Derek Miller
@visualizingbroadway.com
Theater historian. Little League coach. Cruciverbalist. American citizen opposed to tyranny.
Nothing personal, but these athletes should be banned from the games. No USA at the Olympics.
January 18, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Nothing personal, but these athletes should be banned from the games. No USA at the Olympics.
They're so serious they're still sending teams to the World Cup. And planning to compete against US athletes in the Olympics.
January 18, 2026 at 2:23 AM
They're so serious they're still sending teams to the World Cup. And planning to compete against US athletes in the Olympics.
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More public restrooms across our city?
Relief for all New Yorkers.
Relief for all New Yorkers.
January 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
More public restrooms across our city?
Relief for all New Yorkers.
Relief for all New Yorkers.
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Examining Ben Franklin's impact on what would be his 320th birthday
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
youtu.be
January 17, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Examining Ben Franklin's impact on what would be his 320th birthday
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
youtu.be
January 17, 2026 at 8:52 PM
"If only Heinz had made 10 more varieties!"
Report from the Front Lines of 6–7, while living with an 8-year-old
Report from the Front Lines of 6–7, while living with an 8-year-old
January 17, 2026 at 7:17 PM
"If only Heinz had made 10 more varieties!"
Report from the Front Lines of 6–7, while living with an 8-year-old
Report from the Front Lines of 6–7, while living with an 8-year-old
Things seem kinda bad in this country.
Is This What It Looks Like?
By "it" I mean the second part of the Civil War.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Things seem kinda bad in this country.
"Why aren't you yelling about anti-authoritarian protests overseas?"
Dude, we're busy dealing with the authoritarianism here. Solidarity with the Iranian people who want free from their theocracy. But I've got 30 seconds to leave a message for Schumer. I'm focusing on our criminals.
Dude, we're busy dealing with the authoritarianism here. Solidarity with the Iranian people who want free from their theocracy. But I've got 30 seconds to leave a message for Schumer. I'm focusing on our criminals.
Oh cool, he emerges from the anti-woke bunker to sound off on “the left”
January 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM
"Why aren't you yelling about anti-authoritarian protests overseas?"
Dude, we're busy dealing with the authoritarianism here. Solidarity with the Iranian people who want free from their theocracy. But I've got 30 seconds to leave a message for Schumer. I'm focusing on our criminals.
Dude, we're busy dealing with the authoritarianism here. Solidarity with the Iranian people who want free from their theocracy. But I've got 30 seconds to leave a message for Schumer. I'm focusing on our criminals.
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block immediately everyone
✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
block immediately everyone
Why don't they just sign up to join ICE, so they can make things better by putting "good" officers in the field?
It makes about as much sense as whatever the fuck this strategy is.
It makes about as much sense as whatever the fuck this strategy is.
🚨NEWS: Senate Dems are reportedly offering ICE funding increases in exchange for body cams and de-escalation training for agents.
Body cams can be turned off. De-escalation training can be ignored.
Unclear if no masks, requiring ID badges, and no immunity is on the table.
Body cams can be turned off. De-escalation training can be ignored.
Unclear if no masks, requiring ID badges, and no immunity is on the table.
January 16, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Why don't they just sign up to join ICE, so they can make things better by putting "good" officers in the field?
It makes about as much sense as whatever the fuck this strategy is.
It makes about as much sense as whatever the fuck this strategy is.
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Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Some explain to Schumer that it's not great if insurance is mildly affordable for all Americans but "all Americans" means only white Christian nationalists. I know ACA is THE BIG DEMOCRATIC THING. I know Rs are fucking it up. But they run the government! Let them fuck this up! Fight the fascism!
January 16, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Some explain to Schumer that it's not great if insurance is mildly affordable for all Americans but "all Americans" means only white Christian nationalists. I know ACA is THE BIG DEMOCRATIC THING. I know Rs are fucking it up. But they run the government! Let them fuck this up! Fight the fascism!
I actually can't imagine being this much of a piece of shit human being. I suppose, in some way, it's a failure of imagination on my behalf? That I can't fathom treating other human beings with this much contempt.
