. In our normal politics, it is true, the conflict of party did encourage a certain combative spirit. In the last war we Tories found that the most perniciously aggressive of our opponents, the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, was not only aggressive in words, but was a man of action. In recent years the normal weakness of our political life has been accentuated by a coalition based upon no clear political principles. It was in fact begotten of a false alarm as to the disastrous results of going off the Gold Standard. It is a coalition which has been living ever since in a twilight atmosphere between Protection and Free Trade and between unprepared collective security and unprepared isolation. Surely, for the Government of the last 10 years to have bred a band of warrior statesmen would have been little short of a miracle. We have waited for eight months, and the miracle has not come to pass. Can we afford to wait any longer?
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Live from Cornell's campus:
Neville Chamberlain brandishes the Munich agreement after appeasing Hitler.
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I don't want to beat up on social sciences. I think they're really important! But as a humanist, reading that key ideas in psychology are outright fabrications makes me super mad that "the humanities are dying." We lost our students to this bullshit? At least the fiction we read is well-written.
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Good job, Wikipedia.
Andrew Mark Cuomo[a] (born December 6, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of New York. A member of the Democratic Party and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, Cuomo served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021 following numerous sexual misconduct allegations. In 2025, Cuomo ran for Mayor of New York City as an independent, having lost the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani. He would go on to lose to Mamdani again in the general election.
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Not sure it's clear from reporting, but it's basically impossible to see the East Wing destruction from the street. Security barriers and trees block viewpoints almost entirely.
October 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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The first two paragraphs:
I was hired​ as an assassin. You don’t bring in a 37-year-old woman to review John Updike in the year of our Lord 2019 unless you’re hoping to see blood on the ceiling. ‘Absolutely not,’ I said when first approached, because I knew I would try to read everything, and fail, and spend days trying to write an adequate description of his nostrils, and all I would be left with after months of standing tiptoe on the balance beam of objectivity and fair assessment would be a letter to the editor from some guy named Norbert accusing me of cutting off a great man’s dong in print. But then the editors cornered me drunk at a party, and here we are. One woman, informed of my project, visibly retched over her quail. ‘No, listen,’ I told her, ‘there is something there. People write well about him,’ and I saw the red line of her estimation plunge like the Dow Jones. ‘Didn’t he write that thing,’ someone else said, ‘about how women don’t know how to piss, because their insides are too complicated?’ (Yes, in multiple books. It is at best puzzling, and at worst an indictment of both Pennsylvania public schools and Harvard.) ‘Please tell me you’re writing something about Updike’s 9/11 book,’ another said. ‘Can’t do that,’ I responded, ‘because I’m pretty sure I would die while reading it, and that would be another victim for 9/11.’ Taste and tact had departed hand in hand; I had been reading too much John Hoyer Updike.
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Dhuhr prayer time. Eleanor watches thoughtfully.
October 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Picture of a half-inflated purple hippo costume.
October 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Please attend a No Kings rally tomorrow. I will wear an inflatable hippo. Just bring yourself. And everyone else you know who values living in a democracy.

A slightly modified Baldwin prophecy:
Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we—and now I mean the relatively conscious [whatever their other beliefs], who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others—do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the [fascist] nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not now dare everything the fulfillment of that prophecy recreated from the Bible in a song by a slave is upon us. God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time.
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Oh, and I grabbed some pretty good bagels down the block.
Bag of Kossar's bagels.
October 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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It's the Islamic Cultural Center of New York. One of the main prayer sites for taxi drivers working in Manhattan. And I've no doubt Eleanor Roosevelt would LOVE that view for what it says about humans' ability to live together across differences.
Entrance and awning to The Islamic Cultural Center of New York, which is across Riverside Drive from the statue.
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Today in "My country is NYC" (@cjsprigman.bsky.social's coinage): You can contemplate what Eleanor Roosevelt lived through. How she fought against evil and for a country that valued everyone for their humanity. And you wonder what she's looking at. (1/3)
Statue of Eleanor Roosevelt at 72nd St and Riverside Drive, NYC. She is looking off to the right of the image.
October 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM