David Dark

Love doesn’t smooth over abusive behavior. Love confronts it. www.christiancentury.org/interviews/r...

"Cole’s work is sufficiently calm, detailed and forensic to necessitate a large-scale and urgent congressional inquiry." @fotoole.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/b...

LA Taco did Memo so dirty and he has the receipts

This is what the internet is for.

'For me, this is a sort of project that when I die, I’ll be like: that’s what I was meant to do.' www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

"Cole’s work is sufficiently calm, detailed and forensic to necessitate a large-scale and urgent congressional inquiry." @fotoole.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/b...

Lord I see what Brazil and Serbia have and I want it for myself

*I blame science fiction dystopias for Demi Moore starring as a blood-gushing body-horror monster, while still managing to sell anti-aging cosmeceuticals #TheSubstance

lol. lmao even

"Todd Blanche is trying to do what Jeffrey Clark aspired to do in 2020, but do it in such a way that avoids the possibility he’ll be standing outside his own home in his underwear while federal agents search it." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/26/t...

Marcy has been so clear for years that ignoring how these right-wing fantasies had become reality on the right was bringing us to the brink of fascism. The good news? We're no longer at the brink. The bad news? You're going to need to sit down.

Listen.

“It was clear this was not doable, and yet they kept on doing it anyway.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I don’t know either way whether she truly didn’t get the comedy routine and I think that ambiguity is central to what the movie is conveying

"If this does go to a lawsuit, it may well disclose the kinds of questions that might explain how the Emirates purchased the second Trump term via crypto corruption." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/j...

"If this does go to a lawsuit, it may well disclose the kinds of questions that might explain how the Emirates purchased the second Trump term via crypto corruption." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/j...

True

"Mr. Addington told Mr. Silliman and his editor, Kate Shellnutt, that he was going to fly to California to personally apologize to Mr. Laurie for the article, which he described as unfair." @ruthgraham.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

"People are finally admitting that Trump is in the tank for Russia but cannot go back & see that the current attempt to bribe Trump to betray Ukraine — & the United States — is a seamless continuation of the quid quo pro started 10 years ago." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/19/t...

"People are finally admitting that Trump is in the tank for Russia but cannot go back & see that the current attempt to bribe Trump to betray Ukraine — & the United States — is a seamless continuation of the quid quo pro started 10 years ago." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/19/t...

Do you disavow the Union of the Snake?

It’s so nice to be in Budapest for the first time and to know that neither Viktor Orbán nor Rod Dreher are here.

Your Friday reminder: The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.

Sure it did. Just like how the Trump administration sorta happened to stop sharing information with Ukraine-so they no longer get warnings about impending Russian ballistic missile attacks-and more innocent civilians die These bastards have morphed from callous thugs to full blown war criminals

There is much to admire in Abdul El-Sayed's response to the GOP plant in his audience. But one of the most deft things he did was to point out (twice) that our Constitution protects our right to follow *no* religion, thereby casting Christian nationalist Tommy as the actual religious extremist.

They misspelled GOP, but yes.

They misspelled GOP, but yes.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

"The lawsuit is not just an impeachment referral. It argues that Kash Patel violated Aileen Cannon’s gag order in order to create an excuse to fire the nine FBI agents." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/16/t...

Except he didn't fund it, I did, paying a much higher tax rate than the white supremacist. Those thrusters are SpaceX tech for which we—not him—have paid ~$31 billion. I paid for those cold gas thrusters and the software running them, and what I get in exchange is a short video and white supremacy.

sadly not. Obviously a vile racial prejudice against Scots. What is it with you Nashville folks.

"Someone appears to have leveraged Susie’s daughter, Katie’s, corruption in Serbia to put a target on Susie." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/15/k...

"The executive is attempting to deprive a member of an equal branch of government of the status that entitles her to participate in the constitutional order. They are attacking not just her rights, but her very right to have rights." @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

"These stories effectively ask us to defer to these systems, the same way attributing godlike qualities to your local bishop underwrites social control, and a lot of abuse that is very difficult to check." @meredithmeredith.bsky.social a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

seems to be paywalled, David .. if you're able to link to an archived or gift source, I'd love to see it, but even removepaywall.com seems unable to get at it 'poetry' is an odd world in our culture: people say something is 'poetic' as a way to praise it; but poetry itself is denigrated

"These stories effectively ask us to defer to these systems, the same way attributing godlike qualities to your local bishop underwrites social control, and a lot of abuse that is very difficult to check." @meredithmeredith.bsky.social a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

"People, usually people with very little money, were sending what money they had to a billionaire so he could cheat in an election." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/15/c...

"People, usually people with very little money, were sending what money they had to a billionaire so he could cheat in an election." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/15/c...

WHAT A CONTRAST TODAY: Democrat Jerri Green launches a program to relieve $17M of medical debt for 12,000 Memphians. As GUV, she wants to take the program statewide. Republican Marsha Blackburn attends a corporate photo op for a new Air France flight to Paris. Their posts were moments apart.

OSSOF: [Holds Collins's still-beating heart aloft] I'm waiting for Mike to answer the question.

Somebody is going to report Ossoff for practicing surgery without a license.

Expressed another way this has moved from “keeping kayfabe” to “living the gimmick.”

We become the bit to which we commit. Thank you, @bmietana.bsky.social for your witness. religionnews.com/2026/10/12/t...

Trump's crypto company is on its way to becoming a bank. Who regulates it? A Trump appointee that Trump can fire at will. This is corruption.

"Elon Musk is using nonconsensual porn to compete. And children are being abused in the process. And the entire Republican Party is accepting his filthy money." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/13/g...

"Elon Musk is using nonconsensual porn to compete. And children are being abused in the process. And the entire Republican Party is accepting his filthy money." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/10/13/g...