January 16, 2026 at 3:06 AM
I actually can't imagine being this much of a piece of shit human being. I suppose, in some way, it's a failure of imagination on my behalf? That I can't fathom treating other human beings with this much contempt.
When you're being eaten by wolves, you have to cry "wolf!"
January 15, 2026 at 11:42 PM
When you're being eaten by wolves, you have to cry "wolf!"
Every day I wake up, worried the Democratic Party might take a clear, forceful stand against our authoritarian regime. Thank God for Chuck Schumer, tho. He'll keep politics within normal bounds come hell or high water or a fucking paramilitary force in US cities.
January 15, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Every day I wake up, worried the Democratic Party might take a clear, forceful stand against our authoritarian regime. Thank God for Chuck Schumer, tho. He'll keep politics within normal bounds come hell or high water or a fucking paramilitary force in US cities.
Free speech. Unless you're incarcerated in Arkansas. Then you're not even allowed to read a physical book.
A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated
Arkansas set to impose nation’s strictest ban on sending books, magazines to prisons | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcer...
www.arkansasonline.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Free speech. Unless you're incarcerated in Arkansas. Then you're not even allowed to read a physical book.
This is the most Jim Jordan bullshit I've ever heard. The entire population of Minnesota is resisting a federal assault on their city to distract from fraud cases that are being (or have been) prosecuted? This fucking guy.
Rep. Jim Jordan: "The people in Minnesota are trying to distract from the 15 year fraud scams that were going on. That's exactly what's going on."
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
This is the most Jim Jordan bullshit I've ever heard. The entire population of Minnesota is resisting a federal assault on their city to distract from fraud cases that are being (or have been) prosecuted? This fucking guy.
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Suski was 1 of 17 law profs who filed an amicus brief (which is very modest and fact-specific in its arguments) in the recently argued SCOTUS case about transgender athletes in K-12 sports. Her firing is a direct, unconstitutional attack on free speech, academic freedom, and a pluralistic society.
The University of Arkansas's law school just withdrew the appointment of its new dean six days after hiring her because conservative politicians complained that she filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of transgender students
Culture warriors cancel new U of A law dean before she started - Arkansas Times
Culture warriors claim the scalp of Emily Suski, the would-be law school dean whose legal opinion on transgender athletes seems to have offended Arkansas officials.
arktimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Suski was 1 of 17 law profs who filed an amicus brief (which is very modest and fact-specific in its arguments) in the recently argued SCOTUS case about transgender athletes in K-12 sports. Her firing is a direct, unconstitutional attack on free speech, academic freedom, and a pluralistic society.
"A frantic tantrum unconvincingly dressing itself up as an act of stern paternal discipline, and a screen-addled movement of hair-trigger illiterates that has lost the ability to do anything but react, generating new scenes to react to."
This is outstanding.
This is outstanding.
Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector
Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...
defector.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
"A frantic tantrum unconvincingly dressing itself up as an act of stern paternal discipline, and a screen-addled movement of hair-trigger illiterates that has lost the ability to do anything but react, generating new scenes to react to."
This is outstanding.
This is outstanding.
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The United States is now an unequivocally bad actor on the global stage. The international community should treat us like one.
Boycott the World Cup in the USA
An open letter to liberal democracies around the world.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
The United States is now an unequivocally bad actor on the global stage. The international community should treat us like one.
Oh, good. I was wondering what fresh hell would horrify me this morning. Found it!
We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.”
The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
insidemedicine.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Oh, good. I was wondering what fresh hell would horrify me this morning. Found it!
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This dude is intense and correct
January 15, 2026 at 9:05 AM
This dude is intense and correct
Drew does righteous anger very well. (If you need morning catharsis.)
Good morning. JD Vance is a piece of shit. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
JD Vance is a piece of s—t
We can't let the vice president off the hook.
www.sfgate.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Drew does righteous anger very well. (If you need morning catharsis.)
The federal war on American cities is entering more persistently violent phase.
Based on the City of Minneapolis and confirmed by a friend in the city, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been involved in another shooting in the northern part of the city, two people shot by ICE officer(s). Situation is developing, more information to come.
January 15, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The federal war on American cities is entering more persistently violent phase.
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people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us
January 14, 2026 at 11:09 PM
people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us