Derrell Durrett

Housing, food, health care, and education. For all. That should be a guarantee to all Americans that America makes.

Well played

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

Doubly so since we don't get a second bite at the apple. Clearly the Brazilians who came out for round two weren't the same crew that was out for round one. Don't be caught not getting a bite.

I was surprised when Bolsonaro came out ahead in the first round of voting. It felt like Lula had it in the bag I think a lot of Brazilians felt the same and didn’t bother to go to the polls. The first round shook people up. This time they showed up Americans, take note: Vote!!!

Trump throwing a democratic Taiwan to the communist Chinese wolves The only commie-lover around here is Trump

<cough cough>

ive got a psychic on retainer to transmit these to wherever his Energies reside in the afterworld

The demented U.S. president, ladies & gentlemen: "He suggested that the United States should accept fewer Norwegian immigrants, saying, 'I didn’t get the Nobel Prize.'” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

Then latter folks are just livin' on a prayer.

i like that the big divide on this post is whether people read it, correctly, as "*run explicitly* on banning online gambling" or whether they ignored the modifying verb and adverb and read it as "i don't think anyone should ban online gambling"

The Trump administration is attempting to prosecute James Comey for what it calls a decade-old leak of classified information. Comey's lawyers immediately dismissed the effort as invalid and outside the time limit. n.pr/4yN4DRo

Bibliography on this amazing manuscript is extensive, but here's the absolute latest, from François Déroche in 2024 (see Ch. 5), listing more than 124 identified leaves: brill.com/display/titl...

Originally one volume of ca. 600 ff. (10 x 14 in.), divided into seven volumes a century later. Vol. 1 remained in the eastern Caliphate while the others were transferred to Kairouan and deposited in the Great Mosque by the 1200s. Leaves (mostly from Vol. 1) appear on the art market from 1912.

Reading about the Blue Qur'an today, and...just...wow. Gold Kufic script (likely gold leaf, not shell!) on indigo-dyed parchment (technique uncertain! Brushed? Dipped? Pressed? No one knows!). Written in the early ʿAbbāsid period (ca. 800), place uncertain. 2024 research suggests Cairo or Baghdad.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

A Republican super PAC is airing a new ad claiming that liberals are the "new racists." #MAGA #Trump #Racism #Liberal #NewRacists #AmericaNext

Vote like the life of your neighbor depends on it

Kandy Korn Konoisseurs! @theonion.com

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Hitler, in his bunker as Soviet forces closed in on Berlin, blamed the German people for not being worthy of his greatness

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A political earthquake in Serbia as a student-backed movement wins the parliamentary election, ending more than a decade of dominance by a Moscow-backed populist leader. n.pr/4jCFLbd

It's wild Beasley was a very conservative governor. Though I guess he's been less of a partisan post governorship.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

The proposed rule is a major step forward in addressing a form of fraud that has robbed SNAP recipients of millions. n.pr/47IGb8N

It doesn't just look that way. It *is* a sign of weakness. Or an admission of guilt. Take your pick.

"When we seem like we're scared to have a few dozen international observers watch the practice of our democracy, it looks like an act of weakness." Longtime Colorado politico and diplomat Dan Baer joins us Wednesday as the US rebuffs European election observers for the first time in two decades.

Part of Simon Heffer’s review of Liz Truss’s book. 🤣🤣🤣

27% is a lot.

CNBC: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

The Grand Old Rape Party

Being a curious and engaged citizen of the world is good, actually.

We have an interest in preserving democracy worldwide. We got off track fighting wars to export democracy, but wanting democracies to flourish in other countries is entirely reasonable.

This, but also, as a liberal I believe in freedom and human rights for all people, all around the world. That translates into rooting interests in elections where freedoms and rights are on the ballot, as they often are.

In the absence of that, you'll see more things like operations to influence foreign elections, ordinary US citizens having opinions about what happens elsewhere (and vice versa) and other bad ways to deal with this. "Return to a world where there aren't global externalities" isn't on the table.

We pretty clearly need some kind of governmental framework that's global in scope for at least some issues; what exactly the scope and powers are can be debated, but the necessity is obvious at this point.

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

Kroger is one of his corporate donors. 🙃