Scott Derrickson
@sderrickson.bsky.social
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That's actually an understatement. Even when presented with cold, hard data proving otherwise, people still argue that that basically everything is worse than it used to be!
www.gapminder.org/factfulness-...
www.gapminder.org/factfulness-...
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
That's actually an understatement. Even when presented with cold, hard data proving otherwise, people still argue that that basically everything is worse than it used to be!
www.gapminder.org/factfulness-...
www.gapminder.org/factfulness-...
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The standard of living jump from my grandmother (yeoman farming family, well off esp in the Depression) to my mother (baby boom) is legitimately just insane
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The standard of living jump from my grandmother (yeoman farming family, well off esp in the Depression) to my mother (baby boom) is legitimately just insane
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I love this website.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I love this website.
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Whoever had a corn dog and thought we need a breakfast version of this with a pancake wrapped around a sausage link on a stick deserves the best head a person can give
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Whoever had a corn dog and thought we need a breakfast version of this with a pancake wrapped around a sausage link on a stick deserves the best head a person can give
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Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
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I mean the Jar Jar is a Sith lord was legit the greatest bit of plotting in the entire franchise so far and it wasn't even in the franchise
It’s wild, people pretending they loved Jar Jar Binks
One of the funniest things about getting older is watching people my age succumb to nostalgia about these terrible films.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I mean the Jar Jar is a Sith lord was legit the greatest bit of plotting in the entire franchise so far and it wasn't even in the franchise
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incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests
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Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.
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IMO: The Senate itself is probably also an issue here. The GOP couldn’t let this gone on thru the holidays. Breaking the filibuster would be the likely way out. Doing this deal protects the 60 vote rule, which is a huge leverage point for every vote between 50-60 in the US Senate (ie the moderates).
For a lot of senators they have people yelling in one ear about airline delays and food stamps and a bunch of other cascading problems and in the other about health care. Ds who flipped say it’s clear Rs were never going to give them what they wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
IMO: The Senate itself is probably also an issue here. The GOP couldn’t let this gone on thru the holidays. Breaking the filibuster would be the likely way out. Doing this deal protects the 60 vote rule, which is a huge leverage point for every vote between 50-60 in the US Senate (ie the moderates).
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It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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i think the argument the cavers should’ve made/should make is “i couldn’t let people starve - we made a run thinking they would fold on aca, but trump really is that psychotic”
that’s an argument i think people could respect, but the won’t even make it
that’s an argument i think people could respect, but the won’t even make it
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
i think the argument the cavers should’ve made/should make is “i couldn’t let people starve - we made a run thinking they would fold on aca, but trump really is that psychotic”
that’s an argument i think people could respect, but the won’t even make it
that’s an argument i think people could respect, but the won’t even make it
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I have to hand it to Democrats. I'm one of the feds working and not getting paid and they manage to make reopening the government feel worse than the alternative.
Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?
Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?
Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I have to hand it to Democrats. I'm one of the feds working and not getting paid and they manage to make reopening the government feel worse than the alternative.
Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?
Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?
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I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
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The Anglo consensus of the first half of 2010s was that where continental Europeans were endemically subject to crises and demagoguery, "we" were distinctly were more enlightened. Cameron's Britain. Obama's America. Ponderous essays about Magna Carta and the "golden thread".
How wrong it all was.
How wrong it all was.
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Anglo consensus of the first half of 2010s was that where continental Europeans were endemically subject to crises and demagoguery, "we" were distinctly were more enlightened. Cameron's Britain. Obama's America. Ponderous essays about Magna Carta and the "golden thread".
How wrong it all was.
How wrong it all was.
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Anyway I think one reason I'm not that mad at these guys is we already knew they were the wrong people for this moment. A party trying to carry on with business as usual in the face of autocracy won't survive. They're sitting in a burning house and commissioning polls on how popular the fire is
If you think the president is a tyrant and you're running for office to oppose him the only platform you can have is "Give us enough votes to impeach and remove this menace." Otherwise what's the point of electing you?
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Anyway I think one reason I'm not that mad at these guys is we already knew they were the wrong people for this moment. A party trying to carry on with business as usual in the face of autocracy won't survive. They're sitting in a burning house and commissioning polls on how popular the fire is
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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I’m not going to let the incompetence of our government take away from from the fact that it is very funny Aaron Rodgers is eating shit tonight
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I’m not going to let the incompetence of our government take away from from the fact that it is very funny Aaron Rodgers is eating shit tonight
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Only half joking when I say this is affirming care and the gender is “asshole.”
someone's already writing a take about how making light of this offends the vast majority of americans who aspire to look like their faces were rendered using the super fx chip
D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in "Mar‑a‑Lago face" requests from Trump insiders
"[They] want to look like they had something done."
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Only half joking when I say this is affirming care and the gender is “asshole.”
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this is the trump guy urtext
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
this is the trump guy urtext
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"the median age of new homebuyers now is higher than the median age of repeat homebuyers in the 80s" is a crazy stat and also goes a good way towards explaining the huge age difference between your average YIMBY and average NIMBYs
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"the median age of new homebuyers now is higher than the median age of repeat homebuyers in the 80s" is a crazy stat and also goes a good way towards explaining the huge age difference between your average YIMBY and average NIMBYs
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part of the rage is that Ds seem to be lying about why they did this as well as lying about which senators wanted this.
like, the reasons for doing it are contradictory and nonsensical; claiming they won something on health care when they didn't; saying they won things that were already law.
like, the reasons for doing it are contradictory and nonsensical; claiming they won something on health care when they didn't; saying they won things that were already law.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
part of the rage is that Ds seem to be lying about why they did this as well as lying about which senators wanted this.
like, the reasons for doing it are contradictory and nonsensical; claiming they won something on health care when they didn't; saying they won things that were already law.
like, the reasons for doing it are contradictory and nonsensical; claiming they won something on health care when they didn't; saying they won things that were already law.