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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I always wondered, when I read Suetonius, how everyone could put up with Caligula for so long.
I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
January 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I always wondered, when I read Suetonius, how everyone could put up with Caligula for so long.
I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.
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That conservative influencer guy has fewer than a dozen people at his “rally”?
🤣
(Also: thank God.)
🤣
(Also: thank God.)
Counterprotesters vastly outnumber Jake Lang's anti-Islam group in downtown Minneapolis. bit.ly/4qlze56
📷️: Alex Kormann
📷️: Alex Kormann
January 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM
That conservative influencer guy has fewer than a dozen people at his “rally”?
🤣
(Also: thank God.)
🤣
(Also: thank God.)
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We are seeing in real-time exactly how important local leaders are and will continue to be as long as Trump is in office. Considering stepping up to run this year - in most places, it’s not too late. runforwhat.net
Where Can I Run by Run for Something
Take the next step: Look up offices you can run for
runforwhat.net
January 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
We are seeing in real-time exactly how important local leaders are and will continue to be as long as Trump is in office. Considering stepping up to run this year - in most places, it’s not too late. runforwhat.net
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In Gaza, everyone instantly understood Israel’s retaliation would be one thousand times more violent, destructive and murderous than the initial very violent attack. So it was time to hit those leftist traitors with a crushing attack, everything in the arsenal at unprecedented intensity.
January 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In Gaza, everyone instantly understood Israel’s retaliation would be one thousand times more violent, destructive and murderous than the initial very violent attack. So it was time to hit those leftist traitors with a crushing attack, everything in the arsenal at unprecedented intensity.
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They say this stuff for the same reason every grim 7 October atrocity was pored over (especially the invented ones), why regime-enemy MPs being chased down the street by news camera crews, and so on: things may be about to get much more violent, and we need to invalidate objections now.
January 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
They say this stuff for the same reason every grim 7 October atrocity was pored over (especially the invented ones), why regime-enemy MPs being chased down the street by news camera crews, and so on: things may be about to get much more violent, and we need to invalidate objections now.
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the fact that Republican senators like Schmitt can’t even write a fascist screed on their own and instead have to rely on chatGPT perfectly captures the unique combination of evil and stupid that defines the modern Republican Party
January 17, 2026 at 7:16 PM
the fact that Republican senators like Schmitt can’t even write a fascist screed on their own and instead have to rely on chatGPT perfectly captures the unique combination of evil and stupid that defines the modern Republican Party
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DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
January 17, 2026 at 6:57 PM
DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.
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That it's not going to happen, because Juan Linz was right & also we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, with a totally nonfunctional Congress led by oath-violating authoritarian lackeys, doesn't change the fact that we are here now.
January 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
That it's not going to happen, because Juan Linz was right & also we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, with a totally nonfunctional Congress led by oath-violating authoritarian lackeys, doesn't change the fact that we are here now.
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We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.
Today in 2026 sentences.
Today in 2026 sentences.
January 17, 2026 at 7:28 PM
We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.
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Again, even if they do, Congress doesn't need to accept their bullish*t & should rewrite IEEPA. And again, even if they do, WTO rules don't allow it, & even if you argue they do under Art. XXI (www.wto.org/english/res_...), it violates NATO treaty obligations & requires immediate impeachment/removal
Also wondering where Trump derives the legal authority to impose tariffs on US allies because one of them is not willing to let the US steal its territory? Supreme Court is about to rule on tariffs. Will they sanction the use of tariffs as tools of territorial aggression?
Apparently the “survival of our planet” rests on whether Trump can annex a frostbitten island with 57,000 inhabitants that has been part of Denmark for hundreds of years.
January 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Again, even if they do, Congress doesn't need to accept their bullish*t & should rewrite IEEPA. And again, even if they do, WTO rules don't allow it, & even if you argue they do under Art. XXI (www.wto.org/english/res_...), it violates NATO treaty obligations & requires immediate impeachment/removal
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His politeness is IRRELEVANT to the fact that driving out to question a US citizen over a post that couldn’t possibly be construed as threatening takes a wrecking ball to the First Amendment.
Your blissful acceptance of this activity is in fact the actual problem with much of America.
Your blissful acceptance of this activity is in fact the actual problem with much of America.
Dude was polite not trying to be intimidating, answered Qi’s with “I am supposed to ask that Question”. when someone is nice, professional and helpful as he was at the end you look like a giant asshole posting as if this guy was somehow bad. U are part of the problem fo shizzle.
January 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
His politeness is IRRELEVANT to the fact that driving out to question a US citizen over a post that couldn’t possibly be construed as threatening takes a wrecking ball to the First Amendment.
Your blissful acceptance of this activity is in fact the actual problem with much of America.
