DR Darke
@drdarkeny.bsky.social
Freelance screenwriter and videomaker; largely retired & hoping to make what I love doing pay.
Ex-Christian Conservative turned Libertarian turned Leftist. Recovering alcoholic, ex-smoker.
$65K+ into a divorce.... 🙀
Ex-Christian Conservative turned Libertarian turned Leftist. Recovering alcoholic, ex-smoker.
$65K+ into a divorce.... 🙀
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It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
NEW: Alan Dershowitz tells Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor "You are a real mensch:" Newly released emails show that Florida federal prosecutors had "social" meetings with Epstein's lawyers as they worked to mitigate the sex trafficker's sentence. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
As Epstein’s cushy jail sentence raised concerns, his lawyers went on charm offensive
The Epstein Files show how his attorneys mixed personal and business relationships with prosecutors who had agreed to settle Epstein’s case.
www.miamiherald.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
Here’s the latest segment of Model Behavior: A Kinky Kills Novel. It’s three chapters because it’s taken me a while, and trying to get AI to generate the photos I wanted took nearly as long as writing it!
Have a great holiday, whichever you celebrate!
open.substack.com/pub/drdarken...
Have a great holiday, whichever you celebrate!
open.substack.com/pub/drdarken...
EROTIC FICTION: Model Behavior
A "Kinky Kills" Novel
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Here’s the latest segment of Model Behavior: A Kinky Kills Novel. It’s three chapters because it’s taken me a while, and trying to get AI to generate the photos I wanted took nearly as long as writing it!
Have a great holiday, whichever you celebrate!
open.substack.com/pub/drdarken...
Have a great holiday, whichever you celebrate!
open.substack.com/pub/drdarken...
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Just a random reminder in the middle of our fundraiser: Bari Weiss is not our editor in chief and we've been calling out CECOT as a concentration camp and an inhumane hellhole for quite some time.
If you'd like to support independent news orgs that don't kowtow to the gov't & billionaires...
If you'd like to support independent news orgs that don't kowtow to the gov't & billionaires...
Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief
If you're wondering what independent journalism that won't bend to White House pressure looks like, you're looking at it. On Sunday night, CBS News' newly imported "editor in chief," Bari Weiss, killed a 60 Minutes story about Trump's…
If you're wondering what independent journalism that won't bend to White House pressure looks like, you're looking at it. On Sunday night, CBS News' newly imported "editor in chief," Bari Weiss, killed a 60 Minutes story about Trump's…
Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief
If you're wondering what independent journalism that won't bend to White House pressure looks like, you're looking at it. On Sunday night, CBS News' newly imported "editor in chief," Bari Weiss, killed a 60 Minutes story about Trump's illegal deportations to a Salvadoran concentration camp—hours before it was set to air. Why? Because it might upset the White House. And because Weiss apparently doesn't understand how television production works, she waited so long to kill it that it still got sent to foreign partners, meaning the story she tried to bury…
www.techdirt.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Just a random reminder in the middle of our fundraiser: Bari Weiss is not our editor in chief and we've been calling out CECOT as a concentration camp and an inhumane hellhole for quite some time.
If you'd like to support independent news orgs that don't kowtow to the gov't & billionaires...
If you'd like to support independent news orgs that don't kowtow to the gov't & billionaires...
Which might be more convincing if you weren't pulling that $548M out of the pockets of people who were largely WORKING.
Nice job, NYC, hitting people struggling to get by with Another Tax—did you get that idea from Texas?
Nice job, NYC, hitting people struggling to get by with Another Tax—did you get that idea from Texas?
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Which might be more convincing if you weren't pulling that $548M out of the pockets of people who were largely WORKING.
Nice job, NYC, hitting people struggling to get by with Another Tax—did you get that idea from Texas?
Nice job, NYC, hitting people struggling to get by with Another Tax—did you get that idea from Texas?
Authoritarianism at its stupidest.
NYT shows how Bari Weiss really screwed this up.
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
She didn't attend any of the 5 screenings of the story, which began on Dec. 12.
She only first weighed in on Thursday, and the show incorporated her suggestions.
She then waited until weekend to ask for more edits.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/b...
Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Authoritarianism at its stupidest.
No, you can't—neither can Trump, but you can't either.
Where the FUCK did Donnie Pantload FIND these scumbags, anyway?
Where the FUCK did Donnie Pantload FIND these scumbags, anyway?
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
No, you can't—neither can Trump, but you can't either.
Where the FUCK did Donnie Pantload FIND these scumbags, anyway?
Where the FUCK did Donnie Pantload FIND these scumbags, anyway?
Well, that absolutely makes no sense....
“Bizarre defensive post from DOJ saying if allegations of Trump had any credibility they would’ve been ‘weaponized’ against him. But… if they had credibility, then pursuing them, by definition, wouldn’t be weaponization.”
DOJ issues 'bizarre' disclaimer defending Trump in latest Epstein files dump
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a disclaimer warning aimed at protecting President Donald Trump amid its latest Epstein files dump.The files, approximately 30,000, comprise the third batch r...
www.alternet.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Well, that absolutely makes no sense....
I know who needs to be "stopped" a LOT worse than the NY TIMES does!
Ideally in the most personally humiliating and embarrassing way possible to drag his name through the shit in his diaper, where it belongs....
Ideally in the most personally humiliating and embarrassing way possible to drag his name through the shit in his diaper, where it belongs....
Trump is now calling the New York Times a national security threat and says they “must be dealt with and stopped.”
December 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I know who needs to be "stopped" a LOT worse than the NY TIMES does!
Ideally in the most personally humiliating and embarrassing way possible to drag his name through the shit in his diaper, where it belongs....
Ideally in the most personally humiliating and embarrassing way possible to drag his name through the shit in his diaper, where it belongs....
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Boycott the CBS airing of the Kennedy Center Honors on Tuesday, December 23.
Tell friends and family not to watch.
Let’s drive trump nuts with bad ratings.
Tell friends and family not to watch.
Let’s drive trump nuts with bad ratings.
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Boycott the CBS airing of the Kennedy Center Honors on Tuesday, December 23.
Tell friends and family not to watch.
Let’s drive trump nuts with bad ratings.
Tell friends and family not to watch.
Let’s drive trump nuts with bad ratings.
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Here’s the story #CBSStateTV & the Trump regime doesn’t want you to see re: horrific human rights violations occurring at #CECOT in El Salvador.
Thank you, @meiselasb.bsky.social for bringing light to this on MeidasTouch.
THIS is why we need independent journalism.
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
Thank you, @meiselasb.bsky.social for bringing light to this on MeidasTouch.
THIS is why we need independent journalism.
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
“You Have Arrived in Hell”
The 81-page report, “‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison,” provides a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Sal...
www.hrw.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Here’s the story #CBSStateTV & the Trump regime doesn’t want you to see re: horrific human rights violations occurring at #CECOT in El Salvador.
Thank you, @meiselasb.bsky.social for bringing light to this on MeidasTouch.
THIS is why we need independent journalism.
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
Thank you, @meiselasb.bsky.social for bringing light to this on MeidasTouch.
THIS is why we need independent journalism.
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
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There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.
Why thank you! I was sure to burn candles all day yesterday to celebrate the Solstice.
Happy Winter Solstice ya Pagans…. It only gets lighter by the minute now 🙏🏽👍🏽😎
December 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Why thank you! I was sure to burn candles all day yesterday to celebrate the Solstice.
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BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
December 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
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If the Epstein files were released in their entirety, redacted only to protect victims and not to protect the perps – Donald Trump would be impeached by the House and removed by the Senate. And yes, even with its Republican majority.
December 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
If the Epstein files were released in their entirety, redacted only to protect victims and not to protect the perps – Donald Trump would be impeached by the House and removed by the Senate. And yes, even with its Republican majority.
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Republicans decided to go home for the holidays, leaving millions of Americans staring down massive health care premium hikes.
They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.
They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.
December 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Republicans decided to go home for the holidays, leaving millions of Americans staring down massive health care premium hikes.
They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.
They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I refuse to believe that Schmuck Schumer suddenly, inexplicably, and amazingly actually grew a set of balls!
December 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I refuse to believe that Schmuck Schumer suddenly, inexplicably, and amazingly actually grew a set of balls!
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In exchange for returning all funding to USAID, I'm willing to teach the DOJ how the Streisand Effect works.
Haven't these people heard of Streisand effect
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.
December 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In exchange for returning all funding to USAID, I'm willing to teach the DOJ how the Streisand Effect works.
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U.S. Democracy fails when we convince ourselves that voters are always right & should be told what they want to hear to earn their vote.
Actually, a healthy democracy MUST contradict voters. Leaders MUST tell ignorant voters what they NEED to hear when they don't know how the world works. 🧵
Actually, a healthy democracy MUST contradict voters. Leaders MUST tell ignorant voters what they NEED to hear when they don't know how the world works. 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
U.S. Democracy fails when we convince ourselves that voters are always right & should be told what they want to hear to earn their vote.
Actually, a healthy democracy MUST contradict voters. Leaders MUST tell ignorant voters what they NEED to hear when they don't know how the world works. 🧵
Actually, a healthy democracy MUST contradict voters. Leaders MUST tell ignorant voters what they NEED to hear when they don't know how the world works. 🧵
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
Isn't Nate Silver a data bro? The guy who in 2016 kept insisting Bernie Sanders was a no-hoper, Donald Trump was a joke nobody would take seriously, and Hillary Rodham Clinton was such a shoo-in she wouldn't even have to bother to campaign!
#FuckDataBros
#BernieWouldHaveWon
#FuckDataBros
#BernieWouldHaveWon
personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys
when we said “defer electoral strategy to the actual politicians running for actual offices” we meant “after calculating wins above replacement somehow”
December 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Isn't Nate Silver a data bro? The guy who in 2016 kept insisting Bernie Sanders was a no-hoper, Donald Trump was a joke nobody would take seriously, and Hillary Rodham Clinton was such a shoo-in she wouldn't even have to bother to campaign!
#FuckDataBros
#BernieWouldHaveWon
#FuckDataBros
#BernieWouldHaveWon
"As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable."
Condleeza Rice said that???
Condleeza Rice said that???
December 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable."
Condleeza Rice said that???
Condleeza Rice said that???
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.