Your blissful acceptance of this activity is in fact the actual problem with much of America.
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Here’s the video of this giant Secret Service oh so gently intimidating a US citizen over making mild expressions of free political speech
January 17, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Here’s the video of this giant Secret Service oh so gently intimidating a US citizen over making mild expressions of free political speech
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This anodyne tweet led the weaponized Secret Police, er, Secret Service to send a fettermanesque agent to Jamie’s door, stating it was a veiled threat of violence and interrogating her about her affiliations and whether she had “weapons in the house.”
We’re not waiting for fascism.
It’s been here.
We’re not waiting for fascism.
It’s been here.
January 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM
This anodyne tweet led the weaponized Secret Police, er, Secret Service to send a fettermanesque agent to Jamie’s door, stating it was a veiled threat of violence and interrogating her about her affiliations and whether she had “weapons in the house.”
We’re not waiting for fascism.
It’s been here.
We’re not waiting for fascism.
It’s been here.
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We must unconstitutionally impose more taxes on Americans because the threat of illegal aggression against a heretofore American ally hasn't worked out as smoothly as we imagined.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
We must unconstitutionally impose more taxes on Americans because the threat of illegal aggression against a heretofore American ally hasn't worked out as smoothly as we imagined.
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If I thought I could get away with writing a piece on how the current chaotic, completely unserious, but utterly vicious mode of Trump administration policy making is "gooning towards the Fuhrer," I would.
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:13 PM
If I thought I could get away with writing a piece on how the current chaotic, completely unserious, but utterly vicious mode of Trump administration policy making is "gooning towards the Fuhrer," I would.
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lol "complete and total purchase" ... tumble down degenerate
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
lol "complete and total purchase" ... tumble down degenerate
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More detail in this article:
www.conspirator0.com/p/spamtastic...
www.conspirator0.com/p/spamtastic...
Spamtastic T-shirt sales
Some spam operations are highly sophisticated and clearly involve significant effort on the part of their operators, but not this one
www.conspirator0.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
More detail in this article:
www.conspirator0.com/p/spamtastic...
www.conspirator0.com/p/spamtastic...
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While the spam accounts primarily follow random liberal and leftist Bluesky users, almost all of them also follow "Anna Guns", a Bluesky account with a default profile image and (presently) no real followers. This account's sole post is a link to the same T-shirt site promoted by the spam accounts.
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
While the spam accounts primarily follow random liberal and leftist Bluesky users, almost all of them also follow "Anna Guns", a Bluesky account with a default profile image and (presently) no real followers. This account's sole post is a link to the same T-shirt site promoted by the spam accounts.
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The accounts that posted the T-shirt ads, along with the accounts with duplicate photos amplifying them, are part of a spam network consisting of (at least) 31 accounts created between Jan 14th-16th, 2026. All have handles using the myatproto(dot)social domain rather than bsky(dot)social.
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
The accounts that posted the T-shirt ads, along with the accounts with duplicate photos amplifying them, are part of a spam network consisting of (at least) 31 accounts created between Jan 14th-16th, 2026. All have handles using the myatproto(dot)social domain rather than bsky(dot)social.
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The spammy aspects of these two posts are not limited to the identical wording; many of the accounts that reposted or liked the T-shirt posts have identical (plagiarized) profile photos.
January 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The spammy aspects of these two posts are not limited to the identical wording; many of the accounts that reposted or liked the T-shirt posts have identical (plagiarized) profile photos.
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In a fascinating coincidence, both of these accounts "just saw these T-shirts hit the clearance section" and posted about it using the exact same words.
This "coincidence", of course, isn't a coincidence - it's spam.
This "coincidence", of course, isn't a coincidence - it's spam.
January 17, 2026 at 8:38 PM
In a fascinating coincidence, both of these accounts "just saw these T-shirts hit the clearance section" and posted about it using the exact same words.
This "coincidence", of course, isn't a coincidence - it's spam.
This "coincidence", of course, isn't a coincidence - it's spam.
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This week's comic on the radical libertarian fantasies of colonizing Greenland
January 17, 2026 at 7:18 PM
This week's comic on the radical libertarian fantasies of colonizing Greenland
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wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
Opinion | This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:28 PM
wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.
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I’m old enough to remember when “Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” was a Chico Marx line. And I recall when “… or your lyin’ eyes” was a Richard Pryor bit. Now it appears to be official administration policy.
January 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I’m old enough to remember when “Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?” was a Chico Marx line. And I recall when “… or your lyin’ eyes” was a Richard Pryor bit. Now it appears to be official administration policy.
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Especially people who think trans people are scary. They turn out to be very bad at threat assessment.
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
January 17, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Especially people who think trans people are scary. They turn out to be very bad at threat assessment.